"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 pa.

the duke of edinburgh said he will not take royal engagements this year. he doesn't want to do it anymore. imagine what it means for the country. most people haven't known a different monarch apart from the queen. prince philip has always been by her side. she will be out there on her own. you wonder what that means. president trump will come later this year for a state visit for the uk. you wonder who will company melania. prince philip is known for his gaffes of course. you wonder if prince charles will step into the role. you will see prince charles next to the queen. it is part of the transition of the royal family and head of state. also moving forward. it is part of the bigger story here in the uk. >> max, thank you very much. what a run.

95 years old. remember, this is an announcement that he is in failing health. he just decided to take more time to himself. prince philip and the queen are attending a church service. let's get to frederik pleitgen at st. james palace in london with more. fred. >> reporter: hi, chris. that st. james chapel is where they attend the service. a few minutes ago, they were driven through the gate you see behind me. there were many people here. as usual, many bystanders and tourists wanting to get snapshots on the very important day. i think one of the things people are talking about is it is significant for prince philip to announce on this day he would step away from public life and go immediately to the next public event here at the chapel. attending a service for the order of merit. the order which is important in the country for people who have done exceptional service for the country.

it is handed out by the queen. she is here with prince philip. one of the many public events he still does attend and will attend until autumn. i was reading up on prince philip and many things he does. he is a member or on the board of 780 organizations. the palace says he will be active in many of the organizations, but not anymore in public life. active figure and a very defining moment for the country. chris. >> 780 organizations he is involved with. that is impressive. >> no wonder he is tired. >> i know what he is praying for. more time. >> look, obviously when we first heard the announcement, it was wor worryso worrisome. we will follow that. >> you rather make a transition from a good place. why not? >> go out on a high point. let's get back to the big

news here in the u.s. republicans are going to vote on the health care bill even though they don't know yet from the cbo what impact it will have on all of you. lawmakers are expected to vote in just hours on this revamped bill. cnn's joe johns live at the white house with more. still a lot of hand wringing about this. it looks like it will happen. at least in the house. >> reporter: that's the way it looks, frankly, chris. the house leadership scheduling a vote really signals they believe they have the support they need to get this thing over the finish line for the white house which is a defining moment. the first legislative step in fulfilling one of the president's key promises. also a defining moment for house republicans who have been waiting seven years. >> thanks to president trump's leadership, congress will vote to repeal and replace obamacare.

>> reporter: the crucial house vote on the amended health care bill hours aaway. >> we will pass it. we will pass it. let's be optimistic. >> reporter: president trump brokers a deal with two republican holdouts on pre-existing conditions. a popular provision that is not guaranteed in the republican bill. >> they were both yeses. >> i support the bill with the amendment included. >> reporter: the amendment adds $8 billion over five years to existing $130 billion fund to finance high risk pools. in states where patients with pre-existing conditions could be charged higher rates. experts say the new funding falls far short of the protections guaranteed under obamacare. the white house insisting otherwise. >> anybody with a pre-existing conditions under trump-care, they will be fine? >> yes. >> on behalf of democrats, we

are disgusted. this latest back room deal is a band aid on a catastrophic injury. >> they made it look like they 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 congressional budget office. the cbo's last estimate projected 24 million people losing coverage by 2026 under the last gop bill. prominent 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 and spending bill passed by the house on wednesday. despite this, the white house trying to spin the appropriations bill as a win. press secretary sean spicer

bringing evidence that funding was secured although the bill restricts border security money used to construct a wall. >> there are various types of walls built under the legislation passed it allows us to do that. >> that's not a wall? that's a leavee wall? >> that's what it is called. >> reporter: back on health care. assuming that house bill passes today, and goes on to the senate where it gets a dramatic rewrite. the president for his part expected to stay in town for the vote this afternoon. after that, flies off to new york for the first time since he was sworn in with a meeting with the australian prime minister. chris and alisyn. >> thank you, joe. joining us now is a great panel here in studio in part. political director david chalian. editor at large chris cillizza

