Demanding they pass their bill to repeal and replace obamacare or risk what he calls an electoral blood bath in 2018. It comes as two house committees begin preparing the Health Care Overhaul for a full vote later this month. There could be winners and losers in this bill. Were going to show you both. But we still have nothing to show you on the other big story, President Trumps suggestion without proof that president Obama Wiretapped him. The House Intelligence Committee leaders say they will investigate this claim as they officially set a date to begin hearings on russias meddling in the president ial election. We are 48 days into the Trump Administration. We have every angle covered. Lets begin with Sunlen Serfaty live on capitol hill. Reporter today is such a critical day on capitol hill for the fate of this health care bill. Two house committees will start working on the markup of the bill. They are preparing to work potentially into the night trying to get to a final product that can potentially pass on the house floor, but this bill certainly still faces an avalanche of criticism coming from many republicans and even the power of the bully pulpit hasnt done enough to twist arms just yet. Were going to take action. Reporter President Trump convening with top House Republicans, warning them they could face a bloodbath in midterms if they dont repeal and replace obamacare. Theres going to be no waiting and no more excuses by anybody. Reporter divisions in the gop over their replacement bill could derail the proposal only one day after its release. This is not the repeal bill weve been waiting for. This is a huge opportunity thats been missed. Reporter conservative lawmakers dubbing the American Health care act. The first thing republicans are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that says we repeal it but keeps Medicaid Expansion and actually expands it. That keeps some of the tax increases. That is 234not what we promised reporter Senate Republicans finding fault elsewhere. Four gop senators will reject any bill that doesnt protect medicaid. The president promising to put his weight behind the replacement, surprising since he campaigned on a full repeal the president tweeting that one of the bills most vocal conservative opponents, senator rand paul. Saying i feel sure rand paul will come along with the new and Great Health Care program. Republican leadership is rallying around the bill. House Speaker Paul Ryan confident theyll get the votes. Weve got a few weeks well have 218 when this comes to the floor, i guarantee that. Reporter the actual number needed is 216 because of a few vacancies. While speaker ryan sounds confident there, many others do not agree. This bill faces a very steep climb in the house and even a steeper one in the senate. Got people coming at it two ways, sunlen. Some say it goes too far, some say it doesnt go far enough. The other big story this morning, the continuing fallout from President Trumps accusation that president obama had trump tower headquarters wiretapped during the campaign. Remember, President Trump could get the answer to this accusation himself easily, yet he wants an investigation. Republican lawmakers say they will oblige. Cnns joe johns live at the white house with more. The big question, joe, is this a distraction play by the president in light of the fact he could answer it himself . Certainly a big question there, chris. The preliminaries on capitol hill are just about over now. Its pretty clear that members of congress are about to get down to the evidence and the testimony in their big russia investigation, and as part of that, extremely likely members of congress will also be spending at least some of their time and attention on the president s unsubstantiated wiretapping claim. White House Press Secretary sean spicer making clear the president doesnt plan on back heading his unsubstance eighted plan that former president Obama Wiretapped his phones during the election. Will the president withdraw the accusation . Why would he withdraw it until its adjudicated . Thats what were asking. Reporter still offering no evidence. Its not a question of new proof or less proof. The answer is the same. Reporter despite denials of wiretapping from former top intelligence officials. There was no such wiretap activity reporter spicer continuing to insist on an investigation. There is a concern about what happened in the 2016 leaks. The house and Senate Intelligence committees have the staff and the capabilities and the processes in place to look at this in a way thats objective. Thats where it should be done. Reporter now the House Intelligence Committee moving forward with public hearings on russias interference in last years election. I want to conduct as many of these hearings in open, in the public. As you know thats rare for the intelligence committees to do. Reporter the committees chair, representative devon nunez inviting officials to testify beginning march 20th. The top democrat on the committee, representative adam schiff confirming the alleged wire tapping will be part of the investigation. Mr. President , we accept. We accept. We will investigate this. Reporter despite three Top Republicans saying they havent seen any evidence of it. As you know, i think a lot of that was maybe a little bit the multiple tweets were perhaps a little strung together. Reporter nunez even implying that the president s tweets were maybe questions instead of outright declarations. The president is a neophyte to politics, hes been doing this for a little over a year. A lot of things he says you guys sometimes take