when i fly, i find a modern system, high-functioning system. i've seen it evolve over time right before my eyes. i find controllers that do the job well. i find easy access and powerful technology. smartphone and get my proposed route back before i get to the airport in a text. when i take off. i have gps navigation systems on board that allow me to fly point to point all over this country, a couple of months ago i took off out of dfw and got cleared direct burlington, vermont 1,300 miles away. while i'm flying i have the veil of safety, giving me traffic call outs and separation queues and weather in my route of flight. when i come in from landing, i can pick from 3,000 precision approaches brought to me by next gen feature. it's called was. including at my home airport which i depend on in foul weather days. so the bottom line for me is, next gen is working. it works for me every day and it's getting stronger all the time. from a technology standpoint, i believe we're on the right track. it's proper to ask in modernization where should we go

you might have more up today security systems, more ring fencing of particular systems.ne of the nhs systems, one which doesn't affect patient data, that has been accessed. we don't know that. rory, for the moment, thank you very much. we are going to stay with this because we can now speak to build goodwin from computer weekly magazine from london. the suggestion is, this is affecting the nhs but maybe a wider attack? it sounds very much as though it was particularly targeted at the nhs, it could have been a general e—mail that went out to all sorts of organisations. but it could be the nhs, for whatever reason, because of the software they are using, are particularly vulnerable to this piece of malware. the problem with the nhs is it is not a with money and they do employ good cyber security people, but they are struggling to keep their heads above water and deal with day—to—day issues. so when a big attack like this comes along, it really puts the cyber security operation is under strain. people will be frantic trying to work out how to deal with this. it seems the re

systems? >> yes, and we do believe -- i mean, the encouragement of every utility doing a project of that nation to consider the life cycle cost associated with that to factor that into the decision making on what is the right solution for that particular project. >> asset management is a good thing. recognizing that some utilities will have staffing more available than a small system. a good example is a pump. if you take a new one out of the box and install it and do vibration analysis over the life cycle it is going to last longer. if you don't do that, it's going to cost more. and those availables will not be available. it's a good idea and some utilities will have higher examples. >> thank you and i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one of the proposed srf enhancements that you discussed in your testimony was having flexibility in repayment terms for the srf loans. why is that flexibility needed and do you support the provision in the discussion draft for disadvantaged communities fr

how old was their system? you are saying our system is old and decrepit. was theirs brand new, spiffy back then? >> no. >> so here we have a larger investment that we are going to transfer for free. and you valued it at 13.7 billion. let's say you know, how much of that would depreciate? >> how much would depreciate it? >> what is land value, versus building -- >> that is the infrastructure alone, i don't believe it involves the property value. >> so it is quite valuable. now let's go to small airports. almost everybody on that side is sensitive to ga. they represent rural districts. they will not direct where people fly. that's correct. but this board will decide where we invest. here is the statement of the ceo of jet blue. we need to direct infrastructure improvements into the regions of the country where it will produce the most benefits. the airlines get four seats on the board. that is the opinion of jet blue and heard the same thing from the former ceo of united. and there is no airport representative on the board whatever, at least, since the board

so we ended up looking a lot at the oversight and the accountability systems set up around the system. we thought we found that it undermined the gmd's system development. rather than summarizing the whole report, i'm just going to make three short points that i think reflect the differences in agreements between our reports. i think tom -- the first is we agree that the system is in pretty poor shape. tom and his co-authors describe the gmd system as being in its at -- adolescence or certainly an advanced prototype, and notes that the system has some serious reliability issues. this is an area of substantial agreement between the both of us. i would note that in nine of the 17 tests since 1999, the kill vehicle failed to destroy the target and that record hasn't been improving over time as you'd expect for a system that's maturing. so keep in mind also that the tests were essentially developmental in nature so as tom mentioned sort of advanced prototype type of tests. they were conducted under simplified conditions not operational conditions, which are certain to be much more challen

we never take the system down. that's what you do with a failed system. you take it out and say you're going to the something different and we have ability to look around the world and say who is working and what is not working. mr. brown you made a great point. part of my passion is to get the certification right. we are the leaders in the world and invented aviation but when you can't go to market with your products because of the certification process, the competition is nipping at your heels. if we don't fix certification they are going to take big chunks out of the back of your leg and cause you problems. the certification is critical to the reform i'm putting forward. when you look at what the miter corporation said in their report, first of all they interviewed six of the different caa around the world and was unanimous stating the separation of caa from air traffic control was worth it. an increase in focus by the regulator and the ansp -- the focus on safety by the regulator and the ansp in improved efficiency. that's what i'm talking about here.

