lobbyists. carrying around a binder of kids who have stayed alive because of obamacare. nobody was senator elher s staff were able to meet with them but think did give the kids ice cream. which was awesome. after enduring this face-to-face pressure, this kind of intense pressure from their constituents for weeks and weeks, both at home, in their home states and home districts and also at their offices in washington, d.c., the flood gates really did open tonight. they had two no votes before tonight. that s all they could spare. now we re up to four. four members of the senate who shay they re firmly against the bill. that means that mitch mcconnell is not going to pass this thing. not unless he changes two of their minds and doesn t lose anybody else. so what happens now really is anyone s guess. this is really big news tonight. but i got to tell you one
over in north carolina, patrick mchenry s constituents prusedsp up his sign with tombstones reminding him of people who could die because of the bill. here in california a good size group of people turned up to talk to paul cook. when they founld out the office was closed, they stood downstairs chanting, we ll be back. . when the senate got to work today in washington, d.c., they would barely make it through the door. protests started in the senate atrium in washington, d.c. people chanting their stories about how obamacare helped save their lives. capitol police gave their first warning to clear the area. protesters sat down on the ground. police started rounding them up, folded up their banners and made
other every five or ten years. i don t know that mitch mcconnell thinks we re sincere, but we are. the answer is no, they haven t reached out to us but it would be to their political benefit and to the country s policy benefit if they actually took us up on the offer. thank you for helping us through this tonight, sir. really appreciate it. thanks. we re continuing to follow the breaking news tonight. the latest effort, the only effort on the table right now to try to repeal obamacare, the republican bill in the senate as of right now is dead. they could lose two votes. as of the last hour or two they re down to four no votes. this is a story that started breaking in the states, that started break in all of those congressional district offices and senate offices out in the sticks and all of those places across the country but today it came home to washington and this bill right now is dead, at least for now. much more ahead tonight. stay with us.
victory? are you cautious in viewing what s happening here? do you think you ve won? so this is absolutely a win. i think the way you framed it was absolutely right. change is coming to washington. it is not starting in washington. we are, as of thursday, six months into the trump presidency. there s a unified conservative government the likes of which we have not seen in over a decade and yet they have yet to pass a single significant piece of legislation. that he s not because they don t have control of the government. they do. it s because the people are against the agenda they re pushing. it is amazing to see. tonight is a big win. its not a final victory but it is a huge one win and one that groups across the country have been working towards and will continue to work towards. really all across the country. that s inspiring to see, people standing up on their home turf making their voices heard. that is the core behind the
republicans with republican control of the house, republican control of the senate and a republican in the white house who would likely sign anything labeled health care, why these folks cannot pass the one thing they all agreed on and campaigned on, repealing obamacare, why can t they do it? i don t think it can be explained in washington. i think in order to understand that you might also look around at what is happening right where you live. for example, take the ninth district in virginia, represented by this guy, congressman morgan griffith. a republican congress from virginia. he voted to repeal obamacare. his constituents say if the republican bill becomes low law, 62,000 people in his trikt will lose their health insurance. to help drive that point home, they made him a visual aid. this weekend the constituents spent their sunday stapling