Good, why dont they want their names on it . Can they shuffle . The chairman of the Democratic Caucus weighs in. And strike zone. What are the consequences of the new autonomy on drone strikes . This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening, im katy tur in a snowy new york. In for chuck todd today. Welcome to mtp daily. In politics, whats bigger than a promise from your president . They are backing a plan that could break those promises. So what now for the white house and the gop . Just moments ago, President Trump was scheduled to have a call with speaker of the house paul ryan and Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy to plot a way forward amid the drama. And this afternoon, skeptical gop senators, including ted cruz are meeting at the white house to try and hammer out a compromise. Earlier today at the White House Press briefing sean spicer was pressed on this subject multiple times. Here is some of that exchange. President trump has said that under his plan there will be insurance for everybody. How do you square that with the cbo numbers andishat a promise he can keep . The cbo number, a record that doesnt matchup with the ability to count people. Pretty good at dollars, not as good as people. When you look at the additional phases or prongs of this whole comprehensive approach, that actually changes the equation a lot. Its looking at one piece of a threepart plan. Will the white house commit that after these phases two and three, if they are implemented, if they are offered publicly that there will be health care for everybody . If everyone who wants to get health care, the financial ability to get it is what the president is trying to achieve through this. And this is the system that will get them there. Tom cotton is dismissing it as mythical legislation. That will fail in the senate. Spicers comments today come amid a slew of promises that the white house has made about their health care plan. You heard one mentioned in that clip, just five days before taking office, President Trump vowed for Health Insurance with everybody. There was a philosophy that if you cant pay for it, you dont get it. It was a promise echoed by his Top White House aids. Those relying on coverage will not lose it. That promise stands . Yes, it does. But according to to the cbo, 24 Million People will lose coverage over a span of ten years under the White Housebacked plan. Heres another white house promise. I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that were going through. But according to to the cbo, premiums are going to spike 20 to 25 for Older Americans under the gop pl. Heres another white house promise. Youre going to stay on medicaid, covered on and employeesponsored plan, youre going to continue to be covered under the employeesponsored plan. It will drop and medicaid spending will decline by 880 billion. Im joined now by republican congressman kevin brady of texas who is the chairman of the very powerful house and means committee. Why are you standing by this plan . Because it delivers on our promise to give people Affordable Care thats personalized for them. Not for washington, and thats what cbo said. We also promised we are going to make sure americans arent murdered by the nearly 1 trillion of taxes on their jobs, on their Health Care Plans and on the economy. We also said restoring control out of washington, restoring it to the states and the individuals so they could choose a plan thats right for them, thats why this plan is so important and by the way, while we are doing it, americans have said we dont want to be forced into buying health care we cant forward and cant use. Confirm that in the report let me ask you about what the hold on. Cbo said next year when the obamacare stays just as it is today, medicaid just as it is today, 11 million americans who no longer are forced into health care are saying, thanks, but no thanks, i dont want to be there anymore. It confirms what americans can be saying all along. The. If its such a great plan, why would 24 Million People walk away from it . Ask the question why . Why theyd walk away from it. Reporter its the gop plan. Why are they walking away from dp. Exactly right. Or are they being forced out . No, maam, if youll let me answer your we, i will. Cbo had an answer for that question, why dont they want to be covered . And the sans they arent forced into buying health care they dont want, dont need, and cant use. The bulk of americans who wont be covered are because they choose not to be covered. Starting as early as next year. Who will be covered are those today, in fact, whove found a way to be exempted from obamacare and high premiums. Who with a personal credit they can use to take from job to job, state to state, home to start a business or raise a family. Choose a plan thats right for them, whether theyre very young or very old. Those are the americans who are going to have opportunity to have access that frankly they dont have today. 