promise and begin replacing to restore state control of health care and get it out of washington. >> shannon: not all republicans are loving it some calling it obama care light. we have more reaction. what stays and what go? >> uncle sam will no longer be able to fine somebody for not having insurance because the individual mandate disappears if the american health care act replace the affordable health care act. the mandate go away too that requires employers to provide health insurance or face a fine and after 2020 medicaid coverage for residents in their states near the poverty line will be reduced. some of the things that will not change in the gop replacement bill were things popular in obama care. people will still be able to get new insurance coverage even if they have a preexisting condition. younger americans can stay attached to their parents' plan until they're 26 years old if they want to and medicaid will remain intact through 2020 and that's a big one because before the hours of the language of the gop replacement bill came out four republican senators came out to say they were worried whatever the text was it would not go far enough protecting people who have no coverage when medicaid expanded in their state. shannon. >> shannon: to that point and other concerns how divided, peter, are lawmakers responding to the bill? >> it's pretty divided. there's three camps, democrats and leadership who feel it's on the track and those that don't. first you have democrats. minority leader nancy pelosi said the bill will do massive damage to families across the nation and republicans have decided affordable health care should be the privilege of the wealthy not the right of every family. the speaker paul ryan said the american health care act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition and give every american affordable health insurance but the conservative wing feels repealing should be done and the freedom caucus said we should debate into two different bills because there's no consensus with leadership on replacement and remember all of this reaction is happening though nobody on the left or right knows how much the bill is going to cost. since nobody knows how much it's going to cost it's is still not clear if it will save the country money on health care. shannon. >> shannon: still lots to figure out as we dig into the details. peter doocy thank you. >> bill: we'll hear more about obama care live and we'll have a fox news contributor here to analyze a lot of this. good day to you, sir. in the house republicans can lose 19 and in the senate they can lose a total of two. >> it always comes down to numbers on capitol hill. republicans have 237 seats in the house. they lost some because some joined the trump administration. they have 237. you need 218 to pass the bill. zero democrats are going to go along so you have unanimous -- >> bill: you don't think a single democrat in congress today will vote -- >> for this plan? have you unlikely. if you have 237 you have to have 218 which means you can lose 19 max. now, there's another important number. there are 30 members in what's called the house freedom caucus the most conservative groups likely to oppose this from the right which means paul ryan going to have a big headache getting his members to the right to go along with this because they alone have the power to say whether it passes. >> bill: we'll see what involvement the white house gets. tweet number one donald trump said our wonderful new health care bill is out for review and negotiation. obama care is disaster and i'm working under a new system where there's competition in the drug industry and pricing for the american people will come way down. the key word is "negotiation" and that's how he sees it. >> how many types has he said deal in his campaign and presidency. he does not take an ideological view if you can get people to agree on something and bring democrats along i was talking how mostly oppose he'd be darned happy. >> bill: rand paul is getting a lot of attention and for good reasoning saying the following in the last hour on "fox and friends" calling it obamacare light. >> he wants obamacare repealed like all conservatives do but realizes conservatives have a lot of objections. it's been put forward as obamacare light and it didn't fix it and it's a real mistake to go for this but conservatives will say we won't take obamacare light. >> bill: are they? >> margins are tighter in the senate, 52 republicans. they'll do it through reconciliation. they don't need 60. 52. they need 50 plus the vice president. they can only lose a couple. very difficult because you have people like rand paul who are calling this obamacare lite. they think the tax credits are subsidies by another name. they see some of the taxes staying on from obamacare to the new plan. those people plus you have the republican senators from states that expanded medicaid under obamacare and they're worried what will happen to that in their states. >> bill: i don't want to keep blowing the minds of our viewers because it's a lot frankly to take in but you do it really well. what would make -- >> thank you. >> bill: what would make rand paul happy? >> get closer to his plan. institute what he calls market reforms. his view is if you keep subsidizing health care the price will keep going up and this doesn't do something to fix that. you have to help that. remember, it took democrats more than a year to do this. they had 260 plus votes in the house. they had 60 votes in the senate and it still took them a long time. >> bill: if not us then who if not now then when? remember that? president obama and that was his final repeal to democrats to say get it done and not a single republican voted with them. >> it was hard. >> bill: thank you, byron. well done. see, shannon the a, bs and cs. >> shannon: you have it altogether. more coming up on "america's newsroom." now the details are out will republicans have enough votes to pass the bill? you heard the guys crunching the numbers. there's still a lot questions, potential objections from conservatives. does it go far enough and what about funding for planned parent hood and we'll get into that with senator john barrasso he's also a medical doctor and will give his thoughts on the issues. the senate is where they cannot afford to lose many and there's a number of gop senators raising objections on numerous fronts. do they get that hammered out in time? >> bill: good question. new york post. in a normal time any one of these stories would be covered for a week. you have the plan unveiled and trump signed travel ban 2.0 and doubles down on the wiretap claim on trump tower during the election of last year. wow, first 100 days. >> shannon: that's why folks need to be with us on america's news headquarters. covering it all. >> bill: and a standoff the pentagon sending a new missile defense system to south korea after north korea conducts a new missile test. now china is warning of consequences. we'll tell you what that's all about in a moment. >> shannon: and a key confirmation hearing at the top of the next hour the choice for deputy attorney general and why he could play a pivotal role into investigations of wiretaps and russia plus this. >> there isn't doubt in my mind the media is complicit and there's an effort to undermine the trump administration. >> bill: rush limbaugh laying his thoughts on the wiretapping during the campaign. former house speaker newt gingrich weighs in on that next. >> what you have is a left-wing news media still fighting against trump using every excuse, leaking whatever they can and piously saying gee, what's your evidence? >> shannon: a big story developing in the pacific theatre. the u.s. military deploying a new missile defense system to south korea while mulling the use of military force against north korea after they fired ballistic missiles and they m y emphasized commitment. the story is developing. >> there has been a sabotage effort to undermine trump and his administration since the election. it's totally reasonable to believe that something like this could be happening. it