His administration at a Campaign Rally monday night. The fbi, as part of our Counterintelligence Mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. Reporter fbi director james comey and nsa director mike rogers facing five hours of questioning before the house Intelligence Committee. President obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone. No president could. Reporter comey rejecting mr. Trumps baseless claim that former president Obama Wiretapped his Trump Tower Campaign headquarters. I have no information that supports those tweets. The answer is the same for the department of justice and all of its components. Reporter the white house trying to dismiss much of comeys testimony. I think theres a lot of areas that still need to be covered. Theres a lot of information that still needs to be discussed. Reporter continuing to deny any coordination. You can continue to look for something, but continuing to look for something that doesnt exist, doesnt matter. And incredibly, refusing to back off the president s bogus wiretapping claim. Is the president prepared to withdraw that accusation and apologize to the president . No, we started a hearing. Its still ongoing. And as chairman nunes mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings that will be happening. Reporter President Trumps official government twitter account, firing off defensive tweets in realtime, throughout the hearing. Leading one lawmaker to press comey to clarify the record. Is the tweet, as i read it to you, the nsa and Tell Congress that fbi did not influence the electoral process, is that accurate . Weve offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact, because its never something that we looked at. Reporter comey also revealing the Intelligence Community has come to at least one clear conclusion. Russias interference in the election was primarily driven by Vladimir Putins disdain for Hillary Clinton. Putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was, he had a clear preference to the person running against the person he hated so much. Reporter meantime, republicans trying to deflect from the investigation. Instead, focusing on leaks and who revealed former National Security adviser Michael Flynns identity. One thing you and i agree on is the felonious dissemination of classified material, most definitely, is a crime. Reporter with the president s government account even suggesting obama might have played a role in the leaks. Tweeting, fbi director comey refuses to deny he briefed president obama on calls made by Michael Flynn to russia. The president heads to capitol hill this morning with his Campaign Promise to repeal and replace obamacare on the top of the agenda. Back to you. All right, joe, thank you very much. A lot to get after, so lets do it. We have our panel right now, cnn political analyst, senior Congressional Correspondent for the washington examiner, david drucker. Cnn justice can want, evan perez. Cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, and cnn contributor in washington, salena zito. Good to have you all here. Evan perez, from a reporting perspective, what were the big surprises and what were you surprised not to hear yesterday . Well, the big surprise as we kind of laid out yesterday morning, chris, was the fact that the fbi director went as far in describing this investigation as he did. He not only said of the existence of this investigation, which of course we all knew, but he also said that they were looking at these contacts between People Associated with the Trump Campaign, and he raised the prospect that there could be criminal charges. This is a counterintelligence investigation. Theyre extremely difficult to prosecute, because a lot of the evidence is gotten from classified methods, that the government doesnt want to reveal. Its going to be very interesting. I think it raises, perhaps, some expectations by people who are opponents of President Trump, that maybe the fbi is not going to be able to get to. That said, you never know what the fbi is going to find. You never know how people react, you never know when people might lie under oath. Well see what happens. David drucker, that was one big revelation yesterday. The other big revelation from director comey is that there was no evidence the that he nor the department of justice could find to support President Trumps claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. Nothing, zilch, nada, nothing. So where does that leave congress and their investigation . Is this over . Well, no, its not over. Look, i feel like the revelation that the president didnt have a leg to stand on here. Its like when we headline shock poll, everyone likes aice cream. We knew for two weeks that the president didnt have a leg to stand on. Its interesting that comey said so and makes a good headline for the democrats. But its hard to undercut credibility that doesnt exist on this shall. I dont think it affects the Senate Investigations. The Senate Investigation with their Intelligence Committee and with nunes and adam schiff are doing will continue in pace. Wait a minute . Theyll continue to investigate nonexistent wiretapping . They are interested that wiretapping we know happened under a fisa warrant of foreign nationals and did they sweep up americans and particularly with evan nunes and the republicans on the committee, was the information