Athe athena, yesterday the president spoke to paul ryan and they say their relationship is stronger than ever. And they spoke again today . Reporter the conversation today has some interesting background. Thats because the president yesterday morning tweeted out a promo for a fox news show that was coming on yesterday night, a judge shapiro show. All day trump was airing promos that there would be some new wiretapping evidence. But judge Jeanine Shapiro called on paul ryan to step down as House Speaker because of his failure to secure the votes in that Health Care Repeal effort. The fact that she raised that question, wondering what the president meant, did he know that was coming. So my colleague said that the House Speaker and the president spoke again today, and the president was clear his tweet did not have anything to do with the speaker. They are both eager to get back to work on the agenda. And, fred, that is essentially, the message question are we theyre blaming the House Free
This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning, welcome to your new day. The battle to overhaul obamacare is going to end maybe in a matter of hours. President trump delivering an ultimatum to House Republicans, vote today or keep obamacare. The highstakes showdown will take place in the house chamber. It will happen in hours. If it does make it through the house, the big battle to come in the senate. At this hour the numbers dont add up for the white house. 27 House Republicans say they are voting no, four others say they are leaning against voting yes. With the president s deal making reputation on the line, the political stakes are high. On this day 64 of the trump presidency, we have it all covered. Lets beginning with cnns jeff zeleny live at the white house. Whats the latest, jeff . Reporter good morning. President trump delivered the ultimatum last night saying hes done negotiating, it is time to vote. Theres already a sense here at the white house hes ready
to export production abroad and then not check the quality of the work thatis not check the quality of the work that is been done, not check the impact on the environment even though we are the ones that are finding it, we re not the ones that are growing and processing it. i think he was working people as a kind of get out when talking about climate policy is too expensive, i think it s wrong and it is unfair because it is the poorest people in society that will suffer the most when climate change becomes more and more evident in our daily lives, with houses flooded and you couldn t afford a home insurance, you couldn t afford it and then you re stuck with payments. i think it is a complete copout. complete copout. that was a very oular complete copout. that was a very popular question complete copout. that was a very popular question with complete copout. that was a very popular question with our - complete copout. that was a veryj popular question with our viewers but also thi
when labour left power. secondly, there were is a claim the army has shrunk under conservatives. this is in coming up on the screen but we have gone through that claim and it does show that, it does show that the army has fallen to about 70,000 from a peak of about 100,000. so a couple of claims there that were true, some claims that were quite complicated, one that we think was misleading but there s a lot more of this stuff, christian, on the bbc news website on the live page, we ve been backtracking everything. we re going to keep going through some of those numbers and will come up with more later. , ., ., , ., more later. plenty more to come from nick and his more later. plenty more to come from nick and his team, more later. plenty more to come from nick and his team, do more later. plenty more to come from nick and his team, do have more later. plenty more to come from nick and his team, do have a - more later. plenty more to come from nick and his team, do have a look-