, chejsz from a fiscal system. it's waxed and waned over time. theater clearly has always had the near term threat. the homeland has not. in 15 years that's changed. and 9/11 significantly changed the attitude. it was get something sooner rather than later. and i won't say haste makes waste, but haste can force you to make decisions you'd rather not. it can force you to settle on a design or technique you'd prefer not to commit to at this time. it may compel a decision and when faced with a decision point, national security, decisions get made. we accept the limitations and the future restrantsz and we have to work through them. that's kinds of where we are right now. tom's papers talks about a number of things, are we an adult, are we a mature adult. look at the sensor family. they wrnts designed for the task they're being asked to do. so that patchwork of sensors has had to grow as v we've grown a family interceptors. the variety of gbi's is large. if you ever saw the components, you'd say what a fruit salad this

so the system that we want is a system that works for patients and families and doctors. so talk to your doctor. ask your doctor whether or not he or she is having challenges because of what the federal government puts in their way. the kinds of rules and regulations that make it more difficult for them to care for you. when i cared for patients, i knew the federal government was oftentimes making it more difficult for me do for my patients what i knew to be best and that is the system that we want to get away from, we want to get in the direction of a system that works for patients. >> as you know, a lot of working class voters went in there in november and pulled the lever for president trump having heard him say that he was going to keep their medicaid, save their medicaid, without any cuts. cbo says this is an $880 billion cut and i asked you at the top and i'm wondering if you could correctly answ directly answer this, because one of the frustrations how obamacare was sold to the public, there were winners and losers. $880 billion, a cut for medicaid. how is that not

we know there will be a lot of support across the system to make sure hospital trusts are system to makeem to make sure hospital trusts are really doing their best for patients. it's very hard to have a broad brush approach because some parts of the country at —— aren't affected at all, some are affected worse than others, but for anyone watching tonight, what is your advice? i suppose we should start with emergency cases, for anyone who is unwell this weekend, what is your advice? our advice is for anyone out of hours, if you are seriously unwell, you should call 999 as normal and your emergency will be dealt with. if you have a less serious condition but you are concerned, you should call nhs111 and you will be told what to do. if your local accident and emergency have to be closed, another one will be available to treat emergency patients. how confident can you be at this stage about that contingency planning, because, for example, iam thinking about a gpo spoke to in the last hour he said, well, i can see a patient, i can my best, but we can't access their notes or their recent notes

this will be sitting in systems over the weekend in systems not been used and when people arrive fory morning and turn on their computer, we will see the numbers going up again. but questions are being asked about whether nhs it security was adequate. some trusts are still using an outdated operating system, windows xp. ministers said there had been investment. we are spending around £50 million on the nhs cyber systems to improve security. we have encouraged the nhs trust to reduce their exposure to the weakest since them, windows xp. less than 5% of them, windows xp. less than 5% of the trust use that system any more. york hospital's computers were affected but they were not using the old system and they were using security patches to protect against viruses. we are applying patches provided by our providers. we are in a large system and we take our responsibilities seriously. labour has written to the health secretary calling for a detailed explanation and today the party went on the attack. the government's handling of this crisis has been chaotic. we have warned the government's

in both systems. it does work and it's a lot better than before when we didn't have that ability. it's better care. but it is not the complete interoperability that i think that all of us would hope for. it's a read only system at this point. >> thank you for that clarification. mr. bishop. >> thank you, very much. let me join my colleagues and congratulating you and thanking you for your commitment to get this problem, these problems, fix. let me go to an area of approving service that is third-party uncollected billing. the. [inaudible] we identified the amount of third-party health billings that are owed to the va and annual amount additionally requires that the va can put a plan to capture uncollected third-party billings that was directed to initiate a power program and figure out how best to capture the uncollected billings. the difference between billings and collections in fy 15 was $4.7 billion and fy 16 it was $5.164 billion. this is alarming because it means that billions of uncollected are

