. >> i'd like to speak from united healthcare. >> united healthcare is there anyone here from united healthcare? >> commissioner breslin has a few questions, comments or observations. and you are -- >> shannon hoff united heath care. >> so anyway, i got many phone calls, complaints from members saying they got these phone calls constantly about signing up for the home visits. to the point of they feel harassed speaking of harassment, yeah, and so i mean, you have to have someway of making one call knowing it was called because people don't pick up their phone anymore and they say it's just like these robocalls, they don't even, you know, and then i personally got five at least and i don't know how many more but five for sure and then i also got three for the flu shot so i said can't you make a note that you made the call, left a recording and that's it. i mean -- >> i can take that back. >> i don't understand the whole visit thing, who is it benefitting? someone is making something from this or planning something from this? >> so we did pull some calls and we had 5,000 house calls com

united healthcare with monster earnings. overall market breath was bredth was ukly.ew stocks hitting 52-week low swelled, double from yesterday. on nasdaq 816 decliners to 1,000 advancers. interestingly, nasdaq had morad vancing share volume to the upside than declining volume. that explains why the index was higher for most of the session. we go the latest on crude oil inventory, hits lowest level since 2015, as global producer, include venezuela cannot pump it out, that means there room for u.s. investors and producers to turn up that spill on th piggota plight. some investarie investors fear n with things like oil. folks are concerned that market has come too far, too fast, man are wondering if it is time to lighten up, i want to ask my buddy, david nelson, people are whispering inflation, and crude oil is pretty high. would that change the bay you invest? >> it is pretty risky, trying to trade around a bull market, you could probably trade yourself right out of it. if the market is down 5%, you will feel like it is going down 10. i probably get back in at another

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. >> any other comments for united healthcare? ok, thank you very much for being here today. any other reported issues from any of our planned representatives? things we ought to know about or things that you are thinking about doing and have done and wish you had, would be doing in the future? none of that, all right, thank you. we'll go to discussion item -- is there any public comment? we do have public comment. ok. in the next item. discussion item number 11. >> clerk: item 11 discussion item opportunity to place items on future agendas. >> den he is cruger active retired firefighters spouses. happy holidays to everybody and seeing how this is the holiday season i have a wish list. >> well, all right. >> actually noted. >> real quick. for next year rates and benefits this is just a pre notice, i'd like to see him look in to improving the hearing aid situation. i think it's archaic that you get one hearing aid every two years and it is possible that as soon as you get a new one your old one dies. i'd like to see something like three years for two new ones and maybe a co pa

that plus united healthcare, 4 1/2% almost which took off 100 dow points. cigna, aetna, anthem, humanitarian also dropping in a big way. there are some pharma companies who also dropped. big picture we saw selling across the board. had been down 411. with the dow down 362 points. melissa, safe? melissa: nicole, thank you. david: bring in the market panel today. james freeman, "wall street journal," fox news contributor and kevin kelly from benchmark investments. james, i will begin with you and bring in a big conspiracy theory talked about a lot, that jeff bezos and warren buffett wanted to sour the president's first state of the union and therefore they announced this deal, knowing that it would tank the insurance stocks and bring down the market. what do you think about that conspiracy theory? >> i am not going to endorse that. this is an interesting announcement. we haven't seen a lot of details , but buffett and bezos, maybe they get together, maybe they bring in democratic governor and start applying to washington for waivers from obamacare? probably t

you showed united healthcare down 5%. here's what i see happening right now.ple a little on edge, they are shooting first and asking questions later. we have no idea what this effort might encompass. neil: it wouldn't be the first time that's happened. keith fitz-gerald, another factor interest rates, backing up to a level we've not seen in a couple years, but again, i can remember a lot higher rates but what you get used to. is there a point which you think investors say given the volatility, i'd rather be in the safe haven, guaranteed by uncle sam, protection of the bond market? >> i think that's a very valid question. i think gerri makes important points. what's happening, people forget, neil, today in contrast to the markets we grew up with are highly computerized. huge computerized arbitrage programs, making interest rates and correlating adjustments in stock prices. factor in the jpmorgan chase-berkshire hathaway announcement, fact norenergy policy, factor in tax reform. it's natural and normal that the markets have the sell-off before they move higher.

