behind closed doors activity. still twisting arms, trying to cajole, pressure members, find the sweet spot or perhaps add amendments to the bill as fred up ton from michigan and billy long from missouri were able to prevail upon the president to add that $8 billion. still no congressional budget office score to this, greta, and it s a key question because we don t know where that $8 billion would come from. we don t know how many people will be insured or uninsured as a result of this latest iteration of the republican version of health care. and, so, what we ve seen today is, again, a series of high-level meetings. vice-president pence third consecutive day in the u.s. capital. he talked to almost a dozen members behind closed doors on the first floor of the house of representatives. unable to ascertain whether or not he changed any minds. members were noncommittal when they came out of that room. as i mentioned, the speaker now convening a meeting. they only have one more day before
mccarthy just telling nbc news an announcement on health care is coming, quote, very shortly. and right now speaker ryan is meeting with gop leaders. earlier today president trump met with republicans about a change to the bill on coverage for preexisting conditions. j. noontime magazine and aaron is chief white house correspondent for the independent journal review. first to you. i don t know, what is shortly, do you think? it means coming shortly. hopefully it means today probably, right? a matter of hours and minutes maybe versus like days. i mean, look, they re going to have to have to vote within the next couple days because otherwise they re all leaving town. they re going to break their own rules by not having the bill for people to look at, what was it, three days? used to be a three-day reading period. all of that is pie in the sky. those are the rules they had when they came into office. in 2010 we re going to have this time to read bills and committee processes quickly wen
at the core of this fierce debate, preexisting conditions. so, equity was a preexisting condition under trumpcare, they re going to be fine? yes. the president has made it very clear on numerous occasions he is going to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered. so the white house has the analysis to back that up? every scenario, yes. president trump today met with four house republicans and after that meeting two no s turned to two yes s. besides having their arms twisted by the president, there is a major change to the bill on coverage for preexisting conditions. fred up ton identified something he thinks will make the bill better, that is mutually agreed to by people from all parts of our conference. nbc s mike is live on capitol hill. mike, what s the latest? well, right behind me are the speakers office. speaker ryan we heard from convening a meeting, republican meeting i should say. it culminates a day of frantic