and to your colleagues. and to you, dr. miller, thanks for joining us today. and for the important role that medpac plays in informing medicare policy. we've had a chance to look at your report, maybe not read each page along one but an excellent executive summary. and unfortunately, as mr. tiberi and i discussed, this is the first hearing of this subcommittee. and i regret that we did not ve an earlier hearing on the consequential health legislation that the republicans introduced and passed. that bill, as we know, would have taken away coverage from 24 million americans while handing out nearly $1 trillion in tax cuts primarily for the wealthy, indeed the very wealthy and corporations. it would gut medicaid by cutting more than $800 billion from the fram -- program and shifting costs to patients. it would allow states to eliminate or weaken crucial market reforms, including essential health benefits, community rating and protections for older workers. it was opposed by doctors, hospitals, patients, aarp, almost everybody who is a participant in the work that you do, dr. miller. t

introduced judy chu. and earl was here part of the time. so dr. miller, welcome. as i read your report, your testimony, and also the executive summary, i was just struck by the thoroughness of the work you do. a lot of the issues are controversial. i remember when we first talked about controlling payments to physicians and the heck that we received and how much controversy there was. and you thought the sky was falling and it would never work out. and i mention that because i really think your report, and it has areas where there are difference of opinion, your report shows how successful this has been, this program, that is, in some respects a public but not only public, but public and private partnership. and with a lot of back and forth from the private sector as reflected in your report. and i just want to comment for each of us on this committee and this subcommittee, when we go home, we have lots of meetings with the various providers, the various groups, and they have differences of opinion. and they have some urgent pleadings. but i really think your report shows why me

well having been involved in its foundation in 1999-2000. dr. miller was leak tourer in moscow, the visiting researcher the -- and he has hell fellowship in the german marshall found me and hoover institution and received his ph.d ma from yale and day history from harvard university. join me in welcoming dr. miller to speak on his first book: the struggle tsave the russia economy." published in 2016 by unc press. dr. miller. [applause] >> thank you very much. an exciting time to talk about russian history not only because russia is in the news a lot tied for good reasons and bad reasons and this is an anniversary for russia. september was the 25th 25th anniversary of the soviet union's collapse and this year is the history of the russia revolution when the communists took power. so very timely period to look back at. the source of russian history that led to the current government taking power. would like to turn back to period 25 years ago when the soviet union wag beginning to fall apart and ask what went wrong and why. to do so i'd like to compare that period of history with chin

your colleagues. and to you, dr. miller, thanks for joining us today. and for the important role that med pac plays in informing medicare policy, we've had a chance to look at your report. maybe not read each page the long one, but an excellent executive summary. and unfortunately, as mr. tiberi and i you -- discussed, this is the first hearing of this subcommittee. and i regret that we did not have an earlier hearing on the consequential health legislation that the republicans introduced and passed. that bill as we know would have taken away coverage from 24 million americans. while handing out nearly $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. indeed, the very wealthy and corporations. it would cut medicare by cutting more than $800 billion from the program and shifting costs to patients. it would allow states to eliminate or weaken crucial market reforms, including essential health benefits, community rating, and protections for older workers. it was opposed by doctors, hospitals, patients, aarp, almost everybody who is a participant in the work that you do, dr. miller. though, a

introduce dr. miller. >> thank you both for an incredibly important hearing and as the ranking democrat on agriculture and forestry, i want to work closely with you so we can resolve this so that when we go into the forestry title to focus on prevention and management, all the money isn't transferred over to fight fires. so thank you for that. we have tremendous expertise in mission -- in michigan and i want to introduce dr. mary ellen miller who is a research engineer in ann arbor. michigan tech, which is actually in the upper peninsula, way up where i was not long ago, getting to know the place. michigan tech is a leader in information technology to solve security, infrastructure, and environmental problems. with the help of nasa, dr. miller has used models and earth observations to predict erosion and run off after wildfires in colorado and california. not all of her work is high-tech. she also spends plenty of time out in the field with more low-tech tools like bucket gauges and a bucket hat. thank you for being with us today, dr. miller. we look forward to hearing your unique scientif

michigan and i want to introduce dr. mary ellen miller who is a research engineer in ann arbor. michigan tech, which is actually in the upper peninsula, way up where i was known -- not long ago, getting to know the place. she is a leader in information technology to solve security, infrastructure, and environmental problems. with the help of nasa, dr. miller has used models and earth observations to predict erosion and run off after wildfires in colorado and california. not all of her work is high-tech. she also spends plenty of time out in the field with more low-tech tools like bucket gauges and a bucket hat. thank you for being with us today, dr. miller. we look forward to hearing your unique scientific insight and how water shows are impacted by wildfires. thank you senator stabenow. to lead the plan aloft -- to lead the panel off, we welcome your comments. >> members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss and collaborate on reducing wildfire risk. after the events of yesterday, the loss of one of our own, our hearts are heavy and we are sending our condolences to

