with live, from providence rhode island at 9:45 a.m. eastern. senate republicans put out a new version of the health care law for placement till thursday. the congressional budget office the release its analysis of measure next week and the senate is expected to debate and vote on the measure next week as well. we have a link to the bill on our website, c-span.org. c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. carey willg, mary join us this morning to discuss what is included in the latest health care bill. he sure to watch c-span's " washington journal" live this morning at 7:00 a.m. join the discussion. >> u.s. governors are attending their summer conference. in one of their panels, they discussed state efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. this is part of the national governors association summer meeting held in providence, rhode island. gov. baker: good afternoon. can i ask everyone to take a seat? that is quite a rumble. thank you very much.

coverage of the national governors association summer meeting taking place this year in providence, rhode island. governors are lined up and ready to from vice president mike pence along with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. the two will talk about the global economy when things get underway in just a couple of moments. coverage continues tomorrow live on c-span with talks from ceo of girls who code fema administrator, former ceo of microsoft and tesla spacex ceo elon musk. live coverage of national governors association against of our morning at 9:30 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome everybody. i want to once again thank governor ray mondo and all the citizens of the great state of rhode island. this is a record number of governors. this is a record number of attendees that we have here today. i am not honor to introduce the vice president of united states of america who as you know i year ago sat right with us, voted on our nga resolutions but most and poorly as a governor he understands the challenges that

nbc news, providence, rhode island. >> brilliant idea. >>> when we come back, they are competing against teams in robotics from all over the world, and for them, just getting here is a victory. >>> the spectacular scene in the skies shortly before sunrise in south dakota earlier today, it was a rare view of the aurora borealis. otherwise known as the northern lights. thanks to a solar flair, people in the northern most parts of the u.s. now could have another chance to see the dazzling display tonight. experts say optimal viewing will be about 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. >>> a team of young science students is beaming tonight after they finally made it to the united states to compete in an international robotics competition. they're from afghanistan and up until a few days ago, it appeared doubtful that the team would even get to come. morgan radford tonight on their long journey. >> reporter: in the heart of afghanistan, six teenaged girls measuring, testing, and building a robot. here, only one in five girls makes it passed middle school. but 16-year-old rodaba nori wants to set a differen

virginia's governor will lead a discussion on cyber security live from providence, rhode island at 9:45 a.m. eastern. and senate republicans put out a new version of the health care law replacement bill thursday. the congressional budget office will release its analysis of the bill next week and the senate is expected to debate and vote on it next week according to majority leader mitch mcconnell. we have a link to the new version of the bill on our website, c-span.org. weekend on book tv on c-span two. saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, former -- a former chess ,hampion talks about his book which is about artificial intelligence. >> machines for centuries have been taking over all forms of manual labor. take overnes manufacturing jobs comest that is natural. now the only difference is machines are coming after people with college degrees and twitter accounts. >> f9: 15 p.m., wall street journal columnist jason raleigh talks about his book. groups in america that have risen economically have done so with little or no local influence -- political influence. groups that have enjoyed early p

live from providence, rhode island at 9:45 a.m. eastern. senate republicans put on a new version of the health care law replacement bill thursday. the congressional budget office will release the analysis of the measure next week and the senate is expected to debate and vote on the measure next week as well. we have a link to the bill on our website, www.c-span.org. sunday on "q&a." >> in a country with an obsolete monarchy, speaking about the distributional wealth, about the corruption can get you in so much trouble. n women'sarabiab rights activist talks about her time in prison in her book, "daring to drive, a saudi woman's awakening." >> we wanted to change by this movement. the movement is going on. it never stopped. we are still campaigning for the right to drive. the right to drive is more an act of civil does the dance because a woman is not supposed to drive. disobedience because a woman is not supposed to drive. we are following our own destiny by doing this act of civil disobedience. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q