systems involved, i.c.e. investigators need to retain up to 40 different pass words each with different access restrictions and expiration dates for up to 27 different information systems. second, realtime access data is hampered by restrictions. i.c.e. personnel are sometimes unable to gain access to systems despite having a need to do so. some data is retained in paper base file which is can take considerable time to access and some systems are not frequently updated. third, i.c.e. personnel do not have the training and guidance they need to effectively identify and utilize the numerous systems currently used for visa overstay tracking. i.c.e. personnel in the field are not always sure which systems to use to perform their specific job functions. personnel we met at multiple locations expressed concerns that they were unaware of all the systems available to them across dhs components and agency potentially limiting their effectiveness in carrying out their visa tracking responsibilities. lastly in the absen

they're reflecting the system. that's to tim and others credit there w respect to the macro economic impact, it's apparent for some time that having wealth capitalized is a prerequisite rather than an impediment to growth. in those economies, the reform is the most robust. indeed, when we look at the look right now, i argue the broader benefits of reform are now being realized. the financial system moved to resilience. the credit is growing. the cost of financing remained low. the biggest question is how do we take advantage of the progress? i'll address three priorities in my remarks today. the first is that the reform implementation process should be dynamic as well as effective. that's really an issue for the authorities. our objective is not just resilience. it's efficient resilience. we need to resist steps that would praguement the global system. we're taking full advantage of the progress that has been made to build a system of defrns to each other's systems to each other's approaches when they achieve compa

system. the budget requests $78.9 billion in discretionary funding for the va. it provides $4.6 billion more for medical care, a 7.1 increase, and $3.5 billion more in mandatory budget authority that was mentioned to continue the veterans choice program. more veterans are opting for choice than ever before, five times more in fiscal year 2016 than fiscal year 2015. and choice authorizations are still rising. we've issued 35% more authorizations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 than in the same quarter of 2016. all told, including both care va facilities and in the community, we project a 6.6% increase in ambulatory care for 2018 over 2016. i urge you to support and fully fund our 2018 request to enable va to meet increasing demands for va services, to modernize the va systems, and to invest in choice. as you know, i came to va during a time of crisis when it was clear that veterans were not getting the timely access to high quality health care that they deserved. i know the va has mad

if you have a large system like the nhs with a lot of old computers and legacy systems, where that haswalker macy's aids like that, it's about having the right defence —— the organisations like that, it's about having the right defence to detect the attacks and prevent them. ed wallis, thank you very much for joining us. we will keep very much up joining us. we will keep very much up today with this story, of course, with details coming through all the time. right now, it is exactly 22 six. we will catch up with the weather prospects as we approach the weekend. good evening. we have got a mixed bag out there this afternoon and this evening. 0vernight tonight, still some showers around, but i think for some bus they become fewer and further between. the south—eastern corner, drying up all the but it could be wet in western areas. later on in the night, we see showers could be no way toward the south coast. not a cold night by any stretch. 11 or 12 degrees for many. 0n into the first part of the weekend and it will be a great old start for the north—east and outbreaks of rain for the nor

there are myths about how great their system is. we have vastly more traffic in the united states and more complicated traffic and much more robust aviation. it's a huge passenger industry. example for not an the way the u.s. should be run. idea,rivate corporation the constitution prohibits it. we have to work around everything this private corporation does that would affect competition between any mode of aviation. boardld have to go to the and then go to the secretary of transportation who would have developed a huge new office of about theadvise her viability of the proposal coming from the private corporation. that's to our detriment. that the secretary disagrees, they go to court. that's going to be more efficient than a government system that's integrated? that's the way they have to work. the germans had to change their constitution. we are not going to change our constitution. the airlines are going to have control of it now? i don't think the american public is willing to give over $50 billion of assets to the airlines and

but there's no systemic analysis, no systemic recognition. what else about this system is bizarre? well, one of the results of the shaping of consciousness is the following kind of really strange idea. it goes like this: if you give corporations a chance to make profitits, then good thihings will happen. so, for example, we have to create a profitable business climate because then businesses, sayay by cutting their tataxes or by deregulating them or by allowing them to do all kindnds of things, then good things will happen to the rest ofof us. there''s s a simple lol probllem here. if you cut the taxes of business, then they y have more money because their taxes are lower. what they do with that money is t their decisision. and their decision is governed by making as much money as possible. that might mean that they will create a job, ok, but not h here. in a place where the wages are much lowewer--say, in asia--whih might be nice for them but isn't particularly good here. or they might lend it to a a government o or theyey mighy the stock market. or they might do--i don't know-- l

