again until we see this happening to do something about it. 2016 was the wake-up call. the other day you told cynthia mcfadden that states haven t done enough to protect themselves and jeanette manfra disagrees. i want your response. that could be a glass is half full and glass is half empty way of looking at things. as i said, there was an excellent report by the senate for american progress that was just authored that a a comprehensive 50 state evaluation that graded each state and shows there is a lot of work to do. i m pleased that a number of states are getting their message, doing things but not enough is being done. let s talk about the pdb. in today s news, the presidential daily briefing. good d did you get if and sit in while you were dhs secretary. every morning when i got to work at 6:30 my intelligence book is sitting there on my desk and the first thing that i went
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children s health care, what to do about dreame.r.e.a.m.ers? it looks like they re saying we can t solve the problem. the likely is they ll fund the government for a couple of weeks at the current levels and not answer the questions. but nobody wants a shutdown before christmas. the one question still is conservatives seem uneasy with this. they haven t gotten on board in the house. paul ryan needs to scrape around and find the votes to make sure everybody can go hoenl for christmas. that s usually a powerful motivating factor. fingers crossed we ll get to go home in a couple of days. still ahead, president trump says obamacare has essentially been repealed thanks to the republican tax plan. we ll fact check that this morning. plus senators bob corker, james langford, chris van holland and
of the cost of one aircraft carrier. when you think of our national security with this cyber war that we re seeing, that will allow states to use the money to upgrade their equipment, get back up paper ballots and make things safer for all americans. because, you know, we can talk about this all we want, but if we have a major hack into an election when 42 states haven t upgraded their equipment in ten years, it undermines the very democracy that s the foundation of our country. senators, it s willie geist. good to see you both this morning. senator langford, let me ask you about the vulnerabilities of the election system. as you look at what russia did and what s happen right now, if i m an american voter sitting at home watching, where are we most vulnerable? one comment is the answer to joe s question, the administration has done something about it. the department of homeland security has been cooperative in helping with this bill, and
haven t had much by the way of good news in terms of progress on the talks with regard to say the divorce bill there also hasn t been any id indication that the financial economic fallout won t be as bad as the brags that naysayers say the companies of course are still warning of the dangers that a cliff edge drags it will do to trade meaning that this is a danger is still foremost in their minds and a lot of them are starting to activate their contingency plans outside the u.k. now absent of any progress we will probably see them activate these plans at a greater pace as we near the end of the year all right thank you very much. fossil fuels and air pollution i believe should we go hunting the hunt and that can be seen very very clearly in india that s right monica as you know over this past week we have been reporting on the u.n. climate change summit in bonn and among the biggest issues on the agenda is reducing c o two emissions worldwide and as monica mentioned today we re looking