Later, the president of college and Young Democrats of iowa on the candidates and issues in campaign 2020. As always, we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal twitter. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for august 12. We want to hear from you. Some type ofaccept compromise when it comes to potential new Gun Legislation passing the house and senate and being signed by the president. Some type ofsals have compromise when it comes to flagged we want to hear on what been compromises could you support, if any when it comes to Gun Legislation and why . You can let us know on the following phone lines. 2027488001 for republicans. For democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. If you are a gun owner, give us a call at 2027488003. You can post on twitter at cspanwj and almost 400 people posting on our Facebook Page on this posting and question. You can add your thoughts to the mix at facebook. Com cspan
And what the tapes did and did not reveal. This is an hour and a half. Were not talking about current events. And were not really focusing on the chronology of watergate because what im trying to tell you is what went on behind the scenes, the back story, both of developments at the white house itself where i worked and the special prosecutors office, where ive done a tremendous amount of research in finding out what their thinking was and what the documents show. So its an insider ceas view, im the insider. So im responsible for all of the views. Lets take a quick review of the preceding nine presentations. So i can try to convince you this has all made sense. The first week we introduced some people and then we ended with three surprising revelations. There were secret meetings going on between the judges and the prosecutors, a lot of them. And you dont know which is the bigger surprise, that they were meeting in secret or writing memos about their agreements. I have the memos. John
About the organization and its effort, David Mitchell is the president and washington journal continues. Host this is Stephen Gutkowski of the Washington Free beacon joining us. Hes a staff writer talking about the various efforts on Gun Legislation being discussed. Good morning to you. Guest good morning to you. Thanks for having me on. Host of the various pieces weve heard since the shootings in both dayton and el paso, what has the most success as of today . Guest as far as legislation at the federal level goes, i think the most likely to pass or come up for a vote even is red flag legislation. Being worked on by Lindsey Graham and richard blumenthal. They announced theyd had a deal although er on texts, they have not released the text yet. So were not sure on the details of that beyond whats been. So basics reported. But essentially that bill would be federal grants for states that adopt red flag laws that meet certain guidelines that will, i guess well see once of the text of the
Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
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