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Shortly. Despite the public profession there appears to be major case of mixed messages. Whether theres room for compromise. Reports from inside the white house say President Trump is saying yes to House Speaker or yes to compromise, while House Speaker paul ryan said no, it cannot happen. Nbcs Chris Jansing is at the white house and Kelly Odonnell is on capitol hill. Ladies, thank you for joining me. Kelly lets start with you. There does appear to be a split message between the white house and what were hearing out of the speakers office. How do they reconcile these two things . Well we know katy donald trump has made himself this negotiatorinchief. The dilemma is the rules of capitol hill are at times not so movable and thats what paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell have been talking about, the mechanism to try to get this bill passed and to do it in three different steps. Theres not as much wiggle room there as one might believe. Its sort of like if you go into a courtroom you have to follow the rules of procedure and a judge will tell you if youve crossed over the line. On capitol hill there are specific rules and one of the things that House Republicans are trying to do is to get this passed in what is known as a privileged bill,meaning no changes can be made. Reducing the risk fos are democrats to slow it down, stop it or change it. From the White House Point of view theyre more open to different ideas and trying to incorporate things. Its kind of a difference between the big message and the how do you get it done dilemma. Today Kevin Mccarthy the gop leader in the house talked about this issue of change and no change and heres how he tried to handle it. Some people talk about wanting to repeal and then go forward. Youd have to get 60 votes, moving forward that would be a very difficult thing to top. You open to moving up the medicaid freeze date . I think right now that would be very difficult to do. Reporter that gives you a sense of how theyre trying to say the outline needs to go forward. The committees are handling it. They think there is risk in opening the door to change as well as the white house less familiar with how this works and also trying to i think extend an olive branch of support to especially Trump Supporters around the country who have questions maybe even to some democrats or to independents out ther there. Different set of parameters. Its all about the rules and how do you succeed in passing it. For the white house, the issues are a little different. Katy . Chris, given the disagreement there is about the Health Care Bill and the fear there is among some americans about losing their health care, how much Political Capital is the white house willing to spend on this . Reporter i guess part of the question is, how much Political Capital does he have . The latest numbers show him under water again, the latest gallup poll has him at 53 disapproval, 41 approval. Having said that, what sway he has he clearly is going all in on this. Youve seen ithe meetings that hes had. Weve had very little exposure to the presint this past week since he made those unproven statements about wiretapping at trump tower and when we do see him its like we saw him today talking very positively, and were told by people who have been in the room for this series of meetings that his message is you need to come out of this and show a united front. Having said that, the president finds himself in his first big legislative fight in the middle of this fight between those who are in the main stream or i guess would you say the leadership on capitol hill and those conservatives, one of the keys as you well know katy is whether or not the medicare reimbursement could be rolled back to 2018, instead of 2020. What we heard from Kevin Mccarthy and heard from speaker ryan is thats not happening, echoing what kelly had to say. This is the bill, this is what we need to work on going forward, so you do have that mixed messaging when folks like people from the club for growth come out and say the president says he is open to talking about these things, very different from what were hearing on the hill. And this health care act, kelly, the American Health care act, is supposed to come in three phases, the final phase going back to the senate, where theyre going to need a super majority to pass it, which means theyre going to need democrats to pass it. Our rank and file republicans on the hill buying that this is a plan that will ultimately be able to get any democratic support. Well it is a legitimate concern because there are no democrats who are at this point willing to offer support. The challenge is one of the elements that some of the conservatives talk about, like the idea of being able to sort of break down the state by state barriers to buying Health Insurance. Under the rules again that is not something that is permitted in the type of bill that is phase one. So even though they agree on the idea, its about what are the mechanisms to actually put it forward . So thats where theres one of the questions. The outside conservative groups have their own fundraising bases, their own messaging. They dont have to live within these rules so theyre putting a lot of pressure on this as well trying to see some change. It would be a threestep process. The first part as weve discussed would be kind of the repeal and some new changes, then the administrative piece in the middle which would be the hhs secretary tom price, and then the third part would be sort of making additional changes that dont fall under the specific budget rules and so forth. It is asking people to have faith in the future. Thats a big ask, but at the same time leaders here are telling us they cant do some of those things in the specific legislation as it stands