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The end of obamacare. House republicans claim victory on health care. House republicans Just Launched a giant stink bomb into the United States state. Theyve been whining for seven years about the Affordable Care act. Now let them defend what they did today. Were seeing the individual exchange under obamacare implode. If we do nothing people will lose their health care. I want to thank the president of the United States for his steadfast leadership. How am i doing . Am i doing okay . Im president. Hey, im president. Can you believe it . Right. I dont know. The storm that caused historic flooding in parts of the central United States is moving east. Officials will be in the savannah, georgia, area, trying to confirm whether it with was a tornado that left behind all this damage. Just sounded like a roar. Like a freight train. Roller coaster thrill turns into fear in oklahoma city. Why doesnt it ever get stuck like closer to the bottom . Just in time, officers quickly springing into action and pulling a man from a burning townhouse in las vegas. All that. Olynyk. Oubre goes after him. We have an allout scrum at the verizon scrum. A battle for the ages, america. The sheep being bullied constantly by the cat. Oh dont mess with the sheep. And all that matters. I shouldnt say this to my friend from australia because you have Better Health care than we do. They have universal health i know. I thought you would oh, okay, the president has just said it. On cbs this morning. Remember, laughter is the best medicine until yesterday when a jury convicted a woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions. We now live in a world where laughing at Jeff Sessions is a federal offense. So for your own safety, please, do not laugh at how much Jeff Sessions looked like my writer mikes brands new baby. Youre all going to jail. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Lets go places. Spk sbc captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. President trump and his republican allies are celebrating a capitol hill break through. The house narrowly passed a gop plan to rollback obamacare. But it still needs a vote in the senate where democrats vow to stop it and republicans are ready to change it. The house vote is the president s first important victory in congress and he invited republican lawmakers to celebrate with him in the white house rose garden. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill with whats next. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. This was a miraculous resurrection for a bill that was all but dead a month and a half ago. It passed with one vote to spare and now heads over to the senate where a 12member working group has already been set up to modify it. This is great plan. I actually think it will get even better. Reporter President Trump celebrated his victory with the House Republicans who delivered it. The yeas 217 the nay 213. The bill is passed. Reporter the Health Care Bill dismantles parts of obamacare and reworks others. We can put this collapsing law behind us, end this failed experiment. Reporter the gop plan is an experiment itself. It replaces obamacares insurance subsidies with more modest tax credits for low and middleincome americans and cuts medicaid funding and allows states to opt out of obamacares protections for people with preexisting conditions. Wyoming republican liz cheney said the goal is to give states more flexibility. You feel confident with the way the bill handles people with preexisting conditions . I feel very confident about it. We made sure nobody can be denied coverage because of preexisting conditions. Reporter they cant be defied but they can be charged more. If they let their coverage lapse. States would be required to set up high risk pools to help pay the premiums. These high risk pools are a sham. They are not adequately funded. Reporter democrats argued republicans would be punished at the ball lot box. But you have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark on this one. Reporter when the bill passed they sang this on the floor. Hey hey goodbye reporter the bill now goes to the senate where republicans say they wont rush it like the house did. The best example of good government. Reporter tennessee senator Lamar Alexander is one of 12 who will take the house bill and turn it into something the senate can accept. We will Work Together carefully to write our own bill. Reporter they will not get any help from senate democrats. We will make sure that trump care doesnt pass the senate and cant hurt the american people. Reporter but it may not matter because republicans are going to try to use a process in the senate called reconciliation, which would allow them to pass this bill without any democratic support. Though gayle, as we saw in the house, even getting all of their own members on board can be a challenge. Yep. Thank you very much, nancy. President trump told John Dickerson on face the nation last week that his plan will protect people with preexisting conditions. The American Medical Association says we actually have a make coverage completely unaffordable for people we have forget about unaffordable. Whats unaffordable is obamacare, john. So im not hearing you, mr. President , say theres a guarantee of preexisting conditions. We have a clause that guarantees. Now, under the house bill states can allow insurers to charge higher premiums to cover preexisting conditions. States would have to set up high risk pools to help those people