would be unreasonable to think it's crazy. unreasonable to think it's absurd. unreasonable to think this is nothing more than a big batch of conspiracy theories stitched together for whatever purpose. >> bill: so there is rush limbaugh sounding off on the reporting of the president's wiretap claims. earlier in fact last hour i spoke to newt gingrich on this and where he is now. mr. speaker good morning and thank you for being here in "america's newsroom." and is it reasonable to think this is crazy? >> well, look, if you're a left-winger and believe everything trump does is wrong you can believe that but if you look at the process of leaks -- by the way all breaking the law and calling on irs agents to break the law and leak president trump's taxes. the left has gone crazy since the election. you saw this at the college in connecticut where the students attacked the professor for inviting a conservative to come speak on campus. there's a whole model that anything goes on the left and want the rest of us to believe they're reasonable. >> bill: we're trying to figure this out without evidence and you dangled a hint last night -- [laughter] >> bill: with bill o'reilly when it was posed. listen to the clip. >> if the president have at least strong circumstantial evidence trump tower was tapped he should clear the record. >> bill, you proved yourself it was tapped -- >> there were taps. >> that's where general flynn was. >> interesting point. >> bill: he went on to say that's why we bring you on several times a week. for the context of our viewers what you were trying to describe is the campaign was run out of trump tower and that's why general flynn worked at the time so continue your theory in the. >> it's not so much of a theory, it's a fact somebody broke the law and leaked information about a wiretap which involved an american citizen. that's a felony. that's a fact. somebody out there is committing felony. it's a fact some of the people that they picked up on wiretaps were in the trump towers and trump campaign and had no meaning in which what the person was doing. it's a fact the new york times and washington post grossly smeared general sessions and the columnist calls an act of mccarthyism and smearing him and when you read what they charged him with he met with a russian ambassador in his senate offices and turned out so had nancy pelosi and senator mcclaskill they're still fighting against trump and using whatever excuse they can and piously saying, gee, what's your evidence? if you read the "times" story they all say "sources say." >> bill: i think supporters would agree with everything you said but you have senator mccain saying you can't end it out in a tweet. show us why you believe that. general hayden will join us and saying you called have called the head of the fbi and asked the question before making it public. >> let me tell you how bad i think this is and you can ask this of mike hayden who is a friend of mine. 97% of contributions at the justice department went to the campaign and you have institutions like "the new york times" and saying give us information why wouldn't you have a deep suspicion you have things going on. >> bill: i understand the logic you're trying to lay out here but again just show us what you've got. >> andy mccarthy who was the prosecutor of the justice department for the world trade center bombing in 1993 conducted a series of terrorists and worked on terrorism 20 years and wrote a powerful column pointing out if you ask yourself, first of all, why would the white house change the rules in january so literally unsubstantiated rumors could not be circulated in the intelligence community knowing they will be leaked. that's a change in the obama administration in january. mccarthy go on to assert there was an effort -- you have to ask him his exact sources but this is a guy who was a professional prosecutor in the justice department. he said there was an effort in june to get a foreign court order to go after parts of the trump team. it was turned down. they came back, he claims, in october. mccarthy's a serious person. he's not just a political p partisan. >> bill: we're out of time. there's a guy we can talk to all day long and makes interesting points. the mccarthy piece is out there check it out or my facebook page and maybe we'll get him on the air tomorrow and go through it piece by piece and fact by fact based on how we believe it unfolded. >> shannon: there are substantive things confirmed by multiple forces to give you enough to have threads to pull. >> bill: right about that. >> shannon: president trump rolling out a revised travel plan executive order with major changes. michael hayden weighs in on the measure and whether tell be more 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i have the sheriff with me from jackson county. you said you're not taking no prisoners here, no looters. you don't want them out here. >> no tolerance on the looting. we want it out there if you don't belong in oak grove stay out until we get the situation under control. >> reporter: lots of damage and surprising nobody was hurt. >> there was a lot of damage. the tornado skipped a path and hit-and-miss and have damage to houses in rural parts of the county and came across the inner city part in oak grove and went into lafayette county a little bit so they have some damage there also. >> reporter: thank you, sheriff. once again nearly 500 homes damaged. it's incredible nobody was seriously injured. here in oak grove, missouri they have a perimeter so people can't get in or out unless they live here to make sure everybody stays safe. >> shannon: thank you for the live update and the scene. unpredictable you never know where the storms are going. >> bill: and in a lot of the cases we find fatalities as a result of how much time people have before the storm rolls through but we're coming in the season. mid march rolling into april tough stuff could be coming up for some folks. 27 past the hour. republicans have their obamacare replacement plan and the white house might be pleased. the president saying a lot of this is up for negotiation. some conservatives are pushing back and the question today is this, is this really obamacare lite? >> i am confident we're going to pass this and deliver on president trump's promise to repeal and replace. are your allergies holding you back or is it your allergy pills? break through your allergies. introducing flonase sensimist. more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. break through your 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the old obamacare did and allows children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26 and that's another hold-over from obamacare and has tax credits for people to buy it themselves. that's one of the most significant new things. not in the bill is a process to sell insurance across state lines and negotiate lower the cost of drugs and lower the cost of health care. these are all things the president talked about on the campaign trail and in his address to congress. what's interesting is right after laura ingram pointed that out on "fox and friends" the president tweeted don't worry getting rid of state lines promoting competition will be in phase two and three with the nod to "fox and friends" saying i'm working on competition and pricing for the american people will come way down. the white house policy shop is going through the obamacare bill to find out, quote, where the holes are. one of the concerns are this has not yet been scored so we don't know how much this is going to cost so conservatives are holding back their approval of this bill if they do decide to approve it in anyway, shape or form because they have other concerns before they find out the cost. the director mick mulvaney not worried conservatives will sign onto the bill despite some members of the freedom caucus said it looks like obamacare lite. one thing the president is talking about this morning, shannon, all the stories about in-fighting and reince priebus is on the way out and the knives are out for him. he tweeted don't let fake news