Fox news alert. Vice president Kamala Harris Past is haunting her now. She pushed to eliminate private Health Insurance and forced 150 Million people onto a Government Plan, americans are waiting to hear exactly what her current plan will be for their Health Care. I am harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. This is a big issue for so many people particularly those who are retired and on a budget. You have to know whether or not to you keep your dr. The campaign totally flipflopping on her 2019 position when she was running for president the first time and did not get a single delegate on her side of the aisle. A senior official is telling Fox News that to the vp will not push single Payer Or Medicaid for all. Heres what she told our Peter Doocy in 2019. How important is it to your Health Care plan to get rid of private Insurance Companies . Because there is some confusion about that . So im glad you asked. So the bottom line in the most important is that everyone has access to
Conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. That was ten years aGo. Think about that. Were Going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. Ive learned the hard way, there is never a Good time to withdraw u. S. Forces. The taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. Taliban fighters have broken through the front line. The Afghan Army has collapsed. The central Government has fallen. Panic fills the air in kabul. President biden said this is not Going to be saiGon. But guess what. Theres been an Explosion Outside kabul Airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. I stand squarely behind my decision. Its time to end americas longest war. Is it a mistake . I think it is, yeah. Because i think the consequences are Going to be unbelievably bad. I must say that its a moral defeat for the United States. I think is the president is right. Enough is enough. What was all of this for . That has to be the question veterans are asking. Two decades. More th
While these World Leaders covered serious Ground Today President biden Face To face with russias Vladimir Putin two days from now is a major distraction, saying u. S. Relations at its lowest point in years set the stage for a very fence showdown. We have white House Correspondent Phil mattingly, clarissa ward, Max Boot, and hes also a Washington Post columnist, and our very own chief political analyst Gloria Borger standing by as well. Start with you, clarissa, what are you hearing from americas allies . Reporter yeah, i mean, what a very different tone we are hearing now as spanish Prime Minister is calling president Bidens Election an inspiration, saying he was delivering on some of the promises in that Meeting Today, the head of nato saying that it is different with, i think, what we can call characteristic norwegian understatement with biden at the helm of these meetings, and Nato Member states, 30 of them, coming out with a communique that makes it clear china is a challenge, the
formalized a deal that cements their control of the united states senate. president biden and his colleagues have made it clear that on covid relief, they have zero interest in waiting on republicans. yesterday democrats pushed forward with a motion to pass biden s $1.9 trillion covid package with or without republican support. mitch mcconnell called the move totally partisan. which is rich coming from a guy who used the exact same tool to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich. you ll notice that republicans love to wave the word unity like a bloody shirt when they criticize democrats. you know what s better than fake unity, action, action that helps people. that s the job of governing. in many ways, we re now down to just one governing party. this morning speak nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer led a congressional tribute to brian sicknick who died during the insurrection last month. each day when members enter the capitol hill, this temple of democ
with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive. first, covid a new variant identified in south africa is causing concern and disrupting international travel as a result and clive, it s been called omicron tonight. it s always a bad sign when they give it a greek name, isn t it? yeah, it is. it s an attempt not to stigmatise its place, seeming place of origin