patterson, please. mr. patterson: thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony. about the insurance exchange in colorado and the people who are getting coverage through the individual market. my name is kevin patterson. i'm the ceo for connect for health colorado. our mission is to increase access, affordability for families and employers purchasing health insurance. i'm proud of the innovation to reduce the uninsured rate and increase enrollment. how thissed to share unique division allows us to expand health to the people of colorado. since we opened for business in 2013, we have helped hundreds of thousands of coloradans at the desk get the coverage they need to protect their health and livelihood. increasing health care started years before the passage of the affordable health care. in 2006, a bipartisan group of lawmakers studied models under then republican governor bill owens. with the passage of the aca, our state legislator passed a bill creating that colorado benefited exchange as a public nonprofit entity that had the bipartisan legislative oversight c

patterson? >> for mr. patterson inle colorado the answer is yes. >> the [inaudible] . >> yes, chairman the answer from new jersey is yes. >> mr. slavitt. >> yes, mr. chairman. >> mr. pope? >> yes, mr. chairman. >> thank you. commissioner, why did new jersey decide to establish a state-based marketplace rather than relying on the federally facilitated marketplace? >> thank you, chairman, for that question. as i mentioned previously, we were sending funds to washington and the money that we were sending, we weren't being able to utilize it properly. and on top of that, we were seeing policies that were coming out of washington that was just creating confusion and making our job much more challenging. by keeping those funds in new jersey, we were able to tailor it specifically to our residents. we've been able to use that money to improve and expand our navigator's program, outreach, education. >> please explain, please explain the navigator. >> yes, chairman, the navigators are individual organizations in th

our next witness is kevin patterson. patterson has served as the chief executive officer of connect for health, colorado since april of 2015. he has a long history of public service. interim chief of staff governor john hickenlooper. turn --ik currently serves as the board chair. he was the former acting administrator of the cms. mr. pope currently serves as a senior fellow of the manhattan institute. his research focuses on health, payment policy and insurance market reform. each of your statements will be made part of the record in its entirety. i would ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes or less to help you at this time. time i willer your notify you with the gavel. commissioner, you may begin. >> thank you and good afternoon everyone. thank you members of the committee. my name is marlene and i am the commissioner of the new jersey department of banking and insurance and we regulate the banking, insurance and villa state industries and now operate under thed new jersey leadership of governor murphy,

patterson. you haven't addressed the illegal parking situation, which would seem to address whether there was a u.d.u. or not? >> sure. i think it's an issue in that needs to be addressed in the other process. >> i can make a comment if there's an open visual connection to a residential unit on the property. >> clerk: okay. right now, president lazarus had a question about the parking, not about the open and visible. president lazarus, do you have anything further? >> president lazarus: no, not on that topic. >> clerk: now we're moving onto the rebuttal permission for the planning department? >> i'm not allowed to make a comment? >> clerk: no, sir, your time is up. thank you. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. the board of supervisors and the mayor adopted the legislation to protect housing, and specifically in general for rent controlled housing and tardable rent controlled housing. it is not the easiest code provision to implement. whenever you have something that's looking at u

cern james patterson. james patterson became a national icon. famous circuits. at. the movies circus as an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. as you see in the opening scene there's a woman running from a and angry crowd and frightening her and throwing rocks at her and at the bundle says and carrying is her black child. this german impresario at the climax of the film reveals the truth to the audience in the circus that she has a black child and of course the soviet response is so what do we care we don't care if he's purple polka dotted. and then he goes yelling is passed. to various members of the audience policing him a lot by one of the languages or so. i mean it couldn't be more. saccharine and more propaganda stick by it but it hit all the right nerves at the time as explained credibly popular even the song. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared you. were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. and. if you. think. you're right. i think mich

the next witness is kevin patterson. mr. patterson has served as the chief executive officer of contact for health colorado since april of 2015 and has a long history of public service including as interim chief of staff to governor john hagan -- hagan -- mr. slavitt serves as the mr. pope serves as a senior fellow at the manhattan institute of the research focuses on healthcare, payment policy and insurance market reform. each of your statements will be made a part of the record in its entirety. i would ask you summarize your testimony in five minutes or less. to help you at this time, please keep an eye on the clock that should be on your screen. if you go over your time i will notify you with the tap my gavel. commissioner, you may begin. >> thank you and good afternoon, everyone. thank you, chairman pascrell, ranking member and members of the committee. as mentioned by the chair man, my name is marlene and i am thee commissioner of the new jersey department of banking and insurance and we regulate the banking an insuranc

