senator murray put a statement that said this is the republican leadership. tolder ryan had apparently the senate that the house has an appetite for this. i think with the push for grand cassidy, that definitely complicated things -- graham cassidy, that definitely complicated things. charles is from colorado, independent line. go ahead, charles. caller: i have two quick points here. since ihe points is think the 1967 health act, i was reading a few days ago, it says we will not deny people coverage if they come to the hospital. is if this saying bill throws and 30 million people off health care and they can afford to pay into the system, they will go to the hospital and they will get treated. , that counts as welfare. they are not paying into the system. they are getting an entitlement. if we do that, who pays for it? the taxpayers. if we think it's going to save us money and decrease the debt by getting rid of all these people, they are wrong. one of the biggest factors in the aca that had a problem was getting young people to enroll. what that tells me is w

roy moore wins this republican runoff for the united states senate against the candidate that donald trump endorsed. the candidate donald trump was in alabama last friday, on stage with this candidate saying hey, republicans, i need this guy in the senate. well, donald trump's candidate luther strange, he has come up short decisively in this thing, as you say. look, one thing down the stretch that roy moore and his campaign capitalized on wasn't just that bannon and a lot of these trump supporters from the beginning were behind moore. certainly that helped them with the republican base. but donald trump himself, when he was campaigning for luther strange last friday, he is on the stage. strange is about 10 feet away. and he muses to the crowd, talking about endorsing strange, he said maybe i made a mistake here. and that became a last-minute ad that the moore campaign ran. i think a devastating one. because it sounded to trump's base potentially like trump was kind of winking at them and saying you know what, guy, i got to do this, but i really want you to be on the other side of this

republican senators will look for graham cassidy. one republican has already come out against the bill which could be voted on next week. he is a friend of mine but he is such a negative force when it comes to fixing healthcare. this morning we talked with a reporter following the bill. u >> joining us now, they are talking about the latest effort in the senate toha repeal and replace the affordable care act. >> talk about the drivers of this. who are the two senators, what are they interested in. >> the republican senators working on this plan are built cassidy and lindsey graham. lindsey graham and him started working on this plan earlier this summer. looking they were working to overhaul affordable care act in july and started coming up with this pla plan. they officially rolled out there updated legislation last week. this girl would take the funding to help people afford insurance and out-of-pocket payments and medicaidge expansion, put it all into a general fund. that's what were looking at. >> talk a little bit about why they t

leadership has lost two of the 52 republican senators -- john mccain of arizona and rand paul kentucky. senator ted cruz still has significant problems with the current version, putting the bill right on the edge of failure. this all as lisa miami hurricur susan collins have concerns. collins telling jake tapper -- >> it's very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. i am worried whether cbo's been given enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill. >> reporter: the co-authors released a revised vision with one clear goal -- securing new support. for murkowski, there are clear benefits to alaska including a boost in federal matching funds for medicaid, as well as a grandfathering in to medicaid of native americans and alaskan native who's benefited from the program's expansion under obamacare. for conservatives like senators cruz, mike lee, and rand paul, a further loosening in how states can rid themselves of several of obamacare's key protections, all in an effort to drive premiums down. the proposal removes the need for states to app

already, two republican senators have said, they are no votes. rand paul and john mccain. one more no vote will kill the bill. so, all eyes gaze northward, to maine, to senator susan collins who over the summer along with senator mccain and lisa murkowski voted nay, thus preventing the previous repeal and replace bill. senator collins joins us now. good to see you, as always. your vote is pivotal on the graham/cassidy health care bill. where are you? yes or no? >> jake, it's very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. i have a number of serious reservations about it. i'm concerned about the impact on the medicaid program, which has been on the books for more than 50 years and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens, including disabled children and low-income seniors. i'm concerned about the impact on costs and coverage. we already have a problem under the affordable care act, with the cost of premiums and deductibles. and finally, i'm very concerned about the erosion of protections for people with pre-existing conditi

