but the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. on the news tonight the cvo releases a report of the senate republicans new health care bill as the g.o.p. struggles to get fifty votes and the supreme court gives a restricted ok to the president's travel ban as it decides the hear the case in october and saudi arabia and its allies demand cut or shut down al-jazeera network as a condition for lifting the blockade i michel's reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching mark t. america. good evening friends we start tonight with the looming showdown in the u.s.

senate health care takes the spotlight this week as the trump administration is anxious to repeal and replace obamacare some republican senators well they're not buying it they're not sold on the senate plan and today the c.b.o.t. scored the bill delivering some more rough numbers to consumers the latest polling shows half the country believes the current law is just fine fifty one percent see obamacare as acceptable it's clear the republicans face an uphill battle to get this thing done through reconciliation military and has been following the story and she has more on this tonight in iowa and this latest iteration of the g.o.p. health care bill this time from the senate will hurt almost about as many people as the one proposed by the house just a few weeks ago that's according to the c.b.l. . the nonpartisan congressional budget office looked over the hundred forty two page plan called the better care reconciliation act of twenty seventeen over the weekend and found that twenty two million more americans will lose their health

care by the year two thousand and twenty six than if the affordable care act were left in place the plan drawn up in secret needs at least fifty republican senators to support it in order for it to replace obamacare but as it stands already five senate republicans have vowed to vote it down and it's expected that all senate democrats will vote along party lines giving the votes to move this bill forward its introduction last thursday by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell left a very slim margin for its survival where he can only afford to lose two votes and with mcconnell pressing his party for a vote within a week ahead of the fourth of july holiday recess. the cvo did say that it would reduce the budget deficit by seven hundred eighty three billion dollars by the year two thousand and twenty six this as a result of drastic cuts to medicaid expansion across a number of states but that number would be cut in half to about three hundred twenty one billion dollars in lieu of federal spending this net savings what

effectively come on the backs of america's poorest changes from the a.c.l.u. would include eliminating the individual mandate getting rid of the cost sharing subsidies that help america's poorest and effectively taking away funding from planned parenthood tweaks to obamacare include preexisting condition mandates but would weaken those protections rollbacks of medicaid expansion and would also include funding to fight the opioid epidemic the white house has responded this evening telling the american people to not blindly trust the report so as we see hear from the five g.o.p. senators who will not support this bill in its present form mitch mcconnell does not have the support to bring it to the floor for a vote at this point and if he did it would effectively be dead on arrival you know they have shown their cards on health care both in the house and the senate it's pretty brutal there after the numbers no doubt about it thanks manella when it comes to health care coverage for americans the republican side of the story has

been plagued with false words and based on theory no one knows this better than former insurance executive wendell potter is the author of deadly spam and nation on the take founder of tarbell dot org they examined how money and politics affect americans mr potter great to have you with us tonight first of all your thoughts on the c b o numbers i just said to manila as you heard they've shown their cards across the board on where they want to go it's the cuts isn't it. if the cuts would cut the medicaid program by almost three quarters of a trillion dollars over ten years so it is really decimates that program so many people low income people would lose their coverage and cause the quiney their access to care it's it would be a devastating blow to low income and moderate income people it's we're not talking about just just the poorest we're talking about anybody frankly and who's not quite well to do you know the basic question here where's the improvement i mean the

republicans are going to have to go home and explain to constituents how this is better and when you have these kind of cuts you just don't it just doesn't make rhyme or reason and one thing the republicans have been talking about is these big purchasing pools that they are going to have negotiating power in the market if they form these big pools for people i want your take on that. well these big pools are just nonsense what this is doing is taking us back to the days before the affordable care act when insurance companies when states were actually doing what this would get us to be back doing once again and that is putting the sickest in two pools and making coverage far more expensive for them that the winner is if they if you call them winners would be the youngest unhealthiest and richest among us and the thing is they're not more they're not very likely to buy coverage so it would skew the market even more it which means that that pool would be even more

