the duke of edinborough said he will no longer carry out the royal engagements for the year. it was his decision. bear in mind, they have been married for 70 years. they will have anniversary later on this year. we always see them together. it is a big moment in british and royal history, really. he will step out of the picture. the queen does carry on. she stepped back a bit in royal engageme engagements. we will see her on her own. it is a difference for the symbolic heads of the country and people we look to in times of crisis. it is a moment. we will see them out in a couple of hours at church service in london. continuity is still with us, but over time, the story and narrative is changing. >> continuity indeed, max foster. 95 years old. god bless him.

let us know. appreciate the reporting. british government prime minister theresa may put out a statement. let's get to nic robertson outside 10 downing street. what is her take on this? >> reporter: good morning, chris. it was just yesterday that, it h theresa may dissolved parliament. no word if the two discussed this in advance. the statement at may's office putt out is one of support and thanks and gratitude that she says her office says prime minister may said on behalf of the whole country i want to thank and offer deepest gratitude to the duke of edinburgh. from his steadfast support from her majesty the queen and duke of edinburgh awards and

charities and cause, his contribution to united kingdom, the world is one of huge benefit for us in years to come. again, it is part of the message of continuity that we're hearing from buckingham palace and reminder from the british prime minister how much this country has to thank prince philip. chris. >> thank you, nic. we need more information about what is behind this decision. he certainly looked robust yesterday. he doesn't look or act 95 years old. >> at some point he probably wants to shut it down. it is interesting. it will be interesting to see what the popular reaction is there. there is a generational growth away from the royals. they are still respected. things have changed over time. now to the other big story here in the u.s.

house republicans could give president trump a much-needed legislative victory. the house is set to vote on the revamped gop health care bill. cnn's joe johns is at the white house with more. joe. >> reporter: alisyn, it is remarkable day. the white house now just hours away from what could be a defining moment for the administration this president promised to repeal and replace obamacare. a defining moment for house republicans who waited seven years just to get this one idea across the finish line. >> thanks to president trump's leadership, congress is going to vote to repeal and replace obamacare. >> reporter: the crucial house vote on the gop's amended health care bill just hours away after a last minute breakthrough gave leadership confidence to bring to the floor. >> we're going to pass it.

let's be optimistic. >> reporter: president trump brokers a deal with two hold outs on pre-existing conditions. a popular provision that is not guaranteed in the republican bill. >> there were both yeses on the bill. >> i support the bill. >> reporter: the amendment adds $8 billion over five years to existing $130 billion fund to finance high risk pools. in states with patients with pre-existing conditions could be charged higher rates. experts say the funding falls far short of the protections guaranteed under obamacare. the white house insisting otherwise. >> anybody with a pre-existing conditions under trump-care will be fine. >> yes. >> we discussed it. this latest back room deal is nothing more than a band aid a catastrophic injury. >> they put this forth to say we improved the bill. no. it doesn't improve the bill. this is an insult to the

intelligence of the american people. >> reporter: democrats denouncing the vote without an updated cost and impact analysis from the cbo. the cbo last estimate projected 24 million people losing coverage by 2026 under the last gop bill. groups like aarp and american medical association fiercely lobbying lawmakers to oppose the bill. republicans looking for a win after failing to secure funding for the president's border wall in the spending bill passed by the house on wednesday. the white house trying to spin appropriations bill as a win. press secretary sean spicer bringing images of a border fence under construction as evidence that funding was secured. although the bill expressly restricts border money used to construct a wall. >> there are various walls to be built under the election legislation that was passed, it

was allowing us to do that. >> that's a levee wall? >> that's the name of it. >> it's fencing. not a wall. >> reporter: a reminder. this is a do-over. we have been here before assuming the house passes the bill. whatever language gets through will be dramatically rewritten by the senate. the president for his part is expected to be in town for the vote. then he heads to new york for the first time since he took office for an event with the australian prime minister aboard "uss intrepid." >> it looks like there is a debate on a wall. let's bring in panel. political analyst abby phillip and david drucker as well as a.b. stoddard. a.b., this is the day no cbo score. a lot of talk of how to thicken out high risk pools. what do you see here? >> i do think they will put it