tell you there's in-fighting in the administration. we're getting along great and getting major things done. shannon. >> shannon: all right. we'll stay tuned. john roberts at the white house. >> bill: some conservatives are skeptical saying it doesn't go far enough to undo obamacare. here's a sample in the past let's say 12 hours. >> how is this chairman brady fot obamacare lite from your perspective? >> this is obamacare gone because we repeal the mandates and subsidies. >> the president is 100% behind this. we worked closely with the house. he's in on this. we'll be pushing this. this is the obamacare replacement plan everybody for and what he promised when he ran and we'll get this through the house and senate. >> it's obamacare lite. it will not pass. >> bill: robert wolf former economic advisor and rich lawry of editor review both fox contributors and good morning to both of you. it's republican versus republican so far in this. you say two things have happened lately that are critical. what? >> first, parlay under the prodding of president trump republicans decided not to just repeal and worry about replace later but try to do it in one bucket which is what the house is doing and two because really nothing was happening in the senate, they were spinning their wheels the action moved to the house and paul ryan think it's the best bill he can produce. he'll throw it out there and i think it's very likely despite some of the discontent it will pass the house and it will change before it's signed into law but first to get it on the road and moving. >> bill: will it change dramatically? >> fairly dramatically. >> bill: robert. >> bill, you had me at hello when you said republican versus republican. >> bill: it's been a long eight years. >> i think it will be tough for him to get vote. i don't think the freedom caucus will like the tax credit and i think the moderate republicans will say no way to the medicare expansion ending in 2020 and think there will be debate whether it will increase costs. >> bill: you're saying it doesn't solve pricing. >> does not solve pricing. >> bill: which will be critical for republicans watching the bottom line. bigger picture stuff, rich, what's coming by way of twitter and the white house is important. he's talking about an open negotiation where the plan is on the table right now, correct? >> right. at the end of the day there's two big forces to help push this over the hill. one is if you're the last couple republicans and standing in the way of this major initiative the party has campaigned on, election cycle after election cycle and you'll be the guy blocking it will be a hard position to be in. two, i imagine at the end of the day trump will want this to happen and it will be a huge legislative feather in his cap and if you're resisting you can find yourself in his twitter feed or twisting your arm over 18 holes of golf in maralago. >> it will be tough to not give the president his first win legislatively and it's the first thing he'nd there's a battle on his hands. nothing like it is today. >> bill: rich is right, this is a campaign promise. >> for sure. the campaign promise. >> bill: how can it afford not to go forward after all the comments on camera for years now, rich? >> every republican in the country. if it go down it would be a debacle and a huge step towards donald trump's first year of being a failure legislatively and at the end of the day no one whether you're rand paul or trip wants that outcome. >> bill: the point is the president will coerce those that are unwilling. i remember during the real crunch time for obamacare when president owe -- obama said if not us when? >> he jammed it through and the wasn't the perfect program he would have liked to have push through and this is a republican program. at the end of the day that's not what actually ends up being the desire for the american people. he was talking with fox people before there's 330 million people you have to worry about not 50%. it's great if we can iterate this on some. >> bill: do you think a single democrat will vote with republicans on repeal and replace? >> not if it's anything like this. they'll look at planned parenthood and medicaid expansion. i think both sides will have a debate on ridding the mandate. what's that mean. >> there's a story on reagan and capitol hill. some hold-outs said i love you and jump out of a plane for you and reagan said jump. barack obama told them to jump and they did. at the end of the day if president trump says to jump they will. >> bill: don't forget in the closing hours a congressman led three democrats pro-life they did not like the provisions in obamacare that did not protect abortions and planned parenthood and an executive order was signed at the 12th hour to pull the 20-odd votes in favor of passing this bill. >> if you're on the ball you have both houses of congress and the presidency there's a lot of squaring of circles and a lot of favors and a lot of exemptions. is there a bart stupak today in the republican form? >> i think it's paul ryan. he has to literally say we have to do this for the president and bring his group together. i actually think the argument won't be in the house at the end of the day. i think they'll look at the subsidies differently. i think it will be on the senate. >> bill: i get the sense we're just beginning. >> lots of drama and it will seem dead a couple times. >> bill: rich, thank you. robert, thank you. shannon, what's next? >> shannon: democrats demanding evidence from president trump on his claims of wiretapping but there may be something we don't know and congress chaffetz and the investigation that's coming. >> bill: and an incredible rescue caught on camera. how emergency crews jumped into action to save this man's life. 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congressmen chaffetz is the house oversight committee chairman. good morning. >> good morning. >> shannon: when this bubbled up over the weekend with the president's tweets sean spicer said we'll get congress investigate and let it go where it will. will you investigate the potential fisa order. >> the house intelligence committee will lead that charge. he has been talking about the fact that russia has been doing all sorts of things to look into the united states. and now on the other end of the spectrum you have the president saying well, you know, maybe it was president obama doing these types of wiretapping. so the intelligence committee is set up to deal with that and dive into it and they're going to do that. >> shannon: so the president through a spokesman denied the white house or anyone that was a white house official including the president ever surveilled a u.s. citizen but the fisa order option is legality if taken by somebody in the fbi, doj, can congress get its hands on fisa orders? >> i do believe intel can do that but having done investigations and issued reports it's not the only tool at the disposal of the federal government to surveil people. there are other ways to do it would having to get a fisa order. there are stingrays we did a report about widely used in the federal government to find people's geolocation and those same machines can look at the content of your communication. even the irs has these machines. i don't know where this is going to go. i don't know what i just said has any tie to what the president is saying whatsoever but does the federal government follow, track americans? they do. have they done it without court orders? yes, they do. i have evidence and proof that does happen. now is that tied directly to donald trump and the campaign? i don't know. >> shannon: it's interesting you bring up the stingray for people who don't know that's a device that can use to gather information on somebody that could be allegedly guilty of something and collect innocent people and law enforcement agencies don't need a warrant or to disclose they're using it and tough to find out who's using it whether you're spying on a donald trump or jason chaffetz. this is technology used every day. >> the government is capturing facial profiles and building a