and a.b. stoddard. a.b. chris, what has happened with the health care plan, we think to get it over the finish line? >> the big thing is they took $8 billion and said we will put this in because it addresses the issue of what do you do because you are not mandating people be covered. that won't cover the cost. it mitigates worries by members. this is smart. if you think you have 213 hard yeses and you have five or six maybe yes or maybe no, call the vote. those people are never going to get off the fence until you say the vote is ones thursday afternoon whenever. i think it is a risk. i think they are taking this risk because they believe the alternative which is letting it fail again with no vote is worse. they promised their base for sevens years. from the second president obama introduced obamacare until now, if they got into hour, they

would repeal and replace. to not do so twice in the first 105 days of the trump presidency -- voting on the bill with the expectation the senate will change it. >> they have done the head count. >> i would say look they are about 18 or 19 hard nos. it will be relatively close. this is not a 270 yes for republicans. >> part of the sell, david, is they will go to congress and say i know you don't like it. vote yes so we all survive. make good on our promise and send it to the senate. how does that help the same congress members in 2018 when the ads run. you didn't repeal and replace obamacare. you did something short of that and you have millions of people less covered and you lied to us about pre-existing conditions. what is worse? >> you said he said we all survive. they are not all going to survive. people will lose their seat over

this vote. i guarantee you because of what you are saying. this is such an easy issue that the democrats learned in 2010 to advertise on and pick one piece out. >> 7 out of 10 say don't mess with pre-existing conditions. >> it is not a popular fix. the overall, we have seen as this is debated, this is not a popular fix. i do think what you are finding is as chris is saying, the political imperative of delivering on the promise may win day-to-day, but it doesn't mean there is not political peril for some of the members who will vote for it. >> a.b., how much elbow grease do we think the president applied to the reluctant republicans? >> i think he is good at it. i really do. i give him credit. he met with at least 15 members. he has put a lot of energy into this. i think he doesn't let them leave without, you know, without a yes. i think it is easy when a group

of 17 members goes into a room. when billy long and fred up up and fred came up with $8 billion. trump said whatever it takes. they came out to the driveway and they were yeses. look, what the president has been unhelpful and talks about the things in the bill that are not there, it gives republican leadership fever. it messages up the process. he brought votes over the line yesterday. he will take credit for delivering on a vote if they win today. it is all whatever he was saying in the meetings is what they have been saying. it is all about the "w." if this votes out of the house and goes to the senate where it will change, we live another day. we can't just keep telling people at town halls every time we go home that we cannot get it off the house floor. it really doesn't matter what is in the bill. it is all about starting the process. >> does that make sense? >> remarkable.

a.b. is right. >> at the town halls, people are yelling at them. saying i know people in the individual markets are getting beaten up with premiums. don't take may care. don't drop me off medicaid. >> i think there is real political peril here. to david's point. when you vote on a bill that is not scored by the cbo. it will be scored and has to be scored before the senate votes on it. point being, you could vote on something that is going to increase the deficit. that will have fill in the blank millions of people likely uncovered. take those two numbers. i could write the political ad that would be successful there. he voted for a bill that added to this deficit that lefts these people -- >> forget the senate and future he negotiated bill? >> they are between a rock and hard place. they understand it. they believe that it is go back to james comey.

bad or catastrophic. bad is voting for a bill that has not been scored that a lot of people haven't read to a.b.'s point don't know what is in it. catastrophic is they believe the base would say what was the last seven years? >> we have to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill. i have heard that time and again of republican s lampooning nanc pelosi and they are in the same place. >> what were the headlines when the bill did get the first score? 24 million people without insurance. that hasn't changed. we may learn it got worse. the republicans are still as you said hoping maybe whatever comes out of the senate is remembered as yes. that's the thing. that's what they hope. we replaced it. i don't think in politics it is easy. you are casting a difficult

