To delay the vote to work with some members whats that . Reporter did he ask speaker ryan to delay the vote . No. Steve . Reporter what Speaker Pelosi said rookie mistake to set a date for bill before this is consensus from the republican caucus. What is your response to that . I that. I appreciate that. I think we have a pretty strong record on the republican side of getting bills passed, getting things done and so, i, i know that they have a pretty strong record of passing things and telling people they can read the bill afterwards. Weve done this the right way. I think that we know that we have done it with the support that voters told members and the president they wanted. Jonathan. Reporter related if i might. Of course. Reporter former white house lawyers who served in the Prior Administration who say by tweeting from his official potus account this morning a video that was put on on official social Media Channels the president and white house have violated antilobbying law, using money appropriated by congress if is that a concern you guys appreciate, something you talked about here . The president , that is not applicable tthe president , no. So there is no, i believe youre referring to 18 u. S. Code 1913, if im correct. I think were pretty good. Jonathan. Reporter thanks, sean, the president wrote a book on art of the deal. He is considered ultimate closer on part of negotiations. If this deal falls through and not passed would he accept the blame for the failure, if not, who would . Lets get to the vote. Im not going to start. I think the president has done a phenomenal job. No question when you look at effort he put in, number of meetings he had, changes to the bill, no question how hard the president and his team Vice President worked to get this done. At the end of the day we cant force somebody to vote. As i mentioned to hallly and overly other folks i like the direction this thing is going. I continue to see support be with us. Were not seeing people fall off or people come on board, and that is great trajectory we have. So i like where were headed. Reporter clarification on previous answers and i think issue was not what the president done but what house staffers were doing with their official twitter accounts. It does not apply to the president. You want me it answer that one. Reporter sure. Read from ahs code 18. Antilobbying act limited lobbying activities tan under president , aides, within the executive office the president and cabinet members within their areas of responsiblity and officials appointed by the president responsibility. There is clearly carveout for that. Next . Reporter when youre talking about the byrd rule earlier yeah. Reporter can we read from your answer Vice President pence does not overrule the Senate Parliamentarian . There is no overrule. The Senate Parliamentarian. It is up to the presiding officer. I do, but i understand how the senate works and presiding officer determines, the Senate Parliamentarian asked for guidance. Reporter if the guide against from the Senate Parliamentarian that something would violate the byrd rule, would the Vice President im not answer hypotheticals what he may do on this bill or any other. Reporter finally, cnn reported yesterday that u. S. Officials believe that, are investigating that associates of President Trump communicated with suspected russian operatives according to releasing information damaging to Hillary Clintons campaignp can you respond to that or say definitely they did not . Look what cnn reported, anonymous u. S. Officials that information indicates association of the campaign and suspected operatives coordinated which they admit not conclusive anything bordering on collusion. The last line, fbi can not yet prove collusion took place. There is probably more evidence that cnn sco lewded with the Clinton Campaign to give her debate questions than the Trump Campaign gave any kind of collusion. When it comes down to that reporting still with a bunch of subject terms this person mayved have done that at the end of the story, if you wait to the very bottom, fbi can not yet prove collusion took place. I addressed this type of reporting in the past. This fits right in. John . Reporter without getting too deep into the weeds exactly what the strategy is in the senate to get this amended bill through the byrd path, is the president confident that developed in the senate will pass muster . Y. Reporter the president to us several weeks ago if the democrats would filibuster neal gorsuch he would encourage the senate to use the nuclear option. The senator schumer last hour came out with his position. After we get through tonight the president will have some kind of conversation with senator mcconnell and discuss senate strategy. Were not there yet. Reporter following up on jordans question and followup on halleys question she had four. Reporter how did chairman nunes end up at white house. He said he invited himself here. That is uncommon way to end up here. Can you take us through the ticktock what happened . No, i dont know how he got here. I assume in a car. I also dont track him. I dont keep his schedule either. Reporter do you know who he spoke with . No, i dont. He gave a press conference literally as were starting i will go down to the white house after we brief the press. First time the white house was made aware of surveillance he brought to the president yesterday . I believe he shared information he shared with the president was newport port follow up on health care is there any plan if the bill passes tonight . It is going to pass. So thats it. Caitlyn. Reporter now that you have been briefed, you just happened, can you say information nunes had is the same information that the president that he had would be revealed this week . Were not goingo tre is, my understanding because i was not briefed on the contents of that, was that he