live now to providence, rhode island, where the national governors association is meeting. we are waiting for the first session of the day to get and judasth zoe baird marx -- and judas marx. judithout the day -- and marx. the first session should be getting underway shortly. they seem to be running a little late. while we wait, we will show you a portion of yesterday's session, which included justin trudeau. >> good afternoon. it is my sincere privilege to be here with you today to talk about some of the values we have in common and some of the solutions to the challenges we all face. governor mcauliffe, thank you for your kind words of introduction and your thoughtful opening remarks. governor rolando, thank you for your warm welcome in this -- and this extremity hospitality. in rhode island. i must say i am a little bit flattered and a little bit surprised that so many of you in the audience have chosen to be here rather than at the beach. maybe that is on the agenda for this weekend. or maybe, like me, you agree with wallace stevens, that are have's the truth depends on

at the national governors association summer meeting which took place over the weekend in providence, rhode island. >> i sat in my wagon with my dog and i watch the the riots. it was right directly across from our station, a clothing store called zak's place. i saw a guy come out of the clothing store with ten hats on his head, literally in a stack, and carrying bundles of things, of clothes with him. >> the 50th anniversary of 1967 detroit riots sunday at noon eastern, american history tv live from the detroit free press newsroom to hear first-hand accounts of the riots. >> they gave the order not -- "don't shoot." "be cool" "just let it go" that was the orders they gave them. and word got out. word got out that suddenly there's, you know, 50,000 people on 12th street just helping themselves to everything. >> the 1967 detroit riots, live sunday starting at noon eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> sunday night, a report how smear tactics are used to influence public opinion in her book: she's interviewed by "washington post" media critic eric wimple. >> you don't stick up for mccain. yo

msnbc alex joins us from providence rhode island last time we were talking they were wrapping it up.they have, what compromises have you heard coming out of the governors, this as they obviously have a much wider view of who needs help and how to help them compared to members of congress. >> right, richard these governors on the front lines of implementing health care with the federal government, especially on medicaid which was the key issue discussed at all the meetings both in public and private and what i heard from governors, and the concern specifically is around the expansion of medicaid under the affordable care act. this was the deal where the federal government offered states to foot most of the bill if they expanded eligibilities. r states took that offering including the district of clumia. most of them were democratic but not all. republican governors did it including mike pence as the governor of indiana. the gop bill would roll that back and woi save money but also reduce the number of people getting coverage congressional burjt office estimated 15 fewer female would h

the current governors with are meeting up in providence, rhode island, over the weekend. and there were certainly things they need to see addressed and largely opposition to the bill that fell apart this week and soy think that the governor's group maybe the next group to watch. >> by the way you mentioned joe mansion >> she said she would not vote for repeal because it affect west virginia. >> what's interesting he brought her name up and two other republican women senators who said they were not on board with this which i thought was interesting when you look at it when that group of what was it 13 men got together to put this together but today we learned about these three women. what does that tell about you this? >> wellle so of it is women senator among republicans tend to be more moderate and the fact that they were not really in the conversation obviously ended up looking like a mistake the way that the votes came down. but there's also rep senators that are not necessarily worried about everything which the right and they hail from either more moderate states or

at this week's national governors association in providence, rhode island, there was bipartisan skepticismand even resistance to the republican plan." washington post" reporter sean sullivan was at the governors' gathering and joins me now from washington. >> the governor's association summer meeting not something we care much about but rielt now why are the spot lights so tuned in on this conversation? >> reporter: this is usually a really low key affair that doesn't generate a lot of news. but this time it was a closely watched gathering and the reason was health care. a lot of republican senators who are on the fence right now about voting for this senate bill are looking to their home state governors, they're looking to them for guidance. they're looking to see how they respond to this bill. because in the end it's going to be the governors that are going to bear a lot of the responsibility for some of the coverage losses that may come about as a result of this bill, some of the cuts to medicaid that may come about as a result of this bill. so they are watching thee governors very clos

