yeah. would you say we re in the beginning, the middle or the end of what will be the end of this bill? yeah, so i think it really is going to depend on how much political muscle the president decides to put behind it. i think a lot of people there was an editorial in the wall street journal from peggy noonan and many others calling on the president to take a step back, look it at the data coming out about the actual harm the bill causes. and either make some adjustments or more importantly, step back and say not good enough. reach out to chuck schumer and the democrats and say, you know what, we can surgically fix the things that are challenges here. it s not perfect. but it s done a lot of good. and let s focus surgically instead of trying to fulfill a political wish that the people who want to reform medicaid and do big tax cuts are trying to do. because that s what this bill really is. all right. put on your surgeon gloves then, if you can, andy. what would be one thing t
bill fails. joining us now to discuss our molly hooper, congressional correspondent, sean sullivan, reporter for the washington post. molly, there s a lot of counts out there. what are you seeing in terms of where we re at? we are counting 20. there are some saying it could be 40 that are saying no. exactly. every vote counts right now up on capitol hill. as late as friday afternoon, even after the house took its last votes of the day, i was watching in the house chamber the chief with counters, the whip counters, steve scalise and patrick mchenry were working various members button hoiling them on the house floor, trying to reassure their colleagues. you know, i was talking to rep tom cole, who is a deputy whip as well. he said right now we don t think we are at the magic number of 216, but we ll be working through the weekend, through next week, and ultimately if it needs to happen, maybe president trump should come up and talk to the house republican conference up on capitol hill
skeptical about supporting this because they don t think it goes far enough come from districts that trump won comfortably. they come from districts where trump is really, really popular. they have a dilemma. do they want to cross this president and go against a bill that he supports? it s a tough decision, and i think for him to lean on them personally, for him to reach out on them personally, you know, certainly does apply for pressure. if he willing to do that, it could work. molly, 15 seconds. what can the president do? what can the president do? what he is doing right now. he is relishing this role, from what i understand, behind the scenes. he is actually really embracing this role. again, as negotiator in chief and aside from the policy, he just wants to win and get a deal done, and he is enjoying that and embracing it, and that s what leaders see. and they want a win from the white house. thank you both. thank you. all right. that s it for me this hour. i m richard
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undoubtedly they ll add another day next week. we have three, maybe four decision days left. we have 14 cases remaining. the biggies among them are the same-sex marriage cases, prop 8 in california, the federal doma, defense of marriage act, the voting rights act that you mentioned, thenal challenge to affirmative action and college admissions. best in the business, nbc s pete williams at the supreme court. thank you very much. after the break talk about a miss! miss utah boldly goes where, sadly, others have gone before. we ll talk pageants and equal pay next. [ man ] on december 17, 1903,