Testify about Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador kislayak. At todays briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. Listen. Reporter how does this Administration Try to revamp its image, 2 1 2 months in, youve got this yates story today, youve got other things going on, youve got russia, youve got wiretapping. No, we dont have that. Regarding the allegations of capitol hill. I have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian Salad Dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. But every Single Person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. Lets talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this
white house and those close to it and ties to russia. We want to show you a flowchart just so that everybody can follow along because it
president trump say he wants to get an obama replacement bill passed soon. the first bill failed without getting to it the republican controlled house. asked if there is a plan b the white house would say this. there s no plan b. there s plan a and plan a. we will get this done. you re 100% confident? we will get it done, plain and simple. whatever the white house calls what we re looking at now, it looks like plan b. is it an effort to save face before the 100 day deadline. let s get some perspective. there wasn t supposed to be a plan b, clearly there is now a plan b. the president says he wants to do healthcare and keep the government open next week. is that possible? no. no, it s not. it s too much. the healthcare plan, at least the last one was desperately unpopular. 56-17 of the quinnipiac polled people. when you add to it, the funding
you don t know what you re going to need until you need it. and you have 20 million people in this country who have said nonsense, i m not going to be forced to do what you want me to do because i don t believe it s necessary. people who get in an accident, you and i and everyone else in this room picks up the bill. that s right. so shouldn t we allow them to have a plan that they want and make certain nobody falls through the cracks? i don t know what that means: in an effort to get them covered, what you may offer are plans that are cheap but useless. that s the concern. and people would go to the hospital and find out they didn t have things covered and it s part of the reason that health care costs is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the united states. so wouldn t we, as a compassionate society, step back and say, okay, that s a real problem and we need to address it. that s what we re trying to do. is there a plan b? there s plan a and plan a. we re going to get
how confident are you the bill will pass? if it doesn t pass, is there a plan b? there s no plan b. there s plan a and plan a. we re going to get this done. i m not we don t we re not looking at a plan b. we have plan a. it s going to pass. you said there s no there s plan a. right. at this point, is there an acknowledgement that perhaps there does need to be a plan b? no. plan a. the president s plan is to pass the bill tonight, get it on to the senate and sign a bill once it go throughs conferen confere is there any plan if the bill doesn t pass tonight? it s going to pass. that s it. now the president saying, i know we re going to make a deal. that s an easy one. with us, steven moore who is with the heritage foundation, a former senior economic adviser. what do you make the president
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