Meet the shortfall. And Sofa Psychology what do these pictures of president ial adviser Kellyanne Conway show us about power in the west wing . Hello and welcome to one hundred days, im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. A Primetime Speech to a Joint Session Of Congress is a perfect opportunity a0 days into this presidency for donald trump to explain what he wants to do with the office. His speech in a few hours time will focus on three initiatives the rebuilding of the us military, the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care act or obamacare, as its known, and reform of the tax code. Ahead of his speech the president gave an interview to fox news. He was challenged on how he intends to pay for a 58 billion increase in the defence budget. Where is the money coming from . If you put all the money, thats about 50 billion. The money will come from a revved up economy. If you look at the numbers we are doing, we will probably have a gdp of little more than 1 and
And the trump campaign. Wall street and markets watch as President Trump struggles to push through his Healthcare Reforms. Could a 2 trillion bubble be about to burst . Plus australia puts on a song and dance for chinas premier li massive trade ties top of the agenda. Welcome to World Business report. Also, samsun faces shareholders at its annual meeting. Id like to be a Fly On The Wall there. Our our we start in the us where President Trump is battling to deliver on one of his biggest election promises and to hang on to his credibility with investors. Late on thursday republicans were forced to delay a vote in the House Of Representatives on scrapping and replacing obamacare as they struggled to drum up enough support across their own party. On wall street its being seen as a key test of the trump administration. The concern is if he cant deliver on scrapping obamacare, his other plans for massive tax cuts and spending hikes may not get through congress either. Lets just show you the
And the losers. Also in the Programme Robots are increasingly taking ourjobs, but will it be good for the economy . Our economics editor kamal ahmed will be here to discuss that and the latest on brexit. Today we want to know, would you pay to tweet . Twitter is considering a paid membership option for businesses and power users what do you think . Use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Get in touch with us, we do love to hear from you. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us, where President Trump is battling to deliver on one of his biggest election promises, and to hang on to his credibility with investors. Late on thursday, republicans were forced to delay a vote in the House Of Representatives on scrapping and replacing the Healthcare Reforms known as obamacare becuase they struggled to drum up enough support across their own party. Mr trump is now trying to force a vote this afternoon, without knowing if it will pass. On wall street its being seen as a key test of the Trump Administrat
slightly ahead of joe biden. any response to that from the campaign yet? reporter: well, it s interesting because when you put that in the context of this ukraine story line, it can tell you one of two things, ari. it can tell you that the more that the focus turns to capitol hill, the harder it s going to be for other candidates including elizabeth warren, somebody who did have some momentum in the race to sustain that momentum. because you re going to see a lot of focus still on joe biden, a lot of focus on capitol hill. but, yes, there is a real recognition of the fact that this race is indeed changing. you ve seen the vice president on the fundraising trail out here on the west coast. but it is in those fundraisers of where we get a sneak peek which is, one, that the president is trying to take away from the issues that matter. they think that this idea of scrapping obamacare in favor of starting from scratch something that may result in the raising
expanding education. also something that is so important, while everybody else is talking about scrapping obamacare. scrapping the affordable care act, joe biden is embracing it and saying, hey, you know what? let s move forward. we did great things with that, but let s make it even better that s strong message. and it s quite a contrast with donald trump, mika. what did you think? i liked it a lot. i think it harkened back to some of the positives of the obama era but it didn t depend on them and he stood up for administration in the ad. his experience speaks for itself. when you re making a decision in the democratic field, it s hard not to look at joe biden s experience not just professionally with decades serving in washington and then wanting to go back again. which is saying a lot about who he is. but also personally and you look at what this nation is looking