pay for insurance. The ama claims high risk pools cause americans with preexisting conditions to be stuck in secondclass health care coverage. If theyre able to obtain coverage at all. Dan senor is a Senior Adviser to mitt romney and paul ryan in the 2012 president ial campaign. Welcome. Gom. What chance does this bill have. Majority leader mcconnell has quietly days before he was in pretty close contact with speaker ryan once it became clear this bill in the house was going to pass he already started to assemble a group of about a dozen republican senators who represent all the key committees, across the political spectrum within the Republican Party from Susan Collins on the left to mike lee on the right. And they got to work and i think they are if the House Republicans hope that the Senate Republicans are going to pick up where the House Republicans left off, i think that is not going to happen. I think theyre starting from scratch. I think in the end, the senate bill will look like the house bill but there are big differences. I think the senate will pass something and i think there will be enormous pressure on the House Republicans to pass the senate version. The senate version. Does the gop have momentum, do you think now, and how important is momentum . Some people this morning are describing it as Trumps Mission Accomplished moment . I was mixed on that rose garden celebration . Celebration. Rally. Why . Yesterday. But i will say when i talked to, you know, different members, particularly in the leadership, they say look, we need to keep this momentum going. For seven years, republicans have republican politicians have been campaigning against obamacare. It was the centerpiece of four elections 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, theyve been telling their voters for seven years we are going to repeal obamacare. Now republicans control the entire federal government. They want to keep telling their own members, how are you going to look at your voters in the eyes and say when we had the shot to do this we didnt do this. With each step they think the pressure intensifies. So once it passes the house, they want to make a big deal that it passed the house. One step, one milestone passed. Now its up to you, the senate, and they want to keep this momentum going and thats what a lot of what yesterdays optics were about. Legislating isnt easy and you have to doll out favors to get things passed. There is a lot in this house bill, even though most members who voted for it didnt read it, of the 23 republicans snigts districts won by hillary clinton, 14 voted for this repeal and replace. Are they in danger in the midterm elections . Its too early to tell. I would make two points. One, what many of them say is, look, ive got to worry about democrats, independents rebelling against us on what we did here but i have to worry about demoralizing Republican Voters. Turning out your own voters is as important as anything. Our Republican Voters think were incompetent and cant get anything done when we control the entire legislative branch and executive branch, were doomed. I think that is a big factor here. But it is an unknown. Dan senor always good to have you here, happy cinco de mayo. Thank you. Thats your holiday . No. No. Okay. But youll celebrate. I will celebrate it. Okay. Mention fullservice celebrator. Got it. After the rose garden event the president flew to new york city for the First Time Since his inauguration. Go back to your [ inaudible ] the people have the power. Protesters there to greet him. The president came to new york to meet australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. They clashed on the telephone a few months ago. They spoke on the uss intrepid a aircraft that is now a museum. The president headed to National Golf club in bedminster, new jersey, for a long weekend. Margaret brennan is nearby. Margaret, good morning. Good morning. Well, the president is waking up at his private club in new jersey after a busy thursday tapped off by an evening spent mending fences with australia. One of americas closest military and intelligence sharing partners. Our brave warriors have fought shoulder to shoulder in every major conflict. Reporter at black tie dinner aboard a decommissioned Aircraft Carrier President Trump celebrated the 75th anniversary of a key world war ii victory byes u. S. And australian forces. Americans have had no better friends than the australians. Reporter the first facetoface meeting with australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was also a chance to reset their relationship after a tense february phone call. We had a great call. You guys exaggerated the call. That was a big exaggeration. We had a great call. Were not babies. Reporter during that initial conversation, President Trump was angered to learn of an obama era deal to take in more than 1200 refugees from australia. He publicly blasted the agreement as dumb. Last month, Vice President pence assured turnbull that the u. S. Who stand by the deal. Make it clear well honor the agreement. It doesnt mean we admire the agreement. Reporter earlier thursday mr. Trump declared support for religious tolerance at the signing of a related executive order. We will never ever stand for religious discrimination. Never ever. Reporter but in march, the federal courts suspended the president s travel ban on six muslim majority nations citing, quote, a purpose to disfavor a particular religion. The courts pointed to these comments from the campaign. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Reporter notably the president has chosen saudi arabia, home to two of islams holiest sites as his first stop this month and then its on to israel and, gayle, hell get to meet the pope at the vatican. All right. A lot of people want to meet the pope. Thank you very much, margaret. The tsa is warning the American Trucking industry about the possibility of terrorists using big rigs and busses as weapons. Vehicle terror attacks in europe have killed an injured hundreds of people in the past three years. Jeff pegues is covering the concerns here in the u. S. Good morning. Good morning. The warning was really a reminder of what federal officials have been concerned about for some time now. Terrorist organizations have been calling on followers to turn large trucks or vehicles in general into deadly weapons. This truck attack carried out on the streets of nice, france, last summer, killing 86 people and injuring over 400, is exactly what u. S. Officials are trying to prevent. In a sixpage report sent to the trucking and bussing industry, the tsa issued new indicators and Counter Measures to help prevent terrorists from using commercial vehicles to inflict largescale damage. Among the suggestions, report suspicious rentals that coincide on dates of outdoor gatherings and reinforce strong vehicle security. The ramming attacks have increased in frequency. 12 people were killed in berlin when a truck slammed into an outdoor market in december. Additional units in the area of 19th and college we have several pedestrians struck by a vehicle. Reporter in this country, 11 people were injured after a man inspired by isis drove his car into a crowded ohio state university. According to the department of homeland security, since 2014, terrorists have carried out 17 known vehicle ramming attacks around the world. Resulting in 173 deaths, and 667 injuries. The tsa says terrorists will likely continue to encourage these types of vehicle attacks because the reality is, they are easy to plan, and have the potential to inflict a massive amount of casualties. Norah . Jeff, thank you. A lawyer representing two Pittsburgh High School students plans to sue the school and police for what they came is a pattern of abuse targeting black students. Video of one incident shows a School Resource officer putting a student in a headlock before pushing him down and using a taser. Vladimir duthierss has the schools response. In march 2015 shows Ahmad Williams waiting in the Principals Office after being sent there by a teacher. Hes exchanging words with steve shall his. Suddenly shaulis confronts williams putting him in a headlock and dragging him to the hallway. Principal murray helps the officer hold williams down while the teen is handcuffed and tasered. At a press conference williams attorney todd hollis says this is one of three known incidents at the Woodland Hill School district. If a picture speaks a thousand words, this picture clearly does, then a video has to speak a million. Reporter in another alleged incident in november audio appears to capture principal murray scolding a student found on School Property after hours. You call me a [ bleep ] im going to [ bleep ] punch you in the face. You know that. Man to man, bro. 14 years or not, i will punch you in your face. Reporter a third incident in early april, shows student Quechawn Wade restrained by two Police Officers and taken into a room off camera. Principal murray seen walking in and out of the room. Hollis claims wade was punched in the face by officer shaulis. Superintendent alan johnson says the incidents do not represent a pattern. What mr. Hollis has done here is taken two or three isolated incidents over the course of several years in a building with 1700 students and has managed to weave that into a conspiracy. Reporter the attorney for principal murray says he did not physically violate anyone. He was only responding to the officers actions and says the audio is taken out of context only repeating what the student said to the teacher. He is also the attorney for officer shaulis and says shaulis continues to serve the district and is cooperating with the investigation. Charlie . Thank you so much. Voters will go to the polls in france sunday. It is a president ial election that could have far reaching consequences for europe. Polls show centrist Emmanuel Macron leading far right candidate Marine Le Pen. Several were detained after they unfurled a banner on the eiffel tower. Mark is in paris ahead of the vote. Mark, good morning. Good morning. Well, it is the last day of campaigning here before this weekends vote. It turns out not just the candidates are trying to influence the electorate. In fact, one of the voices that has entered the fray, you might find familiar. Paris woke up to discover its most symbolic structure had become a political billboard. The banner hung by the Environmental Group greenpeace and containing the French National slogan, was widely interpreted as support for the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron. And against his right wing antiimmigrant opponent Marine Le Pen. She continues to trail by an apparently insurmountable 20 or so points in the poll. And her chances werent helped by another intervention, barack obama. I am supporting Emmanuel Macron to lead you forward. Reporter but le pen is not giving up. In an election cycle that produced the donald Trump Victory in the United States, this is the age, supporters like colleen hope, of unlikely upsets. Because trump is exactly the same thi