i will recognize dr. rowe for five minutes. and probably ms. davis, maybe mr. wahlberg and a after that we will have to start dropping down. we will go to four minutes. i'm trying not to go to three or two. but i want to give everybody a chance to be involved in this conversation. dr. rowe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you madam secretary, for being here. there are some questions i want to bring up to begin with. then we will get to the questions. these are things i want your shop to answer. one are the medicare wage indexes. if you look at those around the country, it was never intended to be like that. 20 of the highest are in california and massachusetts. 14 of the lowest are in alabama and tennessee. for instance, what you get paid in santa cruz, california is 1.7 with a medicare wage index. and .73 where i live. it's putting us out of business. that needs to desperately be looked at. the second thing, and i want to know your solution to that. certainly we're all against fraud and abuse. but in my state the medicare comes in, does these audits, withhol

i will recognize dr. rowe for five minutes. and probably ms. davis, maybe mr. wahlberg and a after that we will have to start dropping down. we will go to four minutes. i'm trying not to go to three or two. but i want to give everybody a chance to be involved in this conversation.

dr. rowe who is working at dial press at the time and a quirky publisher named richard barron and together they agreed, with he had worked with them on a collection of essays about what was happening at berkeley, together they agreed to list it as nonfiction, and the result of that was, when the catalogue went out, the reporter for the "new york times" called to ask questions about it, and was told by prearrangement that, and this prefigured edgar's ability to take fiction and non-fiction and do something totally original with them, and was told, look, if you don't -- they didn't lie to the reporter. if you don't believe it, check the footnotes. so the reporter checked the footnotes and then called the white house, and the white house was the johnson white house, and what did they know? maybe kennedy had commissioned such a thing. so instead of saying no, there's no way that they would have published such a report, although they suspected it wasn't, they said no comment, the result was the rep

dr. rowe who is working at dial press at the time and a quirky publisher named richard barron and together they agreed, with he had worked with them on a collection of essays about what was happening at berkeley, together they agreed to list it as nonfiction, and the result of that was, when the catalogue went out, the reporter for the "new york times" called to ask questions about it, and was told by prearrangement that, and this prefigured edgar's ability to take fiction and non-fiction and do something totally original with them, and was told, look, if you don't -- they didn't lie to the reporter. if you don't believe it, check the footnotes. so the reporter checked the footnotes and then called the white house, and the white house was the johnson white house, and what did they know? maybe kennedy had commissioned such a thing. so instead of saying no, there's no way that they would have published such a report, although they suspected it wasn't, they said no comment, the result was the rep

we get expectations and feedback and that's business 101. >> so dr. rowe, if i might i want to say to you and your colleagues we share your frustration. and i want to salute my colleague dr. cuddler who is working with others to try, yes, someone -- people who don't do their jobs should be held accountable if, in fact, we have given them the resources and capacity to do that job. you can't hold somebody accountable if there are no appointments and no ability to see a patient. >> but mr. o'rorke pointed out there are 20 something people, jobs available right now. we claim to have a job problem. there are 24 people that need a job in el paso, texas, and there's money there to find it. so why aren't those positions filled? >> we have tried a lot of varieties of ways to recruit people. mr. o'rorke came in with a group of partners from the community and i think i'm very much looking forward and he has my full commitment to looking that the proposal to see how -- >> v.a. is not making it hard for those veterans to leave that practitioners, with the veterans choi

row ever since. a man scheduled to die in less than three weeks and helping susan in her cause is dr.> how will you feel in the morning if they kill him at midnight? >> i'll feel ashamed and sad for us all. not just for him. i mean, it's hard to even put an animal down, but to put a man down? it's just not the way we should be living our lives. >> call it personal fight for justice doing everything they can to make sure this man, richard's story is told and in prison for 17 years convicted for being part of a murder plot to kill his boss, beaten to death with a bat. part of their argument is that jurors didn't get to see this interrogation video of the confessed killer. >> we know that this involves more than just you, okay? >> i hope and pray they don't execute me for something i didn't do. >> ain't you going to ask me what i've done? i didn't kill nobody. i swear to god, i didn't. >> richard's fight was brought to susan's attention by the real life played in "dead man walking." you can see next to susan make a cameo in the film. >> it comes full circle because here we are with susan

