man who has many famous people among his patients dr david davis. it's so great to have you with us in our program so as you know it's called sophie code visionaries and you are a true visionary in your field so i got a lot of questions like i'm not a professional right so i'm going to ask you a lot of things that actually lie on the surface because that's what most people are interested in i'm ready. so i don't have this distinct for a world her surgeon is ation the latest one and it says that actually cases and the deaths are rising and i'm thinking we have so many new technologies so much research has been done are we still losing the battle no question about it we're losing the battle for 2 big reasons one is we're continued to smoke so tobacco is still the leading cause of cancer death.

one of the world's most renowned oncology a man who has many famous people among his patients dr david davis. it's so great to have you with us in our program so as you know it's called so if you could visionaries and you are a true visionary in your field so i got a lot of questions like i'm not a professional right so i'm going to ask you a lot of things that actually lie on the surface because that's what most people are interested in i'm ready ok so i don't have the statistic for a world her surgeon ization the latest one and it says that actually cases and the deaths are rising and i'm thinking we have so many new technologies so much research has been done are we still losing the battle no question about it we're losing the battle for 2 big reasons one is we're continuing to smoke so tobacco is still the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and we're doing it more women are smoking than ever and while some rates are going down in many parts of the world they're going to 2nd is all the new treatments that we have which are really amazing we can turn off on switches and cancer we can

with me are broadcaster david davies and talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew.s front pages are already in. coronavirus is putting jaguar land rover plants at risk of shutting down as chinese components are in short supply, says the financial times. concern about radicalisation behind bars leads on the front of the times. —— of the times. and the mirror's front page reports of six "danger to life" warnings, as the paper says flooding is expected to worsen tomorrow. meanwhile, the mail looks at life after brexit, reporting that migrants from the eu will be required to speak english and have a job offer, under new government reforms. the plans will also include a salary threshold and an australian points—based system, says the guardian. and the metro adds that the home secretary's ban on low—skilled workers from the eu could lead to a crisis in health and social care, and the paper also features a picture of one of the winners from tonight's brit awards, stormzy. so let's get more. david, do you wa nt to so let's get more. david, do you want to start us off. immig

david davies even, today, one of the architects of brexit, acknowledged that it would beafair brexit,would be a fair race to get it done. he fought it would be achievable but his counterparts on the other side of the argument, we had an irish senator on the radio this morning saying that they see the eu has been a strong ability in the uk. one of the interesting things was the optimism of those leaving the eu at the beginning and what britain would be able to do, exploit differences between the other member countries. perhaps the baltic states would be more keen on one area of negotiations, the french on another. 0n exploiting that difference, but it didn't turn out that way. is there a chance at this stage that there a chance at this stage that the countries might not be a single anonymous voice saying no, they may well be able to concede things the commission is not keen on? the union have been good at maintaining the united single voice through the chief negotiator but things that they have been negotiating have been much more ephemeral than what we are getting into now. we are now

the likes of sir iain duncan smith and david davis, who signed this letter with others, asking mps tocome up with ideas. it is a complex problem. they consist huawei is simply too close to the chinese government and what they call only trusted vendors to be involved. at the very least, they wa nt involved. at the very least, they want a tapering off of its 35% market share of the sg infrastructure. borisjohnson has said he is willing to do that, he wa nts to said he is willing to do that, he wants to reduce their role but the government has admitted in the meantime the huawei is a high risk then door. but they say security concerns will be mitigated. matt cole, thank you very much. police have spoken to the 16—year—old schoolboy who was sent hundreds of social media messages by scotland's formerfinance secretary derek mackay. the snp policitian resigned on thursday. police scotland said it hadn't received any complaint of criminality but it was "assessing available information". several hospital staff have been suspended and a police investigation is under way after the alleged assaul

i remember the previous brexit secratary david davis danger me he wasn't in the business of making spanish final point, people will be interested to see this vision being painted through, you are going to have your own scottish military forces. you say you will spend 1.6% of gdp on them. that doesn't even meet the nato requirement for 2% of gdp and if one actually works through what it would mean, you wouldn't be able to afford what you have promised, a 15,000 strong army and all sorts of naval vessels, antisubmarine capability, you wouldn't be able to afford it. you are referring to historical figures and we will make an offer for our defence capabilities when we come to the independence period and when we're putting that in front of the people of scotland, but we will ta ke the people of scotland, but we will take responsibilities seriously and we will make sure we have investment both in our navy, our air force and in ourarmy. isn't it true, ian blackford... weapons we want removed from scottish soil. we began by discussing whether this was a moment of maximum opportunity for the snp bu