line for democrats question mark providence, rhode island. hi, good morning. there's many forms, today, of attack. like, for example, like months ago when they said that north , you know,ked sony with the sought -- the cyber messaging, i'm no expert on this issue, but with international affairs, north korea has been a problem since the 1955. now there are worse problems. no one's talking about this because they've got to be politically correct, or they are told not to talk about it. if they listened to douglas macarthur back then, that problem wouldn't exist in that area of the world today. not be a problem, north korea would not be a problem. when they talk about china's going to help us, china is not a friend of the united states. china's long-term strategic interest is to usurp the united states by the year 2049 and become the number one world power. are not discussed. ok? i would like to hear your very learned guest talk about this. as you do, if you could explain the sort of cyber capabilities that we know of of north korea and china? first of all, we kno

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> live now to providence, rhode islande the national governors association is meeting. we are waiting for the first session of the day to get and judasth zoe baird marx -- and judas marx. judithout the day -- and marx. the first session should be getting underway shortly. they seem to be running a little late. while we wait, we will show you a portion of yesterday's session, which included justin trudeau. >> good afternoon. it is my sincere privilege to be here with you today to talk about some of the values we have in common and some of the solus

this is part of the national governors association summer meeting held in providence, rhode island. >good afternoon. can i ask everyone to take a seat? that is quite a rumble.

i spent part of saturday invited up to providence, rhode island, to do something i used to do for eight years, meet with the national governors association. for eight years as governor of delaware, i was privileged to be part of the national governors' association. at one time vice chair and later on the chairman of the -- they invited me to come back and talk about health care, health care reform is what was going on here in this senate. i was happy to do that, and we made it work on my schedule. there to speak on behalf of the administration was the vice president of the country, the secretary of health and human services. the o.m.b. director and the director of the centers for medicare and medicaid, explaining to the governors why they should support the administration's position why they should support the republican position here in the senate. today the republicans sent out a strong letter, not just republicans. republican governors, democratic governors sent out a joint letter, bipartisan letter, saying to us, basically do these things, their advice to us. hit the pause button. s

are holding their annual summer meeting in providence, rhode island. vice president mike pence is a former governor at indiana. he addressed the gathering and talked about efforts to replace the current health care law. years introduced by virginia governor -- he is introduced by virginia governor terry mcauliffe.

this is part of the national governors association summer meeting held in providence, rhode island.

we take you live here on c-span 3 to providence, rhode island for the national governors association summer meeting. in this panel their discussion will focus on the opioid epidemic and also on treatment efforts. >> that's the opioid epidemic that runs across this wonderful country of ours. i am charlie baker, the governor of massachusetts, and i am vice chair of the nga's health and human services committee. i i am pleased to be joined by governor roy cooper who i serve with on the president's commission on opioid addiction. where is our host? governor gina raimondo? she's late to her own party. she'll be joining us up here later along with roy as well as our distinguished speakers to talk about this opioid epidemic which is a relevant issue for us all. it's now claiming the lives of an estimated 90 americans a day. i am not the first person to make that mistake. in massachusetts we had about 2,000 deaths in 2016, more than five deaths per day, more than all the deaths associated with automobile accidents and gunshots combined. there was a 22% increase in opioid related ems transpor

friday we were key sponsor of a demonstration in front of the national governors conference in providence rhode island. where they welcomed corporate lobbyists this is democratic and republican governors most of them are republicans in fairness corporate lobbyist to talk about how we're going to make sure the new nafta is a lot like the old nafta brought pierre trudeau in as the keynote speaker who good on social issues in canada not good on trade definitely an apologist for the same kind of so-called free trade with nothing won't work can't you know all of the three countries in nafta a candidate was the principal beneficiary one thing yeah but. again it depends who you are in canada but yeah overall canada's definitely a stronger economy they're running trade surpluses they're running trade sir but some of it is natural resources but yet but anyway we were in the streets our revolution and our partners saying to those governors and to president trump you promised a new trade deal it's better not look like the old one because the resistance to this is going to be greater than the resistance to the sc

