The car then crashed Near Parliament and at least one man, armed with a knife, continued the attack into parliament. Sadly, i can confirm that now four people have died. That includes the Police Officer who was watching parliament and one man we believe to be the attacker, who was shot by a Police Officer. The officers family have been made aware. At least 20 people have been injured. As part of long established and well rehearsed plans, parliament has been locked down. That response included uniformed foreign officers. We now of course have an on going operation on what we currently believe there was only one attacker. Im sure the public will understand that were taking every precaution in locking down and searching the area as thoroughly and exhaustively as possible. And i know that the officials
working within parliament are in the area completely understand the need to do this and i thank them for their patience and their support. This investigation has the full weight and expertise of the command behind it. And if there are people who saw the events unfold today that havent yet spoken to us, i would urge them to get in touch. A crime scene will remain in place in the affected areas in westminster and we will carry out a painstaking investigation to recover all the possible evidence. Looking forward to the rest of the day, including when people are commuting home, and indeed over the days that follow, the people of london will see extra Police Officers armed on our streets. This includes the officers working longer hours and extra shifts along British Transport Police in the city of london. And, of course, as youre aware, we can call on the support of the military should we need to. We are also in the process of
going. The officer that was attacked, was he one of the armed officers that protect parliament . One of the armed officers protecting parliament, yes. So, as you understand the situation, when you have such an offense that takes place on the bridge, the reports will be confused with many different varying accounts. Were still working our way through that. Were satisfied at this stage it looks like there was only one attacker, but we dont want to be overconfident so early on. It is a precautionary basis. Were locking down the area so we can have complete confidence that everyone is safe. Sorry. [ Inaudible Question ] what were saying to the public is, take vigilance. No need to be alarmed. So that should probably during the transition, thats correct. Dana and representative nunes said he had spoken to you and that he was on his way to brief the white house, which is interesting, since they are the subject of the investigation. Yeah, chairman nunes did brief me on this this morning. So i first learned of this a few handful of hours ago. This is because we have an investigation in the Intelligence Committee into these things. So this is one of the things that he uncovered in his investigation and felt it was important to bring it to light since he learned of this recently. Dana all right. So maybe well find out later after he goes to the white house. Lets move on to the big story. Nine weeks into the administration in terms of your speakership and this new term, you are bringing to the floor tomorrow night house bill, the American Healthcare act. Just moments before we came to air the Freedom Caucus through mark meadows, congressman from north carolina, said that the votes arent there. Ont pass. But what say you . Well, i dont think anybody knows the answer to that. There was a claim that theres 24 votes against it. We are getting a lot of Freedom Caucus members to support this bill. We have been adding votes all week. Heres whats going on, dana. We are in the Fourth Quarter of the house passing this bill which is the Fourth Committee. Now that were getting to the Fourth Committee of a four committee process, thats when a lot of negotiations intensify near tend of the process. This is called legislating. So there are people who want to get various provisions in the bill. Whats important for us, we have the Broker Compromises to make sure we draft legislation that can actually pass. One of the rules that we have to watch is the senate rules that prevent a bill from being fi filibustered. We have to be cognizant that we dont add a provision from the bill that jeopardizes it from being voted on it, that would make it easy for chuck shumer to filibuster. Our members are frustrated that we have to play by these senate rules. But if we do pass a bill that
that improve the bill, that make good refinements to the bill to make it better. We want to make sure we keep the consensus so that we can actually pass the bill. When we pass the bill here in the house, it can be brought up for a vote in the senate and not filibustered. So thats the key balance that we have to maintain while we go through this process. Dana you wrote the bill, im assuming there would be no support from the left. They were going to be against it. I dont think people who Created Obamacare will be working with us. Dana did you expect the strong push back from the right . Seems like the seniors groups arent happy, the veteran groups arent happy. Some people say it gives tax cuts to the rich. And that youre basically the reverse robinhood. How do you respond to that . I would say obamacare is a collapsing law. Double digit premiums this year, higher next year. Basically forced insurance monopolies. Five states, one plan left, 1,000 counties one insurer