Care battle on capitol hill is now in high gear. Day 50 of the Trump Administration. Lets begin with joe johns live at the white house. Joe . Reporter good morning, chris. I think you can take whats going on on capitol hill as a sign that lawmakers have picked up the pace of their investigation into russias interference in the last election. The question is the extent to which the fbi director is willing to share all he knows with members of congress. Reporter fbi director james comey heading to thrill as tension builds between the Justice Department and lawmakers over President Trumps unsubstantiated wiretapping claims. The Justice Department under pressure to deny or provide evidence of the president s allegation. Comey meeting with the gang of eight, the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers clear to receive access to the nations most highly classified intelligence. As part of the gang of eight, we want to be informed on a periodic basis. Reporter this intelligence set to be extended to all members of the house intelligence committee. Prior to the meeting, taking issue with comey saying he hasnt been forthcoming with intelligence regarding russias interference in the election. Clearly we have some questions about whether or not last year we were read into everything we should have been read into. Theres no way we can discharge our responsibilities if the fbi isnt willing to cooperate with us and tell us about any counterintelligence investigation that is going on. Reporter congressman adam schiff accusing comey of stonewalling in a briefing last week. There were very large areas that were walled off. Those walls will have to come down if were going to do our job. Reporter the Justice Department continues to decline comment on whether President Trump is or is not the subject of an investigation, once again leaving his press Secretary Sean Spicer spin zblg the Justice Department is saying they never gave you the assurances that you gave us. Okay. The assurance i gave you, margaret is im not aware. That is 100 accurate. When you said no reason to believe, it was im not aware . Thats right. I dont know that theyre not interchangeable. Im not aware, i dont believe ill look up in a thesaurus to find other ways. I dont know that theres a distinction there. Reporter were expecting an opportunity to at least pose a question or two to the president of the United States himself today, likely to see him in a couple of photo ops. Hes also meeting with his Homeland Security secretary as well as the cia director. Alisyn . Joe, thank you for that. This morning cnn also learning new information concerning a possible link between computer servers belonging to a russian bank and the Trump Administration. Cnns pamela brown is live in washington with with the details. What did you learn . Reporter we learned the fbi probe remains open between as poable Computer Connection between the Trump Administration and alpha bank. This is the same server mentioned in a breitbart article that a white house official said sparked President Trumps series of tweets last saturday accusing investigators of tapping his phone. We are told that there was no fisa warrant on this particular server. Questions about the connection between the server and the russian bank were widely dismissed four months ago as an attempt by the bank to block spam. We learned the fbis counterintelligence team, the same one looking into russias suspected interference in the 2016 election is still looking into it. One official i spoke to said the server relationship seems odd. Investigators are not ignoring it, but the fbi still has a lot more work to do to determine what was behind the unusual activity and whether theres any significance to it. The fbi did decline to comment and the white house didnt respond to our request for comment. Alisyn . Pamela, when you say the relationship was odd, what was so peculiar about those communications . Reporter whats odd about the communication is this russian bank repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a particular computer server in the u. S. Used by the Trump Organization. In fact, last summer during the president ial campaign, the russian bank looked up the address to this trump corporate server some 2800 times. More lookups than from any other source. The only other entity looking it up was Spectrum Health let by dick devos, the husband of betsy devos who was later appointed by President Trump as u. S. Education secretary. Those two entities alone made up 99 of the lookups. Computer scientists we spokes to find that plain weird. All the corporations say they never communicated with the Trump Organization. They dont all agree. For example, the russian bank thinks it was receiving trump Hotel Email Marketing last summer but hasnt provided cnn with a single email to back that up. Meanwhile, the American Marketing Company that would have been sending those trump emails says it wasnt doing that at the time. Alpha bank stressed none of its top executives have any connection with President Trump or the Trump Organization saying neither the bank or its principals have or have had any contact with mr. Trump or his organizations. So this potential computer link remains a mystery, doesnt mean