senate. president told ron johnson according to reports, he is one of the holdout senators. take up your differences with your colleagues and get this done. was like senator johnson voted yes as a member of the budget committee on this bill. we ll see where it goes from here, but shep, there will be substantial changes in this tax reform packet before it gets to the floor of the senate for a vote, and that s what they ll be doing over the next couple of days. the white house optimistic that they make a vote on this bill by the end of friday if not saturday. we will get the president when he speaks at the roosevelt room, it may be ongoing now, i got into something new from sarah hungry sanders that it may be happening now or soon. shepard: i think it s about to happen. fox news happens to be by chance, it rotates, we are the pool at this moment, and our
how it didn t play out in germany where the russians did not intervene. the fact of the matter is that the challenge we faced with taking down isil propaganda is in many ways analogous to what we face with russian fake news. what the obama administration learned has to be a partnership between the public sector, between the u.s. government and entities in the private sector like facebook. the challenge this administration faces is there are still prominent voices including the voice in the oval office who continues to cast doubt on the fact that the russians were behind this. until this administration can say with a single voice that this was a russian operation and we need to work together with the private sector, both the public and private sector will continue to struggle to take on this challenge. ned and elise, thanks so much. we re going to have to leave it there for you now. meanwhile, last gasp. republicans sweetening their health care plan for three holdout senators. nancy p
bill in hopes of winning over holdout senators. republican leaders cannot afford to lose another vote. and a gunman killed one parishioner and wounded others due in court wednesday. he used to attend the parish. no word on a motive. angela merkel winning a fourth term as chancellor. a far right alternative for germany s party winning a surge of support. for more on the five things to know go to cnn.com/new day for the latest. and hurricane maria is churning in the atlantic. check in with allison chinchar for the latest forecast. where is it now and what is it doing? the latest forecast winds decreased slightly down to 75 miles per hour. this still means it is a category 1 hurricane pushing off to the north. it s expected to continue to weaken. but because of how close it s expected to get to the east coast, we have tropical storm
crumbling down. i like the analogy. we ll come back to that in a second. phil mattingly, i don t know if you heard the analogy. this doesn t make the whole thing crumble to the ground. so, how significant is this procedural vote and does it really matter initial no s or yes s, i mean, your thoughts. reporter: it s hugely significant. i think there s no question about it. i mean, we can read between the lines right now and dean heller comes out as a yes, when rob portman comes out, these are holdout senators who have had very serious and significant policy issues that have essentially, on their own, killed various iterations of this leading up to this point. they re going to be able to get 50, maybe more than that this in vote shortly. everybody that s been talking to you as made very clear the realities here. this doesn t, by any means, guarantee they re going to get this done in the end, this is a very convoluted, complicated and politically dangerous process that republicans woul
also echoed by president trump in a tweet yesterday, urging republican senators to step up to the plate, but parts of the senate health care bill could violate budget rules, according to a senate parliamentarian, and senator mccain s recent cancer diagnosis means the gop is down a vote they cannot afford to lose. the latest developments raising questions about where the senate health care bill is headed. let s bring in sarah westwood, washington correspondent, and dan dimon, health care reporter for politico. dan, what are they going to vote on, if they do vote on something this week? richard, they don t know what they are going to vote on, and whatever bill they end up picking doesn t have the votes. the republican health reform effort in the senate is kind of a shambling zombie at this point moving from week to week, but mcconnell, majority leader mcconnell, wants to hold the vote, because he thinks that a failure will be enough to get conservative groups to pressure those holdout