of the day. jennifer miller of dartmouth college, no relation. dr. miller will discuss the u.s.-japan relationship. and clinton of washington will discuss the u.s.-south korea relationship. that goes without saying thanks to the organizers and sponsors that have been tremendous. i will just dive into it. among the numerous battles an waged,ag afghanistan should be understood as a central front. you cannot claim this distinction because it received the most attention, i think sustained deliberations only happened during the second term. nor on the basis of the resources expended on it. was extensivene and unprecedented. it should be understood in terms of the expectations and hopes that reagan and other policymakers affixed to victories there. no other battlefield held the globally symbolic ramifications attached to afghanistan, nor was any other anti-communist cause outside of eastern europe nearly as popular across the american political spectrum. the pursuit of victory limited tot diplomacy could achieve the detriment of soviets, americans, and afghanistan al ike. it appears

. welcome to you. and i understand that senator stabenowow would like to introduce dr. miller. >> thank you very much, madam chair. want to thank you for an incredibly important hearing and as the ranking democrat on agriculture, nutrition and forestry so i want to work with you to folk cause on provenges and management and all the money isn't transferred to fight fires. so thank you for this. we have tremendous expertise in michigan and i want to introduce dr. mary el enmiller a research engineer at michigan tech research institute in ann arbor. michigan tech, which is actually in the upper peninsula, as senator cantwell knows, up in houghton, michigan. a beautiful, beautiful place. michigan tech is a leader in the use of information technology to solve security and infrastructure, earth science and environmental problems. with the help of nasa, dr. miller has used model and argentina observations to predict erosion and runoff after wildfires in colorado and california. and of course not all of her work is high-tech. she also spends plenty of time in the field with more low-tech fools like

think dr miller's research and his study is a perfect example of of the v.a. . trying to avoid the issue and trying and trying not to to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not even address his research. there were many people in the department of defense that couldn't accept these findings in you can speculate that they couldn't expect be that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad implication the idea that maybe there was a new agent orange think this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars and health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to stave that off. the comments of the foreign press are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all the positive hits of the longs so it is a multi factorial exposure. the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some mild to severe to ra

deployment. video deed decided they were going to send any more veterans his way anymore. i think dr miller's research and his study is a perfect example of of the v.a. . trying to avoid the issue and trying and trying not to to pay their compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything near and they still will not even address his research. there were many people in that apartment or defense that couldn't accept these findings in you could speculate that they couldn't expect the that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad employed. nation the idea that maybe there was a new agent orange think this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars in health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to fav that off. the comments of the burn fencer causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all deposited into the lungs so it is aimed while the factorial

shouldn't come from the pteolic school funds. >> and dr. miller says despite the decent between lawmakers and tereagaident truride he is not d surprised that only two gop senators voted again the nomination. in short he says that is sclitics. >> one thing with republicans and even moderates, we say privately wouth,ll take a lot o this stuff crazy as it is, and we'll give trump these things because we want tfuride ton mivs something and the economic package they want to put forward which is not whers. p's package. >> for those two republicans that voted against devos despite her pasagaion she is unon thali and with the laws designed to protect students. reporting live walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> world news tonight with daa scd muir has more on todahs development, from washington. next at 6:30 right after "action news." >> school oke icdo ls in camden are spreading the word. and they toured a neighborhood in north camden tgaiay to let families delnow that the enrollment application is now available. >> parents can aow.ly to up to eight district charter

research project led by dr. john miller of the university of to see how people prepared for the eclipse and how they viewed it. in the months and weeks following, how this affected their scientific engagement. this seemed like precisely the fact-based nasa engagement we -- we should be engaged in. i was thrilled. i'd like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record preliminary version. the preliminary version. -- >> thank you. titled, the 2017 a solar eclipse. with that out of the way, one of the things i want to mention , to capture one sentence from this report. during two months prior to the eclipse, millions of adults engaged in a wide array of the acquisitions to understand the forthcoming event. to really understand that, i know dr. miller has an aggressive program to expand this and looking at social media to quantify this. if any of you have specific familiarity, i'd be happy to hear comments. >> this study was funded out of the stem activation parts. we're really excited about it. both the coverage we managed to get all together, right, not just one source, what i wanted