1700 for health care, under the gop plan, that person would be paying over 14,000 for health care. How is it affordable for that person . Well, under those assumptions it wouldnt be. Those assumptions arent good. Look cbo made its best faith effort to figure out who might or might not be covered. Thats a challenge. Even more challenging are the premiums because they only got look at one part of this picture. They didnt get ahance because of the way this bills Going Forward without phase two or phase three. Truly look at the low cost, innovative personalized plans that states can approve Going Forward. In seniors premiums skyrocketed according to this plan are going to skyrocket. Well and i respectfully disagree one part of the cbo and tout it and say its totally on the money. Talking about no, and i didnt say that. What i said was in your statement. Cbo had to estimate two major things. Coverage and premium costs. We think they had more information to be able to try to do their best on coverage. The premiums are very tough to assess and they will tell you, it is very difficult to get it right there. So, what im saying is, i think one is much more challenging for them to estimate and i still believe at the end daft day with the right tax credit to buy real Authentic Health care that we can help people of all ages get the health care they need and deserve. Lets talk about promises. In the gopbacked plan, everybody will not be insured. So how do you square that circle . Are House Republicans just not on the same page as president obama . Nowhere close. Every american who wants to have Health Care Getting a chance to do that. Whether youre at work through job, government program, but in this area, for those who dont get at work, oftentimes Small Business people and people work for Small Businesses as well as entrepreneurs and families between jobs, they will all have access to health care in a personal credit to buy the plan thats right for them. I believe he said specifically they would have health care period, not access bring on his promises. I dont remember him ever saying i think the president is delivering as well as republicans. No few youre looking for some kind of metric that says if government can force you into the most expensive plans with the most expensive subsidies and frankly you cant use it because the out of pocket costs are so high for seniors and others, frankly that, american publics already weighed in. They dont want that anymore. T abt the other prise that the president made . He wouldnt make cuts to entitlements, social security, medicare, medicaid, quite a bit of money is cut from medicaid in the gop plan. Well, and heres why. Because for the first time governors will have the choice to actually apply med daddy to their state, to design it for their communities, not the way washington wants to do it over time that does go against what the president promised. But that doesnt mean there is anything less than Higher Quality care. What it means is washington wont be telling governors you have to do it our way, because we know, theres a difference between manhattan, kansas, and manhattan, new york city, and nrk should be designed differently to reach families in those comment community. Kevin brady, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Thank you. Theres ban noticeable divide within the gop on how to handle the cbo score. Some are bashing the agencys credibility, others as you just saw are touting aspects of it at least. I think if you read this report, im encouraged by it and and exceeded my expectations. Which is does not do enough to drive down premiums. Im encouraged, this is only phase one of the three phases. People are going to have more choice. More people are going to be encouraged around the health care. And the health care they choose to have. We disagree with the report that was put out. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals a at lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family. Not that the Government Forces them to buy. Joining me now, democratic congressman joe crowley of new york. Hes the chairman of the house Democratic Caucus. Congressman, thank you for joining us. And left Democrats Holding the bag. Do you think he has a point to say that . I think enacting this bill would be worse than letting obamacare implode. The fact is wed have 24 Million People under the republican plan that would lose insurance over the next ten years. Thats catastrophic. But the law isnt working as democrats had promised it to work. You want to answer the phone . Its not mine. The law isnt working as it was certainly advertised. Keep the doctor that they wanted to keep. And, you know, theres been some issues with the courts. The law isnt working as it stands. What are the democrats going to do . Just fight for it until they cant fight for it any longer . Katy, interestingly enough, you mentioned the courts, the republicans brought the lawsuits. Democrats arent helping make our bill work . Well the reality is, they havent asked us for help. They never came to us do they need to come to you to ask . Hey listen, ive got an idea and let me propose something for this plan. Is that the way it works in congress and one has to ask nicely for help. Katy, typically when youre in the minority, you dont really have the ability to initiate, at least on the floor. Thats controlled by the republican majority. And when they were putting together their plan in the secret, in the darkroom and we were down looking for the bill, it was under lock and key with security guards. Capitol police guarding the room, we asked for an opportunity to review the bill. They denied it to us. Upon reading it, we realized just how bad the bill is and how the cbo score comes out, it was what we were saying all along. 