We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances, some of you, to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give an idea of how many people are interested in this, senator murray and i invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate is on this committ committee, to come to a coffee with the five commissioners that weve just completed for an hour. We had 31 senators there. Thats a remarkable level of interest. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Then well introduce our five witnesses. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses questions and well do it in fiveminute rounds. This includes 23 United States senators. Nearly onequarter of the members of the senate. It includes senators with the widest divergence of views. It has a republican majority of only one. Yet working together the last tw
Created evidence that greatest enemies may be slow or level off. This was the climate, the land, and unfinished task that faced Lyndon Janson johnson. It documents the final year of president lyndon b. Johnson. His meeting with mexicos president. Awarding the medal of honor to a marine who fought in vietnam, and celebrating the holidays. And on the presidency. William hazelgrove. Edith wilson was Woodrow Wilsons second wife and buffered access to the president as he recovered from a massive stroke in 1919. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Two Army National guard officials told a House Committee about recent efforts by the pentagon to recover improper bonuses paid to california National Guard soldiers. Defense secretary ash carter has ordered the pentagon to suspend such efforts. I want to welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing on the california National Guard bonus repayment issue. Were here today to hear from the california National Guard, the Na
Their highs of the year and the two things that helped get them there are the same two things that held the Broader Market back for so long, china and the financials. Data out of china overnight put po expan in a buying mood. For the first time in nine months but it was earnings from jp morgan that sparked rally in the beleaguered Banking Sector helping stocks across the board. By the closing bell all the indexed gained more than 1 . The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 187 points 17,908. The nasdaq added 75. The s p 500 was up 20. Bob pisani has more on the rally in the years worst performing sector. Reporter jp morgan kicked off earnings season for the big banks and markets and the news was positive because they beat expectations and ceo jamie diamond wa modestly upbeat noting the u. S. Economy continues to chug along. Now if that doesnt sound like much, rem, most bank stocks are down more than 10 this year including jp morgan. Theyve been like zombies wandering around aimlessly bec
At the Tactics Police use against minorities as one lawmaker visits the site of eric garners death and meets his mother. He joins us live this hour and well talk about their emotional exchange. Hollywood cyber attack. We have new details of the unprecedented breakin that revealed personal and embarrassing information about some of hollywoods biggest stars. Sources tell cnn there is a new clue pointing directly to north korea and the kim jongun regime. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news this hour and sources telling cnn a notorious terrorist bombmaker initially thought to have been killed in a u. S. Airstrike is, in fact, alive. That news comes hours after the release of a new isis video containing new horrors and brutality and as militant websites are now calling for retaliation in the wake of the Senate Report detailing cia interrogation of terror suspects. Were covering all of this and a lot more this hour with our