spoke generally what he had seen in these reports that he had been made privy to but that there was further details he wanted the president to know, what he had seen and it wasnt related to russia but, he he is continuing, as i all of his Public Comment he will continue to pursue this they offer further updates later but im not aware of the specific nature of it. Cecelia. Yeah . Reporter what will president s reaction be to the republicans voting against the Health Care Bill and are they being encouraged to vote their conscience . I think i addressed this before but the president made it very clear that republicans in particular made a commitment to constituents an American People if given the opportunity to have a republican president , republican senate, and Republican House that they would enact repeal and replace and put patientcentered health care. He believes as he mentioned when he met with the house conference as he mentioned with the members of the Freedom Caucus today, i think in several meets this is something youve talked about. You taken a bunch of free votes it didnt matter because you didnt have republican president. You got to vote for repeal and tell your constituents 50 times this is live ball now. And this is for real. Were going to do what we pledged to the American People and keep our word. He made it very clear that part of the reason that he got elected because he went out and made a series of bold pledges to the American People what he would do if he were president. He is acting on those. He is acting swiftly and boldly with respect to this if particular. He believes not just him, but members of the house and senate have an obligation to fulfill promise and pledge they made to the American People. Cecelia. Reporter regardless what happens tonight will we hear from the president. Will he make a statement . Depend on what time the vote is. I dont want to commit. Im sure in some way, shape or form he will have some kind of comment. Reporter similar to the question you were asked here, is the president no matter what happens prepared to take responsibility for the outcome of this bill . In what way . I mean reporter whether it succeeds or fails. His name is on it. A lot of people think so. In the sense that weve been very clear about this is priority of ours and we worked for them. But again i go back to the at the end of the day we cant make people vote. Weve done everything we can to listen to them, to incorporate their thoughts, to incorporate their ideas, to make the bill as best we can but its a balancing act, make no mistake about it. There is full spectrum of folks in the house have disparate desires but i think we can all commit that this is the one vehicle that is going to repeal something that almost every single republican im aware of has pledged to do if they were reelected or elected. I think there is a, a desire to, that will we understand that not every member is going to find this perfect . That happens when you need to get in this case 216 votes but it is the best bill that takes into consideration all of the concerns and all of the goals and all of the values. I understand in a lot of cases some of it isnt a question of the policy. Its a question of the timing and some of the things that people want that are happening in phase three and phrase one, but as we addressed, the birth rule, most people this arcane thing, probably even in the house, that dont have to deal with it in the senate, that deals with whether or not if there is a, if it is loaded up with things that are stricken, then it doesnt serve us any good. I think we have put together a very comprehensive approach to addressing how to actually repeal and how to actually replace. I think president walked through with the house Freedom Caucus today several of administrative acts that secretary price would be taking in accord dons with the authority that was granted to him by the obamacare legislation and by some of the actions that secretary sebelius took back in 2009. There is a lot of concern among members about some of sequencing on things. I think we have continued to not this isnt just about policy. Some is about sequence and timing. The president , the Vice President , the rest of the team have done a lot to reassure them on the sequencing and how the thing will act. So, that discussion, i think has continued to be very productive to as assure members how this thing is going to happen and take place. Ayman. Reporter thanks, sean. [inaudible]. Who were nos, stood up and said mr. President im with you, how many those were and what their names were . Not yet. Not, not trying to be cute about this. I think as we do the whip count, as you can imagine weve got to make sure we dont, this balancing act, you have to make sure people dont fall off the the end as you pick up with certain people. Were keeping that vote total rather tightight now, i feel very buoyed by the direction were headed in. Reporter sense what specific offer was made . There was report a final offer put on the table for those guys. What specific changes did the president offer them to not just changes as i mentioned to cecelia. Part is some of the administrative stuff. Make sure they have reassurances that certain things that, that secretary sebelius enacted when she enrolled the bill or excuse me, enacted the bill, that will be, be acted upon immediately and so there was an enumeration of some of those things and commitment on some of the other aspects of support that would be given for the phase three bills about buying across state lines, increasing hhs hsas. There was a lot of talk about that. That is where a lot of this comes down to right now especially among those members. They feel very good about the changes were made in the managers amendment. There was question about commitment and changes might take place in the senate. Can we count on this when