increasingly, that blame has fall own reince priebus. why does this matter? >> there has always been this lingering mistrust of priebus since day one when he was going to be named chief of staff and you had a chorus of outrage from the right from the deepest conservative element of the republican party that rieince priebus was not to be trusted and he was an establishment insider and the very type of republan thatrump ran against and wanted to run out of the party, but trump needs establishment players likehat in his cabinet because he is not in full control of the party, if anything with these last 48, 72 hours have shown us is that the republican party is fractured and it's not just the far right that is in trouble. i mean, you have moderates who broke off from this. you have members of party leadership who broke off on healthcare. it's really in disarray. >> what about reince priebus who reacted to tv host judge janeane piro's comments where she called on house speaker paul ryan to resign. here's what reince priebus said. >> does he want him to step down? >

leland: reince priebus making us on this issue as well.i or james comey and nsa director michael rogers will head to capitol hill for round two of questioning. this time behind closed doors and the stakes couldn't be higher as the chairman and top democrats late this week publicly clashed over accusations by president trump of illegal surveillance by the obama administration. garrett tenney with us on what to expect. reporter: k., lee lindh. chairman devin nunes earlier this week called a press conference and announced he had obtained dozens of reports showing that the names of trump transition officials were incidentally collected by u.s. intelligence agencies during foreign surveillance observation and were unmasked are included in report were spread throughout the intelligence community. devin nunes window to the white house to share the new evidence with the white house directly analogous happened without sharing the new intelligence that members of his own committee. adding to democrats, devin nunes camp at a public hearing for tuesda

reince priebus says he stands before his wiretap claim. >> people in the trump transition were unknowinglyurveillanced and illegally unmasked on documents which is what is being alleged out there. i think it's a big problem, and i think ultimately president trump is going to be proven correct. >> does the president believe at this was a concerted effort by the obama administration to sweep up this intelligence and to leak it to undercut the trump presidency? >> there's potentially something very wrong here, but i'm want going to go any further than that other than to say they think the documents that the intelligence committees have apparently asked for from all of these different agencies that they're collecting and reviewing will tell the story. >> priebus' comments come amid developments in the house intel investigation into the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia including former trump campaign associate roger stone offering to testify. here's stone who has said in recent weeks that he believes, he under surveillance and he was taking a swipe at congressman adam schiff. >> this is

joining us now, president trump's chief of staff, reince priebus. ce, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good morning, chris. chris: president trump reacted to the defeat of repeal and replace on friday by blaming democrats. here he is. >> we had no democrat support, we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote. chris: but, reince, the president never reached out to democrats, you never offered democrats a compromise, so how can you blame democrats for this? >> well, i mean, look, obamacare, as we know, is imploding, and it is exploding and every other adjective you can provide. it's going south. and it would be nice to get some democrats on board. but you're right, at the end of the day i believe that it's time for the party to start governing. and i think that's important. i also think though that democrats can come to the table as well. if you look at what the president said in the oval just after that comment, he said, you know, perhaps it's time for us to start talking to some moderate democrats as well and

into that shop, including sean spicer, the press secretary. >> what are you hearing now about reince priebuse are frustrated the way things are going and pointing their finger at priebus. they're finding him as the person to blame because of a couple of different things. he's a little bit suffocating in terms of his managerial style, that he guards access to the president a little too closely. they think he's been really aggressive in terms of filling the white house with his loyalists. and finally, they think he's been not effect of enough in terms of providing structure and they complain specifically about an 8 a.m. morning meeting that he runs that they think has really lacked direction a lot of days. >> we should note the banner of your screen, "knives out for priebus," i can hear sean spicer pushing back on that off the record today, is that sort of messaging strategy coming out from the press shop? >> they're going to defend priebus very aggressively. that's what they're going to do. that's what they've done to a number of different reporters who have written stories about priebus and

