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Breaking news from the white house. the chief of staff john kelly took to the briefing room today insisting he's not stepping down. denying reports that president trump wants to fire him. he chastised for stories about turmoil telling reporters to find better sources. let's discuss this and a lot more political news with all of our experts, specialists, correspondents and zeke emanuel, the president announced some new plans today to deal with the president's affordable care act. he signed a new executive order on making it available, making insurance available over state lines, letting groups ...

So far they have failed to repeal and replace obamacare. he would let obamacare fail on it's own, but today he announced a series of steps that will undermine, according to a lot of experts, obamacare to begin with, is his purpose to see obamacare fail? >> no, wolf. the president is not looking to -- the president's looking to do is give the american people more choices and more options. that's hard to see how that's a bad thing. you create more freedom in the process you create nor kpet tigs, it'll help to lower prices. he understands that the average premiums increase over 100% over the last...

During the briefing today he's not here to control what the president does. he's here to control the information that comes into the oval office. i have heard that as well from other sources that there is a concern about the kind and the quality of information that the president receives, but hooe not here to control tweets. i talked to a former campaign operative, trump campaign operative earlier today who said the expectation has always been at some point the president will stop tweeting that donald trump will stop tweeting, wolf, this source said donald trump is never going to stop tweeting...

Employer, let's say you're general motors and you have tens of thousands of employees, you have employees all across different states, why can't you if if you're a franchise owner be able to band together and associate health plans? it's common sense. it will help to provide lower costs and more competition for people. that's what the administration is looking to do. we are looking to provide relief to americans who are suffering from obamacare. >> and people with serious medical conditions won't have a dramatic increase as a result of what you announced today? >> people wl those conditions wi...

Graham-cassidy idea of brok granting, getting washington, d.c. out of the way of trying to control health care and letting states have more flexibility if the plans, there became more and more reseptemberivity to it. there are a couple members worried about the process and felt there weren't enough hearings and questions. i'll grant you, wolf, that over the last several years, we counted 149 congressional hearings on obamacare. we all share. >> reporter: when he says we have the votes, was that accurate? it's clearly not accurate. >> we didn't have the votes, but what he's saying is now believ...