Hello, im Christian Fraser in paris. Katty kay is in washington. There are important stories on both sides of the atlantic. Very shortly, we will turn to the heated debate last night and television between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. We will talk to guests in paris as well. Before that, lets focus on washington. In the next few minutes we will have Breaking News as republicans start to vote on repealing and replacing 0bamacare. Yes, the House Of Representatives will start that vote shortly. There seems to have been some glitch. We expected it in the last few hours. It isa expected it in the last few hours. It is a vote on president 0bamas most important legacy. President trump promised to get rid of it. In the end of those members of congress are taking a vote, not knowing how much the Replacement Bill would cost are Many Americans will lose their health insurance. Here is a democrat and republican. Any Health Care Bill that came to this floor should be about expanding coverage
ashley: this follows remarks from the president wednesday morning saying the u.s. is on track to cut the deficit by 1.5 trillion by the end of the year. take a listen. president biden: bringing down the deficit is one way to ease inflationary pressure where gas prices and oil and food and it is a different world at this moment because of ukraine and russia. we reduce federal borrowing. ashley: other plans would reduce it more and cut costs for families, one being capping price of insulin at $35 and providing tax cuts to utility companies. fox news poll show 44% of respondentss have experienced issues with gas and grocery and 32% felt heat of it, but nothing too serious. however, here is where numbers go up. another fox news poll, 61%
closer under biden, he is bringing the world together after all. it is a nightmare scenario for the us. on october it was joint naval drills between our biggest adversaries. the biden people are clueless but the american people are not. the same survey i mentioned earlier noted 52% of americans see china as the top threat up from just under 40% in february this year, 14% of respondentss said russia was our biggest threat. now finally, even if we did have good reason for conflict with russia which we do not, biden and his team are in over their heads. it would fail at any military action just as they failed in afghanistan. national security adviser jake sullivan, generally, and general austin should have all been putin today after we lost 13 troops in the kabul airport. no one was held accountable and they seem to have no regrets
the number of respondentss say they want the party to nominate a candidate who has a chance to defeat donald trump. the ability is very important to them like it was for the republicans. last time, there were a lot of republicans that didn t like the establishment and thought donald trump was great at fighting back and wanted to be hillary clinton. heather: we will see of democrats can follow suit. bernie sanders and kamala harris and a lot of folks, this is a tight matchup. it will be really close but bernie sanders has a following. when he does events people show up but also has to see the primary and going to be heard in the fact the democrats look at the new freshfaced.