24 million americans thats not a responsible answer. We to want make it better. We havent had a partner quite frankly we were in the minority then, but the republicans continuously for 60 votes, voted to repeal, without replacing, they never offered a plan to replace it. They scuttled together to try to figure out something in the very last minute here because they were under pressure. Its not even what President Trump has supported quite frankly. So, you know, were not going to apologize for people will suffer. Off point that the republicans spent eight years saying no to this bill and vowing to take it down. It sounds like the democrats are in much of the same position right now, vowing to take the Republican Health care bill down. You criticize them for not coming up with their own plan. Cant that same criticism be lobbed at you . Where is your plan to fix things . We believe, we believe that passing this bill you know, some of the issues surrounding the Affordable Care act. It would be worse to pass this bill. You know but why not come up with your own plan that says here is how we are going to fix it . And present it to the American People and say, hey listen, heres what were going to do, heres how we think question make it better. We want you to see our plan so you can go to your congressman if theyre republican or democrat. The reality is we have to work with the republican colleagues. If they ask us to come into the room. And right now, we went to a markup last week for a 19, 18 ways and means committee, the e energy and commerce committee. We tried. We offered memt aemts they were turned down over and over again. It was accepted by the republican side of the aisle. Take this as your opportunity to reach tout to your fellow republicans. What would you like to see this bill have . Look, what i would like to see is a bill that would pass, that would help all of us be able to afford insurance. Pass a bill that helps us really bend the cost curve. Keep those costs coming down. You know, the rate of insurance has gone up, but its gone up slower than any type in the past 20 years. We have to continue to help keep that cost down. We have make sure that whatever is passed, gives people more coverage for less costs. Thats our goal. Right now under the republican bill, it will cost more for them to get less. And thats simply unacceptable. If that happened, would the Democratic Caucus vote for that . We have said over and over again, repeatedly, ive said it. If they present a plan that covers more americans, that lowers the cost and gives them real comprehensive coverage, not fake coverage, we would support that. I will support that. And what if you were to go to the white house and the letter to the white house saying wed like to come up with a plan that meets your standards, President Trump, one of universal health care, one where you do not cut entitlements, how do you think thats going to be received . Have you tried that . Well, you know, the president has said that. He also said he wants to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical industry on the price of prescription drugs, yet we dont have any of that in the bill. And he says he loves this bill. He loves this bill. It is not about universal coverage. Its not about making sure that every american who wants coverage will have coverage. Now theyre saying its about access. They tend to emphasize different words depending on the week were discussing this issue. The one thing we do know, this is a very, very, complicated issue. It was complicated seven years ago when we enacted this law. Its as complicated today and im glad the president is realizing that. Thank you, congressman crowley for joining us this afternoon. Coming up, well dig deeper into the republican rift on health care. And look at why no matter who wins, House Speaker paul ryan might still lose. Stay tuned. Dear predictable, theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced. Our senses awake. Our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say. If you love something set it free. See you around, giulia heres to the wildcats this i gotta try. Bendy. Spendy weekenders. 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Senator Lindsey Graham says the fbi would be in his words, screwing up big time if had it does not respond to a letter requesting evidence of President Trumps wiretapping accusations. If they dont honor this request and give us an answer, then, i would say that we need a joint select committee because their regular order is not working. Thats not the only slightly vailed threat coming from capitol hill these days. Late yesterday, the republican spokesman for the House Intelligence Committee says the committee could use a quote compulsory process if it does not hear from the Justice Department about evidence on wiretapping before the march 20th hearing. Meaning, subpoenas could be on their way. The white house has yet to produce any proof from any internal sources on where the president s accusation about wiretapping came from. White House Press Secretary spooirs said today the president thinks he will be proven right by the Justice Departments evidence. 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As we just laid out at the top of the show with congressman brady, its also revealing deep fault lines within the Republican Party. Republican leaders have to decide if they want to please nationalists, traditional conservatives, tea partiers, or moderates. And right now, it seems like theyre pleasing no one. So lets bring in tonights panel. Elise jordan is msnbc political analyst and contributor to time magazine. Worked for senator rand paul as well. Hairnld ford jr. , professor of Public Policy at the university of michigan, and ozzy, senr reporter at politico. Com. Welcome guys. For first off, i want to get some response to chairman brady and joe crowley a moment ago. The democrats are saying the republicans are refusing to work with them. Theyre not asking for their help. And, harold, im going to does this to you, you were there. This drives me bonkers. It drives people i know bonkers, why do you need to be asked for help . Do you have to walk and ask nicely and please help us or can the democrats, even though theyre in the minority, go and say hey listen, wed like to help