Year . Plus meeting america. Kevin tibbles travels to the small town in iowa that hosted cold war leader nikki ta khrushchev. Why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today . From nbc news in washington, meet the president with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. As you can see, its been a busy week. Its going to be a busy week. But were going to start with ukraine. In the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to the find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. John kerry turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in paris today. President obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. Our people and our homeland face no direct threat trt invasion of crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by russias annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent.
Cold war leader nikki ta khrushchev. Why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today . From nbc news in washington, meet the president with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. As you can see, its been a busy week. Its going to be a busy week. But were going to start with ukraine. In the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to the find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. John kerry turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in paris today. President obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. Our people and our homeland face no direct threat trt invasion of crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by russias annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. The well, on saturday, lavrov stated again that russia has no intention of invading ukrai
Good evening, everyone, im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Insurance commissioners say his obama care champions are creating uncertainty. We need to explore what that means. Republican congressman brad wen cher and Strategy Associates and avik roy, author of how medicaid failed the core. , the Insurance Commissioners had problems with cancellation renewal. The back payment and payment mechanisms on the obama care website has yet to be ruled. Twoweek crunch period. Does that mean well . Kathleen sebelius is the former president of National Association of Insurance Commissioners. I keep youre not going to invite me to this program anymore because i keep asking the same question. Who is advising this president when it comes to how the Insurance Markets work . I dont get these guys. Join the crowd. I get that, too. No quarterback. Brad, let me go to you, congressman. Yesterday we had these revelations from mr. Chow, from the hhs. He says 30 to 40 of the website is not brok is not
Manufacture drugs . Guest it is interesting because the biotechnology and history and the pharmaceutical industry should have been much more bothered by that. Because that is going to be much more economically impactful to those Companies Bottom lines than the 20 drugs that are being negotiated by the government. I think the trade associations in that sense did themselves no favors by fighting so hard to make more drugs less affordable on the negotiation side, instead of addressing the tax policy which is going to this incentivize and a lot of those companies from being to disincentivise and those companies from being taken seriously. There was a thing where a company would sell to a British Company or a Canadian Company just to have a lower tax rate. Unfortunately, what we may see with the 15 tax is off shoring of jobs. You can have in your own mind that i think corporations should pay this or that but you have to look at the competitive landscape. Companies are going to be based wher
Story. After 21 hours on the senate floor, texas senator ted cruz wrapped up his brave and courageous obama care filibuster today. That said, the debate and the political standoffs are far from over. The real voting is about to begin. Cnbcs chief washington correspondent john harwood joins us now with all the details. Good evening, john. Good evening, larry. We had an unusual end to that filibuster which you called brave and courageous. 100 people voted against it, including ted cruz himself. It became so unpopular by the end, that ted cruz decided to go with everyone else, seeing which way the wind was blowing. What were going to have now is a debate in the senate over stripping out the defund obama care provision. Not sure exactly when thats going to happen. But cruz has indicated he may shorten the time and not drag it out all the way to sunday. Many republicans wanted him to shorten it so that the house will have more time to send a counterplay back to the senate. But it does appea