james patterson he's a former u.s. diplomat joining us from washington thank you very much for your time thank you good day. and just a few hours people in guinea will vote. violence in the lead up to the poll president. but the opposition says he's violating term limits and they accuse him of tearing up ethnic divisions. in the. one below and down for a couple of stories these are lyrics to a catchy campaign for getting his president. for his opponents it's a call for violence so unless we are not here to fight we are there to have fun we're not here to go off to anyone. but opposition candidates believes otherwise in an interview with al jazeera he accuses come day of for men to ethnic divisions if you lost given undertones of his speeches there is a real risk of post electoral violence he's trying to mobilize people against those that have the same ethnic origin as use main challenger. jello is full of the who make up the ethnic majority of getting population he was unable to campaign in eastern giving hope to the a

john patterson had -- it was'58.when i first heard of. >> do you remember what the memory is? >> he was very vocal. at that time he didn't have any particular claim. the southern politician at that time, most times were running against the u.s. supreme court 1954. they were all saying they were going to maintain segregation. they were all claiming that they could do what the law insisted that they would do. they all claimed they could get around the law. so at that particular time he was not much different than the rest of them. >> what was your life like in alabama in 1958? >> like most other black folk in the south and to some extent in this country. for example, the segregation was at least in law, for practical purposes even though the supreme court had ruled in brown versus the board of education. for all practical purposes alabama is still arguing and fighting that particular issue. we were all mindful of strom thurman's ticket in'48. and blacks were becoming more and more desensitized. blacks had achieved a gr

>> oh my gosh. >> reporter: extreme flames sparking historic heartbreak deep into the fall steve patterson, nbc news >>> an early blast of winter brought rare october snow to iowa whiteout conditions made for some pretty dangerous driving on the roads in des moines some areas getting up to nine inches. >>> the u.s. tonight is accusing six members of the russian military of cyber attacks that caused blackouts and financial losses of nearly $1 billion. pete williams joins us now. what do we know? >> reporter: lester, federal prosecutors say these russians used the most destructive computer malware ever unleashed. the fbi says all six are intelligence officers in the russian military it says they knocked out electrical power in ukraine durin the winter, victimized the 2018 olympics opening ceremony and caused losses totaling nearly $1 billion. the russians were also accused of trying to interfere in the french elections in 2017 and hampering the uk investigations of a poisoning of a russian dissident and his daughter but there are no new allegations tonight of russian meddling in this year's

james patterson became a national icon. famous circuits. the movie circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. if you see in the opening scene there's a woman running from a an angry crowd threatening her and throwing rocks at her and at the bundle says been carrying is her black child. this german impresario at the climax of the film reveals the truth to the audience in the circus that she has a black child and of course the soviet response is so what do we care we don't care if he's purple polka dotted. and then he goes yelling is passed. to various members of the audience policing him a lot by one of the languages or so. i mean it couldn't be more. saccharine and more propaganda stick by it but it hit all the right nerves at the time as explain credibly popular even the song. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared you. were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think. you're thinking. i think michael that

and with evacuations under way the worry is that high winds will only make them worse steve pattersonrado, just north of denver. >> reporter: tonight, surging winds stoking the flames of colorado's historic wildfires. this morning fresh red flag conditions carrying 60-mile-an-hour wind gusts sparking new evacuations in communities already besieged by smoke. the roads out of town clogged with residents forced to flee >> it's bad. this is really bad >> reporter: at nearly 190,000 acres the east troublesome fire is the second largest in colorado history its flames now fatal overnight authorities confirming the deaths of lyle and marilyn hileman. >> on behalf of grand county to the hileman family, i'm extremely sorry for your loss. >> reporter: the grand county sheriff's office saying they refused rescue wednesday night, choosing instead to shelter in their basement at the height of the fire's spread >> they called and they were as calm as they could be. it was 9:30 p.m. and they said the big one had arrived. >> reporter: their son glenn was the last person to speak to his parents. he say

here's nbc's steve patterson. >> yeah. there's the road that leaves right here, boss. >> reporter: overnight firefighters racing against a raging wall of flames. >> i want everybody out of that town in five minutes. >> reporter: locked in a desperate scramble to save lives while struggling to protect their own. >> you need to get moving now. the fire's coming over to you. >> reporter: the so-called east troublesome fire exploding, at times erupting at a rate of 6,000 acres an hour, nearly 80 football fields per minute. >> the winds were strong. the fire behavior was strong. it was a challenging day. >> reporter: shutting down rocky mountain national park. forcing thousands to flee. >> it is getting worse. >> reporter: homeowner carrie ann told to evacuate as the flames came rushing in. >> it's bad. it's really bad. >> reporter: documenting the harrowing escape out of town. meanwhile, the cameron peak fire, the largest in state history, burned an estimated 50 structures since monday. tonight the two fires only ten miles apa