it's reince priebus' fault? is reince priebus to blame? >> you can't keep this all in one direction because all those different caucuses and different players have a different message. that's why they couldn't agree on next first place. it's now ending up in terms of how they are attack each other and blaming each other. howie: donald trump ran in this campaign as a different republican. he said we don't want anyone to lose coverage and from the day he took office he would be at odds with the most conservative wing of his party. the only question was co-and paul ryan and the white house staff pressure the freedom caucus saying we owe this vote to the president. >> there is so much finger blaming and point out what people did wrong. it's why the media coverage helped us understand the die ma'am nict republican party. but it doesn't just become about finger pointing. >> going found, let's see if the media covered this as trump's new hampshire. remember president obama lost new hampshire. how he came out of that and went on to further victory

we know that reince priebus and speaker ryan are very close, part of the gop establishment. have you heard anything about that? >> well, you know, i think that's a great point. i mean, there's only one paul ryan, and if not paul ryan, who else is going to take over as the house leader? i mean, it's a very difficult position to be in. now, there are many, many, many people in washington, d.c., who could be reince priebus and who could be chief of staff. and if you are donald trump and you feel that you need to blame somebody, it's much easier blaming the guy who you can replace than blaming the guy who is essentially not replaceable at this time. so you know, i think that that talk has -- there's a little bit that backs that up. >> and azi, there seems to be the issue beyond the collapse of health care, the ripple effect to tax reform, the issue we saw as we opened this show, with lindsey graham talking about being able to lower the corporate tax rate and the boos that the audience gave him in response to that. is that going to be an even tougher sell? >> you know, you just s

she is considered a key ally of reince priebus. bring in the political reporter who was invited to a meeting on thursday about walsh's departure. so jonathan, tell us a little about that. >> well, like other reporters in d.c., my phone was blowing up yesterday morning from about 7:00 a.m. with people outside the white house. close to the white house saying that katie walsh had been fired. i asked sean spice better that yesterday and he said it was false. then i got a phone call to come to the white house. so i went in and sat down with steve bannon and katie walsh and they explained she was leaving to join the main pro trump outside group. they were very dissatisfied with the group during the health care fight. they wanted some air cover, some advertising to put pressure on members, that never came. so they want her to go run the group. now, i went out and did a lot of reporting after that meeting and have come to the conclusion that that is correct. that she was certainly not fired. there are other rumors doing the rounds on the i

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. >> sean: reince priebus reacted to the republican health care bill being pulled on friday. we have reaction from corey lewandowski and geraldo rivera. david clarke and larry elder weigh in on the trump administration being surveilled. ann coulter will delve into the dangers of spring break. that's all tonight a meeting? it's a big one. too bad. we are double booked: diarrhea and abdominal pain. why don't you start without me? oh. yeah. if you're living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and abdominal pain, you may have irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea, or ibs-d. a condition that can be really frustrating. talk to your doctor about viberzi, a different way to treat ibs-d. viberzi is a prescription medication you take every day that helps proactively manage both diarrhea and abdominal pain at the same time. so you stay ahead of your symptoms. viberzi can cause new or worsening abdominal pain. do not take viberzi if you have or may have had: pancreas or severe liver problems, problems with alcohol abuse, long-lasting or severe constipation, or a blockage of your bowel

. >> yesterday reince priebus said it was merely a coincidence that he plugged fox news host janine on the day she said this. >> all ryan needs to to is step down. >> when it became clear republicans wouldn't get enough votes to pass it. the two spoke over the weekend and both are eager to get back to work and house speaker house ryan is expected to address the aipac conference meeting in washington today. >>> meanwhile they hold its vote on the nomination of judge kneel gore such, president trump's pick for the supreme court. anne-marie? >> hena daniels here in new york. thank you so much, hena. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," we'll discuss what's next for the gop with "usa today" washington bureau chief susan pa page. vice president mike pence talked about the u.s. and its many allies. >> after decades of simply talking about it, the president of the united states is giving serious consideration to moving the american embassy from tel aviv. >> pence also said the united states will not allow iran to develop a nuclear weapon. >>> turbulent and potentially dangerous weather, including