database of innocent americans and their profiles. >> shannon: what can you do in congress to stop this? >> we're trying to expose this and have exposed how these things work. i'm not here to suggest it's directly tied to donald trump or has any relationship but i'm also here to say the simple answer is not just a fisa orders there are other tools at the disposal of the government that have been used in the past. have they been used nefariously? i have had agents dive into my records in violation of the federal law and that's at the conclusion of the inspector general and nothing happened. i didn't hear president obama do anything and what about the targeting of innocent americans by the irs? the obama administration has a notorious record of this. again, i'm not here to draw conclusion but has it happened in the past? yes, it has. >> shannon: it should be nonpartisan and all americans should be concerned on the invasion of privacy. we have a new obamacare bill. do you think the different factions will come together in the house because you have the freedom caucus and the republican senate committee conservative folks who think it's another entitlement and i want to give you a chance to respond to comments on cnn on people buying an iphone or health care and some people not suggesting the way it came out and suggesting those in the lower-income brackets will have to give up things to make sure they're covered. >> what we're trying to say and maybe i didn't say it as smoothly as i could but people need to make a responsible choice and i believe in self-reliance. we want people to have access to an affordable product. if they have a pre-existing condition or healthy it's smart to do it. what i don't like the individual mandate to force people. as an american you have to make forces and you have to make decisions and where to make investments. in your health care maybe a health savings account which the plan that introduced is heavy on. those are the types of things you need to make a choice and decision in your life. and as an adult you get to make those decisions and leave by those sequences. >> shannon: the phones are expensive. so are shoes. >> we want them to have their communication equipment too but it's frustrating. >> shannon: it's about choice and that's what's different and we all have to make decisions. thank you. >> bill: president trump about to make good on his promise on the border wall with mexico. what's his plan moving forward? 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[cheering] >> work hard, everybody. work hard. >> bill: like bono just walked in the room. >> shannon: wow. >> bill: i give you u-2. president trump greeting 40 or 50 fourth graders. he called a lot of kids over and one took him up on the over. that's 10-year-old jack cornish from birmingham, alabama. >> shannon: there's no guarantee on the tours you'll see the president so when he pops out that's big doing. >> bill: nice. the tours resume at the white worthwhile. nation's capitol. >> shannon: well, crews are make daring rescue after a man ended up trapped in an arizona river. check this out. you see the guy holding on to the bottom of a police helicopter as it slowly pulls him out of the rushing water. he was rafting when he got caught in the current which was flowing quickly because of heavy rain. the chopper eventually with precision lifted him out to safety. he was treated by medics and expected to be ok. that's rather amazing. >> bill: to hang onto that. bravo. >> bill: well done. we're moments away from the start of the senate confirmation hearing. check it out now, there could be fireworks and headlines. the deputy attorney general nominee and the role he may play in the investigation of russia and wiretaps and leaks in the administration. that will start in a matter of minutes and we'll keep a careful eye on that. stay tuned. don't go anywhere. we'll be right back on "america's newsroom." and always working to be better. >> shannon: a highly-charged confirmation hearing getting underway on capitol hill. the nominee for deputy attorney general finding himself in the line of fire as democrats fight to keep russia in the spotlight and this guy could be in the middle of all of this. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. and the widely respected prosecutor and democrats will push him to make a promise to anoi anoint -- appoint an independent council and jeff sessions has recused himself from anything involving the trump campaign and russia. >> shannon: we have a correspondent live on capitol hill. it could have been a quiet hearing but everything has changed. tell us where we stand? >> i'm on the senate side of the capitol and the long lines are not typical. it's a high-profile hearing because if he is confirmed he will be the decision maker for all things russia and related to the investigations at the justice department because of the dramatic turn of events last week where the attorney general recused himself. >> my staff recommended recusement saying since i had involvement with the campaign i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. there are i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> he is not a household name. he has been the u.s. attorney in maryland and as politically neutral as they come. he was appointed by president george w. bush, a republican and the only holdover under the obama administration and they're not going to need outside counsel for the administration. >> shannon: based on the numbers we have can the democrats do anything to derail him? >> senator richard bloomenthal will throw up road blocks and wrote i'll use every possible tool to block the doj nominee unless he appoints a special prosecutor. what we'll find out is whether rosenstein is committed to being a neutral party and whether he can convince democrats in the committee and broader senate he can be a fair arbitrator of their concerns and someone who will follow the law in this case, shannon. >> shannon: catherine herridge as we await the hearing to start. thank you very much. it may be a hearing we might have glossed over. but because of everything that has happened and transpired in the last few weeks this guy who is very well respected, lays low, not a spotlight grabber he's in one today, bill. >> bill: he is. bear in mind jeff sessions recused himself only two days ago. bear in mind based on the reporting in the white house president trump didn't think he should have recused himself and he went forward with it anyway and brings us forward to this hearing and now the stakes are high. >> shannon: he'll get questions and democrats will want to push him and want to make him appoint a special council. >> bill: we'll get to the questions and in the meantime house republicans moving forward on one of their biggest promises and this has been one years in the make. they have a plan to replace obamacare to keep some of the affordable care act's more popular features and some republicans expressing reservations and the outlook on the senate side could be a bigger fight. mike emanual. good morning. what are the likely bigger battles ahead for this? >> we heard some people criticize the subsidies comparing them to obamacare subsidies. the tax credits they don't seem to like in the new proposal and other moderate members expressed concerns on the phasing out of the medicaid expansion if they're state has taken advantage of that expansion and while it does away with gop mandates one critic expressed this concern. >> the obamacare lite bill said you'll pay the penalty not to the government but an insurance company. this is in likelihood destroy the plan. >> others are concerned about the price plan awaiting analysis from the non-partisan congressional office and concern it won't cover as many folks. >> bill: how do they counter the concerns? >> expect a full-court press from supporters on capitol hill who say obamacare is failing and from key trump administration officials. mick mulvaney the budget director of the white house has tremendous credibility as a founding member of the freedom caucus and tom price for years has been working