Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The countdown clock is now officially ticking down towards a vote on the secret republican bill to overhaul the American Health care system, and right now in the senate at this moment democrats are staging a lastditch protest that could go deep into the night. Democratic senators are now in the middle of a marathon session filled with speeches and procedural maneuvers designed to escate their opposition to what is by a accounts an unprecedented attempt by Senate Republicans to remake 1 6 of the u. S. Economy with a Health Care Bill they are drafting in total secrecy. Theres only one reason why republicans are doing this. Theyre ashamed of their bill. Rushing something through that fundamentally affects life and were pushing it to the floor with an insult to our history or insult to our values. This is shameful. What Senate Republicans are presenting is a brazen heist. You just cant point to any precedent. Remember, this is a bill that was ini
Their happiness. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell at cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. And im Hannah Vaughan jones live for you in london. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Polls opened in france around three hours ago in a president ial election that could now shape european politics for years to come. The former economy minister Emmanuel Macron, you can see live pictures of him there. He is just to cast his vote, presumably for himself, in le touquet france. He is 39 years old and a relative newcomer to french politics. He surprised his skeptics by successfully creating a new movement. Its called on march. He went into sundays voting as the strong favorite campaigning to keep france in the European Union. However, his opponent, far right candidate Marine Le Pen, she wants france to quit the European Union and also has plenty of support throughout the country. She has argued for closing frances borders and severely restricti
The hour, out of headquarters in new york city. We go straight to france where the centrist candidate defeats Marine Le Pen. Matt bradley and msnbc contributor chris dickey are live for us. Start of the top of the hour for us, matt. Where we are right now, we understand that the president elect is on his way to that big celebration down by the louvre. Thats right. Emmanuel macron has already addressed the public, but he seemed to do it in a closed setting in his office and in fact as you mentioned, richard, before we got a sneak peek with some of the cameras. That allowed us to see the makeup being applied so it was clear he wasnt addressing the massive crowds that have gathered under very, very tight security in that iconic louvre in front of the pyramid there. With djs and the rap acts playing, it seems now that macron is going to address the nation once again. This time in front of adoring flag waving crowds. Some waving the french flag. And macron has ridden to power, championing t
Outward looking, the proeuropean, proengagement with the rest of the world versus the far right National Front marine la pen who is inward looking, who wanted to suspend all immigration, wanted to pull out of the eu, nato and all those things and really campaigned on fear and loathing. Thats why this is so big. Up until now the french have always banded together to make sure the National Front gets nowhere near the highest political office. This time it was a little touch and go. You didnt see the same number of people coming in to the streets after she won the first round. And this is an incredibly poisonous Political Party that started under her father on a platform of antisemitism, denying the holocaust on which marine la pen layered all sorts of phobia. Around europe theres been a lot of congratulations. I think whats really important is that the rest of europe knows that they dodged a bullet tonight and they have come out and supported him and especially the jury mans. Basically t
Years. We begin with President Trump in paris. Hell be greeted by french president Emmanuel Macron any minute now, and were going to bring that to you live when it happens. But questions about his sons meetings with a russian lawyer have followed him overseas. Weve got a great team to break it all down beginning with nbcs Hallie Jackson, who is with the president live in paris. I know how, hallie, President Trump would love to make this trip, being in paris, the headline of the day. But he himself is still talking about don junior and jareds meeting with the russian lawyer back in last june. Whats he saying . Well, you boil it down, it eventually is no harm, no foul here. Let me read you what the president is saying in this interview with reuters. He can pull up the graphic. He said it was a wild time and we would meet with in m people. It was a 20minute meeting, i guess, from what im hearing. Many people and Many Political pros said everybody would do that, if you got a call and said