s healthcare and aviation units are doing well in general electric will likely break up as a business as starting as early as the spring is a portion of shareholder returns and the past year now a recent review found g.e. is looking to take a six point two billion dollars after tax charge for the fourth quarter of twenty seventeen now the company's c.e.o. john full.

s healthcare and aviation units are doing well in general electric will likely break up as a business as starting as early as the spring just a portion of shareholder returns and the past year now a recent review found g.e. is looking to take a six point two billion dollar after tax charge for the fourth quarter of twenty seventeen now the company's c.e.o. john flannery said we are looking aggressively as the best structure or structures for our portfolio to maximize the potential of our businesses the company is also expected to contribute fifteen billion dollars over the next seven years to shore up the portfolios reservoir reserves excuse me j.p. morgan comment it saying this to us is not about offensive value creation and more an acknowledgement that the problems for crude the company for moving forward as previously planned even a few months ago and cullen an alleged plot i'm confident that quote there is no quick fix for g.e. and the stock remains that biased to the downside and lag in bird says it would take g.e. c.e.o. philander eighty five years to turn the company around aft

ashley: interesting, look at number, united healthcare, 85 points of this drop.hat is a third of this loss just one company. you have berkshire, amazon, those guys health care pigeons keep in mind, doesn't like equities are off the table and we'll cash in. health care is having a huge impact on the overall dow. liz: this extremely rare market event we're seeing across the board all these stocks getting pounded by this one announcement. that shows how much fat was marbled through the health care system these guys are going to team up and lower costs. second item, amazon, you got to wonder if they will put their second headquarters in d.c.? to deal with these issues, all right. put money on, we hate to do this, put money on one side for a second. i want to get back to politics. mid -- my editorial, top of the hour, the house intelligence committee said yes, they want to release the memo. i want to know what is in it. come on in, katie pavlich, fox news contributor. >> good morning. stuart: the director of the fbi saw the memo, went back to fbi headquarters promptly

when you go to united healthcare, they have a thing called optimum and obviously, jaime and jeff, they is as good and i hesitate to disagree with them they're pretty smart guys. >> jim, tell us which way and it is hard to say, the reason i ask -- >> it comes down a little. >> i just don't understand the desire at this moment to buy things you have 50% of people don't like the president and the president is going to come on tonight and he's going to say the stock market is great and a lot of people will say this is a great opportunity to get ahead out of that. we do have an amazing run and you are talking about how good of january been. lets wait a little you got some dow stocks. and mcdonald's reported great quarter and it is down intel had absolutely a great upgrade today. do you think amd is not going to take a shot at intel and even netflix is down. people say wow, how come intel is down? we are in a blast here >> we just talked to contessa in vegas, what do you do with wynn right now? >> stay away >> what's the edge there >> jim we can say that when joe is not here >> you have been

the new york stock exchange hinting at the threat to the new entity poses to existing healthcare structures in the united states now for some more analysis of these plans here as all wall street correspondent can score the american healthcare system is probably the most expensive in the world some americans are roughly spending three and a half billion dollars per year on health that's roughly twenty percent of total g.d.p. and if you look at the history of health care in the united states the health care system is much more privatized here than it is in europe it started basically also after world war two when there was a lack of workers and to a correct those workers companies started to offer pension plans but also called health care plans and right now we are in a similar situation because we almost have full employment and that could be an incentive for talents for good skilled workers to join those corporations. yes quarter reporting from wall street there today wednesday is the annual general meeting of german engineering giant siemens protests are expected because the men's is planning to lay off

and what it does is it gives over 9 million children in the united states of america access to free quality healthcare. in the bay area alone, we're talking about 200,000 children that are provided, getting access to free quality healthcare. this is healthcare they would not be able to get due to circumstances, economic circumstances at home. so, this program is ensuring not only that kids get access to preventative healthcare, but the kids are not flooding local emergency rooms at ten times the cost of preventative care. what's happening right now in the political spectrum, given the current environment of the presidency and congress, is that chip is being used as a bargaining chip, pun intended, for immigration. so, what you have now is children who are at peril of losing healthcare because of a game of chicken essentially by a republican congress, the republican president, who are saying, "we can go without it. but the only way to keep it in is if you give us funding for a wall." and what we saw is that we were able to get emergency gap funding up until march for chip. but come march, it is very po