up for a vote. they have the count. that is significant. i think it is a really great moment for the house leadership and the white house. president trump met with more than a dozen lawmakers. pressed really hard on this. what happens from here won't be great. it will go over to the senate and become a totally different bill. when it comes back to the house, the very people who designed this fix to get it through the house will bail. conservatives and freedom caucus will not like what comes back from the senate. this is just a first step in a long process. it will allow the leadership and the white house to say they got this promise delivered. they did an obamacare fix. not a repeal. many problems ahead, but i think they are relieved now that they were able to deliver on this promise. >> abby, let's talk about what we know and what's changed and

in the new bill. what the amendments. here is the upton amendment. this is added. this deals with the pre-existing conditions. $8 billion over five years will be given to the states, i guess, for the high risk pools. if governors don't want to honor. >> on top of the $130 billion. they added to it. there is all of this concern that this costs a lot of money. we used to have these pools before the aca. they did not work well. people were exposed to higher costs. they went to obama. some of the same gop congress members said can we have more money for the high risk pools. >> is this what will get it over the finish line? >> i think it just gave them a way into saying yes to the bill. a lot of the members want this off their plates. to chris's point, the amount of money is probably not fully going to resolve the high risk pools. especially when a lot more people are probably going to be in them. the cost they probably need is twice as much as the $8 billion

they put in. some republicans are looking for some way to kind of get this monkey off their back so they can move on. a lot of them expect it to change in the senate and maybe come back in a way that is a little bit more palateable to them. we have not dealt with medicaid which is a huge, huge problem in the senate. you know, i think this vote is just going to be a symbol of how long this process will be and how bruising it is for the republican party. many want to move on before they go to recess. >> david drucker, the issue is we want to take money out of the system. they want a big dollar amount they can say we can apply to tax cuts. they seem to want to do that without owning that less people will have coverage and vulnerable people exposed by this. that will be millions and millions. is there any other reckoning? >> republicans, chris, look at this differently.

they never thought that obamacare worked well. they look at the problems with obamacare today. we saw possibly the last obamacare insurer pulling out of iowa this week. they see a lot of problems they need to fix. they never agreed with obamacare philosophically. i think after the experience in march, they were not going to call the vote again unless they were sure as sure can be other than watching the vote get across the finish line. this is so much bigger. this is no longer about health care, all they this will affect millions of americans. whether they can use majorities and govern. what the implosion of the american health care act showed in march is these guys could not find consensus. they could not use what they earned in the election to change anything or get anything done. they looked feckless and

disorganiz disorganized. this is a long road to go and the senate may do things that may be problematic for the house and it could be a long drawn out negotiation. by getting it through, they able to say with tax reform coming, maybe we can find a way to govern. maybe we can get things done. that is important for 2018. >> a.b., i don't have to remind you of how the republicans hammered the democrats and nancy pelosi during obamacare said we have to pass it to see what's in it. they could not articulate what is in the volumous pages of obamacare. here we are years later and no cbo score. they are willing to take the vote without a cbo score. >> it is remarkable and speaks to what abby and david have talked about. rushing to get the monkey off its back and claim a victory. there are a lot of problems with the new amendment. a lot of problems with the

underlying bill. the bill scored in march will raise premiums. people will lose coverage. the medicaid expansion will be cut back by 2020. the bill remains a problem. we can talk about why the people and what has happened to pre-existing conditions and the waiver, if you will, does, to people who are visick and vulnerable. that is not the bill. whatever passes today will never been the american health care act. so you can look at this on two sides. dump it on the senate and not worry. really, why make a republican when you only have 24 seats to lose before democrats take over the house next year. why make a republican take a stand on a vote that is going to cut coverage, sky rocket premiums for older people. affect the medicaid expansion. why do this? this is really a purely

political exercise. getting a cbo score which is the proper thing to do is now something i think they are willing to skip because they don't want to hear what is in it. if they wait for one, they will lose more members. if i'm a member, i will say i can't vote until i get a cbo score. >> david, you know, no matter what you do in the senate, that's what we will see here. let's take a look into the future, david? what can we tell how this will go from the spending bill as it goes into the senate? different proposition with the policy, but process, it may be an echo. >> we will get a cbo score before it is voted on in the senate. they have to make sure it satisfied the reconciliation rules to allow republicans to get around a democratic filibuster. republicans will vote in the house. they will get cbo score after the vote. then what republicans will end

