and casey, while you were talking, we watched the bus carrying the senators arrive at the white house complex, so we anticipate that meeting gets under way in a few moments from now. i think you bring up a critical point, though, which is about fatigue. the president not ready to give up, though, as you point out. let me read you his tweet from earlier today, i ll be having lunch at the white house today with republican senators concerning health care. they must keep their promise to america. the republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is and it will get even better at lunch time, the dems scream death as o-care dies. one thing fascinating to me is that tweet perhaps would have been helpful several days ago. while that initial bill to repeal and replace was hanging in the balance. is there a sense on capitol hill that the president really seated his role here in trying to get this piece of legislation over the finish line? i do think that there is a sense that the
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conversation yesterday by phone and we had a good conversation. can you tell me any more about that? i will not do so. and then, of course, hallie, the president himself telegraphing a little bit of how he wants to treat this meeting with his tweet this morning which reads that republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is. it will get even better at lunchtime. the dems scream death as o care dies. that last line sounds like a heavy metal lyric. the last part is interesting because it s objectively true in the sense that republicans, including the president, have not convinced the public to support any of the things they put forward. the polling is uniformally bad across the board. so, whatever plan they may or may not come up with in this meeting, they have to make a decision to really sell it. the one last thing is the road blocks that the republicans have going forward that will probably still exist after this meeting. the four no votes on what is the current pl
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house with senators today, they must keep their promise to america. and it will get even better at lunchtime. dems scream death as o-care dies. here is how the senators were sounding off before the meeting. if we fail, i imagine there will be consequences. we have some time to get this right, and i m still generally confidence we will. for seven years they said if you elect us, we will repeal obama care. we will look like fools if we can t deliver on that promise. our political reporter for nbc news is on capitol hill as well. it looks like you re in the washington news room. i can t tell. sometimes those screens are getting so good.
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seven years of o care, disaster. must happen. exclamation point. also a quote, after all of these years of suffering through obamacare, senators must come through as they have promised and new reporting that he actually called himself several senators from paris pressuring them to vote yes some senators say they will not support the bill, leaving republicans with not a single vote to spare. we re keeping obamacare as much as anything and that s not our promise. i m unable to support the bill. it s not the ideal bill i d like to pass. i suspect there may be not be a single senator for whom it s the ideal bill they like to pass. the bill was mean when it passed the house and it s mean when it was introduced in the senate and still mean today. what s your best whether mitch mcconnell can pull this off? he s good. he s pulled more than one rabbit out of the hat, i ask him if he
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