sign-up the reason he asked speaker ryan and leader mccarthy to call for a vote is we ve done everything. we ve done every single thing that every meeting, every call, every discussion, every idea has been out there, adjudicated, listened to, and i think that now is the time for the vote. and so we are a couple hours away and let s see where we go. reporter: does the level of confidence remain? i think in the sense of what we did, yes. peter? reporter: sean, is the president going to order every surveillance transcript that mentions himself or his associates in regards to russia brought to his desk at any time, has he done that? no. reporter: yesterday you asked specifically the concern should be less about the process and more about the substance. i asked because that would be one way to get to directly to the substance. on the substance, devin nunes said initially there was evidence that clearly showed the president-elect and his team were at least monitored. then today h
president calls the american model. by slashing job killing regulations and reducing government burdens and lowering taxes will make it easier for all businesses to grow here at home generating jobs and boosting our economy by getting government out of the way. following these big announcements the president had lunch with secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin, joined by speaker paul ryan, i ll update you in a second on that. later in the afternoon, the president will host a greek independence day celebration and as i mentioned yesterday, at 4:00, he will meet with about two dozen medal of honor recipients to honor medal of honor day, which is technically tomorrow. he s honored to be hosting these great men and women of our armed services, the greatest force for peace and justice the world has ever known and obviously later today the house will be voting on the american health care act. current vote is scheduled for 3:30. the president has been working the phones and having in-pers
more competitive with the rest of the world in growing american jobs here at home and frankly, expanding manufacturing if we lower that, but also that the american middle class desperately needs and wants a tax break, and i think the more that we can do with that, so this is something that i think we re going to be continuing to work on and we ll have more on that later. reporter: how much credit will the president take for the outcome of this health care bill? i m iffing to refer you to the last eight people. let s see where we go from here. reporter: quick follow-up, is the white house as confident as they were earl whier in the week and president still as confident as he was earlier in the week that this health care bill will pass? i would suggest to you my answer that i said to kristen is, that we are confident that we have done everything, and it is now up to voters. the reason the president s called for a vote and respectfully obviously the
done everything possible to address the concerns and ideas and opinions that people have brought up, and i mean i don t think you can say it any simpler. i think he s done every single thing possible and you end up at some point finding yourself going around and around, and saying okay, let s call the vote. reporter: isn t there a political cost to a collapse potentially? i think that some point there s a political cost to dragging this out as well and saying let s just keep letting it go. and i think that s where you know, we ve came to a decision that it had gotten as far as it can go. kaelin? reporter: if there s a collapse, isn t there a cost that the president will at some point have to you know, pay for, if it s either in terms what have? reporter: the collapse that you have been predicting. look, members look, this reporter: besides the upcoming election in 2018 i m talking about economic impact, all the impact on the states, the cost. and i think what we l
member needs to make that decision whether or not they believe this they ve at some point you can only do so much is what i would honestly tell you and everything that we can possibly do to listen to members to get their concerns in this piece of legislation, and make it as strong as possible for the american people has been done. reporter: is the president comfortable with obamacare continuing no, of course he s not. reporter: with the promise he would repeal this? i m not even sure where to start with that. no he s not which is why he s literally put as much effort as he has into repealing this. and so but he s made it clear that this is our moment. this is our opportunity to do it, but it is now up to members to make that decision, whether or not they want to be part of this effort to repeal obamacare. if they don t, and i think for a lot of, you saw the president s would ittet this morning, for a lot of the members who life is an important issue as well, this is your op