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Outdated. And on general mike flynn, the former National Security adviser, who has now registered officially as a Foreign Agent for his lobbying before the campaign in turkey, sean spicer was asked whether donald trump would have appointed him to that position of nsa if he did know that . And sean spicer said, i do not know. We have a team of analysts and reporters here to break down what happened in that press briefing. Joining me here on set, david, alease, joel benenson, and in the Briefing Room itself we have Hallie Jackson at the pentagon. We have hans nichols. Hallie, i would i think your ear piece doesnt quite work yet. Can you hear me . Reporter yes. Wonderful. Give me the major headlines from that briefing. Reporter sure, katy, as i juggle notes and notebooks. A couple headlines on the topics making news. Number one, health care. The secretary reaffirms the white house commitment to making sure that this bill gets through. Saying emphatically the president will sign this bill once it gets to his desk. The repeal and replace will happen. Also talking about he does think the president does think this movement is sort of working great, if you will, despite the fact that you do have not just conservative groups from the outside, not just skeptical republican lawmakers, but you have doctors groups, for example, medical associations, the aarp coming out in opposition to this as well. Im just ticking through my head a couple of other headlines. On Julian Assange we saw that News Conference earlier, two days after what could potentially be this bombshell breach, one of the biggest Intelligence Leaks if it is authenticated in modern history, although the cia has not authenticated this information. The press secretary saying in response to assanges comments that essentially as assange claims, the cia has lost control of its Cyber Security arsenal. Sean spicer says the president believes its cia Technology Needs to be updated. You also heard him talk about a little bit relating to the relationship between the president and some members of congress as it relates to health care as well, katy. Back to you. Hallie jackson mentioning the repeal of obamacare and the gop and House Health Care bill is also a big topic on the minds of everyone. Well talk about that further in this hour. First, i want to focus a little more on the Wikileaks Dump as well as news coming out about michael flynn. Lets go right to our panel on this. First off on wikileaks, this cache of information about cia techniques and what exactly they can do. Talk to me about the timing of this, david. Well, its interesting. Weve seen with wikileaks in the past and the russian hacking that its quite conceivable theyve held on to material for long periods of time, whether it was the dnc emails or the john Podesta Emails and waited until they thought there was a strategic reason in order to presumably help donald trump to release that information or to hurt Hillary Clinton as much as they could. So, have you to ask yourself if they had this information and theyve redacted, you know, some names on it, which they havent done in the past, meaning theyve had it for a while to process it, why did they do it this week . Is it because donald trump has put his foot into it again in terms of claiming president obama illegally wiretapped him, which is absurd and crazy and makes him look like a crazy man . They want to throw the subject and throw it back on the Intelligence Community . And, you know, take the attention away from Donald Trumps own mistakes. Is this the only thing they have . It believes the Intelligence Community believes the leak came from a disgruntled employee or someone inside. Not a foreign power, which would have more interest in using this stuff against the cia secretly than putting it out there. So, there seems to be a lot of politics to how and why this came out now. Lets listen to sean spicers answer on this question a few minutes ago. There is grave concern that the president has about the release of National Security and classified information that threatens and undermines our nations security. Obviously, he believes that the systems that the cia are outdated and need to be updated. He has compromised in the past and undermined our National Security. Ill leave it up to the department of justice to further comment on their disposition of him. Hes talking about Julian Assange there. We also mention this when we talk about this that donald trump on the campaign trail said he loves wikileaks. Obviously, he doesnt feel so friendly towards leaks now that hes the president , at least. With what is going on with assange, does the Republican Party and does well, the Republican Party. Does the president himself need to come out and say, this is not okay and were going to do everything in our power to make sure this sort of thing does not happen again . And wikileaks and Julian Assange are not helping the American Public regardless of what he chooses to leak at any time . Well, i can see President Trump coming out and condemning the leak, but i would be surprised, pleasantly surprised if he condemned Julian Assange and wikileaks role in this. Hes shown incredible loyalty