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this is not just a battle between freedom caucus and donald trump but the between reince priebus. e attacking each other. louie gohmert interesting comment, came out in texas radio broadcast. he is a congressman from texas. now priebus is giving donald trump advice causing him to turn on the very people that stood with him when paul ryan and all these others were abandoning him. this is what gohmert went on local texas news show. my producer brian schwartz fished that out. this just shows you the level of acrimony. we should point out we asked the white house for comment whether it's priebus behind donald trump pulling the strings. that is what they gave us. it is insulting to suggest that president trump would so easily be convinced to abandon his core political beliefs and steadfast supporters. what they're essentially saying no one is behind him. he is doing it himself. the freedom caucus believes its priebus. they will put pressure on donald trump to try to get rid of priebus. we should point out, i think this is where you, the viewer that cares about your money should care abo

not here is the chief of staff, reince priebus stayed in washington. make of that what you will. tom. >> david wright with the president tonight in palm beach, florida. david, thank you. >>> turning now to abc news chief political analyst, matthew dowd. the president started off the week strong with that rousing speech to congress. are these new tweets about to derail his focus? >> pivot to a more presidential way on tuesday. as you know in basketball you have to have that pivot foot firmly planted. his pivo it's going to make it much more difficult to accomplish his legislative agenda in short term. and not only that, his unprecedented attacks on a former president, saying that former president wiretapped him is going to make it very difficult for him to unify the congress. >> matt dowd, thanks. >>> and much more on these breaking political developments coming up tomorrow on abc's "this week." >>> next to the bitter chill blasting americans from the great lakes eastward this weekend. some of incredible images from those cold temperatures. firefighters in new jersey dealing with

we're told there's friction between reince priebus and those aligned with steve bannon. officials are saying some are using it to build their own power, will they build a bridge to democrats to get bills pass s ed? these are the same that president trump blamed after failing to repeal obamacare while on solving paul ryan. then over the weekend the president seemed to back away from that tone with a tweet telling people to watch judge jeani jeanine pirro on fox news. >> does the president want paul ryan to resign? >> i did not talk to the president about the tweet. there was no preplanning here. >> but why would he say watch her and then that's the first thing out of her mouth? >> because he wanted to do judge jeanine a favor. >> so does he want paul ryan to step down? >> no, he doesn't. >> a ryan spokesman says mr. trump was clear his tweet was not meant to be a shout at the speaker. staff aligned with priebus says the staff were quick will spread -- about ryan. >> cracks within the ultra conservative house freedom caucus over its role in scuttling the obamacare. ted poe

in addition to reince priebus, steve bannon on the hill right now. these are more moderate republicans meeting and the president trying to of course out how he can walk the line, thread this needle in keeping these more conservative members much the caucus on board and winning over support from the moderates, getting to the number they need. the white house is still hoping this can happen tomorrow that it will be a legislative victory for the president before the week is over. right now it's a treacherous path to passage. >> it certainly is. sara murray at the white house. let's get more on all of this. the number two democratic in the white house, the minority whip. >> thank you, wolf. >> what's your reaction? i don't know if you've gone through the new congressional budget office report, the scoring of this republican legislation. what's your reaction to it. >> the bill keeps getting worse and worse and, of course, the deficit reduction the republicans were claims have been ham by the changes they made. not only are the same 20 million losing their

we are told there's growing fiction between those -- to steve bannon and reince priebus. these of course the same democrats who president trump blamed shortly after the failure to repeal the obamacare while he absolved house speaker paul ryan, then over the week the president seemed to back away with a tweet calling people to watch judge pirro on fox news where she went on a rant calling for paul ryan's resignation. >> does the president want paul ryan to step down as speaker? >> i did not talk to the president about the tweet. i'm just telling the truth there was no preplanning. >> why would he say watch her? >> because he loves judge jeanine. >> does he want paul ryan to step down or not? no, he doesn't. >> a ryan spokesman says mr. trump was clear his tweet was not meant to be a shout at the speaker. reince priebus believes steve bannon was very quick to spread stories about ryan which is not helpful to build relationships in capitol hill. >> joining us, political economist, greg valir, and cnn politics reporter eugene scott. good morning to both of you, eugene, take a

and we have heard more of that this morning from the chief of staff reince priebus on "fox news sunday." watch. >> so does he want paul ryan to step down or no? >> no, he doesn't. and he's talked to paul ryan yesterday for about an hour. he believes what he said in the oval office on friday. he doesn't blame paul ryan. in fact, he thought paul ryan worked really hard. he enjoys his relationship with paul ryan. he thinks that paul ryan is a great speaker of the house. >> and reince priebus also went on to say in the interview it is time for our folks, republicans, to come together. and i also think it's time to potentially get a few democrats on board as well. two points to make like that, we see a tweet from the president this morning blame iing and say there are concerns with the republican party. they said they underestimated the animosity inside the caucus. and then when it comes to democrats, the same question. can the president blast democrats on twitter as he has the past couple of days and say, let's all get together and work together? those are the question about the president'

