London on alert after a terrorist tried to storm the houses of parliament, but not before leaving several dead. We go live to london. Good morning. A lot going on. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. We start with history being made today one way or the other. Republicans will take the vote to actually repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act or we could see a staggering blow against obamacare and perhaps the entire trump agenda. The white house deep in a furious to turn no votes by members of the conservative Freedom Caucus into yeses. One point is ending essential Health Benefits that obamacare requires in every insurance policy. More on those central benefits in a moment. First, there is still no deal. Freedom caucus chairman mark meadows is sounding optimistic. Im optimistic we can get there. There are a lot of details, sean. To say we have a deal that wouldnt be accurate. The president and i came to agreement in principle. I think what we are trying
One will be made soon. Im really optimistic we can get there. There is still a lot of details to work out, sean. To say we have a deal that wouldnt be accurate. The president and i came to agreement in principle. What we are trying to do now is to make sure that our agreement is actually something that can be executed in a way that passes the senate. Wheile meadows is changing hs tune, some are sounding alarm after the late meeting with paul ryan. Charlie dent, chairman of the moderate group in the house, announced he is opposed to the bill. So with all the give and take, here is where it stands on this version of the bill to repeal obamacare. According to our count, 24 House Republicans are flat out no. 28 lawmakers in the definitely or likely no column. That could change quickly even fluctuate if the Freedom Caucus flips to support the bill. This is very fluid. As for the president himself, aides say he is not involved in the details of the legislation. One telling cnn, he either doe