as people he believes supporting him, soy dont necessarily see him coming out hard against wikileaks. In Julian Assanges remarks, he was stoking the president s suspicion about what he calls the deep state. And his mistrust of Intelligence Community already and trying to just, you know, provide donald trump with more fodder that there are a lot of people out there within the Intelligence Community who are out to get him. So, i think thats a big part of why the timing. And the question of whether, you know, donald trump throws out this accusation of wiretapping and says, i think president obama potentially was spying i think he was spying on me or know he was spying on me. The Intelligence Community refusing to back him up on that. The Republican Party going back and forth. Some saying we need an investigation, others say, show us the evidence you have. This would allow essentially trump to say, they did have all these capabilities and maybe they were doing it. Joel, you were affected by wikileaks during the campaign. So, give me your response. Look, one of the things we have to recognize is in the past these leaks have come from inside the cia. 2010 there was. The Chelsea Manning documents came from inside. These came from someoneinside, not disrupting the cia Cyber Securityystem. If youre the president of the United States, you have to get on the high ground and say, look, were going to take every step possible to make sure our intelligence agencies are as secure as they need to be for us to do the work we need to do in this world. I think you take it out of the world of politics. I think you try to get on the high ground because i think there isnt anybody in america who isnt concerned about the fact that the russians can meddle with our elections or potentially some actor can get into our cia computers and cause some disruption. Hans nichols at the pentagon. What are your conversations with those in the defense field and the intelligence field, what are you gleaning from them about this leak from wikileaks . Reporter its significant sean spicer didnt refute this idea, that the cyber arsenal has been taken and out there potentially in the hands of wikileaks. He didnt confirm it either. I think when you think of Cyber Capabilities, think of it as offense and defense. And most of what wikileaks did, theyre talking about defensive measures. Having your smart tv listened to, these kind of things. What assange was alleging is that they actually have something on the offensive side, which is to say Cyber Capabilities to, say, disable north korean rockets when theyre still on the launch pad or in iran a few years back. Both stories reported by the new york times. On the offensive side what assange is alleging is truly scary. The offensive capabilities of Cyber Command of the nsa, if they do, indeed, have that, if wikileaks does have that, as spicer said, thats of grave concern. One quick note on that. Whenever you heard the word grave from an official spoectionz person, thats code for war. The fact spicer used grave, and im assuming spicer has been brought up to speed on the importance of diplomatic language, whenever you hear grave, thats really the strongest language that you can use. Thats what mr. Spicer used from the podium today. Guys . Well, that happy note lets leave this topic for a moment and move over to the other major story of the day, which is health care. The House Republican Health Care Bill passed and overnight it went throughout ways and means committee. David, back when obamacare was being worked on were accusing them of working in the dark and pushing this through, jamming it down peoples throats. Not only back then. Theyve been saying it the past two days. Sean spicer has been saying this repeatedly in his press briefings that obamacare was jammed down the throats, done in the dead of night and we never got to see the bill. We didnt know what was in it until it passed. All those things are outright lies. Obama had subcommittees and committees do full deliberations after it was scored by the Congressional Budget Office. He tried to work with Olympia Snowe and chuck grassley, republican senators to try to bring in republican concerns. It took about a year of deliberations before there was a vote. They locked it up in a room for a day or two. Rand paul went through the congress, wheres the bill . Like wheres the beef commercial. They pass it in two days without it being scored for anyone. For paul ryan, who claims to be a policy meister, this is a complete fraud. David set you up perfectly. How do they get this passed the house, the senate, and then someone like rand paul . I dont see how they get this passed. I think they set this up on a path to disaster here. The fact they did not score this budget, the Congressional Budget Office has not given an estimate of how much it is going to cost the country, and so theyre accountable, these republican congressmen and women are accountable to grassroots constituency whos really concerned about the deficit, and yet they want to sell these congressmen and women on voting for someone they dont know the cost of the score will also say how many people will lose insurance, which is a key point. The white house has already tried to