Hes semple exasperated at the fact that this current president is talking about the fact that he authorized, he personally authorized a wiretap which they simply say of course is not a fact, that it did not in fact happen. President s normally have a sense of decorum and dont talk about their predecessors in office. So far president obama has kept to that but his aides have not been nearly as quiet, the army of obama supporters, if you will, have been rallying to his defense the former president has been silent, im told he has no plans to speak out about this in the future but john and poppy, exasperated and irked are two words that describe his feelings after hearing the report on saturday. Im sure hes more than happen to let his irkedness leak out. House Republican Leaders are getting ready to hold a News Conference about their repeal and replace obamacare plan which could be in trouble because theyre losing support in the House Republican membership. Two committees, largely republicans, will hold these markup meetings, seeking compromises and concessions to let this not be dead on arrival. They have their work cut out for them. Conservative and moderate members of their own party are balking at key parts of this. President trump has supported the plan. A short time ago a Senior Administration official told us, quote, the volume of the blowback was a bit of a surprise. The white house were told is launching this full court press. Lets bring back in manu raju, jeff zeleny, and sun censor fatty. M sunlen serfaty. Reporter after the meeting with House Republicans moments ago talking about the need to pass this bill from members who left the room. They said the speaker made the case that they need to stay on schedule, this is critical to getting this done this month, because if you dont, then it delays and derails other aspects of the agenda including doing big things on reforming the tax code and the like, also people who made the pitch in that private meeting are two other architects of that bill, greg walden of oregon, kevin brady of texas. Im told in the room that the speaker also told his members that if they raise money in march, however much money they raise collectively, he will actually try to match that amount of money for the entire House Republican conference. This was a political meeting as well as one on policy. But clearly the challenges remain not just from conservatives but some moderates as well. Charlie dent, a pennsylvania republican, told me as he was entering the room that he was concerned about how quickly theyre moving on this as well as the provisions that would gut medicaid could impact his state. Those are parts of the concerns that the Republican Leadership have to iron out both in the center of their conference as well as the right. Jeff zeleny, manu raju is talking about the pressure being exerted by the speaker. At the white house youre learning of this full court press we can expect from the president at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Reporter indeed, john, this is going to be the Biggest Campaign rollout since last year. The president will be traveling as soon as saturday to start making his case on his Health Care Bill out in the country. Were told hes likely to go to kentucky first, then tennessee, then will be traveling next week as well. Important to keep in mind the political geography here. All of these house conservative republicans who are skeptical and outright opposed to this plan come from trump districts. So this will be the first test of the trump movement. Its muscle. Can it bring voters around. Will these conservative republicans fold. But the president will be traveling this weekend. He was originally scheduled to go to florida to his retreat there. But hes changing his plans and will be out in the country selling this, this weekend and next week. His advisers believe its going to be a mix of traveling as well as sort of doing a lot of this work from the white house as well, going directly after senators and members of congress who are opposed to this. We started seeing some of that last evening. Rand paul, for example, called him out directly on twitter, saying come over to my side, we can win you over on this. Not coincidentally the president is traveling to kentucky on saturday, we are told this morning here. So the beginning of a test of this trump organization, can it actually move its movement to pass legislation. Its an open question at this hour. Interesting, as i go to sunlen, hes going to kentucky, a state that went for him solidly, also a state where a number of folks do say, have said to me, weve benefitted a lot from obamacare, he needs to sell this to them and say that it is going to be better for them. Rand paul is also the senator from kentucky. And i think that has a lot to do he wants to get the twitter reachout and now the physical reachout in that state. Sunlen, lets talk about the markup as we watch republicans speaking here, well talk about the markup meetings happening today. Where are you hearing they can find compromise . Reporter that is the big question going into this, these two dueling house markup committees today. It is a rather painstaking process. And each committee will be focusing on the more basically the nittygritty of all this, the more controversial aspects, things like tax credits, things like medicaid are really where we heard the outpouring of criticism coming from many republicans. And so the goal today is to figure out areas where they can make tweaks, can make changes to make this bill more amenable to republicans and garner more support. And as weve been talking about over the last 48 hours essentially since this bill has been released, many republicans have said very vocally up here on capitol hill, look, this bill in its