austin, in texas, in our special south by southwest film festival edition of talking movies, i'm tom brook the festival's opening night film from a visionary american director. most films out there have the same formula. and terence malik has a different formula. the action—oriented big budget hopefully the movie just takes someone on a ride. it is designed to be seen large and loud. the south by southwest film hé'fié é s‘géiiél feel-ii nsng'e: “in the}; politically charged times. it a film that totally normalise; american muslim and also the average american mexican immigrant. this is about religious freedom. and oscar winer melissa leo playing an activist atheist once dubbed "the most hated woman in samerica"——.= i think the question of religious freedom has come up again in ourworld. plus an experimental film that uses the rat as the storytelling device. a rat nibbled the egg and let the light in. all that and more in this special south by southwest film festival edition of talking movies. austin has been enveloped by south by southwest — a sprawling interactive media, music and film fes

brooke. >> snow boot day tomorrow to say the least. tom sater. i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" starts right now. >>> kellyanne conway says she is not inspector gadget. this news cast will self-destruct in 60 minutes. "the lead" starts now. deadline day for the white house to provide proof that president trump did not make up that claim that president obama tapped his phone. could a microwave oven end up on the capitol steps before the day is done? >>> health care reality check. what's the cost for you? what's the cost politically? republicans bracing for the budget estimate on their plan to replace obamacare. >>> plus, more than 2 feet of snow. a blizzard heading to the northeast. millions in the cross-hairs. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're minutes away from the deadline for the trump administration to hand in any evidence of the wiretapping accusations president trump levelled against president obama two saturdays ago. the house intelligence committee requested the justice department provide them today with any proof at al

brooke. >> snow boot day tomorrow to say the least. tom sater. i'm brooke baldwin.lead" starts right now. >>> kellyanne conway says she is not inspector gadget. this news cast will self-destruct in 60 minutes. "the lead" starts now. deadline day for the white house to provide proof that president trump did not make up that claim that president obama tapped his phone. could a microwave oven end up on the capitol steps before the day is done? >>> health care reality check. what's the cost for you? what's the cost politically? republicans bracing for the budget estimate on their plan to replace obamacare. >>> plus,

a great piece over the weekend by david brooks on this. tom: bring up the brooks piece.orning must-read. as anbeing pushed through elitist, anti-democratic rush. -- the old era was a big government versus the state. thisore of the new era is -- if you are pro-market, you have to be pro-state. republican senators tilting towards being concerned about pro-market, pro-state? a new era? kevin: here is what i am looking at in the cbo report. not how much it costs, it also another number -- how many people will lose health care as a result of the new plan? itthat number will put moderate republicans ask -- republicans up for risk in question. people like rand paul and markley, they will be even more involved. the weekend, mike pence campaigned in kentucky. as well as mitch mcconnell. the white house has done a lot of outreach to try to get off -- tom: the timebomb of this late last week was -- coming out with a 15 million statistic. and they hedged that. you really wonder where we will be on wednesday, after we got the deal with aei and then we go to the cbo thing. francine: y

tom is my colleague at brookings, one of the most outstanding young strategists and big picture in american foreign policy today. i may be biassed but i think it is fair comment and you will have the chance to evaluate for yourself not only this morning but when his new book comes out later this spring "all measures short of war." let's hope that is what we will all be talking about today and hopefully be talking about more about military deterrence and capability and keeping the peace than fighting the next big war. of course, we still are a nation in combat in the middle east in particular and so we will have a lot of specific issues with military operations to discuss. that's where retired lieutenant general mike muller will be helpful, too. general muller had a distinguished career in the u.s. air force as a bomber pilot, as a strategy and operations planner in southern command and central command. he was the head of j 5 for both of those regional military commands and worked with general petraeus and others on key issues in our western hemisphere and the broader middle east in those to

