Reporter in the oval office this morning, President Trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. Obamacare is virtually dead. Reporter just five days ago, he cut off 7 billion in subsidies that help lowerincome americans. People who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. Americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. I am not a deadbeat. I pay my bills. Ive worked hard all of my life. This is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. Reporter 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70 of them live in states that voted for trump. But the president today described the payments as a handout to Insurance Companies. This is money that goes to the Insurance Companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and theyve had a record run. Reporter but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. The solution will be for about a year or two years and it will ge
sarah sanders insisted the president wasn t criticizing predecessors, but stating a fact. but hours later, president trump once again pointed the finger directly at president obama, implying he didn t call current white house chief of staff john kelly in 2010, when kelly s son was killed in afghanistan. i mean, you can ask general kelly, did he get a call from obama? you could ask other people. reporter: kelly has repeatedly made it clear to reporters he does not want to talk about his son s death. and he would not go on the record today. but the white house tells us he never got a call from president obama. obama aides do not dispute that. but they do say kelly did attend a white house breakfast for gold star families, where he sat at the first lady s table. and cecilia vega with us live tonight from the white house. and cecilia, you point out it s been nearly two weeks since that deadly incident in niger. we hadn t heard from the president until yesterday on this and now you