Its 35 trillion in the hole. The current medicaid is unfunded and were going to add new entitlement programs to that . Can you hear me now . Wikileaks revealing what it claims is the cias full hacking arsenal. Devastating security breach, if true. Perhaps privacy concerns are no joking matter. Is the cia listening to me through my wife wave oven and tv and cell phone . Are they doing that, sir . No. If they were, would you say yes . Yes. Still no proof. Five days after President Trump first accuse president obama of tapping his phones at dump tower. The white house tries to lay the burp of congress. Reporter would would the president Want Congress to investigate information he already has. Theres a separation of powers. Reporter were talking about resources and time. Why waste that . Its not a question of waste it. Its a question of appropriateness. Woman power, on this International Womens day, rallies from coast to coast in support of womens rights. Good day on this International Womens day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where House Speaker paul ryan is trying to push past Major Political headwinds from members of his own party to get the house bill through congress and onto the president s congress. Are we going to let this law collapse and whatever happens happens, or are we going to do what we said we would do . Are we going to repeal and replace obamacare with Something Better . I have no doubt well pass this because were going to keep our promises. Joining me now nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander at the white house and capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and Washington PostNational Political reporter robert costa. Kasie the speaker of the house is setting deadlines and says hell have a bill on the president s desk or floor by easter. Is that what Mitch Mcconnell said on the senate side but pushback from moderate republicans and from the freedom cauc caucus. Reporter unexpected amount of protest from conservatives in particular, who are arguing for a seat at the table here, and you played a little bit of this saying look, this just ats to new entitlements i think the key part of their argument and the question about whether them calling it obamacare light, them saying it doesnt represent repeal, is the key part of it, because the speakers main argument what he has on his side is that look if republicans spent eight years saying this is what they were going to do, finally get into power and they dont do it, thats a major failure. So he in the caucus this morning asked for a show of hands from republicans who campaigned on repeal and replace. All the hands in the room went up. Thats what theyre counting on and also counting on the president of the United States, donald trump, who they feel gave them a little more clarity than they maybe had before over the course of the last 24 hours. Theres a lot of muddle about exactly what he wanted, exactly how they would try to sell this, were they waiting for the congress to come first. They feel like they now have some signals from the president that he is going to be all in on this and on helping them get to 218 votes in the house thats the critical first number for this Health Care Bill to hit and now we know this morning i talked to congressman charlie dent who is a more moderate republican from pennsylvania, where they expanded medicaid and he said look, im concerned about how fast this moves and about this medicaid provision that could really hurt people in my state. So they have a lot of work still to do, but you know, that fundamental promise is there, and will work in speaker ryans favor. And Peter Alexander at the white house, initially they were saying this is the starting point, were willing to negotiate but as kasie was just pointing out that does not give paul ryan and the leaders up there the kind of whipping power that they need to control a very divided caucus right now. Andrea this morning i spoke to a source close to the president to says of this Health Care Replacement bill it makes the president very happy, he feels strongly he is offering up basically delivering on a Campaign Promise early in his administration by offering not just repeal but also what will replace obamacare as it presently exists. As a demonstration of his sort of confidence in this bill, and in this plan im told there are active discussions right now at the white house taking place about travel for the president to go make the case on his own behalf in effect for this bill, still to be seen exactly where that travel may send him. We know that yesterday white house officials and other Trump Administration officials blitzed radio air waves talk radio shows across some key states trying to reach out to lawmakers, constituents in places like ohio, sean spicer speaking on the radio there, Kellyanne Conway talking to the folks in kentucky which is notable at only because its the home of rand paul who has been a critic of this, saying theres an agreement on repeal not replacement but home of the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Robert costa and the others, listen to sean pricer trying to defend what the president declared on twitter against president obama on wiretapping, and how theyre trying to either get behind this or deal with what the president said off. Lets watch. Is the White House Position that the president can make declarative statements about a former president basically committing a crime and then the Congressional Committee should look into that and basically prove it . Its not a question of prove it. They have the