hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 6:00 p.m. in manchester, 7:00 p.m. in brussels. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. right now, we're following developments on two critical stories. first, former national security adviser michael flynn is now refusing to turn over important documents to congressional investigators. and this could lead to more action from congress as they try to get to the bottom of allegations of possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign. all this comes as the white

house considers its own legal options and the possible addition of a crisis team. in manchester england, there's new information on the suicide bomber. we're learning he traveled to libya just days before the attack. there's also been as many as five people arrested in connection with the deadly terror attack outside a crowded concert venue monday night. authorities believe a network, not just one bomber likely carried out this attack. also, news from u.s. officials that 22-year-old salman abedi, the named manchester bomber was in libya three weeks before the attack raising questions how much british authorities knew about his movements. all of this as the community mourns for the 22 victims killed in the blast. 64 people remain hospitalized with injuries. joining you now chief international correspondent christiane amman pore in manchester for us.

what can you tell us about the investigation? >> well, the fifth arrest that you just mentioned happened this afternoon in this sort of area. so that's now as you say five people arrested here in the manchester area. and the chief of police, the police constable has said that it is clear that what we are investigating is a network. so that much is clear. the question is, what kind of network and how direct or not are any links to any terrorist groups. as you know, isis claimed responsibility but we still do not know the extent of the direct link and connections. meanwhile here in st. anne's square in the center of the city, this has become the focus. look at all these amazing flowers, a sea of flowers #there. we stand together. and there are people who come and they've written messages of solidarity in chalk on the sidewalk and balloons and everybody is trying to see the best side that they possibly can as this is investigation continues. and yes, we have learned earlier

today from the home secretary that this man who was the bomber was "known up to a point," is the phrasing she used to the authorities. so again, we don't know the why. was he known because he was a petty criminal like has been the case in so many of the other terrorist attackers over the last couple years in europe or was he known for being more radicalized a jihadi. we don't know what he was doing in libya where he recently traveled to know an then returned in the days before this attack. we don't know exactly the nature of the explosives that were placed in that public foyer, the lobby of the manchester arena that killed 22 people. i must say of those 64 now who are in the hospital, 20 remain we're told at least 20 in critical care condition and in those units. wolf? >> very, very sad indeed. we're going to have more on the story coming up. christiane for us with the latest. here in washington, the

white house is circling the wagons as a response to the investigations on russia. president trump seems ready to bring in outside outside counsel private attorneys he's dealt with before to help navigate through the investigations. he could employ a crisis team to deal with what's expected to be more allegations as the investigations move forward. remember, the u.s. justice department's probe is now being led by a new special counsel, robert mueller, former fbi director who hasn't even started to really dig into the details. let's bring in our crime and justice reporter shimon and our congressional correspondent phil mattingly shimon, what do we know about the steps the white house may be taking, the people they may bring in to help manage the message as these russia investigations go forward? >> there are two different things we've learned. the house is doing, one of which is mr. trump has now hired,

retained his personal attorney mark kasowitz. he's a long-time attorney to mr. trump. he's from new york. he basically has been trump's personal attorney, has worked with him on personal matters on real estate matters. so he's coming in, you know, to sort of try and build this legal team around this investigation. trump trust him greatly. we're told he's going to bring him in and start putting together a team to try and address some of the legal issues, wolf, that are going to begin to mount in this investigation. >> it's not unusual for a president who is facing some investigations to lawyer up, as they say to, bring in some private attorneys, right? >> that's exactly right. but in this case, you know, the president hasn't done himself any favors. usually when you lawyer up, you don't speak about matters or investigations. but the president in this case has done the opposite. all of his tweets, all of these

conversations that he's had with folks in the intelligence community with the former fbi director are all kind of going to be potentially used as evidence in any kind i have investigation. so you know, any lawyer that comes in, i think the first thing they'll do is tell him stop tweeting and we'll see what the president decidess to do. we haven't heard from him since he's been on this trip. attorneys that he starts to bill, starts to hire around this investigation, i think they'll tell him it's a good probably position to just not say anything about it. >> phil, michael flynn, the president's fired national security adviser is refusing to turn over documents to the house intelligence committee. what are you hearing from the committee and members there involved in the investigation? >> far from being rebuffed by the refuse to turn over the documents, the decision to invoke his fifth amendment

