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What officials are talking about is bilateral irritants, so these are the compounds, these are the Russian Diplomats who were expelled last year as part of the u. S. Response to the russian hacking, and these are not the major issues, these are not syria and ukraine, and the idea is the fewer issues you talk about the more likely you make at least a little progress. Woodruff what are the prospects they can reach any kind of agreement . Thats what the Trump Administration is trying to find, any kind of agreement. There are huge head windows politically in this country if you give back the compounds, but u. S. Officials are worried about retribution. Russia says if theres no deal in the near future, three dozen of your diplomats will be expelled and life for your diplomats in russia will get worse, and weve already seen a campaign of intimidation against u. S. Diplomats, in russia in june 2016 we saw a u. S. Diplomat in russia get beaten up and thats not what the u. S. Wants to see. Woodruff where do you see this going . Chicken and egg problem, you hack, we responded. If russia said, no, we didnt hack, you seized the compounds for no reason, we retaliate, the u. S. Says this is a new retaliation, and yet another response. No telling where that would end. The u. S. Is trying to say, look, the big issues, keep that aside. Maybe we can make some progress and save a bad relationship from getting pores. Woodruff a new aspect of the u. S. Russia relationship. Nick schifrin, thank you. Thanks. Woodruff in the days other news, officials at Princeton University insisted a chinese american grad student, jailed in iran, is innocent. Iranian courts announced sunday that xiyue wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison for spying. He was arrested last august. Princeton says wang was conducting research for his doctorate. Separately, iran announced that president Hassan Rouhanis brother, has been arrested on allegations of financial misconduct. In jordan, a soldier was sentenced today to life in prison at hard labor for killing three u. S. Army green berets. He said he fired on the military trainers last november, because he thought his base was under attack. After the sentencing today, relatives of the americans condemned the sentence, which could let the killer go free in 20 years. He gets out the day he gets out. My daughters will serve another 30 years after that without the love of their brother, and thats outrageous. I would kill him myself if i had the ability to do so, and i wish they had hung him. Woodruff the families were shown Security Camera footage of the attack. They say it shows the jordanian soldier firing for six minutes, even after the americans identified themselves. The United Nations reports the war in afghanistan is killing more civilians than ever. A new report says more than 1,600 died in the first half of this year, and some 3,500 others were wounded. It also says deaths and injuries from taliban suicide bombings rose by 15 . The taliban dismissed the report as propaganda material. The United Arab Emirates flatly denied today that it hacked into qatars state News Agency Web sites in may, and planted false stories. Four arab countries severed ties with qatar after its emir was falsely quoted as praising hamas and iran. The Washington Post reported the hack, but in london today, the u. A. E. s foreign minister pushed back. Our embassy in washington has put these denials in place, and i think this is a crisis and is a lot of rumors, a lot of false news and stories. This is going to die out. It is not true. Woodruff the f. B. I. Is working with qatar to investigate the incident. Authorities in arizona searched again today for one person still missing after a flash flood killed nine people on saturday. Cell phone video captured the deluge as it swept through Tonto National forest, 100 miles northeast of phoenix. The water at the swimming site rose as high as six feet, triggered by a heavy thunderstorm. All of the dead, including five children, were part of an extended family. The Trump Administration says it will let an extra 15,000 Foreign Workers into the country this budget year, on temporary, seasonal visas. Homeland security secretary john kelly calls it a onetime extension. The announcement came today as the president promoted made in america week, showcasing domestically made goods. On wall street today, the Dow Jones Industrial average lost eight points to close at 21,629. The nasdaq rose about two points, and the s p 500 gave up a fraction. And, a video of a young model wearing a miniskirt is causing an uproar in deeply conservative saudi arabia. A video over the weekend showed her Walking Around a Historic Site north of riyadh. State media report she could face legal action. The countrys dress code for women mandates long, loose fitting robes. Still to come on the newshour the Republican Health care bill in limbo. We break down the sticking points. Inside the iraqi city of mosul liberated from isis but left in ruins. Ivanka trumps record on making fashion products overseas, and much more. Woodruff even as Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has been forced to delay a vote on a Republican Healthcare plan, theres no letup in the battle behind the scenes. Lawmakers, governors, Interest Groups are all working furiously. A handful of key questions may decide its fate. Among them how many fewer people will be covered . And will