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White house was insisting a positive prognosis. there's only planning, at this point, there is acknowledgment that there needs to be a plan b if this doesn't happen tonight? >> no, plan a. >> reporter: that's what the president was planning on, except the house wasn't voting. at the very same moment, president trump was hosting his photo op with truckers, the alarm sounded on capitol hill. the breakdown coming at 3:30. that's when house speaker paul ryan postponed the vote to repeal and replace obamacare. seven years to the day after it was signed into law. >> well, the math only gets harder t...

Will lose support from moderates? >> press secretary spicer: he is meeting with members of the tuesday group today. obviously, he understands there is a balancing act going on as you try to get 216 in the case but we continue to make progress every day. we walked out with more members in support of the american healthcare act today than we started the day with, and i continue to see that number climb hour by hour. i anticipate that we will get there. >> reporter: patrick mchenry said that they have an offer that that has freedom caucus can accept or reject, is that how you see it, are you just...

A politically motivated act that he regretted. in fact, senate republicans did not filibuster his supreme court nominees elena kagan and soto mayor. we call on senator to follow and fall on democrats to stop blocking judge gorsuch from receiving the fear up and down vote that he and the american people have voted for. back to the rest of the president schedule, this afternoon the president will meet with members of the tuesday group. he had lunch with secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin and nelson at 3:00 today, we hope you will come out and join the president to welcome the truck drivers...

250 number needed for passage. already this morning this tweet from president trump. "you were given many lies with obamacare. go with our plan. call your rep and let them know you're behind ahca. in just a half hour president trump is scheduled to meet with members of the conservative house freedom caucus and those are the chief holdouts in refusing to support the gop plan. however, there may be movement as chairman mark meadows announced late last night. >> the president and i came to an agreement in principle. i think what we're trying to do now is to make sure that our agreement is actuall...

With president trump at the white house. bringing that back to your very kind tweet promoting this interview, you said you were going to talk to us about the ahca vote happening today. can you guarantee us that there is going to be a vote today? >> no, i don't think anybody can guarantee anything. it's possible the vote could be tonight. it could be tomorrow. i know that the president has continued to meet with folks to state his position. he is fully behind this. i think that gives us great credibility. i am hopeful that -- look, most all republicans in the house would classify as conservativ...