cartwright. rep. cartwright: thank you. mr. cartwright. chairman. i'd like to continue the line of questioning of mr. aderholt. and i want to make sure i understand. you asked for $18 million additional, is that just for the joint criminal opioid darknet anti-opioid efforts? i think the, hang on a second. let me check with my c.f.o. here. it is a broad request, not just for the j-code initiative. rep. cartwright: ok, fair enough. he also said, please send whatever resources can be sent our way. i was listening when you said that. what do you need? what do you guys need to do an effective job of addressing, not only the darknet, but this horrible opioid crisis that is killing our young people, people of all ages in this country? well, i think at the end of the day, it comes down to people and technology and tools. our budget request highlights some of the things that we thought were of the highest priority and highlights the nature of the problem. certainly we, like the congress, try to balance the demands of our mission with trying to be good stewar

let the courts do their job. >> if you -- >> at that point congressman cartwright ran out of time. there you saw the attorney general of the united states playing pure politics, talking like kevin mccarthy, talking like a republican in the house of representatives, saying we will magically replace obamacare with legislation that does not exist. the attorney general did not say one legal word in response to that, and congressman cartwright fully exposed the purely trumpian thinking of attorney general barr on the affordable care act. the attorney general couldn't find a single legal principle to cite in his response. he did not mention one point of law. he would have been flunked in any law school with that response. it was a legally empty response from an attorney general in a purely political response that was also completely and utterly word for word false, not true. the attorney general of the united states officially holds to the public position that if the affordable care act is struck down in court that president trump and the republicans will suddenly magically instantly rep

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joining us is that committee member, matt cartwright, a democrat from pennsylvania. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> same here. how are you? >> very well. many of your democratic colleagues addressed the mueller report in their questioning of the attorney general. that makes sense given the moment in time that we're in. you focused on the department of justice's position on the affordable care act which we're fascinated by. why did you choose to go that way? what were you trying to get to? >> i don't know. if you want to take a headcounsel of who all is interested -- head count of who all is interested in which issue, i can think of 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions who are pretty interested and the justice throwing its full weight behind in effort to invalidate the patient protection and affordable care act in the federal courts. that's what i was asking the attorney general about. and in some measures, i was happy with his response. and in another measure, i was not. >> well, he gave the response that, well, the preside

i wanted to follow up on a question that my colleague cartwright asked. i really need to ask this question. i watched with deliberate intent of your answers when who do you report to? the president of the united states or to the people of america. you during your confirmation without duress said you report to the people, but you just said when it came to the aca ruling that you gave, that the president was very clear that he opposed it, and so let it work out in legislation. i want you to -- i want -- let me finish my question because that's what i heard. maybe you need to clarify it. i want you to explain to me, do you understand your role, when you issue a statement abolishing affordable care act, that you as the attorney general of the people of the united states have a responsibility to understand and support that decision, not based on the policy of a president of the united states? it was clearly laid out, the impact it will have. and i want you to respond to that, because that's what i heard, sir. >> well, if you did listen to my confirmation. >> i

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here's matt cartwright, hitting a roadblock. >> your decision does or is breadth, its scope, its recklessness and lack of legal justification to invalidate the patient protection and affordable care act. >> we try to base our answer on the law. >> if you think it's an outrageous position you have nothing to worry about. let the courts do their job. >> i'm dismayed to hear you are willing to drive our healthcare system off the cliff with no plan for remacing it. >> your premise at the justice department makes healthcare policy is wrong. we take legal positions in cases. >> laura: well, mark, you have to admit this is strange. he didn't have alex azar, the hes secretary, not the white house chief of staff, he had the attorney general of the united states. well you're going to push grandma off the cliff? i took a position that the administration agrees on what that they want to pick. >> whether they're going to even force the law. he's the attorney general. >> laura: but it's a position that the administration itself jointly comes to. >> but the supreme court was very clear, you may not like it

there's an exchange between congressman cartwright and william barr about the justice department andt it's pursuing now in court regarding obamacare. watch this and then we'll get your take on it. >> if you prevail, you're devoting scarce resources of your department towards that effort, are you not, attorney general? >> we're in litigation. we have to take a position. >> the answer is question. >> we're in litigation. >> if you succeed, that many people will lose their coverage nationally from medicade and 750,000 from pennsylvania alone. right? >> if you think it's such an outrageous position, you nothing to worry about. let the courts do their job. >> dana: i understand what he meant in terms of the courts doing their job. is that what the administration is hoping for politically? democrats see healthcare as their path back to the white house. >> absolutely. you know they're gonna talk about it in 2020. we've got a plan. republicans have no plan, except to kill the current plan, which is the affordable care act. the fact is the doj has to take a position in litigation, so they've

