Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Hello and welcome. Joe biden has said President Trumps refusal to concede the election is an embarrassment that will reflect poorly on his legacy. But the president elect has insisted nothing will stop the transition of power and hes been working to build his future administration. Our north america correspondent david willis reports. If problems with the transition are getting to him, joe biden isnt letting it show. We are already beginning the transition. We are well under way and the ability for the administration in anyway by failing to recognise our win does not change the dynamic of what we are able to do. Citing claims of voterfraud, President Trump is currently withholding millions of dollars infunding withholding millions of dollars in funding that is intended to facilitate the transfer of power and although his campaign is yet to provide any evidence of such abuse, the president is still refusing to concede. just think its an embar
Of us that are living on the west coast, this is about the time when the dinner dishes are done, the kids homework is done, theyre in bed. You can actually sit down at your computer and go online and try to figure out what might be the best option for you on an exchange. But were being told that the exchange is going to be down between the time that most alaskans and certainly hawaiians that are time hours five difference instead of the four hours that alaskans are, that are not going to be able to go online and to address it there. Thats one aspect of it, is where we are with the exchanges and what thats going to mean if were still going to continue with the deadlines that have been put in place by the administration in terms of when you have to sign up by and when you may be assessed a fine or a penalty for failure to successfully enroll. I mentioned that on friday there were some 5,600 alaskans actually excuse me. 5,360 alaskans who received discontinuation notices from premiera. Pr
And for the time being europe is mostly in the green over there our road map begins with facebook, smashing analyst comments. The cfos comments about teens using the site is spooking investors. And a double dose of dow earnings. And well speak exclusively with the ceo kroeger in just a few minutes. Investors were spooked when the cfo made comments about teens. Usage of facebook among u. S. Teens was stable from q 2 to q3 but we did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens. This is nothing new. Theyve been talking about this for a while. But to hear them say it, they have denied it in the past. The q a for this is the stock was at 55 and 56. First you hear teenage decline, 52, 53. And then you hear ads will decline and its boom, to 50. Theyre doing 2 billion in revenues now. You listen to the call, you were kind of blown away by how well theyre do bug thing but ty give you that chink. The thesis by the end is this people doesnt use it anymore because theyre younge
Despite what has been said about the u. S. Health care system, the bottom line really is that it is superb in both access and quality of care. What about cost . Cost is an issue. It is welldocumented, and i concur with the documentation. The u. S. Is the most expensing system for health care in the world, that is percapita or any other metric. In this israeli the major problem with the system that should be at where their forms are direct. Green down costs. Dr. Alice, some of the reforms have been directed toward bringing down costs. And then not work to your view . Well, if you are talking about the basic affordability care act or what is now called obamacare b yum, actually when you look at the numbers the projections under obamacare are actually not that costs will come down. It will put forth as one of the reasons why reform is so essential. Yet when you look get even the government alone estimates and all the other agencies come in and of them really predict, projected decrease in
Ms. Mikulski mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Ms. Mikulski mr. President , i ask that the call of the quorum be scraicted. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , what is the pending business before ms. Mikulski mr. President , what is the pending business before the senate . The presiding officer were on the motion to proceed to s. 815. Ms. Mikulski mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to speak 10 minutes as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Mikulski thank you very much. Mr. President , i come to the floor today to really speak about how we could avoid another shutdown of our government and also even more important, avoid another shutdown or slowdown of our economy and thats how we in the congress, both sides of the aisle, both sides of the dome need to work to arrive at a budget agreement and then an appropriations agreement for the rest of the fiscal year. Earlier today on the floor,