whether or not whether or not you like nancy pelosi or you do not, you saw how strong a leader nancy pelosi was. her pure leadership skills. paul ryan does not have that. paul ryan has a caucus that s running all over the place. and not only that, but you didn t see one democrat you don t have one democrat that s in the yes column for this piece of legislation. and i m supposed to be shocked, how? in the past, you ve had moderate democrats in swing districts that would come out and support a president or gop leadership. you don t see that, that s strong leadership by nancy pelosi. or you re being a little altruistic thinking any democrat would come over on a repeal and replace of obamacare. democrats got replaced by republicans that are swinging in the wind. congressman kingston will take us in the room and tell us exactly what the arm-twisting feels like. up next, new evidence pointing to trump associates coordinating with russians. and president trump defending hi
i can tell you at this point, we are trying to get another 30 to 40 votes that are currently in the no category to yes. once we do that, i think we can move forward with passing it on the house floor. the white house says there will be a vote tomorrow, but is that just wishful thinking at this point? sunlen serfaty is outfront tonight on capitol hill. sunlen, what can you tell us about this critical meeting that s happening right now? reporter: it is such a critical meeting, kate, happening behind closed doors. we ve been watching lawmakers go in right at this moment. the republican leadership is trying to get a sense, in essence, from their conference, how many votes they have, where their members are, and as the white house is pushing for this vote to happen tomorrow morning, the leadership is not committing to that time frame much of that will depend on what happens in that room tonight. the republicans health care bill thrust into a precarious state of limbo. they re
clinton, nia-malika henderson, davidgerden, mark preston, jack kingston is here, amanda carpenter, and former democratic member of the south carolina house of representatives, bakari sellers. mo brooks is not moving. that s about the state of play for that member of the house freedom caucus. david, but he s deep in the details. pull us back for a second. what is at stake tonight, as they head into this meeting, for republicans and the president? well, one sixth of the american economy and the welfare of millions of americans, first and foremost, is at stake. you know, this is why it s so cli complicated. we re dealing with a massive piece of the american economy and trying to reorganize it. that s why so many presidents have failed at this. it is complicated, and hard to rally. but i think that donald trump s presidency to a significant degree rests upon pulling us out tonight. he pulling out before it s over to get a vote out of the
subject matter, i think that the evidence certainly warrants us doing a thorough investigation. reporter: tonight, this new development, as the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee telling colleagues, he s sorry, not for going to the white house to brief the president on surveillance, but for failing to tell democrats first. the bottom line is, is that i try to treat everybody fairly and republicans and democrats. but this is not an easy minefield. reporter: congressman devon nunes issued an apology behind closed doors today, helping to quell the uproar sparked by he has revelation wednesday that communications among members of the trump administration may have been unwittingly swept up by u.s. surveillance. he declined to say where he learned the new information or whether the white house helped orchestrate the bombshell. we have to keep our sources and methods here very, very quiet. the president didn t invite me over. i called him. i called down there and
negotiations, i don t see how they pull this out. i could see it if they were down to single digits. they only needed five or six. i think they could pull that out. but if you re really talking 30 to 40, as congressman brooks was earlier, i ve never seen a white house pull out 30 or 40 votes at the last minute. and on a bill that is not popular with the public. that s very important. as bakari pointed out, it s 17% for in a quinnipiac poll. when president obama got his obamacare through, it was in the low 40s approval, it wasn t great, but a heck of a lot better than 17%. there is a lesson to draw from obamacare, which makes my angry, there s no more negotiations, i ve said in the past that we ll let it die and i ll move on. excuse me, republicans have campaigned on repealing brk for seven years. barack obama did not give up on his health care bill three months into his presidency. is president trump really going to give up on health care three months into your presidency? no. they w