next, let's bring a democratic congressman matt cartwright. member of the house panel where william barr will be testifying. they give during this period with the question you would ask him first >> nice to be with you. we will need to realize is the house appropriations committee on which i serve funds the entire federal government. we are to listen to testimony from the executive branch officers who come in and present their proposed budgets and tell us what they want to spend money on and why they want to spend it on that, and not other things. as part of funding the justice department, we have the attorney general of the united states ahead of the justice department coming in and talking about the president's budget and why this should be funded, why that should be funded, and other things shouldn't be funded. so it will be a very interesting set of questions and answers. certainly, the mueller report will come up. i must tell you, i may ask about that but probably not. until the actual redacted version of the mueller report comes out, we

we find a congressman matt cartwright. appreciate it. >> thank you, leland.ou're covering pennsylvania. it is important place. >> if kristin fisher had not run out of time with your friend and colleague she would ask about the president's tax returns. i will start with you. elaine's diner i hear is pretty good place in pittstown. when you go down there saturday, sunday are they talking about the president's tax returns. is this something they want democratic congress to focus on or are there other issues on their mind? >> no, they're focused on what the democrats are focused on, improving health care, making it more accessible, making it accessible with pharmaceutical medications, cleaning up our infrastructure, these are the goals of democratic house right now. that is what people are talking about at home. >> if those are the goals and so important, why spend so much time subpoenaing six years of the president's tax returns? you know will fight you on that. if you got other goals, why deal it it? >> sure, mick mulvaney was very clear as acting chief of staf

i want to go now to democratic congressman cartwright of the house appropriations committee that questioned bill barr today. you were in the room. your impression? >> he is in an uncomfortable position, bill barr is. it was his first time testifying on capitol hill since the release of the mueller report and his summary of that. there were a lot of unsatisfied members of congress questioning him. i, myself, was questioning him about their decision to go after the health care law and even in that, i was left unsatisfied because i asked him, you know, did you talk that over with mick mulvaney? did you talk it over with president trump about your own feeling that that was a no go? the position that we should invalidate the patient protection and affordable care act? he didn't want to answer that. and he didn't want to tell me whether he was invoking executive privilege in not telling me. so i demanded that he tell us and that he tell us in writing. >> and so it seems like again and again, he doesn't want to answer those questions. he did say we're going to get the mueller report within a week.

brendon boil, matt cartwright, both from pennsylvania.mocratic establishment applaud biden entering the race. others on the more progressive side of the democratic party not as impressed saying biden has been on the sidelines too long. one big question, if he can get small donation group of money going to senator bernie sanders. tomorrow he is at a large event getting from large donors, home of a comcast executive. comcast is owned by nbc. first public event at the teamsters union in pittsburgh. connell, very busy start to his political campaign. connell: he waited a while. now it is on. thank you, melissa. melissa: here is robin biro former obama campaign field director. ford o'connell, civic forum pac chairman. robin, i want to start with you. this is a money show. i want to talk about money mostly. joe biden is late getting out of the gate here in terms of raising money. he has a big fund-raiser tonight, but it represents the old school way of raising money, going to somebody who is a huge corporate donor. in this case the ceo of comca

and as you heard from congressman cartwright there, about those redactions. a huge fight looming here on capitol hill as democrats demand to redactions from the mueller report. barr is indicating at least four categories of redactions, but still a lot of questions about how much congress will see, how much the public will see, and what democrats do next. >> members of congress, i'm sure, will be asking bill barr, the attorney general, lots of questions tomorrow, precisely on this. we'll cover it, obviously, very closely. manu raju up on capitol hill. thank you. let's bring in our political, legal, and national security experts to talk about all the breaking news. sean, let's get back to the news right at the top of the hour. how serious is this split between the president and some of his senior homeland security officials, including a few apparently who have been fired, who ignored his orders to go ahead and do certain things that they believe would break the law? >> yeah, wolf, i don't think we can underestimate the significance of having the president of th