are holding their annual summer meeting in providence, rhode island. vice president mike pence is the former governor of indiana. he addressed the gathering and talk about efforts to replace the current health care law. he introduced by virginia governor and nga chair terry mcauliffe. >> i am honored to introduce the vice president of the united states of america, who just a year ago, sat with us. as a governor, he understands the challenges we all face. grow our economies, how to build an infrastructure or transportation, how to make sure our children are getting the best out of the education. -- the best quality education. can understand we want to work together in a bipartisan way on -- he understands we want to work together in a bipartisan way on infrastructure and the best quality health care for our citizens. i think vice president pence. he shows true backbone himself in indiana when he expanded medicaid for his citizens. he understands the challenges that we as governors face to make sure we are providing that quality care. it is my honor toda

they gathered in providence rhode island. the hot topic of distress -- discussion is that gop healthcare bill. from both parties so far they have come out against it. here is what the former arizona governor told fox news. they had been talking about it for seven and half years now. they will repeal and replace. separate the bills and do it in somewhat of a bipartisan manner and every time you move something something else shifts. it's very difficult. some he has to take the leadership and move it forward. democratic governors are unanimously opposed to this bill. the republican opposition is split between those who say this goes way too far and those who say it doesn't actually far enough. protests are erupting across the country today. organizers of women's march returning to march returning to washington to rally against the nra. another group organizing marches in atlanta, seattle and chicago but the trump supporters are countering those protesters holding their own rally in new jersey close to has a golf course. with the

musk, ceo of tesla and spacex was the closing speaker of the national governors meeting in providence rhode island. he talked that the impact of emerging technologies and transportation sectors. this is an hour. >> i came with a tie. >> we both will be more comfortable. when i'm with you it's difficult to know where to start. let's start with what drives you? when you wake up in the morning, do you see a problem and you want to solve it? elon: the thing that drives me is that i want to be able to think about the future and, feel good about that. we are doing what we can to have the future be as good as possible. to be inspired by what is likely to happen. to look forward to the next day. so, that is what really drives me, trying to figure out how to make sure things are great and are going to be so. that is the underlying principle behind tesla and spacex. that, i think it is important we accelerate the transition to it's pretty important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable generation and consumption of energy. it is inevitable, but it matters if it happens sooner or later. making lif

was the closing speaker at the national governors association summer meeting in providence, rhode island. oftalked about the impact emerging technologies on energy and transportation. this is one hour. [applause] >> good afternoon. welcome, elon. i'm one to take off my tie. then we will both be more comfortable. thank you for having me. appreciate you being here today. >> it is difficult to know where to start. let's start with what drives you? morning,wake up in the do you see a problem and you want to solve it? the thing that drives me is that i want to be able to think about the future and, feel good about that. we are doing what we can to have the future be as good as possible. to be inspired by what is likely to happen. next day.rward to the what really drives me, trying to figure out how to make sure things are great and are going to be so. principlee underlying behind tesla and spacex. that, i think it is important we accelerate the transition to sustainable generation and consumption of energy. it matters if it happen sooner or later. spacex is about making life multi-planetary,

. >>> an innovative program in providence, rhode island is teaching new parents different ways to talk to their children. the program encourages parents to do something called conversation. it's where you're supposed to speak clearly to your little ones and include details. >> want to make sure that all children start school at a level playing field. when you start behind, it makes it that much harder to learn how to read, to get a job, to graduate high school. >> so the goal is to expose kids to at least 21,000 words per day. i didn't do the whole baby talk with my kids. i thought the more you speak to them as you would anyone else, not using crazy vocabulary. but they pick up on that. >> all that stuff is no good. if you don't have kids, you have a tendency to do that. >> are you sure you don't have kids? >> i've been around a lot of children. >> don't teach them how to talk, aaron. or at least like that. >> we love you otherwise. >> i like how she's backtracking. >> no, it's okay. >> guide him a little bit. >> it's going to be another hot week out there. >> yeah. >> it is. we have a