and jpmorgan chase announcing they are partnering to form a new nonprofit healthcare company for their employees in the united states. the news of the landmark deal sent shares plummeting across the healthcare industry. but that wasn't >>> and it turns out it was the worst day on wall street since last may with the dow dropping more than 360 points. that wasn't the only thing ailing the market today. >> also interest rates are on the rise hitting their highest levels in about four years. the stock market has really thrived over the past several years due in large part to the low interest rate environment. >> another factor drying stocks lower, general profit taking after a series of record highs. >>> sfo is celebrating a major milestone this evening. the airport has announced a new all time record for passenger traffic. serving nearly56 million people last year alone marking 14 years of consistent growth and breaking records for passenger traffic every year since 2011. >>> something that has not happened in the sky for 166 years is going to happen tonight and you probably have a good chance of seeing it. i'll

s healthcare and aviation units are doing well in general electric will likely break up as a business as starting as early as the spring there's a porsche l. shareholder returns and the past year now a recent review i found g.e. is looking to take a six point two billion dollar after tax charge for the fourth quarter of twenty seventeen now the company's c.e.o. john flannery said we are looking aggressively as the best structure or structures for our portfolio to maximize the potential of our businesses the company is also expected to contribute fifteen billion dollars over the next seven years to shore up the portfolios rather reserves excuse me j.p. morgan comment at saying this to us is not about. sense of value creation and more an acknowledgement that the problems for crude the company from moving forward as previously planned even a few months ago and cohen analysts guatamala khana said quote there is no quick fix for g.e. and the stock remains biased to the downside and legan bird says it would take g.e. c.e.o. philander eight by the years to turn the company around after cutti

medicaid.ed in that spending is about just shy of $700 billion in and counts of total healthcare spending in the united states. it's a massive social safety net program. now, your income threshold will 138% of the poverty line amounts to 16 thousand dollars. that was expanded under obama and about 30 states including kentucky chose to expand medicaid. nose numbers -- those numbers went up in 2014. what we're seeing now is on top tothe gop effort in congress undercut and repeal obamacare, kind of chip away at it. moved to thee has state level. kentucky is the first state to do this. other states that have similar waivers that are the federalront of government that will probably be approved some time in the next months. we're going to see from 18 and years this social experiment that conservatives has been wanting to do to raise medicaid andty for to save money and to get people work.o cases.two redistricting the supreme court may decide on voting map violate the constitution. from peter coy. >> gerrymandering is when you either you have pack all the voters from the other party into district where they'l

means every eight years and number equal to the population of the united states gets enough exercise. the most frequent medical healthcare procedure performed that entails risk. the anesthesiologist is ambiguous and largely invisible. and more people up to a hundred million every year complain of pain both acute and chronic as an anesthesiologist of over 30 years to come one come all university health care system i have an exercise over 30,000 in my career. to newborn babies to kids to adults the primal life. to those who are potentially failed. i specialize in pediatric in the sea theology. two morbidly obese teenagers. they don't keep regular hours. we are called upon and all times for middle of the day elective colonoscopies to middle of the night emergency trauma. this is a little bit scary to even myself when i put this into perspective. day in and day out i spent most of the waking hours of my life behind the automatic double doors. it allows little of what was learned in medical school to be forgotten. perhaps no other medical specialty is as inclusive as anesthesiology covering all the basic sciences. in a moment

the constitution of the united states guarantees our rights to privacy and our right to access reproductive healthcare. i for one will not see these rights. thank you very much. i yield the floor. >> i ask unanimous consent. >> so to be on that side of thene aisle. so to the colleagues on the other side and so now we proceed to a bill one of seven nations and the entire planet that allow abortion on demand at 20 weeks. we know that for a doctor to operate they provide anesthesia and no doctor wants to hurt the child in the effort to's save their life. practice dictates to operate on the 20 week unborn child to provide anesthesia because science tells us the baby can feel pain. can you imagine the pain from an abortion? there is a reason there are only seven countries in the and pro-choice people. as a divisive issue is emotional and siding with what they are trying ton do. does that make a better nation? so we try to see to make sure america will be a better place to be part of the mainstream protecting unborn children in the fifth month. my parents were encouraged that they began to associate their v

