Phases the reconciliation bill, the things were able to do at it department and more legislation is an overall plan that makes it so we can move in the direction of patientcentered health care where patients, families and docs are making medical decisions not the federal government. Shannon Republican Leaders with secretary price are speaking live so lets listen in. It was a topdown government takeover of the health care and thats what weve been working on for years. Its been an open transparent process every step of the way. Weve gone through the Committee Process and hearing through members and were on track. Were on track to bring this bill to the rules Committee Early next week and onto the floor next week. Reporter secretary price, this bill makes medicaid something the president promised he wouldnt do on the campaign trail is the president with this bill keeping his promise to his core supporters . The metric thats always been on washington about medicaid is we determine its succ
unprecedented step and filibuster gorsuch mcconnell has said a simple majority for a supreme court nominee would change that rule forever. shannon: you re hear from folks on both sides of the aisle don t want that to happen. as if that wasn t enough the bill goes to the house floor for a vote next week as well. do you think it happens? do i think it passes? shannon: no, do you think they get it there next week? here s the answer. if they ve got the votes they ll put it there next week if they don t have the votes they ll put it off and we ll talk to paul ryan on sunday and he s the chief vote counter in the house and they ll have to make change. as the bill currently stands they don t have enough support from conservatives. they need 218 votes and they don t have that. they ll have to make some last-minute amendments but the danger is if you go too far to the right to satisfy them then you may lose moderate votes in
ago tomorrow and there s been no evidence of that. shannon: you know both he and sean spicer said there s more to come. i m standing by, i know we all are. also we re standing for on monday the confirmation hearing for neil gorsuch to join the u.s. supreme court. most are saying the left don t like him on principle per se. and jeff blumenthal using the f word for filibuster. to think you have the hearing on the fbi and it s not the most important hearing on monday and you have the norm nomination of neil gorsuch. i agree, the democrats have not come up with much. they say he s a friend of corporations and big business and not the little guy.
they also are concerned about the 14 months that gorsuch spent working in the george w. bush administration on enhanced interrogation and detention at gitmo but those aren t smoking guns. we get to the f word and i was word rid worried when you said that at first. shannon: you know me. but still, filibuster. now, the democrats could filibuster gorsuch. they do have at this point that s still an option and the nuclear option doesn t extend to supreme court nominees but the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has left the option that only one time a supreme court nominee has been filibuster in the 1960s. if democrats take that almost