on the news tonight senate republicans fail to repeal obamacare congressman kevin kramer joins us for what's next and the president continues to hammer attorney general jeff sessions on twitter for refusing to investigate hillary clinton and despite their differences in syria turkey and the united states will conduct joint military exercises with the qatari armed forces i'm ed schultz reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. america. good evening friends we start tonight in the senate and the legislative nightmare surrounding health care the republicans just can't seem to get it done the president will not get a clean repeal of obamacare as promised the senate rejected a proposal today to repeal parts of the affordable care act without providing a replacement the vote was fifty five to forty five seven republican senators opposed the measure the effort was reminiscent of the year twenty fifteen when the republicans in the house and the senate passed a similar bill vetoed by president obama senate leadership is now trying to put together a scaled down version of

reduce the impact on medicaid cuts for more on this let's turn tonight to north dakota congress and kevin kramer a staunch supporter of the president congress and nice to have you with us tonight i guess with the backdrop of what has on folded the basic question tonight is can the republicans govern can they get this done your thoughts on all this that i well first of all thanks for the opportunity had to be with you good to be with you i first want to say i'm very proud of leader mcconnell for forcing the issue of forcing his caucus to cast a boarding a lot of senators are feeling real comfortable proposing there their perfect bill that was never going to get fifty votes and they have that great luxury of being able to vote to not vote and when he forced their hand and forced a vote to proceed i think it was the right thing to do and here here we are having debate on several amendments and i don't expect this to be the end of it they've got some work to do but i will be honest i think that whether republicans can govern or not is somewhat dependent on whether the senate can pass some form of a

the news tonight senate republicans fail to repeal obamacare congressman kevin kramer joins us for what's next and the president continues to hammer attorney general jeff sessions on twitter for refusing to investigate hillary clinton and despite their differences in syria turkey and the united states will conduct joint military exercises with the qatari armed forces i'm michel supporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching r.t. america. good evening friends we start tonight in the senate and the legislative nightmare surrounding health care the republicans just can't seem to get it done the president will not get a clean repeal of obamacare as promised the senate rejected a proposal today to repeal parts of. the affordable care act without providing a replacement the vote was fifty five to forty five seven republican senators oppose the measure the effort was reminiscent of the year twenty fifteen when the republicans in the house and the senate passed a similar bill vetoed by president obama senate leadership is now trying to put together a scaled down version of repeal this wo

all the news tonight senate republicans fail to repeal obamacare congressman kevin kramer joins us for what's next and the president continues to hammer attorney general jeff sessions on twitter for refusing to investigate hillary clinton and despite their differences in syria turkey and the united states will conduct joint military exercises with the qatari armed forces. from washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. america. good evening friends we start tonight in the senate and the lead.