healthcare at a very competitive price. there will be tremendous competition and it will cost the united states absolutely zero. so we're very proud of that. thank you, alex. and with that i just will start our cabinet meeting and we appreciate your being here and you have gotten very familiar with this room. i appreciate your nice comments yesterday. thank you all very much. thank you. >> mr. president, have you had -- [inaudible] >> thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you very much, everybody. [inaudible] >> thank you, thank you very

healthcare stocks. shares tanked yesterday atop insurancer united health fell 4%, drieving the dow down 360 points. the worst day since may for stocks. >> the president made a lot of big claims on unemployment, tax cuts, terror and more. were the claims factor fiction or was it a mix? we will break it down from washington. >> harey, christine and dave, t president made huge claims of what he has done for jobs. >> since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs. including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone. african-american unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. >> of course, the recovery started under barack obama it has however continued under president trump, and president trump has his numbers right. african-american unemployment while much higher than white unemployment is at a record low. so all of the claims are true. what did he have to say about taxes? >> we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in americaner history. >> republicans did pass a big tax plan late last year with large raw numbers. but as a percentage of the u.s. economy, the gdp, several other p

facilities, including saint luke's, visited patients in so-called memory units and for the past several years working for healthcare housing and jobs for justice as we fight for the right for good healthcare for all of san francisco. as has been made abundantly claire, san francisco is in the midst of a post acute care crisis, actually an emergency, in the aging community and those particularly who are most frail and vulnerable. this is about human dignity and caring for our elderly in a compassionate and respectful manner. we're at a point that cries out for action, not more study. there needs to be a plan to rapidly identify sniff and rcfe faults. we urge you to regulate solutions to give incentives of residential care to open new facilities and maintain a high standard of training. begin looking for land where they can be built, already existing buildingss to house new beds. and dementia care has to be a high priority. the program must remain open and not closed. please don't lose sight of what we need to do on a deeper level. unconditional love and compassion in our dangerously violent world. our task is to gen

united states new york. the reason we need to understand the immigration issue and to healthcare, too. ion, schooling, they did learning ountry, education more advanced in the united states. he problem we're having in the country and healthcare and unsolved today, our health care education and basic math is and basic math, new math metrics in our country is confusing in our country, including health care. medicine, diets, everything else. we find out immigrations that countries are more advanced in basic math and have problem-solving and more what is going on in their than the united states. host: is the answer more immigration right now? yes, more. more knowledgeable in the in ation and especially math. host: got your point, steve. centro, in el california, line for democrats. nancy, go ahead. caller: hello. hello. happy new year. host: same to you. caller: i love c-span. host: appreciate it. i want to tell you about living on the border. immigration officer come into my class, i taught seniors. that the basic problem with our immigration system is it is designed wrong. he said, you kn

by the united way bay area, adobe and african-american achievement and leadership initiative. 9-12 grade students of color interested in exploring careers in s.t.e.m., manufacturing and healthcareed to attend the event. next thursday, we'd like to invite the community to our career technical education showcase. this will take place from 5:00 to 7:00 at the palace hotel at 2 new montgomery street. as i mentioned in my article in the san francisco examiner, 40 new career pathways are examples of how we're actualizing vision 2025. the multiyear programs include fields like health, bio technology, digital media, game design, law, engineering, world music, education, public service and so, so much more. the showcase will be a chance to celebrate and learn from teachers, students and partners of our current pathways. middle school families, check out the great options available in high school, business industry or community partners. come join and find out how you can get involved with one or more of our pathways. hope to see everyone there. february 5-9 is national school counsellor week. we celebrate our school counsellors for their unique contributions to schools. school counsello

united states of america. >> we are all on the side about very proud of the principle of the national health service, healthcare as a human right. the reality is in the past year, 565,000 people spent time on trolleys wednesday should be treated. the number of elderly people being rushed in from care homes has risen by 62% since the tories took power. the commission figures suggest a quarter of homes need improvement, not only has this robert older people of their dignity but is putting pressure on ambulance services. why instead of dealing with social care crisis as the prime minister rewarded the health secretary, a promotion a new job title. >> can i say to the right honorable gentlemen there are many voices across this house including those in his own party that have been encouraging me to ensure we see better integration between health and social care. we recognized this with the promise of helping the permit of health and social care. and recognized -- this is a welcome and long overdue recognition of the independence of health and social care. 5 to myself last week the good work that has been done by hos

