And and and it enables those senior stage successfully over many years. Thank you. [applause] thanks to the cochairs for your remarks and if you could please join us on stage. I am hoping we will have time for question and answer but i wanted to ask a couple of questions on the minds of many of you watching so maybe we should jump right in the first talk about the cost implications of the recommendations and there are some items with respect to cost of Health Care System specs i am happy to say a few words but thank u. S. The leader of the task force of any other team of researchers and writers if we could take a moment to recognize those who are involved. [applause] a good part of the indigenous for this report is in fact, the fact that we are increasingly aware of the role of the cost curve of increasing Budget Expenditures costs related to Medicare Medicaid Social Security are three of the most important drivers of deficits is a function dramatically as it is a mention 78 billion ba
Half years after we handed over security to the country to iraqs military, two and a half years after president obama said our war in iraq was ending iraq is once again the focus of our military and our commander in chief. Just hours after president obama announced we were returning to an active role in iraq, the u. S. Launched two rounds of air strikes yesterday against isis fighters near erbil. The u. S. Has a consulate in that Northern Iraqi city and thousands of americans live there. In addition to those military strikes the u. S. Is trying to keep a humanitarian crisis from worsening. The u. S. Military conducted a secondary drop of food and water late last night to thousands of members of the yazidi religious minority who have been trapped on mount sinjar for days and are surrounded by isis militants. The situation might be worse for hundreds of yazidi women. Militants are holding them kapt of at schools in mosul. He told the a. P. By now consider them slaves and have vicious pla
And a new filing on Robert Muellers russia investigation. This one involving former Trump Campaign aide rick gates. How this filing could provide clues as to where the russia probe would head next. But first we start in new zealand. At least 49 dead, roughly four dozen injured after a mass shooting took place at two mosques in the city of christchurch on friday. One man, an Australian Citizen and White Nationalist is in custody and has been charged with murder. The alleged gunman was a frequent traveller to countries in europe, asia and africa and now counterterrorism teams are looking into possible ties with terror organizations. Authorities also say he had five guns in his possession including two semiautomatics and two shotguns. This morning Jacinda Ardern told the country, our gun laws will change. As we mentioned in a News Conference with local police, set to begin around 4 30 p. M. Eastern. You see some of the video from some of the remembrances that people are putting out at thi