GOP Health Care Repeal Fails, Editing Embryo Genes, The Rise of East Bay Punk

• In the early morning hours, during a marathon session in the Senate, the GOP’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare failed. Republicans came close to passing a “skinny repeal,” that would have left Medicaid expansion untouched, but three Republican senators defected, leaving the Affordable Care Act in place for now. Mary Ellen McIntire, health care reporter for CQ Roll Call, joins The Takeaway to break down what happened overnight in the Senate. 

• This week, scientists in Oregon confirmed that they had successfully edited the genes of human embryos, using CRISPR technology. It’s the first such time that this work has been done in the United States, and it raises concerns about “designer babies,” or creating a class divide between people who have access to this technology and those who do not. Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, weighs in on the ethical implications of the breakthrough.

• On Sunday, Mississippi police fatally shot and killed auto mechanic Ismael Lopez. The officers were responding to a domestic abuse charge, but went to the wrong home and fired at Lopez through the door. Daniel Connolley has been covering the case for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. He joins The Takeaway to discuss what happened.

•  Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and The Takeaway, drops by to discuss this week’s major releases, Kathryn Bigelow’s docudrama,  “Detroit,” the Charlize Theron-led action movie, “Atomic Blonde,” and Al Gore’s new documentary, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”

• “Menashe,” a new film out today in limited release, tells the true story of a Hasidic man who loses his son after his wife dies. The community requires that a child live in a two parent household, so he must remarry or find a way to prove that he can parent on his own. Star Menashe Lustig and director Joshua Weinstein join Rafer Guzman to discuss making the film.

• From the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, the punk music scene burgeoned in the East Bay Area. Corbett Redford, who was part of the scene and attended the same high school as Green Day member Billie Joe Armstrong, chronicles the stories of hundreds of bands in his new documentary “Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk.” Redford joins The Takeaway to explain his connection to the punk scene and what compelled him to document it. 

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.