Senator collins this hearing will come to order. Good afternoon it is my pleasure to convene this afternoons hearing to assess our nations progress in combating alzheimers since the enactment of the national alzheimers project act which i coauthored with then senator evan bayh in 2011. I dont need to tell the people in this room what a devastating disease alzheimers is. It exacts a tremendous personal and economic toll on the individual, the family and our society. In addition to the human suffering it causes, alzheimers costs the United States more than 226 billion a year including 153 billion in costs to medicare and medicaid. These costs will skyrocket as the baby boom generation ages. Already our nations most costly disease, alzheimers is projected to cost more than 1. 1 trillion in 2050 if nothing is done to change its current trajectory. Alzheimers is one of our nations leading causes of death. The c. D. C. Lists alzheimers as the sixth leading cause of death overall and the fift
Dennis hastert was being blackmailed. He paid hundreds of thousands in hush money and the feds found out his church is blinded found out he charged that line about illicit payments to coverup misconduct that apparently occurred before his political career began. Straight out of the can you believe this file. The irs paid 2. 3 billion in bogus refunds. Neverland, Michael Jacksons estate in california up for sale for 100 million. Varney co. Is about to begin. Im not going to sing it, but we are indeed moving. I wanted to sing, but they wouldnt let me. We are moving to prime real estate in the Financial News business. That would be the 9 00 hour, 10 00 hour and 11 00 hour. Three whole hours we start at 9 00 a. M. Monday june 1st. The same gray show and i really hope you will be there with us. Lets get going. What a time to hold an election. In the middle of a massive bribery scandal, the soccer governing body is right now voting for president. The current are expected to keep the job desp
Washington of another nancy pelosi victory over donald trump. Well get into that. The politics inform the policy and how her hardball explains what trump is trying to do at the border. For the First Time Ever tonight the Trump White House officially says President Trump will declare a, quote, National Emergency regarding the border and we are putting, let me be clear tonight, National Emergency in quotes not only to quote what the Trump Administration is technically saying but also as, yes, scare quotes. Legally donald trump does not have the last week if this is, indeed, a National Emergency that grants him special powers. The courts will decide that. Donald trumps rhetorical explanation comes with that context in this one. Live pictures here as we keep an eye on capitol hill tonight. Lawmakers will move forward on the spending compromise. This is the end game of the cave youve heard so much. A bill that doesnt include the wall money trump wanted, talk about a National Emergency. He i
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Dana the former new york city mayor trying to start his candidacy with a massive ad buy. Over 30 million to influence voters in key primary states and the company he founded Bloomberg News caused controversy per the news outlets as itll continue their tradition of not investigating bloomberg, his family, foundation, and will do the same with other Democratic Candidates. President trump is not offlimits. Going to continue to cover him. Can get into all of this. Juan, can i go to you first . What is the constituency for a bloomberg run . Juan you have a lot in the donor class on the democratic side, wall street side who historically backed Hillary Clinton and are externally nervous about Elizabeth Warren. They were in apoplexy. They thought, if Elizabeth Warren gets it, what do we do . It was bill gates who said, maybe i would look at trump, right . That gives you an idea whats going on there. Now we have a billionaire versus a billionaire. I think its a real billionaire versus a guy who