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Important putin has become in global diplomacy. matthew, thank you. reporting live from moscow. we re waiting for today s white house press briefing to begin. take a look at live pictures coming in from the white house briefing room. we re expecting sean spicer to take questions on the fate of the repeal and replace obamacare legislation. the president s phone conversation with vladimir putin. that s ongoing as we speak. and the north korean nuclear threat. we ll go there live as soon as that white house briefing begins. in the meantime let s go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, the president spoke last hour during an awards ceremony for the u.s. air force academy football team and as he was talking about victories he mentioned the budget deal. that s right. he is framing the spending bill that is expected to get through congress and get signed to fun the government through the rest of the fiscal year. they are portraying this as a ....
Cooling body, but i don t think obama really thought of it as the cooling body in terms of his legislation. we ll see what this means for this white house. see what it means for legislation. for legislation you need 60 i think at some point you need a little more, 67, and some of those rules have been changed. this is what happens. it s an institution that i think is meant to change. and we ll see. maybe they ll change it back at some point. like it or not it is changing. almost lost in this fight over the rules is the fact that a 49-year-old man neil gorsuch by the end of this week is likely to be on the supreme court. he s a judge on the tenth circuit court of appeals. harvard law degree. very much a student of scalia. used him as a mentor. it a a conservative for a conservative, but a young conservative who let s be honest, most democrats came out of the hearing and say he s more conservative than me but he s a ....
Actually introduced a bill and tried to have a vote on it like in 48 hours after introducing a new amendment. if you listen to the speaker this morning, he brought a vote to the floor. then he had to beg the president let me pull the vote. the president wanted him to have the vote. he had a list of the republicans to vote against it. they had a big plan 13 days ago. listen to the speaker this morning say no, no, no, we re fine. we have to work with the united states senate. the senate moves a little more slowly on any given weekday or month or year than the house does. so we have plenty of cushion built into our plans and we are well within that spectrum of timeline that we envisioned on dealing with the obamacare legislation. they re not even there s people within the white house and people close to the president who are losing patience with paul ryan. right now his job security is that there s no clear replacement. i don t know where the president stands on paul ryan, but i ....
Nufing the neil gorsuch nomination along. back to the house side. hard to believe, but it was just 13 days ago speaker paul ryan was forced to pull his obamacare repeal and replace plan from the house floor because there weren t enough votes to pass it. a new idea for a high risk insurance pool is part of this progress. i actually think that divide is narrowing quite quickly. what this idea represents is a goal that everyone from the freedom caucus to every other group that s represented here is seeking. how do we lower premiums? how do we lower premiums and continue the protection with people with pre-existing conditions? this idea does that. mark me down as skeptical. phil mattingly joins us on why they may take this to a committee vote even though they don t have a plan to pass the ....
It s not time to go into the bunkers. i think it could be difficult for the president s agenda going forward because as we learned from the health care bill, you may need some democratic help and you may have a better friend in chuck schumer, when i think the president missed an opportunity to form an alliance there than you do with some members on the far right. it s going to make it difficult for some pieces of legislation. earlier in the administration, 77 days in, we ve had a fight about obamacare. now a fight about the supreme court that has everybody off in their corners. sometimes even if you agree on something, once you re in your corner, it s hard to get back to the middle and make that deal. that s where america is. everyone is in their corners. it s a very partisan time. get affirmations from their view from different media sources and facebook friends. this is a reflection of where we are. it s almost i think the senate has been leaning in this direction for many, man ....