alaska senator was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try to fix obamacare, try and do something participate bipartisan. why is that significant? because as you said at the top of the show, they can only afford to lose a handful of senators. they ve already lost two in senators collins and paul. senator mccain is likely to go the way of senator her cause i can. what that governor knows is that alaska benefits allot from obamacare in terms of per capita and as that senator said in his letter, there was nothing in this basically guaranteeing me that i m going to be able to do more with essentially less money. and that s what this comes down to is that they re trying to sell this as a bill that s going to improve healthcare, but tend
john mccain who had given some signal he might be in favor of it, it s a bill that s proposed by one of his very good friends. he s gone back to the argument that he made to oppose the earlier attempts at reform, that he wants it done through regular order. it s not going to be. i think it s a very dicey proposition for this to pass in the optimism, it s cute but i m not sure it means it s going to pass. through on the other stipulation that arizona governer ducey is behind it. mollie, you re counting heads. i think more optimistic than steve. rand paul apparently is the only republican who meant it when he said we are going to repeal obamacare. he s not supporting it because it does not repeal obamacare. i think anyone else other than susan collins, everything evers
president is dealing of foreign policy and domestic policy, helping to drive one last effort to repeal and replace obamacare, throwing his full support behind the graham/cassidy bill answering some shade at senator rand paul for opposing graham/cassidy as another boondoggle. the president saying this morning, rand paul is a friend of mine, but he has such a negative force when it comes to fixing health care. graham/cassidy bill is great and obamacare. i hope they will vote for graham-cassidy and replace obamacare. money direct to the states. there been some meetings on capitol hill. we re told the senate republicans believe they are within the 5-yard line and they might get this thing across the goal line. we ll see of senator rand paul gets behind it, we ll see what senator john mccain does as well and i think this thing is still somewhat on life support,
they turned some screws and it sailed right through it didn t sale right through the house but it got through the house and here we are. okay, heidi, had this is where you come in. if mcconnell called a midnight vote tonight right now, would they have the votes? i think not. and that s why many senators went home. what was critical, but i think missed tonight, brian, is the fact that lisa murkowski, the alaska senator was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try to fix obamacare, try and do something participate bipartisan. why is that significant? because as you said at the top of the show, they can only afford to lose a handful of senators. they ve already lost two in senators collins and paul. senator mccain is likely to go the way of senator her cause i
i think not. and that s why many senators went home. what was critical, but i think missed tonight, brian, is the fact that lisa murkowski, the alaska senator, was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try to fix obamacare, try and do something bipartisan. why is that significant? because as you said at the top of the show, they can only afford to lose a handful of senators. they ve already lost two in senators collins and paul. senator mccain is likely to go the way of senator murkowski. what that governor knows is that alaska benefits a lot from obamacare in terms of per capita and as that senator said in his letter, there was nothing in this basically guaranteeing me that i m going to be able to do more with essentially less money. and that s what this comes down to is that they re trying to sell this as a bill that s going