Culture, the idea of seeing the man in front of the tank, many of us have all seen that, at least if your speedy we believe this hearing to go live to discussion from axios on Prescription Drug prices. Well hear from Senate Finance amity church are progressing but first former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and later senator Debbie Stabenow of michigan. This is live coverage on cspan2. And real quick, it could have been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet, four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about, and this particular is what drug pricing in america which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind i like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [applause] good to be here with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only, its a good place to start by talking about your constituents. What are they still telling you about their own drug prices in
The country. I think we have three outstanding analysts in the field, so i hope you will give them your full attention. We just heard the National Security advisor describe how we hope to move ahead in reducing nuclear risk, and i hope we provided some optimistic some optimism to all of us that the u. S. Does not intend to engage in a threeway arms race. What i will ask each of our panelists specifically if they have additional optimism on that point. The topic of this panel is preventing a threeway arms race. For many years, of course, the focus of Nuclear Arms Control has been on bilateral competition between the United States and the soviet union, later russia. With apparent chinese intentions to build up its own nuclear arsenal, are we in a position to avoid that kind of arms race, both in the short term, the mediumterm, and the longerterm . To discuss this with us today, we have three great experts. Lynn rustin come up with the Nuclear Threat initiative. John will stone wolfstone
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Some top Congressional Republicans are considering legislation to ban the bump stop device. Speaker ryan focusing on that action. Automatic weapons have been illegal for many many years. This seems to be a way to go around that. We need to tighten up compliance with that law. Charles joining me to discuss, rich lowry and steven loomis. Yesterday it started making the rounds that several republicans are considering this. What are your thoughts on removing this. A lot of folks are saying if while it sounds like it might be reasonable. Many are afraid it opens the door to a slippery slope. Sure it will be opening the door to a slippery slope. Politicians shouldnt be politicizing this at least not until the investigation is complete. Its like blaming the airplanes for 9 11. Its a ridiculous mission to. We need to its a are you digs pluit. To politicize it is. Charles its surprising how many republicans rm alluding to it. They are willing to vote on curbing this or bang it all together. On