To iraq, his last memories as he dove onto of his soldiers to cover them from a rocket propelled grenade was that you would never see his wife or his child again. While he would survive, his last words proved to be prophetic. The blast cost him his site. But despite his injuries has pursued his education and is planning to start a new business. Though he may never actually see his firstborn daughter, he and his wife, heather, have added two more children to their growing family. In a sense, veterans like sergeant pepper and many others have sacrifice one life to the country and service. In an instant, their hopes and dreams for the future were shattered. But with a love of their countrymen and the support of the family and their community, they rediscover their purpose in life to learn to accept or overcome the obstacles their injuries have imposed. These walls remind us that a sacrifice might only have of our nation is most often shared with a loved one who cares for our injured heroe
Not there. I we are developing and promised the principal sponsors of this law that we are going to develop a plan to get to 100 not have the we do resources. Congress has not given us the resources. We are developing that. I would like to see us get to a higher percentage of what is deans scanned what is being scanned right now. I look at what comes into the country and the method we have for screening it all, and it is pretty sophisticated. So i take away from that a pretty good story. Ok, yes, sir. Last question. On ebola. We are now screening at five airports. Do we have the capability to deal with this, and do we have contingencies if things get worse . We very definitely in this country have the ability to deal with the ebola virus. Every time there has been an outbreak of ebola in the world, it has been defeated. Here in the United States, we have the best health care, doctors, infrastructure, hospitals. It is a treatable disease if it is caught in time and you receive the right
Happening this morning, the Supreme Court will take up the latest challenge to the Affordable Care act. Much more on that throughout todays washington journal. Democratslenny gainthis is the houston chronicle. This is a failure. To fund the department through september. No strings attached. Here is the front page of the boston globe. The house oks homeland funding. Divisions widen between john boehner and hardline conservative republicans. Also this morning their headline on this story. Homeland security receives funding. They say the gop capitulates but the war is not over. This is immigration is the reaction from capitol hill. I voted against this because it does not deny funding for the president unconstitutional action. He voted against what the speaker wanted to do. Since it democrats refuse Senate Democrats refuse to compromise. Another chairman who oversees reform panel voted no on the funding bill. I will not power amnesty. Harry reid tweeted out open or i hope we all i hope we
Revelations about u. S. Surveillance programs, the hearing took place as lawmakers considered new legislation that would limit the nsas ability to gather information. Randall pinkston joins us at capitol hill. What happened in those nsa hearings today . Well, tony, the hearing ended an hour ago after an unusual three and a half hours technique. The members of the House Select Committee on intelligence complimented the work of the National Security agency which as you know are under fire since the revelation by former nsa analyst Edward Snowden that revealed documents that showed that they had been listen together phone conversation or scooping up the phone numbers of conversation of american citizens. The director of National Intelligence said that the information was gathered legally, and the content is only available to a handful of people. Everything that we do on this program is audited 100 . On the business records. 100 . The da data is kept separate frm all the other data we have
So just eight hours remain to make the dead line to sign up for health care. Enrollment under the Affordable Care act ends at midnight tonight. David shuster joins us to break down the number. Which will ensure the viability of the entire scheme. The healthcare. Gov. Gov received close to 1 million visits this weekend. Going into the weekend, according to state and federal enrollment reports at least 9. 5 Million People who previously did not have insurance had gained coverage. This means the total number of unassureuninsured americans, is reflected in apology by gallup. At the end of 2013, the amount of uninsured americans had risen from 18 . Caring for unassured through hospital or emergency visits somebody has to pay for those costs and that pushes up costs for everybody else. The breakdown of how they did it is revealing. Going into the weekend about 6 million americans had signed up at the marketplace exchanges. About 2 million had had absolutely no insurance whatsoever. 4. 5 mill