Bustling with people. Westminster is usually crowded with tourists from around the world. We heard gunshots. What we thought was gunshots. Turned around and saw the car plow into a lady. It was horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. We declared this as a terrorist incident, and the command are carrying out a full scale investigation of the events today. The area around the parliament was put under lockdown after the attack. The british Prime Minister condemned what she called a sick, depraved attack on democracy, freedom, and human rights and said the parliament and londoners will never give in to terror. Any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure. Tomorrow Morning Parliament will meet as normal. We will come together as normal. The British Government held an Emergency Security meeting Late Wednesday to discuss its response to the attack. May spoke with the american president over the phone. Donald trump told her the white house condemns the attack.
Moving with the fluctuations related to the headlines about whether or not theyre going to vote. Do they have the votes . All the different scenarios and what they mean for your money. Dont move. Weve got a busy two hours of power lunch. Starting right now. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome. Im Tyler Mathisen. Before that final, we think, house vote on capitol hill. Team of reporters are standing by. John harwood is standing by in our newsroom. Lets kick it off, though, with Kayla Tausche on capitol hill. Kayla . Reporter tyler, there have been some reports that say the report is in jeopardy. Politico say there are signs hours before the vote. Quoting some leadership saying they dont know which way the vote will go, despite the fact that they have been trying to whip members and calculate votes throughout the morning. At this moment the Vice President is huddling with members of the Freedom Caucus a short distance away from the capitol at the Capitol Hill Club holding an offcampus
Youve heard of this conundrum as we wait on this measure to see what they can do, but every concession the Freedom Caucus, for example, this conservative group of 3540 congressmen who almost to a man and woman were who almost to a man and woman are not big fans of this was whatever confession is made to that group, moderate republicans get kicked off and we deal with our kids. You let him stay up late, but not me and the tugofwar continues. Here is the thing, the reason the markets are watching closely, they reached a deflection point where they dont really care. They seem to buy the indication from the president , vote on this thing and be done with it. They move on to tax cuts. A slamdunk, they could automatically do that, the whole reconciliation process, dont want to get too lost in the weeds because it is really dull but suffice it to say the market seemed to think one way or another they will get tax cuts and one way or another going to be able to see that happen sooner rather th
Believes in infrastructure. He was pro choice before he anti choice. I was thought he had an opportunity to pivot to the centre and go with democrats. He could get democrats are democrats. He could get democrats a re lots of democrats. He could get democrats are lots of issues if he wanted to. Most republicans are right wing. And his chief strategist, there is talkie wanted the outcome on Health Ca Re Talkie wanted the outcome on health care because he hates paul ryan so badly. As you both know, anyway you go in america you will hear people saying, Big Government is terrible but no government appears to be the implication of this. In other words, they wont do a deal on anything . This is a form of gridlock. An eccentric former gridlock. He has discovered he wasnt elected emperor. He really thought he could iuii emperor. He really thought he could run the country the way he runs his business, in a not aquatic way. He doesnt seem to understand the most basic institutional truths, constit
Health care. So where does his presidency go now . The london terrorist attack. Plus, the European Union at 60 comfortable middle age or mid life crisis . I suspect we may plump for the latter. Our top team of guests today on what will be my last Dateline London before i leave the bbc are abdel bari atwan, who is an arab author and journalist. Thomas kielinger of die welt. Janet daley of the sunday telegraph. Jef mcallister, who is an American Writer and commentator. Donald trump the self described great deal maker, whose Ghost Written Biography was the art of the deal has failed to convince even republicans in congress that he knows what he is doing on health care. In what polls say is the most unpopular presidency ever at this stage, can he convince americans he knows what he is doing on Anything Else . How much trouble is he in . He starts in trouble because he is unpopular. It was an election which Hillary Clinton won by 3 million popular votes. He did come in saying health care wa