many insurance plans cover chantix for a low or $0 copay. all right, 14 minutes after the hour now. president trump is going after senator john mccain after the senator likely stopped efforts to repeal obamacare this session. president trump tweeted this morning, john mccain never had any intention of voting for this bill, which his governor loves. he campaigned on repeal and replace. let arizona down. the president s comments come after senator mccain said he could not in good conscience vote for the proposed bill without knowing its impact, without knowing how much it would cost. mccain s no vote likely means republicans will not be able to repeal the health care law with a simple majority by the september 30th deadline. joining me now is cnn politics reporter lauren fox, danielle litman, and melissa quinn, breaking news reporter with the washington examiner. good morning to all.
come out and support the bill, which we know now he s not going to. daniel, to you, i said at the top this is likely the death knell for this, we know senator collins is likely leaning no, is this over? is graham/cassidy/johnson/heller dead? looks that way. the main senator said to her local paper she trashed the bill, so they are awaiting for john mccain to basically give them cover to oppose it. they wanted him to do the same thing he did a month or two ago in terms of, you know, dooming this repeal effort. it s interesting to see how much effort the senate republicans have spent on this issue when they have nothing to show their voters. it seems like they are more likely to go into tax reform, where, you know, cutting taxes, that s their party, you know, that s one of their party messages. and so if they can just go to that, then there s much more
debris excuse me, big pieces of machinery to remove debris, and as some of the family members wait and look, and as you mention, they are camped out here hoping that they are going to be seeing signs of life soon. so, christi, we re going to stay here and continue to monitor these developments as these pieces of debris are being removed and hopefully we ll be seeing signs of life. we hope so. holding out hope for all of them there, too. thank you so much, rosa. president trump is going after arizona senator john mccain this morning, saying he is letting his state down by saying no to the latest republican repeal plan. that s not all the president is saying. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way with anoro. go your own way
we re not just talking about rhetoric. this is probably one of the most reputable sources. the graham/cassidy proposal revamps and cuts medicaid, redistributes federal funds across states, and eliminates, eliminates, coverage for millions of poor americans. the republican party and donald trump do not care about killing millions of americans and making them sick. that s the reality. and it is amazing, christi, that here we are talking about the hero john mccain that all he has done is agreed to vote no on a proposal that will take away health care from millions of americans. block grants block grants don t work. stephen, you had your chance. yeah, but we did it go ahead, jonathan. stephen mentioned welfare. it did not work. it actually threw millions of people into poverty. that s a republican lie. welfare reform did not work, and
it comes down to 49, you know, 49 yes votes and 50 no votes, i don t think he s going to be the 50th vote to take this down. this is the last chance to reappeal obamacare. on john mccain, it is a little bit mystifying. there s no state, christi, in the country that s been more harmed by obamacare than arizona. you know this, arizona has seen premium increases of as much as 100%. so a doubling of the premiums. now, the rest of the country is more like 30% or 40%, so it s really been bad for people in the rest of the states, but arizona especially, and it is also interesting, look, lindsey graham is the protege of john mccain. they ve always voted together, and it is kind of strange that he is abandoning lindsey graham on this, but one other thing is, look, the block grant approach, i think, makes a lot of sense. we did this. i m old enough to remember when i was in washington in the mid 1990s, we had a bipartisan deal between bill clinton and a republican congress where we block granted