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reince priebus is on the hot seat.he doesn't come through on tax reform, he will not therebe there. >> michael? >> i think it depends what it says for the middle class. if it is perceived something that caused great benefit to the wealthy, it will be a stone cold loser much like the affordable care act was. difficult to achieve, but you try to bring all gop members on board and i don't think you can bring the moderates and conservatives in at the same time. the way to achieve success and grow that pie is attract democratic support. if i were president trump or whispering in his ear in the tweet he sent suggests he is thinking in the same terms. you cannot do business with the freedom caucus. keep the dents ams and moderate together. >> robert, with the president's mood and temperament, he seems fairly tempered. he, as you know, prides himself on being the ultimate deal maker. is it you win some, you lose some? >> i think that is it. i think the people around him, alisyn, under stood this was not his fault. democrats ar

and moments ago, reince priebus and steve bannon seen leaving that meeting. priebus, is saying tonight, they're still feeling positive. a lot of work to do, understatement of the year. phil mattingly is "outfront" on capitol hill right now with all of this. phil, what are your sources telling you about what actually went on in that meeting? >> the messenger is very clear, kate. the president wants a vote, he wants a vote tomorrow, and there will be no more negotiating. that's what mick mulvaney told the republican conference, according to a source in the room and made very clear, it was a message backed up by speaker paul ryan and majority leader, kevin mcarty, as well. they've very clear, despite what's been going on, despite the various options put on the table, the negotiating is over, the deal is exactly what was more or less proposed last night, stripping the health care benefits, the manager's amendment, and there will be no more. now, i'm told by a source in the room that was met with cheers, but the big question, obviously, remains, where does that le

we heard more of that from the chief of staff, reince priebus, speaking on "fox news sunday" this morning. watch. >> so does he want paul ryan to step down or no? >> no, he doesn't. and he's talked to paul ryan yesterday for about an hour. he believes what he said in the oval office on friday. he doesn't blame paul ryan. in fact, he thought paul ryan worked really hard. he enjoys his relationship with paul ryan. he thinks that paul ryan is a great speaker of the house. >> so very kind words coming from the chief of staffer and others in the white house. but the big question here going forward, fred, the proof is in the pudding. can the white house work well with speaker ryan and with the entire republican caucus in the house and in the senate in the end to get done some of the big things they want to get done. and we'll just have to wait and see if they can. >> athena jones, thank you. so. >>> let's discuss with our panel now, jeffrey lorde and the democratic national committeeman. hello, the el l hello. jeffrey, let's begin with you. the president likes to call himself the closer and to

and of course because reince priebus is the chief of staff, he probably takes the brunt of it, dana.> and phil, one source inside the white house described the whole russia situation as a series of paper cuts that they kind of can't get their mojo on their agenda because of so many issues affecting them and taking them off course. is it your sense from your reporting that, you know, reince priebus, would has been kind of caught in the cross hairs now is kind of in the same body along with steve bannon and others who were originally sort of -- looking a of the the palace intrigue here thought of as different chiefdoms, about now it's all sort of banned together all for one and one for all. are you hearing that? >> i'm hearing they are working together. they are both under extraordinary pressure. as are others in the white house. the president is frustrated that he is now entering into week seven without any signature accomplishments. he is looking back eight years ago to the things obama bom was able to do in his first month or two in office. the stimulus bill and other big-ticket ite

but that's what reince priebus said this is about.hen the white house chief of staff talki to s friends at cpac, he says the justice job, your job is to change 40 years of law. yet my colleagues and you say it is to follow the laws as written. well, it can't be both, so which is it? >> senator, it is to be a judge. to be fair, to follow the law, to apply it to facts and circumstances of each case and live out my judicial oath whichever court i serve on the 10th circuit where i served last 10 years. >> okay. >> and my opinions have been unanimous 97% of the time, senator. i've been -- >> i understand. you've given many times this, that answer so, if you will indulge me. mr. priebus went on to say your nomination was central to president trump fulfilling his policy objectives. quote, neil gorsuch represents the type of judge with vision of donald trump and it, referring to your nomination, fulfills the promise that he he made to all of you, speaking to the conservative activists gathered at cpac. what do you think that mr. priebus was t