resources and the clearances and the staff to fully and thoroughly and comprehensively investigate this. So President Trumps twitter statement shouldnt be taken at face value . Sure it is. Do we take him at face value or is this just something that he was tweeting figuratively . Well andrea, weve reported that President Trump acquired some of this information from right wing websites like breitbart and mark levine over the weekend. It was not based on evidence or intelligence or intelligence were aware of and officials in the white house background tell me theyre not aware of any intelligence that fueled the president s conclusions, so they seem to be caught in a corner wanting to have the investigation moved to congress but they know that President Trump has these convictions, these beliefs they dont want to get in the middle of and fight him on. But how do they walk away from something that he said declaratively . I can see all the way theyre spinning and bobbing and weaving but the bottom line is the president of the United States tweeted in 140 characters that he was being eavesdropped on the orders of president obama. That signal went to everyone in america and around the world. It did and there was confusion inside of the white house over the weekend especially about whether there was a fisa warrant or not when it came to some federal approval for surveillance of trump tower, and that evidence has not emerged, that backs up these declarations and these statements that weve seen here at the post or the white house has revealed but yet this is the White House Communications office knowing they have a president who governs on gut instincts rather than solid information. 6 35 a. M. On a saturday morning on twitter indeed. Peter alexander, theres talk that the White House Budget Office is looking to tsa and other Homeland Security agencies for the budget cuts to pay for the wall that mexico is clearly not going to pay for. Has anybody confirmed that from the white house . Yes, we reached out to the white house on that. I want to add one thing to whoo b what robert was saying. I spoke to a source familiar to former president obamas tweets that president obama wasnt livid, in effect he rolled his eyes as he heard about those claims. Moving on to what you were asking about we got a statement from the white house in effect said earlier in this process working with agencies on how to best meet their targets. They say theyre trying to draw conclusions at this early point would be very premature. What is notable about this is that the conversation about how to pay for that wall would come from savings elsewhere, cutting back elsewhere as opposed to having as the president himself had said as candidate trump mexico pay for it. And finally, kasie hunt, as if this wouldnt already be an awkward dinner, trumps inviting the cruises for dinner tonight at the white house, think back in the campaign all the things candidate trump said about ted cruz, ted cruzs father, the conspiracy theories the unflattering tweets about mrs. Cruz, heidi cruz and ted cruz said as drafted i do not believe this Health Care Bill would pass the United States senate. Kase . Thats exactly i think what this is probably designed to head off, because we didnt see ted cruz out there yesterday. Rand paul has been in front of this, mike lee, the senator from utah often pals around with ted cruz appeared at the press conference with the House Freedom caucus. We know that cruz was a de facto leader of this gang over in the house when they were kind of fighting as the Opposition Party so i think for him this is a relatively measured response so far, but if he is going to go to the mat with all these other conservative grassroots groups or what we used to call that before donald trump, thats a bit of a problem for the white house. It would be a really interesting dinner to be a fly on the wall there. Thank you so much, peter, robert, kasie. And meanwhi china warning of a headon collision unless the u. S. Haults joint military exercises with south korea, exercises that are held every year, and unless north korea stops its missile tests. The Chinese Foreign ministry delivering that stern message today after north korea of course test fired four missiles this week and the u. S. And south korea began deploying a new Missile Defense system. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson will be jumping into the middle of this crisis traveling to japan, south korea and china next week. Joining me is madeleine albright, secretary of state under president bill clinton, joining us from san francisco. Madam secretary, great to see you. Thank you very much. Great to be with you andrea as always. Well, here if you were still secretary, what would you do facing again a threat from north korea, a growing threat which has grown frankly under several administrations, the Nuclear Threat as well as the missile advances from north korea and now china is still not doing what the u. S. Has long expected it to do is really increase the pressure, ramp up the pressure on pyongyang to stop doing its missile advancement. Well, clearly its a complicated situation and im very glad that the secretary of state is going to the region because its going to require prolonged activities in terms of talking about what the options are. I think the chinese need to understand that one of the reasons that were putting up that Missile System is because of the concern about what the North Koreans are doing with their missile testing, and what their overall objectives are. So i think its very serious. Its going to take