>> steve patterson in los angeles. thank you. >>> and globally, covid cases set a new record with more than 350,000 cases reported to the world health organization on friday alone. after a summer of low infection rates europe is now seeing a rise, forcing new restrictions. matt bradley is in paris. >> reporter: in paris police on patrol making sure the city of lights stays dark. after france recorded nearly 27,000 new cases today, its highest number in one day ever. months after reopening france, the netherlands, spain, and the united kingdom seeing new cases surge. but hospitalizations and deaths have only risen slightly. still, european countries adding more restrictions. police outside madrid told drivers to go home, enforcing a new two-week state of alarm. world health organization leaders scolded european governments for their piecemeal responses. >> it is so sad to see many countries in europe experiencing a rapid governments do have to take decisive action in order to try and shut down transmission. >> reporter:

we are in the central valley town of patterson because they did not need just an evidence room they needed an evidence warehouse. professional thieves in the bay area, this has been a brutal week. this warehouse converted to an industrial size evidence processing center now full of recovered stolen merchandise. trailer after trailer, been after ben and zach after sacked stored on pallets, stacked floor to ceiling two-story solve. it took a team of 30 people two days to catalog it, mostly merchandise from cvs as part of operation proof of purchase making it the largest dust of its kind in california history.>> $8 million in recovery.>> reporter: one of the top experts on organized crime says they have been tracking the so-called boosters as they enter their stores and stuff bags with merchandise. they then meet up in the tenderloin and according to investigators sold the items to leaders. detectives say he actually posted this on social media, a trunk full of stolen goods and a stack of hundred dollar bills.>> they pay those thieves one or two dollars per item and then they sell the product

its price target on facebook as well as the others saying the ad market is remaining strong justin pattersonoins god to have you. it is interesting to look at the snap chat report which triggered a rouge run-up your take away was to spin that around and say it also shows that for the likes of facebook it should be a really strong quarter, right >> exactly one of the key things we have seen really around covid is that advertising is the second derivative to e-commerce growth. after having a low during the q 2 period companies needed new ways to engage with consumers. you have seen the dollars flowing from offline channels to on linible chas, facebook, pinterest, snap, all beneficiaries from that trend. >> what are you expecting from their earnings this week to the extent it tells us anything what does s.a.p.'s huge miss and the retax tell you about what is going on in the world of software today? >> i will take those hand in hand first on expectation this is week i would generally beats across the board to the top line slight upside for facebook, alphabet, twitter, and pinterest. went to s.a.

nbc's steve patterson with more. >> reporter: stoking the flames of colorado's historic wildfires, 60ions in communities already besieged by smoke. the roads out of town clogged with residents forced to flee. >> it's bad. it's bad. >> reporter: and nearly 190,000 acres, the east troublesome fire is the second largest in colorado history, its flames now fatal. authorities confirming the death of lyle and meryl hillman. >> on behalf of grand county, i'm very sorry for your life. >> reporter: they refused rescue wednesday night, choosing instead to shelter in their basement at the height of the fire spread. >> they called as calm as they could be, 9:35 p.m., and said the big one arrived. >> reporter: his parents said theyi theying r accepted their fate. >> they didn't want to leave the earth but said if they had, they would do it together. >> reporter: officials trying to battle through conditions. >> we have to make sure this safe is area to be in. >> reporter: but their attack cripples. >> one of our biggest concerns, we can't fly due to the wind. >> reporter: another dose of reality a