vote. look at the vote breakdown. look at the members who voted. if you are in a competitive district, you are not voting with leadership. it shows what a tough vote it is. >> trump has to diem deeal with different state of play. he has less leverage. he has a different political percentage and different vote reality. they are saying they think this is a hot pile of garbage. what is going on in the house? >> right. once it gets to the senate and senators like rob portman from ohio and lisa murkowski and shelly caputo talk about the medicaid expansion and they don't want it to be cut off and how it benefitted states and populations and this bill gets boomeranged back from the right which gave it more flexibility for states to waiver out. that is the threat to pre-existing conditions

coverage. it moved more to the left and trump will come back to the house members when it comes back to negotiation and tell them it is great. the house freedom caucus members will say it is not. it is too much government involved in health care. it is too much money. too much of entitlement. it is too much what we are trying to do. it is a boomerang effect where he will work on the other side. the members who are being told by leadership, get it out of the house to send it to the senate. we are saying why put my vote on the line as david was pointing out when we only have 24 seats we can lose in the house next year and it flips to democratic control. just for a bill where you don't have the house freedom caucus. you allow the bill off the floor, but the president can't sign. those divisions with the factions are real. that process is not made any better in the senate. >> panel, thank you very much.

very interesting to see what happens in the next hours. thanks for being here. fbi director james comey defending his decision to reveal the decision of the hillary clinton e-mail use days before the election. comey is back on capitol hill to testify before the senate judiciary committee. we have suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: it happened yesterday where he defended his actions before the election saying that in fact he would do it again despite this ongoing debate and the charge that he in part cost hillary clinton the presidency. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think we had an impact on the election. honestly, it would not change the decision. >> reporter: james comey defending his decision to notify congress about its investigation into hillary clinton's use of her private e-mail server 11

days before november's election. >> i don't think many reasonable people would do it differently. >> reporter: a move that clinton says cost her the presidency. >> if the election were on october 27th, i'd be your president. >> reporter: comey insisting he decided between the lesser of two evils. >> speak and conceal. speak would be really bad. an election in 11 days. lord, that would be bad. concealing in my view would be catastrophic. >> reporter: democrats demanding answers as to why comey decided to speak out about the clinton investigation but stayed silent about the investigation into the trump campaign possible ties to russia which was also ongoing. >> everything we did that i did was in my view consistent with existing department ofs justice policy. we don't confirm the existence of investigations except in unusual circumstances. >> two under investigation at the time. donald trump and hillary clinton. i suggested to comey that the right thing to do would be

comment on both investigations or neither. >> reporter: comey specifically citing the meeting with bill clinton and then attorney general loretta lynch. >> her meeting on the airplane with me was the capper for me. i said the department cannot by itself credibl yerks end this. >> reporter: the. >> reporter: the details of the e-mails and how they end up on the laptop of anthony weiner. >> his thens spouse huma abedin forwarded e-mails to him to printout and deliver to secretary of state. >> reporter: these revelations coming as cnn learns as president obama former national security adviser declined to

testify. >> i don't know why she won't come forward. >> reporter: rice's lawyer explaining in a letter that the decision was based on the fact that the leading democrat on the committee did not support the request. the circumstance she called a significant departure from the bipartisan invitations extended to other witnesses. comey will join director of the nsa mike rogers. they will testify and it is expected to last three hours and specifically on the motivations behind their actions. and sally yates will testify on monday. chris. >> that will be a big day. suzanne malveaux, thank you very much. house republicans are hoping to deliver a "w" today. that is what it is about. the president and the gop being able to say we did it. we told you we would change obamacare and we did it. now what is the effect of that? that should matter just as much or more. we will talk to a congress member who said he is voting