david davis, one of the architects of brexit, said it would be a fair race to get it done. it will be a pretty tricky thing. there is notjust the future relationship between britain and the eu to be agreed, but trade deals around the world, including the much mooted trade deal with the united states. negotiations haven't been allowed to start until this morning. they are going to get negotiating on that pretty quickly. there is going to be a lot... you're going to hear a lot over the next few months about negotiations and some of it will sound tricky, we won't know how successful any of it has been until ministers and officials are signing on dotted lines. time, it is a long year ahead. —— tom, it is a long year ahead. and you can see much more on brexit on the bbc website, with lots on information about how the uk leaving the european union will impact you. you can see that that story is the top story at the moment in terms of number of people reading it followed, not surprisingly, by concerns about the coronavirus. if we scroll down a little bit further past the news abou

and we will be taking an in—depth look at the papers with david davis and daisy mcandrews.with us for that. good evening. there are warnings tonight that the aftermath of storm dennis could still cause widespread damage and endanger life. evacuations are under way in towns along the river severn in shropshire, with parts of south wales, herefordshire and worcestershire also under water. across the country, there are around 160 flood warnings still in place, requiring immediate action, with six of those severe, meaning there is a danger to life. 0ur correspondentjon kay reports on a day of devastation for communities across the uk. the river wye should flow between those trees, but look at it now. even though this is a flood plain, it has never looked like this before. the far set of trees — you can see a tree line — that's where the river should be. there's 60 acres between us and where the river should be. ally‘s family have farmed in herefordshire for generations, but now their land is under unprecedented amounts of water. it's devastating. commercially, for us, it's abso

one of the world's most renowned oncologist man who has many famous people among his patients dr david davis. it's so great to have you with us on our program so as you know it's called visionaries and you're a true visionary in your field so i got a lot of questions like i'm not a professional right so i'm going to ask a lot of things that actually lie on the surface because that's what most people are interested in i'm ready. so i don't have this to stick for a world her surgeon is ation the latest one and it says that actually cases and the deaths are rising and i'm thinking we have so many new technologies so much research has been done are we still losing the battle no question about it we're losing the battle for 2 big reasons one is we're continuing to smoke so tobacco is still the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and we're doing it more women are smoking than ever and while some rates are going down in many parts of the world they're going to 2nd is all the new treatments that we have which are really amazing we can turn off on switches and cancer we can have your own immune s

paterson, bob seely, the isle of wight mp, tobias ellwood who chairs the defence select committee, david daviscretary. these are not unknown names. they have all been campaigning for some time against this decision which we should say has now happened. the government has ruled there will be a cap of 35% on huawei in terms of its involvement in the infrastructure of the sg involvement in the infrastructure of the 56 network and they say it won't be allowed to be involved in the core of the roll—out but they are in for now. david green, one of the other signatories, he asked boris johnson about this at prime minister's questions on wednesday. i have spoken with downing street this morning and they say they have nothing to add to respond to the letter, but we fed us to the comments boris johnson gave letter, but we fed us to the comments borisjohnson gave on wednesday. i scribbled down and outs of it, in which borisjohnson said, look, we are going to be reducing below the 35% market cap, but there isa below the 35% market cap, but there is a failure of like—minded companies to produce an alternat

lincoln told this to david davis and a couple of others when he was president. they said, if the public knew that you were telling stories like this, it would be the end. remark, it hasat authenticity. some of the others that are reported, you think they sound plausible. i think, in a sense, it does not matter whether a particular joke is authentic or not. what we can be clear about is there is sufficient authenticity in that spread of stories that represent one of the styles of humor lincoln indulged in. lincoln got angry with someone who came in. lincoln was exhausted. someone came in and wanted to tell a filthy story. he said that is terrible. that man disgusts me, but is not funny. it has to have wit. there has to be a surprise. there has to be a point about it. [applause] professor carwardine: one more? did you want? >> thank you very much. recent references to locker room talk, which apparently a certain person had a hard time getting over recently. was there any female reaction to this? did women ever get to hear this? was there ever anything like that? t

