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Confronting internal revolt over the House Health Care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president Obama Wiretapped phones at trump tower. A lot of americans need to know. Reporter amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. Leaders of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee also Hopeful Comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. Theyre about to screw up big time if they keep running to the Intel Committee and not answer that letter. Reporter e...

After a pretty brutal cbo analysis, more republicans are demanding changes to the house gop plan to replace obamacare. how do these two plans actually stack up against one another? let's talk about this with two experts, former health and human services secretary under president george w. bush tommy thompson as well as former acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, andy slovet. nice to have you here. governor thompson, i want your response as someone who is very supportive of this bill. i assume you agree with spicer that this is the one shot that the republica...

Causing people to get into the market and drive more healthy people into the market, this is not going to head in the right direction. >> i hear you, but that doesn't answer my question as to how does this plan -- how do you believe, andy, you would fix the fundamental problem with obamacare? >> i think the thing that, if you go back and look at the aca and look at what improvements can be made, there are some. i think one of the major things we've learned is people above 400% of poverty level in certain states have had their costs go up too much. there's -- you've got to fix that surgically. ...

Opportunities to improve for more people. it's the same way with all legislation, it takes a long time to get a good piece of legislation through both houses. this is a controversial subject. health care is very, very complex. >> it is complex and it takes a long time. you're hearing from the white house and other republicans we don't have that time right now. andy, let me bring you into this. you ran two of these big agencies, the centers for medicare and medicaid. when you look at what needs to happen to get something that works for the american people, you need the insurance companies to pl...