amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week hello everyone thank you so much for joining me this saturday on a greek a whitfield. and with just five days until the historic presidential debate between president joe biden and former president donald trump, both candidates are spending today preparing in their own unique ways for the upcoming showed him that will air right here on cnn this morning. biden is at camp david, where he and his team are spending the weekend poring over we re briefing binders and holding mock debates sessions as he prepares for this high-stakes moment. meantime, trump is shunning traditional debate prep and spending his saturday on the campaign trail in an our trump will speak to a gathering of christian conservatives in washington before traveling to philadelphia fia for rally tonight, we ve got team coverage. kevin lipped is covering president biden s debate preps. but let s begin with even mckinnon in washington at
Board plans to meet to discuss a sale of the bulk of the french builder of power plants and trains to ge. Matt campbell joins us now with the very latest. We heard about the deal yesterday. It was a great bloomberg exclusive which you helped to break. Give us a sense of where the different parties are standing. What seems to be taking shape is a significant transaction that would leave a small part of alstom behind. The transport business which makes Rolling Stock would actually be separated from Everything Else alstom does. Transport is about 20 to 25 of sales. Alstom ismajority of being taken over by General Electric according to people familiar with the situation. But of this is official yet we expect an announcement could come soon. Even in the next few hours. The fact that the unit is being left to one side may allow a political way out for the french government. This is a trophy asset for the french government. They are not tacking over the trains. There was some hint the french
Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley appearing to give the president permission to get rid of his Attorney General but theres another way to look at it which is that they seem to be trying to say any action off until after the midterm elections and the confirmation of judge kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the question is are they telling the president he should get rid of Jeff Sessions or hoping they can slow walk this until things calm down but if youre bob mueller you see november as a day on the calendar that to get your job done before just in case. So susan in his punchback Yesterday Yegs Listjeff session the litany of things he had been leading that were on point with what the president wanted, from enforcing immigration laws, focusing on ms13, the gang, promoting economic growth, et
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Deductible is horrible. The premiums score too much and the deductible is horrible. The only difference between now and the other administration is that were administering obama care very well. So weve made it better, but its still horrible, no good. Its something that we cant live with in this country because its far too expensive for the people, not only for the country, but im not even thinking about for the country. Its too expensive. The premiums are too expensive. People are going broke trying to pay for it and the deductibles are averaging over 7,000. So you have to spend 7,000 before you get anything. Thats a very unusual circumstance so the deductibles are way too high. Obamacare is a disaster so we are going to be, and i said it yesterday and i mean it 100 . I understand health care now especially very well. A lot of people dont understand it. We are going to be the republicans, the party of Great Health Care. The democrats have let you down. They came up with obamacare. Its
Himself in Public Comments that the meeting is in the final stages of preparation. In fact, just moments ago he said he was positive or at least hopeful the meeting would take place. Have a listen. Ive been told that kim jong un would like to meet and looks like theyre in final stages of working out a quick meeting because ill be at the dmz anyway, the border. Ill be at the dmz. And i look forward to saying hello to him if that all works out. I guess theres always a chance it might not. But it sounds like the teams would like to have that work out. U. S. President s have come to the Demilitarized Zone before. President obama did. President george w. Bush. Clinton. Reagan before him. But they have never come to this border here and met directly face to face with the north Korean Leader. Before that President Trump met with the south Korean Leader. President moon jaein. Theyve been meeting in south korea discussing among other things possible south korean payments for u. S. Troops based