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our next guest supports the deal, but does he think it will pass? let's ask texas congress member michael burgess. what do you think? the vote comes today. do you think it passes? >> i don't think the vote would come today unless it would pass. make most mino mistake. i'm not on the whip team. >> how do you feel about voting on a bill without a cbo score and not understanding the impact? >> you have a cbo score. this bill was marked up in committee in energy and commerce committee a month ago. this bill was on the floor several weeks ago. the speaker hit the pause button. he wasn't sure he had the votes. the bill text has been been out there for a long time. it is substantially similar to the bill that passed in december of 2015 that was reconciliation

that passed the house and senate and vetoed by president obama. as far as the concepts new, that is not accurate. the bill was read in entirety. the 120 pages of the energy and commerce jurisdiction. it was read in the markup. that was a request of the democrat in the markup. that was accomplished. it is not -- it is disingenuous to say the bill hasn't been read. >> i'm not saying that. i'm saying the cbo hasn't rescored it. you are comfortable voting yes on a bill that takes tens of millions off of coverage and pre-existing conditions not covered. >> let's take that individually. first off on the cbo score. yes, the cbo coverage numbers were to say the least disappointing. i disagree with the numbers. i don't think they accurately predicted human behavior. why someone getting a medicaid policy in an expansion state if

the individual mandate is lifted and they don't want this and leave coverage. that medicaid expansion will continue for at least two years on the bill that the republicans will have on the floor today. on the pre-exikpisexisting cond. remember this does not affect people in the large group market or employer insurance market. there is no change. people in medicaid and made ced, there is no change. if a state passes a waiver for essential health care benefits and can demonstrate to the secretary of health and human services, they have a shared risk in place in the state, those are states where the potential for that exists and that's what that last amendment, the $8 billion added by mr. upton and mr. long, that is what it was to accomplish. to provide additional premium support for the narrow segment of the individual market who allowed insurance to lapse and

gets a tough diagnosis in a state requested a waiver. that will be by definition a small population and sympathetic population. we want to make sure it is covered. >> it is not that thin. first of all, the number of people with pre-existing conditions. >> 7% of the population is in the individual market. the state would have to request awaiver? will they request a waiver? i don't know. i have had no governor contacts me and say tell me more about the waiver situation. >> that is not a great measure. governors said if you cut their money, which is what you will do, they will be forced if they can't afford it, which they say they can't, to take the waiver and try to find a way to make it work. you can't say you will go into this not thinking that states won't take the waiver. >> chris, it will be increased with the addition of the $8 billion of the upton amendment. >> you are talking high risk

pool. you leave it alone for a couple of years for medicaid and suggest it is okay. after the couple of years, it gets cut. they will not have the money. they will have to drop people. we heard from governor after governor. >> the governors asked us for flexibility. >> not less money. >> well, the governors have asked for the ability to do a block grant or per capita cap or keep existing. they will have the ability to make decisions going forward. >> you will cut how much. that is just about what form the money comes in. this is what i don't get. why don't you own what is going on here? we want to take money out of the system. we want to be able to say we took x million or billion dollars out and use it going forward when we do tax cuts. people will not be covered as they are now and less will be covered. why not own that and let the political reality fall? >> how about we want the money to be spent efficiently in the interest of the constituents and

patients. i believe that's what this bill accomplishes. >> isn't that just a way of covering the reality of pulling money out of the system? look, you won't extend the tax credit for individuals to take it to the places of work. if they are getting care through work, allow them to group up and use those tax credits so they can collectively bring the price down. you know it makes sense. it reduces the dollar you are pulling out of the plan. so you didn't go for it. that is what is happening here. >> there will be increased tax credit availability right now if you have a subsidy great. premium goes up subsidy goes up. those below poverty, their premium goes up and just goes up. it is pre-tax out of pocket expense. this addresses that and provides tax relief to everyone in the individual market. >> at the end of the day, congress member, how is it not

true? i know you hope it gets changed in the senate and saves you from the severity of this. you will have major leagillionse many who are poor, not have coverage and people with pre-existing conditions who won't get coverage who would have if it stayed as a guarantee as it stays presently. >> i disagree with that premise. >> how can it not be true? why do you disagree? if you are pulling money from the medicaid side and redefining pre-existing conditions? how can the numbers stay the same? >> is every dollar on the medicaid side spent efficiently to the benefit of patient care? i worked as a physician for 25 years. i can tell you the answer to the question. i know the governors came up here and talked to us. >> never in terms of controlling costs. you know you are cutting the raw payouts after a couple of years. you know from your experience. it has to effect coverage. that is what the cbo said.

