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I want to bring in now new york times columnist nicholas kristof. burning the mid night oil. you heard the conversation with the congresswoman. theyre trying to salvage the bill here. the president wants a vote tomorrow and let the chips fall where they may. how are you calling it? you think this is going to pass the house? >> well, look, i mean i think journalists should be kind of chasing given our performance last year in making predictions. so, you know, id be kind of wary of betting on my p...

Wary betting on my predictions. on one level quinnipiac poll said gop plan only had 17% support. hard to see that parlayed into victory in the house. on the other hand trump shown more resilience than we had expected and his bluff may indeed work. if you really push me, id say its uphill struggle. but i dont have a lot of confidence in my own predictions don. >> some folks are saying -- say this for my panel, i have some inside information what is happening in the white house. save it for the pa...

Read a letter from the president and secretary price of health and human services, making commitments of how they could lower premiums in the future, telling them theres no plan b on health care, the vote was coming tomorrow and the president was demanding and requesting their support. >> now, robert, thats a controversial strategy. usually as you know, you dont put anything out, you dont expose a piece of legislation until youre pretty sure of the nose count and i dont know anyone tonight who i...

>> all eyes on the u.s. capitol there. heres a live shot where in a few hours the house will vote on the gop health care bill, or not. president trump issuing an ultimatum to house republicans vote today or keep obamacare. so theres a lot at stake. with our great panel. and let me start with you. and deal making so how is it go. >> well were already seeing it going and he is calling their bluff. he is walking away from the table and seeing what republicans do. one of the interesting thing is

Ryan. they are the people who want -- from the beginning, wanted speaker ryan to succeed. they have been manufacture interests or more focussed on governoring from the swing district perspective because they are the ones who stand to potential potentially lose their seat to the democrats. so you have two very i did vernt sides here of the republican caucus conference, and two very different negotiates strategies, and its still not clear that this bill has a clear path to 216 votes. one question ...

The defensive capability. if you look at not so much the missile itself, but the system that goes with it, it gives us a much more comprehensive picture of whats going on in not only north korea but parts of china as well and the chinese dont want that in their back yard. they prefer it when its much further away. yes, the defensive, but it does represent a margin of some of their unique capabilities. >> dow think theres any way tillerson can sell the idea to china? >> you know, i think this is ...

Say no. wiretapping was a euphemism for all kinds of surveillance. it wasnt specific to president obama. you know, again, all of the tweets, very specifically said president obama. it is an instance where it all goes back to where our colleague said of seriously versus literally. it is hard to pin trump down on what he meant because he has shown a propensity to interpret that. >> he is either charging the former president of the united states with breaking the law or he is acknowledging that the...

Conventional bomb? do you know what youre doing and have a way to articulate the security equities of the country in a fair, consistent and honest way. and lindsey graham is going out and holding this president to account in a pretty impressive way. >> almost calling, some have described, calling his bluff a little bit. put your cards on the table. >> if there are wiretaps, if president obama broke the law, as john mccain also said and wiretapped the u.s. citizen and went out, we want to know th...

From fbi director comey if theres an investigation into donald trumps campaign, and was his campaign surveilled during the election. so far those answers are seemingly pretty hard to find. eli, is the fbi director now starting to feel some pressure to come out and say one way or the other whether or not there is an active criminal investigation? >> well, the pressure is mounting on director comey. and i think we have to step back from this and recognize that something donald trump tweeted about ...

Basement, at a furnace, shoveling document the, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. it was going so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went outside and faced the mob. by himself. there are armed guards inside, he told them. they will shoot you. and hes able to bluff his way out and tell the crowd, dont try it here. youre going to get hurt. >> putins threat worke...