Eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Washingto continues. Host 441 days to go until election 2020. We are joined now by David Wasserman, the house editor of Cook Political Report. Lets start with what the Playing Field looks like right now. How many seats the republicans need to take back to regain control of the house and how many seats you think are in play this cycle. Heres the basic math theres 235 democrats in the house, 197 republicans, one independent who left the Republican Party and theres two republican vacancies, one in north carolina. We expect one of them will stay in republican hands. The other will be very competitive, the ninth district. Depending on the results of that special, republicans could need to pick up 19 or 20 seats to retake the majority in 2020. Host when it comes to the house map, we saw the house flip in 2018. What is the likelihood or how often hasnt happened in history that the house has flipped in one election and then flipped back the following
New report. And a Health Policy reporter for Bloomberg News on rising levels of vaping and ecigarette use among teenagers. Host it is the washington journal for august second. We want to hear from those of whomurrently undecided on you will vote for in 2020. Specifically, we want to hear about what is the most important issue you will consider when choosing a candidate you will support. May be, perhaps immigration or another issue entirely that has you concerned when making the choice of who you will vote for. For undecided voters only, here is how you can let us know your most important issue. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to post on our twitter feed, you can do so at cspanwj and you can also do so on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. It real clear politics through ir opinion did an opinion a poll looking at issues the topor those was Health Care Immigration at 11 and making a tie for education and the environme
What you do. Health and wellbeing of the people they serve. We do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. Host you turned your attention to the topic of hospice. What were you looking to find out . Health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our top priorities. They are a vulnerable population. We looked into information about deficiencies being cited to quality of care and patient harm. Host what did you find looking into this . Guest our report shed light on how common it is for hospice providers to be cited with efficiency with the quality of care they are providing and in some case very serious deficiencies. We uncovered gaps in Patient Protection. We issued a call to the Medicare Program by the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to help fix these problems. Host what were the worst Case Scenarios with the deficiencies when your department looked into this . Guest we did identify some worstCase Scenarios where patients
Governor bullock shared his personal story of his 11yearold nephew who was shot and killed a School Playground by fellow classmates. The governor called for expanded background checks, red flag was, and a boost to Mental Health care as well as a ban on assault weapons. Governor bullock is a native of montana and the and his wife live in helena with their three children. He served as attorney general and lawyer in private practice where he was an adjuvant professor at the George Washington school of law. We welcome governor bullock to the National Press club. [applause] thank you so much, thomas. Thank you all for taking a little bit of time this morning. It is an honor to be here. First, the Mass Shootings in el paso and in dayton, they are heartbreaking. Not just for the families, not just for the communities, but for our entire country. Fbi, since thee attacks of 9 11, more americans have been killed by domestic terrorism, often fueled by ,atred and White Nationalism then by foreign
Idle, now chiaramonte lawsuit and investigation by the license board which is looking at criminal and possibly federal charges. The lack of integrity as a human to do Something Like this to almost 100 people is just, just unconscionable. Reporter carol mchale is a victim who filed suit. Her house should have been finished by now. Instead shes had to hire another contractor. They owe her 90,000. When will this end . It be finished when i see them in jail. Thats when it will be finished. Reporter so the next question is, whats the next step . We called the das office here n today. We asked what the senate us of the case was. They said they have not received the case yet. It is still under investigation. Thats the latest. In an ongoing story. Live in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Started butsay somef re did they have problems . Reporter well, you heard some of those problems at the beginning of the story. Trusses, septic tanks, money that they say they are owed. All kinds of prob