John roberts is following it and brings us the latest. Good evening. Good evening. Congressional Budget Office should stick to dollars and cents and not try to project people or outcomes. Thats the message from the white house as the staff pushes back against the cbo finding that 24 Million People would lose coverage under the proposed new health care plan. The white house has criticized the cbo for not taking into account phases two and three of the overall plan which aimed to lower the cost of insurance and prescription drugs. Phases two and three havent been crafted yet. How are they supposed to take into account something that doesnt yet exist . I think thats a question for the house. There are constraints put on the cbo in terms of what they can consider. The point we want to make is if members are going to base their vote office score, they need to understand the totality and comprehensive nature of the entire program. Trumpcare is a wreck, and we all knew that before the congres
Hill today as he and other top intel chiefs held a classified briefing with lawmakers on russian hacking. Democrats angry over comeys actions not holding back moments after that meeting. All i can tell you is the fbi director has no credibility. Obamacare, will it stay or go . The senate the senate has laid the groundwork and in 45 minutes the house will have its turn with one question still unanswered. What will replace it . Lets start with the intense scrutiny surrounding the fbi and its director. James comey was on the hill today amidrevelations hes the subject of a major Justice Department review. The Inspector General announced thursday it would investigate broad allegations of misconduct in the fbis handling of a probe into Hillary Clintons emails. Today comey joined top intelligence officials for a closed door briefing from members of the house on russian hacking. Some of those lawmakers emerged from that meeting expressing a lack of confidence in the fbi leader, as you saw with
Shortly. Despite the public profession there appears to be major case of mixed messages. Whether theres room for compromise. Reports from inside the white house say President Trump is saying yes to House Speaker or yes to compromise, while House Speaker paul ryan said no, it cannot happen. Nbcs Chris Jansing is at the white house and Kelly Odonnell is on capitol hill. Ladies, thank you for joining me. Kelly lets start with you. There does appear to be a split message between the white house and what were hearing out of the speakers office. How do they reconcile these two things . Well we know katy donald trump has made himself this negotiatorinchief. The dilemma is the rules of capitol hill are at times not so movable and thats what paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell have been talking about, the mechanism to try to get this bill passed and to do it in three different steps. Theres not as much wiggle room there as one might believe. Its sort of like if you go into a courtroom you have to fol
Day 64 of the trump add min straight brought defeat. It is hard to find a donald trump when the Republican Health care bill was pulled today without a vote at all, donald trump and paul ryan inadd ver tently became the men who saved obamacare. Hear now, the ovl office. We were very close and it was very, very tight margin. We had no democrat support. We had no votes from the democrats. They werent going to give us a single vote. It was a difficult thing to do. I have been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. Its many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. I think what will happen is obamacare, unfortunately, will explode. Its going to have a bad year. I think the losers are nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own obamacare. They own it, 100 own it. We all learned a lot. We learned about loyalty and about the vote getting processed. For me, its been
Ironic and youll see that headline on the newspaper coming up here. Why people are so interested in it. We want to begin with that breaking news regarding some pretty serious allegations by President Trump to his predecessor, former president obama, accusing the Obama Administration of wiretapping trump. This is just one of six tweets President Trump fired off around 6 30 this morning. He wrote, terrible. Just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism. Our team is working this past hour to determine the basis of these tweets and the credibility of them. But President Trump also made an attempt to tie president obama to the fallout over meetings attorney general sessions and some of his top aides had with the Russian Ambassador. He tweeted, the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Ambassador was set up by the Obama Administration under Education Program for 100 ambassadors. And this tweet just out, the