Reporter in the oval office this morning, President Trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. Obamacare is virtually dead. Reporter just five days ago, he cut off 7 billion in subsidies that help lowerincome americans. People who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. Americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. I am not a deadbeat. I pay my bills. Ive worked hard all of my life. This is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. Reporter 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70 of them live in states that voted for trump. But the president today described the payments as a handout to Insurance Companies. This is money that goes to the Insurance Companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and theyve had a record run. Reporter but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. The solution will be for about a year or two years and it will ge
Next. Tonight, breaking news. Your money, your taxes. President trump declaring republicans are on the verge of a major tax victory tonight, and promises if its passed, americans will save on their taxes by february. Mary bruce tonight with a fact check. Who wins, who loses . Corporate america or middle class americans . Also tonight, the Election Night upset. The deep red state of alabama electing the democrat, sending doug jones to the senate. Roy moore losing. And what the president now says about roy moore after all. Abc news has confirmed tonight, omarosa escorted out of the white house. No longer in the west wing. The fbi In The Hot Seat today. Is there bias in the Russia Investigation . The Text Messages revealed right here. Breaking news tonight. The deadly shooting at a penn state campus. The images coming in late today. The officer handcuffing an
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Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just two weeks before on january 5th. At that meeting were president obama, Vice President joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy a. G. Sally yates and susan rice herself. According to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider Withholding National intelligence from the Incoming Trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. In other words, almost two months after the president ial election, barack obama viewed trump not as his democratically elected