reince priebus in that conversation about the fbi and the fbi director talking to him said these times reports are not true. these are the same stories that sean spicer using from the podium to say this justifies our claim and to be clear we stand by our reporting. these are now -- >> there you go. >> but that's a different point than you're making. >> i'm making -- >> let her finish. >> president and reince priebus said those weren't true so i'm trying to figure out what the white house thinks of this, one, and two, at the end of the day, i don't understand if you're a white house and you want people to either believe in institutions or not, i guess i'm confused about how you can cite these stories and -- let me finish tb and for the record those stories do not say what sean spicer claims they had said. sean spicer cited these to suggest they backed up the president's claim he was wiretapped by the previous president. >> surveilled p. >> that is not what those stories said. no, it is not. >> it says people of the obama administration were responsible for surveillance and that surveill

. >> white house chief of staff reince priebus said that president's tax reform plan would include middle class tax cuts and a border adjustment tax. it will not be easy. >> going to unite not just republican party but i think democrats will come onboard as well. >> if he aims a proposal aimed the at middle class and poor, does not aim at the rich they are doing great we can work with them. them. >> over a decade. so if you got rid of those it would have lowered revenue baseline for tax reform, they hope to make on that trillion with a border tax on imports, backers -- keepingses in the u.s. >> we want to make sure there is a level playing field between foreign products and made in america products here as well as abroad. >> house, ways and means committee will plan to take up a tax reform bill this spring. >> eric. >> thank you caroline. >> well house intelligence committee, nixing a second public hearing on russia's alleged involvement in u.s. elections, ordering a closed-door meeting instead, tom democrat calls this a mistake. compromising the ability to investigate ties between the tr

you had people like vice president pence, steve bannon, reince priebus, ivanka trump, jared kushner and others, and they certainly were laughing. they were among those who were -- who found this to be an amusing joke from president trump. >> hallie jackson, thank you for clarifying that. michael steele, wiretapping is something at's clearly on the minds of the foreign press. we have two questions on retapping from the german reporters. two questions on health care from the american reporter. so on this subject of wiretapping, how detrimental, how problematic? how significant is it for donald trump to make these claims, not have evidence and what does that mean for his credibility overseas? especially among our allies. >> well katie, that's it, the last point is the point. the credibility question is a big one. particularly for our european allies. they don't know donald trump. they've not dealt with him at all. certainly not in the political or diplomatic sphere. he's a guy whose come in an a player. >> he seems to play off a lot of popular decent if you will that a lot of voters have,

reince priebus said why it is so important to nominate you. he said, number one, we are not talking about a change over a four-year period. we're talking about a change of potentially 40 years of law, number one. that's change of potentially 40 years of law. change the law. you and your colleagues here have said the job of a judge is to follow the law, even if he dislikes the results, you said that, not change the law. but change 40 years of the law, but that's what reince priebus said this is about. when the white house chief of staff was talking to his friends at cpac, he says that justice's job, your job, is to change 40 years of law. yet my colleagues and you say it's to follow the laws as written. it can't be both, so, which is it? >> senator, it's to be a judge, to be fair, to follow the law, to apply it to the facts and circumstances of each case, and to live out my judicial oath on whichever court i serve on, whether it's the tenth circuit where i have served the last ten years -- >> okay. >> my opinions have been unanimous 97% of the

reince priebus seems to be there a lot to blame.e president appear to take any responsibility when controversy starts? for instance when the controversy starts because he tweets? >> that's a good question. and in general, we actually did a story on this as well. the sans no, donald trump is quickly becoming the don't blame me president. he sort of often when things go wrong, he blames his staff. he's obviously of course blamed president obama. he even blamed the weather for his smaller than he would have liked inaugural crowds. so now, the president may sort of set off this cascade with a tweet but then does not stand there to take responsibility and likes to diffuse the blame elsewhere. >> and seemed uncomfortable. >> no, there doesn't seem to be any shake up. so let's put changes in senior staffing and several different campaigns. and he can try to change horses. >> former cia director and national security advisor on "morning joe" this morning talked about the president's tweet storm. i want to get both of your reactions about th

