Temperatures optimistic about the outcome. Ultimately this bill does repeal and replace obamacare in the way we laid out over the years. And we have this opportunities. Well keep moving forward and get it done. Arthel not all republicans are feeling quite as confident as in scali correct, right . Reporter thats right. The members of the conservative house. Jim jordan is one of the Freedom Caucuss found members saying conservatives wants to see fundamental changes to healthcare, not small tweacts. He says if the Republican Leadership ignores those who have concerns about the bill, they will have a hard time getting enough votes for it to pass. It seems top me the b they choice is work with us or you dont end up getting the votes. Thats the real choice. Reporter other Freedom Caucus members argued, they should add more items to the bill that would help remove regulations on healthcare. He says he plans on bringing up those issues with the president when he visits for the pizza and bowling. Arthel how open is President Trump to these negotiations . The. Reporter hes open for ideas how to improve it. He met with a number of lawmakers to discuss those plans. And his National Economic adviser said this is by no means a done deal. I think that the president has been open and transparent on the issue of accepting improvements to the bill. We have gone out of our way to say anything that makes the bill better for americans, we are willing to accept. We met with many groups over the blast week, week and a half. We talked to as many groups as we could. And anybody month couples with improvement we are happy to accept. Reporter the white house is making it clear any republicans who dont eventually get on board with the president will do so at their own peril. They will there are President Trump in his he will amendment making a deal. Eric former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara speaking out saying the Trump Administration forced him out of office. He said he did not resign web was fired. There were holdovers from the obama administration, something that also happened when janet tree know was attorney general and the clinton fired all but one of its u. S. Attorneys back then. Reporter you know, the Preet Bharara saga continues today. Though many would argue this is standard procedure being blown out of proportion. Bharara along with 46 other u. S. Attorneys lost their jobs. He refused to resign so he had to be fired. He had a meeting in late november at trump tower when he said mr. Trump asked him to stay on with his administration. He has been a successful u. S. Attorney for manhattan and the Southern District of new york. He successfully has take on Corruption Cases with highranking politicians some said were untouchable. He seems a fit to stay on with the Trump Administration and the drain the swamp team. Wednesday three watchdog groups asked bharara to investigate trump regarding possible conflicts of interest. Elijah cummings tried to insinuate that a connection between wednesdays request and the trump team then later that week asking for bhararas resignation. Im just curious as to why that is. And certainly there is a lot of questions coming up as to whether mr. Trump President Trump is concerned about the jurisdiction of this u. S. Attorney. And whether it might affect his future. Reporter also this morning massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted out President Trump talked a big game about getting rid of corruption. But he doesnt want them investigating him. If. But senator mccain scoffed at this. Elections have consequences. People who complain about this are ignoring the history of new presidencies. The president had every right to ask for their resignations. Reporter no update from the white house on this. They are maintaining this is simply politics as usual. As you have said, this happened when clinton took over, it happened when obama took over. Well see. Eric trump tower happen to the reside in the Southern District which is the district Preet Bharara covered. Arthel lets bring in jamie weinstein. Preet bharara is known to be an upstanding, independent thinker, in his approach to prosecuting or practicing the law. Why would he put his reputation on the line and fabricate a story about having been asked to stay on board indefinitely by a u. S. Attorney by president elect trump himself. He didnt need to fabricate the story for it to be true. He probably was asked to stay on board and donald trump changed his mind. There was reporting he said bharara could stay on as a favor to chuck schumer. But he doesnt like the way schumer has treated him. So perhaps hes reneging on that deal. And it apparently occurred in the days after his election. But he has every right to do that. Past president s have decided to do away with u. S. Attorneys. This strikes me as theater and acting on Preet Bhararas part to paint himself as a good Public Servant scorned by the administration. I think hes framing himself as this so he can probably run for office as somebody running against the Trump Administration down the road. Arthel you heard the rumblings of mr. Bharara running for government in 2018 in new york . Do you have information not there has been an exploratory reporter certainly not in exploratory examinations. But there are stories about Preet Bhararas ambitions. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that. A lot of people have gone from his position and run for office. Rudy giuliani the most famous example. Hes the one Person Holding out to say he was fired. This is a common practice. There is a lot to criticize donald trump for, but for doing what other president s have done is not an alarming effect. Arthel we are not criticizing. Some are. Arthel but lets talk about attorneys general under president obama and george w. Bush. They tried to stagger departures over a few months. President obama was advised that firing u. S. Attorneys en masse could harm couldnt newt and throw Law Enforcement efforts into disarray. When you consider the timing of President Trumps decision, could there be something behind the curtain. Reporter you get the sense donald trump thinks there is a deep state from political appointedees undermining his presidency. Perhaps he got mad and said lets get all these fights out of there. Im sure he could have dont in a more orderly process. But its his right to replace u. S. Attorneys. You may well be right that this is not the smartest way to go about it. But he was elected and elections have consequences and this is one of the rights he has as president. Arthel this is mr. Trumps right as president. Do we have any idea of if there are any appointedees on deck . Reporter the Trump Administration is low to make appointments at all sorts of level. I dont know if they have people lined up. Jeff sessions knows this area and probably has a lot of recommendations. Let me make a pointed why Preet Bharara may have been put on this list of people to be let go after he was told he could stay. There was a report steve bannon may have been one of the people pushing to include Preet Bharara. He was the one who put Dinesh Dsouza behind bars. That was a public and angering thing that that occurred. Arthel well talk to you about this and other topics in the world of politics. Eric the radical islamic supporters of isis reportedly linked to a plan to attack one of the countrys largest malls. They used an online Messenger Group to urge supporters