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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 shortl...

Government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. Minutes ago the president boarded Air Force One En Route to france where hell meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. The last time the president was on Air Force One was a few days ago. It was at the g20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. During that trip the president was involved in producing the false Stat...

Tremendous, full-throated endorsement. does it have an effect, look, you know this as well as i do, this is a personality issue. this is about of a lot of individual senators, and decisions that they have to make. i think in many ways, joe biden is a respected guy in the senate. this is where he came from. im hoping it makes a difference. >> i guess, everyone is trying the best they can on this and also build back better. its got a very thin majority, you need all 50 votes to do anything -- whet...

Many ways joe biden is a respected guy here in the senate. this is where he came up from. so im hoping it makes a difference. >> yeah, i mean, i guess im not -- look, everyone is trying to best they can on this and also build back better, right? got a very thin majority. you need all 50 votes to do anything. whether its to change the rules to get the voting rights legislation or to pass build back better. the math is the math. im not missing something, right? sinema and manchin say they wont vot...

Proceed. take a listen to what he said. >> once they are finished the specific job, the text will be reviewed and then i will immediately offer the text as a bipartisan infrastructure agreement as a substitute agreement making it the base bill as i had promised. as soon as the bipartisan group finalizes the text of the substitute amendment and becomes the base bill, we can start voting on amendments in a bill over this weekend. >> reporter: the bottom line is the senate is racing to vote on the ...

Will mobilize a lot of voters against him i think well i mean its a little complicated because this is about a mechanism of american democracy and its a bit more complicated than just a spectacular act that he has that hes trying to pull through so it remains to be seen what will come out of this probably his base bill continue to say to support him but i think that many of the supporters of the democrats will be alerted when asked about what nancy pelosi said in that report we just saw that thi...

Employees who cant pay the bills and say okay we couldnt even open the government for two weeks to talk. >> senator graham, hes got another idea. hes talking to the president this morning about it. open the government -- you talk about a pause, right? he says open the government for a short period of time. if nancy pelosi would agree to take up whatever bill would pass the senate in a bipartisan way, using trumps proposal as the base bill, but open it up for amendments. could you support that pr...

We closed seven state prisons. our estimate of the population of 30,000 prisoners is down to 21,000 because reduced recidivism by having programs to encourage inmates to participate that helps us reduce their recidivism by increasing their readiness for the real world, giving them job skills, programs, and other programs that we have been able to prove reduces the likelihood of reoffending. >> shannon: doj told politico an analyst said that the measure doesnt contain any exclusions for people co...

Example of that. we close 7 state prisons, estimated population of 30,000 prisoners down to 21,000 because we reduced recidivism by adding programs to force or encourage inmates to participate in that helps reduce recidivism by increasing their readiness for the real world, giving them job skills and other programs we have been able to prove reduces the likelihood of reoffending. >> doj did tell politico an analyst said to them the measure doesnt contain any exclusions for people convicted of cr...

Since it ended up being so close and what are the issues with the second one that possibly be resolved over the weekend? >> i think thats the wrong premise. start with the bill that has 193 votes. if there are a few minor things that can be tweaked on that to get us to a majority of the house, maybe we can look at that. lets whip it. remember for months we were told by leadership that bill only has 150 votes, 160 votes. it cant get close. yesterday when the vote was called in front of god and ev...