after everything that happened during the election, clearly mueller is trying to connect those dots. all right. mimi rocah and michael isikoff, thank you both. why the president is calling members of his staff apparently traitors and cowards. a fine tuned machine of the white house next. needed to apologize to senator olympic cane.
the american people have spent years suffering to replace them repeal the nightmare of obamacare. the president looks forward to seeing the house republicans joined with these influential voices and vote in favor of the american healthcare act. the president, as i mentioned, had speaker ryan come up here in visit with him to update him on the bill. they are continuing to discuss the way forward on this. the speaker is updating him on these efforts as i mentioned too many of you, the president has been working throughout the week on this, calling early and starting early in the morning and working late into the night calling members, visiting members, by our own account, 120 members have had a call or visit at the white house in the past few days which is an extraordinary feat. the president and his team have committed everything they can to making this thing have been. the speakers going to continue to update him on the way forwar forward. finally, if you admit a sheet of notes at the
he s been calling members on their cell phones as they re trying to make this deal and is out with a new twitter video this morning. americans were told obamacare would bring down prices and increase options. you were told you could keep your plan and keep your doctor. you were given many, many false stories. the fact is you were given many lies. go with our plan. it s going to be terrific. you re going to be very, very happy. call your local representative, call your senator, let him know you re behind our plan. reporter: leaders here worked well into the night trying to make changes to the bill, some changes centering around essential health benefits. those changes would appease the conservative house freedom caucus, but they re also alienating moderates, making them lose votes with moderates. charlie dent said he was a yes
he s calling members of the senate personally to talk to them, get one-on-one. joe manchin, west virginia, said he s had more conversations with trump in the last couple weeks than during eight years with we are up against the clock. we will be right back. stay with us.
change before our very eyes. donald trump is a guy that is going around the country holding these campaign style rallies picking fights with people on twitter and delegating with these great responsibilities to people like mike pence and his generals as he said in terms of getting these daily briefings. donald trump is not going to be a conventional president. i think we need to change what our conceptions of the office are because of who is going to be in it. there are a lot of people that said reagan was more detached than many americans would think. the difference with reagan is he had james baker. he had a group of people around him. if something had happened over the weekend in december of 1980 where ronald reagan had said something or confronted the cia, it would have been cleaned up four hours later by james baker calling members of the press and leaking and then putting out a