you're talking about the votes of a handful of republican senators. have rand paul who is a pretty firm no on this. everyone's eyes are on susan collins in may, lisa murkowski of alaska, and john mccain in arizona. those are ones that people are watching as deciding votes. to the degree that they will be susceptible to pressure, we will see. lisa murkowski said last time when she voted to block it, she was greeted back home in alaska like a returning hero fo from war. there will be a lot of pressure on them to change, but they also have a lot of pressure to hold firm. we will see whether the sneak attack major of this is maybe catching everybody off guard or not. again, they still have 12 days. that is time to gin up that protest machine. shery: to get to that 50, the magic number. kevin whitelaw, thank you. vonnie: still ahead, senate investigators probing russian an interference postpone a plan interview with president trump's longtime lawyer michael, today. we will tell you what is behind that abrupt move. fedy: and join us for a special tomorrow,

senate republican primary runoff against senator luther strange, backed by senate republican leadership and by president trump. let us know what it all means. phone lines are open. host: we want to show you a couple of headlines this morning. the headline, the former chief justice finishes a dominating , winning almost 10 percentage points last night. more momentum is the headline there. from the state of kentucky this morning -- abandon and one other front page to show you this morning from alabama. this is the messenger inquirer out of them -- out of alabama. the front pages of kentucky papers on the day mitch mcconnell will certainly remember and probably not fondly after losing the effort to push through a repeal and replace legislation. abouts up first to talk it from alabama, birmingham. independent. who did you vote for? or did you vote? i can tell you why he won. he has integrity. the minute the campaign started attacking his integrity, it was over. what do you think happens in the general election? democrats perhaps thinking more about targeting these seats. what do you think w

senator scott, the only african-american republican serving in the senate made headlines when he came to criticize the president's response. scott saying that the president had compromised his moral authority in how he had responded to the protests and the violence. congress today is sending a resolution to the white house, condemning the charlottesville violence. it will be on the president's desk. let's go to the white house right now. cnn white house reporter kaitlan collins is there. so what do we know about this meeting? >> reporter: it's definitely going to be a little bit of an awkward meeting here, kate. senator tim scott is someone who was an ally and supporter of trump's throughout the election last year and since he's been in office. but he did not mince words in response to what the president said about charlottesville after trump remarked that there was violence on both sides. senator scott said that was something that he simply couldn't defend. so we know that one purpose of his meeting here today at the white house with the president today is that he wants the president

>> joining me now is republican senator tom cotton of arkansas. senator cotton, welcome back. >> good morning, chuck. >> the president struck a deal on the debt ceiling with democrats. republicans weren't in the room. he apparently seems to strike at least the outlines of what a deal on daca will look like, which apparently is no funding for the wall without republican leaders in the room. are you concerned about this? >> no. i think the president has said publicly that there's not a deal, that he wants to see a deal. in fact, he called me a couple nights ago to say there's no deal. he wants to make sure we protect the interest of american workers, in particular by ending unlimited chain migration, which is why we have so many unskilled workers coming in the country. he asked me to sit down with senator schumer and some of the other democrats. they want to focus on a package of benefits for illegal democrats. we want to put our american workers' interests first and we'll do that. but there's no deal right now. >> do you think the president gave up

senate. but it will make life over the republican conference i suspect more complicated for senator mcconnell. >> could you tell a voter who is trying to make up their mind in alabama that they should vote for roy moore? >> i'm not going to give the people of alabama any advice as to how they should vote in an election for the senate. that's up to them. obviously they made a choice last night and they selected roy moore over luther strange and i'm going to leave it up to the people of alabama to make that decision. i tend not to interfere in their races. >> thanks for your time tonight. for more i'm joined by writer for esquire charlie piers who just got a story and michelle goldberg, whose debut looks at the tear any of the minority. i want to start on that theme. one of the things to keep in mind here. there are 4 million people in alabama. roy moore won 262,000 votes last night. that is a sizable minority of the people that vote in the republican primary. but the nature of american politics is if you win the primary, you're on your way to the u.s. senate. >> and it goes beyond alabama righ

