Done its going to be something we dont like and its okay and i understand that. I think we have a chance to do something very, very important for the public. 52 senators invited to the white house to huddle with the president after shelving one of his Signature Campaign promises. Its a complicated subject. I remember how challenging it was for the democrats when they were enacting this in 2009 and 2010. We are optimistic. I believe we will get to yes. Its going to take more discussions in the most critical question is how do we lower premiums . Chuck schumer wasnt ready to unfurl the victory banner just yet. We know the fight is not ove over. We are not resting on any laurels. Numbers for the majority leader didnt add up. Started with four senators who said they would not support the procedural motion to proceed. As the day wore on, those numbers grew, and after the bill was pulled, even more republican nos came out of the woodwork. G. O. P. Leadership was talk. Not willing to accept we are not going to be successful because i think the consequences are very bad. Democrats say mcconnell is about to start cutting deals. Senator mcconnell has a stack of chips in front of him he is going to be playing. To have a bill done in a back room with a limited number of people to give input with probably a lot of cigars and steak and whiskey is a bunch of garbage grade republicans hope to find a solution. While he was one of the original four no vote, one conservative critic told fox he just didnt want to rush it. We need to fix these collapsing markets that are obamacare. We need to drive premiums down. I want the time to consider it thoroughly and allow my constituents in wisconsin a chance to review it, provide their input and feedback. I am not asking for months but lets take a couple weeks. Leader mcconnell said he has a really good chance of getting there with health care reform. It will just take a little more time. The concern for republicans being time consent times stiff and the resistance. Bill thank you. Mike emanuel from the hill. More with the senator from wyoming still at the white house. Thank you for your time read how big of a disappointment is this . We are being deliberate. We know have to get this done for the American People. The pain of obamacare is getting worse every day. You continue to hear and see the headlines. Another obamacare rate shock. The American People cant handle this and we need to find a way to get it passed. I believe we will. We are committed to it and the president was very strong in the meeting talking about we owe it to the American People. We need to get this done. Its about health care, not about politics. Bill we saw him on camera. What did he say to you after the cameras left . He kept talking about the failure of obamacare and the fact we have an obligation to try to rescue the American People from this collapse of the Obama Health Care markets where the premiums continue to go up. They have doubled in wyoming. We only have one choice to buyback insurance. There are many counties where there is no one selling obamacare insurance. Somebody with a preexisting condition and no one willing to sell insurance, then they are not going to have insurance. Republicans are committed your protecting people with preexisting conditions. Bill how did the arguments or the promise, rather, on repealing and replacing obamacare . He was very good, very strong about the idea of the fact that obamacare is failed. There have been seven years now after obamacare has been passed into law. We see rates continuing to skyrocket, markets continuing to crumble in terms of options people have, a limited number of doctors people can go to. He said we owe it to the American People to get this right. You had every senator around the table committed to doing it. There are people who have obamacare insurance. I had a woman from wyoming into see me today was insurance but the deductible is 6,500 for her and for her husband. She said we have insurance but my husband is not going to go to the doctor. We cant use it even though we are probably counted as somebody who has insurance. Its useless to them. Bill you had at least a halfdozen senators who wouldnt go forward with a vote to move the motion for debate. Did he address their concerns specifically . The seating arrangement was fascinating. You had the senator from alaska, Susan Collins from maine, dean heller from nevada, was been the target of attack ads in his home state. Did he talk to them directly about their concerns . Each of them had an opportunity to share their concerns with the president. He listened very carefully. Hes a very good listener in meetings, and i think about 15 different republican senators had a chance to speak. He met with another group of 15 for lunch that i attended week or so ago. He is committed to getting to yes. We have republican senators committed to getting to yes because we have an obligation to the American People to deal with the fact that obamacare is going over is a bus going over the hill. Its crashing and the democrats are saying stay on the bus and we are trying to rescue people. The president is fully involved. Republican senators are committed to getting it done but there is an urgency. What we see across the country with the collapse of the insurance markets, premium skyrocketing and the predictions for next year. In some states, here in maryland, talking 58 increase. Bill this doesnt move forward with white house involvement. Do we agree on that . How would we characterize the level of involvement the president has had over the past week or two . The president