sec becerra: data use agreements and medicaid. i was in congress for a long time and i would hear people come up to me, stakeholders, can you push them, i've heard cases where we are not doing enough. at the end of the day, you have to deliver. you have no choice. if you don't deliver, they are going to end up on your door anyhow. whether it's the er -- you told me about an individual lying on the streets naked and needed services and was not getting them. what we are trying to do is we are trying to let you know where we are going. lots of things are going to happen, on medicaid, for example . we made it clear to the governors what was going to happen before we made the announcement. we have been four months chatting with the governors of various states telling them this is what's going to happen once the public health emergency comes down. let's start working together, principally on something like medicaid were 15 million people are so may lose their health coverage because they may come off medicaid rolls even though they may

becerra, or secretary becerra, congressman becerra, i think the work that you did on a bipartisan basis whether it was 21st century cures bill are even more -- or even more importantly the heatro that you took from yr side of the aisle to get trade promotion authority els me you're a person tata likes to bet to a positive end, a productive end. the only reason, the primary reason i didn't support your confirmation, full disclosure, is the position you've taken on margin rights. so i'm not going to have enough time toug get to if many questions, but i think it needs to be said that the i believe we're going about it the wrong way in terms of the haircut that needs to be done to get prescription prices lower and not at a point in time and not at the expense of other research and investment that's necessary. and i tell everybody in the industry, i believe that there's a haircut coming, but i haven't heard anyar member talk about wo needs to be in the barbershop. and ip. think it needs to be pharma, i think it needs to be pharmacy benefit managers, it needs to be the insurers. i just wrote

becerra? of advocates, lot of people in the immigration world were excited about him and the change they thought they happen at hhs after the biden administration took over. but what happened was there was a huge crunch at the border where all of this sudden children were sort of getting piled up in jails run by customs and border protection because there is not enough capacity at health and human services. there was this media attention to kids sleeping on the floor, sleeping under those silver space blankets. what people insight hhs say is becerra started putting pressure on them to discharge these kids more quickly. the call would be, how many kids have been discharged from care today? how many are still there? the people working at all levels of the agency say, that created a situation where kids were being pushed out too quickly to people who were not vetted. a lot of people inside the agency told he would say, why can't we read this likeness ugly line? we need to be more efficient. henry

secretary javier becerra, the 25th secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services. secretary breast sarah is a former member of congress serving 12 terms in the u.s. house of representatives, before becoming the attorney general for the state of california. in both his previous roles you championed issues relating to help, security, patience safety, combatting the opioid crisis, and protecting health care access. secretary becerra has made one of his top priorities of hhs to strengthen our countries behavioral health. he's leading hhs to combat the growing mental health crisis of our country. particularly related to issues of substance abuse, youth mental health, and suicide. so, without further ado i would like to welcome the 25th secretary of the united states department of health and human services, secretary javier breast sarah. we >> thank you. we thank you very much. supervisor berger, fort thank you very much for letting me join you. thanks for your friendship, thanks for letting me work with you on so many issues whether as a member of congress, certainly as

terry becerra in the inflation reduction act. based on patterns i'm eeseeing in the industry you could call it the investment reduction. mister chairman i have three documents that without objection i'd like to submit to the record . two are related to eli lilly, one to another player in the pharmaceutical space that said making those decisions to drop small molecule research and other things because the time that they would need to recover the investments they anticipate is not there so you can expect reductions in small molecule research, expect reductions in the drug they were trying to ruexpand. you can see the effects of not getting well intended policy right . mister beccera, i think the work that you've done on a bipartisan basis whether it was 21st century cures bill are even more importantly than the heat you took from your side of the aisle to get trade promotion authority tells me ,you're a person who likes to get to a productive and. the only reason, the primary reason i didn't support your co confirmation is the posi

becerra about the home security situation.through what you learned this past week. >> what i learned from janet yellen is she is dethe tavern thed from reality -- detached from reality as the president is. admiral mike mullen said the greatest threat to our national security is our department and deficit, that's when it was $14 trillion. now the treasury secretary was before the finance committee talking about president biden which will drive that debt up to $50 trillion, and she wouldn't even commitment the spending was a mayor -- admit the spending was a major contributor. of course, we had hhs secretary becerra rah in front of us. we've been trying to get the last 50 pages of the fauci e-mails. they've allowed us to look at 350 pages in 50-page tranches in reading rooms, can't make copies, but we can write down what we're finding. we've been i trying to get those the over a year. the has to do with the origin of covid. the secretary complained that he wasn't getting cooperation from the people they're investigating. well, w