you make this bill something that we would all be pleased to pass. I think democrats, first of all, i like that approach. Thats an approach i tried to embrace and live out and resemble when i was in congress. Im not convinced thats going to happen here. Democrats believe republicans are flailing and watch them flail isnt that the problem with washington . Isnt that what people voted against. Before president obama left office, he agreed that one of the things that the obamacare, the Affordable Care act lacked was a public option. He thought they could create some of the competition to ensure that people would have more than one option which in three out of five states now, people have signing up on the Affordable Care act. But i dont sense thats going to come right away. If i were there, i would be urging pelosi and schumer to offer that and make clear, look, we to want fix this, you guys dont to want fix it and when you decide you want to fix it as opposed to abolishing some things or hold up and honor a campaign pledge, well work with you. Travel down this route, were going to stand over here. It seems like thats where they are right now. Where does this bill stand right now . The gop bill. It is going to split the Republican Party. Youre going to have the Freedom Caucus that wanted to be more conservative, youre going to have moderates that are going to look at the cbo report and say, there are too many people that are going to lose their insurance, and they want to change it. And theyre going to want to make it more what have obamacare is owas, and then youre going to have democrats who a going to see the Republican Party in a lot of trouble, and theyre going to stand back and let it happen. But its the other faction im watching closely is the trump white house. Because they have somewhat thrown their support behind this bill. You have press Secretary Sean Spicer coming out in support, but hes saying no, no, no, we dont to want call it trumpcare. Which is to be labeled with the name and they would be perfectly happy to see paul ryan fail. Well something thats also telling speaking of that is what breitbart released today which is the audio of paul ryan, right after the access Hollywood Tape came out, paul ryan saying that he would not support donald trump. He had we knew he said that, but the add joe whats new, take a listen. Basically two things that i want to make really clear, as for myself as your speaker, i am not going to defend trump, not now, not in the future. Look, you guys know i have real concerns with our nominee. This is going to be a turbulent month. Many of you on this call are facing tough reelections. Some of you are not. But with respect to donald trump, i would encourage you to do what you think is best and do what you feel you need to do. You know, ive reporting this as a number of folks outside of the white house are trying to get in to President Trumps ear through bannon and others to say that youve got to ditch paul ryan on this. And paul ryans this ryancare is not worth it. Its going to go down the tank. Is this breitbarts not so subtle way of reminding President Trump that ryan didnt have his back, so he shouldnt have his. I think so. And that i think its important to remember that President Trump is really a post ideology president. Ideology president. We dont know, hes not going to go off with the Freedom Caucus and take a stand to cut the deficit. He on the campaign stump was more in favor of universal health care. You look at all the news outlets that President Trump follows closely. Breitbart youve got gateway pundit. Youve got news max, you have chris rudy, his friend and ally writing an oped in support of getting with the democrats, donald trumping the Freedom Caucus and going for a more bipartisan reform. Yeah, which i found to be extremely notable because chris does have the ear of donald trump. And he talked about how, you know, take aspects of ryancare bill, forget about the Freedom Caucus, theyre never going to get on board with anything, and then go to the democrats and say we need o you to work with the republicans. And when you both come to us with a bipartisan plan, then, i will look at it, and question go forward. Harold, is that a viable option for democrats . I think so so. I think its a viable option for the president. And ultimately somethings going to happen with obamacare. There needs to be some change. And in advertise premise, on its foundation, its a good thing, but theres no doubt. Too many states have a single option, and as a result, you dont have the Competitive Forces working to lower prices and lower premiums. You have to have something to change that. Its the only way its going to change if you want to do it under this president is to work with him. Now where democrats are going to find allies are in the senate. You have 18 republicans now who have come forward and said they cant support ryancare, trumpcare, whatever you choose. Why . Because many dont like the cuts to medicaid and medicare. Democrats have some allies, at least so room to work with people. Theyre going to have their problem in the house. And trump is going to have to abandon the Freedom Caucus, but if that happens, how does ryan stay on his speaker . If he aligns himself with democrats how does that happen . Well, if donald trump lets ryancare go forward and fail, he gets to come in and assort of pick up the pieces, come in as the great deal maker, and he can possibly extend an olive branch to democrats that want to see something take place. And you know, if ryan is sort of the sack official lamb, like iont think donald trump is going to lose a moments sleep about that. I dont think Donald Trumps base would react negatively. Him working with the democrats. I think they would be all for it. I think that if there was some Common Ground to be found led by donald trump, then something a bill like this to replace or to fix obamacare, whatever you want to call it could gain a head of steam. This would be transformation until. If he found allies with democrats and passed this for his presidency, were not three months in here. What are we, 55, 5 of days in, if hes able to accomplish this in the first 90 to 100 days. 