on the door and then the wife replies in a rhyming -- a rough poem -- and lincoln told this to david davis and to a couple of others. and it was while he was president. if the public a knew you were telling stories like this, it would just be the end! so i think from that remark it has authenticity. some of the others that are reported you think well they sound plausible. i think in the sense it doesn't matter where a particular joke is authentic or not. what we can be clear about is that there is sufficient authenticity in that spread of stories than to represent one of the styles of humor that lincoln indudged in. but there was an occasion where lincoln got very angry with someone who came in, lincoln was exhausted, someone wanted to tell him a story and it was a filthy story. he said that's terrible. that man just disgusts me. that's not funny. it has to have wit. there has to be a surprise, there has to be a point about it. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> i remember recent references to locker room talk which apparently a certain personal had really hard time getting over recentl

david grey and david davis. that is a joo—ho. grey and david davis. that is a joo-ho. news: our main story this morning is tyson fury‘s stunning world heavyweight title win. we will get details from john in just a moment. but first, here is the rest of the day's news: italy is experiencing europe's largest outbreak of coronavirus, with 79 cases and two deaths. people will no longer be able to come and go from ten communities in the north of the country. 32 british and irish cruise passengers have spent their first night in quarantine in the uk after arriving back from japan yesterday. the left—wing candidate bernie sanders appears to have secured a resounding win in the latest stage of the democrats' contest to choose a candidate to take on donald trump. he is thought to have been backed by more than 40% of voters across the state of nevada. the us presidential election takes place in november. it is 75 days until the 75th anniversary of ve day, and those that served are being asked to come forward to mark the occasion. winston churchill's victory speech will be played

david: a treat to have you with us, jerry crawford. he has been there all the way back to 1972 and the first caucus. jeanne zaino and rick davising with us. live second hour on bloomberg tv and radio. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ iowa, from des moines, i'm david westin. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. what a world of politics meets the world of business. we are at the marriott in downtown des moines where in a feud hours, downtown iowans will kickoff the first contest in the 2020 presidential elections. as democrats search for their candidate, joining us now is kevin cirilli also in downtown des moines. what do you have witfor us? takeawaysouple of big tonight. and secure victory? if he's able to do that, that will inject a lot of momentum into his campaign. what does this all mean for former vice president joe biden? can he pull off an upset? is he also able to continue to move forward and finish in second place? lastly, who is going to take the third spot? buttigieg?pete he has been talking not about impeachment but the economy, the gig economy. listen to what

joining us, davi david bossie.he president is as you saw there and heard, he's clearly passionate and committed to justice and finding out why the justice department has elements within it that are still acting as if they were reporting to eric holder. >> that's exactly right. the faux outrage on the left is ridiculous. they hate this president. they cannot get over his accomplishments and they will continue to hate on him for the next five years if he's president. when prosecutors go quiet like durham and you have heard nothing from him. it's time for the targets to get very nervous. prosecutors get very quiet just before they end up lowering the boom. so we'll see who gets the last laugh. but this president is going to continue. the attacks on the attorney general is ridiculous. where was the outrage when eric holder was barack obama's wingman? this is outrageous conduct by the left because they have nothing else to offer. lou: you and i both know why. the national left-wing media remain complicit. they couldn't

brewing for mr johnson when it comes to huawei for a lot of senior tories, like damian green and david davis in eastern scotland doing quite nicely. further west, more cloud in some spots of rain and drizzle. temperatures generally 7—9dc. this evening, dry for most but keeping the feet of cloud into northern ireland and scotland. patchy drizzle in the far north—west. the old south patch in the south on what will be another fairly chilly night. through thursday and friday, the weather staying calm. fog to contained within southern parts. more sunshine on friday as the breeze picks up. a quick word about the weekend. if you are travelling or have outdoor plants, it is worth staying tuned to the forecast. the met office has named storm keira. the threat of damaging winds for just about all parts of the uk. hello this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: president trump makes his state of the union speech and hails ‘the great american comeback‘ just hours before he‘s expected to be acquitted in his impeachment trial. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling,