current form is just not something that they can report. Here is a sample of what were hearing from republicans. This is not the repeal bill that weve been waiting for for all these years. This is a huge opportunity thats been missed. The first thing republicans are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that says we repeal it but keeps Medicaid Expansion and actually expands it, that keeps some of the tax increases. That is not what we promised the American People we were going to do. Reporter going into this markup today which will start in a little less than a half hour, democrats are lining up, a whole slew of amendments. The goal here is to force republicans to go on the record, take some tough votes here. This will likely go well into the evening. All the chairmen are saying, john and poppy, to get ready for a very long night, potentially Early Morning ahead. All right, guys, stand by. Were watch house leadership speak about the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Well keep our eye on this, i expect when paul ryan speaks well bring that to you. Meantime, more reporting to get to. Lets bring in Kayleigh Mcenany and jamie gangel, jamie, youve been working the phones, and you are very well sourced on both sides of the aisle on capitol hill and particularly the senate. This is going to be a very, very steep climb for the president and the house leadership to get this bill through. He really is going to need to be the art of the deal guy, the negotiator, because look what weve seen in just 24 hours, moum rhow many republicans are expressing concern. I fail to speak to every single republican this morning, but i did do a quick roundup. There are now eight republican senators who have gone on the record as being very concerned about it. So we know about rand paul, who has called it obamacare lite. We have the four senators who wrote to mitch mcconnell. Portman and Shelley Caputo of west virginia, Lisa Murkowski of alabam alaska, theyre all concerned about losing medicaid funding in their states. Then there is mike lee who we saw in sunlens report. Lindsey graham has said this is moving too fast. This morning, arkansas senator tom cotton said we should be taking time, we should not be voting in a couple of weeks. You now have eight republican senators who are coming out and saying, wait, stop, slow down, there are problems. Can trump call them up, twist arms . Lets see. But thats a lot of concern on the republican side. So kayleigh, if youre advising the president on this, youre sitting next to him, and youre reading him the report that jamie gangel just brought us about these eight senators, what do you tell them to do . Look, i think President Trump, despite the reporting, has written to be very confident. If you look at his first tweet about this bill, the interesting word he used was negotiation. This is why President Trump was elected by the American People, because he can negotiate. This bill was intentionally put forth as less conservative than it will end up being. Why can Insurance Companies crossing state lines, why wasnt that put in there . President trump put that repeatedly on the campaign trail. It wasnt put in there because President Trump plans on offering that as a gift for conservatives along with negotiating drug prices. I think all these conservative proposals were left out intervention because these will be the carrots given to republicans. It doesnt solve the medicaid issue. Those worried about the medicaid issue, hes got to thread this needle politically. Baccari sellers, are democrats sitting back and eating popcorn while watching this or will they contribute substantively . They can contribute substantively. But its rare that you can find mark sanford and other conservatives line ann coulter on the same side. But not for the same reason. Agreed. But theyre going to need support from at least part of these factions for it to pass. The fact is there are parts of this bill that are good. Baccari, hold that thought. Lets listen to House Speaker paul ryan. This law is rapidly collapsing. Lets not forget that. The premium went up double digits this year in 31 states. Insurers tell us it will be even worse next year if we stay on this path. Choices have begdwindled to the point that one of out of every three counties in america is left with just one surer to choose from. The ceo of aetna has stated that the law is in a death spiral. So we know without a shred of doubt that this law is collapsing. That means this is the choice we face. Are we going to stay with obamacare and ride out the status quo . Are we going to let this law collapse and whatever happens, happens . Or are we going to do what we said we would do . Are we going to repeal and replace obamacare with Something Better . This is the covenant that we made with the American People when we ran on a repeal and replace plan in 2016. This is what our bill does. Go online. Read it for yourself. Go to readthebill. Gop. It repeals obamacares taxes, it repeals obamacares spending, it repeals obamacares mandates. It creates a vibrant market where Insurance Companies compete for your business, where you have lower costs, more choices, and greater control over your health care. And it returns power. This is most important. This returns power from washington back to doctors and patients. Back to states. This is what good conservative Health Care Reform looks like. It is bold and it is long overdue. And it is us fulfilling our promises. So i encourage everyone to go online and read our bill at readthebill. Gop. Are there any questions . Christina . [ inaudible question ] as you know, we have this bottom up process thats been over a year long. Last year we assembled working groups from committees of sxwlkz a jurisdiction and any republican who wants