cassidy has grown.r farther away. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> it's been 15 years of frustration, of tears, and fighting for what we wanted. how long can you keep reliving your sister's murder? >> reporter: it all began when this bestselling author married this elegant executive. >> they brought us together. they made us a family. >> but in the we hours of a winter night -- >> i found her at the base of the stairs. >> reporter: kathleen peterson, dead. >> was this a fall, or was this murder?

we put together a group of four or five, and bill cassidy is a terrific health care person. they are going to work together, come up with something that's really spectacular. maybe we'll even get support in the house from democrats. but it's going to be far better than obamacare. if we win on obamacare, it will be terminated in the court. and we'll see what happens. [ inaudible question ] >> we're working on a plan now. there's no great rush from the standpoint we're waiting for decisions from the court but we've already won the case for the determination of obamacare, against obamacare. now we'll go to the appellate division. we'll see what happens there. i think we'll win. it's in texas. wait, wait. then it goes to the supreme court of the united states. if the decisions are held up, if we win on determination of obamacare, we will have a plan very better than obamacare including pre-existing conditions, which i've always been in favor of. >> what is the fbi going to do about jussie smollett? >> i think the case in chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country. i hav

senator bill cassidy, thank you. the great state of louisiana, great to see. >> thank you. >> harris: fox news alert now, new york senator and 2020 democratic senator don my candidate cares to brand is responding to newport detailing a former staffer's allegations that the senator 's office mishandled her sexual harassment claims. she has been a prominent supporter of the #mealsalso movement and she responded today. he is part of that. " when allegations are made in the workforce, workplace, we must believe women some serious investigations can actually take place. we can learn the facts. and there can be appropriate accountability." that's exactly what happened every step of the way in this case last year. i told told her we looked at the time on the same is true today." to congressional correspondent mike emanuel's level now. i don't think love is the point. that's not really what's being argued here. mike? >> harris, good afternoon tea. the #metoo movement has graded an awkward moment for the female senator and pr

>> graham-cassidy was great, white house supported, one vote shy.to white house. kennedy: what is next thing, graham-cassidy version 2.0. >> that is a decision for the white house. i tell you, key elements of any white house man are accessibility, affordability, flexibility. we've seen hints here and there. opening up access to short-term plans, associate plans, more affordable, short-term plans. >> but, the obamacare replacement failed when you had both chambers, you don't have both now, with more comfortable majority in the senate how on earth would you get same thing passed through the house? >> right, we were one vote shy. kennedy: i know that. let's talk about today. how would you get that same thing passed in a democratic like controlled house. >> you have to ask nancy pelosi and her ca caucus that' to eliminate private insurance. the problem is nancy pelosi and -- >> democrats are in charge of house of representatives because of healthcare. even if you have greatest plan in the world, we both agree has a massive free market component. how do

. >> reporter: jim cassidy trains 40 horses here on this track.ppens right there. >> then, she hits a spot. i have to blame the racetrack for that. >> reporter: he also blames the track for the death of one of his own horses weeks ago. in just over two months, 21 race horses have been euthanized after sustaining serious injuries at santa anita. that's more than double the number of horses that died here last season, and significantly more than prior years. this is one of the wettest winters in nearly a decade for california, and track experts have been testing the surface to determine the impact of all the rain. has it shown anything? >> the testing that was done last week suggested that it was uniform all the way around the one-mile racetrack. >> reporter: santa anita is closed indefinitely until they figure it out-- the right move, according to jim cassidy, who doesn't want to see any more healthy horses injured and put down. >> if you took all of these horses and put them on a different racetrack, the ones that died on us, put them on a differe

cassidy: this is all a bit different, though. what we have been describing on value-based contracting is is the cancer cured or not, or is a hepatitis see cured or not? but my gosh, you are charging 10 terms of what the drug would cost over-the-counter. >> i agree, that example doesn't make sense. so is itidy: reasonable to ask that medicare have some ability to make a judgment based on the value of the therapy? >> as you have talked about, if the pbm's -- they are very effective in negotiating, we don't know that the government would be as effective in negotiating as a professional negotiator. sen. cassidy: we don't know, i agree with that, but on the other hand, i have limited time, i don't need to be rude, but this is a shining example of where the pbm is not an effective negotiator. yes, sir, mr. frazier. >> i think this is our chairman statements about transparency come in. one of the keys of transparency is empower patients and to other payers to make informed choices about which of those two medicines make sense. sen. cass

