Testify about Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador kislayak. At todays briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. Listen. Reporter how does this Administration Try to revamp its image, 2 1 2 months in, youve got this yates story today, youve got other things going on, youve got russia, youve got wiretapping. No, we dont have that. Regarding the allegations of capitol hill. I have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian Salad Dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. But every Single Person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. Lets talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this
white house and those close to it and ties to russia. We want to show you a flowchart just so that everybody can follow along because it
how confident are you the bill will pass? if it doesn t pass, is there a plan b? there s no plan b. there s plan a and plan a. we re going to get this done. i m not we don t we re not looking at a plan b. we have plan a. it s going to pass. you said there s no there s plan a. right. at this point, is there an acknowledgement that perhaps there does need to be a plan b? no. plan a. the president s plan is to pass the bill tonight, get it on to the senate and sign a bill once it go throughs conferen confere is there any plan if the bill doesn t pass tonight? it s going to pass. that s it. now the president saying, i know we re going to make a deal. that s an easy one. with us, steven moore who is with the heritage foundation, a former senior economic adviser. what do you make the president
failure is not an option. how confident are you that this will pass? is there a plan b? we are going to get this done. we are not looking at a plan b. plan a is going to pass. you said only plan a. right. is there an acknowledgement that there needs to be a plan b? no. the plan is to pass it tonight and get it on to the senate and that s the president s plan. is there a plan if the bill doesn t pass tonight? it s going to pass. that s it. no plan b. the idea is to go on there. they are looking grind
right. at this point, is there an acknowledgement that perhaps there does need to be a plan b if the vote doesn t happen tonight? no. plan a. is there any plan if the bill doesn t pass tonight? it s going to pass. that s it. hallie jackson there pressing sean spicer on what the contingency plan is. and the strategy behind the scenes and publicly is to say there is no contingency plan because this is going to move forward. the reality is it s not moving forward tonight and it s not clear where they ll get the votes tomorrow. this is a critical test for the president who campaigned on someone who is able to close the really tough deals. so it s important from that perspective, but also because the rest of his legislative agenda could rely on this. his vow to get tax reform done, to renegotiate trade deals like nafta. it all starts with this major push to repeal and replace obamacare which right now seems to be in critical condition. kristen welker at the white
during the bush administration. more tax cuts for the wealthy, more deregulation of wall street. that s what got us into this, and that s what they continue to offer, but they really don t offer anything that would work. that s why president obama s plan works. i would just offer, if you works reverend sharpton, that people should come to my website sherrodbrown.com/ohio and sign an open petition to republican leadership saying stop blocking the democratic jobs bill, stop blocking the president s plan to put real people back to work all across america. now, senator, if this bill doesn t pass tonight, we re a nation without a jobs plan before the legislature. with all of this outrage, all of this suffering, all of the pay, people literally watching us tonight don t know how to make ends meet, and this plan can go down tonight, and that s it. we ll have to go back to square one. let me show you what the american people have said about this jobs plan, because this is