. >> richard patterson is the director of the old barracks museum. >> we don't have a receipt from washingtonent back a century or more, when you have some items that are attributed to a particular person, particularly a famous person, that sort of adds to the level of documentation that you would like to have. it appears to be authentic to the period, and it's something that, quite plausibly, was carried by washington. >> mild-mannered barbara can't believe the museum, after all these years, is waffling on the wallet. >> i really am very sure that that's george washington's pocketbook. >> "plausibly" just doesn't cut it for her. washington biographer richard brookhiser understands. is it okay if we just believe it, or do we really need to know for sure? >> no, we want to know for sure. >> and we do know for sure, insists appraiser lori verderame. i ask her to make her case. >> the first thing we're gonna look for is age. i'm also gonna look for construction. the binding is just like what we would typically see. it's made the same way cambridge university would actually make its books. the ag

for "sunday today" steve patterson, san diego. >> got to get your baseball any way you can, steve.. game one of the world series is tuesday night in arlington, texas. and like the national league championship series being played there now, some fans will be allowed in the seats. >>> this week, we highlight another life well lived. in the summer of 1958, the recently married mildred and richard loving woke in the middle of the night to police flashlights in their faces. as they lay in their own bed at home in caroline county, virginia. mildred says she told the sheriff, i'm his wife. the sheriff replied, not here you're not. it was the beginning of a story that would end in a landmark supreme court decision. the lovings were arrested and pleaded guilty to violating virginia's racial integrity act. which prohibited mixed-race marriages. facing a year in jail, they agreed instead to leave the state and not return for 25 years. by 1963, though, richard and mildred wanted to move back home to virginia. they wrote a letter to attorney general robert f. kennedy, who passed it on to the ac

on a specially arranged flight several days after the accident, fulgum returned to wright-patterson air ohio, where he made a complete recovery. fulgum went on to distinguish himself as a test parachutist and physiologist for the space program. he later flew f-4's in southeast asia, adding to his combat record as of fighter pilot during the korean war. when critically examined, the roswell incident is exposed as a conglomeration of many events, including aircraft accidents, that occurred over several decades. misidentification of anthropomorphic dummies and experimental balloon-launched devices combined with air force balloon operations portrayed as mysterious flying saucer and alien recovery teams transformed verifiable events into what is now known as the roswell incident. the u.s. air force and its predecessors have been the unsurpassed innovators in aerospace technology. legendary air force leaders throughout this century have used technological advances to establish the u.s. air force as a premier military service. ♪ the facts presented in the reports examining the so-called roswel

here's nikki patterson. she has 16 tattoo portraits of the rapper. overall she has 28 pierces of eminem-themed ic ed ink. patterson says she first heard eminem's song "stand" as a teen and it was instant love. she says next she wants to get another tattoo of his signature. >> so -- >> can we replay that sound byte again from the drag queen? no, honey. >> that is loyalty and degree of dedication that i will never have. i used to collect those as a kid. >> me, too. >> i finally stopped. wow. reggie and i will have to talk about that. sutro tower, 61. you can see how clear it is. this is the back drop to talk about sunshine today. grab those sunglasses. building warmth even warmer 4 to 5 degrees warmer than yesterday. clear sky tonight. lows still on the cool side. the fire danger and the heat we've been talking about will one side during the weekend. here's an area of high pressure building over the southwest. when we get that, we get the offshore breezes, critical fire conditions and temperatures warmer than this. the south bay about 83 in milpitas, l

steve patterson is there. >> reporter: overnight the colossal east troublesome fire growing to over 170,000 acres. now the second largest fire in colorado history. the flames forcing thousands to flee in panic clogging county roads under blood red skies. >> your friends' homes are on fire, and you're watching it with your eyes >> reporter: evacuee roddy kimbal grabbed what she could before racing away >> probably the last time we would see our home >> reporter: kate brown watched her house burn from her doorbell camera. >> it was horrific, absolutely horrific to watch. >> this was the worst of the worst of the worst because what happened is it came in so quick. >> reporter: the sheriff said the damage is vast and they're not out of the woods yet. big weather system coming in. what's the biggest challenge with that? >> the way fire here and fire here and we want to make sure that we keep everybody safe as that wind front comes through. >> reporter: tonight as the fire figh continues in neighborhoods ravage by flames evacuees are left only with the hope they have a home left to return to. the

enough to house all the stolen goods so they were taken here to the cvs distribution warehouse in patterson. the volume was mind-boggling, it took a team of 30 people to count and when they were finished and was sacked from the floor to the ceiling. the eight month long investigation uncovered a highly sophisticated fencing operation involving a complex network of shoplifters and distributors.>> you can see how many such took to develop that type of inventory and now with that distributor out of business you're going to see people holding product and boosters with no place to sell product and hopefully a reduction in theft from the retailers.>> reporter: still lots of surveillance and reconnaissance to show you and how this whole crime ring operates, and its unprecedented access into this historic bust, that's at 7 pm.>>> still ead, the rock world remembers a legend. how eddie van halen made his mark as one of the most influential guitarist of his generation.>>> a texas police officer charged with murder the family demands to know why to use deadly force on a man that was trying to break of

