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Board with this short-term cr, the continuing resolution to keep the government funded for another week. so, complicates things up here. we will certainly hear more from this from speaker ryan, who will hold his press conference in just a few minutes. >> complicated. its that kind of status for capitol hill right now. good to see you, sunlen. thank you so much. joining me now, republican congressman leonard lance, moderate member of the tuesday group, at the center of the contract negotiations. ...

>> bill: tonight, what is the status of the susan rice investigation. you may or member last week, headlines are made by the former national security advisor to president obama when it was discovered that she was involved in nsa wiretap surveillance. apparently, ms. rice looked at some of the dispatches and allegedly unmasked some of the americans involved which is not usually done. fox news correspondent adam housley and melia zimmerman and investigative reporter have been working the story. th...

They did it the wrong way the first time around. they put pressure the freedom caucus. thats not how you win votes and you put pressure on the democrats and i hope the second time around thats the strategy they employ. >> baccari, are you at all nervous that this is going to happen? that republicans are going to get their act together and get this done right over the easter break and the president isnt going to work with democrats like he was saying after the first failure and the first time aro...

Saying the president was playing golf and not told us who he was playing with. so the fact they gave us those pieces of information suggest they want to talk about health care. also of course, we heard from sarah sanders and she talked about the presidents criticism of the freedom caucus on twitter. heres her response. >> this president made bold and big xhimts during the campaign and intended on keeping them and he wants the members of his party to get on board with that. these are the same guy...

Land. that was definitely sand in the gears for conservatives. so theres been messaging from the house republican saying, oh, yeah, were going to take another look at this. but what were hearing, katy, is that there needs to be a cooling-off period. you saw the president last night saying this will be an easy fix. he was joking, folks. i think katy said some of your competitors didnt get that he was kidding around about that. body tnks thats going to be easy, but there also is not going to be a ...

The presidents right, lets get it down, 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. i think its a yes. >> and you handily won reelection in your district but youve got people living in poverty in your district as well. the president is polling at 37% popularity. only thing worse right now is the popularity of this health care bill and that is the 17%. are you prepared during the easter break and several easter breaks to come to hear from your constituents, some of whom may be dropped from health care? >> wel...

The presidents right, lets get it down, 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. i think its a yes. >> and you handily won reelection in your district but youve got people living in poverty in your district as well. the president is polling at 37% popularity. only thing worse right now is the popularity of this health care bill and that is the 17%. are you prepared during the easter break and several easter breaks to come to hear from your constituents, some of whom may be dropped from health care? >> wel...

Article 15 next week and its a very, very busy time westminster particularly on a wednesday, thats when she does her weekly questions in parliament, so parliament is always very full. generally two weeks away from recess, when parliament breaks up so to speak for the easter vacation. theres a lot of activity going on to finish things off before the easter break, and a sense that the time of this does coincide with one of the busiest times here when parliament is most likely to be chock full. >> ...

Saying, we hear youre going to make changes to the bill, if you make changes i want a new score by the cbo before the house votes on the legislation. does that seem like something they can agree with? >> no. theyre doing anything to delay knowing were up against a hard date because of the easter break and also the need to hold hearings on justice gorsuch in the senate. >> right. >> so, this is nothing more than another delay tactic, much like our 27-hour energy and commerce hearing was last week...

Grassley this weekend, it could be looking at a nomination process, a final hearing for judge gorsuch within the next six weeks. he mentioned the easter break. it might not take months and might get there. were talking a lot of mights. we havent gotten past the 6:00 p.m. deadline with the white house getting back and the administration getting back with their paperwork. >> yeah, the supreme court would have to feel theres a compelling reason and the compelling reason here i guess would be the st...