: i was told this morning they are still backing graham-cassidy. repeal and replace through the house when they controlled about kevin mccarthy according to axios told trump over the phone that the decision made no sense, especially after democrats killed republicans and the midterms in part over the issue of pre-existing conditions. why is this another good dog to put back in the fight? >> it isn't. the president feel strongly obviously. his ongoing feud with the deceased john mccain, a rather one-sided affair, is connected strongly to john mccain's thumbs down moment. trump mentions it all the time, when he turned thumbs down on that and killed it, that was the moment, it was a bad moment for republicans. this is a very good week for republicans. this is the best week of donald trump's presidency. he has gotten the biopsy back and the answer is no collusion. this is a great opportunity for them to dive into this in this way is not politically savvy for one simple reason. obamacare is popular. it's about 50%. people are generally satisfied. quinni

green hat gin, did you talk about george cassidy?the fellow in the upper left was the bootlegger to congress. the hat there sitting in the back was a light green. that was his commercial trademark. his green hat. he was known as the man in the green hat. after 10 years of serving congress illegal booze through the 1920's, the core of prohibition, he ended up after a short jail term going to the washington post and in 1930 coming out with a series of six days in a row for page articles bylined the man in the green hat and his real name, george cassidy, pointing out all the hypocrisy on capitol hill. how prohibition clearly was not working. his articles came out the week before the 1930 midterm elections. those were the elections that after 16 years perhaps threw the drys out of control in the house and senate read there were other things going on so it is hard to know how much influence his articles had but they were picked up by newspapers around the country. when fdr came in two years later, he had a wet house, wet senate, and was a

they take their name from george cassidy, a world war i veteran. he became congress's main bootlegger. he became known as the man in the green hat. famously, he wrote six front-page articles, spilling the beans on congress. four out of five congressman in his estimation drank alcohol during prohibition. a gin named after that. what we would like to do is q and eight. we have a little time. we have microphones that are going to come around from c-span. i am going to repeat the question. the microphone is for the television. right over here. >> my question, you are talking about the red scare. if any u.s.scuss forces actually went to russia during the 1920s. was the redion scare ended american soldiers go to russia during this upheaval revolution could be the answer is yes. we sent soldiers to vladivostok to keep the japanese from making a land grab on the trans-siberian railroad and we also sent them to murmansk and archangel. they did not know what their mission was. it is one of these mission creep things. you start off doing one thing and the nex

. >> reporter: jim cassidy trains 40 horses here on this track. >> then h. i have to blame the for that. >> reporter: he also blames the track for the death of one of his own horses weeks ago. in just over two months, 21 race horses have been euthanized after sustaining serious injuries at santa anita. that's more than double the number of horses that died here last season, and significantly more than prior years. this is the wettest winter in nearly a decade for california, and track experts have been testing the surface to determine the impact of all the rain. has it shown anything? >> the testing that was done last week suggested that it was uniform all the way around the one-mile racetrack. >> reporter: santa anita is closed indefinitely until they figure it out. the right move, according to jim cassidy, who doesn't want to see any more healthy horses injured and put down. >> if you took all these horses and put them on a different racetrack, the ones that died on us, put them on a different racetrack, probably wouldn't have happened. >> reporter: anothe

senator cassidy and i will keep pounding them.going to chase the bank like a hound from hell until we get the $210 million. they need to pay it. david: in a legislation that could help this? pulpit?is more a senator kennedy: we can try legislation. you run into the problem of you are directing a foreign corporation to pay money, even though there is a final judgment. the lawyers think that the shorter way home is the just pounding on the bank, until they do it, but i will talk further with the lawyers in louisiana. i want to help my people. this is the 10th anniversary. it was $7 billion. yes, the receivers recovered $600 million, but half of it went to the lawyers in fees. and i just -- this is unconscionable. david: let me ask a couple more questions. tomorrow, the debt ceiling kicks back in and i spoke with chuck grassley of iowa earlier this week and he said, we never do anything until we have to, but we always come through in the end. why the we raise the debt ceiling, we are going to do it eventually, why not get it done wit

cassidy and senator graham's plan would be one of them.ce westerman introduced a wonderful piece of legislation as well in the past couple of months. the republican study committee is working on legislation. they had legislation from two years ago. we have been working hard with the president and his staff to improve it. absolutely, but if i can say one thing, you say some democrats don't want medicare for all. this election in 2020 is going to be all about just that. president trump will be re-elected because he wants to give patients and families choices but every major candidate on the democrat side wants medicare for all. the american people have a binary choice on this issue. >> the republicans tried when you controlled both houses of congress and it didn't work. now you don't control the house. it doesn't sound like democrats will sign on to not guarantee it with pre-existing conditions. >> i think that's the beauty of president trump's plan. as we go forward he's basically putting a gun at our head saying, look, you have to fix this