part of the system they do that, the system is only as good as the information put into it. part of that is to amplify the information better and make it better that technology cannot do it. right now you are going to have to log onto a different system in other words to be able to do that because there is concerns of third agency and privacy and other things. there is always going to be a lot of systems. i think that's why these guys and gals get paid. >> thank you so much. thank you madame chair. >> mir. rurtherford for five minutes >> thank you, .4% of the state were arrested. that's 3,402. that's obviously a pretty small number. following up to where you are at, i want to ask a couple of questions. do they log into look at these other states being in jail through other country sns. >> yes, sir, they do. there is a program that goes around the jails and you know puts detainers or individuals within the jail. >> when mr. wagner builds out the facial recognition program, is there a way for 287 g agencies actually tap into that and let you know, because if you check in ncic,

system,y are out of the and they go back to a single-payer system, everything might just start falling into place. >> i think you make a good point. obamacare is predicated on the private insurance system in america. andrary to republican critical feedback on obamacare, it is not a government takeover or socialized medicine. it is predicated on private insurance. democrats would have preferred a single-payer system as you suggest. should this plan be repealed, i believe the fallback eventually will be a single-payer system. company, i would try to make this one work. you are right in your criticism of insurance companies, it is about profit and not really always about customer service. that is why we had to make it , to prevent insurance companies from denying people coverage based on a pre-existing condition. virtually everybody over 50 has a pre-existing condition. that is the human condition if you live long enough. to deny the right of insurance companies to arbitrarily put an annual cap or a lifetime cap on what amount of benefits they could qualify for in health insurance. everyo

of their systems? start with you, mr. voss. >> mr. tomko, yes, and we do believe in the encourage of every utility doing a project of that nature to consider the life cycle costs associated with that and to factor that into the decision making on what is the right solution for the particular project issue at hand. >> and mr. potter? >> yes, sir. asset management is a good thing. recognizing that some utilities will have staffing that's more, i guess, available than a small system, but a good example is just a pump. if you take a brand new pump out of the box and you install it and you do vibration analysis and lubricational analysis over the life cycle of the pump, it's going to last longer. that's a better use of funding. if you don't do that, you don't have a program, it's going to cost more. and if it costs more, those dollars will not be available for capital investment. overall, it's a good idea. we recognize that some utilities will have higher capabilities than other, but overall, asset manageme

and other conversations about reorganizing the entire payment system, having unified payment system but also ultimately moving towards more episodes of care in which inside, clinicians would have the flexibility to engage in practices and delivery practices that they would hopefully bring lower cost and higher quality. a few threads in this particular area. >> to follow up, the reform payment system proposed by the american healthcare association is based on the creation of clinical groupings that would include an array of different patient types and cms has studied this type of payment and i would like to know if you believe that a move to patient characteristics instead of length of stay is feasible for cms and providers if it results in better cost savings. >> our work, the starting point in this process reconstructed in a different way to do the payment system based on patient characteristics, what you are referring to, the industry's notion is taking that and aggregating it into patient category. as long as the underlying patient payment to patient need is not lost in the process o

system. during the cold war, the united states and soviet union signed a treaty that we could have missile defenses but they be limited in nature and designed to protect the national capital or a missile field. and the system that the soviets built and the russians retained has a long range and then a short range system. until recently, it was armed with nuclear warheads. we don't know if they are hit to kill but they are trying to do that. the chinese had been launching missile defense tests. and developing the technology. those had the long-range missile defense. but the indians now are beginning to develop this and there are a bunch of countries that are developing shorter range systems or systems that we are selling to them, such as the israelis and saudis and so on. >> this is ethan in virginia. republican line. hi. >> hi, i was just calling to ask how -- like, what is president trump proposing with regard to this -- to north korea? how is he proposing to deal with this, with the threat

entire system together. we're looking at competing that portion of the effort. >> hypersonic, that's actually a new program. what are you going to be upgrading with new algorithms to counter potential threats? sm 6, which symptomstems. >> what the capabilities are that those systems may have and if there's software we can put into that. to get back to your question about the lead system integrator. i believe we have -- i have to get the exact number for you but it's about $37 million starting in fy '18. >> to begin a transition -- >> to do the computation for that. >> to -- >> complete the lead system integrator part only. boeing will still be prominent in the effort, but -- in the ballistic missile program, but just the lead system integrator portion of that. >> that would be open to a competition. >> yes. >> okay, i didn't realize that. >> hi, i wanted to ask about the atlantic radar study that you mentioned. >> yes, ma'am. >> can you elaborate a little on what you're looking at, is it location, type of ra

