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Gather evidence on the claim that president trump was wiretapped by president obama. what is the reaction from the white house? >> reporter: john, the white house continues to attack the credibility of the congressional budget office and the accuracy of the estimate, especially that seemingly devastating top line number suggesting that next year 14 million people would lose coverage over the course of ten years, something like 24 million people losing coverage, and the white house continuing to ...

The white house came out for the reaction. they said these number are absurd, that if youre looking to the c.b.o. for accuracy, youre looking in the wrong place, that they disagree strenuously with the findings. what are those findings and why are they so bad for the white house and republicans? obviously the headline number, the first one is the number of people who would lose their health care. 14 million more people next year and in ten years, 24 million more, a far cry from what the presiden...

The moments after the president tweeted this explosive claim? >> well, i think it was probably an inelegant word wiretap. but weve heard time and time again that some of the communications errors are unforced errors. this is another example of it. if he had just been more clear from the very start we would have avoided this entirely. >> would we have avoided this entirely, tim? >> i dont think this is an unforced error. this is the strategic value of trump. and if you are a trump supporter like ...

>> lets go back. there are two things that are important about what he said. i think recognizing that -- he doesnt really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally. >> reporter: what does he think. >> theres no question that the obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. >> on the same topic, on the c.b.o. report, did the president think it was real then and phony now? >> which c.b.o. report? ...

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Budget office, thats a nonpartisan ags thats going to come up with a bunch of important estimates on the impact, the financial impact, the impact on coverage of that republican health care plan. the trump administration already preempively suggesting there may be problems. there may be issues with the cbo estimate. they may be anticipating a negative report here. take a listen. some of the prebut thele weve been hearing from the administration. >> if youre looking to the cbo for accuracy, youre ...

Covered by it? the white house and other republicans in congress perhaps anticipating the numbers are not going to be good after the last week, so they have been playing down the accuracy of the cbo and scoring big bills like this. they sit look at what happened to obamacare, they were off by millions of people being covered not by billions of dollars in terms of the cost. mick mulvaney, omb director going as far as to say yesterday may be the omb should do other things other than scoring bills ...

Is interesting how many news outlets reported that this activity was taking place during the 2016 election cycle and now are wondering where the proof is. its many of the same outlets in this room that talked about the activities going on back then. >> reporter: on the same topic, on the cbo report, did the president think it was real then and phoney now? >> what cbo report? >> reporter: on the expectation the cbo report is coming out about which you said f youre looking to the cbo for accuracy,...

Congratulations for remembering to set your clocks forward an hour. who knew that health care could be so complicated? house republicans reveal their replace version of repeal and replace of obamacare to decidedly mixed reviews. president trump offered qualified support allowing that changes could still be made to the bill, but the proposal got hit on all sides by freedom caucus republicans saying the bill didnt go far enough to moderate republicans who say it goes too far and to democrats foldi...

Election, is a widely recorded activity that occurred back then peer the president used the word "wiretapping" to mean broadly as surveillance and other activities during that pair that is again something -- interesting how many news outlets reported that this activity was taking place during the 2016 election cycle and now are wondering where the proof is. it is many of the same outlets in this room that talked about the activities that were going on back then. >> reporter: on the same topic, t...