And this morning after a series of false starts the gop could be on the cusp of a big win on health care. The house is set to vote today on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare and Republican Leadership says they do at least have the votes to pass it. Momentum shifted when two influential moderates that had been no votes went into the yes column getting newcomb mittments on coverage for people with preexisting conditions. Its true. We have seen this before but Republican Leaders have been saying they wouldnt Bring Health Care to the floor unless it could pass. So it certainly seems like lie they believe they have the votes this time. So lets bring in phil on capitol hill with the latest. 8 billion. Thats what it took for republicans to finally get over the hump. The hump that has basically been the inability to pass the thing they campaigned on year after year after year, cycle after Campaign Cycle after Campaign Cycle. Multiple failures over the past two months. Today there will be a vote on the repeal and replace plan. That 8 million came in the form of a amendment. Held up this latest version of the proposal. Up to this point price protections related to those with preexisting conditions. Those regulations have been considered extremely porn and they are very, very popular. So much so that states could opt out all together. Left a lot of republicans particularly those that will face very real electoral problems in 2018 not willing to come on board. At least until wednesday morning. Thats when President Trump and two previously no vote members came together to agree on an amendment to send 8 billion more dollars to try to help finance any premium increases that those individuals might see. Now that in and of itself being enough to get members to the requiz sit 2016 votes they need. Its a bit of a surprise. Its a fullcourt press. House leaders going member by member. So the yeses and noes to try to get them to a place where they could finally pass this bill. They say theyre there. Im told theyre right on a razors edge. They din think they could pass it at least at this point in time. Democrats obviously not sold. Chuck schumer slamming the amendment to federal funding of high risk pools and opposed and amendment is trying to cure stage 4 cancer with cough medicine. Tell us how you really feel. After White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer fighting back trying to ease concerns about the preexisting conditions issue. Why change preexisting conditions . Were not. Were strengthening. We have done everything to strengthen. Sure you can but the fundamental point that seems to be getting lost is that if you have obamacare right now in case of case youre losing it. If you have a preexisting condition then you dont have coverage. We are guarenteeing it. But i dont know how much. Why not just keep that the president has made it very clear that preexisting conditions are covered in the bill under every scenario. So you heard mr. Spicer there saying that some people with obamacare coverage are losing it. He is talking about more Insurance Companies pulling out of obamacare marketplaces. Just yesterday they announced theyre with drawing from virginia saying its on track to lose 200 million this year alone and the biggest remaining insurer in iowa says it also may leave the program leaving most counts in iowa without a single insurance option on balm care in 2018. Despite what gop lawmakers claim, experts say pumping 8 billion into high risk pools wont match obamacares protections from preexisting conditions. So states opt out of the requirement that insurers have to cover everyone that will wind up jacking up premiums for americans with preexisting conditions. So in theory theyre designed to help the sick avoid coverage but critics say that the new funding wont go far enough. Especially if many states apply for waivers. They estimate a adequate high risk pool would cost about 25 billion per year so that 8 billion will only cover a few hundred thousand people. 35 states ran high risk pools before obamacare and republicans defend them as a way to cover the sick separately and lower premiums for healthy consumers but these pools have a checkered past. They were typically underfunded. They charged higher premiums and they had long waiting lists. In 2011 they covered 226,000 people. Its a fraction. And premiums only paid for half of the 2. 6 billion they racked up in claims and that forced states to cover the 1. 2 billion difference. So you look at the 8 billion injection. Its on top of the 130 billion already provided to help lower the cost of the new bill. You look at all of these numbers and the fact of the matter is obamacare isnt perfect but many will also say this new bill looking to go to the house floor, it aint perfect either. Doesnt appear to be. But the big question is how many states will apply for the waiver, how many states will be granted that waiver . How many people will be priced out of preexisting conditions and forced into these high risk pools. We have no idea. But there does seem to be a consensus that the 8 billion that youre seeing them throw into this final hour is not enough to cover those. That seems like a lot of money when you consider the grand scheme of things. To cover the entire country. A lot of questions remain. Thats not coming before a vote. Meanwhile President Trump plans to commemorate todays national day of prayer by signing an executive order that allows churches and other organizations to become more politically active. It directs the irs to use, quote, maximum Enforcement Discretion over the Johnson Amendment since 1954 the Johnson Amendment has barred taxexempt organizations including churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates. President s order also provides regulatory relief to organizations that object on religious grounds to providing obamacare mandates like contraception to their employees. Some religious leaders oppose the order fearing it will make it easier to inject politics into the places of worship and perhaps divide their members of their insurance. Time will tell how this is received. The president back in the big apple. Back in new york city for the First Time Since taking office. Hell be holding talk with australias prime minister. The two leaders exchanged words in a february phone call that briefly trained the relationship between the two allies and tonight mr. Trump delivers a speech on board the uss int rerks pid to they halted an advance by the japanese military. James comey back for more testimony on capitol hill today. This time behind closed doors. Comey and mike rogers will be taking questions from the house sbel yens committee. It comes the day after the fbi chief delivered explosive testimony before a Senate Committee on the bur rows russia investigation and on his decision to publicly announce the relaunch of the clinton email server probe just days before the election but he has no regrets. He doubted the top officials in the department of justice could carry out the investigation without the perception of bias. Thats before the meeting on a phoenix tarmac during the height of the campaign. And then the capper, im not picking on the attorney general but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the capper for me and i then said the department cannot be itself credibly end this. Pressed by democrats on why he confirmed the investigation of clinton but not a concurrent probe, Trump Campaign