. our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington. is this all adding up to another very difficult week for donald trump? yes, it keeps russia firmly on the front pages, where it's been really pretty much for six months for the president. his son—in—law, jared kushner, a key white house counsel, senior member of the inner circle where, he'll be questioned in private by one of the committees upon the hill, so we won't necessarily hear what comes out of that, unless some of the senators start talking. they'll want to talk to him particularly about this meeting come of this now famous, infamous meeting last year, with a russian lawyer, who was supposedly offering some dirt on hillary clinton. turned out not to be useful, apparently, they want to ask him about that. they also want to ask about allegations that he trying to set up a kind of back channel to russia, the the kremlin, during the transition before donald trump became president, using russian equipment because he didn't trust, or because the trump team didn't trust the american intelligence services. and also they'll want

speak to our correspondent, gary o'donoghue. what does this mean specifically for health care now, gary? well, it means quite simply for the time being its done. they don't have the muscle, they don't have the maths, they don't have the votes to get it... to getting new system put in place. now, what the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, is proposing, is a straight up vote in the coming weeks to repeal obamacare with a sort of two—year timetable, two—year use on it, if you like. to try and then work out with the democrats perhaps of those... is something to replace it, not absolutely clear that would work either. donald trump in the last few minutes tweeting that he thinks that obamacare should be allowed to fail and that then people can come together to create a new health care plan, seemingly suggesting that you should let the system kind of fall apart, which i think would be pretty unacceptable apart, which i think would be pretty u na cce pta ble to apart, which i think would be pretty unacceptable to a lot of people in congress and in this country generally. as things stan