about Michael Flynn illegally leaked . Everybody got a taste of that yesterday. Ive been talking to nunes and a lot of us on the hill have for weeks and hes been discussing that. So this is something theyve been after. And i have to say, i understand what democrats were doing yesterday in terms of their strategy of trying to connect the dots and show that President Trump is tied in with the russians, but it sounded like so many conspiracy theories of, this guy knew that guy in this country and once made a phone call to the other guy, that it was a lot less effective than saying that fisa was abused as a National Security tool and we need to get to the bottom of it. Selena, what was probably more to the advantage to the democrats is what happened after the hearing in sean spicers spin, saying that Paul Manafort wasnt a significant member of the campaign, saying that mike flynn was just a is volunteer, and making the admission that it was good to hear that there was no proof of collusion from these major factors of our government yesterday. Just take a listen to this. General flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. And then, obviously, theres been discussion of Paul Manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. Just so were clear, im not dismissing Paul Manafort as a hangeron. I was noting some other folks, as jonathan pointed out. With respect to paul, though, and look, im not looking to relitigar relitigate the election, but i think paul was brought on in june and by the middle of august, he was no longer with the campaign. Meaning for the entire final stretch of the general election, he was not involved. This is like a kick in the groin to their credibility. The dates are wrong, the kbl implications are wrong, and the intent is obvious. What was the play there, selena . And nobody at that hearing yesterday said theres no proof of collusion. He wouldnt talk about it, comey. So what was spicer trying to do he here . Well, i think we can all agree, hes not in a very good position right now, right . He has to defend a comment and a tweet made by the president , in front of a whole House Committee and in front of millions of people, that were discredited. So hes trying to sort of protect the president , which is his job, and to deflect the questions away from, you know, the issue at hand. You know, sometimes he does it incredibly effectively. Sometimes its just incredibly uncomfortable. And uncomfortable . Incredible he got the date wrong, he called the Campaign Chairman that they brought in to save them, heading into the they called carter page a hangeron. He is a little bit of a mystery man, fine. But to call flynn a volunteer, as you know from your reporting, im sure, they begged him to take a job in this administration. Flynn wasnt looking for a job. What a credibility fumble. Lets get to jeffrey. Jeffrey, where does this leave what jumps out at you from all of this . The president is under investigation by the fbi. I mean, thats a big deal. I mean, ask bill clinton what it was like to be under investigation from kenneth star. Ask george w. Bush h. W. Bush, what it was like to be investigated in the iran contra case. It can take over an administration. Now, will it lead to any criminal charges against anyone . Will anyone have to testify before a grand jury . I dont know. But this administration is 50 days old and it is now in the middle of an fbi investigation. Thats a very big deal. Im sorry, chris . Were you surprised that the democrats didnt jump on comey when he gave them the timing of having started this in last july, which is about the same time that he started talking about the Hillary Clinton email investigation . He could have revealed this back then. And what effect would that have had . Remember, we had two campaigns under fbi investigation last summer. The public only knew about one of them. And one of the candidates rallies, they were chanting, lock her up, lock her up, and the other, there was no hint of it. Its unbelievable. Evan, james comey addressed that. He said, i spoke about an investigation once it was closed, once i believe that case was closed, i came out and said what our findings were in the Hillary Clinton case, and the trump investigation, or into his possible ties with russia, not closed. Thats right, and i think it also, what the fbi director did not say during that hearing is that, frankly, the Trump Campaign investigation, frankly, was on simmer. It didnt really go very far for the first few months. And i think everybody, including people at the fbi did not expect donald trump to win. And they certainly did not expect to see what they saw in the closing months with the russian campaign. So i think all of that goes into the decision that the fbi has made, to look more deeply into exactly what was going on here. I think, youre right. I mean, perhaps that information could have been publicly released by the fbi, but i dont think that it was a fully baked investigation, then. And certainly, we reported that manafort was under investigation. We said that some of these other characters were under investigation, we reported that. That was, i think, widely known. It just wasnt officially acknowledged by the fbi. David, its interesting. Manafort put a statement out, by the way, which is consistent with what he said all along, which is, i never talked to any russian about anything