literally. Reporter meanwhile President Trumps pick for Deputy Attorney general refusing to say whether a special prosecutor should investigate russias election meddling. Im simply not in a position to answer the question because i dont know the information that they know, the folks in the position to make that decision. Reporter if confirmed, Rod Rosenstein would head any probe after Jeff Sessions recused himself for failing to disclose two meetings he had with the Russian Ambassador during his confirmation hearing. Something senator al franken took issue with. Its hard to come to any other conclusion that he just perjured himself. I think he should come before the committee and explain this. Reporter and on another controversial topic, the state of hawaii has now filed suit against the administrations newly revised travel ban. The attorney general there says it was filed with discriminatory intent. Yis and alisyn. For all that we want to bring in chairman of the House Freedom caucus leading the charge against the American Health care act, as its called. North Carolina Republican representative mark meadows. Good morning, congressman. Good morning, alisyn. Great to be with you and chris. Great to have you. Why dont you like the bill as is . Really, it keeps much of what people have complained when the president campaigned across america about repeal and replacement. The American People heard two things. Those that heard the repeal is we would get rid of all the entitlements, get rid of the laws, the mandates, the taxes that go along with it. And then the ones who heard the replacement side of it, alisyn, really were looking at, well, i want to make sure if i have a preexisting condition, that thats covered. I dont get kicked off my insurance plan. The president and we agree with him on both of those points that we have to deliver. This bill just doesnt do it. Its just one program that is going to replace a failed program that has a greater potential for failure. Specifically, what do you think is making it have failure . It does keep those things you just talked about, the entitlements that people like, that voters say they rollie appreciate, the preexisting conditions, keeping your kids on the plan until theyre 26. What specifically dont you like . Alisyn, ill give you some specifics. One is that it creates a new entitlement, perhaps the first major entitlement, the largest under a republican president if trz sign donald trump signed this in. Well different scores, cbo scores, joint tax scores. The only score that really matters is will it bring down Health Insurance premiums. This bill doesnt do it. It doesnt really create competition. It allows the government to come in and prop up the Insurance Companies and it wont drive down costs. Thats what we have to do. Thats my major objection. If it lowers costs and provides those essential services and a safety net for those who need it, im all on board. I can tell usec tear price yesterday and the Vice President agreed we need to go ahead and make some modifications to this bill. We put together a Committee Last night at the House Freedom caucus late in the night to actually work on constructive changes. So hopefully well see very good amendments, not only in the committees but offered by rank and file members very soon. Are you trying to repeal it wholesale first . Yesterday we introduced a clean repeal bill. That was one thing that all of us voted on, in the house and senate. We sent it to obamas desk. At the same time we agree we have to have a replacement plan voted on in the same time frame, whether its the same day or the same week, have real replacement and make sure that we get that done, hopefully getting some democrats to come along and help us there. What about coverage, congressman . One of the criticisms of the current bill is possibly 10 Million People could lose coverage under what the gop presented this week. What about with your plan . Will many people lose their coverage . With the plan that the Freedom Caucus has supported, dr. Rand pauls. When we look at it, we believe it will actually insure more people. Theres two fundamental questions, alisyn. In North Carolina and in almost every single state people are losing their coverage. Were down to one. Larry provider. Theyre having to make a choice between their mortgage and their insurance payment, and thats not sustainable. We have to make sure we do that. Any plan that were going to support must look at making sure that those who are in harms way have a protection. Were committed to do that. Speaking of choices. Yesterday we had congressman Jason Chaffetz on our program, and he said, yes, some low income people will have to make some choices about health care. Listen to this. Were getting rid of the individual mandate. Were getting rid of those things that people said that they dont want. You know what . Americans have choices, and theyve got to make a choice. Maybe rather than getting that new iphone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds, maybe they should invest it in their own health care. They have to make those decisions themselves. What do you think congressman . Will people have choose between things like their cell phone and their health care . Theyre already making choices for those kind of things. I talked to a number of people having to make choices between do they put food on the table or pay for their health care. Weve got to drive the cost of health care down. I think any gop plan that gets 218 votes will not make them force them to make those kind of choices. It will provide a safety net. I know the president wants