did not need any more encouragement is dr. robert miller. abc7 news caught up with him as he arrived to work at california pacific medical center's campus on buchanan street. dr. miller has been riding his bicycle to work for 15 years now, from tiburon. 18 miles each way. >> about an hour and a half, almost two hours on the bike each day. so, it's a lot of exercise, but it's also saving gas, parking and tolls to the tune of $6,000 a year. >> got to be in fantastic shape. on the bike 3 to 4 hours a day. bike trips went up 10% last year. >>> abc7 news in walnut creek, warriors fans lined up for free car flags. flags being given away at warrior stores while supplies lasted. this is leading up to car flag friday. team fans want that yellow and blue banner wave while people are driving around the bay area. meanwhile the warriors will wait to see who they face in the conference finals. the spurs or the rockets. >> well, spencer christian is here to look at our weather. maybe a little less windy today? >> you're right, it is a little less windy. easy for me to say. the winds are going to pi

. dr. miller's decisions under specified situations. it also says you may fire or remove director mueller is that correct? >> yes. >> you indicated in your statement that you chose a person who exercises a degree of independence, not full independence from the normal change of command. my question is this. in december 2003, the acting attorney general at the time was jim comey. he appointed a special counsel patrick fitzgerald to take over the matter. in a letter dated december 30th, 2003, he wrote the following. i direct you to exercise the authority of special counsel independent of the supervision or control of any officer of the department. in a subsequent letter dated february 6th, 2004, -- he said my conferral on you and special counsel in this matter should not be misunderstood to suggest that your position and authorities are defined or limited by 28 cfr part 600. those of the special counsel regulations we discussed. would you agree to provide a letter to director mueller similarly providing that director mueller has the authority of special counsel independent of the sup

of racial hierarchy. dr. miller is one big step closer to that goal. now that the association of colleges and university awards handling a grant to create minnesota's first truth racial healing and transformation center. >> it's pretty darn amazing. of. >> reporter: in a competition between 125 institutions, ham lynn is one many chosen, including brown, duke and rutger. >> we're in good company >> the three-year initiative will honor ongoing trauma brought on by structural racism but focuses on creating new far narratives and relationship >> her team will engage people between all walks of life and will help write a guide for inst to help promote racial and social justice >> the idea is there will be ten institutions that are models in a sense. >> students welcome this news >> all of the efforts to stop racial injustices and discrimination are long overdue. >> reporter: the very sentiment, in light of philando castile's shooting death and the deadly rally in charlottesville has her leaders to be at the helm of empowerment and set up a lasting tone. >> we all need to be standing u

dr. edwin fullner. >> thank you very much dr. miller and a special word of thanks and congratulations to darin and patrick for this really extraordinary interesting and exciting report that has just been released today. i had the opportunity to read it last night and yesterday when i was on an airplane. it reminded me of so many basics going back over the years. basics like studies that we were doing here 20 years ago on another side of the same question, which was how did we encourage economic opportunity for all americans in terms of rethinking things like the 71 means tested welfare programs that are out there. we did that with the leadership of people like robert rick or another steer resulted in the welfare reform act of 1996 is a real significant changes. i do hope that this study will also be the cause of some significant changes. the problem we face is conservatives are constantly confronted with the notion from our liberal friends that hey, here is a social problem. let's just take some money and we'll throw this money at the problem and they will help solve i

they're being given. >> that's good insight, dr. >> ude miller berk, the adversity advantage, turn your child hood adversity into career and life success. thank you for joining us. appreciate it >> shawn. >> i hope you guys have been outside because it is gorgeous. is up a great, i think it's my favorite day of the month. >> i agree with you so far. it is awesome >> the only thing wrong is it's not a weekend. where we're working today but wow, it was extraordinary, still beautiful evening ahead, shawn, but so many changes to talk about. four tomorrow, it will literally feel like we're changing seasons. 76 was our high many places will be in the 50's tomorrow, and rain will be in here in the morning hours, what can change that quickly? well, the wind direction for starters is going to load us up on a cool wind flow and there's a storm system heading our way that's going to be providing rain as early as tomorrow morning, and that's just day one, we'll likely edit a couple more days out of it. more rain coming but our temperatures this evening are so delightful it's 75 now. down from

