Committee chair chuck grassley, former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and others. [ applause ] hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. And thanks to pfizer for sponsoring the event. Just to reiterate, if youre into hash tags, go ahead and use axios 360 and we can have fun on the social networks together. And if youre also inclined, go to signup. Axios. Com to get our news letters, especially vitals, written by my colleague, Caitlyn Owens. We try to keep things short and light. And real quick, logistic, if youve never 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 in particular is about drug pricing in america, which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind, id like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [ applause ] good to be with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only its a good place to st
I would like to say to everyone that is here testifying today. Thank you so much. Because i do represent the sixth congressional district. I would like to give a warm welcome. Special thanks to a fellow georgian. Your written testimony examines the decline and competition in the georgia press. What has that meant for the information that they are going to receive. About the government at all levels. Thank you for the question. In a way, i guess you could probably answer it after the Spirited Campaign in the sixth district. I think it was clear that we devoted a awful lot of our folks to covering that. I mentioned that because i think it can be loss. Crucial elections where other news organizations may not be in a position in different parts of georgia to cover a campaign. To deal with the controversy to sort through potential misleading television thats. I also think that we increase the situation where we are not competing with each other as those organizations as much. Everyone is be
Tech companies to meet with members of congress, talk about some of the Public Policy issues they face. That is this week on the communicators. What is the point of bringing all this technology to capitol hill . As you know, we produce the Worlds Largest innovation event. In las vegas every january but not everyone on capitol hill can come to las vegas so we want to get less than one person here and feature the innovative things and even start up companies that could Show Congress the Great Innovation that we have in this country. What is the advantage of showing it . Some people can learn by reading or watching. Like a livehing experience when you talk to people who work for a company, explaining their technology and frankly anyone who comes here or any other industry event as a politician, they are learning something. Changing world where technology is moving so quickly and so many policies are affected whether it is self driving cars a robotics or drones or all this Amazing Software
[applause] good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here. I will let you come on up and take a seat. I think we got the order right. Everyone comfortable . Good morning. We are here to talk about what a progressive vision reform policy and National Security looks like. , this isou guys know going to be a conversation. You guys can feel free to jump in if you have something to add or disagree with someone. I will tell you when we need to move on. Also, a programming note, you ay have seen the listing of lastminute issue. Someone from the Kamala Harris campaign was not able to make it. We have four wonderful analysts since that of analyst we have four wonderful panelists instead of five wonderful panelists. Lets jump in. Im going to start with the one this. This morning, we know the u. S. Says iran is to blame for the attack on to oil tankers in the gulf of oman. Knowing what we know now, what worn or besident rn or be saying to the American People about what we know . I would say ob
I would like to say to everyone that is here testifying today. Thank you so much. Because i do represent the sixth congressional district. I would like to give a warm welcome. Special thanks to a fellow georgian. Your written testimony examines the decline and competition in the georgia press. What has that meant for the information that they are going to receive. About the government at all levels. Thank you for the question. In a way, i guess you could probably answer it after the Spirited Campaign in the sixth district. I think it was clear that we devoted a awful lot of our folks to covering that. I mentioned that because i think it can be loss. Crucial elections where other news organizations may not be in a position in different parts of georgia to cover a campaign. To deal with the controversy to sort through potential misleading television thats. I also think that we increase the situation where we are not competing with each other as those organizations as much. Everyone is be