push forward now. i regret that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesn t mean we should give up. we will now try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. in the coming days, the senate will take up and vote on a repeal of obamacare combined with a stable two-year transition period as we work towards patient-centered health care. a majority of the senate voted to appeal the legislation back in 2015. president obama vetoed it then. president trump, president trump will sign it now. i imagine many democrats were celebrating last night. i hope they consider what they are celebrating. the american people are hurting. they need relief. and it s regretful that our
a full repeal of obamacare and that they have two years to then replace it. so, what we re waiting on now is we ve heard from mike lee that he s willing to support this plan. that s one of those conservatives who had come out last night and basically sunk the senate bill that they had spent all of those weeks negotiating. so now the question is, what will moderate senators do? are they willing to go along with this plan and let that debate open and take the risk and see what happens? our reporting has been that there are just not enough votes in the senate. republicans have been on record. many in leadership saying, we don t have the votes for this. the way mcconnell has set this up is start a debate on health care broadly and then potentially put that in as an amendment. it will probably fail. that raises a lot of questions. what is the end game and how does this whole process play out. i think over the next couple of hours you ll want to watch the moderate senators who had concerns v
in reconciliation they need 50 votes. not ahead of the next steps because, frankly, we just have to see what they can do and find out where it is that we can go. we have a serious problem on our hands. who are you with? you stood out there covering months ago and be using their health care. how can you restore or even give them at this point? we ve done this in the house. we passed our simultaneous repeal and replace bill. we think that is the best way to go. we ll have to go and wait and hope our friends in the senate get a bill passed and get something passed. senator mcconnell said that he could possibly work with democrats to stabilize the markets. do you think that is something that should be done quickly after repeal vote? i m not going to foreclose
slamming repealing obamacare without a replacement saying millions can be put in jeopardy. make no mistake about it. passing repeal without a replacement would be a disaster. our health care system would implode. millions would lose coverage. coverage for millions more would be diminished. okay. so, from capitol hill to the white house, we re going to bring you the news as it happens. we re starting with nbc garret who has been covering every moment of this eventful day on capitol hill. let s start with this. explain to us what has been happening there today because much has happened since this morning. the repeal and replace bill effectively died and mcconnell talking about repeal and then maybe replace. moderates already coming out against that. rand paul likes that idea. just make sense of this for me, please. i ll try, ali. but the starting point for this, i think, is last night when mitch mcconnell said we re not going with that old plan of