down the street to the white house and lo and behold immediately thereafter president trump says that i ve been partially vindicated. odd sort of language in that outrageous tweet that barack obama had wiretapped him in trump tower. then you have speaker paul ryan reiterating, look, there was something there. this is the most pathetic fig league because it has nothing to do with president obama wiret wiretapping donald trump in trump tower but shows maybe they were only partially liars rather than full bore. the chairman has not provided documentation of the intercepts to the intelligence committee and it s being reported he doesn t even have the documents. should he have provided them to the committee before going to the white house or should he have gone to the white house at all? he shouldn t have gone at all. imagine you re investigating somebody in a law enforcement context, you turn up an interesting fact and you run to subject of the investigation to
reporter: house leaders locking in at least one new vote today, congressman lou barletta, who was leaning against the bill, declaring he s now a yes vote. we re adding votes by the day, not losing votes. we feel like we re getting close. reporter: but the bill is still in serious jeopardy. we still haven t seen the movement we want. reporter: according to cnn s latest vote count, at least 23 house republicans have said they ll vote against the bill. more have indicate caited they ll likely oppose it. speaker ryan can t lose more than 21 votes or the bill fails. there s no plan b. there s plan a and plan a. we ll get this done. reporter: this reality setting off an aggressive last-minute offensive to make deals and change minds before the vote. in public this is called legislating. there are people who want various provisions in the bill but what s important for us is we have to broker compromises to make sure we draft legislation that can actually pass. reporter: an