World news, its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the us House Of Representatives has narrowly passed a Republican Party proposal to repeal barack 0bamas affordable healthcare act. After suffering an embarrassing setback in march, President Trump finally notched up his first major legislative victory. The vote in the House Of Representatives was tight, though. 217 to 213 with no democrats voting in favour. But quite how quickly this will become law is a very different matter, as it still faces a steep hurdle in the senate. He is our North America Editorjon Sopel the momentjust after 2pm in washington this afternoon when Trumpcare Washington This Afternoon when trumpca re became a washington this afternoon when trumpcare became a thing. The bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Shame outside, a rather different tune as protesters giant shame. This fight isnt over yet. Getting the
Hello, im Christian Fraser in paris. Katty kay is in washington. There are important stories on both sides of the atlantic. Very shortly, we will turn to the heated debate last night and television between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. We will talk to guests in paris as well. Before that, lets focus on washington. In the next few minutes we will have Breaking News as republicans start to vote on repealing and replacing 0bamacare. Yes, the House Of Representatives will start that vote shortly. There seems to have been some glitch. We expected it in the last few hours. It isa expected it in the last few hours. It is a vote on president 0bamas most important legacy. President trump promised to get rid of it. In the end of those members of congress are taking a vote, not knowing how much the Replacement Bill would cost are Many Americans will lose their health insurance. Here is a democrat and republican. Any Health Care Bill that came to this floor should be about expanding coverage
World news, its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the us House Of Representatives has narrowly passed a Republican Party proposal to repeal barack 0bamas affordable healthcare act. After suffering an embarrassing setback in march, President Trump finally notched up his first major legislative victory. The vote in the House Of Representatives was tight, though. 217 to 213 with no democrats voting in favour. But quite how quickly this will become law is a very different matter, as it still faces a steep hurdle in the senate. He is our North America Editorjon Sopel the momentjust after 2pm in washington this afternoon when Trumpcare Washington This Afternoon when trumpca re became a washington this afternoon when trumpcare became a thing. The bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Shame outside, a rather different tune as protesters giant shame. This fight isnt over yet. Getting the
This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, where the us House Of Representatives has narrowly passed a Republican Party proposal to repeal Barack Obamas affordable healthcare act. After suffering an embarrassing setback in march, President Trump finally notched up his first major legislative victory. The vote in the House Of Representatives was tight. 217 to 213, with no democrats voting in favour. But quite how quickly this bill becomes law is a very different matter, as it still faces steep hurdles in the senate. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. The moment itjust after two oclock this afternoon in washington when trumpcare this afternoon in washington when trumpca re became a this afternoon in washington when trumpcare became a thing. The ayes are 217. The nays are 213. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Shame, shame, shame, shame. But outside, a rat
Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intelligence Community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. There are too many challenges they are focusing on. Physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. But then also countering these foreign influence Operation Sway her can y herculean task. Even if no vote is changed, if
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