Our first Guest Today is an author. He is we have a former fda commissioner, welcome dr. Scott gottlieb. Thanks for having me. Lets talk about your new book. One of the major themes of the book is the u. S. Health care institutions. We are very unprepared to deal with a pandemic like this and we are seeing some of those same complaints especially with the cdc. Can you talk about what are some of the root causes of those additional problems and what we could do to fix them . I think we need to look at public health appeared in is through national security. If we think of public health and public Health Preparedness through that orientation, you start to think about how you put in place different kinds of catastrophes to us to respond to a crisis of this magnitude. There is a perception that cdc had this and could mount a fullscale response to a crisis of this magnitude but its not the kind of organization they are. They do exquisite scientific analysis of outbreaks. Its a very retrospec
that looks like a gimme, chad. unless something breaks in couple days or hours, they have bigby cam ral group of bipartisan members, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, so on, that is important to have them back at the table. they had a group of staff over the weekend. they were not really deputized to try to get things happening. watch republican senators, cory gardner from, lisa murkowski, from alaska, saying we should open the government. chuck schumer was trying to decouple opening government to the border wall. i talked with shelley moore capito from west virginia, she chairs the subcommittee that chairs homeland security. would you be willing to open up the government? i would have to see what the deal is. house of representatives they re meeting as we speak late they are afternoon. they will start debate and vote on the first individual appropriations bill to reopen part of the government. this is the financial services appropriations bill. it deal with the
act to amend the public health service act to coordinate federal congenital heart disease research efforts and to improve public education and awareness of congenital heart disease, and for other purposes . senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, and the gentleman from new york, mr. tonko, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and xtend their remarks and insert extraneous materials into the record on the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. walden: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of h.r. 1222, the congenital heart futures re-authorization act. i d like to thank representative gus bilirakis of florida, who
news a big cyberattack on some of the country s largest newspapers. causing publications delays over the weekend we re going to tell you what s going on there and lifeline for obamacare in texas, the judge who ruled that the affordable care act was unconstitutional. agreeing to save his decision from taking effect until it can be appealed your new year s eve edition of varney & company stats right now. well they re ringing in new year and other side of the world new year s eve celebrations already sydney, australia always a festive to time get exciting watching come our way. meanwhile the market opening is coming or way right now stock futures are moving higher all morning long. wrong optimism about potential deal with china on trade joining us economist all right peter you know you ve studied this as a much as anyone else you ll understand ins and outs of it we ve been told a it can never happen. b whenever there was good news to be, you know not even trust verified bu
front-runners running to the border in what is looking like yet another rematch for the white house with immigration topping concerns right now. so who has the message for november? is donald trump getting help running out the clock on the supreme court calendar? it seem a way, a georgia judge could take district attorney fani willis off trump s case entirely. plus, do republicans still have a case in their impeachment inquiry of one joseph biden? the transcripts are now out and if some problems seem to be just now popping up. and, oh, yeah, super tuesday closing in. more than a third of all the gop if dell gates are up for the taking in a single night. could are republicans be down to a single candidate after that? and could nikki haley be down with running on a third party ticket? and the three contests that are actually being decided finally today. get ready, we start now. neil: all right, this was a visit to the border historic by not only a sitting u.s. president, but