has been very involved. He had a number of us for lunch last week. The Vice President has been at all of our policy lunches, a group i cheer every week. Hes been there for the last number of months. Tom price, secretary of health and Human Services has been involved. The president has been calling individual senators. We have the head of the care and Medicare Services at the meetings. We are committed to solving this problem for the American People. The American People deserve much better than theyve gotten with obamacare which has raised their premiums, cost them choices and doctors they liked. One obamacare promise after another has been broken third we need to solve this problem. Im committed to doing it and so is the president. Bill Susan Collins from maine has issues with defunding planned parenthood. This is what she said. This president is the first president in our history whos had neither political nor military experience. Thus it has been a challenge to him to learn how to interact with congress and how to push his agenda forward. Bill the comment about its been a challenge to learn how to interact with congress to molt what do you make of it . To go i thought he was totally engaged today in our meeting, listening to us, making some suggestions, having some discussions and i am encouraged leaving the white house that this is something we will get on urgency to get it done as people are seeing rates skyrocketing for next year and companies continuing to leave the market. In so many places, half of the country next year, looks like there may be only one choice. Thats not a marketplace as promised by the democrats. Thats a monopoly. Stay on democrats taking credit for the delay. We will get to that later. Senator, thank you for your time. John barrasso, republican senator from wyoming. An american president telling Bashar Alassad to back off. Late last night report surfaced that assad was prepping another chemical weapons attack. The last time he pulled the trigger, President Trump fired almost 60 missiles into his country. The latest engines are being greeted with both denials and dismissals by syria and its biggest sponsor, russia. It also comes as the u. S. Is fighting two wars in that troubled region. We have fox team coverage. Jennifer griffin at the pentago pentagon. And look at u. S. Forces fighting in iraq but we start with kevin corke at the white house. Good evening. The white house is making it plain and clear to the syrian assad regime and certainly there are stakeholders in russia and iran. The use of chemical weapons on the syrian people, specially when you consider their latest details coming out of the pentagon about a particular air base 100 miles from damascus. The statement from the white house was unmistakably direct, putting leaders in damascus, tehran, and moscow on notice. Activities similar to preparations before the april 4, 2017 chemical weapons attack. As we had previously stated, the United States is interior to eliminate the Islamic State of iraq and syria. If mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he and his military will pay a heavy price. The message a response to new activities had to have taken place at a syrian aircraft hangar Long Associated with chemical weapons. The very same base of the u. S. Military struck with 59 tomahawk cruise missiles in early april. On capitol hill, nikki haley said the u. S. Method was clear, placing the response billy for any possible american response at the feet of russia and iran. Stick with goal is not just to send assad a message like to send russia and iran a message that if this happens again, we are putting you on notice. And my hope is that the the president s warning will get russia and iran to take a second look. Syrian president Bashar Alassad visited a base in his country. A spokesman for Vladimir Putin saying certainly we consider threats to the legitimate leader unacceptable. The statement drew skepticism at the state department. Are we supposed to buy what the syrians are saying that there are no chemical weapons preparations underway . We know they have killed their own people, women and children. If they say they are not making preparations, im not certain we are going to buy it. Think of a military strike would come with the support of the United Kingdom whose defense minister said his country was ready to stand with the u. N. We supported their last strike that took out the airplanes and support they required to drop chemical weapons. If the United States is considering a similar strike, then we will support that too. Discussing this with the American Defense secretary at our next meeting in brussels on thursday. There was a bit of confusion earlier in the day about whether or not the state department was caught offguard by the president statement but white house officials insist every Relevant Agency was involved in this process from the very beginning. Bill thank you, kevin corke at the white house. This evening we continue with our on the frontline series by checking in on u. S. Forces fighting in iraq, still fighting a war there that then president obamas head was over six years ago. Here is National Security correspondent jennifer griffin. August 8, 2014, the u. S. Launch is the first air strikes against isis in iraq from the uss george h. W. Bush. Two and a half years earlier president obama had pulled all u. S. Forces out of the country, declaring the war over. Then defense secretary leon panetta was there as the American Flag lowered. He was uncomfortable with the move then and doesnt want to repeat the same mistake twice. I think the United States