face-to-face meeting with president trump. they gathered today and agenda items reportedly including nato, the islamic state group and the ukraine. this conference was expected to start at 1:20, as you can see it's running a little bit behind. we have live coverage when it gets underway on c-span2. >>. [inaudible conversation] >> [inaudible conversations]

>> good morning. happy st. patrick's day. we're waiting for our group to come on out here. >> good morning everybody. happy st. patrick's day. over the last few weeks as we been working to bring the repeal and replace bill to the house floor president trump got directly involved and he reached out to all members of the house and he said ring me your best ideas. the good news is over that. we've seen so many members of our congress, of our conference bring those good ideas starting with the republican study committee. as the republican study committee started putting together some of those ideas he brought them to the house leadership b also t douse president. what they found was a president willg at open to engaging in this process directly to get the best ideas pulled into this package that help us not only make it a better build, they get a more conservative bill but

people and proud to do so. >> what about the medicaid expansion? can you talk about that next easy open to get back to maybe more conservative votes? >> what we talked about is giving states more flexibility, allowing states the option to take a block grant. a lot of governors that that they are intested. now to have the portity of giving states the option to put wo requirements to increase the integrity of the medicaid program with incentives in place so that states will be rewarded for helping strengthen their medicaid program. [inaudible] >> we've been working with cbo on all of these changes and there's other discussions obviously with other members of our conference that president trump has engaged directly in and so we are working to get the best deal possible brought forward to the house and then ultimate pass that bill over to the senate and fulfill the commitment we would make it for years and we're going to repeal and replace obamacare, to rescue the mac and people from...