yesterday evening the president spoke about the bill from republican senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy and fended his producesstration with the process. >> i believe that graham cassidy really will do it the right way. there is tremendous support from republicans, certainly with 47 or 48 already senators and a lot of others think of it positively. mike pence has been working on it, our vice president has done such a great job for health care and knows health care so well. i thought one on one i would go to the oval office sit down on my desk and there would be a health care bill on my desk to be honest. it hasn't worked out that way. i think a lot of republicans are embarrassed by it. >> oh my god. >> a couple days ago, first of all, he doesn't really know what's in the bill. he hasn't known what's been in any of these health care bills. he's just wanted anything to sign. and it makes you wonder, what would have happened if seven-and-a-half, eight months ago they had started with a process and they've had regular order and they had marshalled through the process regularly inste

joining me now is republican senator john barasso of wyoming who is the chairman of the republican policy committee. senator thank you for joining us. i do want to start, if you don't mind, with north korea. the president today talked about attacking north korea. tell me what's the gop republican responsibility in congress to mitigate the pregnant's war powers? >> i think the president was very forceful. he puts the united states first. wants to work with our allies. talked about that with regard to china, with regard to russia. there is more that china can do in terms of cutting off fuel, oil, supplies to north korea. talked about our partnership, and we have those in japan and in south korea. we may get to a point where we are going to have to have nuclear weapons there as a deterrent. but we are sending a strong message to north korea that what this young leader is trying to do will not stand with us or on the world stage. >> what about the war powers though for congress? if the president does decide to attack that country, what's the gop congress's role in? >> i support the president

first. >> the bill would destablize the individual insurance market. >> they need 50 of the 52 republican senators to go along with i had. senator rand paul has already said no. that will put the pressure on three republicans who voted no. democrats accuse republicans of rushing a vote before the nonpartisan congressional budget office can finish its analysis of it. >> time is now 4:40. senator bernie sanders comes here today. we have details of the event where he will be making an appearance. >>> in an effort to meet expenses and as competition grows, hewlett packard makes a touch decision that will are affect hundreds of its employees. >>> good morning. we are off to a nice start when it comes to the morning commute. here we are, with traffic in san francisco looking good approaching the 80 split. >>> and weather is looking good. half of the morning. or i should say all of the morning will be summer and afternoon will be fall. it will feel fall-like. >>> welcome back to two. hewlett packard is about to cut 30,000 jobs. the company says this will likely affect employees here in the u.s. and overs

murkowski, john mccain, susan collins with the three republican senators who defeated health care form in july. within end of the month deadline to do this, pressure is building on undecided republicans. president trump is pressing them for a different outcome tweeting "i hope republican senators will vote for graham-cassidy and fulfill their promise to repeal and replace obamacare. money directed states." because there are many concerns i have about the graham-cassidy proposal. they include the fact that they make fundamental changes in the medicaid program for the first time in more than 50 years. stick with the president is also pressuring the kentucky senator who says he has a "no" ." "rand paul is a friend of my but he is such a negative force when it comes to fixing health care. graham-cassidy bill is great." because this is not repealed. it's not what we promise. this is not the last chance. we'll have more opportunities. >> then there is the late-night attack from hollywood. >> your child with a pre-existing condition will get the care he needs if and only if his father is jimm

politics, this morning, president trump was very active on twitter, also taking aim at the three republican senators that are considered to be really the make-or-break votes when it comes to passing the latest republican effort to repeal and replace obama care. i'm talking about senators rand paul, senator lisa murkowski and john mccain. here's one of the tweets, john mccain never had any intention of voting for this bill. let arizona down. so president trump accusing senator mccain of letting his state down, letting his party down, and letting his party down really twice in two months. remember, senator mccain cast the deciding vote or one of the deciding votes back in july. now, this time as well. so senator mccain says that he's simply is voting his conscience. he believes that he should not be voting for a bill that does not have at least some bipartisan support. arthel? arthel: thank you very much. talk to you later. eric: fox news alert, did you hear what north korea's foreign minister called president trump today? did you hear what he threatened? the fiery rhetoric intensifying between washin