discredit the score saying it wasnt accurate when it was score obamacare. Joel, he hasnt necessarily reached across the aisle to democrats. When i say he, i mean President Trump. And also Speaker Paul Ryan. Democrats dont seem to being consulted at the moment on this bill. Well, they have succeeded in unifying some very diverse groups on the health care issue. The doctors and the ama are against it, the hospital association, it is Insurance Companies, the aarp. All these groups have come out and said, this group will dom harm to people who need coverage. And i think thats going to compound the problem from rnz. Youve also got republicans like tom cotton coming out overnight saying, whoa, hit the pause button, to davids point about jamming this through. They have done nothing to get people behind this or, and i think as elise and david just touched on, and paul ryan did a whole whiteboard today. Two things missing, what is this going to cost taxpayers, what is this going to cost americans, and the third thing, how much people are going to lose coverage . You talk about medicaid as a remedy. Medicaid is a recipe for people walking Emergency Rooms which is the most costly thing in america. Kasie hunt, you get the last word. Paul ryan literally rolled up his sleeves today and gave a Powerpoint Presentation to try to convince his party, potentially try to convince his president. Was it effective . Reporter hey, katy, yeah, this is paul ryan in his element. Forgive us here, were talking about another subject. This is the Intelligence Committee where theyre heading into review materials in this russian investigation. Back to health care. Look, the speaker he was in his element today. This is what he likes to do. He does this at town hall meetings. He rolled up his sleeves and went through a Powerpoint Presentation. Really it was a sales pitch and the audience, it seems to me, many members of his own Republican Caucus in the house who, you know, apparently he wanted to say, look, this is all we can do under these reconciliation procedures. So, theyre really limited to a certain set of things substancerelated to the budget. They cant do anything thats not related to the budget and still get this passed in the senate with 50 votes. So, he was trying to explain that. He was also trying to argue that, look, this is our one shot at repealing and replacing this health care law. This is our one shot at doing what we promised in the campaign. If we dont do it now, well miss this opportunity entirely. I thought that was a significant stat acknowledgment, hey, if they screw this up there isnt necessarily a path to do this major thing. Theres also been some reporting on breitbart. They quoted senator rand paul saying the House Speaker is trying to pull the wool over the president s eyes. Of course, the president , we know, is a consumer of capabble news and likely seen or heard about the speakers kind of presentation today to reporters. So, i think that as we move forward, president tweeting today, look, contrary to reports in the press, my Health Care Bill is all in the fine and clear. The reality is, republicans are telling me privately, they doubt they can get to 50 votes in the senate on this bill as it stands right now. And, you know, if this is really their one and only shot, as speaker ryan says, im having trouble seeing how its going to move forward. And donald trump ending that tweet by saying health care will end in a beautiful picture. Kasie hunt with one of the other truthisms of this administration so far, which is no matter the news of the day, russia is always a topic as well. Thats why she is standing outside of that Intelligence Committee hearing. Kasie hunt on capitol hill, hans nichols, elise jordan, joel benenson, david korn, thank you for being with me on this thursday. Up next, damage control. The cia is scrambling to control the fallout from Julian Assanges explosive claims. How should the agency, i. E. , the cia respond . Well ask the author of how to catch a russian spy and double agent. Our microsoft pulse question of the day. Assange says cia has lost control of its entire Cyber Weapons arsenal. Should Tech Companies work with him to prevent hacking . Cast your vote at pulse. Msnbc. Com. Home, car, Life Insurance obviously, ohhh. But with added touches you cant get everywhere else, like claim free rewards. 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Intelligence officials tell nbc news they, right now, are the major focus, or option d, all of the above . What was leaked . The first batch was 8,000 documents of alleged cia hacking methods but wikileaks says only 1 of what they hacked was of that. Some of the information is classified as top secret. Lastly, what does it all mean . It showed terrorists and other adversaries how the cia does hack, meaning they could use the same methods against us. It also gave them a crash course in defending themselves against the cias only methods. I want to bring in msnbc contributor and former fbi double agent naveed jamali, also the author of the book how to catch a russian spy. Thank you for joining us, number one. First off, how damaging is all of this . No, its a great question. And i think it is extraordinarily damaging. You