What do you think is the bottom line in terms of what cbo needs and how should the Public Health community the thinking about it . William h. i think you should ask the former director before you ask me. This is going to sound like a bureaucratic response. As a former cbo staffer but resources, honestly. Resources. I know it is a throwaway, but the need to weigh come as part of this activity we met with cbo staff. I was shocked at the number of Journal Articles they have to go through every week. 1000 Journal Articles, if you can believe it, just to weigh in. I concluded out of that discussion that what they need is a watson ibm program to condense at least narrow it down so they can find out evidence which is replicable, scalable at the National Level. I note it is a throwaway, but they need resources if they will translate this into actual good evaluation of the policies and forth. I want to pick up on something that jeff said, though and bill, too, to some extent. The problem as i s
Of paper and carry it from florida to california to get a letter from california to florida. Why can they figure out a way to get these contraceptives to women that does not involve nuns . They put a man on the moon but they are forcingothersto four orcing others. We are dealing there other people at stake. There are employees who will go without coverage if the nuns will not fill out the form or if anyone or if the university of notre dame will not fill out the form. The government can pay for anything but the would not say for instance that i have an objection to paying within the same as men. We would never say the government has money to make up the salary different so no big deal. They would say we are going to enforce the laws. We would not say i have a religious objection to paying minimum wage. No big deal. The government can make of the salary difference. We would reject that form of claim let alone saying i refuse to fill out a form. The question about the Conscientious Objec
Side lines. On monday morning with hundreds of thousands of government workers staying home today. This is everything at this moment. And to cover everything is nbcs kasie hunt on capitol hill. We expect to see mcconnell momentarily and have you Senate Democrats ready to meet to talk through their strategy. Bring us up to speed on where this is going in the next half hour or two hours. Well, hallie, one update actually, just coming in in the last few minutes as you were getting toward go on the air, which is that there are now conversations happening in the hallways of the capitol. It is possible there might not be a vote today at noon. We dont have an official update on that. And as of now, that is the schedule thats been agreed to. But all of our reporting indicates at this point republicans dont have the votes to reopen the government. Mcconnells offer on the floor last night was not enough to win over enough of them to potentially change the game here and to open the doors back up
Have in the bill. But i say to congress, i will never sign a bill like this again. Ill never do it again. Nobody read it. Its only hours old. Sandra we have fox team coverage. Jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the bills impact on the military. We begin with Doug Mckelway live on the north lawn outside where everything went down. Doug . What another whirlwind roller coaster here at the white house yet again. It began around 8 59 a. M. When the president tweeted unbut knownst to the staff here that he was threatened to veto this bill. All the staffers were caught blindsided by that. The president went ahead and did it anyway. In the interim, the fascinating period. We understand that at some point Jennifer Mattis and perhaps Jennifer Griffin can shed light on this, general mattis called the president and suggested that that would be an unwise decision because it was threaten the military funding that the white house has so craved and general mattis has needed. So the president wen
I am going to do that right away. I have spoken to Allen Weissleberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. Yes. And its all the stuff, all the stuff because you never know where that company where he is going to be. Maybe he gets hit by a train. Correct. I am all over it. I spoke to allen. When it comes to the financing what financing . We will have to pay no, no, no. I got it. Weissleberg has been the top accountant at the Trump Organization for decades. The wall street journal reports he has been considered the most senior person in the Trump Organization. That is not a trump. And a former Trump Organization employee tells me, quote, he knows where all the financial bodies are buried within the Trump Organization. He nose Donald Trumps net he knows Donald Trumps net worth. Any expenditure was approved by allen. Now, that does include, according to the journal, reimbursements to Michael Cohen. Whats more, the Washington Post reports the government has more cohen recordings