Beat this. Bret whats the longterm prognosis . Turf battles over competing congressional committees. We cant mess around playing one committee off against another. Bret seeking answers in the russia probe. As the house overwhelmingly approves tough new sanctions on russia, iran, and north korea. Its well past time that we forcefully respond. Bret all of the days news, the latebreaking development, and tomorrows headlines tonight. A late edition of special report starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Moments ago the u. S. Senate voted down a measure to repeal and then replaced obamacare with a plan put forward by the g. O. P. Leadership. That vote following a dramatic moment, as you saw on capitol hill this afternoon, one filled with protests along with the emotional return of senator john mccain. And a vote they came down to a tiebreaker. Passed by the Vice President. To open up debate on the future of obamacare. We begin with mikey mike emanu. He joins
Beat this. Bret whats the longterm prognosis . Turf battles over competing congressional committees. We cant mess around playing one committee off against another. Bret seeking answers in the russia probe. As the house overwhelmingly approves tough new sanctions on russia, iran, and north korea. Its well past time that we forcefully respond. Bret all of the days news, the latebreaking development, and tomorrows headlines tonight. A late edition of special report starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Moments ago the u. S. Senate voted down a measure to repeal and then replaced obamacare with a plan put forward by the g. O. P. Leadership. That vote following a dramatic moment, as you saw on capitol hill this afternoon, one filled with protests along with the emotional return of senator john mccain. And a vote they came down to a tiebreaker. Passed by the Vice President. To open up debate on the future of obamacare. We begin with mikey mike emanu. He joins
Many days. We started off with peter doocy and a possible deal on capitol hill. A rare bipartisan agreement reached today was the last thing republicans wanted on election day. They were going to repeal obamacare without any democratic votes and then replace it with a g. O. P. Alternative. Now they are stuck making a deal with democrats to fix obamacare. Obamacare is virtually dead. But not completely dead because democrats and republicans today agreed to revive something President Trump just killed. Federal funds for Insurance Companies that offer certain obamacare plans known as costsharing reduction payments. Talking about a two year extension on costsharing payments. More meaningful flex ability to states. Keeping those payments in place helps stop premiums from rising, main bargaining. 4 senator patty murray. Chairman alexander and i were able to find Common Ground on number of steps to stabilize the market. And help protect families from premium spikes as a result from the sabota
the perfectionist ted cruz would have never signed up for. bret: shannon, the administration is fully engaged trying to get something to the finish line. they are. they are in it to win it at this point. whether they want to admit it, it s going to be a long haul if they are successful they are going to own health care and they know it. if they don t, it s going to be a messy fight to pick up and move on. bret: best best-case scenars that they get something passed that goes to conference, gives them breathing room. bringing people together to iron out something. republicans have put themselves in a corner. they promised for years, as we ve been talking about for weeks, they are going to repeal and replace obamacare. now according to the polling, the majority of of the american
katie pavlich, charles hurt, shannon pettit piece. you can say all kinds of things about president trump and what he talks about, what he doesn t talk about when he s in that element with supporters, seems like he gets pretty fired up. that s when he s at his best. one of my favorite parts, the fellow came up on stage. his t-shirt said trump won. deal with it. you could see it as being corny but that s where he s at his best. it s where people love him the most. it s where he s funny and effective. that s the donald trump they can get things done as long as he sticks to bad and doesn t sort of veer off. bret: one of things he didn t talk about was attorney