we touched on that with secretary becerra as well as thinking of the partnership we have that you mentioned across all three ams in terms of the work we need to do together and how we look at everything with an equity lens as well, what are the other priority areas we should collectively be focusing on to support cms's efforts to advance equity and where do you think we can collaborate or work more closely together? >> i touched on a few of the priorities. i would spend a couple more sentences on mental health and physical health. i have been surprised how much the numbers are growing in the medicare program. you tended to think of that as more a younger population but increasingly on the medicare side, we have more behavioral health issues so that is an area currently the administration is focused on and we need to work with you on about making sure access to providers, they are using that care, those are couple of needs. i would also say getting the word out. one of the things we are all needing to do is make sure whatever am your card says, not the card in your pocket but you know how to

we touched on that with secretary becerra as well, and just thinking about the partnership we have. you mentioned across all three m's in terms of the work that we need to do together. and how we look at everything with an equity lens as well. what are some of the other priority areas that we should collectively be focusing on to support cms efforts to advance equity? and where do you think we can maybe collaborate or work were closer closely together? >> i think that a lot of, i touched on a few of the huge priorities. one i would just been a few more senses on his mental health and physical health. it's actually, i've been surprised just how much the numbers are growing in the medicare program, right. you can you think of that as a young companies i did, think of it as more of a younger population but increasingly on the medicare side we have more mental and behavioral health issues. so that is an area certain that the administration is focused on an certain that we need to work with you on about making sure people have access to providers, that they're using their care. those are

the folks in charge of this, health and human services secretary javier becerra, we met with him in dallas during panel of young black men. >> i was suicidal my senior year of high school. >> people don't feel safe don't talk, they don't say anything, they just deal with it. that is why you have people committing suicide, turning to drugs and alcohol because they don't know where else to go. it starts with the youth. >> they cry out, shame on us that we have not prepared. >> reporter: is not acceptable we have young people in the er all over with mental health issues all over this country? >> it is not acceptable. it is not care. it is housing them. >> reporter: why has the federal government not done more ? >> it is pretty simple, money. >> reporter: we checked, the biden administration has dedicated more money to juvenile mental health than previous administrations. $1 billion over the next five years to pay for things like medical school to increase the number of mental health specialists and a goal of doubling counselors at schools. critics say those one-time grants are short-term answ

oh, let's speak to our senior political analyst, my one becerra about all this. so my one, this is a bit reminiscent of the cold war era, isn't it? in the 1955 conference in vandorn, indonesia, when developing countries decided to create the non aligned move when, because they didn't want to take sides during the cold war. what is your sense of the position that some countries of the g 20 find themselves in today and, and do they really have a choice? this interesting unit of a comparison because are also india for a long time during the cold war was leaving the nun online movement to do it sounds like a minister more the wants to sound like he is the spokesperson of the so called global self throat is not necessarily the spokesperson, regardless of what is clearly trying to be one, which is which his statement is actually very accurate and we're almost lethal for was present not the blue moscow and washington by saying that it is the global south that is taking the grunt of the ramification of this cold war that is happening between moscow and washington, that m

more federal leadership is needed and i'm so grateful for leaders like secretary becerra. and states have great and some untapped to equity and our intention is to advance that work forward. we know, we've heard the voices and expertise of people who face inequities has been largely missing from the conversation. when i look back and think over the last 20 years, and yes, we've made tremendous strides and trem cuss progress. one of the areas where we've failed is including voices of people living with experience of inequity in solutions and despite growing attention to systemic racism in law enforcement, criminal justice and other sectors, racial justice in health care, in my view, has been effectively-- has not been effectively linked to broader racial justice movements. we aim to fill these gaps such as around legal and political challenges advancing equity that will stimulate, intersect collaboration. ... we want to identify approaches that will support policy intervention. for athletes said we want voices and expertise of people living experience as well as emerging sc

those questions in new york city were joined by jeff wise and aviation journalist and doha, alex becerra us and aviation analysts. and florence de shockey, an investigative journalist in hong kong based foreign correspondent for le monde. welcome to you all, alex, i just want to begin with you. i gave us back at or 9 years old. what are some of the updated facts that we know since then? i know there a lot of theories out there, but to some of the things we can actually accept as fact very few. and that is why this remains one of the greatest mysteries because ordinarily, over a period of time that has passed. i mean, we've had the end of the such 2017. we're now in 2023. there are almost no updates . what we do know is that there have been credible examples of debris that have been linked with case numbers to have been linked to the m h 370 across the bar in triple 7. that was involved in this fly. but since that, that has been no such and a continuation in a starch operation, the militia government has not renewed its commitment to such. and they say that they are just waiting for credi