and mark row rubio third and dr. ben carson at 4th.ed cruz is in the southern states and there is a new national strategy to tap in more donors. jeb bush's super pac raked in 100 million. and cruz is taking a different approach. an olive branch, mississippi with more is carl. >> reporter: hi, john, the septemberor is likely to come in a matter of moments. he was in tupelo, mississippi. he is focused on iowa and south carolina. south carolina was the first state of what is a seven state barnstorming tour that he is in the middle of now in the august recess and congressional break period. he is trying to set up a southern fire are wall. he is off the pace in iowa, he hopes to do well. and in new hampshire same thing. south carolina a different story and it is his hope using the vast resource in the super pac and campaign funds he will work through the long haul and other candidates will begin to peel off. cruz has the most money second only to jeb bush who raised over hundred million. and cruz has 50 million to play with and that outpace

dr. petit's family to stay on death row and now they won't. >> we might all agree to murder a connecticutr and burn her two daughters alive is the most ohorrific thing possible and those two monsters should be put to death but you would agree in general the death penalty doesn't act as a deterrent, it doesn't decrease the crime rate in the states that have it. >> in the first ten years of the 21st century the number of death sentences handed down in the united states actually increased 26% over the last ten years of the 20th century. in that same period of time, the number of murders in the united states decreased 21%. now i'm not saying the only reason -- >> but the murders were not necessarily decreasing in the state thas that had the death penalty. study after study shows african americans are more likely to get the death penalty for a whole host of reasons that white people who commit the same crimes. >> i would actually 03, the cornell study showed that the states most likely to send people to death row were delaware and ohio. and the so-called southern death belt. approximately 51%

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one of them, losing his balance as he stood up in this second row, tumbling over the seats right in front of him, and then over the railing. drd to save the man's life. >> i heard a loud noise on impact and immediately knew it was a person and sort of instinctively rushed in that direction. >> reporter: critics are questioning whether there's a safety issue at ballparks. this is now the third deadly incident at turner field since 2008. >> you're definitely thinking about that family. it's definitely a huge tragedy. >> reporter: the victim's family released a statement saying he was doing what he loved when he died, watching the braves. david? >> steve, thank you. >>> when we come back here tonight, the best and worst states for drivers, cheapest insurance, safest roads, any guesses tonight. >>> also the popular ice cream pulled off the shelves because of a listeria outbreak and the new headline breaking tonight. >>> the scare in the water this evening, sharks swimming too close for comfort, the new sighting. rheumatoid arthritis like me... and you're talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic, this is humira. this is humira

row? >> my question is for dr. tol.i wonder if that is a big factor in white turkey is finally deciding to declare war on isis. >> thank you. gentleman in the front? question for both bob ford and tom whitman. do you think an iranian deal will make a rapprochement between baghdad more likely, or less likely? >> the gentleman right there. there are a lot of hands. >> i have a question for any of them. countrieswhether the y need the.s. or the u.s.. 57 islamic countries for leadership. two, with regard to islam, they are the epicenter of rare and hope image of faith and spiritual devotion for more than one quarter of humanity. 80 years of investment in saudi arabia, and vice versa. we're not trying to turn our back on that. relationsia had good with iran, with him and, -- with syria, and with lebanon. lastly, with regard to geography. saudi arabia alone is a continent with labor's. troopsr did have 130,000 -- last year they did have 130,000 troops. the issue of whether they lineed or not is not in with any profundity. i t

row inmates. that means the two will spend life in prison with no possibility of release. tonight, in a written statement, dr. pettitte credit iticized the position, it has profound impact on the victims and loved ones. >> we have to keep in our minds how difficult this is for victims and victims' families. >> reporter: in today's ruling, the connecticut supreme court said capital punishment does not conform to decency and work as a crime detour rant. >> because this is based on the state and not federal constitution, it's the last word and cannot be appealed to the supreme court. >>> to the race for president now, which for the next ten days is turning iowa into the center of the political universal. nearly every candidate is scheduled to appear at the state fair there and the ones getting some of the biggest buzz hail from far outside the beltway. more from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: at a state fair where cows are made of butter and everything tastes better flied. >> welcome to the first day of the iowa state fair. >> reporter: it's the anti washington candidates gaining traction with voters. >> i think