know, these are these are tools that we use to collected intelligence. And if they are compromised, which they have been, then you cant use them. So, if there are operations where these tools were employed, those operations are potentially jeopardized or compromised. It actually does have a real world impact . So, assange is alleging competence by the cia, which is what you were talking about. Do you believe, though, that the cia is incompetent in this case . And how in the world does a cache like this get leaked to assange . Is it Russian Hackers or is it somebody who is disgruntled within the agency . Listen, since manning and since snowden, the likelihood that someone from the outside, an external adversary, external target could actually get in and steal stuff and retrieve it, that would be a significant effort. I find that the least likely. This is going off my gut. Its much more likely to someone who had access to that information for legitimate reasons, their work, is the one that actually took it out. Whether its a contractor or employee, its hard to say, or some in between. Theres a third option here, too. Nonetheless, it got to wikileaks. The big question, i fully believe, wikileaks is really a laundromat for russia. Its embarrassing the cia is clearly benefits russia. Thats clearly what Julian Assange was seeking to do. What could the motivations be if it was a contractor, someone employed by the u. S. . Thats a tough one. When we look at manning and snowden, there is a mass amount of ego that is at play here. Snowden manning has come out since his release and said that he has a lot of strong feelings towards wikileaks and he felt manipulated about him. With snowden, weve had movies about him, hes been glamorized. Everything ive heard of him, this was a spur of the moment decision, had a massive ego, thought he was smarter tha he was. To a lot comes down to the personality and a lot comes down to egos. Egos can be clearly manipulative. Regardless of how they got the information, what is the motive . Is it just to cede this doubt, this discomfort among americans with their own intelligence agencies, to feel like the government can spy on them . Absolutely. I mean, thats part of it. Now, to take it one step above that, what is russia, for example. When russia launches intelligence operations, they look for nonattribution. That is to say if their operation is compromised, that the country of origin cannot be clearly identified. Wikileaks provides a perfect vehicle for them to attack us through propaganda without us easily being able to point the finger directly at russia. We all assume its russia but its going to be very, very difficult to actually trace the line back from wikileaks to russia. I would assume. So, i think that in that regard, wikileaks really isnt acting independence and being directed in some regard by russia. Former double agent naveed jamali, thanks for your expertise and pnz today. The latest document dump comes days after donald trump accused president obama of wiretapping him. Is there a connections between these two events or is it just a coincidence . Joining me from capitol hill, senator chris murphy, democrat from connecticut, who sits on the Foreign Relations committee. Now, i know, senator, youre not comfortable talking about the validity of wikileaks and what exactly they were able to find, if anything, or release of anything. But do you suspect are you suspicious of the timing of this . I think you have to asme that this is purposely tim, coming at a moment in which we seem to be getting closer and closer to understanding the true nature of the connections between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. A moment when investigations are stepping up inside congress and pressure building for investigation outside congress. You know, if you look at everything the russians did during the campaign, they were all timed according to moments of weakness in the trump operation. The john podesta email dump came out a day after the access Hollywood Tape was released. So you know, all of this seems a little suspiciously timed to believe its independent. You know, i think feeds that argument that your prior guest was making, that wikileaks and the russians are, you know, certainly connected. Two your colleagues, are both asking for an investigation into whether or not Donald Trumps phones were tapped by president obama. If they get that investigation where do you think it will lead . Well, inc. It will be a pretty short investigation. The answer is, no. Its a much more complicated question to understand whether there was or is an active fbi investigation into people in the trump operation. But if the question is, did president obama order the tapping of those phones, i think pretty clearly the answer is going to be no. And potentially in a hearing that the house is going to have, theyll get that answer from the fbi director as weve already gotten it from the director of National Intelligence under president obama. Senator chris murphy, i know youve got to go. Thank you for being here. The democrat from connecticut. Thanks. Breaking news regarding the president s revised travel ban. Washington state is set to join the fight again to keep from being implemented. Well talk about that next. For lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads. Here. Here. Or here. Today, theres another option. Drugfree aleve direct therapy. A tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. Its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like this. This. Or this. And back to being yourself. 