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The house freedom caucus. mark meadows was seeing he was working through the white house on changes to potentially come up with something, but the situation is very fluid. a lot of fast moving parts. certainly a definite shift in tone coming from many up here on capitol hill. >> a lot to discuss. joining me is former new york city council speaker christine quinn and adviser for the trump campaign. you have this late word about more deal making? how confident it will get passed tomorrow. >> the r...

Trajectory for tonights vote that said there was a lot of arm twisting, texting and meeting all behind the scene and we have amazing reporting here at cnn as we peel back the layers of what is at task so i have all kind of amazing voices, mj, covering all the health care for us, so for people just coming in not paying close attention, where are we right now, meeting with whom, on the whip count? >> today was supposed to be the by that president trump closed the deal on the health care bill, he h...

Tomorrow. by all accounts gop leaders still dont have support within their own party to pass the bill despite 11th hour appeal by the president. were standing by for an urgent meeting by the republicans tonight as the negotiations and arm-twisting continues. also an apology by the house republican chairman to his committee amid claims in surveillance of the trump team. republican devin nunes is facing criticism for sharing the information with the white house before briefing the committee. wer...

>> thats the position of some of my conservative friends in the house including congressman meadows. there is arm twisting, deal making. im pretty confident this will either pass tomorrow or maybe an extra day, friday. but it will pass and the reason is theres no room for failure. the republicans have to get this done. you heard donald trump say that this was one of the central promises he made to voters. i think theres a pretty high likelihood by friday this will have passed the house but there...

So with so many members of the conservative house freedom caucus to the white house today. >> big vote tomorrow. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the president is telling skeptical members "ill have your back" if they sign on. >> obamacare is making their lives so much more difficult as we know. >> reporter: but that presidential arm twisting for some isnt enough. >> i dont think the votes are there today. >> reporter: after the white house meeting today, the chairman of the house freedom caucus is...

Exorbitant prices. >> theres a lot of arm twisting, we talk about the freedom caucus meeting. we expect to hear from house speaker paul ryan. thank you very much for the discussion. waiting for paul ryan, hes been talking to moderate republicans, hes been trying to whip these votes ahead of as theyre hoping this key vote tonight. does he have the votes to bring this home for republicans an americans? well take that live of course. and the top republican on the house intelligence committee apolog...

Can both of you talk me through -- we were talking before with all this behind the scenes arm twisting. how intense has this been for the white house and talking to these far right republicans and paul ryan talking to these moderates as recently as this afternoon? >> recently its accelerated because here is the reality. this is one of those situations where theres enough blame to go around for everybody. so for the conservatives the notion that they were going to take whats known as a clean repe...

>> leland: fox news alert as we await the white house daily briefing a little later today. were going to hear from house speaker paul ryan. he a lot of questions and lots of last-minute arm-twisting and dealmaking surrounding the fate of the gops health care overhaul bill. live pictures on capitol hill, do republicans have the votes they need to pass it in the house? speaker ryan wanted the vote today, though it still may not happen due to all of the uncertainty. we bring in now congressman greg...

Cnn political commentator. lonnie, first to you, how big of a blow is this for the administration and for paul ryan right now and does this just get punted down the road? what happens? >> well, i think brooke, at this point its maybe a little premature to say exactly what happens, one thing for sure is they didnt have the votes to get this finished so in a sense it is a problem for the president and for the speaker. this doesnt mean its all dead but does mean they need to focus the fundamental q...

Democrats took. there was a democrat in kentucky who is no longer there, he voted for a bill that never became law. it still cost him an election. i think it will work the same way against republicans on this bill, if they insist on bringing it to the floor tomorrow and if it fails or if they insist on getting it through the house and the senate, its still a vote, a bad vote, that republicans are on record for. >> instead of stay saying what are they offering, the arm twisting, fundamentally, th...