, the system is already broken. it's going bankrupt. providing services necessarily and i would rather focus on the cost side of things. is somert of the debate significant budget cuts to medicaid. some estimates as much as $800 billion. how can you make that kind of cut and maintain the services those people who rely on medicaid have counted on? guest: this is a big math problem. medicaid is the fastest-growing entitlement program. the idea behind the paul ryan is trying to propose is that large chunks of cash back to the state, given the opportunity to do different innovative techniques and the delivery of health care. something that hurt as an arizona, rather than charging people for an ambulance which is 600 dollars or $700, take lyft or uber. things that will put on pressure to take the cost down. now: the growing debt is $20 trillion. it is doubled in the last eight years of the obama white house, but now it will double over the next eight years. how you slow down the growth of debt? guest:guest: most of our s

it is the pathology and radiology reporting systems that are part of external reporting systems and they that they are all right to work properly. good evening. five nhs trusts have yet to return to normal following an international cyber attack on friday, which caused 43 to go back to normal. ambulances have been diverted, and patients to have treatment cancelled or delayed. speaking after an emergency meeting of the government's cobra committee, home secretary amber rudd said a8, or a fifth of all trusts, were affected — but that the vast majority were now operating as normal. the cyber attack hit hospitals in scotland as well. this report from our health editor hugh pym. the news shocked staff and patient alike. the cyber attack shut down key systems. ron grimshaw won't forget it in a hurry. he was in the middle of having an mmi scan but it was abruptly halted and he will have to go back. i was stunned, obviously stunned, and the nurse said this is the first time this has happened. i was thinking, why me? there we are. health secretaryjeremy hunt was at a meeting of the emergency comm

systems used the ssn. the initial inventory was completed in september of 2016 and we are using it to validate the progress made and identify other opportunities. in addition we are updating the internal 2012 policy this year. it is difficult to completely eliminate the federal use of ssns without a government-wide coordinated effort and federal funding. it links information among agencies. in the fall of 2016, omb and opm proposed the program unique identifier initiative to reduce the use of ssns. the puid initiative sought to facilitate the exchange by providing an attive numbering scheme. an initial proof of concept showed potential. members of the skmooe thank you for having me here today for reducing the use of ssn and for your support in this -- safeguarding the -- is of paramount importance to opm. i would be happy to address any questions you may have. >> thank you. mrs. jackson, thank you for being here. you can proceed. >>> chairman rice and hurd, ranking members larson, kelly, and members of tsu

i hope she concluded, that you'll push hard to fix our health care system. i know many of my colleagues have received letters like this one from their constituents as well. obamacare has caused so much pain for families across our country, and it's not going to just magically, magically somehow get better on its own. i know that, like so many families across the country, i'm not satisfied with the obamacare status quo, and i don't think it's acceptable for its failures to be considered the new normal. as the people of kentucky have shown in election aftertucky toe united states circuit judge. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic whip. mr. durbin: mr. president, i'd like to submit a statement for the record on the pending nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. mrñ -- mr. durbin: mr. president, i'd like to address the comments made by the republican majority leader about the issue of health care. mr. durbin: what he said today, i have never heard him say before. he said it was the fault of the democrats for refusing t

the same system designed on another system that we often refer to as broken, the justice system also designed to make sure that black people in particular don't gain access to freedom. they're the same system. same ugly system as one another. same system designed to produce the same results that they've been producing since they were designed. and the reason in this day and age they persisted is because we won't have a conversation about why we're here. it's very easy to talk about gardendale, alabama. we know they fumbled -- they don't even try to dress it up. they said we are seceding. are you bugging? seceding? exodus. no, not them. sucsucede. g to secede. that's pretty damn racist too. [applause] so you condition call it anything other than what it is. when one group does not want a group of children to go to school and gain access to a quality education and down south we call it racist. oh, they're racist. they're racist. yeah, they probably are. just about as racist as those frenemies of yours. ah, these are the ones who drive the subaru, got the hillary bumper sticker on the b

