our walter isaacson chose burns why he chose that subject. >> why the mayo clinic? >> i think we have always looked over the course of 40 years of stuff that is uniquely americans. each of the films hold up a mirror of what we were and tell us about who we are now. i was drawn in, sucked into the mayo formula. and i knew it had to be counter balanced with contemporary stories. if i hadn't done vietnam, i don't think i would have managed this well. the ability to jump ahead to the present and look at things. we concentrated for several years on this project. when we finished it and stood back and looked at it, we realized we had something that was talking about the current health care crisis without having to get down into the moras of the politics of it. here is a great model of something that worked and rather than get into the he said she said stuff, you could look at say, here is a recipe of something that works. let me show a clip from the new mayo clinic documentary, it is really about value and personality. >> melanoma is one of the most common cancers that co

senator isaacson? >> thank you, senator murkowski. i want to make sure i heard this right. mr.cutler, you said you thought we ought to have a goal of reducing administrative expenses by 50% within 5 years, is that true? is that a number i heard right? >> that is correct. >> you think that's doable? >> i do. >> was the largest single thing you can do to accomplish reduction in administrator costs? >> i think the three items i gave would be the three and those are, simplifying the complexity with which we are coding patients, so you don't have to search through for everything with the patient, everything the patient has ever had. second is standardizing preauthorization requirements, you don't have to deal with enormous, enormously different systems for preauthorization from every insurer and every business buying insurance. third is electronically integrating medical records so that you don't have to have people take information from one system and put it in another. those three would go a great deal of the way. >> on the last point, in terms of software, are you -- are you fami

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senator isaacson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. collins, welcome. i want to add a comment rather than beginning with a question. my first engagement with you was at the national prayer breakfast when you demonstrated your gifted talent of playing classical music on the guitar. i knew then you were a successful person. we're blessed to have you. i want to commend you on talking about the national institute of hope. i have parkinson's and have been diagnosed for six years. evelyn has a challenge and her family has a challenge. i'm going to tell you about a challenge in our family in just a minute. because you are the national institute of hope, you're changing attitudes in this country, both in the institution of medicine as well as the patients who come in for help. i want to thank you for having such a positive, solution-based, favorable attitude towards research, toward cures, and towards the process that nothing is impossible if we just work at it. you do a great job and i appreciate it. >> thank you, senator. >> my daughter julie's best friend, j

i was about to say, jews who don't believe in god were drawn to that aspect, walter isaacson, in his biography of albert einstein, described albert einstein as an atheist who believed in god because einstein felt, unification, to understand what he kept searching for. and literally, jews say i can't believe in god and has sally writes in her book, never liked the term seeking or searching. i think searching for that meaning and for that ideal is what unifies judaism. >> quite a few colleagues would disagree about belief in that sense. what about the concept of shabbat? is that not dating back to as russia, the one thing that all observant jews would affirm? >> it is more honored in the breach as they say. >> the almost answer to my question, you addressed it when you talked about geographic loyalty of jews in the south and in the north during the time of the civil war but you didn't directly say anything about the issue of slavery among jews. any difference, were jews any different in the fraction that were concerned about the morality of slavery versus those who saw it as an economi

. >> so i will echo what senator isaacson said about the importance of having robust regimes and the ways in which they support the new start treaty was ultimately one over because of the sophistication of the regimes involved involved. i'll say that's a key part in my supporting start. i want to revisit the question senator murphy asked about comments made about the national security advisor. where he was suggesting in the early stages of the review that one option in consideration was pursuing a different approach which only limits deployed warheads and does not include verifications. you gave an answer about being a continuing verification regimes that made that not necessary. is the administration considering in this process a new arms control agreement that does not include arms-control? >> no, sir. >> not to my knowledge. would you support or recommend arms-control agreements at least as robust as the new start. >> i would want to make sure this is in any treaty we seek it's my thought that russia is seeking strategic weapons that would allow them to restart some i hope you wil

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so let me start with walter isaacson, he is a history professor and most recently author of leonardo davinci. and alicia men mendez. and harri sreenivasan. and michel martin. and welcome to all of you. we are a team. and we are so excited to be expanding this version of this program. and i just wondered and let me start with you michel. what does this mean to you. what makes you hopefully excited about being in this program. >> you stole my thunder. we are all exited -- excited to be working with you. i think we see with the success of podcasts that people are eager to have a conversation that isn't over in four minutes. what you can actually dig into nuance and dig into a place that people don't have time to talk about. >> you are right about the podcasts and you do host a podcast as i said. people seem really thirsty, drinking up to slate their thirst on trying, trying to make sense of what i think anyway a massively complicated up ended world by now. >> people look at the news and think what does it mean, what does it mean for me and my children. how can the sitting in front of me

senator young is first up, but he is not here, so, senator isaacson. >> thank you. i will make sure i heard this right. you said you thought we ought to have a go at reducing administrative expenses by 50% within five years, is that true? >> that is correct. >> you believe that is doable? >> i do. >> what is the largest reduction? >> the three items i gave you would be simplifying the complexity, so you don't have to search through everything with the patient, everything the patient has ever had. second is standardizing requirements, so we don't have to deal with enormously different systems for every insurer and the third is electronically integrating medical records and billing systems, so we don't have to have people take information from one system and put it in another. those three would go a great way. >> the last point -- those are two of the bigger ones, correct? >> correct. >> is it true they are not interoperable? >> correct. >> doesn't that add to the cost? >> indeed, that is exactly what i was thinking. >> you are making me look good. >> i appreciate you

