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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting March 8, 2017

Well explain both sides of the argument. Lets get to it good wednesday afternoon from the fox news desk. The gop starkly divided over trumpcare. The president is all in. President trump putting his weight behind the gop plan to replace obamacare. The white house promising what it calls a fullcourt press on this plan as objections from the partys conservatives and some centrists continue to mount. On capitol hill, two panelists working on getting trumpcare off the ground. On one side, the energy and commerce committee. The other, ways and means committee. These are known as markup sessions. Lawmakers go through the proposed legislation line by line offering changes and amendments. What comes out of those sessions is the new bill. We can expect these to last for hours, potentially well into the night and tomorrow. Its a long process and this is just the beginning, if that. One thing is certain. Team trump and gop leaders have a lot of work to do if they want the current version of this bill to see the light of day ever. President trump is said to Talk Health Care with leaders later tonight. The white house has not said who will be there. The president has promised to reach out to lawmakers that oppose the bill, including rand paul. He called it dead on arrival. President trump sent out a tweet a few hours later. He said im sure my friend rand paul will come along with the new and a great Healthcare Program because he knows obamacare is a disaster. Senator paul is not budging. He said he told President Trump that conservatives all agree on repealing but far apart when it comes to replacing. Whats going on behind the scenes is the charm offensive. Every conservative thats come out opposed to this has been called by the white house and is babying is being cajoled to give in. If we stick together, we will have a force and negotiation and talk about clean repeal versus replacement if we stick together. They dont have the numbers to pass this at this point. Senator paul and jim jordan, a member of the ultra conservative House Freedom caucus say they plan a repeal only option. Trumpcare as it stands is not what republicans have been promising constituents. Thats not the only other option in the works. Later in this hour, ill be speaking with a republican lawmaker that is pushing another plan. One that will let states keep obamacare if they want. Add to this, a number of groups that have come out against the house proposal. Among them, the cooke brothers, americans for prosperity. The white house is pushing back. Sean spicer says theres been tremendous support with conservative lawmakers and groups and he says the white house is staying true to the partys values. We talk so often on the con superintendentive side and the republican said about the importance of entrepreneurship. Those are the ones that suffer with an inequity in the tax system. I think by levelling that Playing Field and by giving them more options and driving down costs, were actually doing a very conservative thing here. The conservative thing or obamacarelight as people put it. Theyre hammering the bill right now before the Congressional Budget Office is projected how much it will cost and no idea how many will lose coverage. John roberts is live on the north lawn. The white house still says this will get done. Theyre saying theyre going to get this passed, shep. You can find a lot of support for this on capitol hill. As you pointed out, theres a lot of opposition as the member wing of the Republican Party will be here tonight, 5 00. Theyre going to get some arm twisting. Gentle, maybe tougher from the president tonight. Because hes in, according to sean spicer that just finished his briefing full cell mode trying to get this thing through. Hes going to go across the country in the days and weeks ahead to sell it to folks in the middle part of america where his base of support was to win the election on november 8. According to kellyanne conway, there could be room for compromise here, but only a little bit. Listen to this. The president has made it clear as the Vice President , this is the plan. But the president has used the word negotiation. Theres a process at play here. Its called reconciliation. Everybody knows as this American Healthcare act makes its way through the normal channels, it probably will be changed somewhat. Changed somewhat, but to what degree, we dont know at this point. The press secretary was asked if there was any red lines, if you will, that the president had in terms of this bill. He wouldnt articulate any, but one of the things that has raised a lot of opposition among conservatives is this idea of swapping out the obamacare subsidy with a tax credit. Theyre saying that is nothing more than an entitlement by a different name. Theyre opposed to it. Without the tax credit, theres no way for people in the lower income brackets to afford Health Insurance. Shep . Shepard some trade groups have come out against the plan. What is the response on that . The aarp has come out against it as has the american medical association, a number of other medical associations. But sean spicer said those are a bunch of special interest groups. All of these associations dont really represent the relationship between a doctor and a patient and that the president really isnt going to take into consideration their concerns, at least not over the concerns of patients. Heres what he said earlier. If you want to line up how many special interests got paid off last time versus now, theyll win hands down. This isnt about trying to figure out how many special interests in washington we can get paid off. Its about