privileges those members are now actually pushing forward almost redoubling efforts issuing two new subpoenas. these are different subpoenas than the initial one. they are targeting specifically, they are tailored specifically towards two of fine line's companies. their argument according to a source familiar with the committee is that the business records are not under the umbrella of the fifth amendment privilege unlike the personal records that were initially subpoenaed. so the committee is ramping up their efforts and it's not just in the senate, wolf. it's also in the house. the house intelligence committee had made a similar request for documents. they had been turned down according to committee members. they will now be issuing subpoenas in the near term, as well. the big question becomes if michael flynn's lawyers continue to reject the opportunity to turn over those documents, what happens next. committee members have been very clear. all options are on the table. that will also meanings potentially if it gets toe that point, pursuing contempt of congress. >> phil mattingly, shimon,

thanks very much. the former national security adviser michael flynn by the way, is also refusing to cooperate with the senate intelligence committee's investigation. senator jack reed is here with us. he's a rhode island democrat and a member of the intelligence committee. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> what exactly are you looking for from michael flynn? >> well, the requests were for documents related to his dealings, any dealings with russia, anything that would be relevant to the issues that's been raised by the intelligence community of contacts between the trump campaign and the russian government and russian intelligence services. >> he's refusing to testify unless granted immunity. >> he's refused to testify unless he's granted immunity. >> do you think he will be. >> i do not think so particularly after rejecting the claim for records. he's made a claim under the fifth amendment that it could be incriminating. that's his right as a citizen. it's not clear records are not

testimonial that claim we're still not accepting. but what we've done and the leadership of senator burr and senator warner is issued another request for documents from companies that he organized who are not individuals and those records should be available. >> do you expect to get those documents? >> we hope we do. >> are his lawyers saying those are subject to his fifth amendment privilege, as well? >> they very well might. i'm not aware we've receive aid response yet. our position would be and there is case law to support in that the fifth amendment right adheres to a person's self-incrimination, not to a company's and documents that the company has. >> you think you'll get those documents? >> i think they'll probably try to delay and perhaps make the same argument about the fifth amendment. >> paul manafort who was the trump campaign chairman turned over 300 pages of documents to the committee. have you seen those pages? do you know what you're looking for in those documents?

>> again, i can't comment on the specifics. but in general, we're looking for any indication of contacts between the trump campaign and russia or any other foreign powers. that's because of the conclusions that our intelligence community made public in january that there was very clear evidence that there was a deliberate attempt by the russian government ordered by putin to engage in our elections, to take steps to actually be disruptive of our electoral process. >> we heard on an end cooper's show last night a friend of james comey says the president should be scared by the prospects of comey's testimony that he's about to deliver before your committee after memorial day. is there a date yet when that will take place? >> there has been a discussion of dates. that's not i think absolutely firm yet but there's been a commitment to have the hearing, have it open, ask questions and

i think director comey will be very forth coming. > what do you expect to hear from him? >> i think he it will indicate his position with respect to the comments and discussions he had with the president. i think he'll be not try to interfere the ongoing investigation. but he will make it clear the things he has personal knowledge of what he knows and what he thinks about those suggestions. >> do you think he'll make available the contemporaneous memoranda that he wrote following his conversations, his meetings with president trump? >> i would hope so but that's not nothing that i can confirm at this moment. >> you've seen all the reports. >> yes. >> that the president tried to dissuade him from going forward supposedly with the entire investigation. >> i would think but again, this is just thinking forward is that if he has such a document, that would add credence to his testimony.

given his training as a lawyer and his professional skills, he would want to document not just verbally but in writing if he has such documents. he has to make the judgments. >> senate democrats have written to the white house asking for more cooperation in the entire investigation. tell us about that. what's the point? you are not getting full cooperation from the white house right now? >> well, cooperation through a number of agencies. there are financial records which the treasury department holds in terms of transfers of money. there's information that the fbi has, information that our intelligence services has, and we just wanted to request any cooperation. that's a thoughtful and appropriate message to the white house that we want cooperation. >> so you're waiting for a reply to that? >> yes. >> while i have you, the manchester terror attack earlier in the week, it now looks like it was a much more sophisticated operation. what's the latest you're hearing? you're on the intelligence committee. >> mostly as you are from public

sources not from the intelligence sources that it had seem sophisticated because of the nature of the device and what they know about the suspect in terms of his ability to build it. also the planning to go there apparently he left from london to go to manchester. the targeting of a audience that was predominantly made up of young woman because of the appeal of the singer and all those things suggest a degree of planning sophistication that was not just off the cuff or random or a target of opportunity. >> we now nope this terrorist blew himself up was in libya just days before coming back to manchester and blowing himself up, killing and injuring all of these people. yesterday i spoke to mike mccaul, the chairman of the house homeland security committee. he wasn't sure if this was al qaeda or isis or maybe some other group. what are you hearing? >> again, i don't think there's been any attribution. isis claimed it but it claims any type of incident like this