. >> why don't we start this round with tom who can either defend brookings honor or not and then we'll go to bob and mike. >> just on the first question, you know, i see a few cameras here, so i guess it depends whether or not there's a clip on "morning joe" or "fox and friends," in which case, i think he'll see it, but otherwise, probably not. i think it is actually an important question because he clearly is not intellectually curious in the sense of looking at the broader debate on these issues, but then he has appointed these people to the positions who are. i mean, secretary mattis and hr mcmaster are probably two of the most widely read officers of any generation in terms of their sort of interest in these broader debates. and so the administration, i think, and i say this as someone who's been quite critical and skeptical of them, i think that has been one of the few sort of positive things developed. so there are multiple ways, i think, for those folks who work these issues to ensure that those arguments are heard from within the administration but not necessarily from the oval

tom price. according to one attendee, dave brooks, he said that the focus seemed to be on getting health care out of way, instead of his words, getting it right. as the freedom caucus makes its last dix efforts overnight and tomorrow to make some substantive changes to the bill, the white house secretary sean spicer says there is no plan b. >> is there a plan b? >> there is no plan b. there's plan a and plan a. we're going to get this done. >> so you're confident, 100% confident? >> we're going to get it done. plain and simple. >> plain and simple. there could be a new wrench thrown into the mix. we're expecting a new score from the congressional budget office. a new estimate of how many people would lose insurance. how much the bill would cost. and one brink ways and means chairman is not going on narrow the deficit by as much as the previous bill. so how will republicans take to that? will the debate change tomorrow? and what does it mean for the overaller vote count. >> the markets seem to be rallying. the volatility index continues higher. does the vote go through? what happens to the market

host: william galston from brookings today's white house today's white house briefing tom price spoke to reporters about the congressional republican plan to repeal the affordable care act. his is about half an hour. > i brought a guest. good afternoon. first off at the top, i want to acknowledge that there's been an additional wave of threats to jewish committee centers and anti-defamation league offices. according to some reports there have been over 100 bomb threats phoned into jewish institutions since the start of this year alone. as the president said at the beginning of his joint address, quote, we're a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its forms. we denounce these latest anti-semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms. it is incredibly saddening i have to continue to share these disturbing reports with you and i share the president's thoughts that he hopes we don't continue to have to share these reports with you. as long as they will -- as long as they do continue we will continue to condemn them and look at ways which we can stop them.

tom price. tune in for that 9:00 eastern here on cnn. in the meantime, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. let's go to washington. "the lead" starts now. >> thank you, brooke. sean spicer said the cbo is consistently wrong, but his boss used to think otherwise. "the lead" starts right now. >>> the price tag fall out on capitol hill from democrats and republicans after the cbo finds that the republican health care plan would fall well short of the president's campaign promises. >>> the white house now saying the president is extremely confident that he will be vindicated on his claim that president obama wiretapped him. maybe they found that microwave cam. >>> plus dangerous winds, sleet and snow coming in sideways, shutting down cities and the danger is far from over.

and i will be moderating a town hall with secretary tom price, but first waiting for the president to come out and speak in michigan. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> all right. here we go, i'm brooke baldwin you're watching cnn. full disclosure. you are about to see a wild hour of live events, am i right? i'm right. the first comments on the blistering health care bill and revelation about the wiretap claims, also republican senator lindsey graham said to push the fbi to reveal president trump's possible ties to russia. first, let's go to christina alexi on the federal reserve, what do you have? >> as expected the federal reserve did raise interest rates a quarter of one percentage point pretty much in line with what all analysts have been expecting an there's good reason for this, brooke. if you look at economic data across the board what the fed is looking at, its looking at relatively unemployment. good job growth numbers and rising consumer prices so you take that all together the fed is raising rates because it doesn't want to see the economy overheat. what does that mean for the average person? they're going to

and i will be moderating a town hall with secretary tom price, but first waiting for the president to come out and speak in michigan. newsroom with brookeght now. >>> all right. here we go, i'm brooke baldwin you're watching cnn. full disclosure. you are about to see a wild hour of live events, am i right? i'm right. the first comments on the blistering health care bill and revelation about the wiretap claims, also republican senator lindsey graham said to push the fbi

