Shutdown. Give us a call. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. You can start calling in now. The question, again, can Congress Avoid a shutdown . Can they . Should they . You can start dialing in now. Heres the headline from politico from yesterday evening, republicans lack the votes to prevent a shutdown, but house leaders are confident that they can round up enough support before a vote on thursday. One of the reporters on that story, sarah farris, joins us on the phone 2340uf6. Where are we as of this morning . Guest thanks for having me. Basically were not at a doomsday situation. I dont think we should be drawing out our shutdown plans yet. But House Republican leaders do have a pretty tough day ahead of them, and t going to be we could pottially he a nailbiter vote when we do see this go up tonight.
Astounding number, there are over 200,000 isis tweets per day. How can we possibly get a handle over this . The chatter is so high and the volume is so loud that its difficult to get a handle. This isnt terror as usual. This is terror gone viral. I come mebd the fbi, Homeland Security and state and locals for their disrupting of these many plots. But as we saw in chattanooga, we cannot stop all of them. In this age of peer to peer terrorism, authorities are searching for suspects who use secure aps we call dark space, to communicate and crowd source their calls for attack, inspiring operatives who never have crossed into the borders of syria, but cross over borders through the internet to conduct acts of terror. Isis cyber commanders now regularly send out internet directives and missives to their followers, as we saw in garland, texas. Sometimes our first indication of a hatched plot is an internet hash tag. We need to have a frank conversation in america about the challenges posed by
We continue our look you now at the pharmaceutical industry with sarah farris, shes a Health Care Reporter for the hill and she discusses how the pharmaceutical industry is going on the offensive against a barrage of political attacks over rising drug prices. Sarah farris is back at our desk, shes a Health Care Reporter with the hill newspaper, joining us to talk about Prescription Drug prices and charms of the pharmaceutical companies profiteering with their drug prices. First the cost of Prescription Drugs, are they on the rise across the board or does this concern stem from a few high profile cases of prices rising . The cost of brand new and generic Prescription Drugs have been rising more rapidly than weve seen for the past couple of years. They still make up less than about 10 of Overall Health care spending, but this is the Fastest Growing segment of the Health Care Spending overall. So we get a lot of attention on Prescription Drugs because that is where im are seeing their pri
And look at the beauty and majesty as he will be moving up the Capitol Steps into the capitol building. Lets take just a brief moment. Youll only hear clicks of cameras. Just a moment as he heads in. This is an honor reserved for only a select few statesmen, president s, military leaders, in all of american history. Elijah cummings, youll remember, passed away last week at the age of 68. He was the son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful members of congress. Most recently, of course, the chairman of the powerful House Oversight committee. Representing his home of baltimore, maryland, for decades. This ceremony will be getting underway shortly. Well be bringing you the moments. This is bringing together really all of congress, the left, the right, the center. House speaker nancy pelosi, shes going to be speaking pretty much first. Shes going to be offering some welcoming remarks. Other speakers will be also including the Republican Senate majority leader, mitch
Minutes. Okay. Meantime, good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. High noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Closeddoor testimony now under way. How a senior white house budget official could hold an important piece of the impeachment puzzle. Also, the first direct account of an overheard phone call where the president allegedly asks about ukraine investigations. Forget about everything else, why this could be the real bombshell moment. The testimony you might have missed. The biggest takeaways from the first public hearings. Plus the point of order is will the chairman continue to prohibit witnesses from answering republican questions as youve done in closed hearings and as you did gentlewoman will suspend. This week when you interrupted our questions. Not a proper point of order. Jeanetgentle woman will suspend what was that about . A member of congress explains. But top of the hour, breaking news as right now,