Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
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Under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to decline that invitation. This committee and the va shared a common goal to pass the mission act in 2018 to better serve veterans and their families and we continue to Work Together to address important issues for our nations veterans. I would expect them to be here with this to share all theyve accomplished since the va was transformed with this legislation and discuss what needs to be done to make improvements. The va is an integral part of in dialog, which is why i planned a whole subsequent engagements with the va officials to discuss title 1 implementation. Id be remiss not to recognize the unprecedented challenges this have year due to the covid19 pandemic. The dedicated staff on the v as front line deserve our thanks for fulfilling the Fourth
Back society, the way to do that is to put women straight at the center, because guess what. Theyre already at the center. With a pandemic still raging and concerns it will get worse before it gets bter, what does philanthropist Melinda Gates say now . Firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line, Melinda Gates. Hanks for having me, margaret. You cofoundethe bill and Melinda Gates foundationo cades ago, and since then your foundation has worked to fight global poverty and to combat infectious disease, including hiv, tuberculosis, malaria, ebola. And noyou have committed more than 300 million to fight the covid19 pandemic. My question just to start is, your work is so often focused on global health. Co d you have imagined that you would be battling a pandemic so close to home . No, theres no chancewe that we thoughould have a pandemic, you know, and that part of the start of it was here in seate. So, no, this has
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