tom price. tune in for that 9:00 eastern here on cnn. in the meantime, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. let's go to washington. "the lead" starts now. >> thank you, brooke. sean spicer said the cbo is consistently wrong, but his boss used to think otherwise. "the lead" starts right now. >>> the price tag fall out on capitol hill from democrats and republicans after the cbo finds that the republican health care plan would fall well short of the president's campaign promises. >>> the white house now saying the president is extremely confident that he will be vindicated on his claim that president obama wiretapped him. maybe they found that microwave cam. >>> plus dangerous winds, sleet and snow coming in sideways, shutting down cities and the danger is far from over. welcome to "the lead." i'm jim sciutto in for jake. we begin today with our politics lead. this afternoon the white house was forced to defend the republicans' proposed health care overhaul by, once again, lashing out at the source of some inconvenient information. this time the target is

security is considering a proposal tom adul when they try to enter the country illegally at the southern border. let's get right to jonathan sanders from stony brook university school of journalism. also cnn political analyst kirsten powers and david rode. i saw you shaking your head when i said that about separating children. >> it sounds like something stalin would do in getting people ready to go to the gulag. >> wow, that's a tough assessment. >> it's inhumane at a minimum, and i guess it's supposed to discourage people from coming here. but i don't think that people are going to be discouraged if they're trying to flee a terrible situation. and the idea of taking a child and putting them in detention away from their mother is just unamerican. >> we're going to talk about that later on in the show. i wanted to get to russia. but as i was reading it, i saw you shaking your head because it -- >> well, russia is always a good comparison for the extreme actions that we sometimes see lurking as proposals in american politics. >> what do you mean? explain that. >> well, we've seen russia, the 19th century philosopher says it was created as an experi

security is considering a proposal tom adul when they try to enter the country illegally at the southern border. let's get right to jonathan sanders from stony brookitical

brookings institution expect at least 15 million people will lose coverage under the american health care act. the replacement for obamacare that's been proposed. but on morning joe earlier, health and human services secretary tom price insisted no one's getting left behind. >> when it's implemented, would anyone lose his or her health care? >> they may be moved from a plan theyurrently haveo a plan that's much more desirable for them to have. >> so the numbers like the 15 million people that have been thrown around that will be moved off the affordable care act are patently false? >> i believe that those numbers look at this in a siloed situation where they don't look at the kind of reforms and changes that will come about. or the options and greater choices that individuals will have. >> that's what you call an unclear answer. the president is directing his message outside of d.c. sending vice president pence to sell the plan tomorrow in kentucky. we've got all of this covered with our team of correspondents and guests. let's begin with, nbc's chris jansing, at the white house. the president is meeting with various committee chairs. they met today. they gave a president conference. they say they're behind it.

tom: you have to write more this weekend. i would kill for an op-ed from you and laura nadler brookings.owrite piece, that would be great for the nation. we are going to come back with phil about her. -- with willem buiter. all sorts of things to talk about. knows up later today, he lse, dr. el-erian of cambridge will appear in the 8:00 hour. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: "bloomberg surveillance." busy this morning. willem buiter has been more than patient. let's touch on health care. you live to this, too. is nationalism of health care the same as socialism of health care? carem: i really do not whether it is or not. the fact is that private insurance for health conditions is disappearing because too many health conditions are predictable and they are not private insurable. so we need private health care like the canadian system, or the british system. or we need what they have in the netherlands. if you want innovation, it is really inefficient to fund through corporate. tom: we will continue our discussion with professor buiter here. right now without bloomberg business flash, here is tay

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and tom is my colleague at brookings, one of the most outstanding young strategists and big picture thinkers in american foreign policy today. i may be biased because i like tom as well as a friend but i also think it's a fair comment. you'll all have the chance to evaluate for yourself not only this morning but when his new book comes out later this spring, "all measures short of war." "all measures short of war." and let's hope that's what we'll all be talking about today, and keeping the peace rather than fighting the next big war. but of course we are a nation in combat in the middle east in particular. and so we'll have a lot of specific issues with military operations to discuss. that's where retired general mike moeller will be helpful too. general moeller had a distinguished career in the u.s. air force as a bomber pilot, as a strategy and operations planner within both southern command and central command. he was the head of j-5 for both of those regional military commands, worked with general petraeus, worked with others on some of the key issues in both our own western hem sneer a