in germany to attack the mall. Syrian president Bashar Alassad taking a swipe at American Forces who have been deployed in his embattled country, calling them quote, invaders, and saying the Trump Administration needs to do more in the fight against isis. Its part of the fight to take back raqqa from the islamic terrorist caliphate. Joining us is john bolton. Former ambassador to the united nations. The army rangers in Northern Syria are flying the stars and stripes. Does this open up a new front and fight against isis or does it put a target on our backs . I think its almost certainly a reflect of President Trumps desire to move up the pace of the destruction of isis from the obama degrade and destroy over some indefinite period of time. It may be these deployments were planned previously. Alassad is laying down the markers saying their presence in syria is illegitimate. An invasion inpresumed to be an act of war. It leaves it open if they come under fire by syrian forces, hezbollah or russian aircraft or who knows what. But its also a way of trying to get the United States to find a way to accommodate him so there is not an artificial clash and thus bolster his regime. I think its complicated enough to bring isis down which i hope will happen sooner rather than later. The last thing we need to do to arrive at some kind of understanding that preserve assad in power and assad in lebanon. Its fine to eliminate isis the sooner the better. But we have to look at in effect what the next conflict in the region is going to be. What is that conflict and how do we achieve the goals you just laid out . The second conflict is under way. A struggle in the region between a coalition on the one side led by iran with the baghdad government which sadly they substantially dominate, the alassad regime in syria and russia as a key component. Jordan, egypt and others on the other side. This is not a fight we wanted to get into, but a fight that does involve our vital interests. I think the Iran Nuclear Deal us such a debacle. I think iran continuing action as the worlds leading banker for terrorism is another part of that threat. Eric what do we do . Russia, they are expanding their base in syria, their naval base, and they are growing, taking moaferg it over and getting stronger. They built from scratch during the obama administration. Russian influence over the past several years throughout the middle east has grown to a point where it really is close to exceeding the influence they had during the 1970s. I think iran continues to go from strength to strength here. This is a very, very dangerous moment in the region. I think it requires very close u. S. Attention. Do we need more troops on the ground . Do we need less . And will these objectives be achieved . Or will we gift over and remain with assad and more russian power. After we defeat isis, what comes next. It would and mistake to think the sunnis of walk will quietly go back under the domination of the baghdad government which is controlled by shiia politicians and figures who are in turn under the domination of the ayatollahs in tehran. You may resolve the isis threat but the ground work for the next conflict is right there. The same is true in syria. Sunni arabs who want no part of assads regime are not going to halfway turn back and say forget the past 60s years, we are going to go back and be part of assads syria. You have to have some idea. But going back to the status quo and antebellum is not going to happen. Eric john bolton, thank you. Arthel the House Intelligence Committee throwing count gauntlet, demanding the Trump Administration reveal it evidence showing the tower was wiretapped during the campaign. A losing battle over the budget. Can the white who is keep it promises about the military and domestic programs as well as avoid sat fight on capitol hill . Well take a closer look. Its the simple things in life that mean the most. Boost® simply complete™. No artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners, plus 10 grams of protein and 25 vitamins minerals. It doesnt get better than this. Boost® simply complete™. 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How difficult will it be for the president to get the Republicanled Congress on his side . The government ran a 587 billion deficit last year. Now President Trump promises to do a lot more with less. Thursday hes planning to send his proposed budget to congress that could make politically painful cuts to domestic programs in order to move money to security and cut back and waste. We are working hard to strengthen defense, strengthen Americas National security. Secure our border which is such an important point to do. Reporter cuts would hit the epa and education departments and house and urban development. The president promised to leave medicare and medicaid virtually untouched. Mike mulvaney is asking whats more important . Defending the bored or some of the other programs. Arthel what is the white house proposing for Border Security and military spending . Reporter the big winner in the president s plan is the pentagon. But the money has to come from somewhere else. The white house considering cuts to fema, the coast guard and tsa because they say the shakeup is necessary to repair the military. Still, not everyone is convinced it will help in the long run. Unfortunately we have no alternative but to reinvest in our military. These are tough decisions, but the president has shown hes ready, willing and able to make these tough decisions. To take away the capability in the areas that need to be sustained makes no sense if you are doing that. Reporter he says it would undermine the softer power. Eric the president said he will be proven right he vengsly that trump tower was wiretapped. Will he have it and what could he turn over . Us there is a new f suspicion swirling around Julian Assange. Who might have attacked a u. S. Senator who has criticized wikileaks, and the russians. Will they now target that senator . The details next. So with our ally cashback credit card, you get rewarded for buying stuff. Like what . 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The charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of drug power during the election. The former president denies the charge. So has the director of National Intelligence. James coburn reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject the president claims and now says that he is planning to ask about this directly when he testifies before the full Committee Later this month. Eric the democrats to appear the republicans have been critical as well. Just this morning, republican senator john mccain for President Trump has two options. You can retract his claim or provide proof to the public and congress to back up the claim. The i have no reason to believe that the charge is true, but i also believe the president of the United States could clear this up at them this up in a minute. All he has to do is call the director of the cia, National Intelligence and they would have been because they certainly should know whether the president of the United States was wired after the trump towers. Senator mccain is not alone today. Republican senator roy blunt also noted this is an issue President Trump could likely clear up all by himself with one phone call instead of asking congress to investigate. Eric reports he made a braveheart. Well see how this goes tomorrow. Arthel Julian Assange n