very serious negotiation and im very glad that the secretary is getting involved in it. The new u. N. Am bassor sitting in the chair you once occupied before you were secretary of state nikki haley spoke outside the Security Council today. In terms of the t. H. A. D. , with south korea, tell me why we wouldnt do the t. H. A. D. . Were going to protect our allies. We are not going to leave south korea standing there with the threat of north korea. This is not a rational person who is not thinking clearly. How we are going to handle north korea going forward, and we are making those decisions now. The t. H. A. D. Is the Missile Defense system china and russia are objecting to but the other options on the table according to reporting from the New York Times this weekend, david sanger and others is to provide Nuclear Weapons to south korea, to proliferate in the peninsula weve been trying to denuclearize, when talking to other experts about this, madam secretary, nothing else has worked so why not consider options outside the box . What are your thoughts on this . We certainly have spent a lot of time trying to deal with the North Koreans any number of ways. I did. I think that the issues are really partially to undo what candidate trump said was that these people were on their own in the region, and so i think its very important for secretary tillerson to restate our commitment to our allies, south korea and the japanese, and i do think that there needs to be a lot of serious decisionmaking and a way of understanding what the possibilities are. I do think that its not a bad idea to have a review. I would just like to see this administration actually begin to focus more seriously on the National Security issues that are out there, and north koreas behavior is clearly one of the more complicated ones. I wanted to ask you about the state department, because theres no deputy secretary, theres no undersecretaries, only three nominees to the ambassador. No confirmed positions. The first briefing was held yesterday after a long hiatus since the previous administration. There was no appearance by the secretary of state when the human rights report, the annual report was released last week, and there doesnt seem to be an appreciation of Public Diplomacy and of the role that the state department carries around the world, sending the message of American Foreign policy. Can you comment on that . Well, i am troubled. I have to say weve been saying that its kind of early but soon it will be too late, and i think the state department obviously is the key diplomatic department, the senior position in the cabinet, and i do think that its important to get a sense where the secretary, where secretary tillerson is, what he thinks about this, and he is at a disadvantage i think in some ways not having a full repineau of people, the people who are Foreign Services officers and Civil Service are ted indicated people who serve this country and there has to be a greater relationship. I was impressed with what the secretary did when he first came into the state department and gave a speech but i do think its difficult to secondguess a sitting secretary of state but i do think that its important for him to get out there. As i said im glad hes going on a trip but he does need to have a full group of people there and they need to get going before it is too late, and im very troubled by what ive heard about the cuts in the state department budget. It isnt a big budget in the first place and to think about cutting it more than 30 , even over as the secretary has indicated over a threeyear period makes me very, very nervous. I know this sounds selfserving but the fact that there have been no interviews, no press conferences, and he is now planning to travel to asia without a press corps, that raises questions about accessibility and about the ability of the u. S. To cover the secretary of state. I know there were times when im sure you didnt like having us on board but we always traveled with you. By the way they seem to have plenty of people to get you out of the room, but the bottom line is, i think that you do need to travel with the secretary. I think its very important. I think the informal discussions that take place in the back of the plane and then in fact having you with us, the press, i think was always a very important message. We believed in the freedom of the press. The press has to report on whats going on, otherwise people will not understand what is going on in america. What do you think finally about President Trump on twitter accusing former president obama of ordering eavesdropping tapping of his phones at trump tower . Its part of inexplicable behavior as far as i can see. There is no evidence of this, and its insulting to president obama, who did everything he could to make this a friendly transition, and i think its appalling frankly. It is International Womens day. I know youre going to be doing an event out there with your daughter, one of your daughters, katie, and i dont know if your pin today is of a significance. It is. Were all trying to wear red in some form, and later i will put on a red scarf in addition but i think we do have to support International Womens day. Its very important. I keep being asked about whether the role of women internationally has improved. I think it has, but not enough. Im concerned about the lack of women at the top of the trump government, even though he has tweeted that he respects women. I do think that we need to support each other. I have said that many, many times, that its important for us to work together, and im