cheaper insurance make it more affordable . Or too skimpy for too many . Dr. Ezekiel emanuel is one of the original architects behind obamacare. Hes the author of the new book, prescription for the future. And avik roy is cofounder and president of the foundation for research on equal opportunity, a think tank based in austin, texas. Hes been a Health Adviser to republican president ial candidates, including mitt romney. And we welcome both of you to the program. Avik roy, let me start with you. We dont have an analysis of the new senate bill by the congressional budget office, but there was an analysis done by the health care firm, forecasting the bill leads to medicaid federal reductions ranging from 29 to 37 in all 50 states. Doesnt that make it understandable why even republicans are still strug chingling to support this bill . Judy theres a bit of misunderstanding as to exactly what the sources to the changes are. First there is the repeal to obamas expansion of the Medicaid Program, replaced by a robust soism tax credits for enrollees to buy private coverage. So thats about 95 to 95 of the money youre describing. Then a small component which is per capita reforms a bill clintonen proposal from 1994, to make the longterm Medicaid Program more fiscally sustainable, and thats the piece that really matters to those governors particularly in the states that didnt expand medicaid because thats going to be a gradual but important reform to make the Medicaid Program sustainable. So the first big piece, replaced by tax credits to make it affordable by the individuals and the second piece a bipartisan approach to the medicaid reform. Woodruff youre saying the cuts are not as draconian as they sound . Exactly. Woodruff all right. Dr. Ezekiel emanuel . I dont know, with when you cut 170 billion dallas out of a program over years and 15 Million People will use Medicaid Program the working poor, the ablebodies people who are generally working twothirds to threequarters of them work jobs, just that their employers dont provide insurance were going to give them a subsidy. The subsidy they give are less than the obamacare proposal gives and go to a much, much smaller level. The insurance they cover is much less. It is not comparable. You cant cut 770 billion and say, oh,ettes not going to affect anything. 22 Million People are going to lose coverage because of this bill. Woodruff avik roy, how do you answer that . The c. B. O. Estimate, the 22 million number ezekiel is talking about is driven by erroneous aspects of the congressional budget offices methodology. The c. B. O. Believes 18 million of the 22 million is driven by a lack of a fine forcing people to have coverage, so its not driven by a lack of funding you dont like the message, attack the messenger. No, this is a fundamental problem with the c. B. O. s methodology. Its the reason obamacare doesnt have a plan in the first place. In 2008 he opposed having an individual mandate in the bill and c. B. O. Told him 16 million of coverage would be affected by that. Woodruff i dont want to spend the whole time on the c. B. O. But a Quick Response to that. Again, i think hes attacking the messenger buzz he doesnt like the message and the fact is the c. B. O. Is the independent arbiter. Their methods arent universal, they dont get it necessarily exactly right but youre not going to go from 22 million uninsured to a more tolerable number. Its seems unconscionable that senators could vote to throw 22 Million People off insurance and now we have the irony that john mccain is delaying the boat, a guy who needed surgery that cost 30,000, he certainly couldnt afford it just out of nowhere, insurance has to pay, and were going to get 22 Million People with less insurance. Woodruff another aspect of this avik roy is in an effort to make insurance more affordable, we see a National Offering altentives that lower premiums but they do this by cutting back on the amount of coverage, on what is covered. The criticism is that youre creating two markets, one for people who can afford to continue to get good medical care and those who would be left out because they cant. How do you defend this part of the legislation . Well, judy, i would challenge the accuracy of the description you just gave of the measure, i think were talking about the ted cruz amendment to the Senate Healthcare bill. What that amendment is trying to do is say, okay, sick people will have much more expensive coverage because they consume more healthcare. So lets have direct taxpayer subsidies in this regulated market to ensure they can find affordable coverage. But the fact is tens of millions of americans who cant afford coverage cant afford that coverage not because theyre kick but because theyre healthy and insurance costs too much. Obamacare over the last four years doubled or trip bled premiums. H. H. S. Researchers estimated premiums increased for that population by 100 in the last four years. So ted cruz is saying lets make sure coverage is affordable for healthy and sick people and you do that by focusing on covering people who are already sick which requires a different kind of insurance and people who are healthy and need lower premiums as a result. Three quick points, first of all, the subsidies the republicans will give will be much less and smaller, driving up what people have to pay and especially their deductible. They dont do anything about affordability in this bill at all, they dont change the longterm trajectory of