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Senate majority leader and his caucus over to the white house to meet with the president to discuss how they may be able to move forward in coming up with a plan. a republican plan that repeals and replaces obamacare to make good on the president's promise and that of many of these senators when they were elected into their position. so kirsten, did this press conference move the ball forward as far as what the president is doing to try to win over the support for the gop bill? >> not really. i mean, i think, you know, the little that she said about it was basically they agree with everything ...

Used to advise the trump campaign and andy slaft, once the acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, he managed the affordable care act in the obama white house. you guys are numbers guys so let me throw a few out there. we have the cbo score that came out yesterday. 22 million more americans, it says, will not have health care in the next decade under the current senate plan versus what is current law, obamacare. also said $321 billion will be reduced from the deficit. so conservatives like to hear that number. but steven, one of the big questions is how is this...

We heard that from sarah huckabee sanders today, saying when it comes to budgets, cbo is fine, but when it comes to scoring something like this, it's off, basically. so the white house is really trying to figure out how to keep this promise to the american people. well, it leaves to those that the supporters of the president are looking forward to this repeal and replace effort. so at issue, they want to repeal and replace. >> so what has been your sense of the white house strategy in terms of how they've gone about this, and are they sticking with that strategy, changing it, do you have an id...

She is cnn analyst and for american radio networks. april, i know you were inside that white house briefing when they talked about this health care situation and how they are still hopeful that there will be some kind of legislation that comes about in the senate that will be able to get passed. how influential is the president among those senators who are the holdouts currently? >> the president always, no matter who it is, this office is very influential. but what's more influential is the public, the people, the constituents that these senators have to serve. and if these people are taken o...

Question. kevin. >> sarah, i just rapid fire because i know we've had a bit of a long briefing here. would it be fair -- let me ask it this way. how would you describe the president's mood on health care, concerned, still encouraged, and what did you make of the cbo score if you had talked to him about that and then secondly, i want to ask you about the warning to syria. what's the message that the administration wants to convey not just to the world community but also to the american people who see headlines like that and they wonder are we hurtling head long into a major situation in that pa...