>> the per capita cap will increase by cpi medical plus 1% for the blind, aged and disabled. that is a level of assurance for the governors where they know the income stream that is coming in. they will be able to adjust their measures accordingly. i think that is something welcome by the governors. some governors may ask for a block grant. that availability is under the bill. that is available to them. i agree. this bill goes to the senate. i'm anxious to see. we had criticism from senators on both sides. they tell us how smart they are. i want them to work on this project as well. >> i like that. they tell us how smart they are. congress member burgess. this is controversial stuff. i appreciate you coming on. >> anytime. glad to do it. >> be well. see what happens with the vote. alisyn. fbi director james comey

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fbi director james comey faced four hours of questioning in front of the senate judiciary committee. he revealed new details in the new closed fbi investigate of hillary clinton's e-mails found

on anthony weiner's laptop. >> was there classified information on weiner's computer? >> yes. >> who sent it to him? >> his then spouse, huma abedin, who has a regular practice of forwarding e-mails for him to printout for her so she could deliver them to secretary of state. >> joining us now is the senator asking the questions. senator john kennedy of louisiana. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. >> you got new information out of director comey there that we hadn't previously known about how huma abedin would send e-mails from secretary of state clinton to her husband to print them out. that prompted senator graham to ask comey should somebody be prosecuted for sending classified information to anthony weiner. then comey said there is no anthony weiner statute. what did you think of that

exchange? >> i appreciated comey's candor. he was for the cothcoming. it is not secret he is not invited to party on capitol hill. the impression i get of comey is he will do his job and he doesn't care who gets mad at him. i questioned him at lengths about secretary clinton's e-mail scandal or circumstances whatever you want to call it. he gave me straight-up answers. he answered yes and no questions with yes and no. i pressed him hard on the investigation about russia's interference with the elections. >> and what was new that you learned yesterday? >> here's what i hope i learned and i say that because i didn't get a chance to ask him straight up. i ran out of time.

what i wanted to say is look, this issue about the interference in the election has been raised. the american people get it. not every american reads aristotle every day. now the fbi is involved. they announce they are doing an investigation. comey and his team have to turnover every single rock. every single one. they have to let the chips fall where they may. after they conclude the investigation, whatever it is, they can't just do a press conference and say okay, we're finished. nothing there. here is what we found or in terse cryptic terms. he has to call a conference and say this is what happened. this is somebody who did something wrong. this is somebody who didn't do something wrong. this is what we plan to do to stop russia in the future. we will never stop them completely. this goes all the way back -- russia tried -- interfered in

the nixon humphrey election. they tried to interfere in ronald reagan's election. >> do you think there is something different in the 2016? do you have any doubt in your mind they did interfere in the 2016? >> no doubt in my mind based on the briefings they had. there are two questions that have to be addressed by the fbi. number one. what was the extent, if any, of staff on presidential campaigns interacting with russian agents. number two, the russians interfered. did they influence the election? how do you know that? how do you quantitfy that? and what do we do about it in the future? >> and you believe james comey should make a statement based on whatever you find. might it extrapolate it was within his mind and judgment that he made the statement about hillary clinton's e-mail and he did sent the letter to congress on october 28th?

she now credits that for her loss? >> i wasn't in his shoes. i don't know what i would have done. he explained. he had two doors. disclose or conceal. he chose door number one. he is unapologetic about it. he explained his thinking. i don't think anybody would know until they are in those shoes. it was a tough call. this is my impression of comey. i met him for the first time yesterday. he is loves his job. i cares about the fbi. he doesn't care who is mad at him. i like that about him. he is an equal opportunity aggravator up here. that's pretty good qualicalquain for working on capitol hill. >> susan rice, former security adviser, to president obama. you would like her to testify in front of your committee. she doesn't want to.

