boo obama care oirks yay for anything which will repeal it. we heard nancy pelosi saying that they seem to more focus on embarrassing the health care act rather than improving it. do you think that is true? i think the big thing here, and this will be the question that they will want to ask, could they have worked with democrats, with moderate republicans, not to give the big headline obamacare is buried long live the king of the american health care act, but to try to get reforms, to try to get changes which would ensure that americans could still retain the insurance that many of them have obtained in the last eight years while dealing with issues like we want to make sure that the premiums stayed low, deductibles stayed low and that insurance companies don t gain the system. i think they would have had traction on that. but from day one, the gop leadership didn t want this and to be honest but, donald trump for all his talk about the art of the deal isn t one who wants to deal w
cloudy screens. that it s the democrats, that it s little green men from mars. the gop leadership pushed this bill through very quickly because they expected they would get an easy ride in the house of representatives. remember, they have a 43 seat majority. but when they crafted it, they did not anticipate the reaction not from moderates, i think they not they could ram it through and didn t anticipate that conservatives would want an entougher bill. so when that started to mobilize and even clear that the conservatives could defeat this, then they made concessions to that hard line wing including stripping things like maternity care. but then that alienated more moderate republicans and you are where you are. so it s the gop leadership and prrd and h president trump and his advisors thinking that they could bully it through. but ultimately bernie sanders is right, the big failure is that the issue is trying to get a sensible system of health care for a all americans rather than playi
allegations from social media, from activist groups, from iraqis. and they are looking into it. this was in west mosul, herly populated. there were a number of air strikes over recent days. there have been social media reports and videos emerging of civilians killed in the area. the u.s. military says it was bombing in that area, but it is trying to really get fidelity, did it bomb these buildings, were civilian casualties caused. they are also looking in about to a recent strike near a mosque. civilians said to be killed there. they are look into yet another case of a school building bombed north of raqqah, syria. more than 30 civilians were seeking shelter in that building it is said, they are looking into those allegations as well. no final answer on any of these, but a number of investigations
boldu bolduan. it certainly is a process that is worthy much continuing. it s not that bill. if they do a postmortem, they will find that there are serious flaws in the bill. programs perhaps we need to move forward with a bill that can protect the american public and a bill that people see real savings and real reductions in health care premiums and quality of care for the future. let s break down this failure to repeal obamacare. scott lucas is a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham in england. thank you, scott, for joining us. candidate trump said it over and over and over again on the campaign trailing. and as you ve heard, this had been a promise of republicans for so long to repeal obamacare and it failed. who do you point to for that? you point to the people who tried to put the legislation through. let s strip away any mostly
they told their members the simple message this evening. trump is done. that means this issue that they have campaigned on cycle after cycle, year after year, obamacare repeal is not happening. not just now, not just in a couple weeks, it is not happening, period. and that is a jarring realizati realization, but it s the reality. now with health care off the table, now with the biggest failure by far of this administration sitting plainly in front of them, will they ever figure out a way to get together and work together. we ll see. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. phil mattingly has been all over this story. thanks for the reporting. winds of blame surely are blowing, but bernie sanders is saying washington missed the big picture, the need guaranteed health care for all americans regardless of income. here s what he had to say earlier to anderson cooper. not just a media game. nobody really cares that it s a failure of trump or a failure of