now. So it is a bit of a leap of faith. Well see how it goes, and theres certainly a lot of public pressure on all sides right now. Kelly, i want to get your take on some other news nbc just learned. Senator mark warren the Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence committee is back at the cia for the second time in i think about three days to talk about russians and their interference into the u. S. Election. What more do you know . Reporter well mark warner is a senator from virginia so he knows the drive to langley which is in suburban washington to go to the cia headquarters. By going there personally hes able to talk to the top officials but also its the heightened level of security and secrecy about the information, although there are specific rooms here on capitol hill that are protected for secure kinds of conversations to prevent listening and those kinds of things, he has gone there personally. Its a big statement about his investment in trying to find out more answers about what is going on with the Russian Investigation which we know encompasses a couple of different buckets, what did they meddle in, in 2016, are there connections to the Trump Campaign and the most recent allegation from President Trump about president obama, about wiretapping, looking to see if theres any information he can get there. Mark warner is number two on that committee, very powerful, and unlike many other committees on capitol hill, intelligence tends to work in the most bipartisan fashion so its a strong symbol that he wants to find out more. Katy . And chris, you got senator warner as kelly just was talking about going to the cia, the cloud of russia that continues to hang over this administrations head. You have all this debate about health care, but on friday donald trump is making a Campaign Stop. Why 50 days into his presidency is he making a Campaign Stop . Reporter thats not clear, and we asked about it yesterday. The white house has not officially put anything out about this. Its on his campaign website. Lot of people may not realize that he still has the website up that he had during the campaign. Obviously a very skeletal staff. Originally the supposition was, and this was sort of assumed to be part of what the president said he was going to do, he was going to go out to america and push health care. Now were getting some indications its not the only thing hes going to be talking about. The white house today put out a multipage statement on the first 50 days and at the very top of it was jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, the economy. The new jobs numbers came out today so certainly part of the messaging is going to be about what the president thinks he has ne riht. We know from talking to people inside the white house he feels that the accomplishments that he has made here have been underrepresented, so this is also a chance for him to get out and make those kinds of statements, make his case for what hes done in the first 50 days, but the original conversations we had that suggested he would be out a lot and only for health care seem to have shifted where hes going to be doing more meetings. The white house deferring to the Trump Campaign on this issue. The Trump Campaign still headquartered here in new york city at trump tower, 50 days in, donald trump making a Campaign Stop. We all knew how much he loved to hear the roar of the crowd and now it is confirmed he wants to go hear it again. Nbcs Chris Jansing at the white house, Kelly Odonnell who had to run because shes reporting and running people down, thank you as well on capitol hill. House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared on the radio show of hugh hewitt this morning. The main topic health care with a looming likely negative score from the Congressional Budget Office on his mind. Here was his message to House Republicans. Dan donovan republican from new york city thank you for joining me. From thank you for having hee. Would you vote for this plan as it is currently written . Were still examining it. I have met with scores of my constituents to see how the plan is going to affect them. This monday im meeting with hospital administrators and doctors to see how this plan affects them. Some great things in there, not allowing Insurance Companies to discriminate against women and charge them higher premiums than men is a good thing. Allowing children to stay on their Parents Health care plans until theyre 26 because they start their careers later is a good thing. Not allowing Insurance Companies to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions is a good thing. Im concerned about our seniors, allowing Insurance Companies to charge them five times as much as a younger person rather than what the current law allows three times as much. It is a great concern of mine and the Medicaid Expansion i live in a state, new york state took advantage of the Medicaid Expansion, the current proposal now allows those people to stay on through perpetuity and allows people to join for the next two years. Thats a great thing. I would hate to see any changes in that. So as were going through this process, were waiting for the cbo score as you said. So were still examining a goal here, i have always said is our Health Care System is broken, and needs repair. So lets try to help the people at the Affordable Care act has harmed without harming the people that it helped. Congressman, the things that you just listed that you like about this plan are things that are in obamacare. So it doesnt sound theres a lot as it stands that is new that you do like. So why not just keep obamacare or try to fix it . Because its harmed a lot of people as well. We have working families who pay 20,000 a year in premiums, and still have a 6,000 or 8,000 deductible. They dont go to the doctor any longer. 