death row inmates have been spared now that the state's supreme court has ruled their executions would be unconstitutional. two men who tortured and then murdered the wife and two daughters of dr. william petit. >> relief overnight in the battle against a wind-driven wildfire in northern california, firefighters took advantage of the cooler temperatures. the fire still spreading. it's now 50% contained. >>> the current become the strongest ever. forecasters say there's a good chance the weather pattern will bring record heat and more strong storms with drenching rain and for bone-dry california that could mean floods, mudslides and mayhem. abc's rob marciano takes a look at what's in store. >> no one is sounding the alarm, strengthening and significant. likely to peak late fall. where california normally gets its rain. that will bring the storms into the southern california. the northeast could go either way during el nino. >> despite the expected record-breaking rain, there's no guarantee that el nino will end the grippaling draut. >>> tom brady was back on the field last night. despite his looming suspension and the fight over it. he threw four passes, completed one of them

row inmates in connecticut. >> this is a solemn day in connecticut. >> reporter: it was a case that captivated and horrified the country. the wife and two daughters of dr. william petit, sexually assaulted and murdered in their own home. the intruders severely beat dr. petit who narrowly managed to escape before they set fire to the house. steven hayes and joshua come sar jeff ski sentenced to death. dr. petit was interviewed in 2010 by oprah winfrey. >> i think forgiving the essence of evil is not appropriate. >> reporter: but today the state supreme court ruled this state's death p penalty no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any peenlogical purpose. tonight the dktoctor staying it disregarded the key stones of our governmental structure. connecticut had not actually executed anybody since 2005. while 30 other states have capital punishment, in recent years seven states have moved to ban it. >> ron, thank you. >>> we're going to turn to the other developing story at this hour, the race against time in china. tonight they are still franticly digging an urgent search for survivors after those powerful explosion

row and among them these two men. in 2007, steven hays and joshua broke into the home of the petit family. dr.ttitte was beaten and bound. he was the only familiar member to survive. jennifer and daughters were murdered. in a statement dr. pettitte spoke out against the court reversal saying the court disregarded key stones of our governmental structure to reach the decision it handed down. jennif jennifer's sister is on the phone. with a welcome to you and we spoke during the break. i want to reiterate what i said to you then because it is impossible to imagine what your family has gone through. what was your reaction to the court's ruling? >> i was shocked to know what had been decided in a court of law by a judge and a jury and one of the most heinous crimes imaginable that a sentence given of the death penalty could be taken away and completely turned around and by really the vote of what came down to was one person in a 4-3 vote of seven people. >> shocking to be certain. how does it make you feel? are you angry? you feel you can't do anything about this? >> i do feel like our hands are t

row. >> peter humphrey, intel analyst and former diplomat. i wanted to ask dr. tol.mit has learned that tom turks joined isis. that is the i wonder if turk -- a fact l for turkey declaring war on isis or was it the bombing? >> thank you. the gentleman in the front. >> david mack from the middle east institute. i have a question for both tom lippman and bob ford. do you think an iranian deal will make a -- between riyadh and bag dodd more likely or less likely -- baghdad? >> that gentleman right there. i know there are a lot of hands. i will try to get to them. >> a question for any of them. regarding whether the gcc countries need the u.s. more than the u.s. needs them, this is mixed. the gcc countries are key to 22 arab countries for leadership. 57 islamic countries for leadership. two, with regard to islam, they are the epicenter of prayer and pilgrimage of faith and spiritual devotion for more than a quarter of humanity. that is important for us. three, we have 80 years of investment in saudi arabia and, vice versa. now we're not about to turn our back on that. fo