to do with any interference. Hes been very strong about that, openly, in public, and in private. But, this pattern. Trump is all about loyalty. That will always be the starting point. And then we see no witness to that, at all. Flynn, thrown under the bus when it got uncomfortable, yet once again. We dont see any reason for them to have for him to motivate that recessiosignation. Now with manafort, under the bus. With Kellyanne Conway still there, sean spicer still there. Right, but Kellyanne Conway made mistakes. Corey lewandowski she hasnt created any new incident. Partner with somebody else he was out, too. Chris, can i just add one point . Sure. That statement that Paul Manafort issued jyesterday, rea it very carefully. He said, i have no contact with any russian government official. The whole issue with Paul Manafort is his contact with the russian oligarchs, the Business People who are he didnt say i didnt have any contact with russian Business People. He was just talking about the hacking. There is a preexisting investigation into the contacts youre talking about right now. But thats a separate thats a separate matter, though, in terms of the investigations. I dont know how separate it is. I think the thing to remember with trump is that hes always talking to a particular audience, and its the people in the arena in louisville last night. So when we look at sean spicer, i think this is important to understand, saying that Paul Manafort was a hangeron who volunteered for a day and a half and then took off, what theyre trying to do, and theyve been very successful at it, the president has, is maintain his connection to his base, as long as they doubt what were reporting, then none of this bad stuff can be true and they stick with him. That is a staple of trumps political strategy, and so far, its worked very well. Panel, thank you. Stick around. We have many more questions for you. He was the Campaign Chairman. So now that we know that the fbi is investigating trumps campaign, some of the aides for possible collusion with russia, trying to make sense of these connections. What is going to be the impact on the presidency and his agenda . Remember, its not just the investigation, its the shadow. Our panel discusses, next. For unlimited data. E othe tmobile one save you hundreds a year. Right now get two lines of data for 100 dollars. With taxes and fees included. Thats right 2 unlimited lines for just 100 bucks. All in. And right now, pair up those two lines with two free Samsung Galaxy s7 when you switch. Yup free. So switch and save hundreds when you go all unlimited with tmobile. With sleep number, theres an adjustment for that. Tilt your tormentor and put those snores to sleep. Does your bed do that . Come into a sleep number store where mattresses start at 899. Its a no brainer. The first hundred days. Imagine having to be subjected, as president of the united states, to the head of the fbi saying, youre under investigation for any potential connections to what happened with russian interference. And then just to hear the thing you said, that you were wiretapped by the president , is untrue, from the head of the nsa and the director of the fbi. It was a big day. That is a tough day. Whats it going to mean . Lets bring back our panel, evan perez, jeffrey toobin, salena zito, and joining us, president ial historian douglas brinkley. Doug, we need you, because we havent really seen anything like this before. Youre just a couple of months in, and you have the sitting president , a congressional hearing, the director of the fbi saying, yeah, weve been looking at him since july for this russia stuff. And then the head of the nsa says admiral rogers, yeah, the wiretapping stuff hes talking about, we have no proof of that. The stuff he said about british intelligence, thats laughable. How big a deal is this . Its a very large deal. Our country has a crisis in confidence going on. And people we dont have confidence in is the trump white house. The very fact of the matter is yesterday, the fbi and doj have said donald trump lied to the American People about barack obama wiretapping. And not only did he call said Obama Wiretapped, he called president obama bad or sick. He made an ad hominem personal attack on the former president , which hasnt been helpful. Barack obama, incidentally, left office with about a 95 Approval Rating with africanamericans. Hes an icon in that community and trump going to belittle him in such way, how does that help bring the country together . And the fact of the matter is that there is a dark cloud hanging over donald trump, over the russian connections, thats not going to go away. This whole spring, it might go there this summer, so there was no trump honeymoon, in fact, its the opposite. He has an administration that seems to be shrinking almost daily. He was at 37 to 9 in the polls previous to the hearings, and i suppose now hell be logging in at around 33 . That means about twothirds of the country doesnt think youre doing a good job. Jeffrey toobin, you agreed that yesterday had some bombshell revelations. How do you see moving forward from yesterday . You know, theres a word for donald trump. And that word is president. And when youre president , you still have a lot of power. Yesterday, he had a Supreme Court nominee cruise through a first day of testimony. Neil gorsuch is probably going to be on