Hello, im Christian Fraser in paris. Katty kay is in washington. There are important stories on both sides of the atlantic. Very shortly, we will turn to the heated debate last night and television between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. We will talk to guests in paris as well. Before that, lets focus on washington. In the next few minutes we will have Breaking News as republicans start to vote on repealing and replacing 0bamacare. Yes, the House Of Representatives will start that vote shortly. There seems to have been some glitch. We expected it in the last few hours. It isa expected it in the last few hours. It is a vote on president 0bamas most important legacy. President trump promised to get rid of it. In the end of those members of congress are taking a vote, not knowing how much the Replacement Bill would cost are Many Americans will lose their health insurance. Here is a democrat and republican. Any Health Care Bill that came to this floor should be about expanding coverage
Government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. Minutes ago the president boarded Air Force One En Route to france where hell meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. The last time the president was on Air Force One was a few days ago. It was at the g20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. During that trip the president was involved in producing the false Statement Given to the New York Times about the previously held meeting last summer. A small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. Ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off
i wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through this. It was a wasted 20 minutes which was a shame. The president responded to his son
tremendous, full-throated endorsement. does it have an effect, look, you know this as well as i do, this is a personality issue. this is about of a lot of individual senators, and decisions that they have to make. i think in many ways, joe biden is a respected guy in the senate. this is where he came from. i m hoping it makes a difference. i guess, everyone is trying the best they can on this and also build back better. it s got a very thin majority, you need all 50 votes to do anything whether to change the rules of the voting rights legislation, or pass build back better, the math is the math. i m not missing something, right? sinema and manchin say they won t vote to change the filibuster rules, and that is currently the position unless something changes. an important distinction. build back better, there are arguments over the base bill. you re talking about two voting bills that had 50 democratic senators on board with them. and, senators saying, yeah,
many ways joe biden is a respected guy here in the senate. this is where he came up from. so i m hoping it makes a difference. yeah, i mean, i guess i m not look, everyone is trying to best they can on this and also build back better, right? got a very thin majority. you need all 50 votes to do anything. whether it s to change the rules to get the voting rights legislation or to pass build back better. the math is the math. i m not missing something, right? sinema and manchin say they won t vote to change the filibuster rules and that s currently the position unless something changes. well, an important distinction. build back better, there s arguments over the base bill. we are talking about two voting bills that have 50 democratic senators onboard with them, and senators saying yeah, there are really problematic things with some of the laws that are being passed out there that will make it more difficult for some populations to vote. so we are in agreement with that. the questi
proceed. take a listen to what he said. once they are finished the specific job, the text will be reviewed and then i will immediately offer the text as a bipartisan infrastructure agreement as a substitute agreement making it the base bill as i had promised. as soon as the bipartisan group finalizes the text of the substitute amendment and becomes the base bill, we can start voting on amendments in a bill over this weekend. reporter: the bottom line is the senate is racing to vote on the infrastructure package ahead of august recess when all senators are expected to go back to their home district for a few weeks. this is why they re working through the weekend and this is why we re here bringing everyone the latest. christi, boris. that recess might wind up getting delayed with the reconciliation bill on the horizon.