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Campaigners have called on the Welsh Government to ignore recent UK Government legislation.

The UK Government will set out its plans for new laws today while Plaid Cymru has also made its own suggestions

President donald trump, joint session of congress behind us here. major divisions are growing among republican lawmakers. theyre working on a plan to repeal and replace obama care. its not easy. but two republican senators have a different idea for reform. that gives some of the power back to the states, thats in their plan. louisiana senator one of the sponsors of the cassidy collins patient freedom act is here. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you, bill. >> bill: your town, mardi gras. >> i have...

Could sign it. hes been pushing for a republican president. now he says he has one. i talked to him about the differences that exist on the republican side with regard to health care. theres a lot of division about how this should go. he said, do you know what? theres only one thing that matters. are you on the side of putting a bill on the presidents desk that he can sign, yes or no? in other words, do you want to repeal obama care or not? and if you do, youre gonna have to get in line. >> bill...

Reform, appealing and replacing obama care, rebuilding the nations infrastructure and more. house speaker paul ryan calls this a once in a generation opportunity to tackle big problems in this country. >> we can fix our broken tax code so that rates go down and growth goes up. we can fix our regulatory system so that it protects us instead of punishes us. and we can secure our border and rebuild our military for the 21st century. >> reporter: some of the sausage making here on capitol hill is no...

Based upon the investigations that have already been conducted. there was an intelligence community investigation last year. the house republicans have been doing an investigation for quite a while on russia itself through the intelligence committee and we have a bipartisan investigation through the house intelligence committee >> bill: do you think this goes anywhere? no evidence so far. they want to investigate the leakers as well. how big of a deal is this, do you think? >> the ranking member...

This is really fantastic. >> bill: grand sum of one hour, you have two executive orders and two bills signed into law there in the oval office at the white house. capitol hill behind me. some question whether or not the partisan divide in the audience tonight will mean open objections on the speech. thats something were watching for. protesters, they can be taken out. members of the house and senate cannot. mike emanuel is with us. live on the hill. so what are republicans expecting from the spe...

Whats the incentive for democrats to behave nicely tonight? as youve seen in the town halls over the last week the democratic base wants a fight. theres going to be about 200 democrats, one of them is gonna give their base what they want. >> i doubt it. i dont think so. i think the democrats are going to be grinning and bearing it all the way, gritting their teeth, hoping to get through it as quick as they can. i do think youre going to hear a lot of enthusiasm from republicans in the hall. >> b...

So thats who i am. >> bill: why not hang out in the aisle? its great face time. and you get a few, get a few moments there with the president. >> i didnt do it for face time when i sat close to the aisle or on the aisle. i did it to hello to the president and tell him some beautiful words that i never had the chance to tell him. he would tell me back. we had a good relationship. and who knows, maybe in a few years ill have that kind of relationship with the sitting president. i doubt it. >> bill...

>> bill: okay, bill cassidy, we will see if you get to hear what youre listening for tonight. >> thank you, bill. >> bill: have a great lent. nations security on the line. considering president trumps nominee for director of national intelligence. why he is likely to fine himself caught in the middle of a political fire storm over russia. we are back in a moment, live in washington, right after this.