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Investigate this and oh, my god how could President Obama have done this to President Trump, and they were quiet, with the ni microphones except f microphones except for john mccain and lindsey graham. The question is why would the president Want Congress to spend money investigating a question to which he has the answer by virtue of his tweet . And can make that public any old time he wants. Lets talk turkey here. This is a president on a twitter storm clearly angry about the way that his staff had handled things, deciding to take things into his own hands and try to change the subject, who k...

This administration close to this president, they wish this could have been taken care of before he got here. they wish republicans and democrats would have worked together to improve the affordable care act, now it is the burden of this administration, this congress to figure it out. it is his responsibility. a few weeks ago the president said if this fails he'll blame it on democrat, the democrats have not been involved at all. as phil said smartly earlier, things are never dead in washington until they completely are. this could be revived. they are certainly looking for extra votes, but ag...

Republicans who still aren't fully on board, on his way out he predicted victory on thursday. >> mr. president to make a persuasive case what did you say to members? >> we had a great meeting and i think we're going to have a winner vote. they want a tremendous health care plan, that's what we have and there are going to be adjustments and i think we'll get the votes. >> you heard him say it's going to be a winner. cnn phil mattingingly and manu raju are both up on capitol hill. what was the basic pitch? >> reporter: it was a hard sell, there's no question, there's a recognition inside the whi...

Have had any communication with mr. trump or his organization. >> thank you, pamela and jose. >> james comey was at the tap tall talking to the leadership of the two intelligence committees. even though there's much we don't know. it would seem there was much to talk about. phil mattingingly joins us. why was comey on the hill today? >> reporter: a consistent theme. when comey comes up and speaks behind closed doors, the lawmakers come out and don't say anything. that's a rarity. but we know the bulk of the meeting was about the russian investigation. obviously the two senate and house intelli...

Winners, younger people could be the winners, older people are going to be charged more, also higher income people are going to win. fewer taxes, rolls back the taxes on the rich americans that help pay for obamacare and people with higher income, many middle class people but with higher incomes will be able to qualify for the tax credits they put an income cap on it so not the wealthy wealthy will be able to and on top, insurers will feget a tax break. >> thank you for break k it down. >> what is this going to cost and when will we know the final price tag. phil mattingingly is on capitol hil...