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Leaders gave up trying to hold a vote on their bill. Our Lisa Desjardins has been at the capitol all day, and begins our coverage. I will not sugarcoat this; this is a disappointing day for us. Reporter after a dramatic week of will they or wont they, republicans selected wont, pulling their sweeping Health Care Bill shortly before a scheduled vote, when it clearly was short of the support it needed. Moving from an Opposition Party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, were feeling those growing pains today. We came really close today but we came up short. Doing big things is hard. All of us, all of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment. Reporter the House Speaker then acknowledged the resulting reality. Obamacare remains the law of the land, indefinitely. We were very close. Reporter President Trump pointed to a lack of democratic support and said hes open to discussing another bill. But for now, health care will stay as it is. Ive been saying for the last year and a half, that the best thing we can do politically is let obamacare explode, and it is exploding right now. Reporter this, after a wild 24 hours of promises and pressure, with Vice President pence meeting with the conservative Freedom Caucus today, and the white house standing by an ultimatum President Trump issued last night that if the bill failed, he would not return to the issue. Press secretary sean spicer, today. I know that the president s made it clear. This is the effort. This was the train leaving the station, and that he expects everyone that this is our opportunity. Reporter republicans also dangled some carrots, adding new changes last night to win votes. For moderates, they revived a medicare tax on the wealthy, using the proceeds to help states increase health coverage. And for conservatives, a repeal of the Affordable Care acts guarantee of basic, essential benefits things like e. R. Visits, prescriptions and preventative care. Removing the essential benfits did sway some members. Joe barton of texas that is a big win for conservative values, so i am now a yes vote. Reporter others refused to budge, including bartons fellow texan, louie gohmert. The president shouldnt give any more energy. This was up to us. It was not up to him. And im grateful to him for spending as much effort and as hard as he did. Reporter more nos came from the ranks of moderates. The chair of house appropriations, new jerseys rodney frelinghuysen, cited cuts to medicaid funding. At the white house, President Trump said this morning he has no regrets. Did you rush it, do you think . No. Reporter he also said he had full faith in speaker ryan moving forward. But by early afternoon, ryan was at the white house, delivering the grim news on the bills prospects. Democrats, meanwhile, pointed to the republicans disunity. They were so focused on embarrassing the Affordable Care act rather than trying to improve it. Reporter three months into their control of government, republicans have a central political and policy platform to rebuild. And this is a seismic moment. Speaker ryan say, nonetheless, hes moving to the next big mountain to climb, tax reform, even though accomplishing tax reform will now be harder, judy, because they dont have the savings he was hoping for from healthcare reform. Woodruff so, lisa, a lot of finishing pointing going on. What is your reading from talking to all the people youve talked to about why they couldnt get this done . I want to set aside the blame game, there is a lot of that, and focus on three things. I talked to chairman greg walden, one to have the cosponsors of the bill, he felt the goalposts kept moving among conservatives and mordz. Another, republicans have a large conference but with that comes large differences in policies and couldnt bridge those. Third, the time line was a big factor. The republicans shot for the moon trying to pass a massive bill in three weeks. That didnt leave breathing room for serious concerns and thats why i think we saw this bill fail. Woodruff what are republicans saying about what they think the im cases are for their party . Theyre worried about018. Democrats would need a sweep to retake the house, but for the first time, i had two different republican members tell me today theyre worried that sweep is possible and its not just about their individual elections, judy, but this takes the kind of air out, all the energy out from conservative causes across the board. They have been campaigning on this up and down, nonprofits, politicians, for seven years, and theyre just not sure where the energy will come from for all of these groups that have been pushing for conservative causes for years. Woodruff quickly, what about speaker ryan himself . How is he affected by this . Actually, i think speaker ryan is doing okay. Julia spoke to members of the Freedom Caucus who had nothing but good things to say about speaker ryan. Also, doesnt look like anyone else wants his job right now. Woodruff interesting. Lisa desjardins at the capitol, we thank you. And now, a view from the white house today. Reporter robert costa of the Washington Post interviewed the president as the bill was being pulled from consideration. And robert joins me now. Robert, the president called your