united states involves three american signs on his own. at jp morgan on form office but she passed away announced they will team up to set up a healthcare companyaimed at. cutting costs for their us injuries then you company will not aim to make a profit and initially focus on technology to makee a simplified and cheaper healthcare system. level and halt the median injuries. office says because the llooning cost of healthcare act as a hungry taper on the american economy lost to healthcare spending accounted for downs also traded in the red laid down by banks minus london's footsie close sound will the one percent. yeah here in france local authorities in parts of the country gad grappling with the awesome off the floodin. as being the rainiest brings in high office century in this country rifles at nearly double the normal level in january. economy separated the mad met his national insurance this tuesday to discuss how best to compensate the flood victims of that area rebebe. well in rivers and streams across france are slowly receding after weeks of heavy rains. residents along the young dririver left bank tributary of the sun take stock of

healthcare program. >>> authorities continue to search for the cause of a deadly fire in cumberland county, new jersey. it broke out at a home on the unitlock of park avenue in bridgeton early yesterday morning. the blaze killed a 28-year-old father, his six-year-old daughter and five-year-old son. their mother, 10 month old brother and uncle all jumped to safety from a second story window. investigators say the house did not have working smoke detectors. >>> two people were killed and a third person was injured in a triple shooting in trenton. the gunfire erupted yesterday near ash mere avenue and franklin street. the injured person showed up at saint francis hospital a short time later. investigators have not released details about a possible suspect or a motive. the killings were the capitol city's second and third of the year. >> ♪ >> happening today, jurors will continue to hear evidence against allentown mayor ed pawlowski during his corruption trial. yesterday jurors heard secretly recorded tapes. prosecutors say they show a pattern of this fourth term mayor selling his office by trading city contracts for campaign contributions.

and they provide significant healthcare to seniors and the callout also invested by the united states government and the control groups through the virginia where you can do that research and the veterans administration which brings me to the admiral. and having a false alarm on the missile attack that was unsettling to the people of hawaii. that is the emergency grant where you get the wrong information with pandemic at the wrong time but we concentrate on that on pandemics or on diseases? >> that get to the core requirements so the information you are providing is as valid as it can be. but people need to know those caveats are expressed. getting to the basic principles of risk communication to tell people what we know or what we are doing. >> doctor gottlieb i appreciate from senator casey with these rare diseases that affect children now the first drug has been approved issued by the department, and to expand the use to encourage the development it is costly to develop, how do you intend to use that with new pharmaceuticals? >> as you know the program provides an additional incent

allowing illegals to stream into the united states, taking american jobs, sad ling taxpayers with the cost of educating them, housing them, providing them with healthcare? was it smart to get into some wars that ended up draining our country of trillions of dollars, took the lives of so many of our finest men and women? was it smart to explode our foreign population not through a smart merit based immigration system but through the ludicrous policy of chain migration? was it smart to borrow trillions from other countries only to send hundreds of billions to countries who hate us? is it smart to create a government mandated healthcare system that drove so many doctors out of their practices, jacked up premiums and out of pocket costs and led to cancelled policies? i don't think so. trump friend and political operative roger stone put it this way on my radio show today. >> donald trump is his own chief strategist. he is also his own speech writer, his own phrase maker, his own press secretary in many senses. and he is obviously very good at it. yes, donald trump is an eccentric. yes, he does things his way. yes, he is not like every other president that

healthcare. to be extended medicaid. if you look at the expense of medicaid and to put the map overlying the united states, you have an overlayf the heroin problem and okay problem. it is related to poverty and expansion of healthcare. in your book you talk about you can get three dollars, you do not pay $200. you just pay three dollars a month and you can get it and trade it and all that. so we do have to figure out more rules on this. we have some new rules in kentucky on acute management. but i think the hard part is the chronic. if i'm your physician and you have been on it forever for low back pain, has i get off of it? or how do i get you something else? do you just choose another dr.? the question is, will know the knowledge. people have read your book. you know there's a problem out there. we have done changes and that we still have this enormous prescription opioid problem. and so, would you think that we do beyond that? i agree with the community more local and federal is probably better. we still, how do we fix the medical aspect of this? how did go a step beyond where we are? >> well, i mean there's a lot here tha

