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I don't know that they won't come on board in enough numbers, perhaps they will, but the best tactic for the white house is to not say anything until the votes are on the floor. >> you don't want to declare victory until you're across the finish line there. >> yes. >> patrick healey the president was with john dickerson talking. preexisting conditions and he's correct the amendment says preexisting conditions have to be covered. what it also allows is for states to opt out of what essentially means guarantees for people with preexisting conditions to get affordable coverage. you can raise the ...

Bring in our panel, reporter and editor-at-large for cnn politics chris cillizza and alex burns and patrick healey. gentlemen, welcome to all and each of you, editor-at-large, you wrote a piece yesterday saying, yes, president trump won, even though he didn't release his taxes. he did not win because he didn't release his taxes. distinguish? >> basically what they are saying and kellyanne conway said this, donald trump said it in the tweet joe just went through is, well, donald trump won the election. therefore, people are not interested in his taxes. those two things are not necessarily true....

Leadership table about this, though everyone wishes something would drop from the sky. >> have you heard anything about drug pricing being middle ground, a small step. >> it's not something they can do by friday. they wan to take a recess and do a government funding bill by april 28th. that's a whole new frontier in health care reform that would require democrats. so many believe letting free market dictate that kind of thing. you don't start messing with drug companies and the pricing. that's something trump would have to spend a lot of time on. >> a.b., jeffrey, patrick, thank you all very m...

And patrick healey and senior analyst and former prosecutor jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, let's start with you. we call this the nuclear option. it would be unprecedented at the supreme court level. what does it mean for what's going to happen this week? >> it means neil gorsuch will get confirmed. there's 53 solid votes for him. that's a majority. the rules will change so there's no longer a need for 60 votes to close off debate so instead it's a majority. >> forevermore what happens this week will change the rules. >> until they change it again. it's a procedural rule. depends who wants what. >> ...

Deal on obamacare. that is an easy one. >> reporter: the heads of the intel committee are expected to hold a news conference this afternoon. they made it clear they would like to speak with jared kushner and senior adviser with russia officials. he is likely to testify under oath, but priesvately. back to you. >> i appreciate that bit of reporting. sara teased up the discussion perfectly. let's start off with jackie kucinich and we have patrick healey and we have devlin bar t barre barrett. he is part of the team that broke the story extthat tried t block sally yates from testifying. >> a lot ...