nightly news begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. today the ice-cold water of washington reality was thrown over the celebration by house republicans over yesterday s successful vote to repeal and replace obamacare. that s because of the still bigger battle that awaits in the u.s. senate, where key republicans are saying tonight slow down, as they plan to go back to square one to craft their own health care replacement plan. a process that will take more time and require virtually every republican to be on board to pass. here is national correspondent peter alexander with what happens next. reporter: tonight, it s the republican health care plan going under the knife. you ll have better health care at a lower cost. and now i m calling on the senate to take action. reporter: but the house helped bill where republicans can only afford to lose two votes. the senate will write its own bi
attempt to send a message to the united states. if so that message was not received because all the feedback that we have received, from the saudis has been positive. melissa: except for this. four of the six nations who got invites saudi arabia oman bahrain u.a.e. sent a last minute rsvp saying their deputy was be attending instead. i m joined by judy miller, manhattan institute and fox news contributor. judy she is also the author of the phenomenal book, the story. we don t want to leave that out. judy, go to you. there is no way to spin this. this is a snub? it is actually not a snub. melissa: what? i ll tell you why, the person actually running the kingdom of saudi arabia right now is the person who is coming to this summit. what it is, it is a miscommunication. 79-year-old king salman is ill. he has been ill for a long time. i don t know why the white house thought he was coming but, 10 days ago the gulf institute said, hey, he is not coming. it was all over the in
i am thomas robbeerts. republicans are warning the white house to back off after the plan b was leaked. this draft bill which was obtained by usa today over the weekend allows for an eight year path to residency for the undocument already inside u.s. borders and within hours of that plan s release florida senator marco rubio fired back saying if proposed the bill will be dead on arrival in congress leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal situation for years to come. the chief of staff defended the white house choice to be ready to go it alone. we re doing exactly what the president said we would do last month in las vegas which is we re preparing. we re going to be ready. let s make sure it doesn t have to be proposed. let s make sure the group up there, the gang of eight, makes the good progress on these efforts as much as they say they want to. republicans on the hill are upping the ante and accusing the administration of political games man ship that will
now, that s no way to get it done. with both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obama s backup if the efforts fall short? it is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you don t do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor jonathan caphart and an opinion writer for the washington post and angela reid, principle of impact strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. you come in on president a days. let s dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. angela, i want to start with you. we have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the second administration but we see that on the 28th the bipartisan group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to
and increasing number of absences to his inauguration just days away. the number keeps changing, you have nearly 50 house democrats plan on boycotting. other democrats may soon follow. here is senate minority leader chuck schumer. i respect where they re coming from. there have been so irregularities with this most of all russian interference, i think each person has to make their open decision. joining me now is chief political correspondent dana bash in a rainy washington d.c. sometimes i know members from the other party, it s cold, they don t always show up, but 50? it is a lot. and 49 is the number of people who have said publicly or told cnn that they are not just not showing up, it s that they are actively boycotting. they re making a statement. it s controversial. it definitely is. chuck schumer as you just heard with his great interview with manu raju is trying to make clear to the base that is very rested, very upset, not to mention the congressional black cau