as a result of that visit we feel optimistic secretary becerra and federal partners at cms left the visit with deeper and better understanding of our commitment to improvementt a laguna honda and dedication to our residents and indispensable role laguna honda plays in san francisco. next slide. during that visit with secretary becerra, one thing we also discussed was an issue we discussed previously and that is, the 2016 federal requirement that was put into place that required newly certified facilities to have no more then maximum of 2 residents per room in a skilled nursing facility. we shared with the secretary of our grave concern about this new regulation and the fact of laguna honda might be subject to complying with that. to date that is the best information we have been provided is we must comply. to show our good faith effort to comply, laguna honda temporarily decommissioned the third room in those triplet areas to that total 120bed reduction and say temporarily, because we have left those beds on the hospital license to remain to give ourselves the most options as we pursue re

we will hear from officials on xavier becerra pairing for today's storm but for now, waiting on that light rain to hit here. you can access the same live doppler 7 that are weather team uses, you can see it on the app and you can download that wherever you stream. kumasi: workers in the second largest school district in the country are on strike. tens of thousands protesting what they say is unfair labor practices. the superintendent believes that it could have been avoided. >> 30,000 employees are on the picket lines across the district. the three-day strike started at 1:30 this morning. they are protesting unfair lab practices and asking for better wages. union workers only make about 25,000 year they also want more full-time work and increased staffing. there was a brief glimmer of hope yesterday afternoon but the union said they leaked information so they had to walk away. >> i believe this strike could have been avoided. but it cannot be avoided w individuals speaking to one another. whether it is directly indirectly. today we have a golden opportunity to do that. but that just

and now, it is my pleasure to introduce secretary javier becerra. he is the 20 for secretary of the department of health and human services and the very first latino to hold office -- to hold that office in the history of the united states. as secretary, he will carry out president biden's vision to build a healthy america and his work will focus on ensuring that all americans have health, security, and access to health care. welcome, secretary. [applause] quick so on friday i had the pleasure of being with representative jackson and senator urban in chicago, illinois on friday, and we had a great event dealing with behavioral health, and then on saturday i got a call informing me that senator durbin had contracted covid. so i would be wearing my mask if i'm not using the microphone, and you would expect that from the secretary of health and human services. so, and i appreciate those who are wearing masks now to continue what i think will be a legacy of caring to ensure we're caring for ourselves and for others, not just a pandemic when, but when we

jordan mcclintock wrote to help consumers with services obvious becerra since hhs runs an office of refugeeettlement, the biden administration's open border policies created full abilities criminal aliens and gang members exploit to the detriment of american citizens. kayla's mother's expression frustration because as a teenager, the suspects identity is protected and if convicted, he could one day be eligible for parole. she argues is such a vicious crime was committed at a young age, there's no telling what he's capable of as an adult. in washington, mike emanuel, fox news. eric: the texas state republican party voted to censor one of its own. congressman tony gonzales. comes after the two terms lawmaker broke with the party to support new gun safety laws there after the uvalde school shooting in his district. gonzales is angry the gop. the government to defend same-sex marriage and opposing sweep house immigration proposal. it allows state republicans to spend money and remind primary voters about the rebuke if he does indeed seek reelection. arthel: the new nuclear threat from north kor

health and human services secretary javier becerra, he was questioned about missing migrant childrenrk times reported that his agency was unable to make contact with 85,000 unaccompanied children. they were released to u.s. sponsors. watch this. >> every week i get briefed by my team sometimes two or three times a week on this situation with the unaccompanied migrant kids and where we stand, i've never heard that number of 85,000. i don't know where it comes from so i can't attest. i would say it doesn't sound at all to be realistic. maria: chad, what is realistic, where are the unaccompanied children and why are they scaling back the detentions for illegal immigrants when we know they are breaking the law? shouldn't there be consequences? >> well, yeah, so it's exactly right. there are no consequences for crossing that border and we have been saying that now for two years. they scaled back detention because they don't believe in it and they are clear about that. the administration is not hiding the fact that they don't like to detain individuals and i can tell you as someone who led

