Own new program which will air 6 00 p. M. Weekdays. Well announce the start date eventually. But you can mark your calendar in a rough way if you want. A big breaking news night. So im happy to hear what Rachel Maddow has in store for us. Youre giving us a calendar alert that could exist in the age of digital calendars. Youre telling us to pencil this in in general but i cant give you a start date. Write a macro so at some point that stakicks in and it starts. Thats all i was allowed to say. A very Laurie Approawyerly a tonight i had an a block all set and ready to go. We worked on it this weekend. All this Breaking News Stuff this evening and then this happened this evening and we had all of this crazy stuff happening with the legal teams that are trying to defend or
senator rand paul from kentucky said he wouldnt vote for it because Repealing Obamacare was still too much like obamacare. Whatever. For whatever reasons the two of them said they wouldnt vote it. So we were heading into
our hour ago senator mike lee of utah tweeted my colleague jerry moran and i will not support the motion to proceed on this bill. and it was lining ke we th all week long we would be standing at two. now all of the sudden they went from two votes they could barely afford to four votes. how did that happen? is this some sort of disturbance in the force for this evening and they re going back to a safer position tomorrow and in the days ahead for this week or did this thing really just completely fall apart tonight. millions of people s health insurance is at stake if. joining us on the phone is frank tharp who has been following these events. thanks for taking our call. thanks for having me. when i described about the
he came out saying he wants to basically start this process over. notably, jerry moran was one of the republican senators to actually have town halls during the 4th of july recess. i don t think there was an expectation that this was going to happen so early. but i also think that it did it needed to be at least two senators to come out to get this number to over the two that would actually kill the bill. frank, that s a good point about how senator moran has been approaching this. i ve been trying to keep an eye, and my staff, we ve been trying to keep an eye on what s happening in the states, what s happening in these senators home offices, what s happening when they re facing their constituents about this. and kansas is one of the states that is a conservative state. a lot of red state voters with the red state mind-set. but there are been tons and tons of demonstrations and town