Tier levels of candidates include senator Kamala Harris from california. She will look to have one of those breakout night to try to continue her momentum into the top tier. Miami, i can type a lot of folks from other campaigns are talking about bullying castro are talking about julian castro, the former hud secretary who went headtohead on immigration policy with beto orourke. Elizabeth warren laying out her Economic Vision for the Democratic Party and for the country. She attacked not just President Trump but big tech, big business, and big pharma. David i want to come back to you on that subject. First, lets turn to erik on capitol hill. Were all mindful of what is going on the southern border. We have a bill from the house in the senate for emerging for emergency funding to take care of the unaccompanied minors at the border. Where does it stand . Nancy pelosi and Mitch Mcconnell are in a standoff over competing versions of the bill. The house wants to add a 24 page amendment to th
Medea. Its great to speak with you. Im glad you enjoyed the book. It was a bit of a frenzy to write this book. I usually take about five years to write books. Thats been my average. I publish a new book about every seven years. I give myself a little break between but five full years. This book, i just i just wanted to get it out others quickly as possible. Theres a there are a couple of chapters in the book focused on what we should expect if theres a crisis in the United States, if theres an economic crisis or a major security crisis and i felt so passionately that there needed to be some political Disaster Preparedness among progressives that i just wrote it and i worked with a publisher that was really committed to getting it out quickly, too, because the Publishing Industry can be quite slow. Usually you finish the book and then it sort of creeps along the production process and these stages for another four months, and in this case everybody just worked so hard to get it out in r
Host lovely to get the chance to interview you on a book i found just fantastic. I read it in one long sitting and it sounded absolutely fascinating. My first question is how in the world were you able to write this so quickly because you reference things that just happened in april, may and the book just came out. Guest thank you. Im glad to speak with you and that you enjoyed the book. It was a bit of a frenzy writing this book. I usually take about five years to write a book. Thats been my average. I publish a book about every seven years and give myself a break. I wanted to get this out as quickly as possible. There are a couple chapters focus on what to expect if there is a crisis in the united states, an an economic crisis or major security crisis and i felt so passionately that there needed to be a political Disaster Preparedness among progressives that i just wrote aevery speech ive frankly never written before and i worked with a publisher committed to getting it out quickly b
Disability in context with both the senate bill emerging and the house bill. On behalf of roan and those who have a loved one with a disability, i ask unanimous consent that no motion to proceed to calendar no. 120, h. R. 1628, the American Health care act, be in order until the bill is jointly referred to the committee on finance and the committee on health, education, labor, and pensions. The presiding officer is there objection . Objection is heard. Ms. Klobuchar madam president. The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , one of the things that i would most like to work on at the cost is the cost of Prescription Drugs and i think we should make sensible changes to the Affordable Care act. But the bill that came over from the house doesnt really do that at all. And whether its bringing the costs down for seniors by having negotiations under Medicare Part d, whether its allowing for less expensive drugs to come in by generic drugs or from other c
Disability in context with both the senate bill emerging and the house bill. On behalf of roan and those who have a loved one with a disability, i ask unanimous consent that no motion to proceed to calendar no. 120, h. R. 1628, the American Health care act, be in order until the bill is jointly referred to the committee on finance and the committee on health, education, labor, and pensions. The presiding officer is there objection . Objection is heard. Ms. Klobuchar madam president. The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , one of the things that i would most like to work on at the cost is the cost of Prescription Drugs and i think we should make sensible changes to the Affordable Care act. But the bill that came over from the house doesnt really do that at all. And whether its bringing the costs down for seniors by having negotiations under Medicare Part d, whether its allowing for less expensive drugs to come in by generic drugs or from other c