cnn's stephanie becerra joins us now live from lagos. so stephanie, b.o.l.o.e winner, but the latest report saying the election was rigged. what's the latest analysis? >> so rosemary, nigerians are waking up to and i -- knew president. and as you, say it's been a controversial election cycle. but we have a president elect declared. and opposition leaders say they believe the results were rigged or manipulated. the only recourse available to them is -- . and in nigeria, elections central elections are not really overturned. so, they face a long legal uphill battle to challenge these. results tinubu, for his, apart his appeal for calm and has urged his opponents to come together so they can work for the unity of the country. let me read you a little of what he said during his acceptance speech. he said this is a serious mandate. i hereby accept it. i will be your servant, and not your leader, to work with you to make nigeria a great country. i take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow contestants. let us team up together. it is the only nation we have. it is

jordan mcclintock also wrote to health and human services secretary xavier becerra since hhs runs anice of resettlement. the biden administration open border policies have created vulnerabilities that criminal aliens and gang members exploit to the detriment of american citizens. kayla's mother is frustrated because as a teenager the suspect's identity is protected and, if convicted, he could one day be eligible for parole. we reached out to homeland security and customs and border protection but have not gotten a response. bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. ♪ ♪ >> bret: the double murder trial of a prominent south carolina it attorney now in the hands of the jury. closing arguments concluded today in the high profile case of alec murdaugh. correspondent jonathan serrie has the story. >> totally illogical irrational and insane. >> in closing arguments the defense had choice words for the prosecution's theory that alec murdaugh killed his wife maggie and son paul to create a distraction the day his law firm confronted him about funds he had stolen from clients. >> even if the financial d

so i want to show you this quote from xavier becerra rah, of course, hhs secretary, about the need toey were, you know, factory widgets. it says if henry ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never -- this is him admonishing his workers for hhs and the people processing the kids -- if henry ford had seen this, he would have never become famous and rich. this is not the way you do an assembly line. >> yeah. i mean, the way that they talk about people. and all under the guise of compassion, right in the democrats like to act like they think about immigration compassionately. we have to have open borders, what about these poor people from other countries? the is they have enabled the most unbelievable cruelty. i children slave migrants, enslaved to to cartels. working class americans having their wages undercut, record deaths at the border we're seeing, record numbers of migrants, 890 died on the border. just unbelievable cruelty all under the guise of their.com passion concern the. rachel: and,s by the way, many of them are sex slaves it's horrible. i want you to also listen t

this is the responsibility of secretary becerra and whoever is in charge the office of refugee resettlement wang a year ago because she was not fast enough for them. what i told her oversaturated energy and commerce we need to get these folks in here they need to answer some very, very hard questions and they need to start doing their job they get a big-budget let's use the dollars for what their intended and that is to protect the american people and number two let's put into this process. maria: stephen miller had the idea to use the appropriations process to make change, affect change in defendant whatever it is 12 appropriation bills we will see how you guys handle that. thank you very much for being here were watching it all michael burgesses in d.c., quick break then christopher wray confirms the origins of covid-19 came from china fbi director out with the first public confirmation of the classified leak assessments that it leaks from the wuhan lab. we are on it next. ♪ (vo) the fully electric audi e-tron family is here. with models that fit any lifestyle. and innovative ways to make

. >> hannah, your story indicates that that secretary xavier becerra put and murmurs pressure on governmentown to move the unaccompanied minors out of detention facilities as quickly as possible. how can we reconcile not keeping kids in detention for too long, but keeping them safe from traffickers and exploitation? >> it is a really hard balance. this is a tension that has always existed. it is not good for kids to stay in detention, it is dramatic. and on the other hand, if you have a system really see kids with no follow-up, it is so important to get that decision right. so people, like you say at h h as have been telling me, they wake up in the morning, crying, wondering if the discharge numbers will look good enough for their bosses. because there is so much pressure to get these kids out, quickly. >> hannah, where is your investigation going to take you next? >> i am really interested in this idea of accountability for the corporations that are benefiting from this labor. you mentioned slaughterhouses, i think about children outside of the slaughterhouse, from the biggest meat process