full of people if you will who are who need health care who have preexisting conditions who need to get prescriptions filled it's. just an absolute catastrophe for the country none of this matches up to the campaign rhetoric of the president there's no question about that but give us a sense you've been right in the front offices executive in the insurance industry for many years before becoming a strong advocate for consumers what is this going to be like for the insurance industry trying to get fifty votes now they kick it into high gear on capitol hill tell us how that works. you know i think it's going to be quite a challenge to get those votes with susan collins now saying that she can't support it i think you'll probably see a few other senators like leader mccaskey of of of alaska and rob portman of ohio may be joining her it may be more difficult for mcconnell to get

those fifty votes then that he would like for us to believe you know back to something you said earlier i think that if this does pass well they'll try a great deal of mr rection when they go back home they'll point to premiums and they will say look what we're doing will lower premiums with health insurance it possibly can for some people not for not for all but for some they can say that the problem of course is that the coverage will be so less valuable it will it will allow insurance companies to once again sell junk insurance and the premiums are lower for junk insurance but you don't get much for it and the medicare expansion of course is going to be all but done and it's going to give the states a great deal of power this will give it no state legislators a tremendous amount of power as to who gets the health care in their state who doesn't. yeah it really well and i would imagine that

a lot of the states red states in particular states with a lot of people in particular. will see the biggest cuts and the the people in those states losing the most that's what will happen wendell potter great to have you with us and i appreciate your time thank you sir thank you senate republicans are rolling the political dice on a replacement of obamacare after seven years of harping on the president's signature legislation the g.o.p. can't even get fifty votes for either bill for more on this we're joined tonight by ed martin president of the eagle forum ed good to have you with us tonight you know so who's at fault here what i mean how are how are they going to go back and sell this to the american people that this is actually going to be better than what's on the table right now. well i think maybe this is a whole health care issue is a way to show that trump is not a hitler and not a dictator because as you see pointed out he ran with

a lot of different sounding you know kind of promises and ideas on health care i like to think this is a starting point i don't know if this deadline of july fourth is real but there's going to be some we saw mike lee with a proposal and we see some of the senators coming up i think they'll be some significant changes i hope because as you point out there's too many people left uncovered was a problem and too many questions out there so we'll see what happens i mean look let me be honest i think we you were in london and we were talking on your show here i'm proud of the president republicans taking on health care because a better move might be politically to say let it all collapse but they've got to do something but i'm not sure this is an off yet but ed how are they taking it all in when they don't have any hearings they don't have any testimony they threw themselves with thirteen senators who demographically could be you could make the argument they're out of touch with average americans and they come up with this with no debate how is that. well i don't think that's fair and in the sense that i

mean if you mean that there's old fashioned hearings on capitol hill that are kabuki theater anyway where everything staged and controlled that's a little bit like press conferences where spicer has to go out and do something trump is as changed all that and i think what i mean the debate is happening since the house drop there bill there has been a spirited wild debate across the country including town halls and twitter fights and everything else in the ngos that are now to tell you. you know i don't mean to rob you but the fact is that obamacare is becoming more popular the majority of americans now think this well this law is better than what's being offered by the republicans on both the house and the senate so this is going to be a political lift for the conservatives and it. yeah and i think obama admitted that years ago when he said we'll pass something right now it may be dog meat i don't think use that term and then later they'll have to be stuck with it i think this is what lyndon johnson knew with his and title months and what obama knew but at the end of the day we've got to introduce some options families and small businesses

were getting decimated by obamacare is cost and access problem so we've got to do something else but i think you're right america has shifted and they're saying hey wait a second we don't want more people dropped off of access to insurance it's a look at supply tical problem that obama laid out a trap that it's very tough to get out of i think you're right about that well access is important especially for millions of americans who've got a preexisting condition that's going to be on shaky ground and what about what wendell potter just said that we're going back to the days of junk insurance sure your premiums going to go down but your coverage is going to suck i mean i don't know how else to put it i mean we're we're really well how can the conservative sell this to the majority of americans that this is going to be a better deal. well right but i tell you not long ago i was getting ready for the show i think and i was talking a woman she said what do you think don't you think we should go to a single payer and i said well do you want to be like the v.a. and she said oh my gosh my brother's in the v.a.