also today senator john mccain of arizona has dealt what could be a death blow to the republican plan to repeal obamacare. mccain announced that he can't in good conscience vote for the republican plan which was scheduled to come up for a vote next week. we'll get to that in a minute. >>> but today the president is showing what it feels like having investigators breathing down his neck. resulting to twitter. with former rival hillary clinton. most tellingly he's resumed his denials of russian interference in the 2016 election. this time casting doubt on the russian-linked propaganda campaign on facebook, something that facebook's own ceo confirmed. quote, the russian hoax continues. now it's ads on facebook. what about the totally biased and dishonest media coverage in favorite of crooked hillary. that was followed by another. quote, the greatest influence over our election with the fake news media screaming for crooked hillary clinton. next, she was a bad candidate. well, the president's outburst comes in the wake of mark zuckerberg's announcement that facebook would give congress th

senate machinsenate republican s failing their president again. acknowledging defeat, scrapped a plan vote on republican's latest effort to repeal obamacare, president's focus now turns to tax reform, tomorrow high traveled to indiana it deliv dea speech. joining us, congressman gem jordan, serves on judiciary and oversight committees, a member of house freedom caucus. we just learned is meeting tomorrow, the group could vote to take a formal position, right now, congressman. good to see you. >> good to see. >> you what is going on with freedom caucus. >> we did an op set last week -- op-ed last week. specifically we want to know answer to a couple of question, what is corporate rate, small business rate, and repay thin re trading -- repapatriation rate d brackets. lou: will it be his rates orion a rates or a so-called better way. at what point will there be leadership went the house went the conference that will support and drive the agenda of this president? >> the president has been great on this issue, talking about 15% rate, and letting famil

john hoeven, republican senator from north dakota. senator, leaders get the job done. the republican leadership has failed twice. will someone there, in particular mitch mcconnell, be called into account? >> i think the focus is getting on, getting on tax relief and getting it done and getting it done by year-end. and remember, we're not about giving up on repeal and replace. we have to continue to work to get that done. hopefully we made substantive progress. it is something i voted for a number of times already and others have as well. we hope we're getting enough progress made that we dan get to the 51 votes we need. david: senator, let's be honest, you have two failures, two devastating failures on health care. the best you can do is move on to tax reform now but if you're going to do that, don't you need a change in leadership? the leaders have failed your party. >> i think what you have to keep in mind, david, even when president obama had 60 votes in the senate, it took him until the second year of his administration to get it p

so ben, to you, as you know republican senator ben had interesting tweets on this. his first tweet, nfl players you have the right to protest trump tomorrow but aren't there better ways than kneeling before the flag that soldiers died to defend and went on to tweet trump wants you to kneel because it divides the nation with him and the flag on the same side. don't give him the attention he wants struck us. what do you think? >> i disagree with that. i think the president is on the right side of this one because you honor and respect the american flag and the american people. you look at the ravens, for example, you're overseas in a foreign country from the american national football league, you kneel during the national anthem on foreign soil, but you all stand for god save the queen. that is in my opinion un-american. if you want to protest donald trump, protest him. if you want to go register to vote and vote against him, vote against him. again, i look at where all this started. colin kaepernick isn't even registered to vote and didn't vote in any election includ

a veteran of the senate, a moderate voice in the republican party says this term will be his last term in the senate. we'll look at what that means for it the party of donald trump when the 11 n hour continues. >>> welcome back in the last thing before we go tonight we want to take a different look at the alabama results in light of the word today that a critical republican senator has announced he will not be seeking reelection. for that our friend back at the board. >> again just take a look, this is the result in alabama, luther strange sort of the republican establishment, mitch mcconnell was senator republican leader, he wanted strange. moore won tonight pretty convincingly with the message of stick it to mitch mcconnell and the republican establishment. out of tennessee, bob corker will not run again in 2018. one of the issues he'd been running with he'd run afoul of trump, there was the prospect went if corker went, would he have to face that same sort of type of republican base that tonight in alabama sided with roy moore over luther strange. we talked so much in 2010, 2012 abo