desperately needs knew treatments. >>> now the new drug is a treatment. it's not a cure but dr. miller says, she is hopeful about new research that may make bone marrow transplant a safe option for more sickle cell patients. iain? >> joyce, sounds promising. thank you. >>> ♪ >>> developing right now, a victory over darkness, brutality and terrorism. that's the message coming down from iraq' prime minister it comes after declaring absolute victory over isis in mosul the battle to retake mosul lasted nine months leaving thousands of dead and many parts of the city in ruins. some say it could take upwards of a billion dollars to rebuild mosul. iraqi forces are now working to remove remaining explosives and traps from that war torn area. >>> dignitaries across the world talking about this story all over social media and iain you've been tracking the tweets. >> dawn, you can see some of the reaction behind me. iraq's prime minister's office declaring victory on twitter almost immediately. the un tweeting, the recovery of mosul is a significant step in the fight against terrorism and violent ex

acquisitions to understand the forthcoming event. to really understand that, i know dr. miller has an aggressive program to expand this and looking at social media to quantify this. if phenomenon of you have specific familiarity i'd be happy to hear comments. >> this study was funded out of the stem activation parts. we're really excited about it. both the coverage we managed to get all together, right, not just one source, what i wanted to point out a lot of studies are still olympian going. i'm really glad you're looking at this initial report but want to make sure we draw your attention to the final report once it's been completed. we feel it's absolutely crucial to social sciences to make sure your research active and up to date. >> good. always nice to see government doing its job well. to get to scientific things here, how much overlap is there in emp events caused by nuclear events? is this a separate set of litigation even though there are similarities and the time frame. obviously the skiptture i is way different. >> i can say a few things i learned about this from my fema co

this loss, butective something that required a solitary approach. and also something dr. miller had said, everything works out differently. this unilateral and definitive closure did not work out. it left too many questions, too much uncertainties, and people wanted to know what happened to their loved ones. i had read countless letters of people expressing their frustration, their anger, their rage. can you tell us anything more to my familyppened member? saying no, i'm sorry, there is nothing we can do. via gnome changes all of that. that is why displayed as graphic of walking to some iterations. essentially the counting process -- the accounting process never ended. there is a transition from the units, those dealing with the dead, to what david has mentioned, the central identification laboratory. that laboratory from the 70's and 80's and 90's primarily focus on dealing with the vietnam casualties. they began focusing on the korean war. that was in large part due to the state department efforts to rekindle associations between the united states and north korea and use this miss

? >> i do not consider dr. miller to be on a witch hunt. >> thank you. can the president fired director mueller, does he have the authority to fire him? >> i don't know the law on that. >> can you get back to us an answer that question? >> i'd be happy to take a look at it. >> do you realize you are stepping into the role of the director of the fbi at one of the most most contentious times in the u.s. politics? >> there has been a lot of contentious times in american politics, but this one certainly ranks up there. >> do understand the challenge that lies ahead for you because institutions, and the eyes of the american people, are suffering and the last thing we want to happen is for the fbi to fall out of favor of the american people? >> senator, as i said to you and our meeting, i fully understand that this is not a job for the faint of heart, and i can assure this committee, i am not faint of heart. >> i think in that committee, i told you that i wanted to be an fbi agent and it's a credit to the fbi that they never let me become one. [laughter] i never actually applied, it would've

that's so desperately needs new treatment. >> a lot of hope. new drug is not a cure but dr. miller says she is hopeful about new research that may make bone marrow transplant an option for more sickle cell patients and safer. dawn. >>> all right, joyce, thank you. >>> normally reporters have to go to the news. not this time. the news came right through this station's front door. >> it's what a london' most tourist spots today it is charred. why the moon bear isn't what used expect. ♪ this summer in a place where flavor runs deep, any dish and every glass might be the best you've ever tasted as long as you don't forget your appetite. new york state. it's all here. it's only here. plan your trip to the finger lakes at iloveny.com tragedy in upstate new york after state trooper is killed in the line of duty. police say 36-year-old joel davis was responding to reports of shots fired when an army soldier opened fire on him. pleased say that soldier 32-year-old justin walters also killed his wife. it happened last night in the town of theresa near the canadian border. walters is behind bars

want to thank dr. miller for your hospitality. thank you for joining us. we are honored to have you in our presence. thank you for testifying and for all that you are doing to help us combat opioids and save lives. a year and a half ago in our committee's first hearing on the issue, i warned that so many people were dying in communities across america and that we could no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease control estimates that more than 64,000 americans died from drug overdoses in 2016 and that's an increase of more than 20% over the year before. to put it into perspective, the death toll from the overdoses last year alone was higher than allus military casualties in iran and iraq wars combined. every 20 minutes, every 20 minutes someone dies from an overdose. if it lasts for two hours, a half dozen families will have lost a parent, a sibling or a child to opioids. we have the reports and you had years of talk. now it's time for action. the american people are looking for us to take action. they are looking to the president and the congress and they are askin