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We think that should basically automatically apply to the new ban because the new ban is so much like the old. That is an aggressive strategy. Its not a new lawsuit. They took out all the religious wording from the new ban. They took off iraq from the new ban. They changed it in a way their legal advisers, those terns and those they vetted it with said would get through the courts. Does he stand a chance . Its an aggressive move . Youre right. Theres two questions. Is this the same and then is this legal . Theyre starting with this aggressive or some are saying this overreach position of basically this is the same. The Trump Administration has impa sised and many independent analysts have confirmed, whatever you think of either ban, there are substantive differences. That is to say its not just clerical. Its not just a light rewrite. There are a bunch of things. The real question is what does judge robart want to do. He was very skeptical of the Trump Administrations approach. Does he want to take this as kind of a piggyback or boot strap on the original thing, which would be one way, and he could say yes or no to that. Or he could say to the parties f you want to have a new lawsuit over a new executive order, bring me that. Dont tell me you automatically win because you won once before. My question is, do these does each ban liv in its own box . Are they completely separate from each other . Does is there legal argument to say this is brandnew, or is there an argument to be made its not brandnew, its just an amendment from the first one and everything that applied to it and all the implications of it and all the negative attention it got and all of the fact donald trump called for a muslim ban and Rudy Giuliani said he wanted a muslim ban, does that apply to the new one . Legally on march 16th the new law revokes the old ban. That raises the question in law school that would be theoretical, but were talking about. How do you block something that doesnt exist . Its metaphysical. The Washington Attorney general is making an aggressive argument saying, give me a break. We all know this is the same basic policy. The things we objected to in the original ban exist more or less in the second. Hes telling the judge, you shouldnt let the government get its way by constantly trying something new. Thats the argument. Legally, though, its hard to think of a lot of cases where a court would issue a temporary restraining order, thats the court using a force of law to say you cannot do something, before having a full briefing and hearing on it, which is what you would do if you got a new lawsuit, not just to piggyback. So, its complicated is the term of importance today. Katy, the Facebook Status of this litigation is, its complicated. Relationship status, its complicated. Love it. Thank you. We should also mention the Hawaii Attorney general is going to be having a press conference at 3 30 to talk about its lawsuit against this ban. And new York Attorney general says it does intend to join the washington a. G. In fighting against this ban. Moving on to health care. By now, youve probably seen how the House Speaker schooled everyone on the partys Health Care Plan earlier today. Is the medical community sold on the obamacare replacement . That is next. Look closely. Hidden in every swing, every chip, and every putt, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. The microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and fans. The microsoft cloud turns information into insight. Termites, feasting on homes twentyfourseven. Were on the move. Roger. Hey rick, all good . Oh ya, were good were good. 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Speaker ryan came out with rolled sleeves, literally, you see him there, and a Powerpoint Presentation to make his points to republicans, fellow lawmakers and some might say the president himself. Lets talk about the realities of this new plan with nbcs medical contributor dr. Emily azar and notable canadian ali velshi. Doctor, lets start with you. A lot of i guess almost all Health Care Groups are coming out against this plan. Why . Literally when you look at the list, it is probably every notable and important and Influential Group who represents doctors, hospitals, nurses, Senior Citizens as well as independently the American Association of heart disease, diabetic association, American Lung association. Even offshoots, particularly the acp, why . Because there is nothing about e proposed bill that represents a move towards universal health care. This is supposed to be Health Care Reform when almost line item this is regression. Absolute regression. So, covering less people . Switching medicaid to the per capita funding model, taking away the subsidies, the incomebased subsidies, defunding planned parenthood. Think about all the women thats going