INTERVIEW – CAL THOMAS – syndicated columnist
TOPIC: Health care bill, Trump bashes Sessions and McCain’s comeback speech
-Pence Breaks 50-50 Tie; Replacement Plans to Be Debated. The Senate narrowly voted to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote and Senator John McCain returned to Washington despite his diagnosis of brain cancer.
-Top White House aides press Trump to pull back on Sessions criticism. President Donald Trump has publicly rebuked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, expressing regret for appointing him to the post and disparaging him as “beleaguered” and “very weak.” But inside the West Wing, Trump has often found himself the odd man out.
-McCain, battling cancer, returns to Senate. Sen. John McCain returned to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon to cast a critical vote in favor of health care legislation less than a week after undergoing surgery and revealing he has brain cancer. And then, in typical McCain fashion, he took to the floor and blasted both the Senate’s draft health care bill and the process that produced it.
