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national governors association take dct pattison and calls from viewers. host: good morning. it is thursday, september 14. c-span is unveiling a brand-new bus to coincide with our capitals tour, a 14 month long tour taking the bus to each state capital in the lead up to the 25th anniversary november. as the bus journey some place to place, it will be featured on washington journal. first up, dover, delaware, tomorrow, where the governor joins us at 9:30 a.m. we will give you a tour of the new bus and talk more about the 50 state tour later on in the program. houseile at the white last night, democrat leader chuck schumer and nancy pelosi said the president agreed to quickly pass a deal to protect undocumented youth. but this morning the present tweeting out, there is no deal. we will give you more deals coming up on washington journal . but we want to spend the first hour getting your reaction to the idea of single-payer health care. senator sanders along with dem ....
senator king, thank you so much for your time. washington journal continues. with scott back pattison, ceo and executive director of the national governors association, here to talk about the top issues facing states in the country. that is our question for all of you. what are the top issues in your states? we want you to call in and let us know while we talk to scott pattison. remind the viewers with the national governors association is and what their mission is. guest: it was asked was started by president theodore roosevelt, because he was a governor from new york and became president. he said the governor s need to parties,her, of both and share information to all the states know what other states are doing, good and bad here it and very important, critical right now, is making sure that the administration and congress, whoever is in power knows how states are going to be impacted by the things they do. of course, with health care and some of these other big ....
in europe this morning, as everything is under way, we ll be talking a lot more about what s happening there. but you can see the dax is up by .3%. the cac is up by .25%. the ftse is flat. the ten-your yield that we ve been watching so closely after it s been sitting right around 2.15% for the ten-year is a little the yield is a little higher, pricer are a little lower. let s check out the currency board. the dollar index yesterday hit its lowest ten-year level before ending the day flat. this morning, the dollar is up across the board sitting at 112 for the euro. dollar/yen is at 110. if you take a look at crude oil prices, this was the big story yesterday, krooul crude oil is down by over 5% yesterday. the lowest settlement in a month after surprise inventory builds. you can see this morning, the prices are rebounding slightly. wti up 42 cents. back above $46 at $46.14. let get you caught up on the big top stories of the day. polls are now officially open for the ....
we re going to go ahead and get started. my name is scott pattison, ceo of the national governors association. i m really thrilled. one of the things we try to do is respond to governors suggestions. one of the things they said was let s try top let s try something like ted talks. i m just thrilled to introduce the first governor to oversee this experiment here at the national governors association. governor doug ducey, of arizona. thank you. [applause] : thanks, scott. andeople want to come in grabbed their seat, we can get started straight away. this is a real pleasure, for me to be back in washington, d.c. this is my third winter meeting as a governor and i m honored to be able to have the opportunity to kick off this hot topics hot top topics topics session today. i want to thank my colleagues who are coming back to the table here this morning and joining me. this session is going to consist four ted-like talks and engagements. we will be discussing nationa ....
friendly. backslapper. that is not his style. he is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. it is very important, he is a very precise man. this was a precision race that he ran. you guys wrote an article back in november. one of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as $50 million? he was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. there was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against alison grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. what that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the positive side of mitch mcconnell. this is a guy who had a lousy approval rating back home, low 40 s to high 30 s for much of the campai ....