BRET BAIER – Fox News Channel
TOPIC: News of the day: healthcare fight, Trump responds to Don Jr controversy, Trump bromance in France.
• Senate Republicans release new Obamacare repeal bill
• Senate Republicans one vote away from Obamacare repeal failure
• Trump: ‘Republican Senators must come through’ on health care bill. Trump, who is in France attending Bastille Day celebrations with French President Emmanuel Macron, wrote on Twitter Friday morning. “So impt Rep Senators, under leadership of @senatemajldr McConnell get healthcare plan approved. After 7yrs of O’Care disaster, must happen!”
• Graham proposes an alternative healthcare proposal (CNN)With the prospects for passing the current Senate Republican health care bill still in jeopardy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, are working with their GOP colleagues on an alternative approach to replacing Obamacare: keeping much of the federal taxes in place and sending that money to the states to control. “Here is what will happen,” Graham said in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan. “If you like Obamacare, you can re-impose the mandates at the state level. You can repair Obamacare if you think it needs to be repaired. You can replace it if you think it needs to be replaced. It’ll be up to the governors. They’ve got a better handle on it than any bureaucrat in Washington.”