20 Million People who have insurance that didnt have it before the act but we have 5 Million People that lost their insurance because of at fordable care act and another 19 Million People that took the exemption or the penalty and dont have insurance so thats 25 Million People who dont have insurance that had it before obamacare. So we lost 5 Million People. So those are the people, we got to help those people who are critically harmed by this and allowing people to have their own doctor, remember when we were told you could keep your own doctor . That ended up not being true. We said to you the administration is not saying you would be aible to keep your own doctor on this plan. In terms of the o score, if it esnt r as many people as obama care does or if it significantly adds to the deficit, are you going to be willing to support it . Im going to wait to see. I want to see with what my physs and hospital administrators have to say. The american hospital, so and the Hospital Association of new york are very concerned about this, that this may cause the closure of hospitals. If you close a hospital, particularly in rural areas, you have people without access to health care, you have employees who are now no longer employed in my district, two of my biggest employers are my hospital systems. Those people are now unemployed, and they dont have insurance either. So sir it sounds like youre not going to be taking this plan as is. You want to see some amendments to it. I want to see how its affecting eapeople. I know how it will affect the current plan and the people who benefited from the Affordable Care act and how its helping people who were harmed by it. I want to see what happens to the providers, the doctors and the hospital administrators are going to speak to me on monday and tell me what their vision of this plan is, how its going to help people and hurt people and so until all that analysis is done im not sure how ill vote. Congressman dan donavon of new york thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me. The epa, al roker well ask him about the claims next. And waiting for sean spicer to take the podium for the Daily White House briefing. Well bring you that live as soon as it begins. Help you tak, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. Find out how American Express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open. Com. Find out the search for exprerelief 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. 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No, it wasnt wrong and there is no credible science or scientist who will tell you the contrary. The fact is Carbon Dioxide, the Greenhouse Gases is responsible for Climate Change. No sign tis will say this but the epa head says this . Look, this is america and you can make whatever statements you want to, but everybody will pretty much agree, just about an hour ago i interviewed one of the leading climate scientists in this country, dr. Marshall shepherd and heres what he had to say about it. The basic physics of the atmosphere suggest that Greenhouse Gases are in fact the primary forcing function on a warming climate system. Greenhouse gases and the impacts postindustrial age or Industrial Revolution are certainly their fingerprint is there on the naturly varying climate in the same way steroids were on the naturally varying cycle of home runs during the Major League Baseball era. I think that pretty much sums it it up. Yes, so if the epa head is saying there needs to be more research but the epa is losing money to do research, give me the consequences. How important is it and how significant is it to have the epa head deny Something Like this . Well i think hopefully cooler heads will prevail upon him to say we need to continue to research this. We need to continue what weve been doing because if you look weve got a graphic that basically right around the Industrial Revolution, we had, theres been no time in this history of our planet where co2, even naturally occurring or not, was above 290 parts per million. You look at the temperature, we put the temperature on top of that, you can see from the 1880s into the 1940s, temperatures are below average, below the global average, but once we really start to see that red line go up, as the co2 starts to increase, you can see those average Global Temperatures continue to rise, and they peaked last year, the warmest temperature ever on record for this planet. So as we continue to add those Greenhouse Gases thats not tosay that the Greenhouse Gases allow us to live on this planet. Without them completely, we would freeze to death. At night we would die. So there has to be some small amount of Greenhouse Gases. Were just adding too much. Contributing to all of this concern certainly among scientists is what were seeing now. We had a day yesterday it was in the 60s in new york city, 56 and today we have a blizzard. Look, you cant point to any one event and say okay, thats Climate Change. Thats Global Warming but what you can do is look at the trends and you look at climate over a period of time, and as you can see on that graphic the temperatures, the Global Temperatures continue to rise, continue to rise, and what Climate Change does is allow you to have greater swings in weather. You can have more extremes, go from warm to cold, from hot to snowstorms, and thats what Climate Change is. Why is that so dangerous though . For someone who doesnt see hey its a great day, i enjoyed this day and tomorrow it snows who cares. Why is it dangerous . Nature hates a vacuum. When things are going on like this, you have to have other balancing factors somewhere else. So we are living in an age where we are seeing these changes. You can argue about what they mean, but the fact is you cant argue that theyre happening. Al roker of the today show, thank you very much. Enjoy