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It would also cut subsidies to purchase of Health Insurance and allows states to effectively eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions. It would defund planned for a year. Roundtable we will host a roundtable with john mcdonough, steffie woolhandler, and dr. Willie parker. Then to south sudan where a government Ethnic Cleansing Campaign threatens to into the country. I crossed into uganda at the beginning of this year when government soldiers started attacking us. We just heard gunshots and took to the forest for safety. I children and grandchildren scattered off in Different Directions and we were reunited just recently in this camp. Amy we will speak with journalist nick turse about his new article ghost nation. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. After weeks of secret negotiations, republican senators thursday released a Health Care Bill that would reduce key benefits for millions of americans. The Better Care Reconciliation Act would find a Large Capital gains tax cut for the rich by removing millions of low income and disabled people from medicaid. According to the center on budget policy priorities, 33 billion dollars of the tax cuts would benefit the 400 wealthiest u. S. Households. The senate bill would also reduce subsidies to individuals to Purchase Health insurance and would allow states to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions. The measure would defund planned parenthood for a year, making breastcancer screenings and basic Reproductive Services more difficult for women to get. The bill was negotiated behind closed doors the between 13 republican male senators. This is Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. To freereed on the need americans from obamacares mandates and policies contained in the discussion draft will repeal the individual mandate so americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they dont need or cant afford. We will repeal the employer mandate so americans no longer see their hours and takehome pay cut by employers. Amy senator mcconnell claimed the bill would strengthen medicaid. In fact, it would cut the federal Health Program by more than 800 billion over a decade, this is new york democrat and Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. This is a bill designed to strip away Health Care Benefits and protections from americans who need it most in order to give a tax break to the folks who need it least. This is a bill that would in the it,caid as we know roll back Medicaid Expansion, cut federal support for the program even more than the house bill which cut medicaid by 800 billion. Amy senator mcconnell says he wants to vote on the Health Care Bill next week before congress leaves for the fourth of july recess. Republicans can only afford to lose two boats for the measure to pass with 50 votes. Saidrepublican senators thursday they will oppose the bill in its current form, arguing it feels to cut medicaid benefits enough post of the bill is similar to the house measure that would leave more than 20 million americans without Health Insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has yet to score the current health. We will have more on the Senate Health care plan after headlines. Outside senator Mitch Mcconnells office on capitol hill thursday, scores of disabled protesters held a sitin protest against the republican healthcare bill. Many of them chanted, no cuts to medicaid as Capitol Police dragged them away onebyone. One woman was lifted from her wheelchair by four officers after she went limp in a nonviolent protest. Protesters also rallied at washington d. C. s National Airport thursday, targeting republican lawmakers as they left town for their home states. This is protester barbara bearden. All ofe hoping to catch the senators on the recount before they get home. We would like to remind them of what is waiting for them more protest, more request for town halls, and more calls. Amy in more news from washington, d. C. , President Trump said thursday he does not have tapes of his conversations with former fbi director james comey, whom trp fired amid an fbi probe into alleged russian meddling in novembers election. In a twitter rant last month, trump threatened comey over the possibility of taped conversations, tweeting james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press in a pair of tweets thursday, President Trump tweeted with all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, i have no idea tapes orere are recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. The tweets came as nbc news reported trump asked director of National Intelligence dan coats and nsa chief Admiral Mike Rogers to state publicly that the president had not colluded with russian officials to interfere in novembers election. Coats reportedly told house investigators that trump was obsessed with the russia investigation. The white house thursday held the latest in a series of not for broadcast press briefings in which it attempted to ban reporters from recording video or audio and in a new twist, tried to bar them from even reporting on the restriction. A press schedule emailed to white house correspondents wednesday included the tag line, for planning purposes only. Not reportable. Meanwhile, a pair of Government Accountability groups has sued the Trump Administration over its use of encrypted messaging apps, saying their use circumvents the president ial records act. Top white house officials reportedly use the confide app, which automatically deletes messages after a set period of time. In a statement, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington said the American People not only deserve to know how their government is making important decisions, its the law. A new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Charges police in washington, d. C. , used sexual abuse as a form of punishment after hundreds were arrested during protests against Donald Trumps inauguration on january 20. A complaint by four plaintiffs charges officers stripped them, grabbed their genitalia, and inserted fingers into their anuses while other officers laughed. One of the plaintiffs, photojournalist shay horse, said i felt like they were using molestation and rape as punishment. They used those tactics to inflict pain and misery on people who are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. In a statement, d. C. S Metropolitan Police department promised an investigation but defended its officers actions, saying all arrests on january 20 were proper. In yemen, the United Nations warned thursday an epidemic of cholera could reach 300,000 cases by the end of the month. U. N. Emergency relief coordinator Stephen Obrien said the spread of the oftendeadly disease is entirely preventable. This is because of conflict. It is manmade. The numbers are absolutely staggering. It is getting worse. The color elements, in addition to all of the lack of food, lack of medical supplies for people, is, of course, primarily one has to put that at the door of all of the parties of the conflict. Amy the warnings over cholera came as the u. N. s humanitarian coordinator called on a u. S. Backed, saudiled military coalition to halt airstrikes in yemen, citing mounting civilian deaths and the june 19 targeting of the main water supply system in dhamar city, which affected people. One million in iraq, Prime Minister Haider Alabadi predicted thursday that u. S. Backed iraqi forces were nearing a victory in their battle to reclaim the city of mosul from isis. The remarks came a day after the historic al nuri grand mosque was reduced to rubble. Isis claims the mosque was destroyed by a u. S. Airstrike, though the u. S. And iraqi