we are joined from the governor's meeting in providence, rhode island. what's happening there?: reaction from the governors is definitely not nearly as positive as i think the white house would like to this health care bell. democrats, of course, unanimously opposed to it as you would expect. even among republicans, very few, if any, are smoking out in favor of the bill. most are undecide. that's even after this big push from trump white house officials coming here lobbying the governors. a lot is focused on brian sandeval, a mad rot in nevada, i spoke to him earlier after he came out with a meeting with the health secretary. he told me he still wasn't decided on that he is being watched closely, his senator, dean heller, a key vote, even conservatives i have spoken to are not sold on this bill, take a look at what governor matt meade told me. >> i'm talking about republican colleagues. i think there are questions as to how it will work, how it will affect our state, congress and administration needs to know it is us, we the governors, that will be, have the responsibility to m

this event was part of the national governors association summer meeting held in providence, rhode island, last week. virginia governor terry mcauliffe chairs the nga. >> i would like to welcome everyone to the great state of rhode island and the official opening of the 2017 of the nation's governors association. before i get started i would like to recognize some of the very distinguished guest guest e with us. i would ask that they please stand when we recognize you. i would first as you will see at this summer meeting that first is the first time we've actually had a head of state, prime minister trudeau will be with us today, in addition we have representatives from all over the globe to show the growing importance of the governors and giddy with international trade and business development issues around the globe and that we has governors want to do direct direct relationship with any of these countries and many of these businesses who have come to visit us here at the nga, and i thank them for i also want to thank china. i want to thank ambassador from china. he and his group were h

and russian president vladimir putin will come face-to-face they're joining me now from providence, rhode islandis nicholas hearns, u.s. undersecretary for state for political affairs for george w. bush. and is currently professor at harvard's kennedy school of government. nick, thank you for being with us. what a you paying attention to the most? this firstnk meeting between president trump and president putin is going to be very challenging for president trump. you have in president proving someone who has been in power for 18 years, one of the world's most experienced leaders, and he's we know that from his kgb pass. there also some challenges for president trump itte. the two are this. the continuing sanctions of u.s. on ukraine. very important united states support the europeans and our own policy on this. as you know, president trump has set several points during his presidency and enter in the camping and submitted he would like to live to those sages but putin's done nothing to warn up. second and most important for president trump is the fact that putin launched a cyber attack on the am

in the afternoon, the national governors association's summer meeting in providence, rhode island. governors will discuss the opioid epidemic and prevention and treatment efforts. live coverage starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern, also here on c-span3. >>> with the help of our comcast partners this weekend, the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv to concord, massachusetts where the first shots of the american revolution are fired, and then less than a century later a writer's revolution takes place as the town becomes home to ravel waldo emerson, henry david theroux and luis ah may alcott. saturday on book tv we will take you inside or chad house where louisa may alcott live and wrote the ground breaking book "little women." then explore "walden pond," and the old man where ""nature" was written. >> the old manse is a house of two revolution. it was the beginning of the american revolution just through the windows down the hill, and later the second american revolution of intellectualism and thought. it is really a house that has such great history to it. >>> on sunday

to the national governor's association summer meeting that happened over the weekend in providence, rhode island, day looked at disaster preparedness and science education. together they run about two hours and 15 minutes. >> good morning. i'm sorry, we are starting a little bit late.

