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can only lose two from his caucus and still get the bill through. let s talk it over with the politics and business reporter shelby and washington post reporter david. shelby, senator susan collins says she s waiting on the cbo score to come out. she is one of those on the fence, what are you expecting from the cbo score? well, it s hard to i don t to want forecast the cbo score, but the big number to look for is how many would lose insurance under this bill? the number in the house was 23 million, so if it can beat that number, that might give some senators more, more courage to get behind it. we re also looking at thousand affects the budget. and generally the big sticking point is medicaid and how long and how far should the medicaid expansion rollbacks go and should we cap medicaid? offer block grants? medicaid seems to be the biggest issue though there are smaller issues, defunding planned parenthood for one year for example is something senator murkowski said she can t get be
it s a referendum not just on the issues we ve got but it s who we are and what we re going to tell our daughters and is alabama going to stand with our daughters? joining me now is washington post reporter and the wall street s reporter shelby. a lot more folks going to join. starting in with that closing argument from the democrat, what does it tell you and i would ask you to speak to us on two level, the ethical level and the political level that have closing argument? so, doug jones is trying to appeal to the alabama deserves better than this argument that we heard from none other than the senior senator from that state this weekend and also trying to appeal to republican women specifically saying you can either vote for me, you can stay home but you can do, you know, you can deert either of those things as a protest against voting for in man who he