your weekend and good luck next week. Thanks. Going to scotland. The cia scrambling to find whoever leaked details of their hacking program. Just how much damage has been done by wikileaks . Well ask a former fbi double agent and a former cia chief of staff, after the break. And the Daily White House briefing is scheduled to begin in the next five minutes. Well bring you that live as soon as it starts. Looking for clear answers for your Retirement Plan . Start here. Or here. Even here. And definitely here. At fidelity, were available 24 7 to make Retirement Planning simpler. We let you know where you stand, so when it comes to your Retirement Plan, youll always be absolutely. Clear. Time to think of your future its your retirement. Know where you stand. Time to think of your future whattwo servings of veggies . V8 or a powdered drink . Ready, go. Ahhhhhhhh shake shake shake shake shake done you gotta shake it i shake it glad i had a v8. The original way to fuel your day. How to win at business. 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Just call him general, if youre ever confused call them general, if theyre navy admiral. Thats my shorthand trick. All four branches are looking into potential wrongdoing by their servicemembers in either posting or commenting on social media about other fellow servicemembers. We dont know just how many criminal investigations there are. We know of one, the navy criminal investigation. Also secretary mattis is planning to meet with the chiefs on the civilian and the military side of all four branches to let them know this behavior is not acceptable and that people up and down the chain of command will be held accountable, when the secretary of defense has a meeting with you of this magnitude, its more of a summons, not a meeting, you dont necessarily have an option on whether or not to attend. We have to say the marine corps is where the scandal started and heres what we know from the initial reporting is that there were marines taking and posting pictures of fellow marines, and thats really what a lot of folks here think is the inappropriate behavior as well as the commenting as well as the nudity and the sexual nature of all this, but its marine on marine. The marines have been out front, we also have to say trying to get ahead of the scan dal. They expect to get worse than better and revelations to come out and thats why were going to hear from the commandant of the marine corps in about ten minutes explaining what they plan to do, what they plan to offer to any potential victims and how they might need to change the culture inside the marine corps. Well keep an eye on that and you will too, hans i know. Thank you, joining us fromhe pentagon. Four states are going court to fight President Trumps revised immigration order with hawaii and oregon the latest to join the list. The executive order will bar u. S. Entry from six majority muslim nations including iran. The order goes into effect next week. Msnbcs Senior Editor cal perry is visiting los angeles in a highly populated with iranian neighborhood in los angeles so cal, tell me first off where are you and what are you hearing . Reporter westwood boulevard. Thats whey thought. Reporter in the middle of los angeles. Look at this, store by store persian in the windows because this is the Largest Grouping of iranianamericans, Largest Group of iranians that live outside of iran, which is why you get the nickname tehrangelis. Regardless of what people do for a living and background theyre all linked together by having this difficulty with the travel ban. Nicholas . You hear me nicholas . Reporter navi is a veteran actor born in iran. You may recognize him as abu nazi from homeland. Being in america is the land of opportunities. You can do, you can achieve, you can be who you want to be. Reporter ali sultani owns the oldest independent business on rodeo drive, selling highend jewelry and watches. Half of rodeo drive was designed by iranians. Reporter this woman is a pediatrician, her husband atta a business owner, they live in los angeles with their two small children. People from iran here, eye rain qwanamericans for the most part want to make America Great in their own ways. Reporter three iranianamericans living the american dream, now grappling with this weeks travel ban. Its shameful that weve had to come to this point where were going backwards in time. I think when we liable as a terrorist country and put a been on krigz you take away the individual elements in that country. They sow fear. Slox theyre scaring people, as long as they are separating people, they can control you. They can control the territory. Reporter the Persian Community is part of the identity of this city, here in famous Beverly Hills, one in five residents is iranianamerican, and whats true for this generation is especially true for the next 40 of the student body at Beverly Hills high 90210 is persian. These iranianamericans are concerned about the future of their community. When you have children who fear that their parents are going to be not admitted back into the country because of their nationality or religion, thats where i kind of draw my red line. Im getting tearful, im sorry, i think im seeing it across the board. I have patients who come in, its on their mind. I speak with other physicians. I think the rates of depression and anxiety have actually gone up. There are people who were planning to visit, my mother from sweden wanted to come here for her grandchilds 4th birthday and not bought a ticket. Shes like god knows whats going to happen. My dad is almost 84 years old. Its hard for him to walk two blocks. I cannot go to iran. I cannot go to back to iran. He cannot come back. I dont know, im not even sure if im going to be able to see him again. Reporter two things that make this travel ban unique for this