as they're doing. i don't think anyone has made a determination yet. the intelligence services in the united states and great britain are cooperating closely together. particularly on the activities of individuals in libya or elsewhere. they're trying to reconstruct a picture and also the british particularly are trying to disrupt any type of associates or acpolice he may have in great britain. >> others arrested. here's the question though. was he simply inspired by a terror organization like isis or al qaeda or was he actually organized? was it part of a more formal organized terror plot? >> that's the question that law enforcement intelligence services are trying to get to the bottom of. there are situations where there's an individual who self-radicalizes through the internet and does something without any cooperation or anything else and there's a possibility which is much more sinister that there was a network of people testifies provided aid, he was provide training and instructions.

that's more detrimental and more dangerous to us. >> the british government has now gone on the highest state of alert fearing another terror attack could be imminent which related to what happened in manchest manchester. thanks for joining us. jack dreefd rhode island. coming up, one of the uk's top security officials slamming u.s. leaks on the investigation into the manchester attack. we have new details. >> plus, senators have been working behind closed doors on capitol hill quietly writing their own version of the health care bill to repeal and replace obamacare. john barroso is in a working group currently drafting bill. he's here. we'll discuss that and a whole lot more. ready or not, here i come. ♪ anyone can dream.

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the senate intelligence committee says ousted national security adviser michael flynn could be held in contempt of congress. committee leaders say they'll consider that option if he refuses to comply with the latest subpoenas. republican senator john barroso of wyoming is a member of the foreign relations committee, part of the senate gop leadership, as well. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> do you support the intelligence committee's investigation the way it's moving forward under senator burr and senator warner. >> i really do, wolf.

not just 100 senators but the entire population of our country wants to know what happened with the russians with the election and the committee is doing an excellent job but also i think this special counsel to look into this general mueller who had been the head of the fbi, he is the right person to do that. so i'm comforted by the fact that this bipartisan select committee is there as well as former fbi director. >> so you disagree with the president who calls it a witch hunt, a charade. you think it's a serious issue that has to be resolved. >> 100 senators want to make sure our country stays safe and secure and strong. we're committed to getting to the bottom of this finding the answers. >> you accept the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence community and the fbi that russia directly interfered in the election even though we don't know what the impact was that it was russia that was responsible? >> i absolutely believe that. i am convinced of that. it's not just the u.s. election where they interfered.

they were doing that around the world. we saw that and see it in germany, in britain as well as in france. they're trying to undermine democracies worldwide. >> other issues i know you're working on the senate version of health care reform repealing and replacing obamacare. listen to bob corker, republican, said of this process of drafting a senate version as opposed to what the house passed. he says there, "it's a very awkward process. at best, there are no experts. there's notory yils, i would rather have the input as we move along than a bill produced and all of a sudden it's a product and everybody opines." how do you respond. >> he was in a couple meetings yesterday with people that work with the insurance industry to say how can we lower premiums. let's take a step back why we have to do this. obamacare is collapsing. premiums have exploded. a report just came out last night that the obama administration never wanted the

public to see and it's the fact that the first four years under obamacare premiums around the country have doubled. >> why not fix it instead of repealing it? >> the question is you can call it what you will. but it's the obamacare rules and regulations that have caused this explosion of the premiums that they have doubled across the country in four years. >> if you eliminate the word repeal, you'll get democrats who work with you to try to make it better to improve it and make health care for americans better. >> as a doctor, i'm concerned about health care for americans. and i'm concerned about finding ways to lower the premiums, to protect people with pre-existing conditions, but also to deal with these people that are stuck under the collapse of the obama health care plan. in my home state of wyoming, prices have doubled. there are a number of places where you have no choices, no one is selling on the obamacare exchanges. you have to say what can we do for those people now. >> the congressional budget office as you know later today will release its report

estimating what passed in the house of representatives, the republican version, what that's going to cost the american public, how many people been ached and will lose health insurance. what are you bracing for? >> i want to see what they have to say. when it came to obamacare, they were terribly wrong in the past and said by now there would be over 22 million people signed up for obamacare. only 10 million signed up. they also said with the individual mandate, people would go and buy obamacare insurance. we know over 20 million chose to ignore the individual mandate either over 8 million actually paid the fine and another 12 or so million just got a deferral and said okay, we don't have to pay the fine. so they've been wrong before. but i want to see exactly what happens. what i do know is that prices have skyrocketed. people afraid of what has happened to them already. that's what i heard about last weekend in wyoming, why am i