cell phone. What did he say . In arlington, it was a blocked number. He said, bob, im pulling the bill. He just met with House Speaker ryan. The vote werent there. He said about 5 to 12 votes away. He said hes ready to move on. Hes going to not hold the bill, hes going to wait, in his words, for it to explode. Woodruff he said to the pool of reporters in the oval office that the next move is up to the democrats. Is that your sense of what theyre looking for, or are they just shoving it to the side now . He seems to be open to a bipartisan deal. Well see if that emerges. Youre kind of a nonideological president even though youre a republican, maybe youre more natural down the road doing something with the democrats. He said a lot of people may say that, said it with a chuckle. Whether the democrats may be willing to work with the president , well see. I thought it was striking, he was even tempered and i said, you have been in the presidency 60 days, whats the lesson here . He said, another day in paradise. Woodruff he didnt give a sense of regret or something he h or his party did that had gone wrong . Not a bid bit of regret. Defiance was the tone. Even tempered but defiant. He said if the premiums rise by 1 pun hrs h, 70 or 200 , just publish the story at the post. He said hes going to blame the democrats. Very partisan and political. I said did you blame the speaker . Youre the newcomer to washington. Leeh said three times, i dont blame paul. Woodruff so revealing. Robert costa. You will be hosting Washington Week later tonight on pbs. 8 00. Woodruff well be watching. And in the days other news the state department issued a permit to build the longdelayed keystone x. L. Pipeline. The 8 billion project would allow oil to be piped from canada to the texas gulf coast. President obama had rejected the project mainly for environmental reasons, but in the oval office today, President Trump said reversing that decision puts the countrys Economic Security first. Its a great day for american jobs, and a historic moment for north america and energy independence. This announcement is part of a new era of American Energy policy that will lower costs for American Families and very significantly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and create thousands of jobs right here in america. Woodruff the oil industry hailed the decision. Environmental groups vowed to keep fighting the pipeline. A federal judge in virginia ruled today in favor of the president s revised travel ban. The judge rejected arguments by muslim plaintiffs who said the ban was discriminatory. That directly contradicts federal courts in maryland and hawaii that blocked the order. The split increases the likelihood that the issue will end up before the u. S. Supreme court. In london, police have made two more arrests in wednesdays terror attack that killed four people near parliament. They have taken ten people into custody since 52yearold Khalid Masood drove an s. U. V. Into pedestrians, before being killed himself. Security was tight again today around the site of the attack. Meanwhile, jewish, christian and muslim faith leaders gathered outside Westminster Abbey for a minute of silence. There may be a new migrant disaster in the mediterranean. A spanish aid Group Reports that hundreds are feared dead in three possible sinkings off libya. Rescue workers were out today, hunting for survivors. The search began after they came across bodies in the water. Yesterday at 6 30 in the morning, we found the first body, and four more of Young African migrants from ages between 16 and 25. Then we found also the wrecks of two boats. We guess there might be around 200 people missing. Woodruff so far this year, almost 600 people have died trying to cross the mediterranean to europe. More than 5,000 perished in 2016, that was the deadliest year ever. Salvage crews in south korea today finished raising a sunken ferry that killed more than 300 people in 2014. Then, two barges began towing the ferry to a transport vessel that will take it to a port for inspection. Most of the victims of the sinking were High School Students on a trip. Ousted egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been released after six years in custody. Mubarak, now 88, had been tried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the arab spring revolt in 2011. Earlier this month, egypts Top Appeals Court cleared him. The former leader held power for 30 years before being overthrown. Back in this country, the House Intelligence Committees probe of russian contacts with Trump Campaign advisors erupted into fresh acrimony today. Republican chair devin nunes called off a public hearing next tuesday, with former Intelligence Agency leaders. Instead, he said the panel needs to hear again from leaders of the f. B. I. And National Security agency, in a closed session. Until we can get them in a closed session, its not going to be worth it having the open session. So all members have a chance to interview them and hold a hearing in the closed session. Woodruff the committees ranking democrat, adam schiff, quickly challenged the decision and disputed the chairmans explanation. There must have been strong pushback from the white house about the nature of mondays hearing. Its hard for me to come to any other conclusion about why an