the senate. ron, are we about to see chuck an nancy part ii, is that what s going ohappen here? it s an interesting idea. it will be more complicated on the democratic side. what they saw and the criticism they received was by making the deal on the fiscal side, they cleared more space for the republicans. more time for the republicans to immediately launch this one-party again effort to undo obamacare. i don t know what s more striking, that john mccain in the end would say he is unwilling to vote for a bill that would recon figure one-fifth, one-sixth of the u.s. economy without committee hearings or votes or a score from the congressional bug office or so many republicans were willing to do exactly that. i m not sure the last stake is driven through this. but you have a situation where, even though this bill primarily redistributes money from blue states to red states, there are a number of republican senators in states that would be hurt by this. west virginia, ohio, colorado,
be too surprised tonight if the president goes after him? no, predatory territory here. certainly, joen mccain knew he was going to be unpopular among many republicans among this decision he made to oppose this health care bill. this is the last chance for republicans essentially to get this done with only republican support t. deadline for reconciliation you know is september 30th. next week. so this is really their last best chances. that s why the president made this such a priority, pushing this, by surprise, really, within the past week or so. and it s not looking good now with mccain coming out against it. right. jeffrey, earlier today, she was saying well, he went after john mccain at that rally in a subtle sort of way. on twitter this morning, the president went after a different republican, didn t mention john mccain. rand paul or whoever votes against the health care bill will forever be known as the republican who saved obamacare. you if et the sense the
president was trying to maybe ease back a bit on john mccain, give him that space, but at the very last second here to see if, perhaps, he wouldn t make this decision that he made today. well, that s right. you know, i m not sure. the president has never been engaged on the substance of health care. he s just said, obamacare is a disaster. and the replacement will be great. you know, there is now going to be a bipartisan effort in the senate, led by two real legislators, senator murray of washington, senatorial sander of tennessee, the people who got an education bill passed over the, you know, surprise of a lot of people. they re going to try to do a bipartisan bill. you know what, the president likes deals he likes that he got more popular after he made a deal with the schumer and pelosi. he may switch gears. and he may say, look, let s fix obamacare and take credit when it happens. so i m not sure he s, you know, going to poison the well with
house and human services tom price that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. did they violate rules? we welcome our viewers, wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the breaking news tonight, a potential fatal blow to the latest republican effort to repeal obamacare. senator john mccain announced he cannot back the latest deal, score detailing its real world impact. the measure is one vote away from failure. republican senator rand paul announced he opposes the bill. a handful of his colleagues are voicing serious concerns about it. we are following the high stakes world of words with president trump and dictator kim jong-un, they are trading personal insult, kim calling the president mentally deranged
among them. and i kind of question whether they are going to one be put in the position of having to cast a vote on the floor next week. but we ll see. that s why. i don t think mcconnell will allow a vote on this. if it s going to lose, why force as you were saying, you know, these vulnerable senators to take a difficult vote in what s clearly going to be a losing effort. john mccain, that i have done mitch mcconnell a favor by putting out this statement today. mitch mcconnell does not want to see john mccain put the thumb down for a second time. certainly the advance warning is helpful. i think john mccain really upset a lot of republicans with the way he handled it last time, surprising leadership. right before that vote was set to take place. look, he s not helping mitch mcconnell by opposing this piece of legislation. even though from a policy perspective, this was not going to be an easy vote for a lot of republicans and maybe could have come back to haunt them or still cou