it's a disaster right so somewhere between the idea that we're going to have i look i agree with you and you know i've talked about this before the insurance companies with obama and with the republicans now are bullies and they tend to get their way so i with you that the insurance companies are gaming the system every time the question is do we want to go to a single payer administered by whatever bureaucrats and i think that's what republicans have to fight against but i point this out and i think the republicans are losing the messaging battle right now because of an a misunderstanding of what the people want the people don't want the insurance companies to gut things and we'll see what happens all right martin you go former president great to have you with us and i thank you. the supreme court will hear arguments on look at the legality of president trump's travel ban in the meantime the court voted unanimously to allow a limited version of the ban to take effect within seventy two hours foreign nationals from six muslim majority countries will be barred from entering the

united states exceptions will be made for those with family or credible claims of relationships with american citizens the trump administration released a statement calling the decision of victory for national security artie's election reports tonight the travel ban has been one of his most controversial decisions controversial promises made during the campaign maybe along with the promise to build the wall on the mexican border and. try to implement the travel ban just weeks out that he officially became president he faced a lot of backlash he faced a lot of protests and legal action in fact this all went into the courts in march he had to revise the travel ban to accommodate you know all the things that the protesters and those protesting about have been saying but basically everybody was . against the activists in the streets the media and the courts itself for the two federal courts overturned that ban and now the supreme court bar chile allows this to happen saying that visitors from six predominantly muslim countries like iran

libya somalia sudan syria and yemen the ban on them could be enforced as long as they lack a credible claim of bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the united states and also the one hundred twenty day long ban on refugees will also be partially implemented now trump all along has been saying that the decision to protest this ban of hears and to fight this in court was cause not by legal reasons it's a political decision see the do you believe the judges need a situation this is. their country is its name and it's a very serious situation so we look forward. to seeing them it's a decision that will be. in my opinion very easily. in the supreme court will convene again to review the cases after the limited ban takes a fact. if you've ever been critical of the mainstream media try this ever since

the election c.n.n. has relied on unsubstantiated sources for its reporting on russia now the network has caught itself in a lie and three journalists of resigning from the network on friday c.n.n. retracted a story connecting president donald trump to russia saying that it did not meet the company's editorial standards r t correspondent on your part until tells us how the network is responding the most trusted name in news is on the defensive as of friday night when what was sold as an explosive report linking president trump to russian investment bankers was replaced with this editor's note on june twenty second two thousand and seventeen c.n.n. dot com published a story connecting anthony's car mucci with investigations into the russian direct and. usman fund that story did not meet c.n.n.'s editorial standards and has been retracted links to the story have been disabled c.n.n. apologizes to mr skara mucci the story was concerning this man and the scary mucci

and american finance there who served as an advisor to the trunk presidential campaign and sat on the trump transition team it alleged the senate intelligence committee was investigating scar mucci for a meeting he held with kiro dimitry of the c.e.o. of the russian jew wrecked investment fund four days before trump's inauguration all based on an anonymous gresham will source the report written by a twenty twelve q a surprise finalist said the russian direct investment fund is overseen by the state state run the e.b. bank currently sanctioned by the us government and that the meeting could have included a conversation about the lifting of sanctions on the fund there's just one problem the fund is not in fact operated by the state run bank as a spokesperson for the r a d i have told sputnik the russian direct investment fund our d.i.'s became an independent sovereign fund in two thousand and sixteen

consequently our d.i.'s is not a part of the bank and its operations are wholly independent of the bank the meeting in fact took place at the davos economic forum on january sixteenth and was confirmed by scar mucci to c.n.n. who said dimitri of have come over rather had come over to say hi to him at a restaurant and that he responded quarterly scar mucci told bloomberg at the time quote what i said to him last night in my capacity inside the administration i would certainly reach out to some people to help them the idea was many months ago to have more outreach with russia but also other countries not just russia china other countries of course the whole purpose of the world economic forum in davos is . for banking it leads to mingle and several other world billionaires and that with the r d i at this year as well meanwhile scar mucci says he accepts sans apology and is moving on on saturday c n n money executive branch barberry set out an

