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and administration officials said he will host lawmakers -- including Upton and Long - at the White House on Wednesday." http://politi.co/2p4k3Oi HUFFPO'S MATT FULLER'S WHIP LIST -- 20 nos, 13 undecided, 14 lean yes, 7 lean no. http://huff.to/2qqTsig ... 23 nos kills the bill. -- REPUBLICANS' BIG MOMENT: Dawsey, Bres and Bade's scoop -- that Republicans leaders are drafting an escape-hatch amendment and Trump will personally meet with lawmakers -- represents a big moment for the president and GOP leaders. If ambivalent Republicans have any interest in getting on board, this is their opportunity. They can frame this change as being what they needed to get the bill to a better place. THE STAKES -- TRUMP: For those still calling Trump a "dealmaker," despite the fact that he hasn't cut one significant legislative deal as president, this will be a telling moment. Trump isn't really cutting this potential deal -- it's coming from Capitol Hill - but he'll have the chance to try to seal it when lawmakers go to the White House today. The split screen -- working toward Middle Eastern peace with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and arm-twisting Republican lawmakers at the White House -- will be a fascinating moment. This is a pretty clean test of Trump's persuasion skills. -- RYAN: The House is basically ungovernable at this point, but Paul Ryan is the public face of that. He really needs to get this across the finish line for his own internal political purposes. People are watching. THERE'S INCREASING ALARM in the Capitol about letting the health-care vote slip past the 11-day House recess that begins tomorrow night. The earliest the bill could come to a vote is Thursday -- and that would be pretty tricky, considering changes are being made at the last minute. REMEMBER -- Republicans dumped all over Democrats when they made changes to the health-care bill behind closed doors outside the committee process. Look where the GOP is now. Who knew health care was so hard? -- NEW POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL: "Voters resist pre-existing condition opt-out," by Steven Shepard: "When it comes to overhauling the Affordable Care Act, there's one thing voters in both parties can agree on: They oppose weakening federal protections for those with pre-existing medical conditions. A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows resistance to the new measure's most controversial provision, with half of all voters opposing allowing states to decide whether to opt-out of requiring health insurance companies to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. It's a key offering from GOP House leadership to conservatives wary that the party's previous Obamacare replacement didn't go far enough in unwinding the law." http://politi.co/2pH3f43 BEN WHITE'S MILKEN MEMO in Morning Money from the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills: "One thing that struck MM both inside meeting rooms and in chatter around the hallways here at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills this week: very little Trump freak-out. ... While the president's latest tweets on shutdowns or interview comments on the Civil War, North Korea, Hillary Clinton or health care continued to dominate Beltway and cable TV chatter, the well-heeled executives making the rounds here and schmoozing with multiple Trump administration officials pretty much blew it all off. ... The main message : Focus on what the president actually does and much less on what he says." ****** a message from JPMorgan Chase & Co.: "The same attributes that drive business success - innovation, ingenuity and the ability to efficiently marshal human and financial capital - also offer tremendous promise to help solve pressing societal challenges," Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon notes in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Responsibility Report. http://politi.co/2qeIFZc ****** COMING ATTRACTIONS -- "Former Acting AG Yates to contradict administration about Flynn at hearing," by CNN's Jim Sciutto, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown: "Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired, contradicting the administration's version of events, sources familiar with her account tell CNN. In a private meeting January 26, Yates told White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia in conversations with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak." http://cnn.it/2pX0jAZ THE HERITAGE BEAT -- "DeMint defiant after Heritage ouster," by Nancy Cook: "Sen. Jim DeMint is not leaving the Heritage Foundation quietly. Hours after the think tank's board of directors unanimously voted to oust him, DeMint, through a spokesman, released his own accounting of his tenure -- with more than nine bullet points listing his accomplishments. Among them: The key role that Heritage played in