some countries, and that he was concerned president trump was giving world leaders the impression he had undue influence over what would ordinarily be independent investigations. he cited conversations the president had with leaders of turkey and china further demonstrating that there was concern about the president abusing the power of his office for personal, political reasons. again, it proves that everybody was in the loop and we should want to subpoena and review those e-mails involving the state department and others. thank you, mrs. manager. mr. chief justice. senator from south dakota. i sent a question to the desk on behalf of myself and senators moran, danes, ernst, scott of florida and krepo. thank you.
but it turns out they didn t really have a full agreement on what that replacement or repeal was going to look like. and so yeah, there still is a lot of contention in this agreement within the conference on how they re going to move forward. ben, or them and haley, thank you for joining all in here on a very busy breaking news night. i want to reset and give everyone a little context before i hand off to rachel. we began the hour at 50 votes in the rough whip count and we end the hour with republicans at 48 votes which means as of this hour the senate trump care proposal would appear procedurally dead and those new statements which i reported on our show from senators moran and mike lee closed the door by saying this was bad policy and they won t vote for it. that is our show all in for this evening. i am in for chris hayes here temporarily. but you can catch me hosting my own new program which will air 6:00 p.m. weekdays.
has occurred this year, based upon the other party, i think the lesson to be drawn is that we have to work in a bipartisan capacity, and i am confident we can do that. there are several ideas on the table to make sure that we move forward in a capacity that improves the system. it needs improvement, and i hope our democratic colleagues will come to the table, and i am committed to working to that end. what about just on a respect level? you know, top republican official, congressman, told cnn, you know, the fact that senators moran and lee came out last night, you know, against this, all the while the president was sitting there eating dinner with republican senators was, to quote this republican, beyond rude, and just shows what our guys think of trump. this is this quote. can you imagine them doing this to another president. would you agree? was that rude? i don t choose to comment on what occurs in the united states senate. let me say that i always try to
and a lot of these states, arkansas, kentucky where you will see an impact with rural voters, republicans are afraid of that. i saw what happened in 2010 when democrats tried to do something big and bold on health care. i think republicans do something big and bold on health care they own it for better or for worse. ben, as i said, we started this evening with two republican no votes on record in senators collins and paul, for different reasons. and now, less than an hour later they re four votes down with lee and moran. so mccain, who s out with surgery is no longer relevant. we got the tweet, and on commercial break we got the written statements and they go into more detail saying they oppose this investigation, they are no votes which brings republicans down to 48. walk us through why this is happening from a conservative investigation and what you can tell us about these two particular senators. this started i think a little bit with rand paul writing an op-ed that this isn t r
to pass it and obviously if you re in a republican primary you want to come up with a reason for that from the right rather than the left? i think most of the especially mike lee and if ben sass for instance is to come out and say he s against back sawin he s against it, i think they are going to approach it in the right and they re going to say that this is not a bill that moves in the correct direction. it doesn t address the issues that we have in terms of health care. truce and others have said this is the right point to get to a step at something more similar. but yeah, approaching it from the right is the best shot at keeping their conservative base happy. what s going to be interesting to me is to see how president trump responds. he tends to cheerlead whatever he thinks has a chance of basing. the business expects more out of him than that. and i m wondering if they ll hold him accountable for that. i ll read briefly from what senator moran said. this is kansas and she do