e-mail demanding quote no one published any content involving russia without coming to me and jason far cost a c n n vice president and plying stricter guidelines for russian reporting may be in order and washington on your part until our team president trouble last out of former president barack obama on twitter today the tweets came after a report in the washington post on friday detailing how president obama failed to adequately punish russia for alleged election interference president trump accused obama of collusion and of passing the buck expecting hillary clinton to win the election for more on all of this we're joined tonight by a legal media analyst lionel lionel there's a lot to unpack tonight let's back up one story and talk about c n n if they put something on the air that isn't correct it's fake news i'm concerned about their methodology of it i think they need some explaining they have to do some explaining

to the public how did they come to the conclusion that this was journalism to put it on the air or were these three people who were let go in cohorts to go after the trump administration i think that's fair and i think there's a big story there your thoughts on c.n.n. making this move. question number one why are they going through such pains and why this this this public evolution in the bay of why not just let it go away just just take it off don't worry about it number two in the scheme of all that they've done i mean i hearken back to the days of donna brazil basically passing information regarding the debate but why is this if you read the factual basis why is this so terrible number three is this as we say a limited hangout meaning is your assumption coming down the pike that's even worse than this that this is their chance to throw you or you off the trail to say look what we did look how we have taken to the forefront of vanguard and there's

something else that's coming up which is going to make good this pale by comparison with that of this makes any sense well they have own countless occasions c.n.n. has gone on the air and gone after the trumpet ministration connecting them to russia with unnamed sources unsubstantiated reporting we're hearing in the news room news coming in to us this is what our reporters are telling us it's all garbage and everybody in this town knows that james clapper is the guy that is feeding see him in all of this garbage and they have nothing these investigations started back in july there's nothing on the table tonight they've interviewed everybody under the moon either that or the f.b.i. is horrible at what they do what's happening here how do you read this but what i'm saying is why this right now next point to be made russian story is officially dead what i'm hearing what other people are saying is within the hallowed halls of the

d.n.c. that memo was also being said enough we have not only trumpeted but a rush of fatigue this is the official death certificate of that issue it's gone nobody bring it up anymore and this is also. a message to other news outlets we're taking the heat from you the signal is the dog whistle no more russia no more drama it's dead finish i submit that mark my words couple of days from now have might be another story which makes this pale by comparison all right let's talk about the supreme court decision today on the travel ban what is this mood what does this mean to you consider the say a big victory for the trumpet ministration they're going to hear the arguments absent in october what's this mean. absolutely he's going to play this as a big issue here is i don't want people to live no from the legal side for all you constitutional scholars what we lawyers look to this is going to be

a test set of article two how far can he go when the court takes this case up in october of next fall next term they're going to be looking at whether trump's extra judicial statements that he made that rudy giuliani made could be used can be used to reflect on the administration's position regarding the allegation made that this was an anti muslim band not an anti six country band that's issue number one what this also is right now is the fact that what the supreme court said was we will basically keep your band instead in place with the exception of this proviso they just gave him the framework and the blueprint for how to write the new statute so it's so win win well this is also somewhat of a slam on the lower court saying that they basically didn't give the president enough latitude in his executive authority is that a fair analysis precisely and the next point is read gorsuch is dissent he said for

the first time because now he's i mean people know this is who i am he said and alito and thomas and i want the bad completely forget this nonsense stuff so we get to see more and more about of course it says but you watch at how he plays this politically you would know this better than i he turned to the american people and he says this is not about one upmanship this is not about a court it's about me following through with my promise to you to make you safe and make america great in however you want to read it it's a win win no matter how you look at lionel good to have you with us tonight thanks so much appreciate your service british prime minister to resign may conservative party as reached a deal with northern ireland's democratic unionist party to support her minority government as part of a deal. tory government has promised to invest an additional one billion pounds in northern ireland may will also be forced to backtrack on a number of election promises including reforming pensions and other benefits

