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Syria, same thing. >> bill: you mentioned this twice now. here is what the secretary said last night. the audio portion and we'll play it now. >> we're working with the russians, as you know, in a number of very difficult areas, the view has been if the two leaders are going to meet is there something sufficiently substantive to talk about that would warrant a formal meeting. and so i would just say there has been no conclusion made on that. we continue to have conversations. if we're going to have a meeting let's make sure it's a meaningful meeting. >> bill: what i hear from that and from you...

Steve: he is standing out in a hurricane and it looks as if some of the rain actually impacted his microphone. jeff, have lost your signal. the audio portion. brian: if it pops back. actually sitting there on the rocks. in fact, he can hear us now. hey, jeff, you were saying you forget this is the gulf. >> exactly. this looks more like an ocean to me at the moment. [audio faded] steve: we tried. he has been in the rain for the last 48 hours. brian: your sun is beginning to come up. you are beginning to have a real perspective on what is happening. every time we go out to a reporter it's going ...

He cheats at golf. >> okay. all right. >> well, you know, brooke -- >> go ahead. >> i have to confess, in another life, i was a golf writer, and i covered the pga tour, and the players there would talk a lot about how golf reveals character because you have to call penalties on yourself, and it's a very honest game. but then they also secretly told me about how they cheat too. so, it's all part of the game. >> yeah, you have to have patience and precision. i enjoyed it for like a minute of my life, and i'll ride along in the cart, thank you very much. michael and ben, thank you so much on all ...

Looking live pictures coming in from the white house briefing room once again. we may lose this picture by the way any moment. the white house press secretary sean spicer will hold another off-camera briefing. once finished, media outlets including cnn all the broadcast networks they want, other cable news networks will be able to air the audio portion only of the briefing, no video. let's discuss this and more. we're joined by jeff basin, the white house correspondent for reuters, also the president of the white house correspondents association. jeff, thanks for joining us. >> sure. >> so why...

About 15 minutes. unfortunately not able to see or hear it live. all cameras banned. we'll bring you the audio portion once the briefing is complete. those are the white house rules at least for now. now to the health care debate and republicans, tweaking the bill rolled out last week in the u.s. senate. new language poechted online a few moments ago. remember the first draft left a handful of senators saying they weren't ready to support the bill as written. go to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly up on capitol hill. phil, the congressional budget office score on the republican h...