An inside look at royal caribbeans massive new cruise ship. It is all happening now. Melissa we begin with the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer getting ready for the Daily Briefing as republicans make a major push on capitol hill. To repeal and replace obamacare. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am Melissa Francis info jenna lee. Thank you for having me. Jon great to have you here, i am jon scott. House republicans literally debating around the clock as a marathon session continues. They finally have cleared the first hurdle in a bid to fulfill their partys campaign promise, and with a long way to go and this political battle, President Trump just tweeting this despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture peter doocy live on capitol hill now outside the house. Energy and Commerce Committee where they are holding those hearings, some of them anyway, peter . The hearing stil
All of what i know has been available through public comment. I know chairman nunes confirmed he was on white house grounds tuesday. Frankly any questions regarding who he met with or why he was here should be referred to him. I have seen some of the comments hes made to your out let in particular about whom he met with. I would refer you to his comments that he made. Im not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. Ill let him answer. He is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing, and so i will leave it up to him and not try to get in the middle of that. Im asking a slightly different question. Which is, does the white house know what happened now beyond public accounts . And are you satisfied that you dont have a leak in the executive branch. No, were not concerned about that. I know that he is everything i know about what hes done is through public reports that he has made on the record to different folks when he has multiple sources. He has met with differen
All this as President Trump is courting lawmakers and republican conservative groups opposing the bill. According to those at a meeting yesterday, the president revealed his plan if if the republican effort is not successful. Let obamacare fail, he says, and then blame democrats. The white house will likely be pressed on this strategy during todays briefing. Thats coming up momentarily. Also expected to come up, the president s still unproven allegation of wiretapping by his predecessor. And the wikileaks document dump detailing the cias alleged surveillance techniques. Our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta is in the White House Briefing room getting ready for the briefing. Our National Politics reporter m. G. Lee is up on capitol hill. Jim, opposition to the Republican Health care bill seems to be growing from key Industry Groups and plenty of conservatives out there. Does the white house believe it can sway that opposition . They are confident that they can win this argumen
Last two weeks. Its not just an issue of the resources expended for what is increasingly appeared to have been a madeup claim by President Trump but it doesnt seem likely the white house will concede that. In the last hour we heard sean spicer speaking on radio with conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham saying when we were talking about wiretapping, the president was talking about surveillance, not wiretapping the way people think of it relating to phones. The question is, is this something about which they are willing to back down or is this like most other things with this president a moment where he remains defiant and insists there is information out there as he did just last night . As i speak to you, we got the twominute warning. Which means as we approach the 1 hour 5 minute mark we can anticipate sean spicer will be coming out. This is an extended pregame show like weve rarely seen in this briefing room. Wale faith for that. For these next couple of minutes, lets check in
Senate intel committees chairman burr and vice chairman mark warner, let me quote, based on the Information Available to us we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after election day 2016. Let me add to that over on the house side we heard from manu raju in his interview on the rank member adam schiff has had conversations with the fbi chief jim comey and met in closed door sessions and ultimately said he will echo the same sentiments, but quite simply that President Trump was not wiretapped by president obama. All of that said, lets go to our man there in the Briefing Room jim acosta our senior white house correspondence and may i first ask, theyre late. Where is sean spicer . Well, we just got the twominute warning. There you go. Reporter in the last couple minutes. We should point out we got a tenminute warning back at 2 20. I know theres alle i know theres College Basketball on right now,