on repeal and replacement proposals and has clout in his new role as secretary of health and human services. mulvaney said the package will accomplish a great deal. >> the mandates are gone and the taxes are gone. the penalties in obamacare are gone. we have taken the government out of the equation. the government used to be between patients and doctors and that's gone. >> two key house committees get to work on the bill tomorrow. the house is seeking to get this across the finish line by the end of the month and the senate is hoping to get it done by easter recess. >> bill: live on the hill and mick mulvaney on pushing this through and he is a big part of the freedom caucus. >> shannon: a founding member. >> bill: what salesmanship does the have now? >> shannon: he was enlisted to help on that front in a big way. house ways and means committee chairman talking more about the republican plan on special reports. listen. >> we've been listening carefully to our republican members for months now and over the weekend as well to make sure we get it right for them so the changes you see in the legislation online tonight and available for americans to read think are exactly in the right place. >> are you willing -- is the speaker, the leadership willing to use the political capital here to bring conservatives over and then have you the debt ceiling, possible government shut-down battles, the tax reform issue. is the political capital going to be used on this? >> yes, it is and it should be. this is one of our key promises as republican. we know we can do so much better than obamacare. >> shannon: let's bring in long-time critic john barrasso. >> nice to be with you. >> shannon: you have the formal rollout but not everyone's convinced. forget about across the aisle and senators and members of the freedom caucus will have a joint conference at 3:30 and they've been skeptics and wanted to see the plan and read it. they have now and they'll have their press conference. we'll see if they have objections and where they go from here. how do you convince them? >> let me assure viewers this is a monumental shift from obama care to give people the freedom they've been looking for. i think all the members have very important concerns. they'll be heard. they need to be incorporated but for all your viewers let us just say the proposal eliminates the mandates people have to buy insurance and eliminates the taxes and penalties while it preserves the things that are important, protecting people with pre-existing conditions and making sure young people up to age 26 can stay on their parents' plan and eliminates the life-time limits for people with serious illnesses. >> shannon: how do you respond to those who say it's just an entitlement by another name. tax credits are the price tack -- a republican congressman when the plan was put out retweeted it by saying obamacare 2.0. >> my opinion is looking at this and going through it and this is something shannon people can read. it's 120 pages. it's not 2700 pages. to me it's lights out on obamacare. it's returning the freedom to people. we're getting away from government-controlled health care to patient-centered care. that's how the whole process is lined out. i think it's important and as you've reported amendments, a mark-up on the hill, committee hearings. it's the first step so people can see it and see what's in it. it is to me a major step in the right direction to keeping our promise. the promise to repeal and replace obamacare. we're just trying to give relief to people, piece of mind for those suffering under the president's health care law and i heard from those people in wyoming people who said we have to get rid of it. what i had before was better than about what i have under obamacare and there was a mandate to buy. they like the things we're talking about protecting people with pre-existing conditions but getting rid of the things people don't like the mandates they had to buy something the government told them they had to buy. >> shannon: so we won't expect democrat votes. they didn't get republican votes when they passed obamacare. how do you convince colleagues that are still wary. you see substantive changes coming to count on their votes. you need every one. >> every member will be allowed to weigh in and bring forth their best ideas and there are some out there and as president trump tweeted this morning. this is phase one. there'll be phase two and three. obamacare took seven years to get to this point and the system is collapsing around us. the president has only been in office seven weeks. it will take time to transition. we're on the right course and i think it's the right place to start. >> shannon: senator barrasso always good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> bill: the end point is critical. we're other six and a half weeks removed from the inauguration. for washington, d.c. this is warp speed. they rarely if ever get action on this as quickly as this is happening. >> shannon: people expected it because your twitter feed probably like mine saying they promised repeal and replace. i'm waiting. hmm. here it is. >> bill: so far here it is. exactly right. the debate continues in the meantime washington sending a missile defense system so south korea after a string of missile tests by the north and china with a stern response and what that's about in a moment. >> shannon: and president trump's russia problems are getting worse and we'll speak to a former cia director for what's next. >> bill: and casey anthony breaking her silence after a decade. what she says about one of the more infamous child murder cases in america. >> you were convicted of one thing -- >> lying to the cops. people lie to the cops every day. i'm just one of those unfortunate idiots that admitted they lied. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. >> shannon: less than 48 hours ago north korea did a test launch of four ballistic missiles and washington setting up a system to counter the threat and china saying they'll take necessary measures to protect their country. washington said the move is not meant to be a threat to beijing or moscow. the former ambassador to the united nations. good to see you today. >> glad to be with you. >> shannon: so we have the sabre rattling by north korea not surprising. anytime there's a change in power they seem to need attention. they're blaming the joint exercises in the region as the cause for their actions. you're response. -- your response. >> it's nonsense. every year they complain about it. let's look at the reality, for 25 years north korea has been pursuing deliverable nuclear weapons and for 25 years in republican and democrat administrations alike we've been trying to negotiate them out of the program which has failed. now we're at the point where the commander of u.s. forces korea estimates north korea is close to miniaturizing a war head and putting it on a missile to hit the west coast of the united states shortly. the missile tests north korea conducted in the past few days have said were potentially aimed or could be aimed at u.s. forces in south korea and japan. south korea and japan and united states are rightly worried the erratic unstable regime in north korea that's detonated five nuclear weapons could be a threat to south korea and south korea's population. and what provocative act are we taking? we're adding another layer of missile defense to protect our forces in south korea and civilians. that's not provocative at all. >> shannon: it's got the word defense to my mind not being an expert the missile defense system sounds like something we know the parts are there, south korea will get it set up and going into place and the u.s. has supplied that but china says it's a threat to them. if it's protection against incoming missiles can we use this machinery to indeed encroach on their territory or nothing more than posturing? >> well, it's outrageous what china's saying. first of all there's already missile defense the patriot system and the navy has aegis warships and it's a more capable missile defense but understand what china says