i'm going to go to you first on this, perry bacon jr.his is the latest sales pitch that's being made for the people whose marquee is repeal obamacare and replace it with trumpcare. repeal obamacare. this is what white house aide mark short has said, and this is i think what he said on friday, that repeal and replace can actually be bipartisan. had take a listen. >> if the replacement part of too difficult for republicans to come together, let's go back and take care of the first step and repeal. even those 49, there's another member, todd young from indiana, who when he was in the house voted for the bill too. so you have 50 members on record having voted for that recently, so that's an option. at that point if you've repealed it, you can come back with a replacement effort that could be more partisan. >> perry, does that make sense to you, that somehow democrats would get on board with a full repeal of obamacare followed by a replacement determined by the 50 republicans that control the votes in the senate? >> what they're really laying

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katon dawson is back and joining me kareem john pierre and perry bacon jr. of 538.com. week when we got the media getting its wish to see the john mccain maverick of legend emerge and take down the obamacare repeal. but are people sort of missing the plot just a lit bilit. because john mccain and murkowski did not say they opposed repealing and replacing obamacare, they opposed the way mitch mcconnell is running the senate, right. >> at the end of the day you had three bills, repeal and delay, repeal and replace and skinny repeal which was not very skinny. but i think in some ways the policy of all of the ideas was rejekded. like nevada's dean heller voted for the final bill but said no to the first two and that made it hard tore pass anything. so i think there was a part of the feeling with john mccain and you saw him comments where they were focused on the process, the process was bad, like the process. but there are other members who are unhappy with the policy and they made it hard for mcco -- mcconnell to pass anything. and lindsey graham and ron johnson and others