i wanted to follow up on a question that my colleague cartwright asked. i really need to ask this question. i watched with deliberate intent of your answers when who do you report to. the president of the united states or to the people of america. you, during your confirmation, without duress said you report to the people. you just said when it came to the aca ruling you gave, that the president was very clear that he opposed it and so let it work out in legislation. i want you to -- >> i didn't say that. >> let me finish my question, because that's what i heard. maybe you need to clarify it. i want you to explain to me do you understand your role -- when you issue a statement abolishing affordable care act that you as the attorney general of the people of the united states have a responsibility to understand and support that decision, not based on the policy of a president of the united states. it was clearly laid out the impact it would have -- i want you to respond to that. because that's what i heard, sir. >> well, if you did listen to my confirmation

another testy exchange on another topic between the attorney general and democratic congressman matt cartwrightis was all over obamacare. and barr's boss, you'll remember, the president, has renewed his push recently to strike down the whole law entirely. that is being fought out in federal court right now. so listen to what bill barr had to say about it. >> if you're successful, 12 million people nationally and 750,000 people in my home state of pennsylvania who have coverage under the medicaid expansion would also likely lose that coverage. am i correct in that, sir? >> do you think it's likely we're going to prevail? >> if you prevail -- well, you're devoting scarce resources of your department toward that effort, are you not, attorney general? >> we're in litigation. we have to take a position. >> the answer is yes. >> we take position in litigation. >> if you succeed, that many people will lose their coverage nationally from medicaid, and 750,000 from pennsylvania alone. right? >> i'm saying if you think it's such an outrageous position, you have nothing to worry about. let the courts do t

cartwright. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. attorney general for appearing before us today. i have understood for quite some time now that there are those in this country whose face to face pastime is attacking health care. your decision as our new attorney general to throw the weight of the united states department of justice behind an effort to get the federal courts entirely to invalidate the patient protection and affordable care act as unconstitutional is breathtaking. it's unbelievable. it stands out, your decision does for its breadth, its scope, its recklessness and its lack of legal justification to invalidate the patient protection and affordable care act. if your efforts are successful, millions of americans would lose their health care, tens of millions of americans would see the premiums for their coverage skyrocket. one of our republican colleagues in the senate, senator collins put it best when she wrote to you last week. her letter was dated april 1st. did you get her letter? >> yes. >> okay. then you saw that s

i had a chance to talk to one of the congressman matt cartwright who will be doing the questioning today and he said a big question for him is all about those redactions. >> well, i think what's on everybody's mind right now is how much is he going to redact? i hope that he takes a very sparing approach to his redactions because he knows that everybody is going to want to know what's hand the black ink. >> reporter: so this is just the first of two days of testimony before the house appropriations subcommittee, tomorrow before the senate appropriations subcommittee. we don't expect the full mueller report to be released as he is on capitol hill or even a redacted version of that, but the house judiciary committee still has those subpoenas in its back pocket for jerry nadler, the chairman, to issue to demand the full unredacted mueller report. he told us last night he still has not decided exactly when to deliver those subpoenas, but we will hear how much that barr plans to divulge in just a matter of moments here, guys. >> a big week. got the testimony, you may see the report later this

what cartwright is trying to pull apart is the administration has not mattered the 3459er smoothly, so the white house, the president snapped bunch of heads. even the popular parts like preexisting conditions and no caps. the republicans say we can't run on this, we can't deal with this so them the president says, don't worry about it, we will have a health care plan. >> then the senate says, we will not. plan c is we will deal with this after the election. unfortunately for republicans, you have the lawsuit full sail ahead, that is after the 2020 election that is a difficult spot for the republicans to be. in you have the democrats trying to tease that out with bar. >> you're very good he, my friend. can you remember the last time with carried a sub committee hearing live on tv. all of this goes to the mueller matter. what are you hearing op that. >> i like our system the government, my favorite thing about all of the mueller stuff is how disappointed everybody has gotten to be at different turns ins process. all of the thriller novel, hyped up, both sides have engaged in and the spec

i wanted to follow up on a question that my colleague, cartwright asked, because i need to ask this question. i watched with -- in deliberate intent of your answers when who do you report to? the president of the united states or to the people of america? you, during your confirmation, without duress, said you report to the people, but you just said when it came to the a.c.a. ruling that you gave, that the president was very clear that he opposed it and so let it work out in legislation. i want you to be very -- let me finish my question because that's what i heard. maybe you need to clarify it. i want you to explain to me, do you understand your role when you issue a statement abolishing affordable care act that you as the attorney general of the people of the united states have a responsibility to understand and support that decision not based on the policy of a president of the united states? it was clearly laid out the impact it would have, and i want you to respond to that because that's what i heard, sir. attorney general barr: well, if you did listen to my confirmation. mrs. lawrence:

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