anything nefarious, no evidence of wrongdoing, just a lot of Unanswered Questions here. There sure are, pamela. Thanks for sharing your reporting with us. Well check back. You have the political questions and also a policy battle over repealing and replacing obamacare. It is intensifying as the bill inches closer to the house floor. Youre going to see a showdown in the senate for sure. Many republicans saying this bill would be dead on arrival. The white house is trying to figure out what to do to get this Party Together to take on the democrats. Lets bring in cnns Suzanne Malveaux live from capitol hill. This was at least an intensity that couldnt have been expected within the ranks of the gop. Reporter thats right. It looks like they very much are split here. You have the Health Care Bill at least going through two hurdles now, the two house committees sending it one step closer to the full house floor, but it has a long way to go, chris. At issue here were talking about how many federal dollars go to the states for medicaid. That is theish yoo u that threatens to pull apart the moderate as well as the conservative republicans. The white house undermining Republican Leaders with mixed messages on their partys plan to repeal and replace obamacare. The president publicly giving solid support to the American Health care act. We have a plan that is going to be i think fantastic. Reporter privately telling hard line conservatives hes open to negotiations centered on obamacares Medicaid Expansion, potentially changing the bill to phase out the Medicaid Expansion years sooner than currently called for. A speedy rollback would win over some conservative critics. It says were going to repeal obamacare, but were going to keep Medicaid Expansion and extend it. Thats not what we told voters we would do. Reporter it could doom the bill in the senate. Several moderate republicans backing the current bill says that could change their vote. The expansion of medicaid is tremendously important to 184,000 west virginians. Rolling back the expansion would likely infuriate republican governors whose states get medicaid funding through the expansion. There are very conservative republicantion in the house who are going to say get rid of the whole thing. Thats not acceptable. Reporter cutting the expansion which covers 11 million americans could also anger voters after thencandidate trump made promises like this one during the 2015 president ial announcement. Save medicare, medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it. Reporter Republican HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan continues to roll up his sleeves to pitch to the gop that its now or never. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. The time is here. The time is now. Reporter speaker ryan is stressing the sense of urgency because he believes theres momentum. He says this is what republicans and the president ran on during the campaign, repealing and replacing obamacare. And at the same time Senior Administration officials are saying President Trump now has a renewed interest in selling this plan. He really sees it as a test of his negotiating skills, as his skills as a dealmaker. Later today were going to see the president meeting with key members of the house. Alisyn . Suzanne, thank you for all that. Joining Us Democratic congressman keith elson. Representative elson is also the deputy chair of the Democratic National committee and the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus. Good morning, congressman. Good morning. Good to see you. So much news to talk about this morning. Lets talk about something that i know you feel particularly strong about and we havent talked about it much this morning. That is the white houses revised travel ban. To remind people of what this new version looks like, let me pull up some of the tenets of it. It will exempt legal permanent residents, meaning green cardholders. Visa holders also exempt now. It will avoid any priority of religious minorities as had been in the first one. There will be a phasein period. So there wont be the confusion we had seen at airports. And that ban on Syrian Refugees that had been indefinite has now been reduced to 120 days. You still dont like it. Whats the problem . Well, it starts out with bad intentions. He campaigned on a muslim ban. He said that explicitly. One of his deputies, Rudy Giuliani came out and said, look, he wants to ban muslims but he wants to lawyer it up so it passes muster. We know the intent has not changed. I want to stop you for one second, congressman. Now in terms of the language and many terms of what it sets out to do, maybe originally that was the intention. Now it has gone through different iterations and there isnt anything about muslims in it. Its changed. It has changed, but its not changed to the point where its no longer intended to harm and block people based on their religion. Here is the thing. So whats the National Security justification for this thing . We know theres been no syrian refugee who has been associated with terrorism, who has committed acts of terrorism in the United States. We know there are countries if you look at the three countries where terrorists came from and committed acts of