to participate. Then this year the committees have been leading a process all year long, briefings, listening sessions, conferences, committee hearings. And weve got a lot of feedback from members over that process. Our chairs, walden and brady, ways and means and commerce, got feedback on two provisions, whether we have a cap on the size of the credit or whether theres a cap on the exclusion. Those two concerns were addressed in the latest draft of the bill, because again, this is a participatory process, this is a bottomup process. Those are the concerns that were brought to the committees of jurisdiction by lots of members, not just conservatives, but lots of members. And those concerns were addressed, again, because its an inclusive process. I think what youre seeing is, were going through the inevitable growing pains from being an Opposition Party to becoming a governing party. In being an Opposition Party, 64 of our members have never known what its like to work with a republican president , to have unified government. Its a new field. Its a new system for people. But its all the more reason why we have to do what we said we were going to do and deliver for the American People and govern and use our principles. Thats what this is. Reporter you seem to be trusting the white house to help deliver some of the votes you need to get this done. Are you outsourcing this . Are you confident the white house will deliver . This is a team sport. I talked to the president twice yesterday. He had dozens of members at the white house yesterday. Were working hand in glove with President Trump, Vice President pence, secretary price. This is all hands on deck. We all ran on repealing and replacing obamacare. We all know if we do nothing, the system collapses. We know if we just repeal it, the system collapses. This is why we have to pass it with Something Better. Look, i would just say this. Look at what this does. This is a conservative wish list. Look at what this bill does. It repeals obamacares taxes. Thats a trillion dollars in tax relief for families that will help them with the cost of health care. It repeals obamacares spending. Medicaid expansion and the obamacare subsidies. It repeals the obamacare mandates on individuals and businesses. It ends the funding for planned parenthood and sends that money to Community Health centers which there are more of. It has a medicaid per capita block grant. It nearly doubles the amount of money people can put in Health Savings accounts, a law i coauthored in 2003, which conservatives believe is critical for creating a free market in health care. Tax credits for Health Insurance is something that we as health care conservative reform verse been working on for years. This has been the crown jewel of conservative Health Care Reform, to equalize the tax treatment of health care so we can have a vibrant individual market to have a free market in health care, to bring consumers into the market, to put pressure on provides. This is whats wrong in health care, among many other things. We dont have true price and quality competition in health care. We want all the providers of health care services, insurers, doctors, hospitals, everyone, competing against each other for our business as patients, as consumers. You do that when you create a vibrant individual market. Lower costs, more competition, more choice. And most importantly, get washington out of the business of being a nanny state, of micromanaging and Running Health care into the ground. Get it back to patients, get it back to doctors, get it back to states. Thats what this does. This is monumental, exciting conservative reform that fixes these problems. This is something ive been working on this for 20 years. This is exciting. This is what weve been dreaming about doing, and we know its going to make a positive difference in peoples lives in this country. And its juxtaposed against the backdrop of a collapsing law that is doing really damage to families every day in america. Reporter could you give us an update on the cbo score . I dont know the answer to that. I think its probably we know it will come well before the bill gets to the floor. Its very common that you have markups in authorizing committee levels before you have a score. Thats common practice. But because we made some changes this weekend to accommodate members concerns, particularly conservatives, that pushed the date back a little bit. I expect at the beginning of next week, i think, no alert that sometime early next week well get the score, well before we go to the floor. Juan . Reporter you say you have no doubt the 218 votes necessary to pass this bill. What gives you that certainty . What are you seeing on the ground . I have no doubt well pass this because were going to keep our promises. Every House Republican, i think every republican in congress, including the president of the United States, made a promise to the American People. And the promise we made to the American People is were going to repeal and replace obamacare. Because we made that promise, i am confident well make good on this promise. Thank you. There you have House Speaker paul ryan saying there is no doubt we will get this through, saying ive been working on this for 20 years, calling this an exciting time. Clearly messaging from the party to his republican colleagues, lets get this done. This wasnt in the capital building, this was from the rnc headquarters, perhaps sending the message to republicans who may be on the fence, this is a party issue, we are asking you to do this, the president will be asking you to do this, Speaker Paul Ryan called it a team sport. Absolutely. Jamie gangel, with your reporting on these eight insofar as opposing it, if theyre listening to paul ryan and others in the house and the <