agreedupon hearing would be canceled. Clearly it had to do with events of this week. Woodruff earlier this week, nunes drew heat for briefing the president that some Trump Transition Communications were intercepted, without first telling committee democrats. Today, nunes also announced that former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort will appear voluntarily before the committee. Well get back to all of this, little later in the program. Its being reported that President Trump will continue to get Financial Reports on his business empire. Forbes magazine quotes the president s son, eric, as saying that he will likely provide quarterly updates. Before taking office, the president announced that he would separate himself from his companies to avoid any conflicts of interest. A North Carolina man who fired an assaultstyle rifle inside a washington pizzeria pleaded guilty today to weapons charges. Edgar welch told police he drove from North Carolina last december to investigate a bogus online conspiracy theory. It claimed that the pizza shop, named comet ping pong, was home to a child sex ring involving Hillary Clinton. And, wall street closed out its worst week since the election. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost nearly 60 points today to close at 20,596. The nasdaq rose 11 points, and the s p 500 slipped about two. For the week, all three indexes were down 1 to 1. 5 . Still to come on the newshour whats next in the health care debate; how investigating connections between the Trump Campaign and russia split the House Intelligence Committee; mark shields and david brooks take on this busy week of news, and much more. Woodruff so, where do members of congress go from here on health care . I spoke earlier with democratic representative tim ryan of ohio. Congressman ryan, welcome. What do you make of all this . Its been a very interesting day, judy. You know, a lot going on here on the hill, but clearly the republicans did not have the cohesiveness, the plan that was going to move this piece of legislation forward, and i think the plan really, in so many ways, was a disastrous. It was knocking 24 Million People off their healthcare. That became something a lot of members werent willing to go home and defend. The repealing out of the stance abuse coverage, the Mental Health coverage. For people who have to go back to districts and states that are seeing one to have the greatest heroin and drug epidemics in history happening right before their eyes, that becomes tough to vote for when it hits the the ground in ohio and other states who are having stance abuse epidemics happening. Woodruff speaker ryan said to the press a couple of minutes ago that the real disaster is obamacare, the current Affordable Care act, that he says its something thats cllapsing of its on weight, premiums are going up. He said a third of the counties in the country have only one plan to choose from. Well, there are some issues with the Affordable Care act that we made gate strides, we covered 20 Million People, we are bending the cost curve in the long term, many people have the coverage ce talked about, Mental Health, substance abuse, prenatal care, all the things that save you money in the long run, those are in the Affordable Care act. Lets fix the things we need to fix. Part of the problem is the republicans gutted payments to the Insurance Companies that would have allowed them to participate in the riskier areas. We needed coverage in those areas but you needed to help the Insurance Company so you wouldnt lose money. The republicans gutted the insurance transfer payments and thats when the companies started to leave. Youre saying its not working in those areas, its because they cut the funding to those areas. Lets fix the problems. There are problems there. Im not ashamed to admit it. We passed a great piece of legislation that had flaws. Lets sit down, democrats and republicans and make this thing work. Woodruff is your party prepared to do that and are the republicans prepared to do that . Im not speaking on behalf of my entire party but im willing to sit down and said weve made great strides, there are issues, im willing to sit down and try to fix them. We should have universal coverage that should be affordable for everybody. Heres the this t thing, and i hope republicans would be willing to sit down and do it. They have been complaining about obamacare for years and they cant pass an attempt to fix it and i think it was because it was making it worse is why it didnt pass, but hears the thing, we tier United States of america, wealthiest country in the world yet 37t 37th in health care delivery. We spend two times more than other developed countries spend on mct. Clearly were not doing something right. We have to move more in the way of prevention, make sure people are healthier. We have to have improved on the food system. Woodruff so when President Trump says this is the democrats fault, whats your answer . Well, were not even in the majority in the house of representatives. How could it possibly be our fault . He has complete control of the house of representatives, theyre all republicans, and he couldnt even get the republicans to pass it, and its typical donald trump, hes going to find somebody to blame, so hes going to blame the democrats. I