And breadth of experience. [ laughter ] for example, no, seriously, just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steakhouse the Mens Cooking Team did not impress the judges from omaha steaks and there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership and so ultimately you didnt blame lil jon or meatloaf, you fired gary busey. [ laughter ] and these are the kind of decision thats would keep me up at night. [ laughter ] and that a brief look at some of president obamas past remarks at the white house correspondents dinner. You can watch this years edition, president obamas last, on saturday april 30th at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Our live coverage of the president ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 eastern for election results, candidate speeches, and viewer reaction. Taking you on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. A discussion now o
Is time to do with skyrocketing outofpocket costs and runaway drug prices. Millions of people take these drugs every month and in many cases cant afford them. Drug companies have a near monopoly in which the government says everybody has to have insurance, everyones insurance is to cover certain things, and Drug Companies take advantage of that. The pharmaceutical industry in this country is charging the american people, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Brandon to better understand this issue, we must look at why the cost of medication has been rising. One reason the cost is rising is due to competition. You are buying your competition out, and you two both at the same medications, that means you have a monopoly on it so you can charge whatever you want to charge because there are no caps or limits. The drug manufacturers, if it is a brand name drug, they can make it as high is they want because they are the ones who have the patent for that particular me
Now, current and Foreign Military officers on allowing women to serve in military combat. This comes after the Defense Department lifted all restrictions on women serving in combat roles including infantry positions, reconnaissance, and special operations roles. The new York City Bar Association hosted this event. Washington where think tanks and Panel Discussions are a way of life but some of them are not so good. We have a great one tonight. We are here to talk about an important to truly the military and i would argue as a reporter that covers the pentagon, important to the nation. Allintegration of women in roles in the military including in combat roles. What happened for those of you that may or may not be familiar with the contours of this issue is the current defense secretary ash carter announced in december after three years of study, that all jobs would be open to women across the military. It was an interesting announcement, i found, because mr. Carter, who has been the sec
Points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Weyerhaeuser is buying plumb creek timber for 8. 4 billion in the total price tag. The combined company will keep the weyerhaeuser name and manage 13 million acres of timberland. You can see plumb creek timber up 17 in the premarket. The dubai air show is now open for business. The last show two years ago saw record breaking orders. Thats not the case this time. No major purchases yet announced. Some say this is raising the red flag about the longer term health of the business. And in other global news, lufthansa canceling more than 900 flights today due to a cabin crew strike. A union calling for a walkout in frankfurt, munich, dusseldorf. 900 flights canceled. We talked about it on friday, i dont remember a lot about it. I remember i had to say dusseldorf. I remember seeing that in the teleprompter and nailed it. Nailed it. So theres a five star hotel there. There might be but i wasnt there on vacation. You were you were not there
European headquarters in london. We have all angles covered on the alibaba story. Alibaba makes it official. The Online Retail giant has filed to go public in the u. S. It will be the biggest Public Offering the world has ever seen. Ferro. Joined by jonathan lets start with you, john. We have this billion that they are talking about, but nobody believes that. As 20ould be as high billion. We are expecting a filing and here it is. The price of the shares, how big the offering will be. Around 250e volume, billion last year. That is more than ebay and amazon put together. How on earth do you value this company . We also know a little bit more about these billionaires involved. Huge personalities. Be the poster child for the hero of liberal arts. His parents were singers. He taught english. Business wasnto something new. He failed the teachers exam twice before he exceeded succeeded. There are some Big Companies involved here. Yahoo has a huge stake. Softbank, a huge stake in this business