ties to argue. He argued it was a matter of time. On multiple occasions he contradicted President Trump on russian interference in the u. S. Election expressing high confidence that russia carried out the hacking and that russia preferred trump to win. Comey also defended his decision to notify congress on october 28th, days before at the election that the fbi was reopening the investigation into clintons email practices after the discovery of new emails from long time clinton aid on the computer of her then husband former congressman anthony weiner. It was that discovery that lead him to write his 11th hour letter to congress. Thank you. Susan rice declining to testify at a Senate Committee hearing. They tell cnn that rices first thought was bipartisan. Then she heard from the ranking democrat on the panel that he had not signed off on the letter sent by republican chairman Lindsey Graham so she decided not to testify. The source says rice considered the invitation in an attempt to divert attention from Russian Election hacking. At one point President Trump alleged rice broke the law by requesting the normally routine unmasking of americans involved in a hacking investigation. President trump vowing to broker peace in the middle east as he welcomed Palestinian Authority president to the white house wednesday. The president said he would like to step in as a mediator, an arbitrator facilitator. In classic trump form the president suggested this wouldnt be so hard. Something that i think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years but we need two willing parties. We believe israel is willing. We believe youre willing and if youre both willing were going to make a deal. He expressed hope mr. Trump could help bring peace praising the president for his negotiating skills. An emergency meeting of the royal staff has been called by the Senior Member of the queen of englandsel household. Were learning that theres an understanding that something significant is going to be discussed but theres no cause for alarm and theres no specific word what the meeting is about despite rampant speculation overnight on the internet. To say the least. Speculation has gotten out of control over this one but looks like a false alarm at this point. Ahead the family of alton sterling lashing out after learning two officers wont face federal charges in his shooting death. Youll hear from them, next. Disappointed and angry after the Justice Department decided not to bring civil rights charges against two Police Officers developed in sterlings Fatal Shooting last year. The family still hoping for justice from state prosecutors. Why did the government pass on the sterling case . What comes next . We get more from ed. Nearly ten months after alton sterling was shot and killed outside the triple S Convenience store, federal prosecutors determined those two officers will not face federal criminal charges for civil Rights Violations in this elton sterling case. Prosecutors said there wasnt enough evidence to show these two officers acted wilfully. At the federal level the bar for bringing these kinds of civil rights violation charges is very high. Because of that prosecutors said they would have to be able to show these officers willfully acted the way they did in wanting to shoot and kill sterling. There simply wasnt enough evidence. They met with the family on wednesday outlining some of the evidence they had come across and afterward they said they were stunned to hear one particular development. The words from one officer as he approached the scene. This is what he said according to the lawyer and sterlings fami family. He walked up to him and put a gun to his head and said ill kill him. He put that gun to his head and said im going to kill you. So how do you think he felt after hearing im going to kill you. You could tell that was an emotional part of that meeting with federal prosecutors. What happens now . This case is definitely not over. The state attorney general will now take over its own investigation and continue looking into foss blt of filing state criminal charges. We certainly have not heard the last of that story to that point. Steven colbert responding after a Viral Campaign after a joke about President Trump. Hear next. After a stunning rant against President Trump during his monologue on monday night. His remarks criticized as lewd and offensive. He began last nights show with a mea culpa of sorts. Im still the host. [ applause ] now, folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. I had a few choice insults for the president in return. I dont regret that. I believe he can take care of himself. I have jokes. He has the launch codes. So fair fight. So while i would do it again i would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. Those words made reference to trump, Vladimir Putin and a sex act. The friend he referenced is his cbs colleague. The president abruptly ended their Oval Office Interview after being pressed on his claim that Obama Wiretapped him which was a bizarre interaction if you have seen it. If not you should check that out online but clearly colbert went way too far. A little over the top. Yeah. Just a little. Google investigating a sophisticated fish ago tack that targeted gmail users. It appeared as an he email invitation prompting the user to open google docs allowing access to email accounts and contacts. Google is saying it stopped the attacks in an hour and roughly 1 million gmail accounts were effected. No other information was exposed. Its easy to say toipt clii wank on that but dont. 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Welcome back to early start. Good morning. May the 4th be with you. Its star wars day. We hope christine is feeling better. She will be back soon but after a series of false starts the gop could be on the cusp of a big win on health care. The house set to vote today on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare and Republican Leadership says they do have the votes to pass it. Momentum shifted when two moderates that had been no votes flipped into the yes column on getting new coverage for people with preexisting conditions. We have seen this movie before but Republican Leaders have been saying since the first repeal effort collapse that they would not Bring Health Care to the floor unless it could and will pass. It seems likely they at least believe they have the votes this time so lets bring in fill for the latest. 8 billion. Thats what it took for republicans to finally get over the hump. The hump thats the inability to pass the thing campaigned on year after year after year. Cycle after Campaign Cycle after Campaign Cycle. Repealing and replacing obamacare. We have seen multiple failuring over the last two months. Today there will be a vote on the repeal and replace plan. That comes in the form of an amendment that was targeted at trying to assuage the Major Concerns that held up this latest version of the proposal up to this point. That is price protections related to those with preexisting conditions. Those regulations are considered extremely important and theyre very popular. So much so that the idea that states could opt out from them all together left a lot of re , republicans, those that will face very real electoral problems not willing to come on board. At least until wednesday morning. Thats when President Trump and two previously no vote members came together to agree on an amendment to send 8 billion more dollars t