Affordable care act and wait until after the 2018 midterm elections to propose a replacement. Meanwhile, proponents of a singlepayer Healthcare Plan are organizing to urge congress not only to stop the effort to repeal obamacare, but to pass a bill that would guarantee medicare for all. Well speak with dr. Carol paris, president of physicians for a National Health program. She was arrested monday during a protest against the Republican Healthcare bill. Then, how israels tenure blockade brought gaza to the brink of collapspse. Every indicator from energy to water to health care to employoyment to povertrty to fod insecurity every indicator is declining. Gagazans have been going through dedevelopment. N amy we will go directly to gaza to speak with awardwinning human rights lawyer raji sourani. Then to new york. A haitian immigrant facing deportation who has lived in this country for decades. He now has four u. S. Born children. My daughter is going to college now. If imhe one deported, how is she going to finish . Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump said tuesday he plans to let obamacare fail after Senate Republican leaders failed in a bid to repeal parts of the Affordable Care act without a replacement in place. The move was opposed by four republicans, including three women senators susan collins, Shelley Moore capito, and Lisa Murkowski who, along with rob portman, said the effort would deprive millions of americans of Health Insurance. All three republican women were left out of a Senate Working group comprised of 13 white men that drafted the initial healthcare bill. On tuesday, President Trump suggested he might let Insurance Markets created under obamacare go under and then try to work with democrats on a rescue. Pres. Trump i think we are probobably in that position whee we will just l let obamacare fa. Were not going to own it. Im not going to own it. The republicans are not going to own it. We will let obamacare fail and then the democrats will come to us and say, how do we fix it . Or, how do we come up with a new plan . Amy President Trump invited all 52 repepublican senators to the white house today for lunchtime talks aimed at reviving efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Meanwhile, proponents of a singlepayer Healthcare Plan are organizing to urge congress not only to ststop the effort to repeal obamacare, but to pass a bill t that would guaranteee medicare for all. Onon tuesday, former Vice President al gore became the latest prominent democrat to speak k in favor of singlelepa. The private sector has not aown any ability to provide good, accccessible, Affordable Health care e for all. I believe, for example, we ought to have a singlepayer health care plan. Amy well have more on the republicans failed push on healthcare andnd the growing fit for single payer after headlines. The republicancontrolled House Budget Committee is set to vote today on a draft budget that would slash welfare spending, gut financial regulations, rewrite the tax code to favor the wealthy, and slash 500 billion from medicare and 1. 5 trillion from medicaid and obamacare over the next decade. The budget would also add another 30 billion to trumps recordsetting 668 billion request for pentagon spending. President trump held a seconond, prpreviously undndisclosed meetg with russian president Vladimir Putin during the g20 summit in germany earlier this month. On tuesday, the white house acknowledged the meeting, saying there was nothing unusual about it. But World Leaders who witnessed the discussion called it highly unususual for President Trump to single out an n adversary while snubbing u. S. Allies at a g20 dinner. Trump reportedly s spoke for abt an hour with putin over dinner during their second facetoface talk on july 7, relying onon a russian government translator becaususe President Trumps interpreter did not speak russian. The conversation took place out of earshot of nearby observers, and theres no sign the u. S. Recorded a transcript of the conversation. Meanwhile, the i identity of an eighth person present at a meeting in 2016 between a russian lawyer and Top Trump Campaign Officials has been revealed. Ike kaveladzdze, a sovietborn u. S. Citizen, attended as a representative of the fatherandson Russian Developers who asked for the meeting. In 2000, the u. S. Government accused kaveladze of helping launder 1. 4 billion of russian and Eastern European money through u. S. Banks, though he was never charged with a crime. The meeting in june of last year was organized after President Trumps oldest son, donald trump junior donald trump jr. , embraced an apparent efforort by the russian government to peddle information incriminating Hillary Clinton in an attempt to help trump win the presidency. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has moved to close the state Departments Office tasked with holding war criminals accountable. This week, the head of the office of global criminal justice told his staff he was being reassigned elsewhere and that the offices work would be rolled into another part of the state department. David scheffer, who was the first u. S. Ambassadoratlarge for war crimes issues, said this sends a strong signal to perpetrators of mass atrocities that the United States is not watching you anymore. In yemen, at least 20 civilians were killed tuesday as they attempted to flee u. S. Backed saudiled airstrikes. Witnesses said a warplane bombed a vehicle packed with families fleeing intense fighting near the city of taiz. The latest civilian deaths came amid a massive cholera epidemic brought on by the destruction of human sanitation, Health Care Infrastructure after saudiled airstrikes leveled hospitals and clinics across the country. Since april, cholera has sickened a third of a Million People and killed over 1700. Meanwhile, the saudiled military coalition prevented a united natations flight cacarryg aid workers from reaching the capital sanaa tuesday after grounding the flight in djibouti because three journalists were aboard. Saudi authorities on tuesday arrested a woman seen in a a widelyshared social media video wearing a mininiskirt and crtop as she walked through an archaeological site outside the capital riyadh. Authorities with the committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice said they had arrested the woman for running afoul of the kingdoms strict dress code for women, but offered few other details. The arrest c came as 14 men accused of taking part in prodemocracy rallies are reportedly facing imminent execution, including mujtabaa alsweikat, who was just 17 years old and scheduled to fly to michigan to attend college in the u. S. When he was arrested. In the gaza strip, medical workers warn electricity shortages imposed by israel are threatening the lives of the sick and elderly. This month, gazans have received between two and four hours of power per day after the Palestinian Authority cut payments to israel for electricity in a bid to isolate and weaken its political rival, hamas. Thats left hospitals scrambling to keep vulnerable patients alive. This is ritta aljalees, whose children suffer from cystic fibrosis. The electricityty shortage affects their r treatment very much because they need a a mache to help them breathe and thehey need a cool l place. They cant use a machine to breathe e because we are mostly without electricity. When we have it, i cant deal with the three of them because it comes for a short time. Amy in 2012, the World Health Organization warned that gaza would be uninhabitable by 2020 , but now the u. N. Says Living Conditions in gaza have deteriororated faster ththan expected a and the area has already become unlivable. Well have more on the humanitarian catastrophe in gaza later in the broadcast would we speak with the human rights lawyer raji sourani. The e u. S. State department on tuesday announced new sanctions against iran over alleged support for terrorism and irans Ballistic Missile program. The move will blacklist 18 people accused of having ties to irans military, freezing any of their u. S. Assets. The sanctions came one day after President Trump begrudgingly certified that iran has complied with its obligations under the obamabrokered nuclear agreement. As a president ial candidate, trump promised to rip up the iran nuclear deal, calling it the worst deal ever. In moroccan occupied Western Sahara, Moroccan Court has sentenced 20 independence activists with harsh prison sentences for their role in a 2010 uprising outside the city. L both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are concerned moroccan authorities use torture confessions from the men, who were sentenced up to 30 years in prison. Western saharas indigenous population of overwhelmingly depended demand independent since morocco took over Western Sahara 1975. The trial took place in rabat, morocco. In turkey, a state prosecutor on tuesday remandeded six human rights activists, including Amnesty Internationals turkish director, idil eser, on charges of membership in a terrorist group. The move means the activists could languish in jail for up to two years while awaiting a trial. The arrests came as turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to crackck down n on political opopponents in t the e of a failed coup last year. Thisis is amnesty internatatios director for central a asia, jon dalhuisen, who called the detentntions an attack on the ce of turkish Civil Societyty. There is no room in turkey of today for an independent,. Ritical, Civil Society this is to be removed from erdogans turkey. Turkey is on a onewayay track o a dark and dangerous place rigit now. Amy in the School Curriculum evolution. Aching of the head of the Teachers Union called it anan assault on scscie and secularism by the government. In venezuela, it was maduro tuesday condemned the Trump Administration for consideringng new sanctions against its government over plans for a vote later this month on any legislative body. On tuesday, the whitite house promised strong and swift economic actions of maduro proceeds with the plan. This i is president maduro. What do we do, compatriots . Do we give up . Do we give in . We let us be governed b by the right wing fascism of this continent or walk with our test i, lift our honor and say, we are the children of simone de beauvoir and we will govern ourselves . Electionsezuela has in december that would have the power to rewrite the constitution. The move comes amidst massive protest street clashes and increasing antigovernment violence. Back in the u. S. , a prosecutor in cincinnati, ohio, said tuesday he would not pursue a third murder trial for white former Police Officer ray tensing, who shot africanamerican Samuel Dubose in the head in july 2015 after pulling him over for having a missing front license plate. Two previous trials ended with hung juries. This is Hamilton County prosecutor joseph deters. After discussing this matter with multiple jurors, both black they have said to us we will never get a conviction in this case. Amy deters decision was condemned by the family of Samuel Dubose. This is trina allen speaking outside Hamilton County courthouse just after learning there would be no retrial l of ofofficer tensining. If you are black in the United States of america theyre not going to bother with this anymore. That is whaat theyre pretty muh sayiying. Ththey would likike to have himo to jail,l, but they will not be ayingo do anythining if it is popularity c contest. That is basically whatat we e we told. Since we have more racist and Hamilton County than not, we cant get a conviction. That is basically what the prosecutor told us. Amy Samuel Dubose was shot exactly two years ago today. After the killing, officer tensing stated he opened fire after his arm was caught in duboses car door while dubose drove away. The statement was directly contradicted by tensings body cam video. At the time of the killing, tensing was wearing a tshirt under his uniform emblazoned with a confederate battle flag. Wnba seattlee, the storm Basketball Team has partnered with planned parenthood to raise funds and fight back against republicanled attack on the Womens Health organization. On tuesday night, the storm donated five dollars from each ticket purchased for its gaming is the chicago sky toward planned parenthood in storm players joined a rally ahead of the game. In a statement, planned parenthood said and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate republicans are trying to regroup after their latest efforts to o overhaul or repeal obamacare failed, dealing a sharp setback to donald trump and the gops sevenyear quest to kill president Barack ObamasSignature Healthcare law. The defeat shook Financial Markets tuesday. The dollar fell to a 10month low over doubts that trump could push other domestic policy priorities, such as tax reform, through a divided congress. Expressing disappointment, trump suggested he might let Insurance Markets created under obamacare go under and then try to work with democrats on a rescue. Pres. Trump i think were probably in that p position whee we will justst let obamacare fa. Were not going to own it. Im not going to own it. The republicans are not going to own it. We will let obamacare fail, then the democrats wilill come to usn their when you say, how do we fix it . Or, how do we come up with a new plan . Amy the Senate Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act collapsed monday night after republican senators jerry moran of kansas and mike lee of utah announced they would not support the latest version of the bill, ensuring republicans would not have enough votes to pass it. Their announcement came at the same time President Trump, who has heavily backed the senate bill, was meeting with seven republican senators who did support the measure. The legislation would have cut 700 billion from medicaid. It faced opposition from all senate democrats, a slew of governors from both parties, the majority of the healthcare industry, the american medical association, hospitals, doctors, nurseses, Patient Advocacy grous and the u. S. Conference of catholic bishops. Speaking on n esday, House Democratic leader nancy pelosi applauded voters for standing up in town Hall Meetings and demanding their representatives reject thehe Republican Healthce bill. The president in a statement said today, his health care did not have the cooperation of any of the democrats and some of the republicans. No, he is never really been about increasing access, lowering costs, improving benefits will stop that is what the Affordable Care act is about. So the reason the republicans in the leadership in the senate founund themselves in s such d the e situation is because peope have spoken out. Amy Mitch Mcconnell says he will try to push through legislation to repeal the Affordable Care act and wait until after the 2018 midterm elections to propose a replacement. Meanwhile, proponents of a singlepayer Healthcare Plan are organizing to urge congress not only to stop the effort to repeal obamacare, but to pass a bill that would guarantee medicare for all. On tuesday, former Vice President al gore became the latest prominent democrat to speak in favor of singlepayer healthcare. The private sector has not s