joining me now from providence, rhode island is nicholas burns. he was u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs for george w. bush and is currently a professor at harvard's kennedy school of government. nick, always good to see you. thank you for being with us. what are you paying attention to the most? >> oh, i think this first meeting between president trump and president putin is going to be very challenging for president trump. you have in president putin someone who has been in po-- power for 18 years, one of the world's most experienced leaders, highly intelligent, always prepared for these meetings and he is man i latif. we know that from his kgb past so there are all sorts of challenges here for president trump. i think the two that i would pinpoint are this. the continued american sanctions on russia over ukraine and its annexation of crimea. very important that the united states support the europeans and our own policy on this. as you know, president trump has at several points during his presidency and during the campaign intim ated he wo

to the national governor's association summer meeting that happened over the weekend in providence, rhode island, day looked at disaster preparedness and science education. together they run about two hours and 15 minutes. >> good morning. i'm sorry, we are starting a little bit late. we just had a lively discussion with secretary price. we are a bit delayed here. this discussion this morning is no less important, may be more important, maybe more important, just as important as the health care discussion that we just came from

joining me from providence, rhode island, i should let the audience know you are america's only independentand appropriately, you're not wearing red or blue. you're wearing purple. so welcome to the show, sir. >> thank you very much. >> let me ask you your initial reaction to the new version of this health dare bill and specifically your reaction to this carve out that will benefit alaska specifically. >> well, it's a bit of the process that concerns me. yes, part of the insurance will benefit alaska, but it's really the medicaid part that concerns me, the long-term, as you appropriately stated. one in four alaska answer are receiving some method of medicaid benefits. so it's really the whole package i'm concerned about and it's coming awfully quick at it and so if it is not a way to pause it, i guess i would like to see it split apart in some way so that the medicaid is taken out of the insurance side of it. so there's really two bujded together and i think that's a concern for me zbloor i saw that that senator lisa measure cow ski said something similar this week, that she wishes they wou

first i want to go to alex seitz-wald who is at the summer meeting in providence, rhode island, where more than 30 governors have been hearing the trump administration's latest pitch there for the senate health care bill. so, alex, i know you've been speaking with the governors from all across the country today. what have they heard? what have the folks heard from the health and human services secretary, tom price, a bit earlier and did it change anyone's mind? >> reporter: yeah, the administration is really making a full-court press and this is one part of it, a bit of a bank shot. they're trying to influence the governors to influence the senators from the home states. mike pence yesterday spoke for about 20 minutes about health care giving a very hard sell. this morning secretary price spoke behind closed doors to governors. i talked to many governors coming out of that, including some republicans that have big questions. a big one to watch is brian sandoval from nevada because dean heller is a key republican swing vote. sandoval said he was not convinced. he still sounded pretty c

up thursday, we'll will live from the national governor's association summer meeting in providence, rhode island. we'll focus on the opioid epidemic. live coverage picks up thursday afternoon at 4:00 eastern. >>> sunday on q & a -- >> in a country that's an absolute monarchy, speaking about the distribution of wealth, about the corruption could get you in jail, could get you arrested, could get you in so much trouble. >> her time in prison after challenging the saudi government's ban on women drivers in her book daring to drive, a saudi woman's awakening. >> you never see women driving in the street in a huge country. we can't drive. we wanted to change this by this movement and the movement is going on, never stopped. we're still campaigning for the right to drive. for us, the right to drive is not an act of civil disobedience. we show that we are able, we are capable of driving our own life and being in the driver's seat of our own destiny by doing this act of civil disobedience. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> vice admiral thomas moore, commander of the naval sea system

and the rhode island department of corrections is providing medication assisted treatment to the population most at risk for overdose. we have worked diligently to increase data waivered physicians in rhode island, for example, brown university medical school is the first in the nation to incorporate data waiver training into its curriculum. finally, recovery. we are looking to expand recovery supports. recovery is possible. to support successful recovery for more rhode islanders we are expanding peer recovery services particularly at moments when people are most at risk. the anchor ed program was started in june of 2014 and is now a statewide 24/7 service. it connects survivors with peer coaches in hospital and emergency environments. they provide continued services and follow up and connection. to date over 1600 individuals have met with recovery coaches and as a result over 82% have accepted a referral to treatment. the anchor more programs exists as a suicide peer outreach effort to hot spots, not waiting for someone to overdose to be seen. we are now facing a fentanyl crisis. as you ca

