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Editorializing using quotes from people like senator rand paul alleging that somehow speaker ryan has misled the president about his ability to get this bill passed. there are a lot of undertones to paint the idea this will fall on paul ryan's lap and if it doesn't succeed, it's paul ryan's fault. >> very interesting. curt bardella, appreciate it. you know, you've been on the inside. republicans this morning are dealing with the cbo report that says 24 million americans more will be uninsured if their repeal or replace bill passes. in just a few minutes, democrats have a chance to speak. we'...

Up the president's claims that he was wiretapped by president obama, and now the justice department said we need more time. what is going on here? >> reporter: number one, they say they need to look at the underlying law and number two they need more time to try and assemble any documents that would be responsive to the request on capitol hill. difficult problem for them, of course, because there are a lot of people including a former director of national intelligence saying it didn't happen, this wiretapping claim, as the president suggested. all of this could be resolved next week when top o...

Little less in areas of cape cod. mika, we didn't talk about the winds. we will see scattered power outages, areas of long island as we go through the rest of the day. back to you. >> bill, thanks very much. we'll check back in shortly. in a moment we'll get to white house stumbling to walk back the president's wiretapping claim. that comes as a study by nonpartisan cbo making republican plans for overhauling health care and even tougher celine within their own party. the report finds that the number of uninsured will increase by 24 million people over the next decade. 24 million. the ranks of...

Through. >> yeah, what it says about the president's agenda, and steve minutia said he would like to have tax reform by the august recess, and a lot of folks i spoke to inside the beltway said they would try to do tax reform first and then if you repeal obamacare and then the biggest benefit goes to rich people that get tax cuts and then do tax cuts for business, what are the optics of that? >> thank you so much. the nutmeg state says nuts. connecticut bracing for snow along with coastal flooding and heavy winds, and we will talk to the governor as he tries to dig out.

>> he didn't go along with it as he was the nominee. but he knows he's the president, he's speaker of the house, now he can drive his agenda with trump sitting there. they like power period. >> trump has -- paul ryan is the policy heart and soul of the party. this conflict with trump, if they continue to butt heads, it could fundamentally change the way the party goes. >> and there is a group within the white house, reince priebus, who also has ties to wisconsin, a number of rnc people within the white house who are going to be more in this paul ryan camp. >> the white house is giving itself w...