up doing is putting this on the floor in the senate for a huge what we call voterama where hundreds of amendments voted on or opposed. i think mitch mcconnell will find a way to get this thing on the floor and through the floor. i think what republicans, chris, really need to do and this gets to a.b.'s point. they need to find a better way to talk about the bill if they believe in it. they need to talk about the pre-existing conditions. people are concerned about that. if they believe this will lower premiums and increase access to quality health care for people who don't have enough access and choices, they need to tell americans how it will work and what benefits they will get. if they can't do that, it raises a lot of questions about the bill and whether or not they are simply trading one health care system for another. >> you have to remember the numbers are in favor of the argument. you are dealing with people on the individual market.

you have problems in states that did not go with medicaid expansion and yyou don't have choice and rocketing premiums. that population is small compared to the people with pre-existing conditions and those are medicaid. you are making an argument where the numbers of the people you are helping is smaller than those you are hurting. >> abby, hold that thought. we will take a break and come back to you. we have other news. fbi director james comey testifying on his insurance influen insurance influence on the 2016 election. will there be more bombshells today? "new day" continues after this. whoa, this thing is crazy.

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committee. cnn's suzanne malveaux on capitol hill with more. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning, chris. we know that fbi director james comey faced a real grilling on capitol hill yesterday. he insisted he has no regrets on his actions and decisions leading up to november election. in fact, he would do it over again. this despite the ongoing debate and the charge that he, in part, cost hillary clinton the presidency. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think we had some impact on the election. honestly, it would not change the decision. >> reporter: fbi director james comey defending his decision to notify congress about the private e-mail server of hillary clinton days before the election. >> i don't think many people would do it differently. >> reporter: a move that hillary clinton says cost her the election. >> if the election were on october 27th, i would be president. >> reporter: comey said he decided between the lesser of

two evils. >> speak would be really bad. there is an election in 11 days. lord, that would be bad. concealing in my view would be catastrophic. >> reporter: democrats demandedidemandeing answers about the investigation and staying silent about the trump possible ties to russia. >> everything that we did that i did was in my view consistent with department of justice policy. we don't confirm the existence of investigations except in unusual circumstances. >> there were two investigations at the time. both donald trump and hillary clinton. i suggested to director comey that the right thing to do would be to comment on both investigations or neither. >> reporter: comey specifically citing the private meeting with bill clinton and then attorney general loretta lynch as the moment he lost faith in the department justice investigation. >> her meeting on the airplane

was the capper for me. i said the department cannot by itself credited briend this. >> reporter: and then the details of the mishandling of classified e-mails and how it ended up on the laptop of anthony weiner. >> his then spouse, huma abedin has a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him to printout for her. so she could deliver to secretary of state. >> reporter: these revelations coming as cnn learns president obama's former national security adviser susan rice declined to testify before the senate. >> i don't know why she won't come forward to the committee to tell us what she did or did not do. >> reporter: rice's lawyer explaining that the decision was based on fact the leading democrat on the committee did not support the request. a circumstance she called a significant departure from the

bipartisan invitations extended to other witnesses. comey is back on the hill to testify along with nsa director mike rogers. expect it to last three hours or so. mostly anticipated. sally yates will also be testifying on monday. alisyn and chris. >> suzanne, thank you very much. let's discuss with abby phillip and a.b. stoddard and counterterrorism expert phil mudd. abby, there was a lot of information. there were headlines that came out of this. we will boil down suzanne's piece. he felt mildly nauseous. we never heard him about releasing that letter to congress. that as you heard him, the lynch clinton meeting compromised the

