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In the meeting today, the director of the congressional budget office and some of his deputies were in them meeting. republicans have a lot of questions about the score. inevitably, they will tweak it in the next few weeks, and probably get an new score. remember, they continue to work the rest. i was told when they came out of that meeting, that some republicans did not like what they were hearing from the congressional budget office. and again, that is where you have republican senators try to...

Senators cruz, paul, capito and johnson, and mike pence is doing his part hosting a group of gop senators for dinner this evening to discuss their concerns about the bill. now, among those invited, senators mike lee, james langeford, tom cotton, and ben sass. joining us once again is jordan fabian. he is a white house correspondent for "the hill" in d.c. lets talk more about this a little bit, if you can, jordan. safe to say that the approach that they are taking is more hands-off than the house...

Organization has painted a picture of the president completely obsessed with the russia investigation. do you have any evidence that hes involved in any way thats helpful or constructive in rounding up votes for the senate health care plan? >> well, when it came to what happened in the house, there was arm twisting, phone calls, you kno know, pleading members to come on board and they struck the deals and brought everybody together in the house. i think something similar will happen in the senat...

News, and miles standish, white house correspondent for the hill. president trump has been working the phones to drum up support for this. has he made any inroads? >> as far as we have with senators coming out and saying theyve changed their mind, no. if you look at what happened with the house bill, the president worked the phones, you know, really tried to lay the pressure on, tried the carrot, tried the stick approach, tried the begging and pleading approach. it really was only when the membe...

Fake news or whatever, russia is a threat. the white house is countering. elizabeth: we look forward to seeing progress on your bill. leland: senate leadership once a vote on their health care bill next week but first, mitch mcconnell, enough republicans on board, five gop senators say they cant support it. they can only afford to lose two gop senators, garrett tenney following the debate here. there are a lot of phone calls and arm-twisting and golf games this weekend. >> good weather for golf ...

>> jon: on fox news alerts, we are getting worried that kentucky republican senator rand paul says he is in opposition to the revised health care just released. he says three other republican senators are about to announce their opposition as well. they need 50 republicans and at this point with 52 in the senate, they only have 48. they are going to have to do something to get rand paul and the so far identified three others on board or at least half of those four. if this thing is to pass the u...

Is doing, then you will get reelected. in the meantime though your point is correct in that washington moves at a very differenpace than a disrupter ad businessman like donald trump who is very used to making decisions in the business world, taking account many i inputs and ideas and weighing the consequences in the actions and executing on them. when he says drain the swamp, its not just get rid of all the crocodiles in the water that we dont need there, its also moving at a different pace. so ...

Make of that in. >> it took some arm twisting to get them to believe that. its a fascinating but inevitable perspective given what we saw with the trump campaign. america first does have many connotations, a lot of the domestic stuff with respect to infrastructure spending and focusing on american jobs and how do we in some respects maintain and then forge ahead into the new future. with what weve heard the president talk about with nato, the favorable tone of which hes spoken of brexit, this is...

Cant expect any help, any arm twisting, any real influence from president trump while hes embroiled in that stuff. so its a kind of do it alone situation for congressional republicans. >> all right. and, ken vogel, the other piece of this, the news here, potentially at least a white house shake-up. these things have been rumored it seems since january 20th. now we hear about this idea maybe of a war room being created, of steve bannon -- bannon a couple weeks ago looked like he was on the outs. ...

Government intervention squelchs competition but when competition thrives two things happen, prices go down and quality goes up. thats what the american people expect and reserve and what we want to deliver. >> shannon: mitch mcconnell said he could do with less drama from the white house. how much is the constant drip, talk about comey, russia, releasing information to the russians, how much does that impact your ability to focus people and get things done there on the hill, or does it? >> i do...