healthcare at a very competitive price. there will be tremendous competition and it will cost the united states absolutely zero.very proud of that. thank you, alex. and with that i just will start our cabinet meeting and we appreciate your being here and you have gotten very familiar with this room. i appreciate your nice comments yesterday. thank you all very much. thank you. >> mr. president, have you had -- [inaudible] >> thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you very much, everybody. [inaudible] >> thank you, thank you very much. >> sandra: president not taking any questions or answering any questions there in the end north korea russian investigation what he did talk about there at his first cabinet meeting of the new year. he called 2017 a year of tremendous achievement. he talked about setting regulation or records by cutting regulations. he touted tax reform and the effect that's having on the economy and the low unemployment rate in this country. he talked about the stock market in shattering records there. often you hear that from the president. he did use that as an opportunity to tout that yet ag

healthcare reform, none of those really matter. they want to hear from the president of the united states. it was disappointing for people not to hear from president obama 2009. i know he had his reasons didn't want to taint the reputation, but i think that is wrong because whether obama is quiet or vocal you cannot blame america for everything anymore. but in this case trump was correct and he retreated trump's tweet for the first time and he never thought he would do that so i think that was a cracked decision and i think by the hand of the month when there is an opportunity to renew some of those that is another good opportunity for president trump. i tweeted this morning i have been asked the question several times what should america do? there are a few things that can be effective and one is to lift the travel they because that has created anger and disappointment with the american government and it is unnecessary and it is wrong. the other is not to renew that waiver but as an organization under the direct control of the supreme leader is one of the main instruments of suppression.

healthcare. to be extended medicaid. if you look at the expense of medicaid and to put the map overlying the united states, you have an overlayof the heroin problem and okay problem. it is related to poverty and expansion of healthcare. in your book you talk about you can get three dollars, you do not pay $200. you just pay three dollars a month and you can get it and trade it and all that. so we do have to figure out more rules on this. we have some new rules in kentucky on acute management. but i think the hard part is the chronic. if i'm your physician and you have been on it forever for low back pain, has i get off of it? or how do i get you something else? do you just choose another dr.? the question is, will know the knowledge. people have read your book. you know there's a problem out there. we have done changes and that we still have this enormous prescription opioid problem. and so, would you think that we do beyond that? i agree with the community more local and federal is probably better. we still, how do we fix the medical aspect of this? how did go a step beyond where we are? >> well, i mean there's a lot here th

united states of america. and in terms of again safer and stronger, you are not stronger if you don't have healthcare. you are not stronger if you don't have some stability in your economy. we think that he vastly overstated the results of his presidency. after all, for six years prior to that there was more job growth. so when he says his greatest economic growth, that's not true. we are pleased that the hispanic and african-american unemployment has gone down, but it's been going down for some number of years. this president was advantaged i inheriting a growing economy, an economy that was less than 5% unemployment as opposed to his predecessor, president obama, who inherited a taking economy, an economy in peril. and he brought it up as continued to go up and that's good news and hopefully it will continue. the tax bill we think is however in the long-term going to be detrimental to the economy. and certainly in terms of middle-class working people that they talked about and he talked about that as well, those taxes of course will be phased out. the taxes on the upper 1% will continue. >> mr. hoye

this is the united states of america not in the middle ages but in 2017. severe pain 70% of our gross domestic product for healthcare where all the rest of the countries that we compare with with higher life been ten-12%. ladies and gentlemen, that is a trillion dollars difference a year of jacked up prices in the united states. that is what that is. goal number three, investing in our children. you have to be pretty damn weird to not want your children to succeed. right? americans want good schools so target number one, one 100% completion of quality k-12. goal number two, past the higher education including technical training without debt, without debt back third, early childhood education for one 100% of our kids. [applause] we are earning $60000 a person a year for every man, woman and child in this country, don't tell me we can afford universal pre- k. can. so this map again shows some states are close to that and other states are far behind but look at the united states. again, okay, how do all of these other countries do this and we don't do it. nonsense. goal number four, empowering people over special inter