doj. the russian influence on the election. what did you hear? >> he had a lot that he wanted to get off his chest. i was struck by what he didn't say. so much of his behavior was motivated by fear that the department would undermine itself. leaks would really reveal things that were part of the investigation that could be kept secret and should have been kept secr secret. especially the last one. he wasn't sure how long it would take to go through the e-mails. it ended up taking three days. in retrospect, people said you could have waited and found out what was in the e-mails before you came out publicly. the reason he didn't wait was because he was very, very sure the information would come out one way or another. a lot of agents within the fbi who wanted the bureau to be tougher on hillary clinton. they were disappointed she

wasn't charged. james comey as the leader of the division was dealing with the internal politics. >> another headline about leaks. leaks seem to be somewhat of obsession with the administration. journalists will not be treated as criminal recipients of information when they get classified leaks. that is important reminder of the protection. that is the u.s. government policy in the past. phil mudd, what do you make of comey's justification and he said i was doing basically what the bureau has always done in disclosur disclosure. i don't remember anyone in the bureau ever doing what comey has done. >> zero sympathy. if that pman wanted crocodile tears, it won't happen. october 28th is not the date we should talk about. that is july as he spoke u.p. publup about the case.

he talked about his personal views on hillary clinton. she was extremely careless with information. if she did not break the law, it is not clear why the director feels he should use the power of the office to pass judgment on an american citizen. when he decided to speak in july, he himself set the trap. he set himself up to determine on october 28th since i spoke before and said it is closed, now i have to speak again and explain why it is open. it is his fault. don't give me this i'm sorry it is a difficult job. zero sympathy. zero, chris. >> a.b., director comey goes again today in a closed-door session. where does this leave us with politics on the hill and everything in the whole basket of the 2016 election and russia and the fbi and the leaks? >> i do think that he made it clear he doesn't want to talk about the russia investigation

until it is over. we don't expect james comey to follow normal policy or conduct of an fbi director because phil points out he hasn't in the past. he probably will be as mum today on russia. maybe in the private setting he will say more. i don't think we will learn more. with regards to the president criticized comey and comey and his tweet yesterday about bogus investigation. he made it clear it is a real investigation. the russians made a preference for trump. tried to help him. china is not hacking us. russia has been doing it. they will do it again because it worked. that will give republicans more steel in their spine talking about why they continue in congress to pursue the investigation. why they have to. i think that will help it bipartisan. there were lots of fodder there

about leaks. apparent abby is right. a lot of concern that hillary clinton would win. particularly in new york. leaks in new york fbi that he was worried about in terms of the investigation that involved weiner at the end to make it look like he was trying to protect hillary clinton. you know, that's the thing that there is a leak investigation. people will get very excited and asking him in closed session about that. he made it clear. especially when asked about rudy giuliani. if there was interferencinterfee would be step consequences. there's a lot to go on. i think both sides came away satisfied he has been chasten enough and they have to pursue in a bipartisan way. >> if his concern was he did not come across he was trying to protect hillary clinton, he succeeded. i don't think anybody felt that was going on. this could be headlines that would be unmitigating a lot of what president trump was saying

about hillary clinton during the election. he got in his own way and said something about the prospect for peace in the middle east that you probably haven't heard a president say before. here it is. >> it's something i think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people thought over the years, but we need two willing parties. we believe israel is willing. we believe you are willing. if you both are willing, we're going to make a deal. >> abby, phil, what have we not understood about what it means to have peace in the middle east? >> this is incredible. especially a week ago he said being president is so much harder than he thought it was going to be. i think with trump, a lot of times he is not aware of how much work has been put in by past presidents and by decades of american foreign policy and hundreds and thousands of experts on certain issues. he believes as he said in the

campaign, i, alone, can fix it. this is that inactioinaction. he deserves the opportunity to give it a try like every president has. it is safe to say it is not easy and he will find out how difficult it really is. >> a.b., part of this as we know, he is influenced and persuaded by whomever he met with last. he had a meeting with mahmoud abbas. he says israel wants this? come on. there is a refreshing naivete. it should be simple. so let's give it a shot. >> he said in the past there is no reason there is not peace with these parties. no reason whatsoever he said. alisyn, every time you meet with a stake holder individually, they always make a good case to you. it is when you get them with the

rival stake holder and making a deal and it gets tough. everyone can make their own good sell. donald trump and unlike north korea and give him credit, this man believed if he could speak to the chinese, he would convince them to solve the north korea problem. now he is saying he'll solve it without them. he always believed he could charm the chinese to take care of this. this is not happening on mid east peace. he has no answer. >> panel, thank you very much for all of the analysis. another headline. there will be no federal charges against two baton rouge cops in the shooting death of alton sterling. those officers are not out of the woods yet. you still have the state case. what does that look like? next. [vo] the grille is distinctive.