will you subpoena her? >> it is not my decision to subpoena. i think she should testify. if she lawyers up, she will listen to her lawyer. i would like to know. i like to hear her side of the story. there are two sides to every story. i don't prejudge the situation. i want to hear what she has to say. >> senator, i want to ask you something else. the flooding. storms throughout the midwest. missouri has had flooding and other states. i know you have a plan to i guess cut down on flood insurance abuse. what is happening? >> as you know, fema runs the national flood insurance program. they don't run it, they are in charge of it. they hire private companies to operate it. private insurance companies hire contractors to help. most of the consultants do a good job. some of them try to screw people. there has been evidence introduced in federal court

where engineers have changed reports and lawyers are dilat y dilatory. the head of the flood insurance program for fema testified in front of the banking committee. i asked him. these bad actors, why don't you fire them? i know they are minority. he said i don't have the authority. unless they are criminally convicted. that's what my bill does. my bill says the fema director of the flood insurance program can pick up the phone and if there is a bad actor working for an insurance company with a contract with the flood insurance program and the director thinks they are committing a bad behavior or fraud, he can say you're fired. they have a right to appeal. if people buy flood insurance and they flood, they should get their money. it is that simple. >> that makes sense. senator john kennedy, thank you for being on "new day." the president is set to sign an order today allowing churches

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all right. president trump is set to sign a new executive order. it would allow churches and other organizations to become more politically active. the measure stops short of offering exceptions to deny services based on religious grounds. let's discuss this about and concerns. we have christine quinn and ben ferguson.

host of the ben ferguson show. ben, why do you believe this order is needed? >> i think it is important because pastors should be able to specifically able to speak about religious issues from the pulpit that may deal with politics without worry that someone wilt tl try to come aft them politically and they lose tax exempt status. many pastors, especially on the left, active on issues. supporting obama and supporting $15 minimum wage and supporting planned parenthood. now they have to be concerned. >> what about the johnson amendment? what is the concern? >> the concern is the johnson amendment when passed by then congress member johnson who said we didn't want non-profit groups

to be able to be raising money basically, to then go into political work. it was never intended to go against churches. if you look back at the debate when it was passed, churches did not come up. they were specifically concerned about an individual who would set up a non-profit and turn that into a political action group where people could get anonymous money to the group and they could become politically active. no intent to go after pastors or religious organizations. >> christine, you were framed with a crucifixion on one side and american flag on the other. your parents would be happy. >> does it count for sunday, chris? >> you have to be there. it is a sin if you are not. what are your concerns? >> i appreciate ben's description. let's go through the facts more. he is right. then congress member johnson passed the amendment in 1954, i believe. it was strengthened in 1987. one institution has been

prosecuted if that is the right word. lost status because of the johnson. >> censure. >> thank you. yes. >> what about the concerns? >> you know what is curious? this is now the trump administration. if there wasn't rampant censureship, why would all of a sudden donald trump's irs go out overly using the johnson amendment when it has never been the case? >> what is it about? >> i think this is really about -- let me add pastors or rabbis or imams can go out and endorse candidates. they can say what they think. they can do it as american individuals. they cannot do it standing from the pulpit and making the church a political place or synagogue or mosque. remember, these are religious

institutions. above all else, it needs to be a place with open doors i can walk in than i will be heard. >> why is there an lgbtq sensitisens sensitivi sensitivity? >> what ben said, with all due respect, this is a smoke screen. this is what the head of the national inter faith association said. rabbi mullin said this is an attempt to allow churches to inject more dark money into elections. that's what this is about. it is a way to violate the separation of church and state and allow right wing. >> ben, what is your take? if you look at the facts, you have 90 churches being investigated for being too political. there was multiple churches in houston that were targeted and actually subpoenaed to see if any of the pastors said anything