united states as debbie secretary of hhs. it is a large, very complex federal agency. it not only looks after administering the healthcare system but looks after all of the human services that we jointly, as a country, provide. hhs oversees the nation's public health system andnd much of the national medical and scientific research. it carries outun a significant set of responsibilities related to disaster recovery as well as representing analyses of america in various matters around the world. : azar auctioned as the coo of the department. i delegated much of the day-to-day operations to his supervision. in that role he demonstrated a skill as a collaborative leader. president bush had a president bush had a management agenda to improve the efficiency of the federal government. they had developed a series, almost three dozen, areas of evaluation there were to be graded on a chart that had green, yellow and red. he set a goal to have hhs become the first department in the federal government to have every measure green. he organized an effort among hhs 27 operating centers and he met that goal first. i am also witness tha

united health, anthem, these companies down and down hard. cigna down 1.6%. you can see a big impact from the market. rolled over to pharmaceuticals, healthcare of different healthcare companies got hit here. i have to tell you, this may not be as bad as it looks, shep. >> shepard: i know any time that amazon enters your sector to just watch out below. stocks are going to drop. thanks, gerri. top of the hour headlines coming up. >> shepard: this just in from hawaii. officials tell us they have fired the worker that sent a false alert about an incoming ballistic missile. the state's emergency management official has resigned. he was convinced himself an attack was underway. that's what the staffer wrote in the statement to investigators. previously hawaii's governor said the false alarm happened after somebody pushed a wrong button. took nearly 40 minutes to correct the whole thing. the worker that sent it blamed a recorded announcement of an attack which included the phrase "this is not a drill." it was a drill but he didn't hear the whole this is not a drill part. in fact, the announcement ended with the phrase "exercise, exercise." by then

healthcare. and the president unfortunately has been a little bit more divisive and polarizing in his rhetoric and tweets than i think is in our interests. this is the united states of america. rick: i didn't hear your grade. >> my grade is about a "b." rick:er that's pretty good. you mentioned the government shutdown. how does that affect the agenda going forward. >> the democrats misplayed their hand. they are putting illegal immigrants ahead of the american people. you have got to love the american people more than you hate president trump. there is no reason why we shouldn't have a continuing resolution. it's something the democrats screamed was necessary when thel were in power.re but when you have a republican they load up the continuing resolution with issues and pork that the american people don't want and we don't need. rick: what about that, doug? >> o 2/3 of republicans, 80% of democrats agree we need to do a daca fix. had a resolution in the senate that wasn't approved. i have always been for clean c.r.s. but the real problem is we are only talking about four weeks and we'll be back at this. we need real leashed ship. that means we need to fund

the united nations in new york thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera a pretty dire situation with more than eighty percent of yemenis now knocking food fuel water and access to healthcare can you tell as far as where things stand as far as the humanitarian response plan for yemen. well those people who your years have just seen in your report to just some of the nearly twenty million yemenis who are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in the u.n. we've prepared a plan for twenty eight to reach many many millions of people and we need two point five billion dollars during the course of the year to do that i am today announcing the largest ever allocation we have made from the un central emergency response fund an allocation of fifty million dollars to get the aid operation pump primed for twenty eighteen and the fact that i'm having to do that obviously is not a success measure that is a sign of exactly how desperate the situation aid the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse and unless unless the situation changes we're going to have the world's worst humanitarian disaster of fifty years is a large alloca

epidemic on record, and the united nations is warning over 8 million people are a step away from famine. more than 80% of yemenis now lack food, fuel, water and access to healthcarewell, recently nermeen shaikh and i spoke to journalist iona craig, who was based in sana'a from 2010 0 to 2015 as thehe yen cocorrespondent for the timemesf london. she wawas awarded ththe 2016 orl prizize for her reporting on yemen. i started by asking her what the world needs to know about the crisis in yemen. >> i think it is really how man-made the human a during crisis is. the saudi coalition's policy of not just blockadading the c couy and restricting food imports in yemen imports 90% of its food in peace time, but also the bombing campaign that i m mentioned in that report for the guardian that has been used to systematically target's yemenis ability to grow their own food or supply food for themselves. so there is a clear had -- pattern of a strategy to bomb farmland, to target the areas where farmers are trying to grow food host of, as well as targetining fishermen, where people have an coming fish anddly reliant on fishermen's supplies to feed themselves. so in that report,