to do that. Were all in to help him to make sure we get more people covered at less cost. So thats a choice that i dont want any american to make, certainly dont want my family to make. As we look at that Health Care Coverage and certainly health care in general, is something we need to make sure everybody has access to. Everybody has access to, but you cant guarantee everybody would have coverage . Weve got 318 Million People. The goal is to ensure or allow access to all. Theres a federal law right now, if you show up at a hospital, you get coverage, alisyn. Its a false narrative to suggest that we have people who cant go in and get coverage. Its a federal law. So what were talking about is really making that health care affordable. Im committed to do that. House Speaker Paul Ryan was quite bullish yesterday. He said, oh, this will get 218 votes. Are you as confident . I think his quote was when its brought to the floor it will get 218 votes. Theres not 218 votes today. We laddhad a meeting last night. I can tell you i dont know theres 218 votes of consensus around any bill today. But certainly when anything is brought to the floor, hell do his whip count and make sure he has 218. Today is not that day. President trump used colorful language. He said it would be a bloodbath in 2018 if this repeal and replace does not happen. Well, i think hes right it will be a bloodbath if we do not repeal it. I heard from people all across the country. My phone has lit up with Text Messages and emails and phone calls saying i cant believe this is the best we can do. There will be a blood bath if we do not repeal it. That was the promise we made. He said repeal and replace. Youre focused on repeal. There has to be replacement, yes . I want to be clear alisyn, from day one we have been very clear on repeal and replacement. But looking at them in two separate vehicles. We agree you have to have a replacement plan. I signed on to a replacement plan last year. As we look at that, its critically important we have a replacement plan. Were going to do that, yet the tactic and strategy, theres not 218 votes for the bill that was rolled out yesterday without major modifications. But were hearing from the administration that this is a work in progress. Ready and willing to amend and make it better for the American People and were a willing participant in that and looking forward to getting to a yes. Congressman mark meadows, thank you for coming on with your perspective. Thank you. What about the democrats, what are they going to do with there new Health Care Plan . Democratic congressman Linda Sanchez joins us to give us her take next. Of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. Its a great bill. I really believe were going to have tremendous support. Hasnt happened yet. Theres certainly some challenges to this early phase coming from republicans. They have problems in the house. Who knows what happens in the senate . It is a starting point to change the current the Affordable Health care act. Lets get the view of the democrats. We have democratic congresswoman Linda Sanchez, a member of the house ways and means committee. When you look at the plan, i see what youre complaining about in terms of overall coverage, thats being ducked by the right so far. One thing, a lot of people cant get coverage now with the aca, and with their current plan, young people, middle income people, about 40,000, 50,000, theyre going to do better potentially under this new plan. What do you say to those pluses . For younger people or middle income people, once you get sick, your outofpocket costs are going to be much higher than they are now. Those are things like the cow pays that you pay to visit your doctor. Pretty much what you see with this plan is, less people will be covered, at least 10 Million People less, possibly more. Youre going to say a bigger hit for seniors. Thats why aarp has come out against the bill. Youre going to see uncompensated care rise again at alarming rates. Thats why the American Hospital association is opposed to this bill. There are just so many nasty little provisions embedded in the bill that are going to make people pay more, and its going to give them much less. So overall, its a prescription for disaster for working families, for working families that are struggling, for seniors, for women. There are no guarantees against gender discrimination. So its really not a viable replacement plan. I say lets go back to aca and pick some of the provisions that are problematic instead of scrapping the whole thing and replacing it with a far inferior plan. One political question, right now the word is unanimously that you guys arent working with republicans on this, no matter which faction i talk to. When i ask if theyre getting any buyin from you guy, they say no, the democrats have been told not to work with us at this point. Is that a realistic solution . You dont have the numbers, the aca does have its problems. Shouldnt you be working to fix some of these things rather than stay back and criticizing . Its funny they say were not working with them. Weve never been allowed to be in any of the discussions. We werent allowed to see the bill until yesterday when they presented it publicly. Nobody has ever asked the democrats, anybody in the Democratic Party to sit down and work on this bill. So its kind of a false claim that we dont want to work with them. Weve never been allowed, weve never had a seat at the table. They control everything and they act as if were immaterial to proceeding with this. We have amendments. 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