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they re leaning toward the health care deal right now. you know what that means, moderates on board, largely moderates, do you keep conservatives on board. back and forth we have on that. we ll explore that. goes back to so-called issue of preexisting conditions, what is covered and how is it covered, both crucial, as blake burman can tell you he live from the white house. hi, blake. reporter: two congressman now yeses as they said outside white house, fred upton, billy long, those two are driving this closer to a yes vote in the house. when i was speaking with white house officials earlier this morning. they were a handful of yes votes away. subtract that by two. this centers around preexisting conditions and new upton amendment which we re led to believe will be tacked on to the ahca. deals with this, in states which governors decide to opt out of preexisting conditions being covered and community rating, in those states there is folks who might have a preexisting con ....
charles: joining me now, mike baker. worrisome, in fact, scary stuff there because, apparently the more we win, particularly in the middle-eastern battlefields, the harder it will become for us to live here at home? that is correct. i do like how the senator asked the director if he agreed with him in the idea that as we take back that turf, syria, iraq, they will spread out around the world. of course the director agrees with him. the director has been talking about that well before the most recent presidential election but it is absolutely true, and he has been raising this alarm for the past several weeks and it really hasn t gotten much traction because of all the other events and north korea and ongoing russian investigation. it really hasn t gotten the attention. important you re talking about this. particularly in light of the renewal of the state department travel advisory for u.s. persons traveling to europe this summer. charles: mike, when you say will sprea ....
in politics, the house will vote on the g.o.p. health care plan. it will be a partisan vote and it s just the first step in a lengthy process to ultimately make this bill a law, but we begin with late night politics. steven colbert he doesn t completely back walk or walk back from his vulgar anti-trump monologue. varney & company begins. folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. so, at the end of that monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don t regret that. i have jokes. he has the launch code. so, a fair fight. well, that was stephen colbert from last night addressing in the comments he made the night before. want to bring in james freeman with the wall street journal editorial page. seems like he did stop short of apologizing. yeah, i think a lot of people are asking, wouldn t he be fired in many circumstances? what i m happening for here is so ....
the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 232. the nays are 183. two voting present. the journal stands approved. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on june 28, 2017, at 9:28 a.m. clerical correction, to an appointment made on march 22, 2017, to the board of visitors of the u.s. merchant marine academy. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks and include extraneous materials on h.r. 1215. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 382 and ....
this fall. a decision on whether to renew the children s health program. remind us what this is and who is eligible. chip is the health insurer just children s health insurance program. it was started because there were a lot of uninsured children that were in families that earn too much to qualify for medicaid , but not enough to where private insurance would be affordable or even available in some cases. maybe the parents work in were employer-sponsored coverage wasn t an option for the hall family. congress wanted to make this commitment to covering kids into getting more kids covered. they start of the chip program and since that time we have now reached historic coverage levels for kids in the u.s.. this is something we should be very proud of. we have 95% of kids covered in the u.s. and that is thanks in large part to the work of medicaid and chip and the commitment to covering kids in a bipartisan way. guest: what is host: what is the price tag and how does it ....