captain, seamus coleman, suffers a broken leg. he was injured in a tackle, in the second half of his nation s, goalless draw with wales, and will have surgery later today. the mass experiment to see if clocks going forward tonight will affect concentration of children in school. and chris fawkes has the weather. a chilly start to the day with frost and fog to contend with but for most of us we look at a dry weekend with plenty of sunshine. in the warm spots it will reach 19 degrees. good morning. first, our main story. donald trump has tried to shrug off the biggest setback so far in his presidency a failure to overhaul his predecessor, barack obama s health reforms. senior republicans withdrew their plans at the last minute because they didn t have enough backing from his own party to win a vote in congress. greg dawson reports. it was a promise that became one of the pillars of his campaign. and one he repeated at every rally. obama ca re he repeated at every rally. obama
They blame the republican party for. the republicans have an arithmetic problem. this is mostly, in significant part, a tax cut bill. they want to cut taxes. obamacare raised taktxes and th want to cut taxes. but that means there s less money there. there s less money for medicaid. which means less money for people of low income. that s a big part of the plan, to cut medicaid. obamacare means everybody has to get health care. if you afford it, there will be subsidies for you. if they want to cut those subsidies, that s the problem that they re facing that i don t understand how. if you want a tax cut, if you want to get to tt original mandate, that s what repealing obamacare is.