republicans will hold their usual tuesday meeting behind closed doors today. it's expected that the fate of the health care measure will be decided at that meeting and some top senate republicans say they doubt that bill will be brought up for the vote. >>> let's move to puerto rico. the island's governor says a humanitarian crisis is very real. >> take a look at the satellite image that shows the damage to puerto rico's power grid. in july, san juan and other cities were lit up at neat. now about 5% of the country has electricity. >> at least 16 people are dead. the commonwealth is desperate for food and basic supplies. people have been waiting as you know for several hours to buy gas from about >> there's chaos at the main airport. hundreds have been waiting at the airport which even the airport has limited lights and water. people are trying desperately to get flights out of puerto rico but many of them are not able to do that. >> part of the issue is that the radar system is down because it got knocked out by the powerful winds from the storm. >> with the gas, the u.s. government was trying to send over gas to help with the crisis. but unfortunately, it's one o

a number of your fellow republican senators are opposed to this, senator mccain seems to say the billasn't had the kinds of public and committee hearings normal legislation in his view should take, how do you answer that? >> if we don't pass it this wee week, this is a real action forcing piece of legislation. if we can do what i think we should hold hearings. if we have a debate about here is the problem, find the problem, gather the information and set achievable goals and start designing legislation. we can do that to the committee process and i would be completely in support of that, hopefully that would satisfy senator mccain. one thing that is a concern is defense spending. just on the back of the envelope calculation, if we don't fix this problem, more states will expand, another $40 billion for year of federal health care expenditures which would not be available for strengthening the military. i think long-term he will be very supportive of what his friend is doing here. >> jon: you've heard the criticism even from the president, republicans have been elected because they bee

for this thing and there clearly is a ramping up of pressure on a group of potential swing republican senators so it's possible that this thing gets beat even if it does get through the senate of course then there's a reconciliation with the house which would be very messy so i don't think we're at the point of of the repeal and replace but something president obama said there was a big deal this notion that people have to mobilize every couple months because here comes another bad bill that is i think becoming frustrating not just to barack obama but to a lot of americans senators on the republican side we're out and about work in the cables today and work in the media and what i noticed that all of the interviews is that in their talking points they're not mentioning the insurance industry you know they they talk about cuts they talk about individual they they play washington against local control but the bottom line here is is that they are not openly openly stating that you know preexisting conditions you don't have anything to worry about getting dropped from your insurance you don't have

a group of republican senators discusses the health care proposal. senator bernie sanders put forward his medicare for all health care bill. president trump spoke with members of congress at the white house. economic sections against north korea. >> a group of republican senators has come up with their own health care proposal that would end many subsidies and mandates in the affordable care act, and create grants for much of federal health care spending. president trump has endorsed a plan. cassidy, andbill ron johnson unveiled their proposal in a capitol hill press briefing. >> binding is the only thing standing between you and single-payer health care. [laughter] >> we will go over a bill that has been in the making for about a month. bill cassidy is going to walk you through the details. rick santorum will tell us how history is on our side, ron johnson will discuss numbers, and we will discuss how this is a good deal for -- the countries as a whole. if you believe repealing and replacing obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chanc

they can lose two republican senators. you had a couple of holdoutscol.ut then you have senators privately expressing concerns and looking for a coffer to not have to take another vote on an obamacare repeal bill that's not going to turn. and they don't pass it by anywhere whether it's from the right or whether it's when you look down to tough reelection battles. >> john what would you rather do if you're a united states senator republican from a red state. would you rather face people mad at you because you couldn't repeal obamacare, or would you rather have repealed obamacare defending the system that you put in which sucks. >> those were afraid of the primaries voted for the thing, those afraid of losing in if the general election to a democrat were against it. susan collins in a tough spot. looks like she's waiting to see what the congressional budget office says about this. i'm waiting until they come out and say it's a terrible bill before i vote against it. >> 32 senators of the 52 republican senators haven't committed. >> to your prior question it

