Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2017

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier March 23, 2017

John roberts is on the north lawn. White house aides were planning to get the lights on late for an impending vote that will be happening tonight. We will get the latest and we begin with mike emanuel with the latebreaking action on capitol hill. Good evening. House leaders hoped to vote to repeal and replace obamacare but lacking enough yes votes, the talks continue and perhaps a final vote will come tomorrow. Tension builds, and so does frustration. This is one of those moments where youve got to say who you really are deep inside of you. Are you for President Trump and repealing and replacing obamacare . Or are you against President Trump and you are against repealing and replacing obamacare. The dilemma for paul ryan, conservatives have been pushing for eliminating socalled essential Health Benefits which required Insurance Companies to provide coverage for maternity care, prescription drugs, and mental health. Negotiations continue. With the Freedom Caucus, they are trying to get to yes. Thats why we met for such a long time. It was at times not contentious but very rigorous debate. Endangering moderate support. Nancy pelosi sent a letter to colleagues blasting ryan and the bill, writing the speaker because their bill an act of mercy. Its a moral monstrosity. A pelosi took aim at the president. May be a great negotiator, ricky error for bringing this up when youre not ready. Also writing we hope you will take us off on our sincere offer to improve health care for all americans. The top democrat piled on. To rush through a bill for a Campaign Promise thats fraught with problems and difficulty. Many of which will maybe not come to light until after the bill comes of the floor, its the wrong thing to do. The day started with conservatives trying to negotiate. If we get an agreement that brings down the cost of premium premiums, weve been clear about this from the getgo. Committee chairman says republicans are united on much of the bill. I think there is 95 agreement on the conservative bill on the house but in washington the last 5 matters. G. O. P. Leaders hope for a floor vote today in the house for a reason. Seventh anniversary of obamacare, americans deserve a better way forward. Thankfully we finally have a congress and the president who are committed to delivering muchneeded reform. The congressional budget offices out with a revised estimate. It says essentially it would provide about the same amount of deficit reduction, substantially less deficit reduction in the original bill and about the same number coverage losses. Moving target. Wheeling and dealing continues. Bret this is the managers amendment and the changes could have been coming all along. Mike, thank you. The vote to repeal and a place obamacare could have big implications for President Trump who has consistently promised to get rid of his predecessors Legacy Health care law. And has often touted his own ability as a businessman to close a deal. President worked the phone survey and in person to try to do that, john roberts joins us from the north lawn with the mood at the white house that this vote has been postponed, possibly as we said, for friday. Good evening. President trump is the architect and author of the art of the deal. Republican leaders are saying the fate of the health care of bill is in the president s hand hands. Its up to him to put the deal together. The long haul trucks may have been a metaphor for President Trump finding the votes. Steele, adil remains elusive. Meeting with truckers and ceos today, the president made his case. I know you had a big problem with obamacare and everybody does so welcome to the crowd. Convincing truckers seemed easy. The group the president cant seem to win over as the House Freedom caucus. President trump invited caucus members to the white house toda today. They came and went without a deal. Left to the press secretary to put a positive spin on it. Some members in the meeting who told the president i am with you now and member by member, thats how theyre going to vote. We have continued to see that number arise. White house believes its only a matter of time and negotiation until the president can cobble together the votes. President trump has ordered up something changes. He is looking at excising the Regulatory Framework of the bill, including the provisions for minimum essential Health Benefits. Part of the reapremiums havee under obamacare there were these mandated services that had to be included. What happened was older men, older women past maternity aides were buying benefits that were necessary for them. People at the younger end of the age scale were buying endoflife benefits paid the problem with cutting regulations is the bill may run afoul of the byrd rule. Limits changes made to a reconciliation bill. White house may have found a way around it. To eliminate the subsidies, they need to eliminate the real chelations eliminate the regulations. The president is putting pressure on Republican House members to back his plan. On tuesday, telling them they could lose their majority in 2018. Today launching a Twitter Campaign to have voters call their Congress Member and urge them to vote yes. Go with our plan. Its going to be terrific. Youre going to be very, very happy. Call your local representative. Call your senator. Let them know you are behind our plan. If the president hopes to get the Freedom Caucus on board, hes going to have to get more, give more to conservatives. The more he gives to the Freedom Caucus, the more he risk alienating moderate republicans who are also up for reelection in 2018. Bret thank you. More on