community, the first is the iranian new year is coming up in ten days, a lot of families, normally come to l. A. And a lot of people will be separated, the other thing is there was a lot of hope within the community with the Nuclear Agreement and the Nuclear Negotiations that things between the u. S. And iran were on the right track. Lot of people see this executive order as a reverse of that direction. Cal perry putting a human face on the travel ban. While you were onwestwood boulevard ill give you a good recommendation g to shaharazad and get a chicken koubede. Reporter ill tell j. B. We are on our way. We are still awaiting sean spicer at his White House Press briefing. Also Counter Intelligence officials today who are still trying to assess just how much damage was done by the wikileaks release of purported cia documents. Many of the 8,000 plus pages dealt with the agencys cyber warfare operations. So lets bring in msnbcs security analyst jeremy bash, jeremy served as the chief of staff in the Defense Department and the cia under president obama, and msnbc contributor and former fbi double agent navid jamali. Guys, thank you so much. Navid author of how to catch a russian spy. First off, thank you for joining me. Jeremy, this trove of documents has not been confirmed by the cia, hasnt been confirmed by any u. S. Official, officially, but what sort of damage is it already doing right now . Well i think the Damage Assessment, and thats what you call the exercise thats going on now out at langley of analyzing the impact of this disclosure, the Damage Assessment has a few components. First, they want to know who did it, and when you touch a document in the cia, you leave digital fingerprints, and so there is an audit trail of anybody who printeding accessed, downloaded documents and i think theyre going to hone in on suspects pretty quickly. They also want to know whether or not russia was involved because of the russian connection to wikileaks which question talk about. Third they want to analyze is this material old batches of code thats no longer operationally relevant or is this really the crown jewels, things that are allowing the cia and the United States to actually conduct surveillance overseas . I think its important katy we remind everybody again this is directed at people overseas, cia does not spy on americans, does not try to get to the devices of americans. Navid there is speculation who this could be. Jeremy touched on some of this but speculation it could be a Government Contractor. What is the difference between a Government Contractor in this case and somebody who is employed by the American Government and why would somebody who is employed by the American Government be less likely to leak out this material . Well, i think the first question is did this actually come from say a brute force attack, someone from the outside coming in . I have to say thats probably the least likely scenario, as youre succeeding probably what we call an insider. You like to think that an employee, someone who is, the cia has a very thorough, rigorous process for its employees. You like to think theyre fairly well vetted, whereas a contractor, your top secret clearance they have separate processes, that may be somewhat light. We dont know where this came from. To talk about, touch on what jeremy is saying there is a point here where when it comes to intelligence operations, this attribution is so important, and this releasing of these documents whether its a current capability or a past capability it can affect Current Operations as well as lead our adversaries to look at past operations and be able to attribute them to the United States. So it does have very, very real world implications and real world damages to our National Security. Talking about the state department, if we can, jeremy, theres a lot of talk about how the state department seems to be sidelined in this administration. Yesterday mark toner, the spokesman for the state department didnt know that the Mexican Foreign minister was in town. Rex tillerson is going on a trip overseas, and he doesnt have a full staff. Hes not bringing journalists along. How significant is that . Well i think the state department is vital for everything were doing in National Security, goes without saying, and the secretary of state is the senior most member of the National Security council. I think theyve had trouble getting their staff up and running. Theye had some trouble getting their people vetted through the white house process. That needs to happen urgently so secretary tillerson has his full team in place so that he can represent the United States with as much authority as that office demands. And the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn has just registered retroactively as a Foreign Agent. He was doing lobbying work during the campaign for turkey, while at the same time writing opeds in defense of turkey advancing their political prospects. So navid, how damaging is this for the Trump Campaign and is it damaging for them to have somebody of that stature, the National Security adviser retroactively register as a Foreign Agent, especially when that Administration Says that anybody who works in the government shouldnt be allowed to lobby with a foreign power, period, after they leave the government . You know, katy, this is the heart of where i think any investigation is going to end up going. I think its less likely youre going to see things focused on espiona espionage, more along the Foreign Agent registration act. Manafort suspicion of that, but yes it is a very damaging thing especially retroactively. When he entered office he was given an sf86 where you disclose things for your security review. One would think when you do your initial security Background Investigation or your periodic you would disclose those things. To