ca re critical systems involved in patient care is very difficult. fuel in the light of this huge attack that we saw yesterday that the government will respond in the way that it needs to? iam respond in the way that it needs to? i am heartened to hear that almost all of the trusts, except the five mentioned, i back up and running. i would hope that this is a wake—up call. this is probably as bad as it can get in terms of shutting down a large chunk of the health service. i would hope that the government does devote would hope that the government does d evote resources would hope that the government does devote resources that we need in terms of upgrading operating systems and users becoming more aware and eve ryo ne and users becoming more aware and everyone is vigilant about patching and updating software as needed. and we'll find out how this story is covered in tomorrow's front pages this evening in the papers at 10.30pm. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are anne ashworth, who's the associate editor at the times, and bonnie greer, playwright and writ

systems to the u.k.ealth services has made a statement, their experts say the warning ransomware attack is to blame. they have no evidence that patient data has been accessed. meanwhile, medical professionals are also using social media to ask people to avoid visits to hospitals that are not absolutely essential. one of them tweaking, -- twe eting do not get to accident and emergency today unless unavoidable. another tweet, no x-rays, it will be a miracle if no one comes to harm. we are getting news from our correspondent. we are asking him what we know about this either bear attack -- this cyber attack. >> early fears were that this was a state backed attack on the nhs, those are unfounded. it is clear from the ransom amount being demanded, these people who created this ransom ware were not targeting the nhs specifically. what it has done is bring the english and guys health care system -- the english and scottish health care systems to something of a infill as they -- something of a standstill. christo

it was not a department of education system. we did thorough analysis of all of our system through fafsa, and nothing indicated, to my knowledge, that any of our information was compromised. >> mr. camus, is that your view. >> >> we have yet to determine the timeliness of the reporting of the incident, sir. >> no, that's not my question. my question is, do you concur with mr. gray that there was no breach of data? compromise of data. >> we, we would view it as once somebody was able to see somebody else's data, that that, in fact, has been a breach. >> so i would too. and, therefore, i would argue fisma is triggered. would you agree? >> yes, sir. [laughter] >> well, mr. gray, sure does sound like you're splitting hairs. and you're coming up with a criterion that was not envisioned in the law itself, nor is it reflected in the language of the law itself. i mean, we don't have traffic laws that allow you to decide, well, i didn't hurt anyone. yeah, i was speeding, but i didn't hurt anyone so, therefore, i shouldn't get a ticket. i

we are in the process of making changes to over 75 of our affected systems to replace those systems indicators with the nbi over the hicken. and we've developed the software that will generate mdis and assign them to beneficiaries. we're working with our key partners such as fsa, railroad retirement board state and territories, indian health service, department of defense, department of veterans affairs, healthcare providers and other key stakeholders. there are a lot of them to ensure beneficiaries continue to receive access to services and our partners will be able to process these nbi's. we're implementing an expensive and outreach education program for the estimated 60 million beneficiaries who will be receiving new car as well as providers for private health plans, other insurers, clearinghouses and other stakeholders. this fall we will tell medicare beneficiaries they will be receiving a new card, instruct them on when they will be receiving it and what to do with their old cards. we're working to make sure providers and other physicians and other healthcare providers are prepared to ser

unblocking your system naturally.>> i was on the way to winning until james comey's letter on october 28 and the russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people. >> hillary clinton and james comey on the role the fbi investigation of clinton's private e-mail server played in the 2016 presidential race. we are back with the panel. britt, how much responsibility do you think james comey bears for clinton's defeat, especially his announcement that he was reopening the investigation 11 days before the election. >> i think it had a limited effect. i don't take it was a main factor. look at it this way. the case he laid out that he said was not the basis for prosecution could very well have been, as numerous legal authorities have argued about that. it's possible he could've recommended and indictment which would've been devastated. he didn't do that. a lot of people think he let her off the hook so you could argue it that way as well. obviously the whole investigation did not help, but whose fault was that. it was t