the Supreme Court in 2040. Hes got a Health Care Bill that may yet pass the house of representatives on thursday. So, you know, i think this is a bad it was a very bad day. This is a very perilous situation for him. But we have a system where the president is powerful and the Republican Party is still completely lined up behind him. You saw that in the house hearing yesterday. So, yeah, its definitely bad. This is not something anyone president would want. But i think, you know, the obituaries for the Trump Presidency should not be written yet, by any means. And those same polls, salena, show he couldnt have much better support among republicans. Hes at 80some presideercent, base is dug in. But you have to look at what he cares about right now. What he cares about right now are motivating his agenda. So how much do you think these attacks on his credibility and the stain of the investigation, do you think theres a legit concern that it could make him toxic to his own in the government . Well, i mean, yes. I agree with jeffrey, it was a very bad day yesterday. I also agree that he has a lot of platitudes to still to work with. Politics is all about geography. While he has a 35 i Approval Rating nationwide, if you look at numbers in that poll, it shows rural and exurb areas, his Approval Rating is at 55 and 59 percentage points. He still has a lot of Political Capital to work with. And i think that what youre going to see this week is going to be a very busy week, with gorsuch, with the health care, and i expect to see him talk a lot, very strongly about north korea and just sort of plow forward. And hopefully lead this segment, at least for the present time, behind him. And you have so many contacts in the Intel Community. What happens now with President Trumps relationship with the Intel Community and particularly director of the fbi, comey, now that comey came out yesterday and said that the president is making these false allegations . Well, you know, this is one of the fascinating parts of this story, is actually the fact that the beginning of the Trump Presidency, there was a lot of focus as to whether or not jim comey was going to keep his job. And i can guarantee you that after yesterday, he gets to keep his job. Hes going to see this investigation through. And it is probably unfortunate for the trump administration, not something thats going to be hurried up. It doesnt have a timeline. Theres no election approaching immediately sp immediately, so the fbi will work through this methodically. The Intelligence Community will do the same. Its going to be an irritant, a constant irritant for the president. Now, as part of this, i think one of the most important parts for the white house and this president to do is to fill their administration. They have so many jobs that they have not filled, that could help the president manage all of this. They could get more competent people in places, including messaging. You know, theres a lot more that they can do to try to handle this situation. So, douglas, in terms of like Historical Perspective here, in terms of how hes doing in these fooi first couple of months here, we call it the first hundred days, but hes only 60 days into it. Where does this stack up for you . Bottom of the barrel. Hes having a very hard time getting out of the gate. Ronald reagan used to say, you always want to rule at about 50 or more in the box office, meaning polls do matter. You have to show ways that youre leading the American People. Donald trump cant get away from this base that he has at 37 . Meanwhile, hes getting boos and hisses from all over the world. And its not just our adversaries, but our closest allies of germany, great britain, and on and on, countries, canada are just feuding with him, and hes only a few monthses in office. I think somethings got to happen here. Either donald trump has to change his behavior, avoid twitter, take it down a number of notches, or we need a select committee that has subpoena power and a mandate to produce a comprehensive report on whats happened between Trump Campaign and russia. But its just hard to govern when people are looking at you and thinking, you may be toxic, that i might need you now, if youre a republican, get gorsuch through. And were going to do all of that this spring, but im not sure i want to be in all the photo ops with donald trump, because he may be a president thats not around a year or two from now. On that note, panel, thank you, very much, for all of the insight and reporting. So, the house will vote on the republican bill to repeal and replace obamacare. Gop leaders making lastminute changes to try to secure votes. Will those changes be enough to try to get the bill passed. What are those changes . Well explore that next. I dont want to pry. Dad. But have you made a decision . 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So, theyre making Party Changes now to try to get the gop onboard, and its going to have a big moment today when the president goes to the hill to sell it. