Good morning everyone. Im joe the American Enterprise institute and i want to welcomen everyone here in our comforter and everyone watching through electronic means to conference t today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and, in particular, some proposal made by a group of eight governors will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us and the answer is travel considerations. Fortunately, although this panel is certainly not obligated to confine their remarks solely to the governors proposal, fortunately, the governor did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. I will start by summarizing and raising the point so that everyone has a basic grounding in what the governors are talking about and, to some extent, the basic grounding about what were talking about, as well. So, they identify really three categories of actions
Tom cotton, ben sasse, john kasich and even, yes, mike pence, are quietly planning a run in 2020. Now, if youre watching this show on friday, neil ran through a number of accomplishments that the white house has been pointing to in its First Six Months whether it be job gains, stock market gains, all that kind of thing. So our question to follow up on that given that this article has been written, was or is the president being counted out way too early . To start us off, Charlie Gasparino, fox business correspondent, here in the studio from. The independent womens voice, heather higgins, also here many our new york studios, and are from the hill, editorinchief bob cusack from d. C. Heather, theres been so many articles written even during the campaign that its all over for donald trump, and although there have been moments where i think most of us would agree things have been messy during this [laughter] First Six Months you stay out of this gasparino [laughter] sorry, i just laughed.
Forecasters are warning, it could be the most powerful storm, to make land fall in the u. S. , since 2005, and millions are in its path. We dont know what will happen, if we will come back to a home what damage we are coming home to, it is kind of sad, scary. Reporter many coastal residents are boarding up their homes and heading inland , hotels are making people check out. School buses are shuttling hundreds out of corpus christie. Thursday, babies from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit were flown north to safety but officials are concerned because not as many people are evacuating, compared with previous storms. The National Hurricane center is calling harvey life threatening and says it could leave parts of the upper texas coast uninhabitable for weeks. Harvey could deliver wind of over 110 miles an hour and 15 foot storm surge when it arrives. The issue will be when it makes land fall it is just going to sit, meander over texas coastline here. Reporter rainfall is predict to be close
Looping back around heading back out into the sea possibly restrengthening and doing a second landfall near houston. So we are talking a very prolonged period this is all the way through the next four or five days that this storm is going to be bringing rain to the coastline of texas which is why we are talking very very high amounts of rain. From Corpus Christi up to houston. 15, 25inches of rain. Thats the big concern about flooding but there are other concerns with this storm. The surge six to 12 feet from Padre Island National seashore up into sergeant, texas and winds 74 Miles Per Hour or more. Thats that Hurricane Force winds. Very scary and then theres a severe component guys they could be seeing tornadoes as we head through the next few hours. Ill be keeping track of it, as well as our forecast back here, guys, looking absolutely beautiful. Its tough to talk about texas want theyre expecting down there when its so gorgeous out here. Well check in a few minutes. Thanks mon any k
You may want to look up and see that we have had some changes here. Mr. Wallace has decided to become a republican and mr. Woodall would be a democrat. Changes to the republican party. Changes to the Democrat Party for sure. Committee wethe want to extend a very special to ms. Pelosi. Weve been working since 10 00 a. M. And your members are not even winded. Were delighted that youre here. The gentleman would be recognized with the knowledge that anything that she brings in writing we would appreciate if she would leave for our office. Losi what the record to show we are willing to yield to a republican member to come to testify. We appreciate and i will tell you you are doing the right thing and we appreciate that. Pelosi aarp, the medical association of half of nurses positions. Patients and consumer groups condemn trunk care t rumpcares assault on her working families. This is the first and only time that hurts publicans have allowed anything resembling testimony about childcare tr u