to make the system more resilient and difficult to take out. i would look at the new infrastructure built to consider having a substantial part of a national security infrastructure component. number three, if you were to go through and cut out a lot of the red tape, the time value of money that you could save with probably more than pay for everything you are going to ask them to do. so, very practical things can be done. done. you need to somehow communicates to the executive branch we need a sense of urgency and we need to understand every morning that we get up we are a step away from capacity and i note that they've estimated it's different than man-made nonetheless equally dangerous. the potential is the effect is about 12% per decade that is now overdue from that happening and it happened to be out of the position for the solar flare that missed us. but that should give a reminder. look back from the consequences. when you have a high likelihood that over the next 20 or 30 years something this confidential could happen, there has to be a

i want us to go after any bad actors outside the system. but our number one priority is to protect the american people. and everybody who works in this country is affected by the i.r.s. yes, we want to protect students from any unsavory characters. but all americans are affected by the i.r.s. if they file their taxes. and most of them do. thank goodness we have a system where most people voluntarily do what they are supposed to do. the problem we have with our government agencies is there's no accountability for any of you individually. and that is a shame. a real shame on this country. that you all can ignore the continued incompetence and not be held responsible. i do have some questions. the department has taken some steps, mr. gray, mr. runcie, to mitigate the burdens on students' -- students, families, and institutions caused by the d.r.t. suspension. but aim concerned about the potential fraud, the flexibilities you put in place may cause. how is the department protecting against fraudulent income reporter -- reporting or ensuring no

it is easy to complain about the educational system, but my argument is that the system that we haves a reflection of who we are as a culture and who we are as a people. i think if you look at the american nation and one of the cultural values that unite us as people, i think the reality is that there is a strong tendency toward anti-intellectualism that works against high iq children and their parents. host: nikki is calling in from florida on our democratic line. (202)-748-8000 good morning -- caller: good morning, how are you? host: i'm well. guest: i have a -- caller: i have a suggestion in picking out who these high iq children are. we overlook struggling readers in early grades. these often turn into dyslexic children and dyslexic children are known to be high iq children. i have worked for 45 years with dyslexia. students whoveral have been at risk for being asked to leave the academic sector because of how troublesome they were, and yet wind up taking sats in high school and getting 4 wrong on the entire test. they are really in children but we lose them by second or third gr

there is no transit system in the world that makes money. how are private investors going to put up $100 billion for our transit system. they can't move up fares, people would not use it in terms of our interstate system and the bridges that need repair, most of them are relatively small project. again they don't lend themselves to private investment unless you are going to toll the entire interstate system. as i told esther trump's transportation advisor, i think people who live in trump country out there aren't going to be pleased if you're saying that paying a gas tax and now they are paying eight private entity -- a private entity to repair bridges and resurface or build their rural interstate. that's not going to go over. we will see. private-public partnerships can solve a small percentage of the problems. the transportation committee look to that two years ago. it was maybe 10% of the problem your the other 90% has to be a partnership between the federal government, local entities and states to rebuild, repair and make the system a 21

that our leaders talk about that a lot so we don't let that system itself go out of itself. in that moment of a terrorist attack and also for safety. >> good morning and thanks for taking my call.for we're looking forward the authoritarian dictatorship as the hierarchy of needs looking nasty of abandoned -- at steve van in so that tells me that that seems to be left out of the killer comes to mind that is a concern to me because it is very scary that is the number one being that i see an adult think actually theyey are reporting enough and the constant stress on the public in december he could explain what does that phrase and make ameritech agreed to get mean? the environment? the economy?. >> guest:. >> i ask that same question so here we see something interesting it is usually conservatives talking what the goals of united stateslike 80 between 1945 and 65 bu' their target forrestal to a bat seems to be the 1930's with that slogan of the administration and it is america first fed is the anti-roosevelt slogan how we should not have thought that second world war which is pa

we need a more competitive capital consumption system, depreciation system. we need to adopt expensing. we have for far too long had a system of taking account of when a business buys a piece of equipment, how you charge it off over time. and the effect of that has been along with high tax rates to produce a highly elevated what's called cost of capital. cost of capital is a term you should be hearing a lot of going forward, and really all it does is it puts in one summary statistic the sum total of all tax policies affecting an investment and says how much do these various policies raise the price that you have to pay, that is the earnings that you have to have on that piece of capital? so you have a basic level of earnings, you have to have to make an investment worthwhile as a business, and then you start figuring out, okay, this tax is going to raise it, this tax is going to raise it more, this tax is going to raise it some more. the sum total of those effects is the cost of capital. what we want to see happen in tax reform is the cost of capital to be br