house correspondent jim accosta. jim, the president certainly has his hands full right now. >> reporter: that's right, would have. the white house is shying away from providing answers on two burning issues for this administration. health care and the president's unfounded claim that he was wiretapped by former president obama. but calls are mounting from both parties to the president to start addressing these questions. >> cbo score, mr. president, reaction? >> reporter: it is a rare moment when president trump passes up on a chance to speak his mind. but that's what he did when asked about the nonpartisan congressional budget office analysis of the republican proposal replace obamacare. >> this is the health care act. the president is proud of it. >> reporter: the white house is pushing back on the cbo score of the gop health care plan that found 14 million more americans would be uninsured by next year, 24 million by the year 2026. as one top gop source put it, the headlines are terrible. >> cbo coverage estimates are consistently wrong. >> reporter: but the white house did concede scores of americans, perhaps millions, will be