house members thinking it s not conservative enough. i would say older people. the aarp is organizing against this bill bus it lets you charge older people more than younger people. aarp is an influential group. i think it matters lot, too. one thing in favor of the bill passing, the republican heeders and white house view it this way, custom is that most republicans in congress ran on repealing obamacare. republican leaders view this as we dare you to go on the floor and vote against obamacare after what you promised your constituents. they have with one advantage which is that the republican voted to changing and revealing obamacare and most members don t to vote against an obamacare peal. chris jansing a the white house,ore he took office, president trump said he had an alternative vision, alternate vision for health care reform. he made promises, weapon on 60 minutes and he was asked would
the road. the republicans and moderates and conservatives alike, but governors will have the phone say in what happens here. two major stories. first health care, the other what exactly is going on with wiretapping. both of those dominating the white house press briefing. and both of those things that my colleague kate snow is going to be talking about in just a moment. i m katy tur. that will do it for me. kate take it away. i feel like i m crashing the party. great discussion. we will take it from here. good afternoon, everyone, i m kate snow. our top stories this hour. seven years in the making, republicans launching a full-court press to promote their new obamacare replacement plan. party leadership, even the white house now getting involved. but not convinced, a big chunk of the gop. this hour, in about 30 minutes from now the house freedom caucus as long with tea party senators will faulk about why they think this isn t the right way the repeal and replace. later on, the cars
calculations can make something like this completely fall apart. you remember i covered the beginning to the end of passing the affordable care act, obamacare, back in 2009. and that was something that took an incredible amount of arm twisting from nancy pelosi who of course was speaker of the house. she was question that is something that dpemts and republicans agree she is very good at. you had a president who was at the height of his popularity right after the election. those things do not necessarily exist right now for republicans on capitol hill. speaker ryan is dealing with a caucus that s much more kind of fractured. the way he has dealt with them has been to kinds of devolve some power. it s unclear if that strategy is going to work this this case. president trump doesn t have the same popularity nowhat president obama had at the time. and all of that could really put all of thisn jeopardy, kate. perry bacon, you wrote on 538 about all of this, about the seven groups that
it that s spirit that we haven t seen in the country in a long time. jobs are pouring back, you saw what happened with exxon where they just announced a massive jobs program. we re going to have fun. we have to remember, obamacare is collapsing. and it s in bad shape. and we re going to take action, there s going to be no slowing down. there s going to be no waiting and no more excuses by anybody. we re all now, i can probably say i m a politician. okay. i am a politician. but we re going to get it done. and you re the leaders that really will get it done for all of us and for the american people. obamacare is in very bad shape. i believe that if we wait two years, it will totally implode. it s really pretty much imploding now, steve, when you think. but it ll implode and people will be like please help us, please help us, and that ll be the democrats asking for help. they already are asking for help in the true sense of the word. because it s a disaster. the insurance companies are
choppers, the first since navy s.e.a.l. ryan owens was killed in a raid. it is part of a gloves off approach by the trump administration. an lgbt community in new orleans is on edge after two transgender women were killed in less than one week. police are investigating but say they do not think the two deaths are related. senator rand paul went on a mission thursday to find the houses obamacare replacement bill after getting word a committee was gathering. the senator brought his own copy machine to obtain a copy of the proposal. a house staffer had to meet the senator at the door to tell him the bill wasn t there. who travels with a copy machine. check this out, players making amazing catches. a mets shortstop prospect did one better, making a casual one-handed catch as a bat went flying toward the dugout, despite the amazing grab, he s not expected to make the big