on this monday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 179 of the trump administration. this week s white house theme is made in america. except for all the competing elements stepping on that narrative. the latest just breaking in the past few hours, the republican health care bill is again dead in the water in the u.s. senate. two more republican senators mike lee of utah, jerry moran of kansas, both together say they are going to vote no to advance the bill. they join the two other republican no votes. collins of michigan, rand paul of context, that means despite having the majority in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now does not have the votes he needs to move this legislation forward. a reminder here is the what the president promised about health care legislation back in may after the house passed their
i want a chance to ask my questions. i have some very specific questions and to follow-up with senator mccain a little bit in his concerns about a contractor cost versus the soldier cost it is a tremendously large dollar amount. it s the same in afghanistan and the same in iraq. we will have potentially 16,000 contractors. how does the agreement or their ability to perform their duties over their affect the contractors? they will be performing security and have very serious challenges. how is it any different? i can take that one, senator. when i was running of the security transition command, training and equipping the iraqi security forces, i had a rather small military staff, about a thousand, and i had probably three or four times that and contractors, and the contractors are often third country nationals. these are not all dod contractors. some security contractors could be from a third country, and as a part of the contract, there will be a negotiated position on pr
except for all the competing elements stepping on that narrative. the latest just breaking in the past few hours, the republican health care bill is again dead in the water in the u.s. senate. two more republican senators mike lee of utah, jerry moran of kansas, both together say they are going to vote no to advance the bill. they join the two other republican no votes. collins of michigan, rand paul of context, that means despite having the majority in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now does not have the votes he needs to move this legislation forward. a reminder here is the what the president promised about health care legislation back in may after the house passed their version of the bill. we re going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. moments ago, the president responded to this news on twitter and we ll get into this as well. quote republicans should repeal failing obamacare now.