officials said Surveillance Video proved it was packed with explosives by isis and deliberately blown up. This is Prime Minister alabadi. We will soon announce the final victory over the enemy isis and in mosul city in particular. God willing. Little resistance remains. Isis will soon announce its folder beat. They blew up the mosque, which was the starting place of their movement. Amy the u. N. Estimates as many as 150,000 people remain trapped in mosuls old city amid heavy airstrikes and housetohouse fighting. The journalistic Monitoring Group airwars reported Four Brothers othman, bakr, omar and ali were killed along with their entire family by Iraqi Government shelling in mosuls old city. Meanwhile, airwars reports six civilians were killed and several others injured in alleged Coalition Airstrikes in raqqa, syria. Airwars also reported that strikes in the Eastern Province of deir ezzor killed up to 16 civilians tuesday, with different sources blaming russia, syria, and the u. S. Led coalition for the deaths. Meanwhile, the syrian city of deraa came under heavy bombardment thursday from forces loyal to president bashar alassad, who reportedly dropped barrel bombs from helicopters. In the united kingdom, the conservative government of Prime Minister theresa may has ordered inspections of 600 highrise buildings across britain after a massive fire in grenfell last week left at least 79 people dead and injured dozens more. Workers were seen removing highly flammable cladding from a tower in north london thursday. The materials are similar to those used in the grenfell tower, despite the fact the cladding is banned in the u. S. And europe. The Trump Administration thursday said it will remove grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National park from protection under the endangered species act. Interior secretary ryan zinkes order will impact yellowstones estimated 700 bears, whose population has grown from 136 when the bears were first listed as endangered in 1975. In response, the center for biological diversity said its tragic that the Trump Administration is stripping protections from these magnificent animals just to appease a tiny group of trophy hunters who want to stick grizzly bear heads on their walls. President trumps two adult sons, eric and donald, jr. , are longtime trophy hunters whove been repeatedly photographed alongside dead animals, including a leopard and an elephant. President trump has renewed his push for an expanded wall on the u. S. Mexico border, telling a crowd in iowa he wanted ad solar panels to the length of the structure to help pay for it. Trump made the remarks wednesday in a campaignstyle event in cedar rapids. Pres. Trump we are talking about the southern border. Lots of sun, lots of heat. Were thinking about building the wall as a solar wall so he creates energy and pays for itself. And this way, mexico will have to pay much less money. And thats good. Right . Amy as president , donald trump has proposed massive cuts to research on renewable energy, has greenlighted the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines, and has moved to open up vast areas of federal land to coal, oil and gas development. In climate news, the World Meteorological Organization Warns planet earth is in the midst of another exceptionally warm year with heat waves arriving far earlier than normal in a pattern thats consistent with climate change. Parts of north africa and the middle east saw temperatures top 122 degrees fahrenheit this week. Palm springs, california, tied that mark, setting an alltime high. Meanwhile in paris, france, highs reached 100 degrees thursday. In bolivia, scientists a they are in a race to sample ice from meltinggreg sugars glaciers before Global Warming erases thousands of years worth of records on earths climate. Glaciologists with the ice memory project took ice cores from the illimani mountain in bolivias andes, noting the glacier was almost a full degree warmer than a previous sample. This is scientist patrick ginot. We can prove the temperature of the glaciers risen. 7 degrees centigrade in 18 years. This glacier, and 6500 meters above sea level, will heat of bit by bit and with Global Warming, it will lose all of the information that were going to take from these ice samples. That is why we cannot wait 10 more years. Amy worldwide, at least 200 Million People depend on glaciers for Drinking Water and are at risk of being left without water due to melting ice. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. After weeks of secret deliberations, republican senators released a healthcare thursday proposal that would reduce key benefits for millions of americans. The Better Care Reconciliation Act would find a Large Capitalgains tax cut for the rich by removing millions of lowincome and disabled people from medicaid. According to the center of budget policy priorities, 33 billion of the tax cuts would benefit the 400 wealthiest u. S. Households. The senate bill would also reduce subsidies to individuals to Purchase Health insurance and would allow states to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions. The measure would defund planned parenthood for a year, making breastcancer screenings and basic Reproductive Services more difficult for women to secure. While drafting the legislation, President Trump had called on republicans to improve the house plan by giving it more heart. The bill was negotiated behind closed doors between 13 Republican White Male senators. This is Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. We agreed on the need to free americans from obamacares mandate the policies contained in the discussion draft will repeal the individual mandate so americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they dont need or cant afford. It will repeal the employer mandate so americans no longer see their hours and take all pay cut by employers. Amy senator mcconnell says he wants to vote on the healthcare bill next week before congress leaves for the 4th of july recess. Republicans can only afford to lose two votes for the measure to pass with 50 votes. Four republican senators rand paul, ted cruz, ron johnson, mike lee said thursday theyll oppose the bill in its current form, arguing it fails to cut medicaid benefits enough. The bill is similar to a house measure that would leave more than 20 million americans without Health Insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has yet to score the senate bill. Democrats are firmly united against the bill. This is Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. This is a bill designed to strip away benefits of productions from americans who need it most in order to give a tax break to the folks who need it least. This is a bill that would in medicaid as we know it, rolling back Medicaid Expansion, cutting federal support for the program even more than the house bill which cut medicaid by 800 billion. Amy this comes as scores of disabled protesters held a sitin protest outside senator Mitch Mcconnells office on capitol hill and demonstrators thursday gathered at washington, d. C. s National Airport to target republican lawmakers as they left town for their home states. Also on thursday, barack obama weighed in on efforts to scale back his Signature Healthcare law. He posted a scathing statement on facebook that said the senate bill, unveiled today, is not a Health Care Bill. Its a massive transfer of wealth from middleclass and poor families to the richest people in america. For more, we host a roundtable discussion with three guests. Joining us from boston is john mcdonough, a professor at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He served as a Senior Adviser on National Health reform to the u. S. Senate committe