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for democrats, 202-748-8000. , 202-748-8002.s you can also join in on the conversation on our social media pages. before the mixup at the academy awards, donald trump was repeatedly in the spotlight yesterday. here are some of the headlines from this morning s newspapers around the country. the inside page of the washington post, diversity and politics attend the ceremony. that is their headline. another headline, trumps name looms in speeches. another headline, assailing trumps white house from the hollywood glasshouse. we will get into this a little bit more as our program goes on this morning. this broadcast is being watched live by millions of americans and are around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us. [laughter] and i think that is an amazing thing. [applause] as you know, i do not have to tell anyone, the country is divided right now. i think it is time to bring everyone together. you need to say something to unite us. let us just g ....
and withstanding criticism and we also have the former director of medicaid into services and bill hoagland who is a favored reporter bipartisan, very helpful and a former budget committee. thank you very much for coming. we really appreciate everyone being here today. when we planned this conference we thought we d be a little farther along in our discussion. we thought there d be some conversation going on and there has been a few private conversations but not as much action as you d expect all those many months ago. as you think about children s health coverage what are some of the key aspects that you re thinking about press a mark i ll let anyone jump in mark? happy to start. the chip program is a key part of children s health coverage. 6 million kids in tip and it s an important program. that being said we want to focus on the big contacts which is we have over 30 million kids in the medicaid program so we think of tip as a 15% solution, a good solution but th ....
royal assent to the brexit bill, turning it into law. theresa may says she will use it to trigger eu exit negotiations by the end of the month. coming up this hour, the environment and internationals international aid among the biggest losers in donald trump s u.s. budget outline. what are the gains? we will have more on that in business. the west african sensation using their music to condemn violence against women. more on their concert in paris on the way. first our top story live from paris. genie: let s start with this developing story in paris. a letter bomb has exploded here in the french capital at the offices of the international monetary fund. the offices are shared with the world bank. one person was hurt after opening a package. been no claim of responsibility so far. this comes one day after a militant greek group claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb mailed to the german finance minister. this was a parcel that was sent to the imf offices in paris. ....
health-care care bill would not proceed to a vote. trump who hedonald got understood him, and he mentioned your name. how does this happen so that you are the reporter he wants to call to say, we are pulling the bill? we discussed before i have known him for quite some time. as gotten to know him as a businessman and as president. i was working with colleagues on a story about trump as a dealmaker. deal with the congress he did not really know? i have been working on this for about a week and had put in some request but did not expect anything. i had not interviewed the president since before the inauguration. i got this call out of the blue on friday afternoon and he was pretty even-tempered, muted in tone and he said the bill had been pulled. he started piling on the democrats and turned his attention to other issues. turned hisw he is attention on to the republicans. what you make of that? mostt: one of the revealing moments in the conversation was when he said, i ju ....
dramatic consequences. everyone is more than aware of that. but that s not stopping a number of young people from demonstrating against corruption and government policies. a striking number of kremlin critics have died mysteriously in recent years. who o commissioned the killing? in 2006, a alexander litvinenkoa fierce critic of putin, was poisoned with radioactive polonium. the same year, anna politkovskaya, a journalist who famously denouncnced rusussia s chechnya policies, was shot dead. in 2013, boris beresowski, declared the number one enemy of the state by putin, died in exile in britain under unexplained circumstances. and in 2015, one of the government s most prominent opponents, boris nemzov, was shot in moscow. those who protest openly learnn the severirity of the e law firt hand. this is gulag country. rubtsovsk in siberia. 5000 prisoners are held here in this penal colony. for days, anastasia has been waiting in the icy cold for her husband, i ildar dadin, ....