And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where president obamas legacy is being fought over by congress in the final days of his term. The battle lines have been drawn over the future of the president s healthcare reforms known as obamaca re. The Incoming Trump administration has promised to repeal it as soon as possible and the Republican Party is now in control of both houses. Laura trevelyan reports from washington. They swarmed across capitol hill today with rival entourages and duelling missions. One to protect his Signature Health care law, the other to drive a stake through it. President obama and Vice President elect mike pence met with their respective lawmakers to plot their opposing strategies. According to those present, mr obama encouraged democrats to fight republicans hard, nickname their attempts trump care and not rescue them by helping to pass a replacement law. For his part, mr pence con
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where president obamas legacy is being fought over by congress in the final days of his term. The battle lines have been drawn over the future of the president s healthcare reforms known as obamaca re. The Incoming Trump administration has promised to repeal it as soon as possible and the Republican Party is now in control of both houses. Laura trevelyan reports from washington. They swarmed across capitol hill today with rival entourages and duelling missions. One to protect his Signature Health care law, the other to drive a stake through it. President obama and Vice President elect mike pence met with their respective lawmakers to plot their opposing strategies. According to those present, mr obama encouraged democrats to fight republicans hard, nickname their attempts trump care and not rescue them by helping to pass a replacement law. For his part, mr pence con
the president telling bill o reilly it could be 2018 before his obamacare replacement law is ready. james rosen tells us how that sits with congressional republicans tonight. and his super bowl sunday sit down with bill o reilly, president trump punted his obamacare overhaul down the field. a beat sometime next year. previous promises like this. as soon as our secretary is approved and gets into the office, we will be filing a plan. the president immediately floated a swifter timetable. i would like to say by the end of the year end of the year at least the rudiments period we should have something. nominee for secretary of health and human services, tom price is several days away from a confirmation vote. even further away as the nominee for medicare and medicare services. house speaker paul ryan said last week he wants to move
happy people. he said and i know who they are. so, the president is really dug in and his argue. is just that there will be people that may be left without coverage. well the republicans are ready to make sure that we can protect the people but not protect this awful healthcare law itself by forming a bridge, an off ramp to get these people making decisions at the state level where they can get better coverage and better care. i don t know what s going to happen at the supreme court. but all i know is that at least i would be ready for it if i were, you know, because i know the uncertainty of the supreme court. that would be the fair thing for the american people. we re meeting every week, republicans in the house, republicans in the senate to come up with the best way to make sure that we can protect the people but not the law and get the decisions made locally and there are a lot of good things that we can do to help. you really do need a republican president in the white house o
the president telling bill o reilly it could be 2018 before his obamacare replacement law is ready. james rosen tells us how that sits with congressional republicans tonight. and his super bowl sunday sit down with bill o reilly, president trump punted his obamacare overhaul down the field. a beat sometime next year. previous promises like this. as soon as our secretary is approved and gets into the office, we will be filing a plan. the president immediately floated a swifter timetable. i would like to say by the end of the year end of the year at least the rudiments period we should have something. nominee for secretary of health and human services, tom price is several days away from a confirmation vote. even further away as the nominee for medicare and medicare services. house speaker paul ryan said