you look, i mean we put together a group of four or five and, bill cassidy health care person.going to work together, come up with something that's really spectacular. maybe we'll even get support in the house from democrats but it will be far better than obamacare. if we win on obamacare, it will be terminated in the court and we'll see what happens. reporter: [inaudible] >> we're working on a plan now. there is no very great rush from the standpoint. we're waiting for decisions in the court. but we've already won the case against the, determination of obamacare, against obamacare. now we'll go to the appellate division. we'll see what happens there. i think we'll win. it is in texas. wait, wait. it goes to the supreme court of the united states. if the decisions are held up, if we win on the termination of obamacare, we will have a plan that is far better than obamacare including very importantly preexisting conditions, which i have always been in favor of. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: [inaudible] >> well i think the, i think the smollett, i think the case in chic

i have asked john barrasso senator, bill cassidy a terrific healthcare person rick scott and others took, form a really great plan. we're winning the lawsuit to terminate obamacare in texas. we are winning the texas lawsuit and right now we are on the winning side. hopefully we will win at the appellate division and go to the supreme court to terminate obamacare. the cost of obamacare to people is far too much the deductibility is ridiculous. it averages more than $7,000. meaning it's unusable. so obamacare has been a disaster. we will take care of pre-existing conditions better than they are taken care of now. and i have already gotten rid of the individual mandates, which was the worst part of obamacare where you had to pay for the privilege of not getting bad insurance. so, wait a minute. so, we are working very hard on that. john barrasso, rick scott, we have some great people. you look, i mean, we have put together a group of four or five and bill cassidy is a terrific healthcare person. and they are going to work together, come up with something that's really spectacular maybe we

jim cassidy trains 40 horses and blames the track for the death of one of his own weeks ago. >> if you took all of these horses and put them on a different racetrack, the ones that died, it never would of happened. >> in just over two months, get this, 21 racehorses have been euthanized after sustaining serious injuries at that track. this is the wettest winter in near he a decade and track experts have been testing the surface to determine the impact of all of that rain. >> the testing done last week suggested it was uniform all of the way around the one mile racetrack. >> santa anita has been closed until they can figure out what is going on there. >>> continuing our storm watch coverage. our roads have taken a beating. those are potholes everywhere. >> kpix5 reports, they are so bad in san francisco, one bus line had to be rerouted. >> they were 5 san francisco public works crews out today trying to fill potholes and failing to keep up with the number that keep popping up after storm after storm after storm. >> it is like trying to play a live action version of "frogger" this pothol

jim cassidy trained 40 horses and blames the track for the death of one of his own weeks ago. >> if you put them on a different racetrack they would not die. put them in a different race and probably will not happen at all. >>> just over two months 21 resources have been euthanized after sustaining serious injuries. this is the wettest winter in nearly a decade. traps experts have been trying to determine the impact of the rain. >> the testing done last week suggested it was uniform around the one mile long racetrack. >> it is closed indefinitely until this figured out. >>> in the wake of powerful flooding, beaches are trashed was storm debris. skies on five is giving us a closer look with the downed trees mixed in with muddy debris have floated downstream all the way to the pacific ocean. and a river runs through the county this morning. downtown sonora is flooded after torrential rain and all of that muddy brown water is going from may road closed this morning. >> the video is amazing. >> it is. i'm glad that the rain is starting to let appear. >>> it is. little by little for sure. we

there is an effort led by senator bill cassidy along with look atic lawmakers to out-of-pocket medical bills and say how will we go about doing this. are we going to require more transparency were for states to have an intermediary who will work these debates out for patients so that patients do not have to do it themselves? it is a huge frustration and something that a lot of people can relate to. host: if i am a patient, i would like to know a procedure -- how much a procedure will cost. is there a website that will list it out? guest: under trump administration rules, hospitals have to post different procedures on their website. they do not have a penalty not to do it, but that is on the table. it is something that the trump administration is looking at to be able to say what would be the next step. you have to put these online, so now you have to post a certain format. it might encourage consumer shopping, although it is going to be hard. it is not like shopping for other items. you cannot compare and see ratings. i think the idea for conservatives, and also for liberals, is that p

just so we're clear on this point, if i can see you, graham cassi cassidy, which you touted, tanked in the senate finance committee because republicans saw that it hurt so many vulnerable people, they couldn't even bring it up. so you are recycling a proposal that was already exposed as a mess for the vulnerable as evidenced by the fact that republicans in the senate finance committee, we all served, republicans couldn't bring it up. here is my question. one of your particularly ill-advised ideas as it affects my part of the world is to once gentry to sell off the bonneville power administration. this is a plan that basically steals from oregonians, from our businesses, from our families. it was unacceptable when george bush tried to do it. it has been unacceptable year after year after year. and yet, you still seem to be hunting and pecking for a way to advance this idea that would be so harmful to the american people. the people it's going to hurt are the folks who are on an economic tightrope. they balance fuel against food and fuel against medical care. could you just explain to me

