Proposal, calling on the increased role the federal government and the National Election process. Good morning welcome to washington journal. Its a great pleasure to be with you thisfo morning. See him before he gets your proposal and me ask about the election itself. Nahor jumped four weeks hence, record turnout and by the federal governments on statement a secure election, the most secure election in u. S. History. What are some of your observations. Things that you found surprising in this years election . Guest the election was a very secure election b all standards. But, and weeks and months leading up to the election there was a tremendous amount of litigation and dispute over how mail in ballots would be counted and other issues of electioneering. And followinghe election, as everyone is aware a terminus amount ofitigation. A fair amount of uncertainty as to how and when results could be certified. So i think it has certainly been a secure election. But it isn election and which
President and trails everything single one of them between 3 and 10 points, stu. Shes not looking like a savior. We shouldnt be surprised when our government tells us things that are not accurate that they try to hide documents. That shouldnt surprise us. Judge granting a verdict and effectively throwing the case out. Donald trump is talking to the average american thats been forgotten for so long and going to order them. Stuart the thunderstorm has passed and a drop of rain on want lens of new york city. 11 00 eastern, thursday, may 23rd. To the markets, please. The dow is down 275 points. Very few winners amongst the dow 30. Mostly theyre losers. Boeing, who else is down . Boeing, travelers, mcdonalds, theyre all down quite sharply. Show me big tech. We have nvidia at the top of the list doing extremely well. Its up 90, 9. 5 after a stellar Earnings Report late yesterday and microsoft at 431 up a fraction, 58cents and alphabet, apple, amazon on the downside. The 10year treasury yield
Facebook. Com cspan. If you are a medicare recipient, we want to know your experience with the program and your thoughts on possible changes. We will begin with House Speaker paul ryan, who has during his legislative career eyed entitlement reform as a way to tackle the nations debt. [video clip] when you talk about entitlement reform, one of the things youre talking about is obamacare. And then welfare as well. We have a welfare system trapping people in poverty, and paying people not to work. Thinking about trying to do any reforms with Social Security or medicare . President trump has not seemed interested in those things. He has not shown as much interest. We are working on entitlements he is supportive of. You cannot use budget reconciliation for Social Security. It is exempt from those rules. It is the healthcare entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt. That is where the problem lies fiscally. Host the speaker of the house thinking medicare is the problem with our natio
Camp david where you have the Top Republican leadership huddling with the president over what they want to get done this election year. We know Speaker Paul Ryan has long been an avid proponent of reforming these entitlement programs. Mitch mcconnell not quite so eager on that front. Clearly these two leaders have to get on the same page in terms of their agenda, but now they are definitely going into different directions. Host paul ryan sounds like he thinks its doable and Mitch Mcconnells response to the question was not so doable basically. They said in interviews last year at this time that we have to look at our entitlement programs. We have to look at the drivers of the spending and the deb t. This is not new for him but new in the context of this new Republican Congress and legislative agenda. Weve asked Mitch Mcconnell repeatedly about those comments following the speakers remarks and he said, look, issues like entitlement reform and welfare reform have to be bipartisan. First
Mitch mcconnell not quite so eager on that front. To get on the same page in terms of their agenda, but now they are definitely going into different directions. Host paul ryan sounds like he thinks its doable and Mitch Mcconnells response to the question was not so doable basically. They said in interviews last year at this time that we have to look at our entitlement programs. We have to look at the drivers of the spending and the deb t. This is not new for him but new in the context of this new Republican Congress and legislative agenda. Weve asked Mitch Mcconnell repeatedly about those comments following the speakers remarks and he said, look, issues like entitlement reform and welfare reform have to be bipartisan. First of all, democrats its difficult to see if democrats will be in a bipartisan mood especially on those issues. We are talking about health care here. At his ear and press conference, Mitch Mcconnell was talking about look at Social Security reforms of the 1980s betwee