do that after the fact leads me to believe he suspects that by not doing so he could be opening himself up to some potential criminal prosecution and i think its troubling again hes doing this retroactively. He should have done this at the getgo not afterwards. The white house was asked, sean spicer was asked if donald trump had known about this, would he have made him National Security adviser. Sean spicer said he did not know. Vp pence today or the other day saying that yesterday saying he did not know that mike flynn was somebody who needed to register as a Foreign Agent. The Associated Press is reporting though that the white house was informed that he would have needed to do this before he took the top National Security role. This is another situation where the white house is not being clear about what they knew and when. Why is there so much, why do we see this happen time and time again where they say something, theyre found out to be in defiance of the truth . Yes, katy, i think thats a major problem, and its not just a problem thats going to plague personnel decisions. When there is a real National Security crisis, you need to have facts. You need to have facts presented to the commander in chief, and the commander in chief needs to be able to present facts to the American People. Credibility is on the line, and i really worry about a situation which we have a true crisis, a true threat to the country, and people are very loose with the facts. The president is either not getting information or hes not being clear about the informatio information hes already been given and that will cause our defenses to go down and could harm our country. Makes you really wonder what exactly is going on in that white house . Are people just not talking to each other . Are they talking to each other and deciding not to be fully honest with the press when they ask these questions . I dont know. Jeremy bash, Naveed Jamali thank you for joining me. Good news on the other hand for donald trump, big job growth in february, according to the new employment numbers released today. It was his first full month in office, but can he actually take all the credit for the job boom . Were just minutes away from the daily white use brie we will bring it to you live as always, when it begins. Growing up, we were german. We dand in a german dance group. I wore lederhosen. When i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasnt finding all of these germans in my tree. I decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. The big surprise was were not german at all. 52 of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. So, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. Get started for free at ancestry. Com. Everything your family touches sticks with them. As promised here is White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer giving the daily briefing. As many of you know today is day 50 of President Trumps administration. Theres a lot to talk about and a lot thats gotten done. I also want to acknowledge today is also brians birthday. So happy birthday to brian. Ill let you celebrate amongst yourselves afterwards. In just these first 50 days the president has taken many key steps towards delivering on the pledges he made to the American People as a candidate. He jumpstarted job creation at only in because of his executive actions but through the surge of Economic Confidence and optimism that has been inspired since his election. President trump knows exactly what businesses need to thrive and grow, therefore adding wellpaying and steady jobs to the market. Obviously were very pleased to see the jobs report that came out this morning. Its great news for american workers. During the first full month of the trump presidency, the economy added 235,000 new jobs d the Unemployment Rate ticked down to 4. 7 . Notably we also saw Significant Growth in the construction, manufacturing and mining sectors. The Unemployment Rate ticked down and Labor Force Participation rate ticked up, showing that even as more people are reentering the job market due to the Economic Optimism that i spoke about, businesses are continuing to grow and create new jobs. The president looks forward to continuing his work with the private sector to clear road blocks to key infrastructure projects, withdraw from job killing trade deals like the tran Transpacific Partnership and slash the bureaucratic red tape that makes additional hiring difficult for american businesses. Hes taken action to ensure the safety and security of the United States homeland, its borders, and its people. He has proposed great rebuilding of our nations military, following a few review of other military readiness and supported by a 54 billion budget increase. s he implemented new protections to were vent people coming into our country that seek to do us home as a result of the memorandum he signed january 28th the president received a plan to defeat isis designed by the secretary of defense and the National Security team. Just as he promised during the campaign he has made enforcing our nations immigration laws a top priority, signing executive orders that start work on a southern border wall that enhance the Public Safety of americans through ordering the strong enforcement of immigration laws that are already on the books, halting funding to jurisdictions in the United States that dont comply with federal immigration rules, and directing the department of Homeland Security to hire a combined 15,000 new officers and agents to support the system and protect the nation. Hes outlined an aggressive legislative agenda that includes tax reform, that brings relief to Small Business in the middle class, a massive commitment to Infrastructure Investment that will generate jobs and build our nation, and repealing and replacing obamacare. In fact, just