not in a position to to give away additional details on the on the citizenship at this stage barrie cassidy. well it would have. to invest. you know as this point i think it's an opportunity to really acknowledge the work that the police are doing you know the apprehend. of a suspect and extremely volatile situation really putting themselves at risk on our behalf and i want to acknowledge that particularly also disarming. the explosives that would as i understand a ten. to the suspects cause there were two of them and they have being disarmed to now but obviously that was a high risk situation gives us an indication that there was a degree of planning around what has happened today in the personal side so i can i cannot speak you later on what the intention was but again it was attached to the suspects suspects vehicles. not at this stage it was the same message for. me or rather here they are a lot of that was my message would be you know. we should not be picture waiting sharing giving any oxygen to this act of violence and the message that sit behind it we should all be condemning obviou

we then provide money in the form of state health block grants consistent with the graham cassidy approach to repealing medicare. only 271 savings in medicaid and the state health care block grant. those line items will continue to increase each and every year. as a result, we don't -- we're not cutting medicaid or those programs. we think that we're reforming it to be able to address the populations that medicaid was founded on. sen. stabenow: you are putting block grants in place that are not even required to be used on -- so we have a bigger debate. sen. enzi: senator perdue. sen. perdue: you know, i find this really interesting. in 2000 -- let's talk about the realities here instead of the emotion. in 2000, this government had $6 trillion of debt. at the end of president bush's eight years, we had $10 trillion in debt. at the end of 2016, we knows what -- we know what doesn't work. we had eight years of the lowest economic output in u.s. history. we added more debt as a government than all prior presidents before. we doubled the debt in eight years. now we want to hide behind that the

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bill cassidy of louisiana. thank you very much for being on this morning.they're losing it because they can't afford the premiums or access to drugs because they can't afford the drugs. if i go to a town hall meeting that, is the principle complaint as regards to health care. we need to make health insurance more affordable and accessible. that's what i hear. >> so, senator, the question is what happens next if donald trump gets what he wants? and the affordable care act, obama care is done away with? what does the republican health care bill look like and what would it mean for americans? >> well, it would look like is giving power to the patients. i think what president donal by empowering the patient, that's when you lower health care costs. this should be bipartisan. it would make it bipartisan it is more likely to stick. for example, price transparency. wouldn't it be great if you knew the price of something before you go in as opposed to getting the medical bill six weeks later? that's power to the patient. drug costs. wouldn't it be great to have the

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i believe idea of turfing obamacare, i think this is great, i don't mind block grants from graham-cassidyth plans and savings accounts, yoke thatt think that anyone has nards to put it together on republican side. >> he one has, there is no up -- you know you can bring your car in after an accident, and then get car insurance and fix this, there is no cap, and you can't raise a rate, that is what obamacare is, i subside by highr taxes and insurance for life. if everyone has insurance it will work, 1 you take away that thing that you don't have to have insurance, but you can have preexisting conditions this impossible. >> it is so expensive, should every insurance company be forced to offer healthcare coverage for people with preexists conditioning. >> this is not a private marking concept, it is like forcing general motors to give you cars for a hundred dollars. kennedy: that would be great. >> this is why i guess they are trying to do before elect, it will spiral out of control. people drop off, not paying 20,000. then remaining poll 30,000 a year. then before you know it a handful of ve

jared cassidy of rbc capital markets covers both banks. on wells fargo it does not -- is this a complete surprise? --s not a complete surprise jared: it is not a complete surprise following tim sloan's testimony in front of the finance house committee although that was political theater in most investors took it for what it was i think the bigger question was when the comptroller of the currency came out and did a size wells fargo's effort in trying to resolve these problems and chairman powell last week with the federal reserve also came out and criticize their efforts. when your main regulators come out publicly not supporting the effort you are doing to correct theproblems it seems to us change at the top was going to happen. unfortunately terms loan is a wonderful guy, wonderful man but i think he saw the handwriting on the wall and decided to do what was best for the company. romaine: another resignation came out of the blue for us with colm kelleher. i'm wondering if you can give insight into why he is moving on and what -- how the v