artie's honest austria churkin and reports tonight it's been over two weeks now since this crash and burn snap election called by two recent may that took place on june eighth leaving the country with an unexpected hung parliament and now it looks like we do indeed deal between to resubmit his conservative party and the democratic unionists of northern ireland in terms of what specifically has been agreed we do know that the g.o.p. have been promised one billion pounds within the next several years of financial support and that one stepping stone that's been quite important and watch since we do know that the d p have been quite insistent on not being huge fans of the hard brackets we have heard now that they have agreed that an exit from the e.u. will benefit all parts of the u.k. of documents that they have released doesn't get into very much detail this is an agreement that so-called can for confidence and supply which is a bit of

a different format and even with the way that statements have been made on how this deal was reached we did see the g.o.p. leader separately there was no joint press conference so certainly we're just going to be waiting for theresa may to address this deal later on. in the reporting tonight or to america was in london last week for the first anniversary of the brics a vote we spoke with former m.p. is george galloway and tommy sherrod about the future of the tory party. the tories are being asked to pave the streets of east belfast the northern island in gold as a price of the democratic unionist party agreeing to support the tories in government so it's not corban you're thinking david davis would be because he could avert an election until later. it's a no brainer the only alternative is borders johnson who would be. in you know do you disagree with that well i don't disagree that david de davis is probably one of

the most competent tories this our own just know but i think joe is with a game with me that momentum is a big thing in politics and momentum is no was called been and labor s. davis was to take over you've got a member misa thought if he was on the main because she was never elected by the country she then called an election and lost a majority as joel said if these mistakes over what sort of these health is on the lake and you can see our special coverage on r t america's you tube page saudi arabia and other arab states at odds with katar have issued a list of demands which they say must be met to drop their blockade of the country among their demands is the complete shutdown of cutters international news network al-jazeera r t c mon del rosario reporting tonight. saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and bahrain recently cut off qatar accusing it of funding terrorism in the region now in order to lift the diplomatic and economic sanctions the gulf

states gave the country a list of thirteen demands from scaling down diplomatic ties with iran to kicking turkey's military out of the country to severing ties with the likes of the muslim brotherhood al qaeda and hezbollah the four arab states say all of these demands must be met within ten days but two in particular are sparking outcry among media members and human rights activists the countries have ordered qatar to shut down the state funded al-jazeera network and its affiliates and close all other news outlets funded either directly or indirectly by the state al-jazeera first launched in one thousand nine hundred six in arabic and ten years later added al jazeera english according to its website the network broadcasts in more than one hundred countries and employs more than three thousand people from seventy nationalities with media first released this list of demands al-jazeera responded saying any call for closing down al-jazeera is nothing but an attempt to silence the freedom of

expression in the region and to suppress people's right to information and the right to be heard others came to the networks to fence the committee to protect journalists executive director joel simon saying it condemns the use of news outlets as a bargaining chip and calls on all countries involved in this dispute to stop holding media hostage to political disputes out in the gulf region needs a vibrant free press and news outlets based there must be allowed to report freely and it's not just journalists human rights watch said the move punishes the millions of arabs in the region from important news coverage calling it cowardly censorship warning it will fail it will be hard to convince other countries that the demand to close media outlets like al-jazeera has anything to do with countering terrorism u.s. state secretary rex tillerson even said some of the elements will be very difficult for qatar to meet and are just. both sides to sit together and continue the conversation and until the conflict is resolved it looks like the u.s. will block all foreign military sales to members of the gulf cooperation council

senate foreign relations chair bob corker telling tillerson monday that instead of working together to fight terrorism these gulf states decided to devolve into more conflict that only hurts those efforts corker is the top republican on the senate foreign relations committee and no arms sale goes to congress for formal approval without the informal approval from the top democrat republican on both house and senate foreign relations committees in washington simo dollars r e o r t. and finally tonight the president takes a lot of heat a lot of flak for playing just too much golf and we want to point out that he does it his way by the way don't try this on your favorite golf course the president drives his own golf cart right on the green. right on the grain like they say ownership has its privileges and that is our news tonight follow me on twitter news with ed like me on the facebook page we got it dot com i'm michel supported from washington thanks for watching see you back here the.

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