he left reince priebus back in the white house over the weekend, when initially he was supposed to be down to mar-a-lago with him. steve bannon flew commercial down to mar-a-lago. what do you make of a president who is allegedly, reportedly, not getting along with those who are advising him? >> is that for me? >> that's for you, jeff. >> the president doesn't have the confidence of the american people. now increasingly he doesn't have the confidence of his own staff in the white house. there's clearly a lot of feuding going on in there. people are very upset about the outrageous tweets he puts out, the diminishment of the office of the presidency of the united states. so, you know, i think it's just one more element of the dysfunction going on in the white house behind his sort of blatant lying in his tweets about crowd sizes, voter fraud, barack obama wiretapping him. all ridiculous things. >> it can be easy to cast aside and say we shouldn't be talking about this. we should be talking about the immigration order, wiretapping. but tell me why it really matters that the white house be

political co is reporting that donald trump directed most of that rage at reince priebus. i'm joined by the roundtable. april, it seem like there's a captain -- this is weird behavior. to blast your staff and -- >> he is asking for congress to investigate this. not only this but the leaks coming out of the white house when it comes to national security. there are a lot of leaks on every issue. we're hearing from down the street, the other part of pennsylvania avenue, this is a diversion to take aware interest the white house. if there's bad press about there and there's twitter flurry he may react again to something else. he is keelly aware of what is said on this show and other shows. so we'll have to see how it plays out in his mind. >> i have tried to cover him, i keep trying cover him day-to-day, hour by hour, but i done kn don't know how to do cover mickey mouse like this. how do you cover a president without evidence that his predecessor is a criminal, and just says it. how do you cover him to say let's have an investigation, because that sound serious. it's not seri

the white house sent reince priebus, steve bannon and kellyanne conway on the hill to lobby the vote. at a meeting with trucking company executives, the president talked about the vote later today but he was unaware while he was speaking that it had already been called off. he was already blaming politics for the trouble the bill was in. >> they know it's no good. everybody knows it's no good. only politics because we have a great bill and i think we have a very good chance but it's only politician. >> i'll speak with two republican house members on either side of the debit. first let's get the -- kelly, where does this stand tonight? >> reporter: the white house simply got fed up. the president discovered that in negotiating with lawmakers even of his own party, to try to please one you would lose others from the most conservative to moderate. he really reached a point and said if not this vote, if not a passage or repeal of obamacare, then on to other things and he used that pressure to sort of say to republican members if you don't stand with the president, with the leadership now,

. >> the president's chief of staff staff, reince priebus has told fellow republican said it's time start governing. this after they were not able to repeal and replace the affordable care act. he said the setback will not slow the president down. >> i think that moving forward the presidents vision on lowering taxes for every american is what is going to unite, not just the republican party but some of the democrats will come on board as well. now more than ever, i think the president is even more emboldened to stick to his guns in his heart and the convictions he has laid out to the american people for decades. he's not going to turn his back on his core principles. think his core principles have broad admiration in both parties >> they also added it might be time to get some moderate democrats involved in the process. something echoed by the chairman of the group getting blamed for the failed bill, the house freedom caucus. >> no one has been more self critiquing the me. i have looked at this as i could i have spent more time, should have spent more time with the tuesday grouper with d

reporter: the white house chief of staff reince priebus says yes.mocrats and conservatives after president trump said lead tweeting for not backing his help her bills. >> we are moving not to tax reform the budget coming out here i'd take it as more or less a warning shot that we are willing to talk to anyone. we always have been and i think more so now than ever. reporter: having to ball the health care reform bill has been a major blow for the tax plan because the bill eliminated a trillion dollars in obamacare taxes over the next decade. if you give it up does come it would lower the revenue baseline for tax reform. eric: secretary treasury steve mnuchin hopes to get this done by august. what is the schedule and you think it's realistic? reporter: pretty tight. house ways and means committee kevin brady says this when he plans to take it up this spring. the president's plan would include middle-class tax cuts and a border adjustment tax. this would raise about a trillion dollars over a decade your proponents say would pay for corporate tax cuts.

