Martin mcguinness did play a role in causing many other families to grieve but republicans see the past differently to the relatives of victims. Martin mcguinness was not a terrorist. Applause Martin Mcguinness was a freedom fighter. Applause those words will anger some but the thousands who gathered here today believed that Martin Mcguinness will be missed in the unfinished work of healing old divides. Lets have a brief look at some of the days other news. Ukraine has accused russia of an act of state terrorism, after a former russian mp and critic of the kremlin, denis voronenkov, was shot dead outside a hotel in kiev. Russia said any suggestion it was involved was absurd. Nat west is to close more than 100 branches, and Royal Bank Of Scotland will close 30, because of the rise in online banking. Rbs, which owns nat west, says around a70 jobs will be lost. It says transactions at high street branches have fallen by more than 40 since 2010. Two official reports suggest the State Pensi
Million americans off their Health Insurance. That may yet happen but it wont happen tonight, that vote was scheduled for tonight at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. It didnt happen specifically because republicans could not get their own party to support it. They have got a big congressional majority. They had a big cushion. They could not get it done. The day after the election in november anyone would have told you this would have been a sure thing for them. That, you know, republicans might have some tough things on their agenda, some things where it might be hard to find unity and get it passed but at least they wont have trouble killing obamacare. At least thats a sure thing. That will happen right off the bat. Remember they said it might happen on day one. They might have the repeal legislation signed and ready to go on day one of the trump presidency. Well, its not day one and tonight their effort seems to have collapsed. Its definitely not over. Theres going to be a vote in the morning but
Being with us. Thanks for joining us for the next hour. It has been a remarkable day and a remarkable night in the news. We have vermont senator Bernie Sanders joining us on what has been a landmark day in washington. Today is the day that democrats decided to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination. Todays the day when the Republican Congress was supposed to repeal obamacare and throw 24 million americans off their Health Insurance. That may yet happen but it wont happen tonight, that vote was scheduled for tonight at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. It didnt happen specifically because republicans could not get their own party to support it. They have got a big congressional majority. They had a big cushion. They could not get it done. The day after the election in november anyone would have told you this would have been a sure thing for them. That, you know, republicans might have some tough things on their agenda, some things where it might be hard to find unity and get it passed but at least t
Coverage from it still rests in the hands of the Trump Administration. And the republicans in congress. The president says, let obamacare fail on its own. Ive been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. Many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. This morning our team of political correspondents and experts standing by to break all of it down for you and look at where we go from here. Cnns brian nobles for more on the finger pointing going on this morning, good morning. Good morning, christi, and it white house. The Trump Administration is trying to brush off the setback, that theyre ready to move on to bigger and better things. But make no mistake, this was a pretty big setback for this administration. Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act was a Major Campaign promise by donald trump during the campaign. And yesterday he wasnt necessarily blaming repub
For repealing a really, really bad piece of legislation. Now nancy pelosi, and Chuck Schumer own obamacare. They own it. Good morning to you, so great to have you on saturday morning. I have this side back. Im christi paul. And im victor blackwell. Happy to be back. Coming to terms with the stunning repeal and replace of obamacare. Just months after discussions, Speaker Paul Ryan could not wrangle enough votes in their own party. The blame game, you know how that started. Heres our Sunlen Serfaty talking about how it went wrong. Reporter the president and leaders are grappling with a stunning defeat. The gops plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act pulled from the house floor, after leaders determined the proposal lacked enough support to pass. We came really close today. But we came up short. I will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. Doing big things is hard. Reporter it was a stunning turn of event, coming less than 24 hours after the president issued