Doctorate in Political Science from the university of california at berkeley. Welcome back to cato, ray. Thank you for having me. What can i say about the impact of Citizens United . Likable academic, i will say its too soon to tell and we need more research. Bob said as much. When this is done, i will speculate. Im worried about what is happening to Party Organizations. Its not entirely the fault of Citizens United but that in combination with speech now has made it far much worse for parties. I the more money should flow through Political Parties and civic groups because at least in theory parties are more accountable and tend to use their money to help challenges and are less inclined to support extremist, which is no small matter in todays polarized environment. Here we go. Thank you. Here are some trends i see and how citizen as united plays into them. It did not cause them but it greases the wheels, especially since 2000 to when Congress Passed the Bipartisan Campaign reform act.
Degree you can get the widest price as possible, look at your what is your lightest green mix and darkest green mix. As commissioner courtney asked a very good question. We had price points. Weve already had price points from previous surveys. When you compare 2011 and 2012 the line is close together people who stay, even though the price differences are there. When you chart it out all together you see it very close together. I imagine depending how you do your calculations on this one you will see a very similar thing. The other thing to keep in mind is these numbers youre seeing in the polls include care customers in some of the polls. And, so, therefore, since were not looking at incorporating care customers into the first phase your numbers once again will be a little bit higher as far as participation rates. Want to encourage you to make sure youre giving the staff the greatest leeway in where the price points are because the greater your price point leeway the better you wont ha
At for the smaller customer base, the tier 1 customer. Youre looking for the highest percentage of those because those are where the price points are the most are the closest to pg e and where people are more likely to participate in the program because its not as big a hit on their overall pocketbook. The final thing i wanted to mention on the prices is to the degree you can get the widest price as possible, look at your what is your lightest green mix and darkest green mix. As commissioner courtney asked a very good question. We had price points. Weve already had price points from previous surveys. When you compare 2011 and 2012 the line is close together people who stay, even though the price differences are there. When you chart it out all together you see it very close together. I imagine depending how you do your calculations on this one you will see a very similar thing. The other thing to keep in mind is these numbers youre seeing in the polls include care customers in some of
Word. This is pretty fresh and were procession it and weve just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. Investigators now trying to figure out how two of the passengers boarded the plane with stolen pass ports. Stolen passports can be repurposed and used. Key questions this morning. Who were they . Did the plane disintegrate at 35,000 feet . Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me this morning. Piece spar ration grows by the hour. A second u. S. Navy ship joins the Massive International effort to search for any signs of a Malaysia Airlines jet thats missing and presumed crash. Dozens of planes and ships are scouring the gulf of thailand for debris or any other clue to the flight with 239 passengers aboard, including three americans. Whatever struck the flight was so violent and so catastrophic neither the pilots issued a distress signal. Reporter this morning the search intensifies for missing Malaysia Airlines flig
For its economic support of north korea writing in a statement, trade between china and north korea grew almost 40 in the first quarter. So much for china working with us. But we had to give it a try. Meanti meantime, we are getting in new video of that missile test carried out by north korea where state media reports that kim jongun described the event as a fourth of july gift to america. Lets begin at the white house with suzanne malveaux. Good morning, suzanne. President trump is on his way to warsaw, poland, a quick stop, about 15 hours or so before he goes to hamburg, germany, for that g20 summit meeting with world leaders. This morning before he left the white house, reporters shouted questions about north korea and he only responded saying that we are going to do very well. All eyes of course on the Trump Administrations response here and just how tough they are going to be. The president tweeting this morning really a dig, if you will, at chinas leadership, chinas president , b