house had been threatening not moving forward with these payments is because we heard president trump say time and again that he wants obamacare one way to do that is not allow payments to go forward. not allowing payments to go forward it could up end the individual insurance market, create chaos in the system. right now the white house is saying they ll move forward. it will still add pressure, brooke, on republicans and democrats in the senate to come up with a deal as soon as next month to try to fix this on-going problem, they cannot repeal obamacare but fix elements in the individual insurance market. the white house is saying they re moving forward with payments to prevent any further turmoil that we ve seen from insurers pulling out of various states. manu raju in washington. thank you. let s go to the story in charlottesville, virginia. i have two analysts, paul bernstein, and joshua green,
just in to us here at cnn, despite a threat from president trump, white house spokesman says the subsidies will be made. let s go to manu raju in washington with more. what s the deal. reporter: that s right. in fact, the white house has been threatening that they would not actually make these payments to insurers in order to defray those costs that the insurers incur and to subsidize health coverage. what the trump administration is saying is that they will move forward with their august payments. now the one reason why, brooke, they re moving forward thin thi is because of a new analysis from the congressional budget office suggesting that by ending these payments would dramaticicsly lead to an increase in premiums, up to 20% increase in premiums. now also, at the same time, doing so could potentially increase the budget deficit as well as that it could lead to fewer people having coverage. now, the reason why the white
forward. let s go to manu raju in washington, our senior congressional correspondent. back up. these ac significanccusations te house wanted to block her testimony, where did that come from? it quam in the aftermacame ia surprising decision where sally yates was expected to testify as well as two other former intelligence officials, john brennan. among those and james clapper expected to go forward. nunez s decision to cancel the hearing was so they could hear privately from james comey and mike rogers, the head of the national security agency in a private briefing. this committee has broken down along partisan lines. they canceled that hearing. a lot of questions about why not have a public hearing and these
answer. april ryan, the white house correspondent for american urban radio network. what was your takeaway from that exchange? i m glad you played it, because i am looking intently at it. basically, my takeaway is what sean said. i m a reporter. i just have to report it. i understand it s 2 1/2 months in. there is a frustration. there is something we ve never seen before here at this white house. sean has to do what he has to do. he us the spokesperson for this white house. i m a reporter. i cover all things presidential to include what is presidential, those investigations on the hill. it pertains to what is happening here. with everything that s going on, with everything that s going on, that was the question. how do you revamp the image of
we now have heard that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is saying that the senate will vote on supreme court nominee neil gores such next friday and he will be confirm. a lot of democrats though are planning to filibuster which means the senate republicans may invoke the nuclear option. republicans need 60 votes to block that expected filibuster which would require the support of at least eight democrats if they can t get there. that s when republicans may totally change senate rules invoking the so-called controversial nuclear option. that would require only a simple majority to confirm judge gorsuch. cnn s washington correspondent brianna keilar is covering that story for us. how is the road to 60 coming? reporter: not looking good and looking worse, brooke. keep in mind we still have some time to go before this key vote, so there is that. a lot of democrats are sitting on the fence who aren t necessarily committing to an answer, but the thought at first was that you had