to affect. Planned parenthood serves, you know, underserved and rural populations. More importantly, the prevention and Public Health fund is going to be eliminated. They fund so much of the cdc. I stell feel like im in a little bit of a nightmare im not waking up from because i dont understand what parts of the bill appeals to our populous. I really, really dont. It hasnt been scored by the cbo. It hasnt been scored by the cbo yet, but from appearance of it, ali, tell me what its going to cost. A couple things. The credits that they are giving out, in addition as opposed to the subsidies that existed under obamacare, they are less generous. In theory it should cost the government less. I dont want to ask you what you earn but under obamacare i wouldnt have qualified for a subsidy. Under this, i actually will. I might get 3,000 a year if i buy my own health care. That doesnt make any sense at all. Thats an extra cost that doesnt make sense at all. People who are well off as long as im under 60 years old ill get money from the government. This is where theonservates are having a problem. They didnt like the subsidy because they thought that was a new entitlement. Now we have a refundable tax credit which they say is an entitlement. It doesnt sofl the problem. It pays some a little less so guys like me might get some money. It takes benefits away. There were taxes on the highest income people, including ceos of health care companies, which have been removed. Mathematically this doesnt advance the cause, as natalie was saying, in a meaningful way, which is why some people are confused about it. It doesnt idealogically satisfy the right or those that need health care. You had a fascinating conversation with a lawmaker at 11 00. Go to brad jaffes twitter, hes posted a clip of it, but he was making the argument that single parent addition Single Payer Health care systems dont work because ultimately those people end up coming to the u. S. For better coverage. Your argument was . Three points. One, they dont work so much that canada, sweden, norway, denmark, great britain, everybody uses them. Theres no other system that actually works to cover your entire population. There arent theres no influx of canadians or swedes or danes coming to america. For advanced cancers that you cant get back there, you can come here to go to m. D. Anderson or sloet kettering but theres no inflex of canadians coming to United States. Grew up in canada. Never knew anybody coming to the United States for a test. It just doesnt the outcomes are better because they pay for preventive health. So people live longer. The american insurance system rewards treatment. So if youre not going to be treated f youre healthier and take Preventive Care and not get treated, theres no incentive here in america. Thats part of the problem. Single pair Health Care Systems reward outcomes. As a result in all of the other developed nations we spend half as much per person on insurance than we do in the United States. I would like to have this conversation for the entire hour, but, unfortunately, theres so much more news to do today. Guys, thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for lending your expertise. If you want to see that video, i will retweet it. Up next, the art of the deal. Im donald trump. I wrote the art of the deal, i say not in a bragadocious way. Ive been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals. Thats what i do. Youre supposed to sit down with the democrats and the republicans and the liberals and the conservatives and everybody else and youre supposed to hammer out deals. 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Obamacare stuck families with soaring premiums. The new plan provides more choices and lower costs. Repeal and replace obamacare. Tell congressman to vote with President Trump. Joining me from capitol hill is republican congressman bradley byrne, who sits on education, workforce and rules committee as well. Thank you for joining me, number one. Number two, do you support this plan in its entirety or do you think it needs to be negotiated or amended . I do support the plan but i think it could do with some amendments. I think well have an orderly process to do that. Both committees met yesterday and today and completed their work and Budget Committee next week. Lots of people are still reading this bill, lots of discussions going on. Can it be approved . Sure. We have all campaigned on the republican side to repeal and replace obamacare. And were going to do that. Thats being negotiated now. Im confident those negotiations will work. As it stands at this moment, you do not believe in it . You do not support it . I do support it. Any bill can be improved. There are discussions. I believe those discussions will not only give us a better bill but enough votes to pass it through the house comfortably. There are ads going out tar getting the 30 gop lawmakers who arent necessarily on board with this as of right now. My question is, is the party eating its own to get this through . No, i dont think we are. Democracy is a messy process. Unlike what the democrats did several years ago, this is being done in the light of day. You get to see how it actually works. How it works is