paying double for insurance not right for me? why can't i buy what's right for me rather than what washington says i have to have. >> we'll see what the cbo score says bice based on the legislation passed in in the house and now you'ring r considering in the senate. the president's new budget was revealed this week. this is senator john mccain on late night with seth meyers. listen to this. >> it says it makes massive cuts in things like medicaid and food stamps and americans who have less. >> it's dead on arrival. >> this budget. >> i think we do forget that ultimately the president can only turn in a budget and you have to vote on it. it's dead on arrival? >> we need a budget. as much as we like to talk about the president, congress takes us to the edge of the cliff, grand canyon national park could be

shut down because we can't get our act together and pass these appropriations bills to make the government function. >> do you agree with senator mccain that the president's budget proposal is dead on arrival? >> it's just a proposal. a recommendation. it points to a direction, the things i like about it, there's more money for the military. it doesn't cut veterans or homeland security but does focus on some of the domestic perhaps that are expensive and we are at a point now where we are addicted to spending in the united states. it's not we're taxed too little. we spend too much. i wish it would look at the major entitlements that spend almost half the money in the country. medicare and social security and the interest on the debt. >> as you know, the president during the campaign promised as a candidate there would be no cuts to social security, no cuts to medicare. no cuts to medicaid. his proposal doesn't have cuts for social security or medicare but has hundreds of billions of cuts in medicaid. are you with him on that?

>> we need to reform all of these programs. those are the things that are significantly contributing to the debt and the financial path we're on as we spend more and more money on those programs, there's less for education, less for roads and infrastructure. there's less for all sorts of things around the country. and we're both baby boomers. 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 today. every time you put someone else on medicare which is a successful program and social security without actually reforming these programs, that means there's less money for other things out there which are important. >> as a candidate he said no cuts to those programs. social security, medicare and medical. is he proposing, senator mccain says it's dead on arrival his new budget. you agree it is dead on arrival? >> every president's budget that comes to congress is just a recommendation. president obama's budget, democrats wouldn't even vote for it. we're going to propose our own budget and deal with the issues ahead of us at a time of huge

debt. we need the economic growth. you can't necessarily cut your way through this. you have to grow your way. his proposal 3% economic growth that's what we lived with here for decades till the obama administration's time where economic growth has really been very tepid. that cannot be the new normal for our country. >> you remember the collapse of the economy happened at the tail end of the bush administration when the great recession occurred. so he inherited as you remember president obama all of all of. >> very tepid growth after that time. >> we need to get rid of a lot of regulations that have put a handcuff on the economy. >> let's see happens. senator barroso, thanks for coming on. coming up, one of the uk's top security officials says she scolded the u.s. over the leaks in the manchester, england terror attack. and the president restart his search for a new fbi director. we're going to he will you why. so draw the line.

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ago, you realize how important it is to win this fight. and we will win this fight. it's a horrible situation. too took place is horrible. unthinkable. but we will win. 100%. >> thank you. thank you. >> strong words from the president and in a radio interview, the uk home secretary though is slamming u.s. officials for leaking information in connection with the manchester bombing. listen to this. >> it is irritating if it gets released from other sources and have i been very clear with our friends that that -- that should not happen again. >> these comments come as the u.s. is scrutinized over reports president trump shared top secret information from israel with russian officials. for more, let's bring in our senior international correspondent fred flight pleitgen joining us from london. tell us what happened between the uk and the u.s., the

irritation uk officials are now feeling. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, this was right after the attack took place. in fact, on the very next day when u.s. sources apparent revealed the name of the attacker. salman abedi. this was at a time when the uk authorities here said they felt they knew the identity of the bomber but they didn't want to give that to the media or to the public just yet. of course, for reasons of the investigation that was going on. now, as the home secretary amber rudd said she was irritated by this. it seems as though uk authorities were quite angered this name was out there. they also say they don't believe that the investigation was hampered because of all this. however, experts we've spoken to say of course, there will have been a reason why they didn't disclose the name in the first place. some of it to try and further the investigation because if there are still other accomplices potentially out

