Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning tax writer at New York Times and now at the college of law. We have the president and ceo of the center of American Progress who served in the obama and Clinton Administrations, policy director of Hillary Clintons campaign. Laura flanders, founder of grittv. Com. The editor of salon. Com and the woman who hired me two years ago. Thanks, as always for that. Of course. Anyway, on friday afternoon, House Speaker john boehner attempted to paint a picture of white house negotiations and how to avoid going over the fiscal curve. I have been saying fiscal slope. Now on the show, ill go with curve. This isnt a Progress Report because theres no progress to report. Four days ago, we offered a serious proposal based on testimony from president clintons former chief of staff. Theres been no counter offer from the white house. Instead, reports i understand kate the president adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk the economy to the edge of the fiscal cliff. The extr
Had aimed to enroll half a Million People in october alone. Committee chairman dave camp. It doesnt look like youre even meeting your own projections that you had prepared. Reporter tavenner took over the centers for medicare and medicaid eight months ago. Can i tell you, my stritz frightened. Reporter republicans like kevin brady of texas argued her relatively small agency simply was not equipped to implement a huge new law. So what i can guarantee is that we have a system thats working. Were going to improve the speed of that system. Excuse me. Yes . Youre saying the system right now is work . Im saying its working. Its just not working at the speed that we want and at the success rate that we want. Reporter tavenner blamed the web sites flaws on delays by the main i. T. Firm tired to build it, a comaidian Company Called c. G. I. In an apparent contradiction she told georgias tom price that the sites massive problems on day one caught her offguard. The problems that we saw in the fir
Since february. But in less than a week all that good work has essentially been thrown out the window. Okinawa now has nearly 100 new cases thanks to outbreaks on the various u. S. Military bases on the island. Local reports say fourth of july parties held on and off the bases are the cause of the huge spike. According to those same reports hundreds if not thousands of personnel and employees were said to have attended those events, not surprisingly, the governor of okinawa is angry. This weekend he openly questioned whether the United States was doing enough to stop the spread of covid19 saying that he had, quote, serious doubts about the measures being taken by u. S. Military officials. He requested the military stop transferring new troops from the United States given the unabated surge that we are seeing in this country. Think about this. America has now reached a point where we are posing a threat to some of our strongest allies. And thats just scratching the surface really when y
Sick, more of us died than needed to happen. He let us get sick and die. Because he thought it was better for him. This isnt hear day. I wish. Its not my opinion. I wish it were. Its not an unnamed source. Its trump. It goes through air, bob. Thats always tougher than the touch. The touch you dont have to touch things, the air, you breathe the air and thats how its passed. And so thats a very tricky one, thats a very delicate one. Its also more deadly than your even your strenuous flues. This is more deadly, this is five per this is 5 , versus 1 or less than 1 . This is deadly stuff. He knew it was going to get worse, he knew it was worse than a flu. He knew the numbers. And he knew he was being recorded. He was talking to bob woodward for a new book thats coming out, thats where the tape comes from. Why would he do that . My suggestion before i get into the meat of this thing. This is the most important thing ive ever had to tell you. Is that he knows that his supporters wont give a d
Night. In the meantime, again, telling no one what they knew about hicks testing positive, the president , who had been in close contact with hope hicks, nevertheless traveled to a fundraiser at his new Jersey Golf Club as if everything was fine and attended this event last night with upwards of 100 people even though he had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive yesterday morning. He had been in really close contact with her, in enclosed spaces for significant periods of time inside the president s plane, inside the president s helicopter. The president , the first lady, and hope hicks were all at tuesday nights debate in cleveland, where the host of that debate, the Cleveland Clinic, required that all guests in the debate hall wear masks. The president s guests nevertheless refused to. Nbc news Mariana Sotomayor was in the hall. She reported seeing a Cleveland Clinic doctor literally wearing a white coat approach trumps family and the trump guests, reminding them