Gear up for their ninth debate set to begin in just a few short hours. We have a live report from las vegas. Good evening. Im david. Thank you for joining us. Joining me on the panel is steve warr steve forbes, liz. [inaudible] the push for the left take center stage. Bernie sanders is surging to a doubledigit lead with joe biden numbers tumbling. Peter ducey is there with what we can expect tonight. David, the big buzz in las vegas that you can h see here is the debate debut for bloomberg. We have not seen him alongside the top democratic hopefuls yet but the campaign is starting to signal what they want to say and who they want to go after. Mike has what every candidate should have, passion matched with principal. The legacy extends well beyond the five boroughs so, joe biden has a very long record, obviously but so does Michael Bloomberg. The fact of the matter is. [inaudible] [inaudible] joe biden might not be the name to be according to the Bloomberg Campaign there is an internal
You will not compare me with the hardliners in iran. Senator cardin i am still going through the review process. I have not reached a decision on the vote that will take place when we return in i want to september. Underscore a point that senator corker and i, working with our leadership, encouraged to the leadership to provide for the debate on the floor of the u. S. Senate that we think would be fitting of this critical issue. Yesterday without objection we moved on to the bill, so when we come back on tuesday, we will not go through a cloture vote, not go to any procedural hurdles. We will be on the bill. I expect the majority leader will put forward the bill that we will be voting on and be right on that debate when we return and use that week to debate this issue, and each member of the senate make up his or her mind as to what he or she thinks is in the best interest of this country. I do not interpret from the president s remarks that he is challenging any of our independent jud
Literal rejoicing that we had achieved a consensus in a complex area that affected so many millions of americans families. And brought some stability to elementary and secondary education policies. So i am hopeful that after the regulations are finally done, that well still feel the same way. In that spirit, let me continue the conversation you and i were having. I only have five minutes. So i want to get in two or three questions. When we wrote the law, we envisioned that states would have time to plan for the transition to the law. Youve heard and weve heard some states say that your proposed regulation, a account doesnt permit a state to do this. Let me ask you if what im about to describe would be an appropriate timeline for a state in your view. That states would develop and implement their new accountability systems during the school year that begins in 2017 and 2018. Thats next year. That means theyd be collecting data in that year. Then in the following year, 201819, they would
I dont think so, except to show that he supports her. His popularity is going up, as you know. In North Carolina i think it is 50 or higher now. So i think it helps her to be safe with him and it certainly he continues to have a lot of supporters here, particularly minorities and democrats and if he can excite them for her, that will help her get them to turn out in six months. As far as legislators, do we know of anybody here as far as the delegation thats going to be part of this event or attending or local legislators there . Yeah, im sure a lot of some of the delegation will be here. But more importantly for North Carolina politics, the democratic gubernatorial candidate, roy cooper, will be there, as well as the democratic u. S. Senate candidate deborah ross. I dont think either one of them was with secretary clinton when she was in raleigh a couple weeks ago. Literally a couple weeks ago. You know, incidentally, donald trump is in raleigh, North Carolina tonight. So its sort of a
Like to mention we have a proposal improve the Small Business provisions of the Affordable Care act to try to both simplify and make the tax credits better for Small Businesses. That is feedback weve received. About that, and that is something that is included in our budget. Now turning to a couple i think, hopefully more substantive questions that i could get to with you, madam secretary, i was pleased to see the democratic chip reauthorization bill included in the president s budget extended medicaid primary care increase. Rate of increase was initially included in the aca is absolutely critical. For the last two years boosted payments to doctors treating most vulnerable populations making access achievable goal not just a tar get. The payment at end of last year will result in medicare provider payments cut on average of 43 . Over 50 in some states. Impact on wait times could be drastic and immediate. I was hoping madam secretary you could comment on importance of parity to medicare