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux is right there on capitol hill. Thats the place to be. Big day. It is a big day, chris. And we are expecting President Trump to be here on capitol hill in just a couple of hours. Hes going to be meeting behind closed doors with House Republicans to try to convince them to sign on to their own plan to replace, to repeal and replace obamacare. This, chris, after several amendments went through late last night to sweeten the pot for conservatives. Were going to negotiate and its going to go to the senate and back and forth. The end result is going to be wonderful and its going to work. President trump putting pressure on House Republicans ahead of thursdays vote on the American Health care act. Thursday is our chance to end obamacare and the obamacare catastrophe. Reporter the gop revealing lastminute tweaks to the bill overnight, hoping to opeappease conservative and moderate republicans on the fence, to get the 216 votes needed for the bill to pass. Every change we make conforms to the senate rules we have to conform by. Reporter now the bill allows states the option of receiving federal medicare funding as a block grant instead of a set amount per enrollee, something conservatives have been asking for. It also allows states to require ablebodied medicaid recipients to work for their insurance. And aims to repeal Obamacare Tax increases this year instead of 2018. The house also sets aside 75 billion in tax credits, to help seniors buy their own policies, after analysts predicted big Cost Increases for Older Americans, under the initial bill. They are leaving the details to the senate. All these changes that have been added, were doing to make sure theyre done in such a way they cant get filibustered. Reporter its still unclear whether the revisions to the bill will sway enough republicans to ensure it will pass on thursday. During mondays closeddoor meeting, the white house arguing to conservative lawmakers that the time for negotiation on the bill is over. One of those people who was in that closeddoor meeting, republican senator mike lee emerged, saying he was terribly frustrated. Clearly, there is more fight in them. At the same time, the house caucus freedom, the conservative group, the chair of that Organization Still believes they have enough votes to block this legislation, even if its amended form, but the chairman also recognizing the politics of this, encouraging his colleagues to vote their constituency. Allis alisyn . Still very complicated. Thank you, suzanne, for all of that reporting. So there was this rare twitter rant by a powerful republican senator, Chuck Grassley, blasting fbi director comey for what he did not say at mondays house hearing. 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You seem to have a bone to pick with the fbi director. Tell us about it. Well, i think its a case of just being more transparent. I think that theres more could be told without violating National Security or going into the adudetails of an investigat. And theres so many accusations out there that the more that can be said, the better. And it will bring some confidence. So basically calling for more transparency. And basically, calling for particularly, it seems to me, that we ought to be talking more about whats being done on the people who committed the crime of letting out to the public this National Security information that was supposed to not be put out. Because thats a violation of law, and we ought to have an equal time and an update on that. Well, lets talk about the idea of leaking and why it isnt just a distraction, a tactic right now. Because i have to tell you, there are plenty of leaks during the campaign, some of them expected to come out of the fbi, some of them may be could have only come out of some of the intel agencies and maybe even the white house itself. Didnt see this interest from you, or the republicans, about leaks about the clinton email investigation, about the blumenthal emails, about speculation, about indictments, and things that turned out to be not true. Where was your interest in leaks then . I think you i think you got that mixed up. Because there was a time when in july, we felt comey was maybe being applauded, but then or that we didnt like what he did in july, and then in october, we did. So maybe thats just a characteristic of what you consider to be the most political value. And i dont know whether you ought to take into consideration what goes on in a campaign, that seems to have equal amount of criticism from both the republican and democrat side and equate that with what were doing now. Because right now, its settled to a more limited issue, and we ought to be talking about those two issues. What was the influence of russia during the campaign. And secondly, what are you going to do about the people that are leaking and the crime that it is. Right, but im saying there was leaking going on about clinton and there wasnt a call out to find what the leaks were and to silence them. And we now know from the fbi director, when he was talking about the clinton investigation and congress, and we know the effect that had on the campaign, he could have also said, were also investigating trump for any connections two russian interference in the election. Who knows what impact that would have had on the campaigns. It just seems to be a little bit selecti selective outrage. It could be selective outrage, but dont forget, the last item youre talking about there is that it involves trump, that came out as a result of fisa court order, that came out in october, so i dont know whether you can equate that with what went on the previous eight months of last year. Also, let me ask you, on the wiretapping, you