david: rick davis and jeanne zaino will be sticking with us.rn more about the history of the new hampshire primary and its current significance. charlie pellett filed this report. >> we are going on to new hampshire victorious. hampshire likew to say, i will pick scorn, we pick presidents. the numbers would seem to back up that claim. in 14 of the last 17 new hampshire primaries, the winners went on to be elected president. in the other three primaries, the second-place finisher ended up in the white house. some democrats say this year, maybe the results could come with an asterisk. bernie sanders is from vermont, elizabeth warren is from massachusetts. joe biden's allies point out that candidates from neighboring states have all done well in new hampshire. biden is downplaying expectations while going after sanders, a self-described socialist. >> we are already seeing what donald trump is going to do with that. >> as of the middle of last month, sanders had spent $3.6 million on ads in new hampshire. warren and body were not even close. perhap

david: we are waiting for president trump. he was due to speak at 12:00. he is somewhat delayed. staying with may be will be rick davis. we will have coverage of the new hampshire primary tuesday at 7:00 eastern time. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. president trump is set to speak in the east room of the white house. we'll bring you that as soon as that happens. in the meantime i am joined by bloomberg contributor rick davis. what is his political team telling him at this point? the democrats will move beyond impeachment. will it help him to come back to it? rick: sure. i think he wants to put a historical exclamation point behind impeachment. he wants to set the record straight, i did not do anything wrong. he wants to say the democrats persecuted him from day one, and he wants to put a reference point in the history books and say this was all partisan effort on behalf of the democrats and he did not do anything wrong. we will let the public decide. they know what is going on. i think he wants to pivot away from this an

as well as the six mps including former cabinet ministers like sarah iain duncan smith, david davis and responders have been taken to hospital for precautionary checks after a suspected chemical incident in stoke—on—trent. police and other emergency services were called to a house in the northwood area of the city yesterday evening, where the body of a woman was found. her death is being treated as unexplained. staffordshire police said suspected hazardous materials were at the scene. facebook‘s social media accounts were hacked overnight by activists claiming they want to show flaws in cyber security. a group which calls itself our mine targeted the firm‘s twitter and instagram feeds and posted messages saying that "even facebook is hackable". the accounts have now been restored. it follows a similar attack on teams in america‘s national football league last month. a record high temperature has been logged on the continent of antarctica. a reading of 18.3 degrees celsius beat the previous record by almost a degree. antarctica‘s peninsula — the area that points towards south america — i

david: she is still in the uc davis medical center.s far as we know, there is no update on her condition. the state is trying to track down every single person she may have come in contact with and the federal government is sending out people to help with that tracing effort. but there's no obvious way she got it. it she did not travel anywhere in particular. the one thing people are we haveg a lot about -- seen the whistleblower out of washington where someone from federal health and human services agency was complaining the air force base in the county where this woman lived at federal workers going in and out of quarantine areas without training and might have gone in public. you've got to wonder about that, evidencer there's no how this woman got it. kurt: thank you for tracking that. that was bloomberg's david baker. if you want to stay with us on our coverage, the effect of the coronavirus on the tech industry, we have our executive editor tom giles. tom, this is a global issue but it feels like it's particularly important to be

joining me as rick davis and kathy jones of charles schwab and david bahnson still with me.r and it felt like a dogfight. what was your take away? away --at was your take it was much more entertaining than the last eight democratic debates. night you saw a real campaign starting. prior to this, you wonder did anybody want to win this election? last night you saw people throwing themselves into each other and gliding objects in order to strip away their votes. it was not one of those things where you say you make your positive pitch and voters will rally around you. what you saw last night was candidates looking to the right and left of themselves ideologically and saying have to take your votes tonight or i lose. alix: did someone win? rick: i think donald trump won. anyone who watch the debate had to say what a train wreck. alix: i think michael bloomberg did say that. rick: this is always the danger where you get into the cycle of the campaign where you have to strip away votes from other people to consolidate the field and it is a messy process. you're making sausage. >>

. >> davis is live in washington with reaction from lawmakers. david.d morning. >> good morning to you well there are calls for ag to step down just over a year after taking over at the justice department. over the weekend and i'm looking at the latest numbers about 1100 right now former doj employees some as julianne mention tv they sign petition calling them to step aside following interjection into roger stone case now stone a confidant was convicted in november of witness tampering and lying to congress. the u.s. attorney's office early a last week recommended a 7 to 9-year sentence . president trump publicly complained about that sentence via twitter and next day barr team at justice department pulled back sentence arguing it was too tough. four career prosecutors quit the case, doj officials say the president's tweet hadding nothing to do with barr's decision. >> to be glad if he resigned i don't think that is realistic. the stone controversy bringses to light the president's twitter habit barr himself broke with president trump last week, said it

