Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west from los angeles again tonight. The signature republican promise to repeal and replace obamacare is down for the count tonight. President trump and House Speaker ryan throwing in the towel, a stunning outcome as late today ryan pulled the bill moments before the vote in an acknowledgement that it was certain to fail. I will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. Doing big things is hard. All of us, all of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment. What we could have done to do it better. Minutes after ryan spoke, the president himself facing cameras and pointing fingers in the oval office. We had no democrat support, we had no votes from the democrats. They werent going to give us a single vote. So its a very difficult thing to do. The president speaking as if it were democrats, not republicans, who hold the majority. And while hes correct t
From now with a vote slated for the Judiciary Committee on Brett Kavanaghs nomination to the Supreme Court. Senator Mitch Mcconnell plans a procedural vote on saturday with a full floor vote as soon as this tuesday. As for today, republicans senator jeff flake told reporters it will be a tough decision, adding that he found both ford and kavanaugh to be credible. Quote, if youre making an allegation, you want there to be some corroboration and thats a tough standard. I want to give it some thought. Corroborating evidence is what senator corker says he is basing his vote to confirm kavanaugh on, stating last night, while both individuals provided compelling testimony, nothing that has been presented corroborates the allegation. A small pack of senators are undecided including Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. According to politico, aides and senators expect collins and murkowski to vote in a block with undecided democrats joe donnelly and joe manchin. Is temperament also an important tr
Fords attorneys, and on those requests the Committee Really isnt budging here. Blasey fords team wants wednesdaying and right now the committee is only expected to hear from blasey ford herself and kavanaugh. Blasey fords attorneys wanted trauma experts to testify as well as other people who were supposedly at this party, but to that end the committees chairman Chuck Grassley issued a lengthy update today. He said that the committee has been investigating for the past week or so and that committee, the majority, has talked to all four people who were at the party, and all of them reiterate, including judge kavanaugh, that they have no recollection or knowledge of this alleged party where blasey ford says that this Sexual Assault took place. In addition today, Chuck Grassley said that the committee has tried to interview blasey ford with no success. In fact, the committee issued this statement in part today saying the committee has asked dr. Ford to participate in a confidential intervi
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