when they contend the deployment of missile defense is provocative. they're saying you have no right to defend yourselves against north korea or chinese missile. lets the american and south korean and japanese people understand that. this is why frankly we need in the obama administration return to the concept of national missile defense and we're vulnerable to the highly erratic leadership and the ayatollahs in tehran can get everything the north korean's have by wire transfer to the account. >> shannon: we have the situation with them testing ballistic missiles and the straight of hormuz and we have multiple things to worry about. ambassador, thank you for weighing in. >> glad to be with you. >> bill: twenty past the hour. we have heard about the republican obamacare replacement plan but what's it mean for you in the doctor's office. marc siegel stops by after this. >> shannon: we're keeping an eye on the hearing for a man you may not have heard of before but could be the next deputy attorney general rob rose en si-- rosenstein and moments ago they were talking about a double standard with regards to the democrats calling for a special prosecutor they're hoping to get ro rosenstein to commit to. >> with somehow a special council will bring facts to life just isn't true. i can't help but notice the selective nature of the latest calls for a special consult. where were those calls from the other side when the attorney general lynch was overseeing the clinton investigations. they had been appointed and her law firm represented the clintons. her ability to continue in her job as attorney general dependent on a clinton victory in the election and she had a private meeting with president bill clinton on the government airplane while the government was investigating secretary clinton. where were the calls for a special consult at that time? >> shannon: that was the chair of the committee speaking out on what he calls a double standard. we'll keep an eye on the hearing and take you back live. bill. >> one of the main things that undid obamacare was et wasn't really affordable care it was affordable coverage. you could afford coverage but couldn't afford to get sick and that went to the heart of the matter and something we wanted to fix and that's what the tax credits are for if you get sick you can actually afford to go to the doctor. >> bill: that is one of the main points republican lawmakers have been looking to fix for quite some time with obamacare. how could the affect you when you go to the doctor's office. here's dr. marc siegel to take you through this. nice to see you and good morning. rand paul calls it obamacare lite. you have read this is he right about that or how does the make the point? >> what you just heard is someone saying previously you went to the doctor's office and got eaten up by a deductible. it was like a stop sign. you can't buy health care until you overfilled it and then get the care you needed. you have a green light you buy anything, common cold, scratches, you came in and overused the insurance. that's dysfunctional. it's being replaced by tax credits and rand paul is saying wait an it will cost the government as much as before and he's calling it obamacare lite. $16 billion were used for high-pools before for the pre-existing conditions. $60 billion use to subsidize the exchange and between those numbers is going to be money we'll spend on tax credits now. here's where he's wrong and here's what the difference is -- >> bill: senator paul is wrong? >> i think he's not considering these tax credits will go to people that were in the gap, the obamacare gap. remember that famous gap? they didn't get insurance or get covered by medicaid. they made a little bit too much and didn't want the individual mandate and said i'll pay the tax penalty and not get insurance i can't afford it. now we're given the money and saying use it to buy a product this works for you. it won't be overregulated. it won't be full of bells and whistles and high deductibles it can even be catastrophic insurance for a rainy day. an insurance of your choice. the government subsidizing that to put out in the market. we'll reach a group that wasn't reached before and for a group that didn't have it unregulated. >> bill: the shell game is right pocket or left pocket, correct and you're arguing it's not the case? >> an individual mandate is unethical. i've never believed you should force people to buy a product that doesn't guarantee you the care you're promising. that's the shell game. you have to buy this but you have it and no doctor will take it. get rid of the individual mandate. it's unethical and stop all the regulations that force my patients to buy the kind of insurance that's clunky and doesn't give them care. with tax credits they can buy stuff that works. >> bill: ok. you're going to post a piece online at foxnews.com later today. based on what you have read, the experience of the patient and between the patient and the doctor will it be better under this plan or not? >> it has to be better if there's less regulations. it has to be better if there's no mandates. it has to be better with large health savings accounts. between $6,000 per person and $13,000 per family is a huge increase. patient wills know what cardiograms costs and blood tests costs and it will be all tax deductible. it brings it back as dr. price says to the doctor and patient. i'll help my patient negotiate and insurance won't be the big force in the room anymore. >> bill: thank you for taking us through that. we'll look for your piece online. >> a big improvement. if they can compromise in congress. >> bill: thank you, doctor. marc siegel. shannon, what's next? >> shannon: we're still keep our eye on the confirmation hearing. as soon as the q&a starts we'll take you live. >> bill: and president trump signing the new 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vomiting, weakness, or ankle swelling. nuedexta made a difference by reducing my pba episodes. ask about nuedexta and go to nuedexta.com >> bill: president trump you know by now he signed a revised travel ban putting a temporary ban from immigrants from seven countries and sean spicer expect smoother rollout. >> it was done extremely effectively. there's a ten-day window to it go into effect and agencies and employees know what's expected and how to implement it effectively. >> bill: general michael hayden author of the book "playing to the edge" good day to you. looking forward to talking to you for a while. welcome back to the country. you think the travel ban was a waste of time initially and now i believe you say it's a little bit better. >> the implementation is a lot bit better and what sean spicer is correct. it's got the benefit of input from the bureaucracy. it's changed the problematic aspects with regard to implementation and took iran off the list. syrian refugees are not specially targeted. check, check, check. i don't think it was necessary. you have one equation was there was a real danger from immigrants. frankly i think that was badly overhyped during the campaign particular with regard to refugees and then over here we were told we had this totally dysfunctional vetting system to quote the president we have no idea who these people are. yes, we do. we're talking about syrian refugees. we let in a total of 10,000 last year. 85% were women and children and the average processing time for all 10,000 ranged between 18 and 24 months. that's extreme vetting. i don't think we needed to do this. if it'd just been that the tripping isn't necessary we still have the human effect on refugees and immigrants and this is the part that concerns me, the second and third order effect of this seems to have us living the jihadist narrative that we don't trust nar tich narrative and there's an agriculture inside of islam and i think there's an issue within islam but that group within islam we want to lose the argument just had their position strengthened because we acted the way they said we would act. we don't like muslims. >> bill: i heard that argument a lot. i don't know if it's true or not but respect your