This is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Elliott good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im josh elliott. Obamacare is on the critical list. In the new congress today, republicans, led by the Vice President elect, set out to kill it. The laws namesake, meanwhile, rushed to kill to try the save it for the some 20 Million People who rely upon it for health insurance. Heres conditional correspondent nancy cordes. Look out for the American People. Reporter president obama and Vice President elect mike pence rallied their respective troops today in the p. R. War over obamacares demise. Democrat Jerry Connolly described mr. Obamas marching orders. Make sure they own it. Make sure every american who loses his or her health care knows that the republican repeal vote did that. Reporter president elect trump pushed back on twitter, writing, the dems own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases. The simple fact is th
Some cry blasphemy. This is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases. The simple fact is the American People know who owns obamacare. Its the first half of the title. Reporter since promised, repeal would be followed by a grace period until his party can craft a new law, but House Speaker paul ryan was short on details. We have plenty of ideas to replace it. Youll see as the weeks and months unfold what were talking about replacing it. Reporter democratic leader nancy pelosi. To repeal and then delay is an act of cowardice. That means we dont really know what were doing. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo entered the fray, announcing that 2. 7 million of his States Residents were at risk of losing coverage. He even broke them down by county. The ayes have 51. The nays are 48. Reporter two hours later Senate Republicans voted to start the repeal process. Were legislativ
Different from texas, or california, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that, when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. Was story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china. A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activists got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights agenda. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights
California, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food, middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. What story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china . A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist.
Communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist. Somehow, he escaped from these conditions. He made his way hundreds of miles from the province to beijing. That really got a lot of attention. That was a pretty dramatic story that happened over the last year. How exclusive were those stories to you . I got the first phone call when he was escorted from the embassy to the hospital. It was partly accidental. He was calling the Washington Post because of a former partner of mine who wrote a book, and he had a chapter devoted to Chen Guangchen which put chen on the map. I do not think he had a lot of access to the media and he wanted to let the Washington Post know. We had good relationships not only with chen and his allies. They would call us when there we