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>> reporter: good morning, alisyn. this announcement was anticipated by practically everyone in baton rouge. that is why we saw no arrests last night or demonstrations. the department of justice announcing after the 10-month investigation, the findings did not reach the threshold for civil rights charges for the officers involved in the shooting. at the press conference yesterday, the family said they were not defeated. the hopes rest in the hands of the state attorney general's of office. i was speaking to the family for sterling, they told him one office r involved, threatened t kill alton sterling before shooting him dead. they hope to seek justice at the state level. chris. >> nick, thank you very much. white house budget director mick mulvaney insists the president's border wall is built. in this chiemlimate, you have t

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all right. let's have a little fact fest here. the white house budget director mick mulvaney and the press secretary sean spicer insisting the president delivered on his promise to build a border wall right now. they had pictures to prove it. so how about their proof? is it real? we have gary tuchman who went to the border to find out. >> reporter: after the pictures of the border wall construction. >> i don't know where it is built. >> reporter: we do. we matched photographs and discovered it is in new mexico which borders a small town near juarez, mexico. workers are building a steel wall. workers tell us this is the

portion of fence where the picture was taken. the opening of the fence in the photo is now closed with the gate. interestingly, the picture was taken from the other side of the fence. on the mexican side. the mountains you see in the background are the mountains here in new mexico. the budget director declared quote this stuff is going up because the president wants to make the country safe. keeping them honest, this stuff has nothing to do with president trump. dafney griffin. >> this particular wall came from the bush administration. >> reporter: president george w. bush signed the secure act in october of 2006. since, he and president obama approved construction to border walls and fences from texas to california. it is those presidents responsible for improvements. this started in 2016. months before president trump

was elected. >> it is not unusual to see the wall fixed. >> reporter: in addition to seeing the trains along the border, one of the first things we noticed was the fence skr separating the countries. a fence the budget director pointed out. >> this doesn't stop drugs and doesn't stop criminals from crossing the border. it doesn't stop hardly anything. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer noted it. >> if you look at that in particular, you have a chain link fence at our southern border. that is down there now. we are able to go in and instead of having a chain link, we place with the wall. >> reporter: keeping them honest, the chain link fence was never a border fence. workers on the scene tell us it is part of the construction site. put up by the construction workers for safety. to be clear, border wall and border fencing is often getting repaired and replaced.

if president trump wants to build a new wall in a place that doesn't have one, he doesn't have the authorization or money to do that. at least yet. what mr. trump does have is the right to repair and improve current walls and fences. the same thing presidents before him have had. gary tuchman, cnn, sunland park. new mexico. >> that's the best explanation we have had. >> you cloud the issue which is border security, but this is just bs. you have spicer who took a hit to his credibility and mulvaney. what is he doing talking about it? >> you see pictures. you say that is a problem. it is helpful to have an update from a real reporter on the ground say actually here is what it looks like today. we would not know that if gary hadn't gone there. >> hence the reason to uncover the deception. that's what it was. up next, zero toll

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all right. on the same night that fans at fenway gave adam jones a standing ovation, a fan was ejected and banned from the park for life for a racial slur. andy scholes has more in the bleacher report. you know, another layer on the smack that you hear talked about fans at fenway. >> another unfortunate situation.

tuesday night, the national anthem was sung by a kenyan woman. after she sang, a fan in the stands used a racial slur. that is when calvin hennick was at the game with his son and father-in-law confronted that fan. >> the white fan right next to me, middle-aged man leaned over and said she sang too long and "n" worded it up. it was the day after the jones incident. it was like i can say whatever i want to say. >> and he summoned security. the fan was ejected and banned from life. the red sox issuing a statement they will not tolerate racial slurs from fans and referred the matter to the boston police department. alisyn, the president of the red sox says he believes this is the first time ever a fan has been banned. >> the policy is changing. zero tolerance.

