[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the open meeting of the federal communications commission. Madam federal communications commission. Madam secretary we please announce our agenda for this morning . Thank you mr. Chairman. Morning to you and good morning commissioners prefer todays meeting you will hear six items for your consideration. First you will receive a preliminary. Reporter the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau on its investigation into the false Emergency Alert that occurred in hawaii on january 13, 2018. Second you will consider a second report and order on recon to enhance wireless Emergency Alerts including the geographic accuracy. Third you will consider an order jesting the remaining issues raised by parties implementing the connect america phase two option nina three in which Service Providers will get support of up to 1. 98 billion to often voice and Broadband Service in unserved high cost areas. For the will consider a Public Notice establish
And counting . Then, to trumps controversial socalled Election Integrity commission. I would like to make a suggestion that might possibly help overcome part of this problem, and that is think about applying the background check system that we use for in the systems for voting. Amy as the Election Commission faces lawsuits, controversy and the fallout from a second meeting on tuesday in New Hampshire, we will look at how the socalled Election Commission integrity Election Commission may be paving the way for a nationwide Voter Suppression effort. And finally, as the United States marks the 16th anniversary of the september 11 attacks, well look at new evidence filed in the 9 11 lawsuit against saudi arabia alleging the kingdoms embassy in washington, d. C. , may have funded a test run of the attacks. Andrew speak with writer cockburn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, vermont independen
Unveileds backers their proposal at this hour long briefing. [chatter] all sanders let me thank of you for being here this afternoon. Our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its blah. And blah, blah, but the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [applause] [cheers] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the proto
Sen. Sanders let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. Let me thank our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its impact and blah, blah, blah. But the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people the American People want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the protocol here in t
[chatter] long briefing. [chatter] all sanders let me thank of you for being here this afternoon. Our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its blah. And blah, blah, but the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [applause] [cheers] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the protocol here in the senate, let me menti