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Investigation. first, hampton pearson with the cnbc market wrap. >> thanks, chuck. we had stocks climbing for a fourth session with banks leading the way. the dow gaining 43 points. the s&p up 4. the nasdaq rising by five points. stocks on wall street got a boost following the release of president trump's proposed 2018 budget, with plans to slash federal spending by $3.6 trillion over the next ten years. new home sales tumbling 11.4% in april, the biggest drop in more than two careeyears. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. what's that?

20 million people are affected, right, because that's how many are enrolled in obamacare right now. >> yep. >> how would that work? would they just not have insurance anymore? would -- like how exactly would that work? >> if you just repealed obamacare, just repealed it, you got 20 million people on the exchanges right now who would have to go find insurance. right? some of those people may not be able to find insurance because they would have a pre-existing condition. and they would not be eligible- >> so their policies would be canceled, right? >> if you repeal obamacare, maybe they would be...

Much it chanhad changed in our , in the gop and in me. >> reporter: this community isn't turning blue. just the fact like don and linda exist here could be trouble for donald trump in the sunshine state. this is a must win state. the magic 270 electoral votes. >> beautiful day there. interesting interviews. thank you very much. also in florida new information about the number of african-americans voting early in the state. here is the data. according to data provided by our partners at target smart, black voters make up 11.4% of votes cast so far. that's slightly down from four years ago when ...

The silence could have something to do with the fact that the rate of people without insurance people dropped six percentage points to 11.4% since key obamacare provisions began in 2013 with about 16 million people gaining coverage or maybe republicans are just too embarrassed about all of their terrible predictions about what the law would do. >> i think what's going to come out of obamacare is worse than anybody can imagine. i think it's a disaster. >> i think this law will collapse under its own weight. >> i think obamacare is designed to fail. it will fail. >> obamacare is going to destroy...

Right now in 2015 on obamacare, what's your answer? >> you might say i'm biased but every independent analysis says no matter what your metric, it's been a success for the last five years. as you mentioned, we have more than million people getting coverage through the exchange, about ten million of them new. the uninsured rate has gone from 18% to 11.4%. if it's cost over the last five years on a per person basis, costs have been at historic moderation. over the last five years we'd have one quarter with health care inflation has been over on a per person basis over 4% so historic low health c...