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Theres a major policy shift under way when it comes to how the u. S. Targets terrorists. Senior u. S. Officials are telling nbc news that the Trump Administration is moving ahead with plans to make it easier for the cia and the military to target terrorists with drone strikes, even if it means tolerating more civilian casualties. The wall street journal first broke the story last night that the white house was handing over the power to conduct lethal strikes to the cia and military with no requirement for president ial signoff. Shane, welcome, first question, why . Whats the strategy in giving the cia more power like this . Well i think the cia has wanted for some time to have the ability to pull the trigger on the drone strikes. People will remember years ago cia was doing a lot of strikes in pakistan especially and was quite successful at that. In recent years, the Obama Administration reigned in the agency and allowed it to assist in finding targets, these terrorists that they wanted to take, but leaving the actual pulling of the trigger to the military to conduct because theres more oversight of that process, that was the logic, and theres a chain of command in place. So i think that the agency has for some time wanted to take the strikes themselves. Theyre deeply involved in the tracking of these suspects and are providing much of the intelligence thats used when the military actually just comes in and performs the last step. But the obama decision was also at least in part because of human Rights Groups were worried about civilian casualties, correct . Thats right. Certainly there was a higher threshold that was put in place when the cia was operating outside a traditional war zones that there had to be a near certainty that there would be no civilian loss of life in any of those strikes. And the Obama Administration really did that in response to human Rights Groups and wanting to set standards and really high thresholds for how the strikes were done in the future. Because the thinking was, were going to hand this off to another administration. And we to want leave some really clear policy and seem rigger to this process for whoever comes next. Of course, subsequent administration can and is rolling back some of those restrictions that were put in place. What is the policy right now when it comes to civilians . Right now, the cia still has to adhere to that very high standard. The military has a bit of a lower threshold when its operating in traditional war zones, but as we were finding from our sources and you all are reporting as well. The thresholds are going to come down perhaps across the board so you wont to to have near certainty that no civilians will be killed. That could lead to more innocent bystanders being killed in the strikes. Given that in 2015, a drone strike accidentally killed the u. S. Civilian and an italian civilian in pakistan, do you see any decent coming from the decision . Anything from republicans potentially or democrats going to say hey, pull back. I think yeah, youre probably going to see pushback for sure on this on the hill and people ive been talking to on that question have said they do have concerns about these changes that may be in store. And they dont want to see these thresholds lowered. It is important to remember though that when the military and the cia do operate and take these strikes, they do have a very high threshold for making sure there are no civilian casualties. And when they occur, they go back and figure out what went wrong. This will be read by many groups as kind of a lowering of the bar for these strikes and that will cause a lot of concern. What is the benefit here for the Trump Administration . I think the benefit for them is that the administration can say look, we are giving more power to the military and to the intelligence agencies to go out and conduct these strikes, and what were not doing is trying to micromanage that process from the white house. There was a lot of criticism that these targets, these people that they were trying to hit were getting bottlenecked in an approval process that went out to the president in some cases, president obama. So the administration will be able to say were allowing the experts and the operators in the field who are conducting this work on a regular basis to have more autonomy to get the job done rather than being overseen by people in the white house who are perhaps maybe who are sitting on the process too closely. In years past before president obama issued new policy guidance, the cia routinely carried out drone strikes without explicit president ial signoff. Did the cia retain that authority after the new policy, but simply didnt use it often or did they get new authority here . Well, what were finding now, they have new authority here to conduct lethal strike themselves to pull the trigger, but after around 2013 when new policy guidance was issued by the white house, any socalled high value target and individual of great importance to a terrorist organization at the cia wanted to hit, they had to give president ial approval to do that and go through a committee of the