Room. White house press secretary, sean spicer, and well bring it to you once it begins. The bill regarding obamacare is likely to come up. On my 50th day in office i want to talk about an issue of paramount importance to families across our nation. Healthcare. Seven years ago this month, obamacare was signed into law. House republicans have put forward plan that gets rid of this terrible law and replaces it with reforms that empower states and consumers. The house plan follows the guidelines i laid out in my recent address to congress. Expanding choice, lowering costs and providing Healthcare Access for all. Lets bring in our White House Correspondent athena joins and Phil Mattingly and investigative reporter, jose. It sounds like the president is now all in on the House Republican leadership plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Is he . Reporter hi, wolf. It does sound like that. The white house would say he is all in on this plan. When it was first rolled out, soon after it was firs
Keep an eye on that has not been making headlines. But it should. I mentioned that the health care thing is the reason that the senate is not going on their usual epic vacation that they typically take about this time of the year. That matters this year, not just for senators vacation schedules and whether they get to spend time with their families, going to the beach and blah blah blah, it also doesnt matter just for the not inconsiderable question of whether theyre going to use their extra time in washington to try to take Health Insurance away from over 20 million people. Theres an additional reason their vacation schedule really matters this year. And thats because the president today spent yet another day taking skin off of the hide of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. The president told the the New York Times last week that he wishes he hadnt hired Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general. He told them that sessions should not have recused himself from overseeing the russian i
Caused by hurricanes, the rapid groetds a growth and sprawl in the houston area has created worse conditions for a storm like this. Its also created some insurmountable challenges in terms of trying to move people out of harms way and trying to rescue people when the effort to get them out of harms way is a failed effort. So were continuing to watch this story tonight. Were going to be getting a live report from houston in just a moment. Were also going to be speaking with an expert tonight who is an expert specifically on the question of what options houston has right now. What options texas has right now in the middle of the thing to cope with what has happened over the last four days and what is likely to continue to get worse over the next 48 hours. They have some very painful decision to make. And getting a sense of what options they have and what the consequences of the decisions might be at this point. Its very difficult stuff but were going to be covering that in detail tonight
Up that were going to be talking about something that nobody else is talking about tonight. And self consciously so, it involves the Justice Department, potentially a huge deal, it looks like its about to happen but its not done yet. So were going to be sticking a flag in that story, fully cognizant theres a lot of other news going on, and nobody else is talking about this story, but i think its important enough we have to do it and do it tonight. We also just got news about the robert ert mueller special counsel inquiry on the trump russia investigation, pulling in someone knew to testify before the grand jury. We have that news this evening. We have interesting news about the president s eldest son being called to testify in the trump russia inquiry. Theres big breaking news from politico. Com within the last area about the course of the bob mueller inquiry and a dramatic move that mueller has just made that may be designed to do a end run around the possibility of President Trump pa
Something that looks like its about to happen but its not done yet. So fair warning, were going to be sticking a flag in that story tonight, cognizant there ts a t of other news going on, but i think its important enough that weve got to do it tonight. The Justice Department story is coming up. We also just got news about the Robert Mueller special counsel inquiry on the trumprussia investigation, pulling in someone new to testify before the grand jury thats been convened in that case. Weve got that news this evening. Weve also got some interesting news today about the president s eldest son being called to testify in the trumprussia inquiry. Theres also some big breaking news from politico,. Com, just in the past hour or so, about the course of the bob mueller inquiry. And a dramatic move that special counsel Robert Mueller has just made that may be designed to kind of do an end run around the possibility of President Trump pardoning people involved in the scandal. This is a very, ver