another attorney general confirmed here. rudy giuliani s name is often bandied about for this. but the reality is, wolf, interestingly today, he said he thinks jeff sessions did the right thing. interesting, if jeff sessions were to resign, rod rosen stein the deputy attorney general would be acting attorney general until the new candidate could be confirmed. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. let s get to the other breaking news we are following on health care and the president s 11th hour bid to get his republican party in line. with a crucial procedural vote just hours away, mr. trump is urging senate republicans to, quote, do the right thing. let s go to you aour congressio correspondent phil mattingly. what are you hearing? reporter: there will be a vote tomorrow, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell making that very clear. what we don t know is the final product senators will be entering to debate on tomorrow and perhaps more importantly whether they have the votes at all and
welcome back. my apologies if you have heard this before, but house republicans are again working frantically on their latest last best chance to repeal obamacare, and after a motoring with president trump two key moderate republican holdouts now say they will vote yes. cnn congress a.m. correspondent phil mattingly is tracking the votes on capitol hill. phil, it s like groundhog day a little bit here. those two members were worried about allowing states to permit insurance companies to deny coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. there s a new amendment promising $8 billion over the next five years to finance the high-risk state pools that states can set up if they do do that with insurance company. $8 billion though. is that going to be enough money? look. there s no shortage of health policy analysts and even house republicans who don t believe that s enough. sean spicer the white house press secretary saying it s impossible to know just because of how the state is set up
president trump says it s time for a vote on the latest gop health care bill, but despite a full-court press by the white house and the republican leadership, the numbers still don t add up, and the bill may be about to collapse. our congress a.m. correspondent phil mattingly is joining uses from capitol hill. phil, what is the scorecard looking like right now? reporter: not good news for house republican leaders, working member to member, person to person trying to persuade those who have already come out and said no and even more of those who are undecideded to come back to their side. it gives this bill a real chance for passage this week. the reality remains though nobody is sure if that s possible at all. tonight house republicans on the verge of another colossal health care failure. how close? very close. reporter: this despite rosy proclamations from top gop leaders. going in the right direction.
phil mattingly, thanks very much. our political specialists are still with us. i ll ask them to stand by. we ll get full analysis of what we just heard. where does this repeal and replace obamacare stand right after this? different. it s nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we ve used real ingredients, whole nuts, and natural flavors from the very beginning. give kind a try.
make her decision. she had been spending time with the fbi today talking about death threats against her family. there s not enough time for them to get together with her and go through the possibilities of taking on what could be a life-changing event for her. so what happens now? are they going to go ahead and have their vote on monday to confirm judge kavanaugh? is that the best thing for him, or will they give professor ford one more day? all right. let s check in with our man on the story, cnn s congressional correspondent phil mattingly. i did not see a response asking for another day as likely, but there it is. what s your gut on whether they get it? reporter: what i can tell you right now, chris, is the judiciary committee republicans have received the e-mail, have received the letter, but they don t have a response yet. it s unclear how they re going to respond. what we do know is this. deborah katz, the lawyer for christine blasey ford, is essentially calling the chairman o