About 95 of those senators invited here today for lunch to show up. They hope this is more of a strategy session where, like you said, they can figure out what theyre going to do next. The question is, what strategy are they going to purr . Theyre meeting request a president who publicly advocated for several different strategies including repeal and replace then repeal and replace at a later date and letting obamacare fail which is what President Trump brought up yesterday during a meeting here at the white house. It will also likely be a venting session for these senators who dont think trump has done enough to publicly advocate for this bill. He never gave solo speeches dedicated to this Health Care Bill leaving more of the leg work up to Vice President mike pence. Now, during the last dinner, the Health Care Bill essentially collapsed when senators lee and moran came out in opposition against it. Donald trump said that that surprised him though it didnt surprise many other people.
Plan b around this, but i cant imagine that his plan for getting this through involved losing both a moderate like Susan Collins and home state iconoclast like rand paul, and also conservatives like mike lee and jerry moran. Its such a heterojennous group that is saying no. It implies that any plan mcconnell might have had for how to maneuver around the votes he needs might have fallen apart. I dont know if more time is going to help or hurt. Im starting to feel tonight looking at senators twitter feeds over the course of this hour that there might be more no votes by the time we hit midnight tonight. Now they dont even have to say no. As you noticed with Lindsey Graham, he doesnt have to come up and say no because its done. They cant do it now. So youre going to hear process. Youre going to hear Lindsey Graham saying, now its time to just start over again with something new. And graham himself was working on offering his own alternative to the bill. He was going to offer it in the for
Long as thats important. But why is he repeatedly taking aim at his own . If emd somebody to take an action, he would make that quite clear. Plus, where do the russia investigations go from here . They dont voluntarily come, theyll be subpoenaed. And later, john mccains toughest battle. The senator promises to be back soon following his cancer diagnosis. John is a fighter. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im katy ter in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp dailyel. Senator john mccain is on our minds and hes in our prayers right now. And were not alone when we say give them hell, are senator. And as fate would have it, theres a favorite saying of his that is the perfect way to tee up tonights take on russia. Well, ive said many times in the past theres another shoe that will drop and there will be other shoes that will drop. Every few days another shoe drops. Its the sent peed that the shoe continues to drop. That is a sent peed and there will be more shoe
Hold, and the old rule being that the longer it takes the senate to get to a controversial vote, the weaker the support is. But, you know, rachel, i cant rely on any of the old rules anymore. But this time it seemed to work. Well, yeah. You know, Mitch Mcconnell shouldnt be underestimated. Mitch mcconnell is good at getting stuff passed, and he moves in mysterious ways. Its possible that he has some plan b around this, but i cant imagine that his plan for getting this through involved losing both a moderate like Susan Collins and home state iconoclast like rand paul, and also conservatives like mike lee and jerry moran. Its such a heterojennous group that is saying no. It implies that any plan mcconnell might have had for how to maneuver around the votes he needs might have fallen apart. I dont know if more time is going to help or hurt. Im starting to feel tonight looking at senators twitter feeds over the course of this hour that there might be more no votes by the time we hit midnig