Forces are active inside Eastern Ukraine and russian financing is very active inside Eastern Ukraine. Thank you all. President obama is going to announce his pick to head the Veterans Affairs department, replacing eric shinseki, who resigned last month. Will be Robert Mcdonald, a former executive at Procter Gamble. We will be live here on cspan with the announcement expected in about a half an hour from now at 4 30 eastern. Burnish Prime Minister David Cameron reported to the house of commons today about his meetings last week with European Union leaders. The eu is set to elect its next resident of the commission in july. They have decided to nominate a person Prime Minister cameron have has opposed. This is about one hour. We will show you as much as much as we can before the president s announcement. I would like to make a statement on the European Council. Let me briefly report back on two other points. First, the council began in april with a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniv
Stephen kicked off the debate in a recent and widely read article for Time Magazine where he delved into the absurd hospital charge master, revealing a hospital pricing model as absurd, they charge the highest prices to the people who are least likely to pay them, the uninsured. He pointed out his point of view that the only force disciplining it is medicare, which still guarantees wide access and quality medical care for beneficiaries. We could bring more to the system and save patients a lot of heartache and expense. In rebuttal, he says our system is so dysfunctional because medicare distorts pricing in ways that produce perverse outcomes for payers. Allow me to introduce both of our speakers before we begin. Stephen designed a company to create a viable Business Model for journalism to flourish on line. He is a feature writer for magazines and trains journalist and founded brills content magazine. He is a graduate of yale and yale law school. The chief executive officer of the game
Ove forward on that. We do have a sig consultant issue with the private sector. I think maybe now we can put some of this in the past. We cant put all of it in the past. There are a lot of other documents out there that will have the report next week, and other things that will continue this discussion. At least we may have reached a point of deflection. . Ow do we manage that selection how do we ensure that that is appropriately protected that meets expectations and ensures that our choices that people want to make in their lives ont get affected. Are you safer at fort meade or are you safer at target . I think the answer to the question is you are a lot safer at fort meade in what matters to ost americans. Unless the congress of the United States is prepared to enhance the career resources, most of these will be outsourced to contractors. We will see more and more security evaluations and more and more Data Collection handling in the hands of contractors. I think if there is one less
Ambiguous by self interested president s. [laughter] death is an enduring state. But his death happened in 1941. The fact that it may happen it means it is never asked to describe an enduring state. It has been the understanding since the framing that there is ambiguity here. Your friend on the other side says one flaw with your argument is that it makes the words it may happen or happen during superfluous. The clause would mean exactly what you say it means if you took the words out. And your response, the only one i could see, page 13, is that the words were put there to quote, confine the president to filling vacancies that actually exist at the time of appointment do you think they put that language in because they were afraid the president would fill appointments that do not exist but mark it does fulfill that function. They were afraid that the president when somebody died, and they had had a big fight, to put them through as recess appointments. That could be one thing they did
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. This will play out. Which, as of tonight, could serve as the headline for the status of everything. Still under investigation by the special prosecutor. Unclear how this will play out. Leading off our discussion now, joyce nance, former special prosecutor. And former counsel to the mayor of New York City and eugene robinson, Opinion Writer for the washington post. Hes an msnbc political analyst. And you are a former federal prosecutor also. What do you make of the giuliani conditions for the interview . Well, in fairness i was in the Civil Division of the u. S. Attorneys office. I will say that unfortunately giuliani has become someone whose career is not going to be looked at quite the same light as it was before this because he really had a storied career. And what were seeing is just
this complete disintegration of what was a credible lawyer into someone who has lost all credibility. While