Absolutely, you go ahead. Whenever you are ready. Thank you to cnn viewers around the world. Its good to see you guys. Thank you and good morning everyone. Appreciate, john roberts factchecking from the sea. Good morning, good afternoon. [laughter] its not my fault, its on the paper. After receiving his daily intelligence briefing this morning the president led a National Economic Council Listening session with ceos of small and Community Banks. Since 2008 the number of small banks has declined 30 . The dramatic increase in regulation following the financial crisis has been a Major Driving force in the decline of these banks. Doddfrank alone has resulted in 22,000 pages of new regulations. While large banks can hire armies of complaints officers whose sole purpose is to ensure they meet the evergrowing number of regulations it increases the cost of doing business for Community Banks leaving some not to engage in some forms of lending were simply due to the time and costs involved. Our
Washington examiner, as well. Everybody looking to the white house for leadership on health care. Whats the game plan . Keep up the hard sell, craig, the president has been talking about this, trying to convince skeptical republicans to get onboard, doing outreach to conservative groups, you saw paul ryans ted talk on msnbc, but the president , too, trying to get out there and make sure people get onboard with this. The question is, what happens if they do not. Youve seen them get online, on twitter, as well, in the last hour talking about how ultimately this will be a beautiful picture, although its not clear what exactly he means by that. I expect the press secretary will get some questions on that any second when he comes out of the door behind me. Kasie, lets talk about that presentation if we can for just a moment here, we saw paul ryan a short time ago giving this sleeves rolled up Powerpoint Presentation. It seemed as if he wasnt just trying to sell the American People on this p
All this as President Trump is courting lawmakers and republican conservative groups opposing the bill. According to those at a meeting yesterday, the president revealed his plan if if the republican effort is not successful. Let obamacare fail, he says, and then blame democrats. The white house will likely be pressed on this strategy during todays briefing. Thats coming up momentarily. Also expected to come up, the president s still unproven allegation of wiretapping by his predecessor. And the wikileaks document dump detailing the cias alleged surveillance techniques. Our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta is in the White House Briefing room getting ready for the briefing. Our National Politics reporter m. G. Lee is up on capitol hill. Jim, opposition to the Republican Health care bill seems to be growing from key Industry Groups and plenty of conservatives out there. Does the white house believe it can sway that opposition . They are confident that they can win this argumen
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