making sure that patients get the best deal. So what the white house plans to do is to apply the politics of popular pressure against these associations and say, this is what people across america are looking for. The associations better tow the line here. Well see if that strategy works, shep. Shepard john, thanks. The two committees on the hill are working on this right now. Mike emanuel covers the hill for us. He lives there. Fireworks in the committee meetings, huh . Thats right, shep. Theres been fireworks between republicans and democrats here in the committee meeting. Democrats are accusing the republicans of rushing it through and not waiting on the Congressional Office for their study. I want to postpone the markup for 30 days. I dont understand why that is not in order at this time. A motion to table is not debatable. Under our rules. I know you care deeply about following our rules. Mr. Chairman, youre trying to rush this bill. Youre not allowing for debate and if this process continues all day long, its going to be a very unfortunate circumstance. Well be here all night for several days. Mick mulvaney says the analysis will perhaps common. Sean spicer said the Congressional Budget Office has been wrong before on healthcare, shep. Shepard so thats disagreements between republicans and democrats. What about within the Republican Party . Some conservatives just want to repeal obamacare. Paul ryan is in full cell mode. He says theyll keep their prop misses to the american people. However, some conservatives are still skeptical. Were dealing with coverage and nothing with cost containment, price reduction healthcare, right . Were designing a system that wont lower costs. Thats the big deal. Then you have other republicans closer to the white house that say the stakes here are incredibly high. If the republican conference doesnt pass this, our whole agenda goes down the tubes. We dont do tax reform. We have to get obamacare repealed and replaced before tax reform. Many republicans are applauding news from the white house that the president s in full cell mode. They say that is important to get this across the finish line. Shepard but the votes are not there. Mike emanuel on capitol hill. Another plan being introduced by a republican senator from louisiana. Well have details of that when he joins us live in just a moment. The president has not answered questions about claims that president obama order wiretapping of the trump tower during elections. Theres been no information at all, none, that suggested that President Trump is right on this. The white house is calling for an investigation. Two senators, one republican, one democrat sent a letter to the head of the fbi for specific information on his accusation. The director according to multiple records has said obama did not authorize any wiretaps and the director has asked the Justice Department to refute President Trumps claim. Fox news Catherine Herridge has announced the feds are announcing an investigation into wikileaks after they claim to have published thousands of documents on the c. I. A. s hacking techniques. The c. I. A. Has the ability now to hack your smart phone no matter what kind of it is, hack your computer, hack into your television set, the one youre watching right now potentially and even hack into your vehicle. Wikileaks claims this is just the beginning of what they call the largest publication of c. I. A. Documents ever and analysts are comparing it to Edward Snowdens release of the National Security agencies files in 2013. James comey spoke out about the effect of that leak in a Cyber Security conference today. What has happened to us since snowden, since the summer of 2013, is that more and more of that room has gotten dark. Enprescription has become the default. Its a feature of the work of the less sophisticated. Of drug dealers. Of armed robbers. Of terrorists. Of pedophiles, of pad bad people of all sorts. The fbi is trying to track down whoever leaked this information. Catherine herridge is live in washington. Fox news confirmed the fbi has opened an investigation with all the evidence pointing to an insider and not a breach of computers. Reuters reporting last hour that investigators are focusing on the likelihood that more than one contractor was involved. The white house spokesman was pressed on the new wikileaks documents. I think its interesting that how different subjects are approached. This one everyone is immediately rushing to. There should be more coverage of this. This alleged leak should consider every american in terms of the impact on National Security. Apples iphone was the target of zero day programs that exploit unknown weaknesses. That includes audio and video recordings and extracting user data as well as contact, shep. Shepard ahead, more on the wikileaks fallout. Thats coming up on a very busy wednesday afternoon. Tech dont let a cracked windshield ruin your plans. Trust safelite. With safelites exclusive on my way text. Youll know exactly when well be there. Giving you more time for what matters most. team sing safelite repair, safelite replace. Shepard continuing uv can coverage. The latest fallout wikileaks. The fbi is looking for the leaker. Lets bring in jack gilliam. Inside job . Why . This is a big trove of documents that includes software that can get in any Electronic Device you own, phone, smart tv, computer. This had been discussed as something that had been circulating among the people that developed the software. Thats one of the areas of investigation determining maybe who gave this to wikileaks. Shepard for the general population, those of us hearing this, a concern is not as much as the government can do this, but if wikileaks has it, then at some point anybody can