know what came out or what didnt come out yesterday. Do you believe that the president should say, i was wrong about accusing president obama of wiretapping me, calling him bad and sick. Do you think he should apologize or not apologize . Lets not get too far. Do you think he should own it was a mistake . Your question is based on what i heard yesterday. Thats where you started your question. I cant answer your question, because i didnt have one eye on the Television Set all day yesterday in regard to the comey investigation, so i cant go into any anything about that, that youre asking me about. But you know theres absolutely no proof of the president s allegation, right . And i know that theres no proof yet that the that that administration was talking to the russians, as well. But what does one have to do with the other . One was made by the president , and im asking you whether or not he should own the falsity of that accusation . And youre putting them together and im saying youre wrong for putting them together. Im not putting them together, youre putting them together, senator. Im saying, he made the accusation about wiretapping. Im saying, should he have not have said that . Let me sum this up for you, i thought you wanted to talk about the gorsuch nomination. Im prepared to talk about that, im not prepared to talk about what you want to talk about, because thats not what you told me you want to talk about. Then lets talk about gorsuch. Youre right, youre chairing that committee, how do you think the first day went . How do you think today will go . Im only worried about people staying within their 30 minutes so we can get our ten hours of questioning done. Im the referee to make sure it gets done. And tomorrow people will have another full day with him with 20 minutes each and i hope we get every issue covered and i hope that he shows hes going to be a judge and not a legislator. He made it very clear yesterday that hes got a very independent mind, that a role of a judge is to look at the law, looks at the facts of the case, and be dispassionately your own personal views out, leave the legislative writing to the Legislature Branch and let a referee or the let the judges be a referee over whether or not the constitution is being followed. What do you think will come up today . Whats your suspicion . My suspicion is that there will be a lot of issues raised by the democrats that somehow this judge is a big friend of big business and all that sort of stuff. And if you go through the 154 decisions he wrote and another 65 that he was a coauthor of, i think youre going to find out that he is sometimes for business and sometimes for the little guy. And is pretty equal. And he approaches it for being an independent person, looking at the law, looking at the facts of the cases. And he calls the shots the way he sees them. And in the final analysis, is very much an independent arbitrator and he does it, its unpredictable where he goes. Only he goes where the facts and the law take him. Appreciate your time here this morning. And you know im asking you about news of day, because all these different stories matter. You were tweeting about them yesterday during your own hearing. So thats why we were asking. No, youre wrong, i was tweeting about them on sunday, not on monday. I take your point. Senator, thank you very much. We always talk about what matters here. Good luck today. Well see how it turns out. Al alisyn . 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Just like illinois and indiana, illinois had tennis ballsized hail yesterday, by morning, by 11 00, we start to see the storms build up over missouri. Then over tennessee, and by later on this afternoon, we could see big size hail over parts of nashville, maybe chattanooga, and even into charlotte, north carolina. 200 Million People today, way above normal, even in atlanta, 81 degrees. And for you in new york city, youre going to walk outside and say, hey, what happened to winter . It is warm and it is going to be nice today, a high of 57. Enjoy, guys. We will. We will enjoy it today. Thank you, chad. What she said. Mystery solved not one, but two of tom bradys super bowl jerseys headed back to new england after being found in mexico by the fbi. Coy wire has more in the bleacher report. It is so funny, but its true. It is funny and its true. And its a big deal. One jersey, the nfl confirmed, first of all, that this years jersey went missing from his locker in houston had been valued at 500,000 and the one he wore in super bowl rxlix yeas ago found in the possession of a credentialed media. The nfl say this video was instrumental in the investigation. Identifying mauriceio ortega who happened to resign for personal reasons just two days after the fbi and mexico teas federal po conducted a raid of his home. Houston Authorities Say an informant led them to the jerseys and they are expected to file charges against ortega. Interesting note, the nfl will return to mexico city for a game this season. The Oakland Raiders hosting the new england patriots. Kevin durant still out with injury. His warriors visiting his former team in Oklahoma City and the o. K. C. Crowd trolled their former sweetheart hard. A cupcake on crutches, wearing durants jersey number. Oh, it was on. Second quarter, steph curry and kristen get is into a scuffle. 