opinion. >> thank you. >> bill: these are failed states. libya, syria. how long's it been since they've had an active working government? five years? two years? >> i didn't argue about the countries on the list. >> bill: what the white house would say and perhaps it should have been the lead, look, folks this common sense we want a better process of figuring out who they are and what they're all about. had you led with that would you then agree with this? you're a failed state and you're trying to figure out who the individuals are. >> you didn't hear me arguing against the states that's a good selection but let's be honest what's the blood line of the much improved order pushed out the door? it's a campaign promise to shut the door to all muslims and you can't avoid that reality. there's an evolution. i admit it got better but for much of america and certainly most of the islamic world they think this is the result. >> bill: 80% of the muslim majority nations are not affected. what do you make then of the fbi said watching 300 refugees in the country. is that to be expected? >> it represents 1% let in since 9/11. >> bill: among those here in recent years. >> that says we actually keep an eye on these people. >> bill: initially you said it's a waste of time. do you still think it's a waste of time? >> i would not think the policy was weather -- worth the candle and i congratulation the administration for working hard to reduce the ill effects and actual implementation. that's good work. >> bill: i apologize for the brevity but what do you think was going on at trump tower last summer and fall? >> in my heart of hearts, nothing that has to do with electronic surveillance. look, the president pushed out a tweet on saturday saying barack obama did this. number one he can't do that. he doesn't have the authority. since the '70s we took the authority away and put it in the federal courts. even if he wanted to do it he couldn't. the core of the tweet is beyond wrong. it's impossible. now, other people can do it in the government to go to a judge to get the warrant. we have two kinds of warrants to do that. one for foreign intelligence purpose and the other counterintelligence and law enforcement. the guy would ran this is named jim clapper and jim comey and they both said not me. >> bill: and you said call the fbi director. >> first thing saturday morning. >> bill: i asked newt gingrich from your words to his mouth he said this. >> let me tell you how bad i think this is and you can ask this of mike hayden who is an old friend of mine and disagree with me deeply. 95% of all contributions from federal employees went to hillary clinton. 97% of contributions at the just tis department. 99% from contributions at the state department. you have institutions at the new york times and saying please break the law and give us information you are not allowed to give us. why wouldn't you in that environment have a deep suspicion bad things are going on. >> bill: he's got a point? >> look, we need to have breakfast to hammer out the numbers. i don't know about the numbers but the question should be asked by mr. comey. >> bill: shannon, what's next? >> shannon: the latest repeal of obamacare is to repeal funding for planned parent hood. >> bill: it's been nearly ten year since casey anthony has been acquitted from the death of her daughter. do the answers she gives now put the case to rest or raise more questions? >> i don't give a [bleep] what anybody think. i never will. i'm ok with myself. i sleep pretty good at night. >> shannon: a newly-revealed republican legislation will repeal funding to planned parenthood for a year and the explanation where the money will instead go. >> we'll move it to the the federally funded health care clinics and this is not about denying women access to care. we want them to have it. they will have it they simply won't get it through place also provide abortion. >> shannon: that was a former communication director for marco rubio. it will be tight in the senate. this is one of the issues. lis, we have a senator from alaska and potential senator susan collins and saying she won't vote for anything that funds planned parenthood. >> and you have others saying it's a non-starter for them and it's politically perilous and we see trump putting out the statement where he's trying to have it both ways because 60% to 70% of the american public opposes defunding planned parenthood and the one thing to remember and that was dishonest in what donald trump said is no federal funds can go to apporti apporti apportion abortion and they're facing controversy over repealing the affordable care act >> shannon: and a poll said whether pro-choice or pro-life don't want taxpayer funding and you point out the amendment. there are those who argue money is there and there are folks who have concerns saying let's spend the money elsewhere. do you think it will work? >> this is a good fight i think for president trump to get ahead of. he wanted to fund planned parenthood but not abortion and he signed the order which banned taxpayer funding for abortions overseas. this is a logical next step and making what he seems like a common sense offer which is stop offering abortions and you can keep your federal funding maybe increase your federal funding. i think it's a smart tactical move to get ahead of the legislation and potentially the big budget fights we'll see. >> shannon: i feel like we're just getting warmed up and have breaking news and have to send it to bill. >> bill: they're now taking questions and certainly the stories of the day will come up about russia and trump touret tourette -- tower and they're re-bi re-bing beginning the questions and answers. >> relating to the campaigns for president of the united states that would include any investigation into campaigns for president and any communication with representatives of the russian government. the attorney general made clear his announcement did not confirm the existence of any such investigation in accordance with department practice. in the event is such an investigation were to take place however, it would fall then to the position you have been nominated for as deputy attorney general in light of the recusal. so four questions. you can take as long to answer or short answers i'll do one at a time. have you ever met with represents of the russian government? >> over the course of my career from time to time i've spoken to groups of visiting lawyers and judge from visiting countries and it's possible there were russian officials there but i don't recall any such meetings, no. >> ok. when were you first in contact with the attorney general about your nomination? have you ever spoken to the attorney general about the question of russian contacts with presidential campaigns? >> my first contact with attorney general sessions was approximately november 28 when i received a phone call from him. i don't believe i had direct contact with senator sessions prior to that date. and no, i've had no conversations with attorney general sessions about that matter. >> about the russian contacts? >> correct. >> ok. is there any basis on what you would not be able to handle such -- these investigations given the attorney general sessions has announced his intention to recuse? >> senator, i'm not aware of any. i should tell you since i'm not involved in the matter i don't know what if any investigation is currently ongoing within the department. if i were confirmed i would need to familiarize myself with the facts and consult with experts in the department. we have complex set of rules and statutes that governor recusals and so i'm not aware of any requirement for me to recuse at this time but as a lawyer, senator, i'd have to know what it is i'm recusing from and as a department of justice official i'd have to rely on the advice from the career staff. we have folks trained to do just that. >> i hope this next question is not an impossible one, how would you handle such an investigation? have you ever discussed with the attorney general the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle such an