Want and i will vote yet. Dean heller is the only republican standing for reelection in a state that went for hillary clinton. And he has a fellow republican who is the governor who doesnt like this bill. Hes in a tougher place. Im not exactly sure what Mitch Mcconnell could come up with that would move mr. Heller into the yes column. His rhetoric has been pretty emphatic. If you have got rand paul who is the least likely of the 10 at the conservative end and dean heller at the more moderate end, if heller thinks its too frugal, the more you push it one way and make it more generous, you will lose the frugal folks. Arthel lets take a listen. This is still a work in progress. Though the leader of the United States senate is very good at establishing coalitions to see that legislation passes. But its still a lot of work to be done to determine whether it gets to 51 votes. Maria what is your gut . Do you think it happens this week . My gut tells me this is very difficult. I hate to say th
but once it s defeated it will leave a power vacuum and iran and the asawd regime and russia ann hezbollah will move to fill it. we need to get more arab forces involved. not the iraqi forces under the influence of iran. but from he jipt, jordan, the gulf monarchies. they have not participated in this fight as much as they should have. some of them have been on the side of isis, if you believe press reports. we should try and turn it around. but we ll find after defeating isis in the post isis environment, we are seeing the foundation laid for the next war. eric: if that vacuum is not filled by allies, what then? it will be filled by iran, by the iran-controlled government. and hezbollah.