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Secretary ben carson, i want to talk about your job at hud, but your other job is dr. Ben carson. Why did you decide to pursue a career in medicine . Dr. Carson well, as a youngster, i used to hear stories about doctors, and they seem to be the most noble people on the face of the earth. I said, thats what i want to do. When i was eight years old, i decided that was the path i would take. Obviously, it changed. I went from there to wanting to be a psychiatrist. But then, when i got into medical school, i said, what are you really good at . I started examining my life and i realized i had a lot...

Arrive at solutions for the american people. That is what they want to see. Washington journal continues. Host we will get to your calls in a moment about the story of jemele hill at espn. Starting out with the original tweet she put out earlier this week. She wrote that donald trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists. This drew a ton of action out there. Including from the president. That espn is paying a big price for its politics. Cordin capital letters. Calls outa lot of there for apologies but the white house is calling for the firing o...

Ambassadors to afghanistan and bahrain. They were asked about the security in embassies of staff abroad. In addition they heard a nominee to head the african committee. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In keeping with the great way that senator ramsey runs his committee, we start on time here, too. Well defer our opening comments out of respect for you so you can make your destruction and go about your business. You honor us by being here, we thank you for that. The floor is yours to introduce won of our nominees. Thank you, chairman corker and ...

Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research....

Affordable care act. We wanted to start with the chairman of the Senate Health committee, lamar alexander. He has been holding a series of hearings. Here is the senator talking about the goal. [video clip] our goal is to come up with in a census consensus early next week. Hopefully we can have senator mcconnell an Agreement Congress can pass by the end of the month that will limit premium increases next year and begin to lower premiums after that and prevent insurers from leaving the market. That is our schedule. What happens if we dont succeed . Last year, or percent of american counties had ...