left. Insurers are pulling out. The thing is collapsing. People are trying to compare us with a law thats quickly collapsing. Its a faulty comparison. We said we need to repeal and replace this with patiented centered health care. Let people buy what they want to buy. I know people on the left dont like that but thats what we Campaigned On. Thats what we think will save the American Health care system having a patient centered system with choice and competition and not a government coerced system that literally is giving us Sky Rocketing Premiums. Dana you have always been a Free Market Kind of guy. Can you understand where some of the guys from the Freedom Caucus are coming from . They actually think maybe it would be better not to do anything than to send this one to the senate. My own view is doing nothing means the collapse occurs and good people get hurt. Doing nothing means Sky Rocketing Premiums coming up in 2017 and 2018. Doing nothing means more Insurance Companies pull out and people have nothing. So we just believe we have a moral obligation and duty, now that were the governing party, to step in front of that collapse and replace it with reforms that work. These reforms, whenever tested, have worked. Whats frustrating to all of us, Freedom Caucus members, myself, everybody in between in the house is that we have to deal with these senate rules as they are. And thats frustrating to us. Dont forget, dana, when the senate Rammed Obamacare through, they did it with 60 votes. They didnt have any rules they had to work on. We dont have that ability because theres only 52 republicans. So we have to use the Reconciliation Rule which narrows the solution. Dana more republicans should be elected to the senate. Give us 60 votes and we can write any bill we want. Dana i have a question for you. You and President Trump have seemed to form a relationship that maybe neither of you anticipated. You called him the other day a very good closer. I saw some members who had been on record saying they werent going to support the bill now said okay, theyre going to. Is that because he has put his shoulder behind this and you are in this together through tomorrow night . Hes been bringing members down there in groups turning votes around, talking to members and closing the deal. He brought about ten people down there and turned their votes around. And just basically explained how just valuable and important this is for the country. By the way, its also important so that we can get on to tax reform and get on to economic growth. The president has been a fantastic closer. This is, to me, its encouraging. I have been talking to members of congress who have been here for many years who said this is like the first time i have ever been to the oval office. We have never seen this kind of president ial engagement and involvement with our members before. Its very constructive. Its very refreshing. The president and Vice President are rolling up their sleeves, getting involved. Look, governing is tough. We are going from having been an Opposition Party for the last ten years to having to become a governing party within three, four months. Thats a challenge. Those are the growing pains were going through here. It looks a little messy, but this is the system founders envisioned. I enjoy the fact that were having these conversations. That were talking about not whether were going to fix peoples problems but how. And thats the kind of conversation that we should be having up here. Thats one we are. Dana My Last Question to you, if the markets are concerned that theres maybe an inability to get this one done or theyre worried that tax reform wont get done, you wake up on friday morning regardless of what happened the night before with the vote, what is the next step for the house . What is the next puzzle piece that you try to put together so that you get the agenda accomplished . The reason people link this to tax reform is obamacare, our bill repeals 1 Trillion Dollars in obamacare taxes. That makes tax reform 1 Trillion Dollars easier if you dont repeal and replace obamacare and your tax efforts just became a trillion dollars harder. To give you a sense of how that trapb lates. 1 trillion is ten percentage
point drop in business tax rates. Its pretty significant. So either we do this repeal and replace and make tax reform easier or if we did not do this it would make tax reform about 1 trillion harder. Dana paul ryan, thank you very much. Now back to Shepard Smith with continuing coverage of the london Terror Attack. Thank you. Two different messages coming in on health care from paul ryan and from the white house, the latest uring out of the white house is theyre getting very close to the deal. A senior House Republican aide said theres no plans to pull the bill or delay the planned vote which is scheduled for thursday. In addition, i can tell you the head of the Freedom Caucus, more conservative caucus there, is reporting simultaneously that they dont have the votes, that the bill will die and has asked the leadership to start over with a brand new bill. Now to the breaking developments out of london. We now know four people are dead in a Terror Attack around
