Here to discuss whats at stake for california are kqed california politics and government reporter marisa lagos, Health Editor carrie feibel, and john supulveda. Thank you all. Cop republicans made it clear Top Republicans made it clear that theyre serious about gutting the Affordable Care act. How will this affect california where more than onethird of californians are on medical which the aca helped expand . Exactly. It will be huge. Not all californians on medical, they were on medical before, but 3. 8 million californians got on to medical because of the Affordable Care act. And an additional 1. 3 million were able to purchase their own individual policy because of the Affordable Care act. And if that money all goes away, thats 20 billion a year that california will lose. And that will have a huge trickledown effect on Peoples Health care, people going back to being uninsured about on our economy. Ive been talking to folks around the capitol. Theres consensus among democrats that t
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. The men and women who would serve in Donald Trumps cabinet begin confirmation hearings before u. S. Senate committees this week. But the scheduling is in dispute, because the Nonpartisan Office of government ethics says some nominees, without naming them, havent submitted all the financial and personal documents needed to finish the vetting for potential conflicts of interests. Hearings are planned in the coming days for key members of the president elects National Security Team Exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson to become secret
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thank you for joining us. Less than a week before he takes the oath of office as the 45th president of the united states, donald trump is signaling shifts in u. S. Relations with russia and with china. In a new interview with the wall street journal, mr. Trump said he would maintain, at least for a period of time, the russian sanctions imposed by president obama for interfering in the president ial election by hacking Political Party computers. But the president elect also said hed roll back those sanctions if relations with russia improve. The newspap
Meanwhile, the governors nominee for California Attorney general, Javier Becerra, faced his first confirmation hearing. Well also examine what we heard during president elect dumps first News Conference and how it might affect california. Marisa la go sat down with senior political reporter david ciders. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. So president elect donald trump hosted his First Press Conference this week in more than six months. He covered a lot of ground, but there is one thing that caught my eye as a californian. When he talked a little bit about maybe being willing to play favorites moving forward. Lets take a look at what he said. That was a beautiful scene on november 8th as those states started to pour in and we focused very hard on those states. And they really reciprocated. And those states are going to have a lot of jobs, and theyre going to have a lot of security. Theyre going to have a lot of good news for their veterans. So if the president elect is serious a
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Ditional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. This is pbs newshour weekend. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. The inauguration of donald trump as the nations 45th president is five days away. Today in washington, there was a dress rehearsal for the ceremony marking the transition of power from democrat barack obama to his republican successor. But at least 19 democratic members of the house of representatives say they wont attend, including georgia congressman john lewis, the civil rights icon who has served in congress for 30 years. Lewis said in an interview broadcast today he considers mr. Trumps presidency illegitimate, because of