healthcare costs one bit. Second of all, the fact is that every medical organization has come out against this bill and says its going to be bad for patients and the Health Insurance industry says what avik roy is basically false. You will segment the margaret, youre going to take healthy people, youre going to separate them, youre going to put the sick people in a market and reduce the subsidies you give them to buy insurance because the insurance is paying at a pump skimpier package. That is not a recipe for having people have good insurance and decreasing deductibles. Its going to do the reverse of what the president pledged. Woodruff do you want to respond. I would challenge a number of things that zeke said there,ni s you would expect. The first is the chief axe chew ware, the centers for medicare and medicaid services, an obamaappointee, published a report that said the bill would bend down the cost curve and make the Health Care System more responsive and efficient. And the tax increases would help those who need more coverage able to afford the coverage they need. This bill would provide trillions of dollars over the long term for people who can afford the coverage. nr youre talking about giving more money when the bill is cutting back the money its putting into the healthcare system. Cant have it both ways. Woodruff dr. Ezekiel emanuel, we know many counties under the Affordable Care act, a lot of people have been priced out of the market and this is opposite of what the republicans are trying to do. I would disagree. The uncertainty theyve created in the market, the republicans, marco rubio removed the risk corridors and the reinsurance proposal, theyve also created uncertainty about whether they will pay the cautionary subdzties, social subsidies to families making less than 70,000 to pay their deductibles, that actually drives premiums up. There are simple solutions, put the risk corridors in, guarantee you pay the cost sharing subsidies and give Insurance Companies a tax break, refund them the tax from the Affordable Care act if they go into counties that have one or fewer insurances. That will actually stabilize the Insurance Markets and states that run their insurance exchanges like california and idaho are actually running pretty well. Its the federal side thats not running so well and the federal side is run by mr. Trumps associates. Woodruff were going to have to leave it there. Big subject, much to talk about. Well continue to come back to it. Ezekiel emanuel, avik roy, thank you both. Thank you for having us. S, judy. Woodruff one week ago, iraqi Prime MinisterHaider Al Abadi proclaimed victory over isis in mosul. But reality on the ground is different, as the fight continues in parts of the old city, against isis holdouts. As special correspondent marcia biggs, and videographer Alessandro Pavone report, the human toll of the fighting is becoming apparent. And it is horrific. A warning many viewers may find images and accounts in this story disturbing. Reporter this is what so called liberated mosul looks and sounds like. explosion in a small pocket of the old city, the war against isis seemingly ongoing. And this is the old city from ground level, a scene of utter devastation entire neighborhoods flattened by coalition airstrikes. Leaving the few survivors to search for the remains of their loved ones. Bashar and alis families were together in this house hit by an airstrike 28 days ago. Ali names the dead one by one. translated my mother, three brothers, three sisters, my father, two sisters in law, and two nieces. Reporter and youre the only one left from your family. Yes. Reporter shu bedak tamel, what are you going to do now . translated what can i do . I just want to take the bodies out and bury them. Reporter mosul is the capital of ninevah province and it is the men of ninevahs Civil Defense unit that are responsible for pulling the dead out of the rubble. They arrive with their crude tools. An ancient jackhammer, a broken sledgehammer, and when all else fails they use their hands. One of the Family Members is adamant that the family is under this spot in a washroom. Just open the hole this Family Member says but trying to drill through over a foot of concrete proves impossible and one of the relatives finds another way into the house. So we enter the ruins in the dark. So this was the washroom they were talking about. Hes saying theres a baby inside. In total, they are looking for 18 bodies. There were two families in the adjoining houses that night. Bashar lost six members of his family, including his wife and four children. translated we tried to escape the day before, but isis shot at us. We ran back to the house and the army told us stay inside we will evacuate you when we make the area safe. But the next morning, the airstrike hit our house. There were two bombs. Reporter were you in the house when the explosion happened . translated yes, but i was near the front door of this house. I was the only one who didnt get injured, along with my neighbors family. And my youngest daughter was rescued by the army. Shes still alive. Reporter the remnants of life that night are frozen in time. Food sits uneaten on the kitchen counter but the clock still runs. Then finally a breakthrough. Its a skull. So theyre telling me they have no idea who this little girl is. There were six or seven little girls in that room, and the body is so decomposed, all there is, is a skull. The search for remains lasts all day,