Welcome to program. Im jeff glor, cbs news in for charlie who is away. We continue with the coverage of congressional legislation on healthcare. Were joined by Nick Confessore of the New York Times. Big lesson of healthcare reforms over several attempts where the people are more afraid of losing the care they have than whatever benefits are promised under a new bill. Its always the e nerve to make it hard for a party to pass a big change. Guess what, obamacare is no longer care. President obama is gone. Now its just care people have ople who find the premiums are still high or dont want to pay them. There are ways to fix that. Im not sure this bill is going to hit all those cylinders nerve for it not to be a problem. We look forward to sundays president ial election in france. Its kind of historic proportions. We are way beyond what happened in the u. S. Election and certainly what happened in the brexit vote. Thats why they dont want to sound too complacent about it because they want
We look forward to sundays president ial election in france. Its kind of historic proportions. We are way beyond what happened in the u. S. Election and certainly what happened in the brexit vote. Thats why they dont want to sound too complacent about it because they want the voters to get out there and put the ballot paper in the box. But it has to come to turnout levels weve never seen before. We end with the broadway play oslo leading to the accord 1993. Its not choosing sides, its not saying so and so is right or so and so is wrong. The political act is to expands the kinds of things we see people on the stage. Healthcare, the election in france and the play oslo when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening, im jeff glor of cbs news filling in for ch
And we look back at the past week in business, when us markets had their worst day since november, and the economy was the main focus in the uk election. Thats all with our Business Editor, simonjack. We always want to hear from you. Its easy to get in touch with the programme just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. It is friday, we have got that friday feeling. We start in france where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has to try and win a majority in next months parliamentary elections and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is Macron Economics and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left, hes a centrist, and, sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from the left, right and centre. He says his Economic Policy is based on the nordic model. Whats that . Basically,
Stake. Polls open in the iranian elections where Hassan Rouhani is seeking a second term, but challenger Ebrahim Raisi has gained momentum with his close ties to the Supreme Leader. Good morning, everyone. Yes, its friday, finally tried. Tgif is what most of you must be thinking, and on capitol hill given the drama unfolding there. The stoxx 600 is recovering slightly from the big selloff we saw this week. Up by a third of one percent roughly one hour into the trading session. For the wreak we are on course for a 1. 5 loss. That is the worst week for the stoxx 600 in six months since november. Given all the concerns about whether donald trump can still enact many of his policies, like tax reform and infrastructure spending. Want to show you what the sectors are doing this morning. We have most trading in positive territory. Basic resources, autos doing well. Rebounding from yesterdays weaknesses. Retail, telecoms showing slight underperformance. Lets remind you what happened in the u.
Donald trump seizes on the London Attack to make a case for his travel ban. He takes to twitter to ask courts to reinstate restrictions from people from muslim countries. Yousef dice rows over the effectiveness of the outputs. Bloombergsaight to about the terror attack on London Bridge. What is a very latest . We have heard from metropolitan police, assisting commissioner mark, who has cleared up what happened. He said a van containing three suspects drove through London Bridge onto the pavement and engaged and hit pedestrian pedestrians. Three men got out of the car and proceeded to engage in stabbing with aacking victims knife. We know six people have died from both of the attacks. All three of the suspects were shot and killed by police. There were some reports that the attackers had been wearing explosive will explosive belts. Police have concerned have confirmed that they were hoaxes. One point that mark made clear to the press is that they are still some way from finding out what