If it's Wednesday, it's the final countdown to an historic and politically perilous vote

in the House to send the President's sweeping legislative agenda to his desk to become

the law of the land.

That's if the White House can't convince a group of conservative holdouts to get on board.

Plus, Democrats begin to plan their midterm messaging in response to today's expected vote,

hoping that the president's policy ideas backfire and help put them back in control of Congress.

And the Justice Department wants Sean Diddy Combs to remain in custody after a jury clears him of the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, but does convict him on two

counts of transportation to engage the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington, where it's all hands on deck as the president and House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to deliver the votes to get his signature domestic legislation passed.

Right now, action on the House floor is stalled. We are still waiting on this current vote to get to another vote to tee up the big vote on final passage.

Bottom line here, the delays suggest leadership does not think it has enough support to pass the bill right now.

It comes after a day of furious behind-the-scenes negotiations with President Trump,

meeting with multiple Republican coalitions from Deficit Hawke Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus

to the more centrist members who are concerned about the bill's

steep cuts to Medicaid. Publicly, the president took to social media to urge the bill's

passage, saying extending the tax cuts and reduced spending would lead to a, quote, economic

renaissance. Speaker Johnson also touted the bill as he huddled with Republican holdouts.

Here's some of what he told reporters today about his message to the Republicans on the fence.

When you have a piece of legislation that is this comprehensive and with so many agenda items

involved, you're going to have lots of different priorities and preferences among people

because they represent different districts and they have different interests. But we can't make

everyone 100 percent happy. It's impossible. This is a deliberative body. It's a legislative process.

By definition, all of us have to give up on our personal preferences. I never got to ask anybody

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