for more on the continued turmoil, we are joined by contributor walter isaacson and sus susan lyons. if the departure for the executives wasn't enough, back and forth between marcus and acton says a lot about culture at the company, who has responsibility for the position we find ourselves in as a country and planet, regarding social media what are your thoughts >> it says a lot about the culture. it says a lot about the business model, you have to monetize people that use the service to sell access. you are going to end up doing everything you can get away with i think the most important thing that brian acton said and it wasn't a low class statement, he is one of the what's app founders criticizing facebook, he said we were trying to find out revenue models, including charging somebody a tenth of a penny for a message. that may seem not -- it isn't thinking out of the box, saying can't we have another revenue stream that doesn't require us to sort of violate the lives of our users. >> something about this seems off to me. overall with all of the turmoil in silicon valley, they have

joining us, cnbc contributor, advisory partner of walter isaacson, and casey newton in silicon valley we turn our attention back to business news. walter, i don't know what you find most interesting, the incremental steps on product or the degree to which their supply chains may change or not the president did hint they had plans to create new plants in this country >> right first start with the incremental changes in product i think it would be good to have a less expensive iphone and new grander more expensive iphone. i remember when steve jobs was running the company or when he came back to the company in the late 1990s, what they had done is milk the mcintosh product line, had six different variations, and xs and xss and xrs. he said it is ridiculous, hard to know what to buy. he insisted they simplify the product line and innovate another line, such as ipod and iphone i think at some point sort of giving up the iphone product line is a good strategy for the time being, but it would be nice to have a truly innovative product, and that would transform the company more than argument

now senator johnny isaacson said he resents those comments.enator ron johnson told me it was totally inappropriate and senator lindsey graham just moments ago told me he was raising concerns that he was very uncomfortable. he thinks bob woodward is a good reporter. now this comes after that tweet from yesterday where the president attacked sessions for not preventing two republican congressmen for being indicted. when i talked to two other key senators about this they also pushed back. >> i'm appalled by those comments, the president's continuing public humiliation of the attorney general is deeply inappropriate. >> he doesn't like his service, he can look him in the eye and terminate him. so, you know, whining is pretty unbecoming of a 13-year-old but very unbecoming of a 71 or 2 year old president. >> now corker went on to say, kate, that the president's tweet from yesterday going after sessions for not preventing those two republican congressmen from being indicted is a sign that this -- if it were up to the president, frp up to his, quote,

sponsored by senator isaacson. >> i'm a co-sponsor of that. >> yes, you are and senator kane and senatorroberts, it's a bipartisan bill. it would be the single biggest thing in your term you could do to help rural hospitals. >> if i could switch to another thing you mentioned. i visited lewis county in tennessee. they had a big argument about closing their hospital. and eventually did it. and created instead, a community health center. it's a big success. it's owned by a nearby hospital, the theory is you don't need to do heart transplants in every small rural county. what are your suggestions for alternative models for delivering health care services in rural counties? i was trying to put a plant in lewis county in tennessee where that community health center is, i would be very impressed. you can walk in between 7:00 a.m. or 8:00 p.m. there's always a couple of doctors there, it's clean. and if you have a real problem they can get you quickly somewhere else. but 90% of the problems that people walk in with, they can deal with. what about alternative models? >> that's exactly the same t

coons: i will just ago what senator isaacson said about the importance of having robust verification regimes in the ways in which his support was one over because of the breath and signification of the verification regimes involved. i want to revisit the question senator murphy asked earlier about comments made by the national security adviser, john bolton back in august after meeting with his russian counterpart where he was suggesting in the early stages of the review that one option in consideration of new start was pursuing a different type of approach, such as the moscow treaty, which only limits deployed warheads and does not include verification. you gave an answer about there being a continuing verification regime that made that not necessary. let me just ask directly. is the administration considering a new arms control agreement that does not include verification provisions? sec. thompson: no, sir. sec. trachtenberg: not to my knowledge. would you support or recommend arms control agreements or reductions that didn't include verification procedures at least as robust as new

i agree with chairman isaacson. i want to make sure that we get it right and that bwe get it right for all of our veterans. i pledge to work with the chairman and we've had many discussions. i do want to make clear what is happening in va. there are about 40,000 vietnam veterans across the country who served in the navy who are eligible for va benefit so it's not an agent orange-type condition, i should say. it's not that the va is turning people around -- or turning people out. we will continue to do that. my pledge to the chairman is to work with the committee to ensure that we are just, we are equitable on both ends, and i think the committee received a letter from four of the largest vsos supporting the legislation, but also saying we have a question about the funding mechanism, the funding mechanism that puts a burden on young active-duty service members who are getting their first home and also puts a burden on disabled american veterans who live in higher cost areas like charlotte or atlanta. so we want to lo