about traditional marriage or guy marriage. they all had to lawyer up. they also were trying to subpoena churches for what they were saying about the issues of birth control or abortion. a pastor should be able to talk about that without having to worry that one individual might be offended and then goes to the government and tries to silence and in essence shut down your church and shut down your tax exempt status. let me finish one other thing. if you are a liberal pastor or a conservative pastor and you feel what you're saying applies to the doctrine of the bible, you should have the freedom to know that someone wants to shut you down. you shouldn't have to say i'm going to go out to the parking lot and give another sermon because i'm afraid that somehow

we're going to be shut down. >> you can stand up and i have been in many religious institutions where this is happening and say this is happening in the halls of congress or the city hall and it's a bad thing. you can't at the pulpit. you have to go into the parking lot. i have been in those establishments. i can't speak to the investigations. what we can speak to is a law passed in '54. strengthened in '87. you are making a smoke screen to allow to take control of our elections. it is classic donald trump. >> there are the two sides. >> yes, it is. it is discriminatory money. >> it is not. >> you decide for yourself. >> thank you very much. >> there is massive floods drenching parts of the midwest. what today will bring next.

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sglrchlts more rain headed for parts of the midwest. when you hear rain, you're like, okay, i get it. no, you don't. this is in arkansas. chad myers has your forecast. as you know all too well. you have a problem when the water comes, and you have a bigger problem when it leaves. >> absolutely, sure, because you have a lot of clean up after that. this could be a billion dollar disaster. just to give you an idea of how many counties here are under a flash flood watch or a warning all the way from detroit back down to st. louis. everywhere you see red there was six inches of rain in the past week. there are some spots purple. that's two months of rain in a week and you can't take that anywhere. it is going to be flood. there will be showers and flood on friday. it should be dry for the derby. we're not going to expect that

much more rainful in that area. north of there, yes. but the damage is there are done. there is already so much water on the ground, it just has to run off. a nice, pleasant, clean weekend for you in the northeast. >> thank you very much. on a much lighter note, i think it is safe to say that president trump is a fan of donald trump. we look at why the president keeps referring to himself in the third person. watch this. >> he's first when it comes to the third person. >> nobody would be tougher on isis than donald trump. >> and this week he did it in a tweet. that's trump himself tweeting. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. which prompted author j.k.rowling to poke the president. i wonder if trump talks to trump self-in the third trump person.

>> if putin likes trump. trump was able to give them something. >> this is a man that tweeted congratulations, donald, on his own ratings. but donald doesn't have a mononology on thanking himself. >> thanks, obama. >> thanks himself for lower gas prices. >> there is a technical term for this. >> this psychologist has two theories. >> i think it's either he's branding himself, which of course he's very good at and i think he does it almost unconsciously and i think also this could be indicative of narcissism where you're constantly referring to yourself. you want the world to resolve around you. >> toddlers are often illeius

before they grasp the idea of you and me. elmo gives third person talkers like cookie monsters a bad game. forget cookies. the president likes his own name in his mouth. >> donald trump. donald trump. donald. donald trump. >> cookie monster. >> c thrks thrks. >> stay on point, donald. stay on point. >> new york. >> okay. any cookie monster cameo is a great piece. >> i'm going to give himself a defense on this. here's why. cuomo is okay on this. cuomo is a fair man and politicians wind up doing this because there is such a pressure on the projection of how things will be received. you heard obama say, thanks obama because they start thinking about how people react

so often. >> like snl did, bob patti doyle did this. bob patti doyle likes it. >> does donald trump take it to a higher level? maybe. today is supposed to be the day that the house pushes through the next health care bill. let's get after it. >> let's be optimistic. >> we discussed it with this bill that you are bringing before the house. >> the president has made sure that pre-existing conditions are covered. >> it is a joke. >> the speaker would be really bad. concealing would be catastrophic. >> everybody agrees in one way or another it impacted the election. >> senator rice declined to testify. >> i don't know why she won't come forth, but we'll deal with her