And we are live here in milwaukee, where the Wisconsin Democratic party is holding their 2016 founders day gala. The event will include remarks from president ial candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. We will also hear from several lawmakers including senator franken and Tammy Baldwin. And representatives more and marcy kaptur. Expects the program to begin shortly. Until that happens, we will show you a discussion from todays washington journal. Welcome to the program. Good morning, sir. Pleasure. It has been a week of storylines of politics and the media. It began monday with president obama speaking at syracuse university. Here is president obama speaking at that event come a talking about the future of journalism. We want your thoughts. President obama as i go into my last year, i spend a lot of time are selecting on on reflecting on how this crazy notion of selfgovernment works. How can we make it work. Important this is anything. Nt as in an era in which Attention Spans a
[applause] maybe maybe, mr. President. But im afraid not. Because the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Government cant do everything, we were told, so it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer, and what falls from the table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class. You know, the republicans called it trickledown when hoover tried it. Now they call it supply side. But its the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded, for the people who are locked out, all they can do is stare from a distance at that citys glimmering towers. Its an old story. Its as old as our history. The diff
Jim and sarah and scott are an example to all americans that we can end the violence that is tearing us apart, that as a family, as individuals, each of us can and will make a difference. Sarah brady. [applause] sarah brady thank you, general reno. She didnt tell you that on that courthouse step alone fighting for the brady bill there was another woman, the attorney general herself. , sinceht along the way we have been fortunate enough to have her in washington, she has been right along with us. Its a special day for us all. I dont think it ever occur to me that i would be this emotional until i walked in and looked at the faces here, and the memories that come back over these past seven years, every phase i look at brings back a different memory. Want to thank a lot of people here and im going to try to do it as quickly as possible. Everybody here has helped, and each of you in your own way reflects many others across the country. , i want to say to have an administration, an attorney
That is what we will continue with. And that is why we will stick to the longterm economic plan. Eliminating the deficit, net migration down into the tens of thousands, no topdown reorganization, why did the Prime Minister make these promises, and why did he break them . We said we would get the deficit is down, and the deficit is down by half. From a disgraceful situation left by our neighbor. I thought the gentleman would take the opportunity to talk about the vital still interests in his contingency that well talk about later on today. Im working as hard as we can to try to make sure we keep still production growing in our country. But i have to say to him, as hes introduced a political element, so might i. Production is up. And to this Government Employment in industry is up where it was down under labor. Why is that . Because weve got a car industry thats growing, were got an Aerospace Industry thats growing, weve got construction thats growing. Were getting britain back to work.
The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me concerned that these r b2bk ; relationships, the Financial Relationships, were impacting both the quality of health care, and the cost of health care. J2. Sn and i have to say that the process was long and tireless. At the time i worked for senator herb cole and we had, with my colleague Chris Armstrong from oa senator grassleys office, about 300 meetings with consumer a d z tr t hahp hc groups,