criticism of repeal effort of late night tv host jimmy kimmel. i see these comments from these angry people, they say, what qualifies you to talk about this stuff? you re a comedian. go back to being not funny. i feel like it s my duty to remind these people so concerned about my qualifications, the guy you voted for for president, his job qualification was this. meatloaf, you re fired. okay? he fired meatloaf on television. athen you put him in the white house. i ll say it again. it s more important than ever to call your senators and tell them not to gut american health care. excellent point. after mccain came out against the bill saying to continue to insist on regular order, kimmel tweeted this this afternoon. thank you, senator john mccain, for being a hero again and again and now again. an adviser on the affordable care act and ej deon and opinion writer for the washington post and political analyst and co-author of one nation under trump.
no right now republican leadership has said they are not yet ready to abandon this effort and lindsey graham the author of the bill se plans to press on. the question is, jim, do one of these senators, murkowski or collins announce their opposition to the bill over the weekend? and if that happens, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell bring the bill to the floor? we may not know the answer to that question until monday. jim. that bill is very much on thin ice, cnn ryan nobles. if the bill dies, it will be the second time john mccain has played a role in sinking the obama repeal effort. it s get reaction from my colleague athena jones. she is 94 president trump s golf club. the setback comes as the president is engaged in this bitter personal war of words with north korea s kim jong-un. no question for the president today, a big setback on health care. reporter: hi, jim. that s right. on the health care front, a senior white house official said mccain s decision undeniably
zeroing in on the votes necessary. look at the headline in the new york times. ainsley: you know the media has a lot of power. they are trying to make you believe this is awful for you. this is the headline in the new york times. latest obamacare repeal effort is most far-reaching. the washington post says even republicans know their new healthcare bill is horrible. steve: politico says last-2keu67 obamacare repeal bill has worst elms of earlier plans. brian: main thing with this. is it true that this new plan actually covers preexisting conditions in the president says i won t sign anything that doesn t have it. we watched jimmy kimmel tonight it s not going to be there. it s going to give governors the opportunity to take that away. senator graham heard credits coons say give governors chance to take it away. he came on special report last night and followed up with this statement. nope can be denied coverage because of preexisting illness. nobody can be kicked out of
health and human services department has been providing her. she has not made any final decisions yet. i can tell you that now that mccain has said no in a lot of ways it makes it easier. it takes the pressure off of them to vote for it. it will almost go down not to take that vote. it is something that s much more politically popular in her home state. it is even after she voted against that for that initial repeal effort back in july. she got a lot of praise back home. it is something that she probably would get again if she said no on this bill so you expect them not to say no but all of the pressure would have been trying to put things in the
health care plan all together. i assured since appeal is off the table we are intent on the bipartisan process. it is worth noting senator mccain discussed that bipartisan work that had been taking place between patty murray and lamar wa alexander until the repeal effort came back. the big question now is what did republicans do? do you hold the vote even though you know where this is going? one other thing, it wasn t just those three senators, collins, mccain and paul that were in the no or likely no column. there were a handful of others. they hadn t come out publicly and supported this. we are waiting the see what was going to happen.