Citizens are truly influenced. Get it straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are, because if the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer assistant secretary of state for intelligence and Research Discusses Foreign Surveillance and intelligence gathering and its impact on u. S. Diplomacy abroad during an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Persons located outside the United States. When it was reauthorized in 2017 congress concluded a sunset provision, and as a result of that these authorities are set to expire at the end of this year, unless Congress Reauthorizes its use. Todays discussion is going to highlight this one aspect of 702, which is the ways in w
Players in that resurgent city. Power lunch starts right now. Dont you know that i heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be mine welcome to power lunch, im melissa lee. Gm, ford, Fiat Chrysler all dropped. Hurricane matthew is barrelling through the caribbean. Could make landfall in haiti. Stocks kicking off Fourth Quarter in the red. Take a look at where we stand right now. We have the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 all pointing lower on the s p 500, materials the only sector in the green but it is really being crushed today by the downturn in utilities which is down by more than 1 . Oil, meantime, is higher today by. 8 of a percent. Trading above 48 bucks per barrel. We have a busy two hours. We kick it off with Brian Sullivan live in the motor city for us. Hey, bri. Hey, melissa. Thank you very much. Cant hear the song, heard it through the grapevine without thinking of the movie the big chill. When we came here a few years ago detroit was in a big chill. We came back be
Individual patients through 200,000 visits. So also i would be remiss if i didnt say texas as im sure all of you in this room know, this is not Medicaid Expansion state, so, therefore, only children, the elderly and disabled are still eligible for medicaid. We are also a, on the federal run exchange we did not object to a state exchange. Our marketplace and how people are accessing it, they are coming into our clinic, making appointment or walking in. They meet first with a certified application counselor who starts the process by getting them to walk through the consent. This causes a lot of anxiety for some people, and because theyve heard a lot of bad publicity. Declared about identity theft. Theres also been several groups in houston that have been fraudulent groups out collecting information from people, and basically stealing their identity. Theres been a lot of publicity around it. We have to get over some of that anxiety. Then we have to determine the clients knowledge. And thi
Have me. Let me in, earth, wind and fire a very good afternoon to you, and in spite of aggressive attacks by its opponents, in spite of zealous campaigns to prevent its passage and implementation, it may surprise some of you to learn, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act is, in fact, alive and kicking. Just moments ago, we got the long awaited enrollment numbers for the month of october. Hhs secretary, kathleen sebelius, announcing on a Conference Call that just over 106,000 signed up on the aca private exchanges in the first month. As the white house has warned, not up to their own or anyone elses expectations but theres more. Nearly 400,000 have now been accessed as eligible for medicaid, or oh the Childrens Health insurance program. And nearly 1 million customers have gotten all the way through the application process but have yet to select a plan. Enrollments are improving, uninsured rates going down, growth in Health Care Costs is slowing, and even that troubled website
Who his family say was gunned down while jogging back in february. Good friday morning, everybody. It is may 8th. Im yasmin vossoughian. We have a lot to cover this morning. Were going to start with the stunning move from the Justice Department dropping charges against National Securities adviser Michael Flynn who sought for months to withdraw his guilty plea for lying to the fbi as part of special counsel bob muellers investigation in russian interference in the russian election. In the court filing, the doj argued that after reviewing its case, including notes from fbi agents that were publicly disclosed last week from flynns january 17th fbi interview was untethered to an unjustified by the fbis investigation into mr. Flynn and, quote, conductsed without any legitimate investigative basis. The u. S. Attorney for the district of colombia added that continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice. Shay was the only u. S. Attorney to sign the filing, which d