This week. Tuesday was pry mire night in ohio where the tea party wanted to make an example of john boehner, a House Speaker they have never trusted since he took over three weeks ago. Boehner ridiculed the resistance of conservatives to immigration reform. The appetite amongst my colleagues for doing this is not real good. This guy is back here with a camera, but heres the attitude. Oh, dont make me do this. Oh, this is too hard. You should hear them. John boehner was on the republican primary ballot in ohio on tuesday and the tea partys idea was to embarrass him to send the message he would hear. When the votes were counted, the egg was on the tea partys face. Boehner took nearly 70 of the vote. He crushed the closest Tea Party Candidate by almost 50 points. There was another congressional primary in ohio as well where the tea party was convinced it could win and would win. Freedom works and the Tea Party Citizens Fund chipped in 100,000 total in an effort to knock off first term con
Republicans have run for years on the idea of repeal and replarepla replace obamacare. But it was going to be done in three phases. The first phase, get rid of everything they could in the law within the limitations of senate rule. And the second phase was diminish steps that hhs health and Human Services secretary tom price could take and the third phase was to be everything else, all the other changes that republicans had long wanted to see to the Health Care Law and what they Want Health Care to look like. The problem was that a lot of members didnt believe they were ever going to get to phases two and three. Especially since youre going to need some democratic support. So it was a hard sell all along. I spoke with a Senior Administration official about some of the Lessons Learned and that official said that Going Forward youre going to see the white house play a more active role on the front end, in terms of language and in terms of strategy. When it comes to talking about the futu
Out of this legislation meaning the battle of American Healthcare is far from over. Heres when an idaho more of a 9 year son born with Cystic Fibrosis have to say. Today he lives a normal life because of the breakthrough medications and because of the the mexico he receives and i will no go back to a place where he is discriminated against because he has a preexisting condition. Bringing in e theen that jones. Not far from where President Trump is spending his weekend. Athena what changes can we expect from the senates version of this bill. Well we can expect some significant changes based on some of the concerns weve already heard republican senators mention. You have senators who are concern about the cuts to medicaid in this bill. You remember 31 states expanded medicaid under obamacare, that expanse will be put on hold and there will be cut to medicaid close to 100 billion. You have republican senators who are concern theres not enough aid in this plan for lowincome people and seni
Shocking revelations involving the fbis handling of its investigation into Hillary Clintons email server. Fbi agent peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page new Hillary Clinton knew Hillary Clinton would not face any charges. They did it. Bill belichick and tom brady and the run by dion lewis, touchdown. Super bowl 52 in two weeks. Rocking like a hurricane here i am rocking like a hurricane brian i dont know if i can laugh at that. Steve thats funny. Brian thats a steel pole. Steve its an i beam. The guy wanted to make the train but the train doors were closed and the subway was going. Somebody for some reason was taking pictures. And its our shot of the morning. Brian maybe it was a friend of his. Ainsley the team won. At least he is happy about that. Brian he probably doesnt even know it. I dont think he has come to yet. Ainsley poor guy. You know, when the train is going already. Why we continue to run. Steve exactly, the doors are closed. So excited because eagles won. Ainsley maybe h
Heather good morning, you made it to another monday, hopefully you had a great weekend and we appreciate you joining us here on Fox Friends First to begin your week. Its going to be a great monday, lets make it a great one. Im health childers. Lets begin with the fox news alert for you, day three of the Government Shutdown. Here is a live look at capitol hill where just hours from now senators from both sides of the aisle will huddle with hopes of getting 60 votes to pass a spending bill. Live from washington, d. C. Now with what can expect, good morning, doug. Heather, good morning, at least our lights are still on this morning. We will see the procedural vote, i think, in the senate later on today and this is an effort by republicans to break this democratic filibuster, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says that has to happen first. When the democrat filibuster the government funding bill and when it comes to an end, the serious bipartisan negotiations that have been going on f