this week he began working with congress directly on repealing the worst parts of obamacare and replacing it with the American Health care act. This particular legislation is one prong in the president s comprehensive approach to reforming our Health Care System. The administration is also taking additional steps to stabilize Health Insurance markets and start bringing down costs for the millions of americans that have been affected by obamacare such as stabilizing Insurance Markets through regulatory reform, including the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, providing individuals and families with lower access with access to lower cost options by loosening the restrictions on the financial structure of plans offered through the obamacare exchanges, and finally, the president s committed to working with congress on additional legislation that wont be subject to the budget reconciliation process that will allow the purchase of Health Insurance across state lines, that will streamline the process of the fda to bring down the cost of critical medicine, to allow for the expansion of Health Savings accounts, to allow more americans to use their funds for more Health Care Related costs and so much more. Theres one page fact sheet that lays out the three prongs of the president s plan to repeal and replace. All americans can see that onepager available at whitehouse. Govepealareplace. Feel free to download it and share it this weekend. This administrations already looking forward to all that weve been planning to accomplish in the days and weeks ahead. You should have a document outlining each of your email boxes of the president s major actions during these 50 first days. Weve made it available to the public as well at whitehouse. Gov. In terms of the schedule for his 50th day in office the president will be having a series of meetings and calls moving even further along on some of the most significant Campaign Promises that he made to the American People. After receiving his daily intelligence briefing this morning, the president led a Health Care Discussion with Key House Committee chairs. The president thad and congr congratulated the chairs on successfully ushering the American Health care act through the first phase of the legislative process. He noted he was pleased to see the bill pass through both committees the energy and Commerce Committee and the ways and means committee, with unanimous republican support. They discussed working together on additional legislation to further work towards turning health care into a system that works for every individual and family and business. Together the president and republicans in congress will act decisively to keep their promise to the American People. In their promise to the American People. In attendance at the meeting were congresswoman black, congressman braid y chair of the house ways and means committee, congressman waldon, congresswoman fox, and chairman goodlatte of the judiciary committee. Senior officials at department of health and Human Services have met with the American Medical Association to discuss the bill and well be meeting with additional stakeholders. Includes making sure he has feedback from all interested groups in pursuit of a more affordable and Accessible Health care. This afternoon the president had a call with the palestinian authority. Well have a readout of that call soon. The president had lunch with secretary of state tillerson and this afternoon hell meet with dr. Ben carson. He looks forward to discussing huds mission to make strong, inclues sif communities with equality and affordable housing, especially how we can partner with private sector to turn our Public Housing system around and empower our struggling communities. Looking ahead to the weekend, the president will spend the weekend here at the white house in a series of meetings with his team. Vice president s office will go to louisville, kentucky, and engage in listening sessions and will join governor beavan. The Vice President will discuss the president s economic agenda, especially the repeal and replacement aspects of obamacare and how it will reduce the burden on Small Businesses. He will then conclude with formal remarks at the train parts and distribution center. Also coming up, judge gorsuchs confirmation hearings will begin on march 20th. Yesterday the American Bar Association reported their committee was a determined by unanimous vote judge gorsuch was given a well qualified mark for the supreme court. The president it looking forward to judge gorsuch receive a speedy hearing and up and down vote on the floor. The president s weekly address is out discussing womens History Month and plans to repeal and replace obamacare. It aired on Facebook Live and now on youtube and whitehouse go whitehouse. Gov. Your name is upside down. John roberts helps me with fashion tips. Its still upside down. I appreciate that. John, now onto your questions. Thank you. Sending rangers and marines into ria marks a dramatic change in our presence on the ground there. Wonder, how much autonomy is the president giving general mattis to involve force on the ground in syria . A team of rangers have been positioned in syria to provide combined joint task force operation, inherent resolve, the commander of agility to expedite the mission in raqqah. Its still a sensitive order to protect the location of the forces. There will be approximately an additional 400 enabling forces for a temporary period to enable our syrian partnered forces to accelerate the defeat of isis, specifically in raqqah. As i mentioned before, one thing the president has ensured is commanders have the flexibility to do what they need to fulfill the mission. The president is obviously, as commander in chief, made aware and signs off on all of those missions. At the end of the day, it