david: i am here in des moines, iowa for the iowa caucuses. we are joined by our political team of rick davismore than one political campaign, including here in iowa . also jeanne zaino, a political professor at iona college in new york. what is the state of play right now? rick: today is the day we launched the democratic nominating process, and everyone is getting their walkers ready, getting organized around these sites. there are thousands of site around the state that welcome caucus-goers throughout the evening, and people are trying to set expectations. i think we saw yesterday the biden campaign trying to tamp down expectations, the buttigieg campaign trying to raise expectations, and bernie is sitting on top of the heap making sure he doesn't underperform. david: it is interesting because the story is the momentum behind bernie sanders. if that is wrong? is that going to be a disappointment? jeanne: this is a question now of turnout, and he's got a lot of support among young people, and they don't tend to turn out in as large numbers. number one, we are watching to see what is the tur

i think that david shouldn't have a boulevard named after h him. the prosecution of jefferson daviswas pulled in 1868 and spent two years in prison. i don't think that had h they bn prosecuted would be muchpr different today. they were sent to a term of prison. how would that make your life or my life any different today? you are right about reconstruction being a failed project. it took another 100 years before we began to remedy that. on the other hand it seems to me if that is how you would regard half of americans if you want to be in the same country as them. >> host: about five minutes left. american secession is the looming threat. we will try to get to as many calls as g we can enough time. richard has been waiting until boulder, colorado. >> caller: are you there? a couple of comments going on right now basically it is minimum wage. if you go state by state most of them have a minimum wage and colorado is $12wa an hour and tn the other form is the separation of church and state which we have been losing and its freedom from religion and freedom of religion they decided to p

i'll be joined in the questioning tonight by my colleagues david muir and linsey davis. >> as you know, seven candidate qualified for tonight's presidential primary debate, meeting the criteria established by the democratic national committee. all are seeking the nomination for president of the united states. tonight for the first time you can experience the debate on apple news, watching on your iphone, too. there you'll find the candidates and where they instant on the issueless. if you hear something during the debate, have a question or follow up, send your questions on the apple news live feed. >> we are excited to be here on the beautiful campus of st. anselm college, home of the hawks and home of the debates of the last four presidential elections. here in the sullivan arena we are joined by a live audience of 1,400 people, most invited by the democratic national community and some of the brightest minds of the student body here. we'll be joined by monica hernandez and adam sexton with questions especially important to the voters here in new hampshire. >> the podium placement is

mid 80's, so emotional is off davis is long last album rubber band which was incomplete when he died in 1991. >>the album was finally released last year in hollywood, i'm david dead. a beautiful voice all right, here's a live look outside the bay bridge toll plaza we've got eric and the traffic center keeping an eye on any hot spots for you on this monday morning. >>and john sure able with your very chilly. start to this a monday morning. we'll have your forecast and local expect for the rest of the week coming up in just a minute. tom: my mom always told me actions speak louder than words. she was a school teacher. my dad joined the navy and helped prosecute the nazis in nuremberg. their values are why i walked away from my business, took the giving pledge to give my money to good causes, and why i spent the last ten years fighting corporate insiders who put profits over people. i'm tom steyer, and i approve this message. because, right now, america needs more than words. we need action. okay we are back time now for 33 just waking up and joining us, thank you very much and if you haven't stepped outside yet all against it's cold out there get john talk mor

davis if you can find him. he also developed a backup plan about enforcing emancipation. david: they are all great photos. you might think douglass -- when he meets lincoln the second time, august of 1854, lincoln rightfully believes there is a good chance he is not going to get reelected. the war weariness. stalemate in virginia. harold: it is only a week from sherman taking over. david: that makes all the difference. 60,000 casualties in the summer of 64 alone. the north is sick of the war. calls douglass to the white house, looks him in the eye, and asks him to be the chief agent of a scheme to funnel as many slaves as possible out of the upper south before election day. harold: inauguration day. david: i thought it was before november. right. anyway, i may lose this election, so help me with this scheme, some legal definition of freedom before mcclellan and the democrats engineering negotiated peace or whatever they are going to do. reverse emancipation. imagine this. i don't know exactly what douglass thought, of course, but i know it's reaction was something like, sure. and he did -- how am i suppos