theres giving and taking and back and forth. Thats what were going through right now. At the end of the day, well get the votes, pass it as law. Youre saying this is being done in the light of day. It passed through ways and means last night in the middle of the night. Certainly not the light of day. Only because of democratic obstruction tactics. It would have passed in the light of day except for democratic obstruction tactics, including those on the floor this Health Care Bill, obamacares Health Care Bill took a number of months, went through public hearings. This is intended to get passed in a few weeks. Do you really stand by this notion that its being done in the light of day with everybody on board . Yes. Some of your republican senatorsont believe it is. I completely disagree this hasnt been above board and completely out there for people to see. Weve been talking about the principles for this bill for months now. There have been drafts of bills out there. I cosponsored one of them, that have been out there for more than months. Theres nothing new here. Details have been worked out in the last couple of weeks, but the actual principles of this piece of legislation have been discussed for a very long time. And weve given everyone plenty of time two bills that have been put together, 130 pagwhereas obamacare was 3,000 pages. It was over 2,000 pages. The 130 pages that are being used to repeal and replace it a all thats needed to give people back their freedom in health care. Your bill is smaller, youre saying its better . Yes, because it makes things simpler. It gives more freedom in choice to people. When youre about freedom and choice, you dont need 2,000 pages of laws. Can you keep it short, get to the point and get the job done. Lets talk about the people who this is going to affect. A few days ago you had a town hall. I want to play you a specific question from one of your constituents. The preexisting conditions, so my question for you is, will you promise me tonight that you will not vote in favor of any legislation that would allow Insurance Companies to once again discriminate based on preexisting conditions . For people who dont have insurance right now, in the future themight have a preexisting condition, were going to have the state highrisk pools that the federal government is going to subsidize. You know, it didnt sound like anybody liked the idea of highrisk pools. The bottom line its not just you getting pushback, its lawmakers across the country when theyre holding town halls. People are scared. Theyre scared about their own health care. Theyre scared about the health care of their loved ones and theyre scared this bill is going to make it harder for them to get the health care that they need when they need it. How can you assure your frightened constituents that they wont be put in a position that theyre not going to get the health care they need when they need it . Well, lets start with where we are right now, which is these exchanges are failing all over the country. We have one carrier left on the exchange in alabama. They happen to continue to lose money, even though they have gone up on their premiums. What i can assure my constituents that are on this plan is theyre going to lose everything. For them, i want to make sure we have something in place that will continue some sort of health care for them that will work. For that young mother, i can assure her, as we have since that meeting, that her young son who needs care will continue to be on that Insurance Plan thats working for them. So, i dont have any problem assuring my constituents that doing something to take care of the situation is the right thing to do. And i can also assure them doing nothing is going to hurt a lot of people. Lets hope so. Congressman bradley byrne, republican of alabama, thank you so much for joining me, sir. Before we go to break, lets get to a check of todays microsoft pulse question. Julian assange says the cia has lost control of its entire Cyber Weapons arsenal. 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Go to my twitter to check out that Interesting Exchange from ali velshi and his lawmaker. In the meantime, kate snow picks things up right here, right now on msnbc. Great to see you. Good afternoon, everyone. Im kate snow. Here are our top stories this hour. Pitching the plan. House Speaker Paul Ryan rolling up his sleeves, literally, to break down his partys obamacare replacement. But could this bill hurt the people who got President Trump into office in the first place . On the topic of health care, a major update in a story that i first started investigating three years ago. One that really exploded online. Its about patients who go to the hospital, suddenly stuck with massive rehab bills, thanks to two little words in the fine print. Whataakers are doing today to try to fix that situation coming up. It is a wry that crosses party lines. What grade would you give to our nations infrastructure. Well, the society of Civil Engineers just gave us one. Guess what, its not an f but not much better than an f. More on that in a few minutes. Lets get to it with our team of reporters. We have my colleague Chris Jansing covering the latest there. Joining us today, john