Congress who will shape what comes next. So, please welcome the runnersup for the democratic and republican nominations for president , Bernie Sanders, independent of vermont. [ applause ] [cheers and applause] and senator ted cruz, republican of texas. [cheers and applause] senators, welcome. Please take your positions behind the podiums. Now before your Opening Statements, i want to talk about the ground rules you both agreed to. You will get 90 seconds to questions posed to you, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. A handful of our audience will question you along with questions from jake and myself. As moderators, we will guide the debate, and we will again with two Opening Statements on what should happen to health care in america. Senator sanders. Let me begin by thanking cnn for sponsoring this debate and those watching. Let me get right to the point. Senator cruz like most americans have said they want to repeal the Affordable Care act or socalled obamacare. Let me tell you
Their handling of clintons email case. Im glad that someone has finally looking into this. Im pleased to award our nations highest civilian honor, the president ial medal of freedom. This is new day with chris cuomo. With distinction and only several americans have gotten the award with distinction. He understood the significance. He was so touched by it. Good morning, welcome. Politicians pushing ahead to quickly dismantle obamacare, the next step to try to get rid of it. House speaker ryan vowing on cnn to repeal and replace the law simultaneously. Replacing sounds good politically but what will it mean practically . There is no known alternative and what does that mean for democrats who might be needed to pass any replacement. Donald trump weighing in on that battle this morning. Were now one week away from trumps inauguration as president of the United States. Lets begin our coverage with cnns senior washington correspondent joe johns in washington. Joe . Good morning, chris, the C
Delay the vote until after july 4. Jim acosta standing by, Phil Mattingly is up on capitol hill. Phil, what is it going to take for Senate Republicans to get together on this Health Care Bill. It is going to take Senate Republicans who have very public, very concrete, set positions on this bill and on health care in general, kind of as an ideology to move off those positions. And thats not a small thing. Over and over again, Senate Republicans have been to s. T. A. R. T. Moving towards the senate, to start giving a little bit on their key issues. What yesterday underscored was the reality of theyre not there yet, and theyre not very close, if you look publicly, there are nine senatorin ings who oppose draft they were trying to move forward yesterday, im told there are a lot more concerns from more members than are out there publicly. What theyre trying to do is thread a needle between two ideological views. There at the white house, what do you expect from the president . What kind of
Sell. Welcome, im neil cavuto, and youre watching your world with neil cavuto. In perspective, it does between five is meeting with President Trump right now, it hinges on getting it done and done soon. Just the notion that this was pushed back beyond a july 4th holiday. When we got word of that earlier this afternoon, stocks, which had been advancing, it will immediately turn tail. That red circle shows what we heard from Mitch Mcconnells office that was out looking likely that they would be able to get this done. Before or after bread that rattled stocks. So much hinges on that. Not only the tax cuts, but the groundwork for getting tax reform done. So much hinges on this. Fit more sellers than buyers and as a result, this whole thing about tending to us when we are sick is up to make investors sick and ended up making republican sick with the prospect they could be dragging their feet from the jaws of victory here. Kevin corke at the white house. What is expected with what they all g
Best hope is the desire of the American People for Something Better and Something Real to come out of it, maybe that may light a fire. In democracy, thats supposed to be the answer. Well see. Ax, always appreciate it. Good to see you. Good to see you here. Visit more often. We say the same to you, our international viewers. Its good to have you. Please come more often. Cnn num newsroom is next for yo. Lets continue. We know the fight is not over. Thats for sure. Its going to take a few weeks to figure out something we can all agree on. This is more than a mean bill. This is a destructive bill. I believe we can get to yes. Stop the sabotage of the Affordable Care act. Were getting very close, but for the country we have to have health care. There are a lot of disturbing elements to this story relative roger stone. He brags about his friendship with julian assange. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Alisyn is off, Clarissa Ward joins me this morning. Great to have you.