believe, butd to there is a seven-point plan floating around which would try to bring about some kindf wider bargain across the korean peninsula. probably wouldn't be acceptable to the japanese, let alone south korea, but it is floating around. when donald trump says, "i would not be at all surprised if we need something dramatic," maybe that is the plan. charlie: what was his overall demeanor? but he calm? gillian: he seemed to be very positive and cheerful. he seemed to be in a good mood. charming, is that a british expression? gillian: [laughter] he pushes the button and calls up a diet coke. he makes jokes sometimes. we had diet coke's. he showed us a picture of andrew jackson. he showed us around the office. he was very keen to be hospitable and gracious. gillian: what do you make of his presidency so far? his presidency has certainly taken the world of back. -- aback. it has been frustrating and baffling. frustrating as a journalist to cover it. however, as we wrote in our he istoday -- piece, imperious, but there is a method in the madness. first of all, to enable and connect w

with that, butd they do not plan to implement it for 2021. they want to give the hospitals time to adjust. i would encourage the congress given thee quickly unsustainable nature of these two programs and the need to reduce their cost. sen. lankford: you bought up the issue that you talk about before . you brought to them eight recommendations of what to do, cms said they were going to do it and didn't implement any of those. they are still trying to work through the risk assessment. we understand it is nearly complete. a report have available this summer for the congress, that will be the first complete look at that progress -- as mr. george mentioned, both agencies have responsibility. thank you.rd: we'll talk but this before, often the irs will come back and davis falls on preparers. as you mentioned, half of them have a preparer. the irs has said if we get a certification from these preparers we will get fewer mistakes. they attempted to do that six years ago and ale. the recommendation has been made before instead of doing a requirement f

ways, butd be other it was to get the supervisory authority to renew the agency, get all the supervisoryut it new agency. relate that to the federal reserve, because the vice chairman of the federal reserve can be the chairman of that war on it, anyway. the other agencies might be represented on it, but you could have a unified supervisory approach. that supervisory will supervise the banks and supervise goldman sachs. so that is what we have had. clarify, the other loose point historically and even now, who is responsible for oversight? equipped toly suggest it is certainly not the secretary of the treasury, and he is not wanting to be. the federal reserve -- i have the feeling that the federal reserve is, but if you ask them they will say no, there is nothing about it. i think, in fact, the instinct that it should be the federal reserve is correct. better pay bank attention to the institutional structure and the stability. that is an inherent part of their responsibility in my view. some countries do not agree with that, but that has always been my view. it is not an uncommon view. but