from the north of england such as philip davies in shipley, not that far away from leeds, has said it is a catastrophic waste of money. former cabinet minister david for borisjohnson to try to get the message across that it is not either slash all, it is not either local investment or a gigantic train line going up from london to the north of england, you can have both. 0bviously london to the north of england, you can have both. obviously you are discussing the potential costs of hs2, discussing the potential costs of hsz, that discussing the potential costs of hs2, that could be more than 100 billion, a lot more than is being put into buses over the next five yea rs, put into buses over the next five years, a substantial investment. and the chancellor sajid javid said, although he would give no timescale, the rail at great between leeds and manchester would definitely go ahead as part of an infrastructure revolution. i think the wider political picture is that basically the damage to britain's brand, if you like, post brexit, by cancelling immediately what would be the biggest construction project in europe, would be more damaging than going ahe

david: coming up, there was a prize fight in las vegas last night and this time it was not in a boxing ring, it was on a debate stage. our political contributor rick davis is here to score the debate for us. that is next. power" onalance of bloomberg television and radio. ♪ >> he has not managed his city well when he was there. he did not get a lot done. he had stop and frisk throwing close to 5 million young black men up against the wall. number of women to sign nondisclosure agreements for sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the work place. moneyo not care how much anyone has, i think it is great you have a lot of money, but you have to come forward with your tax return. david: those were some of the challenges to mike bloomberg. michael bloomberg is the founder and owner of this company. that happened last night in las vegas. the former new york mayor was the newcomer, and the other five candidates welcomed him from the start by making him the main target, leaving bernie sanders relatively unscathed. here to take us through what happened and to set out what comes next as we head toward super tuesday are bloomberg politics editor wendy benj

david should have been hung, not have a boulevard named after him. and many of the monuments themselves are inappropriate. >> well, you are right, the prosecution of jefferson davisa teen 68 he spent two years in prison, i don't honestly think that had he been prosecuted life would be much different today. i mean, he was prosecuted, if you had been convicted in sent to a term of imprisonment, how would that make your life or my life any different today? you are right about reconstruction being a failed project, they've took another 100 years before we began to remedy that. on the other hand, seems to me if that is how you regard half of americans, then you have to ask if you want to be in the same country is that. >> about five minutes left with frank buckley, american secession is the book, the looming threat of the national breakup. will try to get to as many calls as we can in that time. richard has been waiting in boulder, colorado. >> hello. i. >> are you there? >> yes. >> i have a couple comments on a few views of secession. basically it's a minimum wage. if you look at all the red states and go state-by-state, most of them are at 725 an hour in the purple

davis medical center in sacramento. it was picked up through the medical health system according to the cdc by what they call acute clinicians. although doctors at uc daviday that the cdc testing guidelines are simply too narrow. and cases like this one may therefore be slipping through. and gavin newsom just back to the idea that testing has to be far more widespread. listen here. >> we have just a few hundred testing kits in the state of california, that its surveillance testing as well as diagnostic testing that is inadequate to do justice to the kind of testing that is required to address the issue head-on. >> the infected woman lives in the same california county where travis air force base is located. you remember, dana, that travis is where hundreds of americans landed after being evacuated from china and others were bought home from the diamond princess cruise ship. it could be a coincidence, it could not. >> dana: what about the global response to the virus? >> around 82,000 people have so far been infected. around 2800 deaths. the vast majority of those in china where the disease of course first emerged. and the entire town and cities in china,

david's you are now recognized forfive minutes . >> morning, thank you for the opportunity to join you today to share our concern about the ministrations proposed rules rollback broad-based bbc.gorical eligibility for my name is lisa davis and i'm a senior vice president of our no kid hungry campaign. share our strength is focused on ending poverty and hunger in the us and worldwide but we do have a particular focus on children in the united states . i'm here today to talk about two things. first, to provide a brief overview of bbc and why it is so important for families. and second, how this rule would hurt working poor families, seniors and individuals with disabilities. first, what it does. the ece is an effective practical policy that there are many families with gross incomes above hundred 30 percent of poverty. but you still have difficulty making ends meet and according food because of high cost of things like housing, childcare, medical benefits. bbc allows these families to and remain eligible for set and to preschool meals. creates efficiency and reduces administrative burdens on state agencies in schools but most importantly, it encourages work. it helps low income families out of poverty and build financial