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Respond to matt. >> i think, a, any good reporter is reporting the facts. and i also think any good reporter or good news organization, when they do get it wrong, issues a correction. if they dont do that, there is absolute room for criticism, and that would be well founded. but the news organizations largely represented here in the white house press corps do just that. if they get something wrong, they correct it. when they dont, then ill be the first to agree with the president or anyone else ...

Bipartisan way forward on health care in front of all the american people. >> reporter: asked about that, the president did not knock down the idea. >> i need to find out if hes serious. he hasnt been serious. >> reporter: the president will try to rally his supporters at a private fundraiser at the trump hotel in washington to say that, yes, he is running in 2020. even if the white house didnt want to comment on the optics of the event. the white house did try to have it both ways today on its ...

The american people, abandon tax cuts, highly unpopular with the republican people, we democrats are happy to meet with them in the white house to talk about how to improve health care for the american people. >> reporter: the wheeling and dealing continues tonight for senate republicans behind closed doors, even though they know they wont get a vote this week. there is still some faint hope that the broad outlines of a plan can be agreed upon before they leave for the july 4th recess on friday....

Trump international hotel on pennsylvania avenue for, what, a campaign fundraiser for his own reelection, is that right? >> reporter: thats right. and theyre saying this is in part that they want to make sure theres no challengers going after the president in 2020, which is amazing theyre thinking about this five or six months into office. but wolf, one thing we should point out earlier today, the white house was insisting that the fundraiser would be off camera, not open to reporters at all, an...

Separation between himself, the white house and his hotel, wolf. >> hes already thinking about the reelection three and a half years to go. thanks very much. were going to have a lot more on all of these stories. were also standing by to speak live with an influential member of the house intelligence committee. congressman jim heinz will be joining us right after this. hi, im joan lunden with a place for mom

He snapped at me during that news conference. it was may of last year. and, you know, i think that there are moments when this president is just really sensitive to criticism and he lashes out in this fashion. i think matt is right to some extent, but yes, the coverage can get a little too negative sometimes, and that happens during the obama administration. that happens during other administrations. coverage of the president is tough, but thats the territory were in right now. but i think to pa...

Leadership. >> reporter: thats a good way to put it, wolf. in many ways the senate leaders are back to square one as they look for a path to passage for some form of health care reform. for senate leadership, that means attempting to bring w wayward republicans back into the fold, but for senate republican moderates, it means opening the door to work with democrats. tonight mitch mcconnells message to senate republicans is clear. it is time to come together. >> this should not be accepting to an...

President about doubts about the presidents involvement in the health care bill. >> reporter: the president himself has been peddling fake news for some time now. hes one of the founding fathers of birtherism who indicated falsely that president obama wasnt born in the united states when he was born in hawaii. he alleged that millions of undocumented people were voting in the election and that drew the popular vote to hillary clinton. that was also fake news, wolf. he has, in the last six weeks,...

And the president, and wolf, we covered the white house together years ago, and this relationship with the press and president has been going on for years, and now it has come to this. its a very sad commentary, but we have to see how it continues to play out. >> jeff mason, youre the white house correspondent, youre also president of the white house correspondents association. i know youre trying to fix these problems, working with the white house press staff. how is that going? because it does...

Debate as he conceded today getting a bill out of the senate may be more difficult than he thought. the white house is not giving up on the effort, but once again, officials expressed that confidence off camera. after once promising americans more winning than they could stand, president trump appeared to be bracing for a potential defeat on health care. >> i think were going to get at least very close, and i think were going to get it over the line. >> reporter: one day after senate republicans...