kimberly leonard, thank you very much. we'll see you in 20 minutes. >> yep. >> thank you. >>> last night, the white house issued a warning aimed at syria. in a statement, the white house says, "there are potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the syrian regime that would lead to mass murder of civilians." it also warned president bashar al assad that there will be a heavy price to pay if such an attack is carried out. what prompted this warning seemingly out of nowhere? for the latest, let's bring in international diplomatic editor nic robertson, monitoring developments from abu dhabi. nic, this is counter to what we've seen for the most part from the trump administration. they didn't want to telegraph anything they did in terms of military preparations, a different approach here. >> reporter: yeah. it seems to be so. that was how the strike happened last time. the 59 cruise missiles that were fired on to assad's air base where the chemical weapons attack was perpetrated from. no warning. it was a su

let's bring in kimberly leonard.hanks so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we have been talking about these four republican senators but there were other members of the gop in the senate who said look i need a lot more time to read through this bill. as it stands right now what is the likelihood that we're going to see anything get through in the next week or so. >> well, it's hard to tell. there are a lot of different parts of the party to bring together. senator susan collins said that bill that would strip funding from planned parenthood and this bill would do that. now, she has the opportunity to offer an amendment next week but we'll see whether others will vote for it. she's also staying she will not vote for a bill that would cause millions more people to be uninsured and right now we just don't know what the projections of the bill are. >> so much has been made about the secrecy of which this was cobbled together. when you talk about that, when you talk about the susan collins of the senate,

. >>> for more on the cbo score and the political fallout here, let's turn to kimberly leonard, seniorth policy reporter for "the washington examiner." welcome to "early start." good to have you this morning. >> good morning. thank you. >> we're reliant on you to break this down, the cbo, what's new. the top-line numbers got all the attention. when you look at this bill -- and president trump described it, the house bill, as mean. from what we've seen of the senate bill, which direction is it headed? meaner or less mean? >> slightly fewer people would be uninsured by 2026 than we saw in the house bill. but the numbers are still a lot higher than republicans would want to see. and they're also high even in the coming years, in the short term. so that's making a lot of people nervous headed into the midterm selections next