this happens . So i just want to, you know, some of this is. Goyle. Reporter thank you very much, sean. Two questions please. Presenting against terrorism or against isis and state department of leadership of secretary of state tillerson there was a advisor to the president of afghanistan speaking at csis and day before yesterday at the atlantic council. He was addressing mr. Robani. Foreign minister of afghanistan. These two think tanks unless we control two countries who are financing and training, saudi arabia is financing or in the name of charities and pakistan is training. So what did president show the message to this group, at at same time there abdul sayeed, wanted by the u. S. , 10 million, there is a bounty on him and he is openly against india and u. S. And pakistan . Where do we go from here . Look, secretary tillerson is going through the meeting with 68 of those members committed to addressing syria and isis. I will not get ahead of internal discussions secretary tillerson is having related to the administrations review of syrias policy in particular but i would stay in touch with the state department. John . My second question please. Okay. Reporter within American Community going back 40 years, it was 1976 spiritual leader came all the way from india to new york city and wanted to have a parade, festival of inyaw in new york they didnt have any resources or. Mr. Trump at that time, came out and helped the group to go on this festival. But now, candidate trump went among the indianAmerican Community in new jersey, same group who had been at white house this weekend, peaceful prayer and vigil, theyre asking the president to come out or meet the indianAmerican Community against hate crime or somebody from the white house. I think we discussed the nature of hate crimes in the past and weve condemned the act that happened in kansas earlier this year. Obviously im sure that this is a very important issue for them. The president s rit now focused in particular getting obamacare repealed and replaced. The issue in london, there is a lot occupying his time. Im sure that we will continue to monitor that situation as well. March doctor mara. Maisch some day. Well see. Reporter told Tucker Carlson his people werent taken care of he wasnt going to. People who voted for him who relied on the provisions for opioid addiction, things included in the essential Health Benefits they go away. With respectfully i think that is a false choice. Again the problem with obamacare it took all of these benefits, mandated they had to be offered and what happened, it spiked insurance rates. It spiked deductibles and choices went away. The point isnt making the benefit go away or not. Why i think respectfully a false choice. Offering options to people. Literally like any other service or product that we have here in this country where you buy what you want. Sometimes at a lower price point because that is what you can afford. Sometimes you buy features on a product because you want those features. Sometimes you determine that people should have choice if the Health Care Market the same way they do in almost every other industry. That is the point. It is not about giving or taking. About the point theyre being mandated in a way. That is the point people should buy what they want and what is appropriate for themselves or their family. I mean reporter right now where do the essential Health Benefits stand . Part of this bill my understanding part of the house bill. Alexis. Reporter follow up on maras question, part of the inherent question a lot of people buy insurance not knowing what theyre going to need. If youre an older man youre generally ying you wont need maternity care. Reporter that is possible but here is the question mara was suggesting. You dont buy insurance because i need that backup coverage because i dont know that im going to get addicted to painkillers or opioid drugs. Does is the president envision that the insurance would be offered by Insurance Companies of their own volition . There is market for things. Like anything else i dont think you buy insurance for anything, guessing im assuming if my house burns down i will need to replace all these things. You buy insurance, that is the whole point of insurance. I think when people look at it theyre going to buy what they may not need but evaluate it. That is the same thing when you look at Retirement Plan or Car Insurance or anything else. Evaluate what your needs are. Then make the decision what is best for you and your family. Sara. Reporter sean dan can you President Trump did not collude with suspected russian operatives and coordinate on information hillary Clinton Campaign. Say the first part again . Reporter can you say unequivocally with all due, the way term associates is floating around i dont what that means. Employees of the campaign or transition or white house that is one thing. But the way this term Associates Gets thrown out, and again we talked with this yesterday, you pull out a gentleman who was employed by someone for five months and talk about a client that he had 10 years ago, no, i cant unequivocally say nobody ever in his pastho mayr may not have come in contact with them, who sat next to him in a plane, who grew up with them in grade school because that a lot of time associates. Gentleman Paul Manafort is referring to a campaign chairman. I get it. I understand who he is. Reporter [inaudible] im well aware of paul as i read it out yesterday. But the point im making use term associate and you use all of these subjective terms there is reason youre doing it which is because you dont have anything concrete. If you do, come back to me and does anyone in the white house, is anyone in the transition. But when you throw out a vague term like that, its a catchall. Can you be certain no one works for timelife turner done anything illegal . That is broadw