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the house of representatives has already scheduled a vote to repeal health care reform next week. and senate republicans have pledged to repeal it if they take back the senate this fall. the conservative base is firmly aligned against the health care law. mitt romney is campaigning on a pledge to repeal and replace. just look at the sign on his podium. over the weekend, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was dismissive when he was asked, what happens after repeal? what would his party do about the 30 million uninsured americans? that is not the issue. the question is how can you go step by step to improve the american health care system? it s already the finest health care system in the world. you don t think that 30 million what our friends you don t think that s an issue? let me tell you what we re not going to do. we re not going to turn the american health care system into a western european system. we get it. we know what you re not going to do. we kn
very candid discussion with a man who once had it all. i m sweating up in here. jason williams on his rise, his fall, and why he says prison saved his life. good evening, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. hundreds of thousands of people are spending tonight in oppressive darkness caused bay brutal heatwave and widespread power outages. crews are working overtime trying to restore electricity in ohio, virginia, and several other states. more on the record breaking heat in a moment here on cnn. in colorado, families are getting their first look at what remains of their homes after a deadly wildfire tore through the neighborhoods of colorado springs. on cnn s state of the union, the colorado governor described what he saw as he flew over the pike national forest. take a listen. it was like your worst nig nightmare of a movie set, trying to show what the apocalypse would look like. we flew a helicopter in. this was as the fire was going on. ther
america spends 17%. what is more, we don t benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour in a time magazine essay, we will take you around the world to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they are doing wrong. we will also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america. in one of the most poorest and crime-ridden cities in the nation. first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care across the atlantic in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel as some say? let s take a look. during america s debate over health care reform, critics said britain s govern
and now in mississippi, a new court says that an abortion clinic is going to be allowed to stay open. we have george there, and tell us what has happened here. well, police officers were called here, because protesters were getting on the grass there, and they can stay on the public privat property, but it is not a private property, and it happens everyday this clinic is open. we can pan over to see happy independence day, yes, we are open, and a sign that this clinic will be open today, and basically protected from this new state law that would effectively shut it down. these new regulations, and they do two things. first of all the regulations require that any physician who performs an abortion in the state of mississippi must be board certified ogbyn first, and secondly the physician mustt have privileges to the local hospital to admit patients and the drirector of the clinic say she has been trying to get the privileges for several weeks and months since the law was sig