Also on the program 14000000 thats how many confirmed coronavirus cases they have now playing world wide and many European Countries are bringing back tough restrictions to counter a 2nd play well hear what italy is doing sure they. Cost thousands of prodemocracy protesters in thailand push on with their demands for changes to the government and monarchy the mostly young crowd say theyre not deterred by a ban on katherines imposed final torricellis well get an update from bangkok. And in the bundesliga shall get their 1st point on the ses and on the board but theyre still with it without a win in 20 linked cabs. Im rebecca riches welcome to the program theyve been clashes between armenia and as a vision despite a humanitarian safe fire a grave there on saturday in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh both sides accusing each other of violating the. Just hours after it came into force it was the 2nd attempted armistice in a wake hundreds have died and thousands have been displaced the
Republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now they should repeal and then replace at a later date. What are the main obstacles of an agreement and what are the consequences of the g. O. P. If they fail to pass a bill . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henning gear Editorial Board member and Columnist Bill mcgern. Joe, you cover this for us. What are the divisions inside the Republican Party that are preventing an agreement . Well, there are two camps. One its the conservatives. People like ted cruz, ron johnson who are kind of disappointed that it doesnt do enough on deregulation. I think they are amenable to a deal. The real problem are the moderates. They paul who are you talking about . Im talking about rob portman. Paul of ohio. Shellie of west virginia. Bill cassidy of louisiana. I mean, there is a whole list of them. Paul all right. Whats their beef. Their main problem is with medicaid. They think the cuts, this bill transitions t
Republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now they should repeal and then replace at a later date. What are the main obstacles of an agreement and what are the consequences of the g. O. P. If they fail to pass a bill . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henning gear Editorial Board member and Columnist Bill mcgern. Joe, you cover this for us. What are the divisions inside the Republican Party that are preventing an agreement . Well, there are two camps. One its the conservatives. People like ted cruz, ron johnson who are kind of disappointed that it doesnt do enough on deregulation. I think they are amenable to a deal. The real problem are the moderates. They paul who are you talking about . Im talking about rob portman. Paul of ohio. Shellie of west virginia. Bill cassidy of louisiana. I mean, there is a whole list of them. Paul all right. Whats their beef. Their main problem is with medicaid. They think the cuts, this bill transitions t
So will changes to the bill be enough to get moderate republican holdouts on board . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, assistant Editorial Page Editor james freman, and Editorial Board member joe rego. Joe, the bill has changed for the better or worse and how . Well, i would say both. This is a bill thats moved to the political center. Its moved leftward. Its worse in the sense that it gets rid of a lot of the tax it keeps a lot of the tax increases on Investment Income 3. 8 percentage that were part of obama care. That were part of it. That republicans promised to repeal . They did for years. And it spends that money on other stuff. Its got 45 billion for opioid treatment. Its got a lot more up front medicaid spending. Its good and better in the sense that it retains the fundamental medicaid reform. Thats really the most important part of this bill. Moving to a per capita block grant to the states from the federal government. Right. A lot to the s
That was following u. S. Missile strikes on a steering military base in retaliation of bashar assad chemical weapon attack on his own people. Ru is refusing to blame aside for that attack. Secretary tillerson said one way or another, assad must go. We did discuss at length the future role of aside, whether it be a future political process, were not. Clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist, Dan Henninger, bill mcgurn, mary kissel. Bill, whatever happened to the president s plan for a reset with relations to russia . Vladimir putin really did engineer the victory for donald trump. He is not getting his moneys worth it from this. It is really interesting, what donald trump is doing is not just a connection against russia and the bombing of syria, it is a public embarrassment of Vladimir Putin before the entire world. First siding with assad. Also in little things. One of the false dichotomies of