and the rhode island department of corrections is providing medication assisted treatment to the population most at risk for overdose. we have worked diligently to increase data waivered physicians in rhode island, for example, brown university medical school is the first in the nation to incorporate data waiver training into its curriculum. finally, recovery. we are looking to expand recovery supports. recovery is possible. to support successful recovery for more rhode islanders we are expanding peer recovery services particularly at moments when people are most at risk. the anchor ed program was started in june of 2014 and is now a statewide 24/7 service. it connects survivors with peer coaches in hospital and emergency environments. they provide continued services and follow up and connection. to date over 1600 individuals have met with recovery coaches and as a result over 82% have accepted a referral to treatment. the anchor more programs exists as a suicide peer outreach effort to hot spots, not waiting for someone to overdose to be seen. we are now facing a fentanyl crisis. as you ca

it was a topic of discussion this week among governors at their annual summer meeting in providence, rhode island. his is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. good afternoon. could i ask everybody to take a eat? thank you very much. good afternoon. want to welcome you all here today to talk about one of the most important issues that affects every state in the country, every community in the country, every neighborhood in the country. that's the opioid epidemic that runs across this wonderful country of ours. i'm charlie baker the governor of massachusetts and vice chair of the health and human services committee. i am especially pleased today to be joined by governor roy cooper from north carolina who i serve with on the president's commission on opioid addiction. where is our host, governor gina raimondo. is she here? she's late to her own party. ok. gina will also be joining us up here later along with roy as long as our distinguished speakers to talk about this opioid epidemic, which obviously is a pertinent and relevant issue for all of us. the opioid epidemic is now claiming the lives

this is part of the national governors association summer meeting held in providence, rhode island. gov. baker: good afternoon. can i ask everyone to take a seat? that is quite a rumble. thank you very much. good afternoon. i want to welcome you all here today to talk about one of the most important issues that affects every state in the country, every community in the country, every neighborhood in the country, and that is the opioid epidemic that runs across this wonderful country of ours. this wonderful country of ours. i am charlie baker, the governor of massachusetts and vice chair of the nga's health and human services committee and i am especially pleased to be joined today by governor roy cooper from north carolina, who i served with on the president's commission on opioid addiction, and where is our host, governor raimondo. is she here? she is late to her own party. gina will be joining us later along with roy along with our other distinguished speakers to talk about this opioid epidemic which is a pertinent and relevant issue for all of us. the opioid epidemic is claiming

. >> we are live in providence, rhode island, this afternoon for day two of the national association governors association meeting. governors are in a break. but when they return vice president governor mike pence address the group. along with canadian prime minister justin drew he dough and governors across the country to talk about the global economy. that is live 1:15 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> talks by leaders of girls who code and spacex ceo elon musk. that is 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> coming up tonight, our profile interview with linda mcmahon, head of the small business administration. before becoming sba administrator, she was cofounder and former ceo of world wrestling entertainment. she ran in connecticut as republican nominee for u.s. senate in 2010 and 2012. doesn't us 8:00 eastern on c-span, on live, with c-span.org and with the free c-span radio app. >>> coming up next, a look at u.s.-uk relations with british secretary michael fallon from the center for international strategic studies here in washington.

. >> and frank luntz joins us now from providence, rhode island.nything you heard yesterday indicate there is room for progress on any of these ideas? >> there are two members you didn't include in that clip that said very important things. senator joe manchin from west virginia talked about not c campaign against his colleagues. those people said, you know what? it's a great idea. brian mast, the new congressman t freshman from florida. talked about the armed services. and how member os congress understand that and need to appreciate it. you put aside all differences because you have one mission. i have to acknowledge, you guys focused the issues, but for most of the conversation, they talked in principles. and for the most part, these democrats and these republicans do and they talked about how the media ta'u sound beats to focus on where they did agree. >> the bottom line is they have to come together on the issues. >> if you focus only on the differences. >> we didn't focus on the differences. they all said they could come together on russia. >

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