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Will the Affordable Care Act become the Unaffordable Care Act?

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The Congressional Budget Office has some bad news for House Speaker Paul Ryan and others who vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Healthcare premiums for a 64-year-old would go from $1,700 a year to $14,600.

Wealthier people would get tax cuts. That might not pass the House. In the Senate, it's likely dead on arrival, and it hardly

meets the President's promise of insurance for everybody. We'll look at the stumbling blocks to a promise

Republicans have been making for seven years. Later on today's talking point, it might have been

a high noon in the Nevada desert, but federal lawmen back down at the Cannabis Cup.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon, I'm not only, back with To the Point. Republicans are divided and Democrats are saying, we told you so, when it comes to official estimates of what it will cost to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The Trump White House says the Congressional Budget Office is just wrong.

Today's talking point, Nevada legalized recreational marijuana last year and celebrated it

this weekend at the Cannabis Cup near Las Vegas. But federal officials warned of prosecution

if anybody was seen passing a joint. We'll hear what happened. First, this news update. President

Trump has granted the CIA authority to conduct lethal drone strikes once again. President

Obama had transferred that command to the Pentagon. Gordon Lubold is covering that story for the

Pentagon. He works for the Wall Street Journal. Good to have you with us.

Hi, Warren. How are you? Good. Thank you. I gather the difference is that if it goes to the CIA, it's less

transparent. That's right. So the CIA operates under what's known as Title 50, and which means that they

are not required to disclose their drone strikes and operations,

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