nbc's steve patterson reports. >> there's a road that leads right here, boss. >> reporter: firefighters racing against a raging wall of flames. >> i want everybody out of that town in five minutes. >> reporter: locked in a desperate scramble to save lives while struggling to get their own. >> you need to get moving now. the fire is coming over you. >> reporter: the so-called east troublesome fire eroded. it's destructing at 80 football fields a minute. >> the winds were strong, the fires were strong. it was a challenging day. >> reporter: shutting down rocky mountain national park, forcing thousands to flee. >> it's getting worse. >> reporter: this homeowner told to evacuate as the flames came rushing in. >> it's bad, it's really bad. >> reporter: docketing a harrowing escape out of town. >> reporter: meanwhile the peak fire burned an estimated 50 structures since monday. the fires ten miles apart. authorities are worried it could combine into a monstrous mega fire. >> i know people will come back and rebuild. >> reporter: a wildfire crisis unlike anything residents in the rocky mountai

steve patterson has that story. >> reporter: in an nfl season where week he biggest hits are being taken off the field -- >> the nfl just continues to adjust its schedule due to covid. >> reporter: the league forced to postpone the game monday night. >> whatever we have to do, we are literally taking this -- i wouldn't say day by day. it's more hour by hour. >> reporter: during a call with reporters, according to espn, the quarterback for the patriots questioned the league's commitment to safety, saying it's not about our best interest or health and safety, it's about what can we make protocol-wise that sounds good. >> there's a small percentage that are probably very disgruntled. i think overall when you look, there's more yay than nay. >> reporter: it comes as the titans, forced to shut down their facility for a second time, when another staff member tested positive, bringing the team's total cases to at least 24. now their tuesday night game against the bills questionable. today on the field, renewed adherence to the mask mandate after five nfl coaches and their teams were fined nearl

the first sign that fema might change its mind came from jim patterson in fresno county, where the creek fire burned 350,000 acres and six homes last month. >> i have gotten encouraging response that fema is beginning to understand that they may have made a mistake here. >> reporter: almost as soon as fema and president trump denied california's claim, governor newsome and the state announced an appeal. this has been california's worst fire season ever. 4 million acres burned. that's an area as big as connecticut. for once, california democrats and republicans worked together, complaining loudly. >> the extra trauma that people that have lost everything have to go through was the trauma we're talking about right now is shameful. >> reporter: but fema, the president and politics have intermingled since the campfire when president trump suggested that california should rake forests to reduce its flammability. >> the fact of the matter is 57% of the lands in the state of california, the forest lands, are federal lands. >> reporter: without today's reversal, there would have been serious imp

intercepted by kane patterson. why not let a third-team linebacker get in on the fun? and the frustrations continue on that sideline. that's a thrill for him. >> kirk: that's funny. my youngest son, chase, we live in nashville, go to christ presbyterian academy, that's where he's from. he was a superstar in high school. he's had to work, like a lot of guys, up the food chain here to get an opportunity. and you see how fired up he is to be able to make a play and to be able to get his hands on the ball. he read it perfectly. brent venables there, the defensive coordinator giving him some love. good for 17. >> chris: he backs up skalski and jake venables. and you can see, read that well. so, all the work that you do, the third string guys study tape too and go to the meetings and the third string quarterback for clemson is in there. that's michel dukes. going deep on the depth chart. well, a soggy one tonight. but the clemson faithful will leave feeling really good about their team and their chances vis a vis the rest of the atlantic coast conference. going to take a gre

james patterson is a former u.s. diplomat and a gulf specialist and says the trumpet ministration does want to deal with iran and welcome the comments by iranian foreign ministers of a 7th he said specifically that the unconventional arms weapons of mass destruction and a rapid purchases of conventional arms do not fit into a rand defense doctrine at the moment and probably also do not fit and surf a net. situation. but the united states is very much aware of this and we are very eager the drop in the destruction is very eager to have a verifiable peace agreement with iran that totally excludes nuclear weapons and so i hope we're all very hopeful that these discussions can take place as soon as possible whether it's a trumpet or died and. the future of the u.s. with the ran that ad has to include strong human rights. resolutions the restoration of human rights the people of iran and so i feel very very confident that in a theater negotiation. these issues will be resolved to the satisfaction of their great signatory.