accepted to and are attending, so let's introduce these amazing educators. the principal, dr. tracy miller, congratulations to you in your school. to what would you attribute this? >> it's about having a laserlike focus on every child beginning in the ninth grade year to make sure that all of the opportunities are made available to them to earn a diploma in four years. >> you guys have always had a pretty high graduation rate, correct? >> correct. it's been an increasing trend each year but it takes collaborative conversations. sometimes they are intense because they involve the students in the parents and the individual plans for students to achieve promotion on graduation. eileen: you standing front of your amazing colleagues. what would you say is the contribution to getting an accolade like this? >> us working as a team. it definitely was a collaborative effort and we were very strategic and deliberate about her work in making sure that all students graduated on time. >> mr. wheeler here, a few words? >> i'm a ninth grade administrator, but first we look at the incoming ninth gr

anymore. i think dr miller's research and his study is a perfect example of. trying to avoid the issue and trying trying not to to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything near and they still will not even address his research. there were many people in the apartment of defense that couldn't accept these findings in you could speculate that they couldn't expect be that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad employed. nation the idea that maybe there was a new asian orange. this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars in health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to fav that off. with the minutes of the burn fats are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all deposited into the lungs so it is aimed while they factorial exposure to the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some mild to severe to rare fo

want to thank dr. miller and johns hopkins for your warm welcome and hospitality. the work you do makes a huge difference in our community and around the globe. i also thank our esteemed guest, governor hogan and pugh for joining us. we're honored to have you in our presence. of course i thank our witnesses, governor chris christie, commissioner wynn, dr. comperned, and mr. baum. thank you for testifying and for all you are doing to help us combat opioids and save lives. a year and a half ago at our committee's first hearing on this issue, i warned that so many people were dying in communities across america and that we can no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease control and prevention estimates that more than 64,000 drug ns died from overdoses in 2016, an increase of more than 20% over the year before. to put this in perspective, the death toll from drug overdoses last year alone was higher than ll u.s. military casualties in vietnam and iraq wars combined. every 20 minutes, every 20 minutes someone die from an opioid overdose. if today's hearing lasses for two h

miller's -- dr. miller. was it into a? was it a political calculus? what drove this decision? >> there were a few things that there were a few things that mr. trump and miller explained. -- mr. druckenmiller. the price of gold dropped in december. it was looking cheaper. at the same time, he was starting to see some of the wereal bank policy heads raising a little bit of a flag about the prospects for growth, that there could be some uncertainty. another thing was he actually wasn't starting to think the republicans in congress -- was starting to think the republicans in congress were pushing for a tax plan that maybe that wasn't certain it would be backed all the way as well. he was looking at some of the things in terms of monetary policy as well as legislation prospects in the u.s.. and thinking to himself that gold then looked like a good buy because it was cheap. he does look at gold as a currency. so he was hoping to own a currency go long potential of the dollar, but also seeing a lot of countries were positioning in a way that they did not want their currency to stren

hacks cars to test their security is leaving uber after almost two years with the company. dr. charlie miller made headlines for hacking a moving jeep to demonstrate the vehicle's security flaws. once miller and his partner hacked the jeep system they were able to kill the engine right in the middle of the highway. uber hired them both in 2015 to make their own vehicles more secure, but today miller announced he's moving on. we reached out to uber. they did confirm that, but they have not commented. >> live look at the new york stock exchange or i should say a look from this morning with the dow jones up right now five points. and how about snap? which is up again today. that company is up 2 1/2 points. now trading at 27. it opened at 17. it's on fire. >> it is. we should point out that nbc universal which owns this tv station is a new investor in snap. scott mcgrew, a good return for the network. >> yeah, good morning. nbc universal said it bought half a billion dollars worth of snap at the ipo price so half a billion dollars worth, $17 a share, that's like a $325 million profit just

private dinner, and she said talk to that guy over there, talk to dr. heath miller. and i said i'm trying to do some research into my grandfather's life, and it's this town called greenwood, you've probably never heard of it. he looked at me like i was nuts, and he said, greenwood? and i said, yeah. he said go get the book, "i've got the light of freedom." and i did. that book, it's over 600 pages, it's maybe around 700, it is about the work that local people did to make the movement happen. so it's not the martin luther king jr. stories, it's about just the everyday folks, and it's almost completely centered on greenwood. and there's another book called "local people" that's very similar. and so what i learned is that greenwood in many ways was kind of like a ground zero for the civil rights movement because, of course, you had the emmitt till murder which most civil rights experts will say really was the spark for the civil rights movement that rosa parks represented, a story you could tell to school children. you can't really tell the emmitt till story to school children. but rosa park