westminster. One of the four dead is a Police Officer. Two others are people who were on scene. And the fourth person who has died is now the suspect. The terrorist himself according to authorities, they believe a lone knife wielding man, was given cpr on scene. Here he is on a Stretcher Being taken away to hospital. One he arrived at that hospital, they continued to work on him. Now were told this man has died. Everything is on lockdown in london, central london. Authorities are investigating this as an on going incident. Our Sister Station in london has just spoken to a witness. Lets listen. We heard what we thought were gunshots. Then we just saw the car just went up, plowed into people. There was a man behind the
wheel. On the bridge, those people were just lying down. I would say maybe ten bodies. It all happened so quickly. We came up to the bridge. Within minutes parliamentary proceedings were halted and the chamber locked down. I will suspend the sitting of the house. Please wait here. The Prime Minister was rushed to safety by her protection detail. I have never seen the Prime Minister moved away by the biggest security plain clothed Security Police men i had ever seen. She had police all around her. Took her very very quickly away. And we can see that she was taken to her car. Weapons were produced by the Security Detail and she was very very rapidly moved to safety. Police cleared the entire area around westminster as a fleet of ambulances moved on to the bridge and began treating the victims, mowed down by the car as it sped toward parliament. Many stood no chance of getting out of the way. Those that saw it will never forget it. Paramedics crowded around individual patients along most of the length of the bridge. Specialist Counter TerrorismFirearms Police moved in to secure the area and sweep it for any other potential threats. Even the london eye which overlooks the westminster was temporarily shut down. Those on board having to wait to be given the all clear. Tonight the area is still locked down as terror came back to the streets of london. 20 minutes past 6 p. M. In london. That is the latest from sky
news. At the white house now the discussion of Paul Manafort, former Campaign Manager for donald trump who is now ahead of a multimillion Dollar Contract with those outside our country and sean spicer asked about that by jonathan karl. Lets listen. I dont know what work he did. I know when he was hired, he did his job. Shane . Are you saying it wasnt disappointing to learn i dont know no, no. I dont know because the story that came out this morning said he had this client, paul put out a statement that suggested this is what he did, this is how he handled it. Youve all read it. We have not spent a ton of time going through what he did for that client a decade ago. I had not discussed witness the president. I know hes made it very clear. He hired him to do a job. He did the job well. He got him over the finish line. August 19th he was let go of the campaign for the reasons i had mentioned. Do you think Paul Manafort played any role in the hiring of any people in the federal government after the election. Not to my knowledge at all. John . Thank you, sean. Going back to the American Healthcare act. It was always nervousness that moving too quickly on it would lead some very dangerous points in the details. Several publications, including saras reported today that as a result of a change of a few words, veterans who benefitted from a program called Veterans Affairs had the option of getting tax credits would now get neither under the new legislation. And that 7 million veterans would be cost health care. Is the administration following this and is it urging congress to do anything about it . Most veterans get their
health care kwraoeurt through tri care or medicare if theyre over 65 or a combination there of, correct . Theres two programs. One is the Veterans Affairs program and the other is the option. This is under the current law. To have tax credits. My understanding again from saras publication this morning and several others is that 7 million veterans could possibly lose both. Id have to follow up with you. Im not aware of any modifications to tri care that would have that effect. Kristen . Sean, thanks. Monday the president accused president obama and democrats of rushing through the healthcare law, jamming it through. When, in fact, they debated it for about a year. This Health Care Law was rolled out about 15 days ago. So dont you run the risk of rushing this through, of not giving it enough time for public debate . Republicans talked about
repealing and replacing obama care since 2010. Weve Campaigned On it in every election since. The principles that are in a lot of these have been public for a long time. Hold on. You just rolled out the actual bill. It s gone through three committees two had unanimous republican support. I understand that. Were working through the process. This was something the president Campaigned On, told the American People it would be a top priority. Republicans who ran for the house and senate said it would be a top priority. Something he talked about for seven years. To suggest were rushing anything, i think weve done this very very deliberately and very responsibly to make sure that people can read it. So, again, with all due respect to the folks who tackled this in the past, we actually put the bill online, let everyone in the entire world read it, didnt jam it through, to quote former speaker pelosi, who said if you want to read the bill, wait until we pass it. We let the entire world read it. Watch the process occur. And i think that is a much more open and transparent process. Ask you a question about the Terror Attack. The president s been briefed. He also spoke with