and then secretary becerra mentioned that they would also be reviewing this on a quarterly basis, in in a statement the hhs secretary said, quote, president biden made lowering prescription drug costs for americans a top priority, and we're using every lever we have to deliver results. so expect to hear some of this in president biden's remarks this afternoon as he and his administration really focus on the measures that they are taking to save americans some money with those out-of-pocket costs and then today specifically what that looks like for seniors and medicare beneficiaries. jim and erica? >> priscilla alvarez, thank you. >>> a new report shows a staggering rise in the number of americans living with alzheimer's. so what is behind this alarming increase? we're going to take a closer look ahead. e was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over mymy house. hey bud. wow. what's allll thi? hawaii was too expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you coul

well that's been in my one becerra out there, a senior plesco unless you joins us now from london. my 112 years. did you think the conflict would continue this long? no, actually. so some of us are in the beginning, 12 years ago when the arab spring started, we didn't realize it's gonna turn into a hot summer, gonna directly into a stormy winter and no time. but clearly the ada regimes like that aside, the regimes, what had them and, and using whatever power, whatever violence at hand in order to stay in power. and we also didn't realize it just how, how was cynical some of the regional powers are and the global powers that like russia, in the case of syria, as well as the united states and others to intervene. and you create that kind of our proxy conflicts at the back of sort of a civil war that was, that started in syria. so 12 years is really horrendous for out of pollution, but started by simply demanding mothers to reform some sort of dignity and freedom . but then would turn into death and destruction for a dozen years. that doesn't stop. and this is the think about syria no

child has asthma, or a mother's pregnant, that is going to affect their care and so, yes, secretary becerraso calling on every state and local government to do their job, to keep their families, their constituents connected to healthcare. it is in their interest to do so. and if you're not, then explain to the folks in your state why you're trying to take healthcare coverage that this administration and democrats in congress delivered over the last few years. >> president biden and prime minister trudeau are announcing a new agreement today where canada will be able to reject asylum seekers that come from the united states into canada. meanwhile, in the southern border, the humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day. thousands of people are stuck in camps, day after day, trying to apply for asylum on an app that many times is useless to them. just congressman, where do you see the policy on this issue? asylum, traditionally, has been something that is a sacred right. you don't have to get it, but you certainly have the opportunity to request it. that's almost an impossibility today. >> wel

this judge, or what may come from these 80s or trying to restrict the advancements that secretary becerrais team have made, for mifepristone and misoprostol in this country. >> my thanks to you, amy hagstrom miller, for getting us up to speed on what's going on. we definitely want to have you back as we wait for that texas judge to make his ruling, when it comes to abortion medications. thanks for being here this morning. i appreciate you. and now we want to bring you an update to a story we covered here just last week. texas is changing part of a controversial bill that, as originally drafted, would have banned all chinese citizens from buying homes in the state. senate bill 147 was introduced at the end of last year and is quickly gaining support among republicans, especially after the emergence of the chinese spy balloon. after a public outcry, protests, and a lot of pressure from the aapi community, a state senator claimed the new bill will make it clear that dual citizens and legal permanent residents will be able to purchase property. and coming up, donald trump maybe headlining thi

as a result of that visit we feel optimistic secretary becerra and federal partners at cms left the visit with deeper and better understanding of our commitment to improvementt a laguna honda and dedication to our residents and indispensable role laguna honda plays in san francisco. next slide. during that visit with secretary becerra, one thing we also discussed was an issue we discussed previously and that is, the 2016 federal requirement that was put into place that required newly certified facilities to have no more then maximum of 2 residents per room in a skilled nursing facility. we shared with the secretary of our grave concern about this new regulation and the fact of laguna honda might be subject to complying with that. to date that is the best information we have been provided is we must comply. to show our good faith effort to comply, laguna honda temporarily decommissioned the third room in those triplet areas to that total 120bed reduction and say temporarily, because we have left those beds on the hospital license to remain to give ourselves the most options as we pursue re

and we've heard from secretary becerra last week at the senate finance committee. we got 85,000 unaccompanied alien children, my grandchildren who have been released in the u.s. the hhs has lost track of these unaccompanied children. so, my question to you is how many of these children are being trafficked, how many of these children are being put into the sex trade? what are you doing to try to find these children and when you look at what is happening to women and children, do you all understand that it is the policies of this administration what you are doing on the border that is causing 85,000 children to be lost, can't find them and not knowing if they are being trafficked, put in gangs in the sex trade. so what are you all doing to find these children, and do you understand that it is the policies that is causing this? >> senator, let me share with you what we are doing to address the scourge of human smuggling and human trafficking. and let me say with respect to the unaccompanied children, and this will echo what i shared with the senator a moment ago with

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