meg oliver, cbs news, patterson, new jersey. >> o'donnell: so with no vaccine and covid cases surging, is the u.s. headed for another shutdown? cbs news chief medical jon lapookent dr. jon lapook asked dr. anthony fauci for this asked dr. anthony fauci for this sunday's "60 minutes." >> how bad would things have to get for you to advocate a national lockdown? >> they would have to get really, really bad. first of all, the country is fatigued with restrictions. so we want to use public health measures, not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy. so instead of having an opposition, open up the economy, get jobs back, or shut down. no. put shut down away and say we're going to use public health measures to help us safely get to where we want to go. >> o'donnell: and there's much more of dr. lapook's interview with dr. fauci. that's this sunday on "60 minutes." tonight, there are growing questions about the man once known as america's mayor, rudy giuliani, and if he is being used by russia to influence the 2020 presidential campaign. w

i'm doing a play commissioned or written by james patterson.hat is one of the problems of the pandemic you can record something so low in a way you cannot perform it for other people. the series that i'm resuming is a kind of international spy series with jeff bridges. well-intentioned, but we broke a lot of rules and that has come back to haunt us in the present day. we were supposed to go to morocco. now we are in southern california. >> it is an fx series. i want to ask you to read a final poem. if you would expect in the audience we have a group of people who are both big fans of you and excited to read the book and also you have any closing advice for people that have the chance of going forward. what would you encourage? i remember when hillary clinton lost and feeling such despair. it's been bad and that these last couple of months have been the worst of all, but we have survived and we need to stay creative. >> that's wonderful advice. appreciate you staying creative and using the media to share with us. i want to give you the chance to

the first sign fema might change its mind came from jim patterson of fresno county where the creek fire burned almost 350,000 acres and at least 60 homes last month. >> i have gotten encouraging response that fema is beginning to understand that they may have made a mistake here. >> reporter: almost as soon as fema and president trump denied california's claim, governor newsom and the state announced an appeal. this has been california's worst fire season ever, 4 million acres burned. that's an area as big as connecticut. for once, california democrats and republicans worked together complaining loudly. >> the extra trama that people that have lost everything have to go through was just drama we're talking about right now is shameful. >> reporter: but fema, the president and politics have enter mingled since the campfire when president trump said california should rake forests to reduce the flammability. >> the fact of the matter is, 57% of the lands in the state of california, the forest lands are federal lands. >> reporter: without today's reversal, there would have been serious impli

on little races like in new york, or one in patterson, new jersey or virginia, or many other locations, and we're now finding out about the one from over the last couple of days. we're talking about numbers like 30% and 40.off. they're not talking 1% too much because you can lose by 1%, 1% is a lot. but they're off by 30, 40% sometimes. ballots are missing, fraud, now they have a new thing where they don't want to verify signatures because that makes it easier to not verify signature you see that one in nevada. it's a very tough sechtion. situation. i will tell you this you go out you look at governors and you look at, i mean, i don't to insult anybody. but that i take look at governon charge the ballots. beyond partisan, many cases political hacks, and it's going to be a very sad day. look, people should go now if they have an absentee ballot or you know i call it a solicited ballot where i like the word solicited because people understand it because you have a absentee ballot that's good because you request a ballot the ballot gets sent to you you send it back you have a very good ch

to any easing of sanctions iranian foreign ministers of azadi for welcomed the development james patterson is a former u.s. diplomat and a gulf specialist he says the top administration wants a peace deal with iran if it sidelines nuclear weapons. he said specifically that the unconventional arms weapons of mass destruction and rapid purchases of conventional arms do not fit into iran's defense doctrine at the moment and probably also do not fit finance. situation. but the united states is very much aware of this and we are very eager the drop in the destruction is very eager to have a verifiable peace agreement with the rand that totally excludes nuclear weapons and so i hope we're all very hopeful that these discussions can take place as soon as possible whether it's a trumpet or. they future of the u.s. with the ran that ad has to include strong human rights. resolutions restoration of human rights the people of iran and so i feel very very confident that in a future negotiation. these issues will be resolved to the satisfaction of their great signatory you know as president donald trum