Republicans were forced to pull their overhaul plan yesterday. It became clear earlier that the votes simply would not be there to get the bill to the floor. And Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell addressed the press. We will not be on the bill this week. But were still working toward getting at least 50 people. In a comfortable place. Is your effort to repeal obamacare dead . No, no, were continuing to talk about it. Its a very complicated subject. I remember how challenging it was for the democrats. They were enacting a setback in 2009 and 2010. Its a complicated subject. Weve got lots of discussions going on. Will your ongoing discussions involve democrats at all . Theyre not interested in participating much. Nearly all of the republican members of the senate then moved to the white house. Video shows the white house being flanked by senators including lisa mccowsky and dean heller. We have no situation but to resolve the situation, obamacare say total disaster. Its melting down as we
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washington capitol hill reporter molly. he gave his own idea of how it could progress from here on out, hoping for a new agreement. he says in the next 72 hours if the cbo can start scoring during the july 4th recess. does that really sound feasible to you? no it s unclear. it depends on how much information mitch mcconnell has to order to turn the bill around. again, they re going to need 50 votes. 50 republican votes. can only afford to lose two. as you showed, the number of defectors increased buns it was clear this bill was not going to be going forward. mitch mcconnell, he s been taking the temperature of the individuals who are opposing it. and trying to find out ways that they can bring them on board. for example, rob portman and shelli moore capo, they have problems because they want more
heller. we have no situation but to resolve the situation, obamacare say total disaster. it s melting down as we speak. rates are going up, it s very interesting, lisa, that you re sitting next to me because in alaska it was 206%. 206% increase in alaska. so we re going to talk and we re going to see what we can do. this is great if we get it done. and if we don t get it done, it s just going to be something that we re not going to like and that s okay and i understand that very well. but i think we have a chance to do something very, very important for the public. very, very important for the people of our country that we love. now comes the difficult part, pulling together the no votes. and those republicans still on the fence after mitch mcconnell announced the bill would not proceed. rob portman and shelli moore sent out a joint statement.