republican establishment starts to have a republican back because mitch mcconnell wouldn't be majority leader if donald trump didn't drag half a dozen senatorsine in november. it's time for the republican establishment to step up and have the back of president trum president trump. >> bret: steve bannon was steve potomac chief strategist at the white house, now he is out of the white house. he supporting them in alabama, the senate primary. roy moore up against the incumbent luther strange. the president supporting luther strange, they are voting tonight. we will have results we assume in a couple of hours, it may be a few hours. what does it say about the president's base and what it means back your? back with our panel. bill, i want to start with you, this comes on a day when republicans announced they were not going to vote on repeal and replace, the graham-cassidy bill because they didn't have the votes. another loss, another try that fails. now they turn to tax reform. what you think this says about the president's base? speak of the base in alabama i think will behave in a way that a lot of people would not suspect, people say that fro

rating universal's care i think we're going to drop it again this time we've got a republican senate we've already got a restaurant that i think the democrats did drop the ball when about when they had obama in the white house they sent their health care advocate hillary clinton made her secretary of state senator out of the country they could if they could if it were a pretty heart of baghdad she did she did a series whatever that was their golden moment and i think they blew it workable remarkable richer whole velour and thank you both very much for being with us and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're it. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in the economy is built around core. preparations from washington to washington controls the media the media the. voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. all the feel we don't. have the world experience. and you get it i'll be your role. a

again, luther strange sort of the republican establishment candidate member. mitch mcconnell senate candidate leader. roy moore, very controversial. he won tonight pretty convincingly. a big part of his message was the idea stick tattoo mitch mcconnell, stick it to the republican establishment. with that in mind, there's news tonight out of tennessee. bob corker, he's not going to run again in 2018. one of the issues corker had been contending with is he'd run afoul of trump. trump had lashed back at him. there's the prospect here if corker ran in 2018, is he going to have to face that same type of republican base tonight in alabama sided with roy moore over the incumbent there, luther strange. so instead bob corker, he's not going to run. and again we talk so much in 20150, 2012 about the republican base, about these tea party up risings in a number of parties that year and a number of primaries the republicans haven't won. that term isn't in our politics as much, but i think that anti-establishment spirit that caused the republican establishment so much grief in 2010, 2012, that's

i think it's actually much better than the previous shot which was very sadly let down. >> republican senator chuck grassley, a member of the senate finance committee with one hearing on the bill next week, did not try to justify the bill today on its substance. he said, you know, i could maybe give you ten reasons why this bill shouldn't be considered but republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. that's pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill. senator grassley was asked if there are enough votes to pass the bill in the senate and he said, no. i think we're one or two votes short and i don't see those other one or two votes coming. i hope i'm wrong. majority leader mitch mcconnell's spokesperson released a statement today saying it's senator mcconnell's intention to bring the bill to the floor next week. today, another republican governor of a state that would take a big loss from the bill came out against it. new jersey governor chris christie said i oppose graham/cassidy because it's inyour you to

. >> the president made those comments as we said during the rally in alabama supporting a republican senate candidate luther strange. brian stelter is with us and gentlemen, good morning to you. so, wesley, explain more beyond the 140 characters you had. any play >> sure. should be asked to explain why. in part, you know, you think about the many iterations we have gone through in this conversation, right? when colin kaepernick initially didn't stand for the anthem and then knelt after having conversations with a former player. we have had him entertain bad faith interpretations of his act of protest, right? that he was somehow being disrespectful to the troops or disrespectful to the military. what we have seen here is the president of the united states really attacking players for expressing their first amendment rights. no matter how you feel about the cause 'cha colin kaepernick and have been supporting, the idea they would be fired or retaliated against. but beyond that, you had, you know, the president of the united states using some pretty coarse language, you know, again, calling on

consumers to join together and fight financial firms in class action lawsuits but somehow republicans senators while shaming republicans are even considering this reversal, senate democratic leader chuck schumer called the effort a quote, get out of jail free card for equifax and another company that is no stranger to controversy, wells fargo. this stuff makes my hair catch on fire. >> i'm going to leave that there. i got to share this one last thing. this is like a what? you're probably tired of hearing about the graham cassidy obamacare repeal bill, guess who is not? president trump. he doesn't think it's dead. >> we have the votes for health care. we have one senator that's in the hospital, he can't vote because he's in the hospital. i feel we have the votes, i'm almost certain we have the votes. we have the votes, we have the votes, we have the votes, we have the votes. >> senator in the hospital? but if he had the votes, wonts the senate be voting on graham cassidy and here's something funny the senator in the hospital he refers to, senator cochran of mississippi, he wasn't in the hospita