dr. william petit, survived. >>> the connecticut supreme court ruled the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. that decision in a different case affects 11 inmates on death rowcbs news legal expert rickicalliman joins us at the table. good to see you. we all remember this story, because it was so heinous and bill petit said it was devastating to him, this decision. help us understand the court's reasoning here. >> we should remember this case came to the court not through the petit case, but came through a case brought by a man named edwardo santiago and back in 2012, april 25th, the legislature, the body elected by the people of connecticut, enacted a law that said, the death penalty is unconstitutional -- well, the death penalty should be abolished going forward. but anyone who was still on death row, there were 11 people, including the two killers who i looked at as monsters in the petit case. they were still on death row. and the legislature probably, because of those two people, said, the people on death row, they're still getting executed. so santiago goes forward with the case. and now the connecticut supreme court in a 92-page opinion, 75 pages by th

dr. mccarthy and that is, you mentioned that you are doing telemedicine i believe from 900 sites. am i correct too? >> i believe that's the correct figure. >> i guess my row question about that we need to look and see how we begin distributing scooters with reckless abandon at one point in time in the medicare program. when i began talking about scooters we actually found one woman who worked in mouth as his grandmother had three. the list chairs -- list chairs and all of those things where we are in many cases they are needed but how do we get approval for all those to be paid for by the medicare program and what do we need to instead of paying for pay for sensors that can monitor things that will allow us to intervene in a way that is cost-effective and healthy and allow seniors to age and place. and more quickly the entrepreneurial free-market in this country comes with products that can be brought to scale that they can present to the medicare system for possible reimbursement that would result in the savings i think the more quickly we could really turn this thing so i certainly urge all of you that are in academia to continue to reach out in a publi

row there. one over there. the podium was blocking me. we'll get to her next. okay. >> victor rodsey, institute for justice. this is principally aimed at dr. sharfstein, but please do weigh in as you see fit. it is remotely realistic to expect any sort of regulation of telemedicine to be enforceable? i mean, i see a host of problems in -- if we set up this vast regulatory framework, assuming that there will ever be a consensus on it in which, you know, you would have to record, for instance, skype conversations with your doctor. or i see nightmare scenarios where state medical boards are partnering with the nsa to get data and be able to regulate that way. so i just wonder how exactly could -- how exactly could any regulatory framework around telemedicine ever really be enforced. >> sure. i could see your nightmare scenario and raise you another nightmare scenario, but i won't do that. you can have a lot of discussions where you're trading nightmare scenarios. i think rene laid out a framework. i would be interested in his view whether it could be worked if it were picked up. you have compacts where people can see patients across states.

is unconstitutional for convicts on death row and we are talking about the two convicts that gained national attention after the conviction of the family of dr a baseball bat and his wife killed and his girls doused with gasoline and left to die in a fire. in the end the jurors chose the death fire and steven hayes so full of remorse he chose to die. and now, let's welcome in a juror in the trial of steven hayes, and let's go to her, and paula, what was your reaction when you heard a that the two men would not receive the death penalty? >> well, i expected that. because there was talk of that happening while we were in trial. and it made me more certain that death was the proper sentence, because he was the harshest penalty that we could give him and eventually if the state overturned it, he would still have the most intensive kind of incarcerati incarceration. >> hem to us understand what it was about this case that was so emotional for you that made you decide that death was the answer here some. paula? >> yes. >> i am sorry. i am wonder iing if you can hel us to understand what it was in this trial that made you decide that death was the

row inmates in connecticut. >> this is a solemn day in connecticut. >> reporter: it was a case that captivated and horrified the country. the wife and two daughters of drly beat dr. petit, who narrowly managed to escape before they set fire to the house. steven hayes and joshua komisarjevsky sentenced to death before the legislature banned capital punishment in 2012. dr. petit was interviewed in 2010 by oprah winfrey. >> i think forgiving the essence of evil is not appropriate. >> reporter: but the state's supreme court ruled this state's death penalty no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose. dr. petit releasing a statement critical of the ruling, saying it "disregarded keystones of our governmental structure." even with the death penalty, connecticut had not actually executed anybody since 2005. and while 30 other states still have capital punishment, in recent years, 7 states, including connecticut, have moved to ban it. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> relief overnight in the battle against a wind-driven wildfire in northern california. firefighters took advantage of coo