this with the panel paired we may know more tomorrow about who was caught up in surveillance after the november election and whether the identities of anyone with the trump or clinton campaigns revealed or unmasked. All of this as the House Intelligence Committee chairmans decision to go public with new intelligence reports is further dividing the committee. Catherine herridge joins us with what we could learn tomorrow. The bipartisan request goes to march and while the cia and fbi have not responded, nsa has provided information. The chairman apologized for briefing the white house before lawmakers. As members of the House Intelligence Committee met, the republican chairman told reporters he has an obligation to protect the source. Reports generated about the trump Transition Team. We have to keep our sources quiets. Ive told the American Public we want people to come to us to bring us information if they have it. Congressional staffers that they reports were separate from the rush up road russia probe. Another hypothesis is based on reversed targeting, an illegal practice where a government targets citizens. After criticism he briefed President Trump before the committee, the congressman stood by his decision. It was a judgment call. At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision. Sometimes you make the wrong one but youve got to stick by the decisions you make. Ranking democrats have the probe is tarnished. We cant have our chair acting as a surrogate for the administration. He has to have the surrogate role or the chairman role but not both. Democrats said the timing is suspicious. President s fox interview about the wiretapping allegation. I am of the opinion this is orchestrated either from the white house or possibly someone associated with the white house. If you look at the statement made by the president. We will be submitting things before the committee. Hasnt been submitted as of yet but its potentially very serious. Spokesman said the reports were new and reporters should focus on content. Whether he briefed us first or the democratic members, and thats up to him, the substance of what he shared should be troubling to everybody. Thats what i think its important. Public hearing scheduled for tuesday. Former intelligence officials. Fox news is told the witnesses list is fluid. Bret isis is claiming responsibility for wednesdays horrific attack that killed four people in london. Today belgian officials arrested a man suspected of a similar attack. In the last half hour, we found out a fourth person had died from yesterdays attack. He 75yearold man. They have taken him off life support. 29 wounded, six remain critical. The flags in britain flew at halfstaff today is the country remembered yesterdays brutal terror attack. Earlier this morning, members of parliament met to offer condolences. Theresa may saying the country would not bow to terrorism. We are not afraid, and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism. We meet here in the oldest of all parliaments because we know that democracy and the values it entails will always prevail. Police begin piecing together the events. Isis news agency. Claiming responsibility. Police revealed the identity of the gunmen, khalid masood. Born in britain and had a spate of arrests for weapons and assault. He had been under investigation for extremism. The government claims he had dropped off the radar. Today Police Arrested seven suspects and major, mainly in birmingham. It is the city from which more terrorists have come in the u. K. Than any other. Police continue to claim he operated alone. Victims came from 11 different countries, including germany, china, south korea, france, ireland, italy, greece, and tragically also an american. Kurt cochran, 54, from utah. He was visiting london with his wife to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and visit her parents. They were hit on the bridge and she remains in critical condition. President trump tweeted condolences today saying a Great American kurt cochran was killed in the london terror attacks. Prayers and condolences with his family and friends. Similar outpourings from around the world. Many people saying this not only as an attack on the u. K. Parliament but an attack on western values. Bret in belgium, an incident involving a vehicle. Thats right, similar attack which was foiled. This time in antwerp, belgium. Man attempting to drive his car at high speed through a crowd. The crowd found to contain weapons in the military uniform. Seems as though an attack there was thwarted. The vehicles used as weapons seems to be a new favorite devices. Bret Benjamin Hall live in london. U. S. State department ordering a american embassies and consulates to formulate criteria for certain population sets that should get extra screening when applying for visas. Associative state department declined to comment on the repod its working to put in place enhanced vetting. Pentagon is keeping a close eye on north korea as u. S. Officials tell fox news north korea is in the final stages of preparing for another nuclear test. Senior defense officials believe a test could come within the next few days. In response, the u. S. Has moved a Surveillance Aircraft to patrol the korean peninsula. Murder of a former russian lawmaker being called an act of terrorism by ukraines presiden president. He was shot dead today by a gunman outside a hotel in kiev. Former russian lawmaker moved to ukraine last fall and is said to have testified about russian aggression. The president of ukraine said the killing has the hallmarks of Russian Special services. The kremlin rejects the accusation. As he confronts a volatile world, President Trump has sought quietly, sometimes directly, other