colleges and universities tuition-free and in terms of ending student debt for 45 million people overwhelming majority of those people are working class people and middle class people. most billionaires do not have their kids having student debt. second of all, and this is what i believe is most important as a nation, we have got to understand, kasie, that for the last 45 years the middle class of this country has been decimated. decimated. and that means the average worker today, despite huge increases in technology and productivity is making exactly the same amount of money and real inflation as he or she did 45 years ago. meanwhile, in the last 30 years the top 1% have seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth while the bottom half have seen a decline we have to help the middle class and working class. who is going to pay for canceling that debt? people who haven t gone to
amanpour, chief international correspondent. you were listening to the secretary of state mike pompeo testify in front of the senate foreign relations committee, read this letter in full to them, he s the one who has had these two recent meetings with kim jong-un, laying the ground work for what was going to be this historic summit. you know, this all started to come unstuck when kim jong-un started to get angry about the joint military exercises that were going on in the korean peninsula, between south korea and the united states. then kept ratcheting it up because you had a national security adviser pompeo and also the vice president talking about libya models and i guess there is nothing that enrachs the north koreans more and they have said it many, many years that we are not libya, not iraq. we don t give up our weapons in order then to be overthrown, killed, decimated, et cetera. that clearly was the sort of heart of what really sort of started to get kim jong-un in a tizzy abo
the u.s. virgin islands are getting ready for a second major hit, al just said, st. thomas, st. john, main focus for fema efforts after hurricane irma decimated the land and left both islands almost entirely without power. the congresswoman of the u.s. virgin islands delegates joins me now. congresswoman, thank you for keeping us close to you about the things you ve been doing. you ve been to the virgin islands twice in the last two weeks? i went down, was on all three of the islands. spent quite a bit of time on st. thomas and st. john, you saw, the ones most decimated, was able to be in touchky your colleague stephanie while down there and got to see her on the island of st. john. maria will be touching down, as you said, touching down in the virgin island in the next 24 hours. what we re really concerned with right now is that maria is a very strong hurricane and it s going to be passing south of the
plan. for millions of people out there you re talking about their health insurance and for many it s a matter of life and death. reporter: it s a huge stroke of foreign for sflats who are embracing for barack obama signature legislation to the decimated, even as he tried to rally them on his way out of office. never in the america history has the uninsured rate been lower than it is today. never. reporter: obamacare still has significant problem ls. healthcare premiums are not going up as fast as they were but despite democratic promises to the contrary they are still rising for everyone. choice is an issue too, with big name insurers pulling out of some change exchanges. next year some states are dedicated to having no obamacare providers. obamacare is exceeding in a pulmonary of ways too, 20
ripped out of your house instead of patching it, they would want to burn down the house. would we are not willing to participate in is burning down the house. i would suggest to the senator from michigan that it s the democrats under obamacare at that burn down the house. the individual market for health care has been decimated. decimated. the congressional budget office says it should have a price and impact for this bill by early next week. senate g.o.p. leadership has set a goal to vote before the fourth of july holiday. they say there is ample time to read and discuss it. john. john: i don t know if it s outside or inside lots of tension on both sides of the aisle. even within the republican ranks. john: president trump answered a question that has been hanging out there for 41 days. announcing he did not make any recordings of his conversations with james comey.