is going to have to have a longterm presence both in iraq and afghanistan. If we are to maintain stability. U. S. Effort in iraq dates to 1991, the first gulf war. U. S. Air force has had a near constant presence in the skies above iraq ever since. American and Coalition Forces in the early stages of military operations. March 20, 2003. President george w. Bush announces the start of the war. More than 90,000 u. S. Troops set off on their thunder run to baghdad. Saddam hussein was found, tried, and hank. They were devolved into a civil war. President bush ordered the surge of 30,000 u. S. Forces. American troop levels rose to 166,000 at its peak. The leader of todays isis movement had been jailed by u. S. And iraqi forces during those surge years. He launched his selfproclaimed caliphate in mosul in 2014, less than three years after the u. S. Troops pulled out. When there is an absence of forces, that provides a vacuum and others can go in there. Now the u. S. Has deployed about 5,000 american troops on the ground in iraq, advising iraqi forces and calling in air strikes. Another 1,000 u. S. Troops are doing the same in neighboring syria. Defense secretary jim mattis says the plan is to surround isis. We carry out the Annihilation Campaign so we dont simply transplant this problem from one location to another. Nearly 4500 u. S. Troops were killed in iraq from 2003 to 2011. More than 30,000 wounded. The uss george h. W. Bush, the same Aircraft Carrier strike group that launched the first strikes against isis, is poised in the mediterranean to the president ordered another strike should assad use chemical weapons again. Bill thank you, jennifer. Tomorrow night, on the front lines in south korea with an eye on the north. Hope to see you then. Another major cyber attack is hitting computers throughout much of the world. Russias top oil producer, ukraines power grid, and a danish shipping giant have been affected. The u. S. Drugmaker merck says its systems have been compromised. Not known who is behind the hacking. Experts say it is close to a rogue program called goldeneye that has been circulating for about a year. Two democratic covers men and one senior aide under scrutiny by the house at Ethics Committee. Peter doocy is on the hill. Good evening. When democratic lawmakers staged a dramatic sit in on the house floor last year, they said it was to raise awareness about gun control laws but now one participant is being accused of using the sit in to money for himself. New mexico democrat accused by a conservative group called the foundation for accountability and civic trust of using a photo of him sitting in this part of a fundraising flyer. His office says this announcement is the result of a frivolous complaint filed by a highly partisan outside group about activities during the sit in last year. Another democratic lawmaker the Ethics Committee is weighing action against is michigan congressman john conyers, accused of paying a staffer who had been fired. The office says this is not a new controversy but rather involves this a matter that the office of congressional ethics released back in february. A third democrat, staffer for john lewis is being looked at for potentially double dipping, getting paid by the congressmans campaign and his Congressional Office at the same time. His actions were also flagged by the conservative group. Part of the reason that they are so borten does because house members and their employees are paid with taxpayer funded salar. We expect house members and their staff to be working on official actions and doing official business rather than being paid from outside sources. None of these three democrats are under investigation yet. Their cases have been referred to the Ethics Committee which now has 45 days to decide what they want to do. Bill busy day for you, thank you. Peter doocy on the hill. Meanwhile another deadlock in the house over the budget. Republicans have canceled a planned vote this week before it was officially scheduled. Conservatives are pushing for greater Debt Reduction by trimming programs like food stamps. They are up against why dozens of republican lawmakers Want Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg to sit out all matters drop and that would include the travel ban. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you a girl with golden locks broke into a house owned by three bears. She ate some porridge, broke the baby bears chair, and stole some jewelry, a flatscreen tv, and a laptop. Luckily the Geico Insurance agency had helped the bears with homeowners insurance. They were able to replace all their items. Including a new chair from crate and barrel. Call geico and see how easy it is to switch and save on homeowners insurance. Bill dozens of republican lawmakers Want Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg to remove herself when the Court Considers cases that involve the president. That request would involve the temporary travel ban. Doug mckelway tells us why. In a letter to Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg 58 House Republicans wrote to ask the justice to recuse herself from the case involving President Trumps travel ban. It cites her public criticism of candidate trump when she said i cant imagine what this place would be. I cant imagine what this country would be with donald trump as our president. It notes she called trump a faker. Asked about a future President Trump she said i dont want to think about the possibility but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs. She later apologized. 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