this is not a reince priebus issue. they are leaking to newspapers that reince priebus is failing? no, this is not a reince priebus issue. this is a steve -- i'm sure steve bannon is doing this and i'm sure he is going to be on the cover of "time" magazine talking about reince priebus next week. how sick while the ship is going down in the way it's gone down this weekend, you have reince priebus being attacked? reince priebus isn't the one who tweeted out what was tweeted out saturday. reince priebus also wasn't the one who handed him this article. any guesses who handed them this breitbart article that made him go crazy? >> maybe who served as the head of breitbart who is itisitting there with the president. there are talent that can't get to the president and the feeling of frustration that many in the administration have. about what is going on here. for whatever it's worth. let's get to michael schmidt. i do want to read president obama's statement. a cardinal rule of the obamacare administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigatio

that he was pushed to do health care by reince priebus and by pence. that, in fact, what he wanted to do was go with tax reform first. now, this is where it is. however, within just the last few minutes, i spoke with three members in -- three people inside the west wing. the most senior said, when i asked what are you going to do about the key question, does he want to pull the vote? full steam ahead. they reported today personally the president had already met with 120 members. as you know and have reported throughout the day, the speaker left not a very long time ago, presumably to update the president on what wasn't good news. they couldn't absolutely confirm they had the votes. we saw the vice president, reince priebus, steve bannon meeting with members of the freedom caucus. i would say the considerations as serious, even somber. we saw a little bit of that with sean spicer. look, this is, no matter what order you wanted to do it in and them trying to say, well, it wasn't the president's idea to do this first, this was something key that the repub

, a consummate dealmaker in the first big negotiatn a moment we will drovn into whaten of the reince priebus and congressman e house freedom caucus. first, let's bring correspondent kevin corke at the white house. >>what could best be described as political low-hanging fruit, jobs, regulatory reformreat deal more about those issues this week as the white house tries to reassure the presidents rattled base after the setback on health care. the president seemed to look forward in a tweet he had talked about obamacare as you said comment saying that it will ultimately explode and that he would eventually together with just his party and perhaps even others who might want to be involved in all that and try to come up with a plan to repeal and replace for the people.he st was the message taken to west virginia by his mike pence. the fight to repeal and replace yet, obam. taxlies. there is se ultimately be child's play m of repeal and replace single vote. >> chris:is how can you blamodg, and every r adjective you can provide.ou. it would be nice to get the democrats on board. but you are right, at

if reince priebus wouldn't have done that they wouldn't have won. at a certain point you're right they outworked hillary clinton and they said that on one interview on tv, he said i'd rather end the campaign like this with wind at my back. >> but with reince, what do you make also of the -- willingness to take out after his opponents -- to sort of dis-- the policy if they criticize him they have to respond to slights, so on. and particularly this accusation that president obama spied on him at trump tower and ordered wiretapping without explanation. what do you make of that? >> i don't like it. you know, i wouldn't advise it if i was on his team but as i said it's kind of a quaint reassurance to people who like the fact that he's got these rough edges and he's unpredictable and not a politician because they just hate politicians. but having said that, i have to tell you something. [laughter] donald trump is not the first president to suspect that his predecessor spied on him when clintons came into power. hillary clinton you can read about it in "ga

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i think frankly, the chief of staff, reince priebus is, as well.ealth and human services secretary tom price, this is supposed to be his baby, and it is not clear what he did to advance the ball. the president is going to turn the page, go on to tax reform. he is eager to put out, as he puts it, a "win." the problem all along has been what constitutes a win. he did not have much of a vision for obamacare and his vision is shifting on tax reform. charlie: he has a new realization about the nature of republicans in congress. he may have thought he had the ability to convince them of something that they ideologically were not prepared to accept. robert: that is right. i think he came in figuring if republicans, 237 he invites them to the oval office, he lets them sit in mike pence's chair, they would let him do whatever he wanted. the freedom caucus may have trouble saying yes but they do , not have trouble saying no and that is precisely what they did to the president. charlie: and the president saying it, look how much better i did in your district