The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
Criminal investigation into former volkswagen boss warne Martin Winterkorn as the emissions scandal widens. Could there be life on mars . Scientists say flowing water, essential to life, is almost essentially present on the red planet and in doha all the support, including sepp blatter defiant. The f. I. F. A. President insisting he will not stand down despite criminal proceedings being open again. Tackling the Islamic State of iraq and levant, ending the war in syria dominated the first day of the United Nations, General Assembly in new york. World leaders took their turns for offering solutions. Clear divisions remain between russia and the United States. In the past half our, Vladimir Putin sat for dinner with president obama, and the u. N. Chief ban kimoon. Earlier Vladimir Putin used the speech to call for a new approach to combatting i. S. I. L. , adding that any attempts to deal with the group cannot exclude the Syrian Government of Bashar Alassad. We think it is an enormous mis
Find themselves in the middle of a National Debate on Race Relations in the workplace. There were racist remarks allegedly made by the team owner, and sponsors are pulling out lefthand right, and it may be that Magic Johnson wants to buy the team. He may want or get a discount. Starts right now. Slightly negative with the s p, and julie hyman is keeping an eye on the stocks for us. Wasor short on the nasdaq earlier down as much as 1. 5 and has come back to some extent, but were still seeing a selloff in the momentum names we have been watching closely over the past several weeks. In particular, some of the tech highfliers, and i want to highlight yelp in particular. It sold off about 20 in that time and is down sharply again today. The company is that with its earnings on the 30th, and it is forecast to post a loss for its most recent quarter, so that is one we are watching today. In addition, in the world of finance, we are looking at bank of america. Remember, the bank recently got a
States. The general election is 184 days away, a sixmonth battle that promises to be one of the rockiest roads to the white house in history. Good morning everyone. Im alex witt here at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. We begin this hour with new reaction from donald trump on House Speaker paul ryan saying hes just not ready to back him yet. Here is what trump said at a rally in oregon last night. We have so many people now that are joining. I didnt get paul ryan, bi don know what happened. I dont know what happened. He called me three weeks ag goerks we couldnt have had a nicer conversation. Thank you very much, donald, its great. Well work together. Everything is fine and all of a sudden he wants to be cute. Well see. Well see. Just hours after republicans like jeb bush and senator Lindsey Graham said they wont vote for trump, former republican senator bob dole, the 1996 gop nominee called on his party to join him in supporting trump. In a statement dole said in part, i plan to
A school board fired an art teacher after parents complained the educator was posting about "satan worship" and violence on social media, according to Fox 32.