do this. Nefarious groups can high jack anything youre doing anywhere all the time, which is creepy. This is just a friendly reminder that our phones and any Electronic Device we use are not perfect. Software is made by human beings. They make code that run the email applications we use, internet browsers like Google Chrome and fire fox. Like putting up drywall or baking a cake, its not perfect the first time you do it. Theres cracks and imperfections. What the tools show us, the government is using those tools to get into those cracks and get access to a device. Its not clear who, likely not americans, the c. I. A. That deals with foreign adversaries. The tools are out there and ready for among the c. I. A. Or others with the u. S. Intelligence. Shepard you talk about cracks and imperfections. These things are crack. When we started carrying them, 15 years ago, we werent thinking, this is how the government can monitor everything we do, every single one of us forever. Oh, the television, oh, the car that is now going to be controlled or not going to have a driver. Now if they want to assassinate somebody, they can run the car off the road. This isnt what we were thinking at the time. It hadnt crossed our minds. Now here it is and they can see and hear everything and if they can, they probably are, right . Im look you. Its hard for me to fully attach to any device, even on vacation. Makes my wife very irritated. But this is a good reminder how ubiquitous this technology is. This came a few years after the revelations by edward snowden, a former nsa contractor. That is different from what were seeing with the c. I. A. Leak. Its technical and software to get into it. Snowden revealed how the National Security agency had the ability and was looking at communication records of millions of americans, many not even suspected of a crime. So i think the more that hour world go goes online and goes into this digital age all around us, down to our cars, even our some refrigerators are connected to the internet in some weird way, that is just a reminder that theres cracks in all of these things and its a matter of the government, the same organization to pass those leaks. Shepard fbi comey got a question on this. Comforting . The general principles, theres no such thing as absolute privacy in america. There is no place in america outside of judicial reach. Thats the bargain. The whole point raised in the debate after the snowden disclosures and after the Obama Administration had about getting access to en scripted devices. Once its locked, can Law Enforcement get into it for investigations. This raises the question of now that the government has this great lock picker, what is it when its a lock maker and tries to keep other devices secure. Shepard thanks, jack. Thank you. Shepard President Trumps new travel ban is facing a new legal challenge. Hawaii we learned is set to go to court in an effort to block the travel ban just like happened to the president s first travel ban. So did these changes to the new version go far enough . Or could a court toss it out again . That and much more on another healthcare plan. Live with the man who is pushing it coming up. vo this is not a video game. This is not a screensaver. This is the destruction of a cancer cell by the bodys own immune system, thanks to medicine that didnt exist until now. And today can save your life. Remember when you said men are supeyeah. Ivers . Yeah, then howd i get this. Allstate safe driving bonus check . Only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months youre accident free. Silence. 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Hawaiis attorney general says that the trump administrations revised order still discriminates against muslims though it affects fewer people than the previous one. The white house went back to the drawing board after the attorney general in Washington State successfully sued to block the trumps original travel ban. This new executive order exempts visa bans and iraq is no longer on the list. The white house says the ban is important for security. Lets go to a. B. Stoddard. Hawaii says this is not constitutional. Ill be interested to see the outcome of this court review, shep. I think the white house took their sweet time to make sure their next order was rewritten and redrafted to be airtight and pass legal muster. The first was stopped in court because it was said to favor christians and disfavor muslims. They worked to drop iraq, which is now an allied country from the new world order, but to make sure, like i said, that it will pass all of the tests that it couldnt the very first time. I really wouldnt be surprised if it ends up that theres something that doesnt that cant stand up to judicial review. They worked on it for weeks. They delayed it many times and they said that after the first one, they knew what their mistakes were and they werent going to run into this buzz saw again. Shepard because the court laid out the mistakes and the new plan, they were able to not make the same mistakes. Thats what will be interesting, if it runs into trouble. Even if not, what is interesting is that the states are taking up a lot of new activity in a sort of a new separation of powers, exercised against any potential overreach of the executive. Thats something that we wrote about recently and i recommend the read. It was called the revolts of the attorney general and how the Obama Administration states learned to make sure they could do something as they saw as overreach from washington from the white house. In the face of an abdication by congress and be a check on the executive branch. No matter the outcome, they succeeded in blocking obama

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