president S National Security advisors. So over the past three years, what weve seen is this process really tighten up and the threshold going up and being more oversight of this by policy makers and not just leaving this to the agency to conduct on its own or with, you know, relatively less input from the white house. Well,oes that maybe allow donald trump to skirt accountability on his own for this . Well, itll be interesting to see how they actually address that because the cia does not routinely disclose the strikes that it takes. So if he is giving more authority to the cia to pull the trigger, the question is going to be, well how are people going to account for what the agency is doing . It operates under covert authorities which is different from the military where many of these strikes and these activities are publicly reported. So i think the white house is going to have to explain how it is that there is still accountability in that process if the cia is even seen as being given a greater role even if it doesnt take it. And of course how will we know because they dont report the strikes . The white house is going to have to explain that, i think. And if we do knee something went wrong, if we find out that something went wrong, will donald trump be able to say listen, i didnt know about it. This was not my responsibility . That was a decision made by the cia. 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And here you look at Steve Bannons philosophy, he really is all about the middle class in talking about workers, you know the bailouts, and how it really you know screwed overworkers. So i dont think its off the table completely with this administration. Culturally, were different. Aspects of single payer i like. We are countries where you know threequarters or more of dollars spent on health care, the last 12, 18 months of life. If you go to a single payer, you compromise, the system will make different choices. We as a culture have to make different choices. Some kids with single payers, though, have healthier people for longer. You need a salesman to sell that idea. Donald trump could potentially be that salesman, its not democrats that are holding it up. It is Republican Voters and people who lined up for him that i think are the biggest obstacles. So if donald trump had like the ability to truly transcend another president in this respect, i think donald trump has shown that his political acan you men, his skill acumen, his still is unparallelled. He is not someone born and raised in politics and you know managed to essentially win an election on his own. He doesnt ho his success to everyone. Im never going to underestimate him when it comes to selling himself or a product. I dont think thats a bad innovation is we heard about this and medical breakthroughs you would have we heard, wed probably go down the path. There are a couple things youd have to tinker with. You cant just go from obamacare total repeal to, oh, lets have universal health care. I think thats too quick of of a mental jump. That would be a remarkable change of pace, talk about President Trump on the one hand having a great opportunity to do something completely different. On the other hand, being completely different, accusing the former president of wiretapping. We havent seen any evidence of this he can take on both side of the spectrum, cant he . You really never know where this president is going to come out an any given day on any given issue. Thats certainly. The most outrageous one . Exactly. This one being incredibly factfree, here you watched over i guess its just been over a week and how his very surrogates have tried to back pedal this and play it off as a joke. Im sorry, i dont think we should be defameing former president s as a joke. Are my former colleagues a joke . We have gone to im not a crook too im not a joke. Sean spicer saying you cant take him literally, you have to translate what hes saying. This is all a purposeful distraction from the white house. You make an accusation, throw it against the wall, you have people verify what you say and you walk it back. Where is the respect for the oval of the . What is the respect of the American People . There happy birthday ha diminution of that for the current president to investigate the former president and say the group investigating, can you give us the evidence that you had, that gives us a starting point, because we dont know where to start. So it has been a disrespect not only in the office and ive never seen anything quite like it where the president would do this to a former president and wed end up being consumed with it and hes not held to his own moral standard, which is i cant say this without having evidence accusing a former president there are only 45 of us here. Let me not do this. So its a disrespect to the office and a slight to the American People that he would allow this to go on. I feel bad for spice tore an extent, he goes out every day and tries to defend the indefensible in many ways. 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Plus, even more heated on the president , the ultimatum, not from the democrats, President Trumps Lindsey Graham is demanding the fbi producing y everyday for a wiretap. He sets that deadline for tomorrow afternoon. So what happens if the fbi refuses to comply . All hands on deck at the white house, fighting for the gop Health Care Bill. Late today, President Trump working the phone, strategizing with paul ryan and house leader kevin mccarthy. Meanwhile, spawn spicer is battling the White House Press core. Spicer insisting the Office Report is dead wrong and the new gop bill would not leave next year 14 million uninsured t