paradigm. so this narrative we re hearing from the white house and the president last night that making a deal is going to be easy, you re closer to a deal today than you were on friday. it sounds like what you re saying is it is just not true. well, i don t know. look, there could be all sorts of people talking to each other, you know, making deals or whatever. that could be. but as i said, i have not been part of those discussions. and you re a key player in this. don t diminish your role. the tuesday group, you are an influential member of that group. if you are not involved in this, it makes it seem you are not involved with what s going on. i simply can t tell you. but i can tell you that i m not negotiating with anybody right now on this bill. so let s talk about negotiating tactics with the president who, you know, the art of the deal president. as you know, well know by now, you were quoted it was quoted
tick are these ta realistic are these talks. there is frustration in the ranks for what they see as a botched opportunity. more moderate republicans, the tuesday group, trying to talk about what went wrong and real estatically what are w realis easy to move forward. we ll ask sean spicier he think it s is easy. at this point in time there is no real strategy, no realtime line or joust reach to democrats yet. president trump says to get something done on health care he will have to reach across the aisle and talk to democrats. so it is health care moving forward? not necessarily. are there any indications it is getting done this year? not at this point. tax reform seems to be the far more likely realistic goal they will pursue right now, andrea. and overshadowing all of it is, of course, russia and the
how the house intelligence committee conducts itself. you have a story whether he gets into this building and gets secured information on this site. how he conducts himself with his members, when and where he shares things are issues for him and the committee and the house and not for us. that s it. reporter: we know members of the house freedom caucus, the tuesday group of republicans are up on the hill trying to see if they can come to an agreement to find a way forward on health care had pow real does the white house think this possibility of resurrecting health care is? well, i think the president from the early days of his campaign talked about repealing and replacing. it s a commitment that he made. i think he would like to get it done. but he also understands and i don t want to be i want to be completely consistent with two things. one is, he understands that in order to get to 216, we have to i can ma sure that it does what he said it was going to do, achieves those
security number and it s in the system that secret service runs so you have to coordinate with secret service in order to get that clearance but it is accessible. you don t have to be privileged in order to get. you have to let secret service let you get it and that was post- 9/11. look this, white house leaks a lot, okay. one thing that they are not particularly good at is keeping a lid on secrets so if that s really that easy to find, everybody go work your sources. you ll have it in 24 hours. angela, charlie dent, margaret s friend charlie dent made more news today. he s a member of the tuesday group, moderate house republicans, and that s one faction that was not supportive of the health care bill and freedom caucus on the other side was not supportive. charlie dent the white house hasn t reached out to him in the next couple of days and house leadership hasn t been in conversations about negotiating a new health care bill so the ideaed that there s some resurgence of discussion
first 60 days. i understand the budgethi reconciliation process but they were concerned with what the senate was going to do before they got the house bill done. you brought numbers and from the tuesday group, the republican study committee, the heritage foundation. all of the stakeholders who will look at this bill before it is released, compromise behind the scenes. if you can have a basic framework behind the scenes before it s introduced to everybody, that s the way to go. look, you could take marco rubio for his word or not when it came to the gang of eight. he spent countless hours talking about his legislation before it was ever introduced. it was ultimately a failure but he tried to get those troops on board first. sean: i am convinced but geraldo, all i m saying is, why did they set themselves up by keeping it hidden not sharing it with any of the coalition releasing it, creating a public