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the late show host stephen colbert responding to criticism over a crude joke he made about president trump. he said president trump was taking part in a sexual act with vladimir putin. that led to a fire colbert hash tag. that led to the show last night. >> if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. you know, at the end of the monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don't regret that. he, i believe -- i believe he can take care of himself. i have jokes. he has the launch codes. so, a fair fight. so while i would do it again, i would change a few words that

were cruder than they needed to be. >> okay. let's discuss this with cnn media analyst bill carter and media correspondent brian stilt stelter. we love stephen colbert. i found this statement peculiar. president trump did not actually insult john dickerson. he dismissed him as presidents do. that wasn't anything unusual. >> it wasn't over the top. >> he likes to call the show "deface the nation." >> that is unsultiis insulting. do you think, brian, it warranted such a crude joke on national television? >> i am surprised this joke made it out of the writers' room. i thought colbert was trying to have it both ways saying i don't regret it, but yes, the words were too crude. a bit of an admission.

designed to make it go away. this happened on monday night. tuesday, this was ripping through conservative media. it wasn't until wednesday he addressed it. >> i think colbert worked if cable for a long time. they did this every night. it is different. they have broadcast licenses. they are more responsible and they could be called on the carpet. >> that was vulgar. >> it was a vulgar joke. it is something his audience doesn't mind, but other people can use it against them. so it became a weapon for them to strike against the guy they don't like. i don't think it has impact. >> a lot of it is tribal. >> you can see from the joke. i don't have regrets. his fans cheer like crazy. it will not impact him with the fans. it is pointless to say he should be fired. that is pointless. it will make him think about the

network show. you can't go the same way. >> what if he had been removed? that's why you may like the joke, you may not like the joke. he has ever right to tell the joke. if he didn't, even on the broadcast side, if he did not offend the fcc guys. >> aren't there rules? >> the word was bleeped. >> the word was bleeped. >> it is okay. >> let's give credit to the republican fcc chairman who said it is a free country and as long as he doesn't violate the decency rules. >> that's the whole point. you can judge it. i like it. i don't like it. fine. if he had been removed, you have an issue with it. just so we don't go through it fast. you are applying a trump standard to how he treated john dickerson. >> what is the trump standard? >> a lower standard than normal. i have never seen a president do what he did to dickerson.

>> walk away? >> he sits down and says that's it. it is his right to do it. let's not say it is over the top. for him it is not over the top. if president obama had done that, forget what you would have heard. >> this country is trying to figure out what to do and how to talk about the president and cover the president. a sense we're in unusual times. we see comedians go further than they would with other presidents. we can argue the bar for respect and civility. as you said, they are cheering. >> and a lot of people disagree about keeping that bar high. a lot of people want the barlow. saying i don't respect the man. >> colbert has done nonstop attack. >> his ratings have gone up. >> exactly. he found a voice and it is because the country is extremely

anxious about what is going on in this administration. a level of anxiety in the country. they are responding. >> they are the ignored majority. we talk about trump. the trump panel voters. we don't have the non trump panel voters. they are watching these shows. they are sending us messages saying why do you always talk about trump folks? colbert is dealing with the majority when he is talking about trump. >> i'm with sean hannity on this one. i never said this before. he said i don't support a boycott. that is what the left is trying to do to people like ann coulter. let's not shutdown anybody's right to speak. >> good for him. >> obviously good judgment goes along with that. there is always the balance ftht we are trying to ride. thank you, gentlemen. thank you to the international viewers for watching.

"cnn newsroom" is next. "new day" continues. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." we start with breaking news. a big announcement from the royal family. prince philip, the husband of queen elizabeth is retiring from public life. >> we will see them any moment as they attend a church service. in the u.s., the house of representatives voting today on the gop health care bill. first, let's go to max foster at buckingham palace. tell us what this means, max. >> reporter: prince philip at the age of 95, 96 next month, saying he will retire. he is stepping back from public life. we will see him occasionally. he will not have a public role. this is prince philip. he makes his own decisions. listen to the statement from