On behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. [applause]. What a marvelous crowd. [cheers and applause] and what a great space for a book events. Fakes to the Warner Theatre for making this spacious lace available and as much as we enjoyed posting our authors at our store on connecticut avenue northwest, we had a feeling that a somewhat larger venue would be needed for this one. [cheers and applause] in fact, this is the largest author talk that we have ever sponsored. [cheers and applause] and it tickets sold out in a matter of minutes, so congratulations. You all are the lucky ones. Since its release a week ago, what happened, Hillary Clintons new book about the 2016 election has landed on the best seller list and generated nonstop commentary and conversation. Some things never change she is given a number of any abuse about the book, but tonight she is here with us in person for what is the first to stop on a 15 city tour that will take her across the us and canada. [
For healthcare policy. A great day to look at next steps for the nations Healthcare System. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thank you for joining us. Thank you cspan for welcoming the audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring the event. Thank you all following online. Please use the axios 360 and we will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information to help you make better decisions using smart gravity so that you can get smarter faster. We see that also with these events. We are honored to have three is at the center of this conversation were going to be here with us one on one. We hope that together we will have a tour of the landscape and also make some news and make you smarter. We can count on how many of those we do im going to welcome to the stage a axios healthcare reporter that has been in the capital at the center of this, all through
Walk us through that evening . Guest yes, well it was actually florida North Carolina coming and pretty quick succession. We always knew North Carolina would be hard for many reasons, but we thought we had a good lead going into election day because of early voting in florida, so when those number started coming in, that was quite surprising, disappointing. It wasnt the end, by any means, because they were a number of ways we saw week would get to 270 electoral votes, but it was a very very long night and then around midnight when michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania came in, we knew we werent going to be successful. Host what was going through your mind . Guest well, at first i was worried, but not alarmed with early returns because again, as i said our numbers looked very good in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin as did everyone else as we had consultant, but as the evening went on and we were getting not only the broadcast numbers, but reaching out to people working with us in th
The only reason we know that tonight is because the legal Public Interest organization Judicial Watch sued for those documents two years ago. Thats right, two years ago and the state department has yet to produce even half of those emails. We will be talking with Judicial Watchs director of investigations Chris Farrell tonight about the mammoth corruption in our nations capital. Also tonight there is no explanation for why the Justice Department has not lifted a gag order against an fbi informant who has provided testimony and evidence against the clintons in collusion with russia. The informant says he witnessed how russians sought to win favor with bill and Hillary Clinton and to influence decisions within the Obama Administration. Tonight we will talk with the fbi attorney and the House Oversight committee is now looking into the obama era uranium one deal their results in a massive payoff to the clintons and their foundation and the transfer of 20 of u. S. Uranium to the russians.
Tonight is because the legal Public Interest organization Judicial Watch sued for those documents two years ago. Thats right, two years ago and the state department has yet to produce even half of those emails. We will be talking with Judicial Watchs director of investigations Chris Farrell tonight about the mammoth corruption in our nations capital. Also tonight there is no explanation for why the Justice Department has not lifted a gag order against an fbi informant who has provided testimony and evidence against the clintons in collusion with russia. The informant says he witnessed how russians sought to win favor with bill and Hillary Clinton and to influence decisions within the Obama Administration. Tonight we will talk with the fbi attorney and the House Oversight committee is now looking into the obama era uranium one deal their results in a massive payoff to the clintons and their foundation and the transfer of 20 of u. S. Uranium to the russians. We will talk with congressman