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Trump. Hoped former fbi director james comey would deliver the evidence, but several news sources say he will not deliver. He may make the white house uncomfortable, but watergate its not. Now this. Terror hits tehran. Authorities in iran report an attack on parliament ap the khomeini shrine. A female suicide bomber said to be involved. Reports of hostages taken and 12 dead and isis claims responsibility. Terror in london. Prime minister theresa may takes a much stronger line, restrict the freedom of movement of known suspects, even if theres insufficient evidence to prosecute. If the law wont let do you it, change the law. The brits go on offense. This is big change in antiterror policy. Its wednesday morning, Varney Company is about to begin. I mean longer prison stens for those convicted of terror row la tower related offenses and deporting terrorists back to their own country. And i mean doing more to restrict the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects, when we have enough evi
Face of these key events with european stocks hugging the flat line one hour into the trading session while oil recovers from a 5 drop stateside. President trump told james comey, i need loyalty, according to the former fbi directors prereleased statement to congress. Comey, who will testify on capitol hill today said the president urged the fbi to make a public announcement saying it was not investigating him personally and pushed him to drop the investigation into former nsa chief Michael Flynn. Nbcs Pete Williams has more details from the sevenpage testimony. James comey gives a dramatic account, often in vivid detail of five oneonone conversations with donald trump. The first with president elect trump in new york on january 6th, a briefing on the investigation of russias meddling and salacious claims that mr. Trump was involved with prostitutes four years earlier the in moscow. Comey says he thought about whether to give an assurance about mr. Trump not being under investigation.
Body. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator plop . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell i come to the floor tonight to raise concern about a proposed Senate Health care bill that might move through the United States senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without hearing, without attention to the details actually, almost in secret. I guess it would be secret if we didnt know exactly what was in the house bill. It would be even more secret. People have said it will be about 80 of what was in the house bill. I can agree with President Trump. That was a mean bill. If it is just 80 mean, i can guarantee that you its still going to be mean. I say that because i have been at home listening to my constituents. They do not appreciate one bit if youre Harbor View Hospital and you are going to cut 800 million out of their budget because of the cap on medicaid and you are going to leave a hospital without resources, they are mad. If you are talking a
[inaudible conversations] c good afternoon everyone. We had secretary tom price and continued our discussions of the way forward on health care. As all of you know because i have reported weekly for weeks now we have been in intense discussions with all republican senators both in working groups that all members were free to come to if they chose to and in the larger launches that we have on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. I expect to have a discussion draft on thursday and we will go to the bill obviously once we get the cbo scored. Likely next week. So we have been waiting for her democratic colleagues to join us as part of this rescue mission to protect the millions of people for whom obamacare has been a disaster with premiums going up 105 since 2013. Many people have deductibles that render their insurance essentially unusable so you would think ordinarily they would want to work with us in a bipartisan way to try to help these people who are hurting as a result of the failures o