trump in the midterms. the panel is preparing to get new witnesses on the record, including former trump cabinet members but the committee s next hearings in september will take place during the final stretch of the high stakes midterm campaigns. and any minute, we will get a white house update on president biden s health as he deals with covid. so let s begin with that fight over reproductive rights underway in indiana. right now, lawmakers are holding a special session to consider a new law banning abortion with very narrow exceptions. vice president harris flew to indianapolis today to meet with lawmakers, offer support from the white house as well. i m here to support the legislatures who are here, and to support the folks doing the work on the ground in terms of service providers and to let them know we stand with the women of indiana. we trust the women of indiana to make decisions about their own lives without requiring their government to tell them what to do wi
this is something that is workable. reporter: the amendment would allow states to opt out of obamacare s minimum coverage requirements, which could lead to cheaper premiums for the healthy but would let insurers raise rates on those with with pre-existing conditions. states that opt out would have to establish special high-risk pools for people who get priced out of the market. they work. and now that we re going to be adding federal funding to it they ll work even better and you ll be able to lower prices even more. reporter: so can you reassure people with pre-existing conditions that they won t be worse off under your plan? people will be better off with pre-existing conditions under our plan. reporter: democratic leader chuck schumer. go look at these high-risk pools. they ve closed down in state after state. they are usually so, so expensive that no one can afford health care. it s a fig leaf. reporter: republican leaders have not given up hope entirely tha
bomb hit is now dead. american officers who inspected the site reported no evidence of civilian casualties. just a short distance south in the same valley close to afghanistan s border with pakistan, several senior isis leaders were hiding out in a compound. when american special operations forces along with afghan command ores conducted a helicopter assault on the compound, two u.s. army rangers were killed and a third soldier wounded in a firefight which lasted about an hour. they were the second and third american servicemen to die in combat in afghanistan this year. the first, special forces sergeant mark de alencar, was killed when isis fighters popped out of a cave and ambushed his unit. in this latest raid several isis fighters were also killed. the u.s. military is still trying to confirm whether they got the senior leaders they were after. scott? david martin at the pentagon. thanks. the president called his new tax cut plan the biggest in history, so we were cur
today two u.s. army rangers were killed in eastern afghanistan during a raid on islamic militants linked to isis. neither has been identified. david martin has more. reporter: the firetight took place just south of this isis cave complex where earlier this month the u.s. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat. this video, taken by local afghan police, represents the first confirmed pictures of the destruction caused by the 23,000-pound massive ordnance air blast bomb. u.s. officials refused to release any estimate of the number of isis fighters killed, but say anyone above ground or hiding in the caves when the bomb hit is american officers who inspected the site reported no evidence of civilian casualties. just a short distance south in the same valley close to afghanistan s border with pakistan, several senior isis leaders were hiding out in a compound. when american special operations forces along with afghan command ores conducted a helicopter
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