Day 65 of the Trump Administration and it is marred by the collapse of the president s repeal and replace Health Care Bill that appeared as a sloe moving draw in a on capitol hill. Bottom line, the bill never reached the house floor for a vote. President trump said he told paul ryan to pull the measure in the afternoon. The president and gop do not intends to take up health care in the immediate future. Instead the president says he intends to tackle tax reform next. For the latest on how the health care saga unfolded, here is hallie jackson. Reporter the party in power divided when it mattered as republicans revolted around xroe compromise on something seven years in the making, getting rid of box c. A. R. Are obamacare. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is what happened. Reporter but 63 days after he signed one of his First Executive orders, the president in the end unable to close this deal. His biggest political defeat yet. But not to him. I think that this is going to end u
Willing to engage with lawmakers on a new Health Care Reform bill. First, to the russia investigation. The house intelligence chairman nunes rejecting calls from democrats and now at least some republicans to at least recruise himself from the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 president ial election. Among the unanswered questions, who exactly cleared nunes to go on to white house grounds so that he could meet with a source and view secret intelligence reports. Thats something the white house was asked about once again today. You said to us from the podium you would look into how chairman nunes was cleared here and with whom he met. Do you have any information to live up to the commitment you made on monday to provide more details about how that happened in a process you just told us yet again is above board and totally appropriate. I dont have anything for you on that at this time. But again. Did you look at it . I have asked preliminary questions and not gotten answers
We begin with what is not a quiet friday in washington. Former National Security advisor Michael Flynn, who was fired for lying about conversations with the russians now wanting immunity from congress in exchange for his testimony. The retired general has President Trump backing him. Mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt, excuse for big election loss, by media and dems, of historic proportion meantime, nancy pelosi believes its a bit premature to be talking immunity. We dont want people thinking the Justice Department cannot make the case they want against him. This is a violation of the law, what that could lead to, i really dont want to think that its about flint to get the president. This is about flynn and flynn. Meghan i know you are coming on today and i couldnt wait to get your reaction to this. Mike i think thats a very smart legal move on his part. I dont think its admission of guilt. I know what he said several months ago, i get all that. This is now
Morning. Sounds reasonable. Brit hume will weigh in. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Bill hi, i am bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. How politicians are hurting the american people. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. The failure to pass a new Health Care Proposal in the house has hurt the Republican Party and President Trump. Situation is confusing but let me break it down so even the politicians can understand it. There are three basic things that America Needs from a Fair Health Care plan. First, a reasonable cost. Working people cannot be punished with high insurance premiums. Second, the poor who cannot afford insurance are given access to health care in some way. Medicaid, perhaps, the best way. And third, that all americans are protected from medical catastrophe. So, if i am a sitting republican congressman on the hill, how do i vote on a new proposal to replace obamacare . Well, it is impossible to
He even went on to say officials collected information from the president which, of course, sounds like a big deal, right . Except for some huge asterisk. Nunes said the new information did not contradict his earlier statement that president obama did not order a wine tap of trump and that the communications were intercepted legally and collected incidentally which would suggest that trump and his allies were not the target of the surveillance. Nunes refused to say where he got this information, referring only to sources and, amazingly, he then went to the white house to brief the president on what he knew and hold another press conference. Keep in mind, nunes is supposed to be leading the house investigation into Trump Campaigns relationship to russia, not telling the possible subjects of that investigation what he knows. In fact, if nunes did, in fact, learn that communications involving Trump Officials have been intercepted incidentally, he should probably be pretty curious, even pe