times through aides to shore up relations with key allies paid one of them is saudi arabia. Today in an interview with james rosen, the Saudi Foreign minister takes stock of the new president and his predecessor. Closing out the second year as saudi arabias top diplomat, his excellency, former ambassador to the united states, told fox news in an exclusive interview that the u. S. Saudi relationship has reached a historic high point. What do you make of donald trump . I believe he his and exceptional human being. He understands the importance of having america play a role in the world. We have communicated in no Uncertain Terms with every player in the region that its a redline for us. One president obama declined to enforce the red line, americas arab allies responded with disbelief and anger. The foreign minister avoided direct criticism but Adel Aljubeir said the former president brought relations to a new low. When theres a vacuum, evil forces flow into the vacuum. We saw the iranians doubling down in syria. We saw north korea opening up a Second Nuclear reactor. We believe those may not have happened had the redline been respected. The nuclear deal that was negotiated with tehran had a negative effect. After the agreement was signed, we saw more intensive terrorist activity. The iranians have to understand the Nuclear Agreement does not shield them from retaliation by the world for violating the Ballistic Missile accords or violating human rights or supporting terrorism. The saudis see President Trump taking a harder line. I believe they will be less forgiving of irans violations of the missile accord and threats to maritime security. I believe they will be strict in enforcing the Nuclear Agreement. The royal family is enacting reforms to make government more transparent. To allow women to participate more freely in society and reduce the countrys dependence on oil revenue. The kingdom is preparing what may prove the largest initial Public Offering in history for the Saudi State Oil form. Our objective is to try to complete the ipo sometime in 2018. Serious discussions with the New York Stock Exchange about having the New York Stock Exchange have the one of the exchanges for the ipo. With respect to yemen where a Saudiled Coalition has spent two years battling rebel forces backed by iran, i asked the foreign minister what the endgame is. He told me victory. With the support of the Trump Administration which has approved the resumption of weapon sales, the minister said we expect we will be able to wrap it up soon. Bret thank you. Up next, new details on the case in maryland of accused Illegal Immigrants raping a teenage girl at a high school. Fox 29 in philadelphia, the citys beverage tax brought in nearly 6. 5 million in february. This is the second month of the tax on sweetened beverages and the city has collected more than 12 million in revenue. Fox 40, utahs republican governor says he plans to sign legislation making the states dui law the strictest in the country. The measure lowers the blood alcohol limit to. 05 from. 08. New law would take effect before new years eve 2018. Live look at tampa from fox 13. Big story, brush fire near Georgia State line that investigators believe was started by man burning books in his yard. Burned several homes. They say the man who started the fire will be held financially responsible for damages. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be rightip back. N. Miralax is different. It works with the water in your body to hydrate and soften. Unblocking your system naturally. Miralax. Bret lawmakers work to get votes to repeal and replace obamacare. Many of you at home may be wondering how this bill affects you. Casey stegall reports from dallas on some of the Big Questions and what some of our viewers hope of replacement plan could mean. Thursday in dallas, the rat race is just beginning. Just another thursday for so many. For others, there is nothing typical about it. Im waiting for a liver transplant. A few miles from monday and routines outside one of the largest Hospital Systems in texas, comes as no surprise that health care hits mighty close to home. I was scared i wouldnt be able to get insurance. Its a preexisting condition. People have questions and concerns about what happens next. One item on the table is the Medicaid Expansion which could hurt low income americans. My medications are well over 400 a month. I dont know how i would pay for it. Drawing 733 a month. After the first surgery, there just isnt anymore. Thomas keith is a cancer survivor. Today he is here for test results. Doctors think his cancer is back. At a certain point, someones health goes bad. Hes over the age of 60. Lawmakers are considering whether to allow Insurance Companies to charge higher premiums for patients 60 and above. Even that is uncertain. With my company, our rates are going up every year. There are those who have insurance through their employer. President trump has said premiums will go down if the new bill is passed. However, companies with less than 50 employees may no longer legally be required to provide such benefits under the final bill. Even though obamacare had its problems, at least you can work through it to get some kind of treatment. Each person here has a story. All unique in their own way, yet everybody appears to have the same message for their elected leaders. We need to get some common sense. We need to go back and have the republicans and democrats sit down and talk to each other. Enough is enough. If theres one aspect of the proposed law that people we met did embrace, it was eliminating the individual mandate which financially punishes people for not carrying hea

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