will be up to the generals to execute their mission to make sure we continue to defeat isis and protect the nation. Now, our involvement there complicates the whole picture because were aligned with the kurds but at the same time nato ally, turk y sees the kurds as the enemy. Then theres what happens with russia and its involvement with the syrian govl government. So the big problem with iraq was we never planned for the day after. So, what are the plans for the day after when iraq ka falls . Who occupies it . Well, one of the things that i mentioned in the script that is part of what the president has done during his first 50 days is issue an executive order on january 2th for the secrety of defense to submit a comprehensive plan in consultation with the joint chiefs and other members of the National Security team to defeat isis. That is part of that plan. So i think you are seeing a comprehensive approach to not only how were going to engage in syria, but the total defeat and elimination of isis. Thats an ongoing process the secretary of defense, chairman of joint chiefs and others have been involved in in briefing the president. Does the president have an idea of who should occupy raqqah . Should is it be im not should American Forces stay there . As we devolve that plan, ill let you know. I think you already killed one question friday. Jon karl, one question friday. They have asked the Justice Department to turn over any information they have, if there was any wiretapping of president elect camp, President Trump, trump tower. If there is no wiretapping, will the president apologize to president obama for lets not get ahead of ourselves. I think its important to see where that goes. I dont want to prejudge their work at this time. Jim . If theres no evidence, i mean again, i think youre asking, well, what if there is evidence . Im not going to get into a series of hypotheticals prejudging the outcome of a report or investigation that hasnt occurred yet. Once thats done, well respond appropriately. Jim . Thank you, sean. Senator cory gardner was reported by politico yesterday to have said he doesnt believe that 14 billion wall along the Mexican Border is the best way to provide border security. Does the white house see support for the border wall weakening in congress . No. The president was very clear. That was something he campaigned on and promised the American People as an effort to both protect our National Security and economic security. And hes going to fulfill that pledge. Hes already started to work with department of homeland. Thats a pledge he intends to maintain. John bennett. Sean, action on the hill with health care lately, but april 28th is right around the corner, government funding expires. Given that during the transition period, you guys asked for shortterm cr so you could weigh in once you were in office, whats the white house now doing to avoid a shutdown . I talked to some sources. They couldnt talk to specifics. Director mulvaney will release his budget on the 16th. Thats the first stepping in working with them to get the budget under control. Were approaching 20 trillion of our dpedebt our debt. We need to get spending under control. Part of funding the government goes hand in hand with keeping track on what were spending it on and what our priorities are. We began that passback process we talked about internally. Director mulvaney has had several conversations. To your question, thats part of the process. We need to release a budget first for what our priorities are for the coming fiscal year and make sure we do what we can going forward. This goes hand in hand with that. Finish out the current fiscal i understand that. Its fiscal 2017. I think our budget lays out where we want to go in fy18. Once we have a handle on fy18, we can start to backfill 2017. You want cuts for the rest of 17 . I appreciate were not having that discussion here. John. Thank you, sean. The president has said in the past that he welcomes compromise and is very open to compromise on the immigration legislation thats coming up. This morning when she spoke at t the Christian Science monitor press breakfast, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she would like to see the comprehensive immigration package that passed the senate but was stopped in the house brought back. And that was her version of a compromise. Whats the administrations position on what former speaker and minority i think youre referring to the gang of eight, though, correct . Thats correct. I think the president has been very clear during the campaign trail thats not a bill he supports. But he looks forward tone gauge with members to find a way forward to fix our broken immigration system. That bill in particular was a nonstarter. It was a nonstarter when it came out the first time. I think it continues to be a nonstarter. The president recognizes the system is broken and he wants to work with congress to fix it. Hunter . Thank you, sean. Does the white house believe theres such a thing as the deep state thats actively working to undermine the president . Well, i think theres no question when you have eight years of one party in office, that there are people who stay in government affiliated with, you know, joined and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration. So i dont think it should come as any surprise that there are people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration and, you know, may have believed in that agenda and want to continue to seek it. I dont think that should come as a surprise to anyone. Will the director of the cia or dni have a president ial mandate to seek these people out and fire them or purge them from government . The cia thats not part of the cias mandate under any circumstances. So, no on that one. Blake . Thanks. They put out a statement saying presiden