after the republican senator john mccain announced he cannot support the bill. the edition so sigs despite the fact one of its co-sponsors is his closest friend in the senate, lindsay graham. senator mccain broke the news hours after president trump warned his fellow republicans to vote yes. the president tweeting, rand paul or whoever votes against the healthcare bill will forever future political campaign be known as the republican who saved obamacare. kentucky senator rand paul was the first republican to come out against the bill. his reasoning, it doesn't go far enough to repeal the affordable care act. now we're waiting to hear from the other two republicans who helped kill the last xw o.p. healthcare hill. chief congressional reporter mike omanual. >> with senator john mccain beak a no on the graham-cassidy plan there's intense pressure to lock down all other republican senators. maine senator susan collins said he's leaning against supporting this graham-cassidy legislation. collins is one of the no votes on healthcare reform in july. there was president

coming down to one or two republican senators. president trump is backing the bill says he's behind the republican leaderships effort to get it passed siding with conventional republicans. might be ricksky. not the only way he's doing. friday, the pret heads to alabama to stump for mcconnell's pick in the senate primary runoff. president trump is siding with luther strange, republican backed by mcconnell. while strange's opponent has support of people like steve bannon and sarah palin. arguably animate the trump base. that primary held tuesday. folks, if we see either of these things fall through in the coming day, not like we expect president trump to blame himself. from our poll his voters will be more than willing to find a scapegoat in the name of mitch mcconnell. joined by the pollsters behind the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. gentlemen. i would say the most interesting finding was this finding that there is a divide in the republican party on mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, and i think it's fair to say that president tr

senator schumer: i have not looked at that so i cannot answer that. >> [inaudible] i was wondering if some among the democrats they would support -- discussion. glad thater: i am some of the new republicans are supporting -- that bill has a lot of deficiencies and senator durbin will be talking and meeting with senator tillis to discuss those. >> is the dream act a redline for democrats? senator schumer: the president said he would support the durbin-graham bill. >> [inaudible] that doesn't sound like -- sen. schumer: the reason it failed is the american people did not like it. if they go back to it they will find the same situation and they will fail again. >> the work calls for -- there were calls for [inaudible] ratchet up in puerto rico -- is there a defense plan and what is keeping it from happening? sen. schumer: we hope the administration can act on those now. >> there are concerns the president was asking -- [inaudible] sen. schumer: these are things that have not been done yet so they need them and they need them now. as to what the fingers of blame on, i am not blaming, i am beseeching for quick action. i did not think when the president said yesterday in his tweet that everyth

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involved in this came from his rank and file, came from the recognition from rank and file republicans inside the senatece that this is severely problematic for our team, for our very slim majority, if something like this happens. we need this to move forward. and so if roy moore wins, how they react, whether or not they start moving into their very specific corners, what this means for the nrsc and fund-raising going forward, i think will be immensely important, not just for the next cycle, but -- >> or maybe just a year-long tweet storm against alabama. by the way, i'm from there. >> all politics, very much, is local. >>> up next, john mccain says no, again. so what happens to the effort to repeal and replace obamacare? i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to cut my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® works like my body's insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? hectic. my weekends? my time. ♪

senate republicans are pretty desperate. this month they learned from senate parliamentarian the independent umpire in the senate who gets the final say on how the procedural rules work, the legislative instructions they passed in january to kick off the whole effort to repeal the affordable care act will expire on september 30th and once that happens republicans would have to start over with a set of instructions if they want to use the senate rules that allow them to jam this bill through with single democratic vote. the republicans have dug through the trash and pulled out an old draft of a bill facing can get the job done. it is called the cassidy graham proposal named after the republican senators who put it together. you might think after months and months of failed attempts the republicans would have something new to offer. you might think after the last three terrible repeal bills went up in flames republicans would propose something more reasonable this time around. you might think that but no. this is just the same

