Im dr. Kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. Energy lives here. Hi, everybody, good to have you with me. Im Thomas Roberts in new york and heres whats happening this hour. Most polls beginning to close in france in the historic election there and its been a contentious president ial election. We have the centrist candidate macron facing Marine Le Pen. Polls remain open, nbcs matt bradley is in paris. Lets talk about the turnout and the influence of fridays election hack, as well as the bad weather today, especially in paris. Reporter well, the weather isnt all that bad, thomas, as you can see, its not raining. Its been raining all weekend, but now its not so bad and ive got some nice views here. But the fact is that the turnout here, this entire race has been dogged by a lot of suspicions that the turnout would be very low because of voter dissatisfaction with all of the candidates. It was the same thing two weeks ago during the initial Runoff Election t
In the United States. The two people who are willing to spend 30 million for a guaranteed 18month stay in washington. We begin with american politics. It is health care. It battered democrats in 2010. It set them ablaze before they passed a bill in the house and this is just a sampling of the scene from town halls in america after health care passed the house. Park are we stood up and said the pledge to the United States of america. Why should it matter what state i went in . Are nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. If you are getting your insurance through medicaid. Nothing is going to change. Today the senates supposed working group on health care, we will get to the supposed in a moment. They work on their version of legislation after the house passed them the hot potato. Aides gave reporters a list in the working group. It came under fire because it doesnt include a single woman. Mitch mcconnells office said no women were being added. Hours after meeting with t
And msnbc contributor, jeremy peters. Hans, starting with you. What were learning about numbers, locations, possible Additional Forces in afghanistan. Break it down for us. The numbers, the range is 3,000 to 5,000. Thats what were hearing. I just got off the phone with a Senior Administration official. Theyre stressing this is still in the deliberation process. No final decision has been made. And President Trump is asking some questions about this proposed policy. What we know about the policy, more troops to fight directly against the taliban. Bolster the Afghan National army. What trump is asking about is whats the regional approach. He is asking these questions namely because its difficult to see a solution in afghanistan unless you have some sort of approach to pakistan. The hostages. The network holds them in pakistan. A great deal of fighters that go back and forth. Remember, a couple of weeks ago it was the secretary mattis went to kabul. I was there with them. Theyre talking a
Legal device. Lets get to the news. The white house hers touting their Health Care Bill as a move to the senate, some republicans vowed to start from scratch. Speaker of the house paul ryan says that obamacare is collapsing, that the house bill is about lawmakers their promises. Watch. This is a rescue mission to make sure that we can achieve the goals that we all want. That is getting the cost of coverage down and making sure that everybody has access to a portal for health care, especially and including people with preexisting conditions. That is what the bill does. Mike emanuel joins us now live from capitol hill. Hello. Top white house officials have been out in force trying to talk about Health Care Reform in this country, trying to reassure the American People. And they insist that President Trump will take care of people who have preexisting conditions. Nobody wants folks who have a preexisting illness or injury not to be covered. We want to make certain that we can do it at a l
Is now under way one day after a mass shooter attacked republican practice for this very game, leaving five wounded including representative Steve Scalise, who remains in Critical Condition. Capitol Police Officer david bailey, 36 hours after being injured in the line of duty, threw out the games ceremonial first pitch. Thats him there. Lets speak with two members of congress from the game later in the show. Meanwhile, president donald j. Trump is being investigated for possible criminal obstruction of justice. Today he attacked the integrity and character of the man who is investigating him. This as his Vice President , mike pence, is lawyering up. And this just in. The Washington Post reporting that the special counsel is now investigating Jared Kushners business dealings. More on that in a bit. We begin of course with the president , who appeared to go after special counsel Robert Mueller, the man leading the Justice Departments russia investigation, in a series of official statemen