Extend it to the entire population. The idea of medicare for all is the government would pay all the Nations Health bills and everybody would have coverage. A public option would create a government type program like medicare, like medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet certain qualifications to get into any of the government provided health programs. The public option would make it easy for people to get into paid health care. Host for the democrats were debate on these issues why are they so fervently advocating . Whats wrong with the Current System to them . Guest everybody agrees, republicans do, the Current System is not working. People are paying too much. Most people have insurance but a substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their interest because they have multithousand dollars deductibles. Everybody agrees we need to fix whats broken at how you do that. Democrats generally agree that eve
On trump. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The debate will be hosted by bret baier and Martha Maccallum. I spoke to the anchor of the story from new york. Martha maccallum, welcome. Hi, howie, good to be with you. Howie i havent seen a build up like this for a first debate at the beginning of a campaign since that 2015 Fox Debate With Political Newcomer donald trump. I turned to the other channels i see fox debate. What are people saying . Why do you think that is . I think theres a lot of enthusiasm. I think people are much more politically engaged and probably since that 2015 debate and i think that people see this as , you know, entertainment that is very eye opening in terms of whats going on in the political world, so i think its a huge opportunity for these candidates on this stage and we see it acrosstheboard that people are just more interested in politics they are more interested in whats going on, so i think its great. Howie people didnt talk about politics or talk abou
It to. Us hello, im alicia menendez. As we come on the air tonight we are closely monitoring the second deadliest wildfire in u. S. History in hawaii on the island of maui. 80 people are now confirmed dead. Sadly, the kit mayor tonight wanting the death toll could go up as more damages are assessed. From the air, the toll of these fires, well, look at it, it is hard to take in. Homes reduced to rubble. This as half a dozen fires are still burning in maui and on the big island. Officials say fire in the Historic Town of a hyena is now 85 contained the governor saying he believes these fires could be the largest Natural Disaster in the states history. , tonight residents either working to evacuate maui, if they can returning home or in cases they are finding nothing. There are also air quality concerns to talk. About we will over the next two hours with live updates from maui we will also speak to a 911 First Responder who is there on the ground working to help fellow americans displace.
It is the washington journal the seven tonight President Biden delivers the state of the union. You can watch on cspan or cspan now. He pushes republicans to work on him with lowering cost, higher taxations on corporations and other measures but many measures are expected to nights. We want to hear about the top issues in the United States. For democrats 202 7488000 for republicans 202 7488001 for independents 202 7488002 if you want to text us 202 7488003 and post on social media at facebook. Com cspan or on x at cspanwj. Our coverage starts at 8 00 with your phone calls and analysis leading up to the speech. All of that is available to you as part of coverage of state of the you in. If you go to our website we posted a poll about those you in light of the state of the you and here is what you are responding. 34 said the top issue is immigration, reproductive rights 13 , bipartisanship a 10 Foreign Policy at nine, health carerime 3 . If you want to participate you can do that if you u
From the outside and you say its all inside, his supporters are saying, these people in the political establishment have been screwing us over for decades. Political establishment have been screwing us overfor decades. And this is the one guy who is going after the media, the one guy establishment cant stand, the one guy that even people like mitt romney and the Republican Party go against, he is part of the deep state and if truly, you have a large part of the american electorate that is mobilised and motivated by the absence of grievance that is utterly court to Donald Trumps campaign, it should not suppression at all that is Approval Ratings are only going north among the gop base since all his indictments are being levied against them. These levees are proof of the power of the deep state to take out donald trump who they love. The question of course is always what happens to the independence the middle and which way they go in a general election, not in the primary. Lots of people