fingers of blame, because ultimately, with a republican president, a republican house and a republican senate, if the stabilized, if the -- destabilized, if the system is sabotaged it will fall , on their shoulders. it makes no sense for them to hold back. we hope they won't. i would like to just salute our democratic colleagues, our democratic unity, to help people with health care, from the most liberal member of our caucus to the most conservative member of our caucus. we are strong and permanent. and it will stay that way. it will stay that way. and so we hope we can move , forward and improve health care, not engage in another battle to take it away from people, because they will fail once again if they tried. -- if they tried. senator murray. senator murray: well we are not

she said republican senators should take this as a sign he will be with them. but then she stopped short of saying if he will endorse all sitting republican senators or if this was simply an endorsement for senator strange. but she did say the president felt loyal to senator strange because had he voted with the president, arrived in washington about the same time, of course. she said he had no regrets for doing that. we know behind the scenes much anger and that big question, will the president keep doing that or will he follow steve bannon and endorse some outsiders, john. >> jeff zeleny, appreciate it. jeff with us to their reporting and insights. dana bash, michael warren, m.j. leann margaret tal live. it's a stinging defeat for the president. embarrassment for mitch mcconnell who is most likely to be the one who has to deal with roy moore if he wins. most people think the republican will win in that state. let's start with the what cops next. then we'll get back to the recriminations and blame. steve bannon took a high profile which is unusual for him beca

republicans continue to oppose it? what will happen moving forward with elections? >> as we just saw and the alabama senate special, voters are looking for results out of their republican congress and we have an obligation to pass it. i will say that it's somewhat of a chuckled to hear simon talk about how somehow republicans are being charged and given the blame for health care collapsing when insurer after insurer leaves their state because they can operate under obamacare. the number of daca shortages only gets worse the best thing that can happen to this health care system until new legislation is put in place is that government governors nk tom price to create a better system than what we are getting under obamacare. >> heather: you are fired up for sure today. amen simon, thank you very much. >> jon: the taliban claims responsibility for an attack in afghanistan, firing off rockets and grenades. ahead, the high ranking u.s. official who is the apparent target of that attack. plus, boats rushing to this man's 8 out of he paragliding ran into some power lines. why he was able to keep a clear head and m

already two republican senators say they are no votes, rand paul and john mccain, one more no vote will kill the bill. so all eyes gaze northward to maine, susan collins, who voted nay. how will collins vote on graham/cassidy? senator, good to see you as always, your vote is pivotal on the graham/cassidy bill? yes or no? >> it's very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. i have a number of serious reservations about it. i'm concerned about the impact on the medicaid program, which has been on the books for more than 50 years and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens including disabled children and low income seniors, i'm concerned about the impact on cults and coverage. we already have a problem under the affordable care act with the cost of premiums and deductibles, and finally, i'm very concerned about the erosion of protections for people with preexisting conditions like asthma, arthritis, cancer, diabetes and what it would mean to them. >> it you've been on the phone with other concerned senators is like lisa murkowski and

senate republicans making a last ditch attempt to repeal and replace the affordable care act. ing led by senators lindsey gram and bill cas siddy. puts the onus on states to decide how to spent grants. >> arizona governor releasing a statement in support of this plan. that's significant since senator john mccain who killed the last bill has indicated his vote will rely heavily on what his governor says. mccain says he is considering the new bill but still unhappy with the process. >> the process i still am deeply disturbed about. we should go through the committee. it will be 80-some. that's because we went through months of hearings, markups, debate, a whole week on the floor. that's what we should be doing with health care. and we're not doing it. just like the democrat the didn't do it in '09. >> congressional budget say it may take several weeks to release analysis. if senate republicans plan to act they have to move qukly. phil mattingly has more. >>reporter: the worou heard in the weeks leading up to last week were dead, buried, gone. mechanic we'll try it again next year