terrorism in the United States, saudi arabia, uae and egypt. Theyre not on the list. The list is actually irrational. The problem with trying to cleanse it from its original taint is that then you end up with just an irrational policy that doesnt have any real point other than to so thats what we have right now. Let me also make one more point, alisyn, that i think is key. Right now east africa is going through a major drought and famine. Refugees who live there who literally are dying, starving and dying of thirst, need to be able to get some relief. With this ban, those people would be barred. Let me tell you, days count when it comes to drought and famine. I have a lot of people from somalia in my district and they have loved ones in the middle of this drought. These people are going to be held up because of this irrational ban which started out as being a very negative thing. Well, well see what happens. Already hawaii has launched a lawsuit. We have many legal experts, including our own Jeffrey Toobin who believe it will pass legal muster. Just because its legal doesnt make it right. Fair enough. I want to ask you now about another thing brewing on capitol hill, and that is the repeal and replacement of obamacare. Whats the democrats plan . This is being fasttracked through the house. We heard dissension on both sides. What are the democrats doing . Were trying to, one, make sure the public understands how harmful and dangerous trumcare really is. Were trying to how it abandons the commitment to fill a doughnut hole, how it will restrict the expansion of medicaid and cut medicaid in some cases. Were talking about how it cuts planned parenthood completely and harms womens health. Were making it clear that perhaps as many as 10 Million People, maybe more, will be abandoned without health care when they had it before. On top of that, wealthier people who were being taxed to help support this program are going to get a tax bonus with this repeal and replace. Theyll get bumps in terms of hsas. Get bumps in terms of even Insurance Company executive salaries its helping the rich, hurting the poor and the middle class. Its a bad thing. Your plan is to talk about it as often as possible, raise awareness, and then i guess you expect town hall grassroots folks to confront them at town halls. The First Amendment is a very important piece of our american landscape. People have a right to express their outrage and their support, in thats the case, to their elected representatives. We encourage people to use their First Amendment rights, freedom of expression, freedom to get news from a free press. We support these things and believe that this is the right time to express yourself if you think health care should be something that everybody can get. Lets move on to the allegations of russia possibly meddling in the president ial election. Director comey of the fbi was summoned to capitol hill and met with the gang of eight, those lawmakers who have access to the most highly classified information. What do you want to hear from director comey . I want to hear director comey talk about exactly what this server connection might represent and what the facts indicate that it does represent. Why is there a computer server link between the Trump Organization and alfa bank, what was it doing . Did somebody try to shut it down when they got discovered . Why would they do that . Why flynn and now sessions have been found saying things denying they were in contact with Russian Diplomats when they were. I want to know why they were misrepresenting the truth. We know they were, but why were they. These are things i think the fbi could shed light on. I hope theyre in it for the long haul. I dont think the truth is going to be forthcoming. If it were, mr. Sessions would go back to the committee as senator franken has invited him to do and clarify exactly what he meant when he denied any contact with russia. Thats what im hoping we can get from comeys presence on this. Im glad were trying to get to the bottom of this. Look, this is stunning when you think about it. Far worse than watergate when you believe a hostile foreign power engaged in an attempt and with the collusion of the sitting administration hold on. You dont know that we dont know it. You said collusion. Theres no evidence theres collusion. Alisyn, if people in the Trump Administration are having meetings with russian officials and it is around election time and we know that theres been russia has wanted to turn this election to a certain direction, those meetings are important. Im not saying there was collusion. Im saying those meetings indicate that there could be, and i think that needs to be investigated. You see what im saying . Im not making an accusation. Im saying theres ample basis for an investigation. Thats what i think comey can clear up. Thank you for clarifying that, congressman keith ellison, nice to talk to you this morning. Thank you. We have heard from those against the house Health Care Bill, but what about what we expect to see that excites in this bill . Were going to speak with a florida congressman who voted to move the plan ahead next. At blue apron, were building a better food system. 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