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This morning, he takes his me message directly to capitol hill. The president is hoping a series of amendments to the house bill released last night will lock in some skeptical lawmakers. Lets discuss with mit professor jonathan gruber, one of the art te tects of obamacare. Lets pull up for everyone these changes made last night by republicans to try to make it more palatable to some holdouts on the republican side. Ill go through them and you can tell me what you see. Those block grants for medicaid, now optional by state. Imposing medicaid work requirement, now optional, by state. Preventing the medicaid expansion. Heres an interesting one, reserving 75 billion worth of tax credit funds for Older Americans, because as youll recall, they were seen as being hit hard by the first version of this bill. Repealing Obamacare Taxes this year. And then adding this new york medicaid provision. Professor, what do you see here . Well, theres a lot of stuff here. Why dont we start with the money for the elderly. So one of the striking points in the cbo report was that the cost for Older Americans who are lowincome would go up almost tenfold under the republican alternative. Theyre going to throw a small amount of money at this. Remember, 75 billion is over ten years, okay . This does very little to address that problem. It doesnt solve the problem. Moreover, the cbo report said, for example, 40yearolds costs would double. Theres nothing in there for them. Theyre just trying to put their finger in the dike as various leaks are being sprung, but the bottom line is, this doesnt do anything for the fundamental flaw that the tax credits they proposed make insurance unaffordable for lowincome americans. So to be clear, one of the big sticking points for Older Americans, as you were saying, their premiums would shoot up. That 75 billion, you dont think solves that problem . Their premiums would shoot up, but lets remember, also, alisyn, their outofpocket costs would go up. Thats the other thing weve got to focus on in that cbo report. In addition to premiums, they would pay three times as much out of pocket. Higher deductibles, higher copayments, et cetera. Add all of that up, their Health Care Costs are going up almost tenfold. 75 billion over a decade does not solve that problem. Its a token gesture to try to solve the most glaring number in the cbo report. Just to stick on this one more point, thats not going to win over those republicans who are on the fence. As we know, many of their constituents are that age. So youre saying it should have gone farther if they wanted to get this passed . What im saying is, their fundamental structure doesnt work. Under obamacare, we have an incomebased system, which insurers that lowincome americans are protected and dont have to pay more than a certain percentage of their income. The flat agebasbased tax creds always going to leave some lowincome groups paying more. I want to ask you about the last provision we had there. Add new york medicaid provision. This is an interesting one. As we know from some of the haggling, this is to win over senator congressman Chris Collins says this is to win over some of the new york delegation that felt that they basically wanted some special treatment, and as we recall, from the passing of obamacare, there was h hew and cry over the corn huhus kickback or anything that was seen as a special carrot to some states. On the one hand, this always happens when you pass a law. Theres always side deals and special ways to make it work to get votes. On the other hand, youre absolutely right. This was an enormous hew and cry. Indeed, the special election of scott brown and the senate here in massachusetts, the corn husker kickback was listed as one of the number one issues for electing a republican senator. Its really, incredibly ironic after they did that with obamacare, theyll come back and do the same thing to get their bill passed. What do they do for coverage . This is the big conversation. The cbo says millions of people will lose coverage under this gop plan. Do you see anything this these amendments that helps fix that . No, actually, it goes the other way. Lets look at one of the most pernicious parts of these new amendments, the work requirement for medicaid. If you look at medicaid, remember, 85 of people on this program are elderly, disabled, or children. Theres only 15 that are working age adults who are capable of working, and most of them already work. The requirement does almost nothing, except cause confusion, which is going to cost some people who cant work to actually drop off the program, because they dont understand it, and theyre afraid of what could happen. So if anything, i think these amendments lower the coverage impact of the law. At last count, there were 27 House Republicans that were leaning no or were an outright no on voting for this. But that was before these amendments. So is there anything that youll see hear that will make it more palatable to holdouts . I think the sort of meanspirited gestures like a work requirement in a program where almost no one can work and those who can already are working, may appeal to some, maybe some of that appeals to those on the right, throwing a small amount of money at a large problem may provide cover for those older constituents. But anyone whos thinking seriously about this who opposed it beforehand