the picture of the freedom caucus meeting. if you follow me here, look to the window on the right of your screen near the flag, and i can t see it, but i m told that kellyanneconway is there, so it s the second window, the middle window there, kellyanne conway sort of to the right and behind or to the left on your screen and behind donald trump. so kellyanne conway is in that picture contrary to what chuck todd and i were discussing earlier. hard to spot but there is a woman in that shot in the white house. and yamesh al sindor and sam stein, what do we think of all the comings and goings right now? paul ryan is at the white house. could this be that he s going to say mr. president we either have to pull this or face defeat. sam stein? yes, that is the scuttlebutt right now, where paul ryan coming here obviously to talk to the president about the state of the health care bill.
democrats, but he said it was his judgment call in deciding to brief the president given what he said was alarming information in the intelligence reports. but i did talk to adam schiff who is a top democratic on the committee later who said he was baffled by the decision by devin nunes to not rule out this came from the white house. i am concerned by the fact that after the meeting when the chairman was interviewed he wasn t able to rule out having received these materials from the white house itself where in consultation with the white house. i don t know what that means. and this is all the more baffling by the hour. so we did communicate and democrats feel this is essential that we investigate. that we make every of the to investigate this in a completely nonpartisan way to do this.
up-to-the-minute information. thank you for having me on. let s go back to kasie hunt who has new information about speaker paul ryan. we thought he was going to be having a press conference, kasie, at 3:30, ten minutes from now, eastern time. what do you know? reporter: i m going to keep walking because the capitol police are having trouble keeping all of us in line. i m being chased by a man with a cart. but paul ryan has delayed his press conference which is why we re still here. in the house. freedom caucus meeting. i think that tells you where these negotiations stand. they are now focused more on the moderate members who have been kind of falling away one at a time here. we saw charlie dent forgive me. i m going to turn around because we have cameras snapping here. a little mishap. we re waiting to see who comes out of here. if there were in theory enough people behind these doors to help the leadership get this going, there may be a path
their speaker who says, you know, you ve got to win one for the giper, i guess, to use a phrase and we re going to have to see out of this freedom caucus meeting, wolf, what happens with these conservatives because they re the ones remember john boehner, that s why he s no longer speaker. they have the cards. stand by the meeting of the republican house meeting supposed to begin at the top of the hour. in the meantime a separate meeting leading with some top republican officials just breaking up. we ll update you when we come back. this sleep is power. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should ve done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise your rates due to
tomorrow. by all accounts gop leaders still don t have support within their own party to pass the bill despite 11th hour appeal by the president. we re standing by for an urgent meeting by the republicans tonight as the negotiations and arm-twisting continues. also an apology by the house republican chairman to his committee amid claims in surveillance of the trump team. republican devin nunes is facing criticism for sharing the information with the white house before briefing the committee. we re still told he hasn t given the information. this as we learn about the federal criminal investigation of the trump camp s ties to russia. u.s. officials tell cnn the fbi has information indicating that trump associates communicated with suspected russian operatives possibly to