investigation? >> how i would handle an investigation senator is the way i would handle any investigation. as far as i'm concerned every investigation conducted by the department of justice as we prosecutor they all deserve an independent prosecutorer and and i'd make sure we had those along with law enforcement agents to comply with the statutes and regulations and enforcement agencies. with regard to the special counsel in this or other cases i know this is the issue du jour on capitol hill but i anticipate if i'm deputy attorney general we have a lot of matters over time and i'd approach them all the same way and evaluate the facts from the law and consider the applicable regulations and consult with officials and exercise any best judgment or provide my best advice to the attorney general on what i believe is the right course of action. >> i'd like to go and ask you about your at the chamber of commerce. when you worked there your client was the chamber. in that capacity you signed a number of brief opposing positions of government agencies at the department of justice your job will be to defend the agencies and their missions. can you discuss how you'll approach that from a different angle. >> sure, i'd be happy to. as you say as a lawyer i have spent some of my career in private practice representing clients. i've spent more of my career and i had a client at the chamber of commerce and as a litigator there my job was to file lawsuits and file briefs on behalf of that client. if i'm confirmed to this position i'll have a different role and different client. my client will be the united states and my role will be to serve the public interest and the interest of justice. representing that client as best i can. that's a role i'm very comfortable with. as i said i spent more of my career in public service than public practice and i'd be honor to take that role back on if confirmed. >> back to mr. rosenstein you served as independent counsel and you're familiar with the role of independent council and appointment of a special council -- >> i believe what you're referring to is the regulation on special councils opposed to the special statute sunseted in 1999 include that a personal investigation is warranted and and the public interest justifies the appointment of a special council. >> let me ask the question but i think you just answered it but if you want to say more how would you decide whether a special prosecutor would be appropriate in a particular department investigation? >> whatever it is senator and there's various formulations as mentioned in the introduction. i was designated by attorney general holder to conduct the investigation. i wasn't special counsel but bottom line is it's my job to make sure all investigations are conducted independently and whether it's a law or statute i ensure every investigation is conducted independently. >> my time's up and i have two more points on that question but i'll do that in the second round. senator feinstein. >> mr. rosenstein earlier this year the entire united states intelligence committee make public its assessment that they ordered a russian influence campaign designed to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. the goal was to undermine public faith in the united states democratic process and harm the campaign of secretary clinton in fave of president trump. and i feel very certain that the reports of the intelligence community are in fact correct. have you read either the final classified or unclassified versions of the intelligence committee's assessment regarding the interference with the 2016 presidential campaign? >> i'm familiar with the accounts. i've not read a classified report because it's not been given. >> i ask you do that before your nomination comes up if it does on the floor, if you will. will you read those reports? >> senator, if i were to become deputy attorney general it would be essential for me to read those reports. probably the classified as well if there is such a report. i don't think i'm authorized to do that. >> well, you'll be number two now. >> i think that's a valuable point and i appreciate you're raising it because the media reports have i think created some confusion. i'm the u.s. attorney general for the district of maryland. i have no role in managing the department. >> that's my fault. i misspoke so thank you. let me go on to the question of special counsel. i mentioned in my opening remarks and attorney general ashcroft recused himself and deputy attorney general comey assigned fitzgerald a special prosecutor to prosecute the case. given the recusal by the attorney general and the intense political interest in this matter and the strong potential that the investigation will in fact involve individuals associated with the white house it would seem this situation also rises to the level of extraordinary circumstances that warrant a special council under the regulations. given all this and the heightened level of distrust on all sides do you support the appointment of an independent special council to look into these matters? >> senator, my understanding on this and it's based solely on media accounts my understanding is at least one of your colleagues called for a special council for something related to this matter while attorney general lynch was in office in early january and she rejected the request and based on the media accounts she said what i said she had confidence in the career professionals of the department but she presumably knows the facted. currently we have an acting attorney general for the matter appointed u.s. attorney general by president obama and if there were a need for special council he currently has full authority to appoint one. i don't know in attorney general lynch or bente are right or wrong but i wouldn't be able to overrule them without the facts on the basis of their decisions. >> i'm trying to figure out what your bottom line is. i interpret that is a no. is that fair? >> senator, i think the answer is i'm simply not in the position to answer the question because i don't know the information that they know, the folks in the position to make that decision and while am in that position i don't believe they're correct. i have a lot of respect for them but if i determine they're mistaken i would overrule them. >> thank you. i understand. if i may, while at the national chamber litigation center you led regulatory litigation directed against litigations to protect workers' rights and the environment. the president has now issued two executives orders at eliminating regulations. the first requires two be identified for every new regulation and the second requires regulatory task forces in each agency to make recommendations on repealing and replacing -- >> bill: normally this is not a hearing that gets a lot of attention. ron rosenstein is in the seat and you'll get questions especially from democrats on allegations of russian interference in the election. michael flynn. >> shannon: conversations -- >> bill: leaving the nsa and the west wing and jeff sessions recusing himself from involvement in russian investigations and allegations regarding trump tower and surveillance by his predecessor president obama. that's why we're listening and we want to know how he's answering and we know democrats have come for a fight and we'll see how feisty things get. >> shannon: and the chair chuck grassley saying i love the double standard on the special prosecutor idea where was it of the scandals of the last few year and dianne feinstein saying it's time. >> bill: we hasn't been approved yet and we'll see how it go throughout the day. we have to run. bye-bye. >> jon: reaction is pouring and now for a republican plan to replace obamacare. it is getting panned from the left and the right. president trump has come out and support. good morning, welcome to "happening now" ." >> jenna: he calls for tax credit. democrats don't like this and republicans say it doesn't go far enough and breaking up obamacare. a pulse as americans are split down the middle. 50% opposing removing the individual mandate that all americans pay health