For millions hangs in the balance this morning with a july 4th deadline looming. A vote on Senate Health care overhaul is in question. At the same time the Congressional Budget Office is expected early this week, which will detail how it Impacts Health Care enrollment and the nations finances. The white house was in sell mode over the weekend. The Vice President tweeting before summer is out, well repeal and replace obama care with a system based on personal responsibility, free market competition, and statebased reform. While in an interview with fox, the president reflected on the challenge of passing an overhaul republicans have promised for years. Health care is a very complicated subject from the standpoint that you move it this way and this group doesnt like it, you move it a little bit over here, and a very narrow path. Honestly, you know, nobody can be totally happy. Even without the votes. Forget about votes. This has nothing to do with votes. This has to do with picking a pla
I know President Trump must have just gotten wifi on air force one because he sent out a few tweets. Reporter thats right. We did get a few tweets from the president praising the police here and there are new protests going on here even haafter the 0 has wrapped up. 50,000 protesters in the streets here. But lets focus on that g20 more broadly. Within the last few minutes, we are now hearing the recording of a conversation, basically, a News Conference held by several Senior Administration officials on Board Air Force one as they head home from hamburg with the traveling press and one of the key portions on this conversation focused on the topic of russian meddling and whether the u. S. Officials would dispute the russian assessment that President Trump basically accepted Vladimir Putins denial that the u. S. Or basically that russia had meddled in the u. S. Election. Asked on three separate occasions, these Administration Officials declined, basically, to push back. They said they wer
Mike pences office is trying to tafrp down rumors of a 2020 Shadow Campaign as President Trumps poll numbers continue to slip. Plus, north korea is vowing 1,000 fold retaliation against american response to new sanctions passed by the u. N. Security council, and President Trump spending a vacation day targeting senator Richard Bloomenthal on twitter where, what the senator says he is unphased. Good morning. It is tuesday, august 8th. We begin with the latest out of north korea and pyongyang is once again responding to a new wave of u. N. Sanctions calling them villainous illegal actions that will be reciprocated by thousands fold. It comes as north koreas foreign minister appeared to reject peace talks proposed by his south korean counterpart. Reportedly calling it insincere. Rex tillerson has recently said he is open to dialogue with pyongyang. A position also held by the russian and Chinese Foreign ministers. The country with the most to lose from the new sanctions besides north kore
Good morning. Its monday, july 24th. Well, President Trump spent much of his weekend putting his message out on twitter sending 19 tweets from his personal account alone and among them ten he sent before 8 30 on saturday morning was this one. While all agree the u. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us. Fake news. The president s lawyers had denied any discussion says of pardons as nonsense after the Washington Post reported trump had asked advisors about pardoning powers. Now, a member of trumps outside legal team, continued to make that argument yesterday, but his new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said the president had actually discussed the issue with him. We have not and continue to not have conversations with the president of the United States regarding pardons. Pardons have not been discussed, and pardons are not on the table. Im in the oval office of the president last week. Were talking about th
Out their Health Care Bill yesterday, and it took little time before they were met with internal resistance and jeopardizing what leaders hoped would be a speedy passage of the bill. The 142page bill maintains the structure of the house plan passed last month. It ends the tax penalties behind the mandate and offers tax credits to help people buy insurance. It allows insurers to raise the limit of what they charge older customers to five times what younger people pay. It allows children to stay on their parents plans until the able of 26. It offers states the ability to drop many of the benefits required by the aca, including maternity care, emergency services, and Mental Health treatment. It would insure 74 million americans phasing out the expansion provided by obama care between 2020 and 2024. With a longterm overhaul of the Entitlement Program by tying it to inflation, meaning deep cuts in medicaid funding. Now, despite past promises not to cut medicaid, President Trump tweeted that