Saying the assad regime would pay a heavy price. Good morning. Its tuesday, june 27th. With the grinding down, the cbos assessment of the Senate Health care plan is making it that much harder for republicans to push it through. The Nonpartisan Group found that over the next decade 22 Million People fewer people would be uninsured compared to obama care, and that deficit savings would largely come on the back of cuts in medicaid, spending 772 billion. Of the 15 Million People who would no longer be on medicaid as a result of the new law, the cbo forecast most would not purchase private coverage since the senate bill would encourage them to purchase plans whose premiums and deductibles are too high to be attractive options. The plan would reduce the deficit by 320 billion. At first the cbo premiums would go up, but by 2026 the premiums could be 20 lower compared to obama care. Still, that doesnt account for reductions in coverage for out of pocket costs and changes to subsidies, and the report concluded that the senate plan would disproportionately impact elderly. Now, the white house responded by stating in part, the cbo has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how Health Care Legislation will impact insurance coverage. This history of inaccuracy as demonstrated by its flawed report on coverage premiums and predicted deficit arising out of obama care, reminds us that its analysis must not be trusted blindly. Senate majority whip cornyn said the first procedural votes could come as early as this afternoon but more likely tomorrow. Then the socalled vote of amendments could begin as early as thursday with final passage late that night or early friday. So well just get the votes that it needs to pass for the moment for republican senators standing in the way of the bill, even coming to the senate floor. Ron johnson of wisconsin, dean heller of nevada, rand paul of kentucky, and Susan Collins of maine have all indicated they would vote against a motion to proceed forward. Senator collins tweeted she wants to work with her Senate Colleagues to fix obama care, but the cbo Analysis Shows the senate bill will not do that. She went on, senate bill does not fix aca problems for rural maine. Our hospitals that are already struggling. One in five mainers are on medicaid, and others remain on the fence. Take a listen. It makes me more concerned. I have been uncommitted and i remain uncommitted. I mean, just deadline uncommitted. This cuts funding for planned parenthood for one year. It concerns me. Will you vote for something that cuts it at all . What i have said very clearly is that i dont think that the issue of medicaid reimbursement for planned parenthood should be an issue in this bill. If we have to get to a point to offer amendments, i would move to strike that. But senator john thoune told the New York Times this is the best we can do to try to satisfy all the different perspectives in our conference. Its time to fish or cut bait. Senate democrats staged a latenight talkathon in opposition to the Gop Health Care bill. Short speeches started shortly after the 5 30 p. M. Vote and went on for hours. Trump care would be a disaster for the american people, and we are going to fight against it tooth and nail. I know that no republican wants to see anybody die. None of us do. That is the reality that we are dealing with, and you cannot ignore it. You need to do the right thing. Vote no on this bill for their sake, for the sake of your constituents. Senate republicans should not still be trying to figure out the best way to ram this bill through the senate. They should just throw it in the trash. While that was going on inside senator cory booker and congressman john lewis also staged a sitin outside on the Capitol Steps joined by dozens over the course of several hours. This evil bill, its not about going together. Its about leaving people behind. Its about cutting people off. We are doing everything we can to prevent it from passing, and were close to victory because of you. Joengs from Washington White House correspondent for the hill jordan fabian. Its good to have you with us this morning. Lets start by having you take us inside your reporting about what Senate Republicans will realistically do next. I mean, does it look like were going to see more of the carrot or stick at this point approach . Well, thanks. Talking to senators and their aides yesterday, there are just a lot of nervousness and really just uncertainty about the path forward for this bill following this report. You have those numbers that you just laid out. Very damaging politically for Republican Leaders who are trying to force a vote this week. You have those four senators standing in the way of a procedural vote that would move this forward. That means that were hearing that theres a possibility that the leaders might need to make some last minute changes to this legislation to move it forward, but then you run into a problem. Its almost like squeezing a balloon. In that group you have two moderates and two conservatives. If you start making changes on one side, it makes problems for the other side. Thats part of what senator thune was saying in the its time to fish or cut bait. Its hard to make changes at this juncture that would satisfy enough senators to push this thing forward. To make everybody happy. Anything positive in this cbo report for the republicans . Any Silver Linings here that you can see . And try to earn their votes. They have some room to play with there with that deficit reduction figure. And we know the white house is going to have to try and get some republicans on board, but weve also heard that protrump groups are going to start buying some ads to pressure senators like dean heller to fall in line. Take a listen to what Lindsey Graham said yesterday. Hearing his reference who the white house, Congressional Republicans learn to be wary of the president. Absolutely. I think we learned that during the debate over the house bill as well when you saw President Trump get on twitter and start going after holdout members of the Freedom Caucus. Theres some nervousness about how the white house handles this, but, look, we talked to one aide in a moderate Senate Republicans office, and there was more anger directed really at Senate Leaders. They said that, you know, President Trump wanted to make this more generous, and they didnt follow through on that promise. All right. Certainly keeping an eye on this. Jordan fabian for us, thank you so much where. Thanks. Last night at the white house they put out an ominous and unexpected warning to syria concerning another possible chemical weapons attack statement from the press secretary. It reads, the United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children. The activities are similar to preparings the regime made before its april 4, 2017, chemical weapons attack. As we have previously stated, the United States is in syria to eliminate the Islamic State of iraq and syria. If, however, mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will have to pay a heavy price. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley went further in a tweet saying, any further attacks done to the people of syria will be blamed on assad, but also on russia and iran who support him killing his own people. The u. S. Conducted air strikes back on april 6th in retaliation of sorts for using chemical weapons against syrians in the province which left more than 80 civilians dead there, including dozens of children. And the u. S. Supreme court has partially reinstated President Trumps travel ban from six predominantly muslim countries granting temporary entry to the country for certain kinds of people, including those who have a close relative who is a u. S. Citizen, those who are attending an American University or college, and people who have job offers from the u. S. Businesses. That means the department of Homeland Security and state department will have to begin sorting through travellers applications to determine the extent of their link to the United States. The court ruled unanimously to hear the case during its fall term and agreed that the lower courts had gone too far in overturning the ban of new visas. The court wrote that in the interest in preserving National Security it is an urgent objective of the highst order and to prevent the government from pursuing that objective would injure its interests without alleviating obvious hardship to anyone else. Justice clarence thomas, samuel aleddo and neil gorsuch would have let the complete ban take effect immediately, while the other six justices actually delayed it. President trump stated he is very grateful for the 90 decision. The court also decided yesterday to overturn a law in the state of arkansas as well that treated samesex couples differently from others issuing birth certificates ruling that states can no longer refuse to list partners. Still ahead, President Trump demands an apology over the russia investigation and lashes out against president barack obama. Plus, the historic heat wave, it may be over out west, but the wildfires that continue to burn thanks to warm and breezy conditions. 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Start your used car search at the allnew carfax. Com. Welcome back. President trump wrote on twitter yesterday the real story is that president obama did nothing after being informed in august about russian meddling, adding, with four months looking at russia under a magnifying glass, they had zero tapes of key people kol youding. There is no collusion and no obstruction. I should be given an apology. Earlier he said the reason that president obama did nothing about russia after being notified by the cia of meddling is that he expected clinton to win and did not want to rock the boat. He did not choke. He kol youded or obstructed and it did the dems and crooked hillary no good. Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended obama that his predecessor kol youdcolluding. Theyve been very clear, theyve been playing this card about blaming trump and russia, and yet, at the same time, they were the ones who according to this report knew about it, and didnt take any action. The question is were they if they didnt take any action, does that make them complicity . I think that dlsthere is a lot questions. Kristen welker then pressed spicer on the hypocrisy pointing to these comments from the Trump Campaign trip. Its just a total deflection. This whole thing with russia. By the way, they hacked. They probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted because you would see some beauties there, so lets see. It would be interesting to see. I will tell you this. Russia, if you are listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Lets see if that happens. This was President Trump on the campaign trail. Russia, if you are listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by the press. How can you accuse president obama of obstructing when he was egging russia on . He was joking at the time. Except trump had been steadfast in his call for anyone to access clintons email. As he stated over and over again in this exchange with nbcs katie couric. Do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government, russia, china, anybody, to interfere, to hack into a system of anybodys in this country thats up to the president. Let the president talk. Heres the problem. You just told katie, heres the problem. You said the russians he has no respect. You said i welcome them to find those 30,000 emails. They probably have them. I would like to have them released. Does that not give you pause . It gives me no pause. If they have them, we might as well you know what gives me more pause . That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton heres what gives me be quiet. I know you want to save her. That a person in our government, katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena. She gets subpoenaed, and she gets rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a problem. If russia or china or any of the country has those emails, i need to be honest with you, i would love to see them. Shortly after that answer in his press conference then candidate trump tweeted this. If russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clintons 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the fbi. Lets get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. A historic heat wave out west is over, but hot and dry conditions now leading to perfect conditions for wildfires. Yeah. We went a week straight with temperatures that were near record or record highs. We knew you were going to have some fire. Its early. Remember, we had a very wet season in the west as we went through the fall and the winter. A lot of that vegetation grew. It will die this summer, and then usually in the fall is our big fire season, so were a little ahead of schedule, a little early. If you are waking up on the east coast, florida had numerous showers and thunderstorms. Very typical overnight. The storms have pretty much ended. Right around the big bend. If you are in new york city, bring that umbrella out. If you are going outside of the next half hour, then it will clear out for the rush hour. Just that lone shower heading over. It will pass into connecticut shortly. Theres a lot of showers and storms towards rochester and a few through central pennsylvania. There may be a quick passing shower today in areas of the northeast. Heres the fire map. This shows you where all the big fires are currently burning right now. Theres 27 large fires. Red flag warnings continue, and that means gusty winds, dry conditions, and it means if we have any new fires, they can spread rapidly. Also a chance of Severe Weather today. About one Million People at risk from south dakota to north dakota, and also down into nebraska. Otherwise, pretty nice day today, guys. St. Louis, chicago, great lakes look fine, and well have more thunderstorms this afternoon in florida. Its elfor all these big fires in the west. Usually the fall is when we have our peak of the season. Yeah. Its going to be a lot to watch for. Still ahead, Russell Westbrook may have won mvp, but it was bill russell who stole last nights awards show. Well explain next in sports. baby crying fly me to the moon elegant music and let me play bell rings whats the story behind Green Mountain coffee and fair trade . Lets take a flight to colombia. This is boris calvo. Boris grows mindblowing coffee. And because we pay him a fair price, he improves his farm and invest in his community to make even better coffee. All for a smoother tasting cup. Green mountain coffee. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. 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Speaking of trash talk, tennis superstar Serena Williams wasnt hearing it from retired tennis legend john mcenroadway who in an npr interview emphasized his distinction of williams as the best female player ever because if she played the mens circuit, she would be, like, 700 in the world. Williams fired back in a pair of tweets saying dear john, i adore and respect you, but please, please keep me out of your statements that are not factually based. I have never played anyone ranked there nor do i have the time. Respect me and my privacy as im trying to