there, you don't want to tip them off who you have in custody, what that person's name is, wolf. >> another sensitive issue, president trump came under fire last week after it was discovered he told russian officials sensitive information given to the u.s. by israeli intelligence, the israeli defense minister now speaking out about that incident today. fred, tell us what he said. >> reporter: yeah, this was lieberman. the israeli defense minister apparently while president trump was in israel, there was a meeting between lieberman and h.r. mcmaster of the national security adviser. and afterwards, lieberman said everything we needed to discuss was discussed. we did an inquiry. everything that should have been done, all the conclusions, everything was done. so clearly, the israelis felt they needed to talk about this. he also said they made what he calls a pointed correction so it seems as though there was some anger on the israeli side and irritation on the israeli side and certainly they wanted to

talk to the u.s. about how and which information is disclosed and certainly most probably to also be more careful with the kind i have information that gets disclosed especially to countries that potentially could be an adversary of the united states like for instance some people say russia is. so this is clearly something that was very important to the israelis where there was some irritation where they felt they needed to talk to the americans about it. lieberman went on to say he believes there is unprecedented intelligence sharing going on. it certainly seemed as though even after the two incidents that apparently have taken place all sides want to continue to keep that information sharing going on. of course, it is so vital in the war against terror. that is so important for this administration, as well, wolf. >> fred, we're now hearing that there are more arrests in connection with the manchester terror attack including the brother of the terrorist who are blew himself up. we have an update. the brother of salman abedi

apparently we're now told was arrested in tripoli, libya on suspicion of links to isis as well as tripoli militia working for the interior ministry industry. what more can you tell us about this expanding series of arrests? >> well, it certainly is very significant. there were several arrests made in britain, as well where five people are in custody now. it plays into another thing we found out today which is very important. apparently that salman abedi was in libya quite recently and spent about three weeks there in libya and only came back just a few days ago. of course, the big question is going to be, what exactly did he do there? did he have ties potentially to isis or some other militias helping him plot this attack and plan this attack. of course, one of the things the norths are saying is because of the sophistication of the explosive device he used, all the planning that needed to go into this, they did not believe

he was acting alone and seems to me there's more and more substantiating that in fact he was part of a wider network and it seems as though some of those links may lead to libya and the arrest of the brother could be very significant, as well. i'm pretty sure the british authorities will want to get intelligence what this person has to say and how it could potentially further their investigation here at home. >> important information indeed. fred pleitgen, thank you very much. coming up, president trump establishing a crisis team as he gears up for what's expected to be a long fight over the russia investigations. who's on it, what will they do, we'll be right back.

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now president trump is building a legal team in response to the russia investigation. sources say the president is expected to hire attorney mark kasowitz. he'll be part of a team of outside lawyers to advise him on matters related to the russia probe. let's brick ng in our panel, ad mentis with us, cnn political director david chalian and politics editor juana summers. what's your reaction to the president as they say lawyering up, adam, right now? >> it's obviously a sign we've reached a new phase in this investigation. not only is he facing twin investigations on the hill but obviously the fbi now that there's a special counsel, it's going to be moving more quickly. decision will be made during that period when after comey was fired there was a period where i'm sure people were reluctant to make key decisions and now they need to be made. he needs to be ready. we're not sure where this is going to go. based on comments by comey and

the existence of memos which now we know not only he kept but also mike rogers, head of the nsa kept memos related to his conversations with the president. so those could be turned over and this could advance in ways that nobody can predict at this pace. >> he's a highly respected very experienced attorney mark kasowitz. like all attorneys he will tell his client shut up. >> it's hard to tell the president of the united states to shut up, any president of the united states and this one particularly lay off twitter, don't get involved in the daily to and fro on this story. you can't have a president of the united states completely stay silent but trying to wall off the investigation from his work is the best advice possible. we're still at the beginning of this team. there is not just going to be mark kasowitz. this will be a team of attorneys and how they handle the political communication side of this in addition to the attorneys, who separate from the current white house staff, will they bring in somebody that has

a relationship with trump that is able to manage the daily political communications because this is the story every day for this white house now. >> juana, you wrote a piece on cnn politics. you were in pennsylvania speaking to trump supporters about there russia investigation. tell us what you heard. >> to david's point, there seems to be something new bubbling up every day i spent a weekend in pennsylvania. the people i talked to i asked them about the headlines. those were aware those who inspired trump in november said they were inch different differ. they believe democrats here are making a mountain out of a mole hill that investigations keep coming and coming and they feel that president trump, their choice for president has not been allowed to do the things he promised to do on the campaign trail to bring back jobs to make america great again. they were defending the president not any of them willing to entertain there might

