Are we allowed to start . Okay. Usually there is adult situation that tells you what to do. It is always a great pleasure to moderate a panel at a writers festival because you are dealing with men and women of incredible accomplishment, who have done journalism, literature of unusually highquality and amazingly they are very articulate at speaking about what they have done. I am going to be selfindulgent with your permission. In all these years of doing these, i have never been in the presence of a medal of honor recipient and jackets a true honor to be here with you. Jack is one of those individuals who was willing to saddle up and ride to the sound of gunfire and serve our country. He is one of 75 recipients living and over the years at gatherings of men such as jack, he was with eddie rickenbacker, jimmy doolittle. Its quite, quite remarkable. [applause] i dont know if you have been watching the news this morning. I envy you if you havent. [laughter] but there are consequential even
Vowing to fix it saying most people will be able to use it by the end of the november. Healthcare. Gov will no longer be overseen by medicare and medicaid officials. We are learning more about the National Guard recruiter accused of shooting officers in tennessee. Officials say amos patton was being relieved of duty by two of his supports when he shot them. The victimsthose are your headlt this hour. Inside story is next. The glitches in the healthcare website. Bad news for the Obama Administration. And worse news for federal contractors. Theyre getting slammed. And contractors are now crucial to the government operations. Thats tonight on inside story. Hello everybody, im david shuster. It is blame game time in washington, d. C. When government fails, the finger pointing begins, and americans wonder how do these mistake happen . The prime case is the Online Health exchange website. The government hired private companies to do the job, but none of this outsourcing is new. As back as wo
Bit of a katrina moment. When you think about where we are with ebola, the moment at the end of the 90s when you approached the u. N. Special and the shocks that was felt was katrina and it other things in terms of the method, then sues to show method that came to the table initially in good faith. And considerable courage. Others find themselves washed over. Making this case for the dire need for introduction at a much higher level of new capacities that have been absent. Considerable effort for how who itself is falling short in this time considerably. And the way in which our own efforts have national and local cdcrnment 75 or 80 personnel on the ground. It is becoming increasingly imperative to simply protect them. It is becoming much more difficult than that. This watershed moment. Gaps and ensure to chanel are at International Capacity levels. I hope youre right that it comes forward at the level of world leadership. Because that has been missing. Over the course of the summer th
Effectiveness or is defining the effectiveness is the global , and i will give you one anecdote. This is on the prevention of overweight, obesity, and meeting, and at that ncd, arned about mexicos policy they enacted about three months earlier, and they stage, andis on the part of it was a major value said,tax on drinks, and i how on earth did you get the big Beverage Industry to agree to be and they said it wasnt that easy. They said initially it was , but then west looked to the european union, and there was a directive that all the Beverage Companies had signed up to, including , so they drew on this eu directive, brought it to mexico, and said if you are able to sign onto a directive in europe, why arent you able to sign on to a similar directive whatxico, and that is mobilized the Beverage Industry to sign on. They realized that by having a they would look at the public side anonymously, so i am using that as an , because what is the value of an eu directive . I mean, g, that is b
Resolutions that will expire sometime middecember. It will be up to a lameduck session of congress right before congress to take defending that right before christmas to take the funding. Host thanks for the information. Is twitter handle abettel. Midterm elections two months away, the Associated Press reported today that there will not be an executive action when itident obama comes to immigration. At least not until after the midterms. There continues to be congressional reaction to that news. John boehner releasing a statement that reads there is never a right time for the president to declare amnesty by executive action. The decision to simply delay this deeply controversial and possibly unconstitutional unilateral action until after the election instead of abandoning the idea altogether smacks of raw politics. Responding to the president not taking executive action. Bill nelson tweeting this was the right immigration called by the president even the tea Party Struggle hold on the