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
united states. together, this announcement demonstrates the new economic model of what the president calls the american model by slashing job killing regulations and reducing government burdens and lowering taxes, we will make it easier for all businesses to grow right here at home, generating jobs in boosting our economy by getting government out of the way. following these big announcements, the president had lunch with the secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin, he was joined by speaker paul ryan, will update you in a second on that. later in the afternoon, the present will host a greek independence day celebration and as i mentioned yesterday, at 4:00 him he will meet with about two dozen medal of honor recipients to honor medal of honor day which is technically . he is honored to be hosting these great men and women of the armed services, the greatest force for peace and justice the world has ever known. obviously, later today, the house will be voting on the american healthca
jenna: now to the white house and sean spicer. press secretary spicer: laying in enormous investment and american energy independence, president trump is moving the project forward in just eight weeks. just as he promised an even better deal for the american people from then before he took office. this project will direct directly generate an extra 16,100 jobs according to the state department, all without spending a dime of taxpayer money. in many ways come this project represented everything that was wrong with the infrastructure permitting of the united states. transcanada spent an incredible amount of resources attempting to comply with government regulations only to be denied and delayed for political reasons. but the days of pointless government bureaucracy holding up progress and production have ended. by simply getting excessive duplicate of regulations out of the way, we can make infrastructure projects more attractive and more attractive prospect for private investors a
people appointed in previous administration to be asked for their resignation. across the federal government there are no longer people who have jobs. what is unusual ab this though, with bharara is the fact that he was asked by the then president elect back in december to stay on. and then wasn t kept on. then why the president decided to call him. i don t believe he called any of the other u.s. attorneys. came to the point where bharara consulted with some colleagues as to whether or not he should call the president back. so still a lot of unanswered questions about this particular one. lot of unanswered questions about the quote wire tapping as well. we expect that we may not get the answers to those questions, though we will keep pushing forwar forward. melissa: thank you for that. a report on the health care plan about to hilt capitol hill. the nonpartisan congressional bug office putting a price tag on the bill, possibly as soon as
determine the constitutionality of the presidents extreme vetting program. what s at stake tonight is whether the president can keep that program in effect while the constitutional case goes forwar forward. talking line order with members of the sheriffs association this morning, president trump expressed frustration that he is in a legal battle at all. i actually can t believe we are having to fight to protect the security in a court system to protect the security of our nation. i can t believe it. a career attorney will argue there is no fight over the president s power to address national security, that he has expressed statutory authority to suspend any class of aliens to protect the national interest. that authority, the doj and says, derives from the 1952 immigration and nationality act which states whatever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the united states would be detrimental to the interests of the united states,