be more than just smoke to this fire we see, this drip drip drip of stories that seem to have taken up the last week or so. >> think how interesting that is. these voters and supports of president trump do not believe he's been allowed to do what he was sent to do. the republicans have control of the white house, the house, the senate. effectively not being able to indicate the agenda he promised shows the reality that this investigation has stalled the agenda and it is hard to place blame elsewhere when have you every lever of power in washington. >> adam, you've been doing excellent reporting. a lot of this are anticipating the testimony in the next few weeks of the fired fbi director, james comey. listen to what a friend of comey's told anderson cooper last night. >> i thought it was interesting and very telling that he declined an opportunity to tell his story in private. he clearly wants to do it in a

public setting, and i interpret -- >> he was asked to testify in private and said no. now it's going to be public. >> that's a reflection of the fact that this is a guy with a story to tell. i think if i were donald trump, that would scare me a lot. >> what do you think about that? is he right? >> you know, i don't know. i'm also not convinced he's going to testify. >> tell me why you think he's not going to necessarily testify. >> is the special counsel going to feel comfortable with that? it could be the special counsel might decide having him come out there publicly might be a mistake. i don't know. we'll have to wait and see. if he does cop and testify, comey is the kind of guy who is really good about taking notes. this is something these fbi guys, they're really good at doing this. they remember it. when he gets to his car, he writes things down on a piece of paper. he has exact quotes. these are almost as if it's been compared to almost as if there's a tape recording.

i don't think there's a tape recording. there's been tweets about potential tapes maybe on the other side. i assume those are jokes. but you know, he has meticulous notes. it could obviously be very damaging for hip to reveal. maybe we know everything he was told by the president. maybe we don't. it's something we have to wait and see. >> robert mueller, the new special counsel could have a great influence how far comey will go in terms of releasing some of those contemporaneous memorandum. >> not just because of his position as the counsel but his relationship with jim comey, as well. they're close and worked together. and so you could imagine mueller sort of impressing upon comey the need to preserve him as a witness in this investigation overall so even if jim comey ends up testifying after memorial day up to the senate, intelligence committee, i do wonder how sort of circumscribed

his remarks would be. >> thanks very much. up next, lawmakers on both sides are waiting to learn the financial impact of the latest republican health care bill. the congressional budget office scores as it's called is expected to be released momentarily. we'll breakdown why this potentially could be crucial. we'll be right back.

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getting new information about the brother of the terrorist who blew himself up and killed all of those people in manchester, england. the brother of salman abedi. a man by the name of hash hashim abedi was planning an attack when he was arrested in libya. he had been under surveillance for about a month and a half. they released a statement saying hashim abedi admitted that he and his brother were members of isis. they had been aware of the plot. he left britain, according to

the statement, on april 16th. new information coming in there. we're going to, of course, update you on all of the information. much more coming up shortly. there's other news we're following in washington. we're about to find out the financial impact of the house health care bill that recently passed, the much anticipated congressional budget office is expected shortly. it will answer big questions, including how many will the new bill leave uninsured. the version passed by the house that's now being considered in the senate, how much does it cut deficits? tammy is joining us from "cnn money." what are we expected to hear? >> sure. this is the final version of the house bill. we haven't seen a score for it yet. we had earlier scores but they changed it since then. so now we're going to find out how much it affects the deficit, how many people will actually be

uninsured. the original bill showed that 24 million people would be uninsured under the house plan. and that's a really difficult number for the republicans to get through. and we're waiting to see what the impact on premiums will be. the house made changes to the bill after the last score and it's very possible that those with pre-existing conditions, people who are sick or have been sick may see their premiums go up. that's not going to be good news for the republicans. >> tami, one quick question on all of this. the senate version is going to be totally different than the house version, we're told. >> that's true. it looks like the senate is starting from scratch and redoing everything, but it's still going to be very important. they need to have that house score in order to be able to build their bill. >> tami lubby reporting for us, thank you very much. the news continues here on cnn, including the breaking news we're following on the manchester terror attack. much more on all of this right

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hi there, i'm brianna keel later. we're following major developments out of manchester, england. the brother of the bomber is under arrest for planning his own attack in tripoli. back in the uk, five people are now in custody in connection with the bombing as police say they believe the bomber was part of a wider terrorist network. and all of this as we get word from u.s. officials that the attacker spent three weeks in libya, returning to england just days before he walked into that ariana grande concert surrounded by children and