coverage and it's why we are supportive of the -- of many of the reforms that were in the graham-cassidy legislation. it's why we moved forward with state health care block grants. because we're trying to do it better. we're trying to make sure that the populations that medicaid was designed to cover get the care -- shaquille o'neal it's interesting that there's -- ms. schakowsky: it's interesting that there's not anyone involved in the medicaid program, who is involved in delivering care that really believes that this is a reform. and the good news is, this budget will never become law. and i yield back. >> thank you. the chair now recognizes mr. horsford from new york for five minutes. mr. horsford: from nevada. >> from nevada. my apologies. mr. horsford: i appreciate this hearing very much. thank you for being here, acing director. vice president -- acting director. vice president biden used to say, quote, show me your budget and i'll tell you what you value. well, based on this budget, trump values corporate profits over medicare. he plans to cut medicare by anywhere from half a tril

joining me now is somebody who has not declared, louisiana senator bill cassidy. the first question is you're going to have to kast the vote within the hour. what say you? >> i'm going to vote to secure the southern border and vote in a way that's compatible with the constitution. i think the way you set up the story is for or against the president. i think you're arguing that it's for the president. i would argue it's for the southern border, current with the constitution and the legal statute. >> so are you going to vote for this resolution. >> no. i shallow pose the resolution, and, again, as i just described for those reasons. >> i'll just give you one example of what your republican colleagues who are voting for this resolution which essentially means against what the president did with his executive power. mitt romney, for example. here's what he said. for the executive brap. to override a law passed by congress would make it the ultimate power rather than a balancing power. he went on to say i'm seriously kved overreach by the executive branch is an inhave

they proposed replacing it with a proposal that lindsey graham and bill cassidy offered during the original debate in 2017. they also proposed in the budget to convert the underlying medicaid budget by $757 billion over the next decade which would lead to loss of coverage for millions, perhaps tens of millions of people who have coverage currently as well as ending the provisions for pre-existing conditions. he's looking for them to come up with something from scratch. this underscores one point. i believe whatever democrats come up with on their own health care proposal and there is a lot of debate on the democratic side. the president's desire to repeal the aca is going to be the health care proposal with the most impact on the 2020 election. it certainly was the key issue from a policy point of view for democrats in 2018. >> it is a funny path to take. >> yeah. >> let's speak about the mueller report and where it stands. you saw this at the rally. he's been exonerated. the mueller report is more than 300 pages. we know in that report will be evidence of obstruction both tice. sides and b

i want to speak to jeff cassidy. his son survived the parkland shooting.is now the president of families versus assault rifles. we appreciate you coming on today. >> thanks for having me. >> let me begin because this is such a polarizing issue. just note for our viewers' sake, you in addition to being the father of two survivors, parkland and you are also a plaufr, a gun owner and supporter of the second amendment. >> i am also no party affiliation. they try to paint the folks who are on the gun safety side of the argument as liberal, democrat, hippy, whatever you want to call it. that's not the case. gun safety shouldn't be a political issue. gun safety is for the whole country. it's for all of us. bullets are not red or blue. it's enough already with the e lies by the nra and other enthusiasts who want people to buy more and more guns. >> let's talk about pending action. we have the supreme court, chief justice roberts denying a request to put a hold on a trump administration rule that bans bump stocks which was used in the las vegas shooting. your react

. >>> we put together a group of four or five, and bill cassidy is a terrific health care person, they'remething really spectacular, and maybe we'll even get support from democrats, we're working on a plan now, there is no great rush -- >> welcome back that was president trump just moments ago saying he is not in a hurry to replace the affordable care act despite ed administration strikg down a law. he may need a replacement plan and in an selectielection year. with me now, mark lawder, director of strategic communications for the trump 2020 campaign. >> is this the issue you want to be running on in 2020? >> it is something the president has talked about since 2016 campaign. we need to eliminate obama care, rising premiums and deductibles, and doing about something about the cost of prescription drugs. a lot of the action they have taken so far has been on the regulatory side. if we can get the courts to continue through propercess and elimina eliminate obama care. >> you're right, donald trump did run on it in 2015 and 2016, democrats ha republicans have tried about 70 times to repeal i

what they said was those senators, bill cassidy, rick scott, for example, john veraso, they are indeed continuing to have conversations about health care with the president and with their colleagues. one republican senator told me specifically that it appears that the president was simply talking about individuals he has talked to about health care. but as far as the existence of an actual working group to come up with a replacement, it doesn't appear that that is the case. and that is where we find this administration, pushing this position to fully invalidate obamacare through the courts without actually having any kind of a replacement ready to go. brianna? >> jeremy diamond, thank you for that fact check there. >>> president trump is now taking credit for saving the special olympics from a crisis that was created by his own administration. education secretary betsy devos has been squaring offe ining of congress on her budget which calls for limiting funds for special olympics. here are people questioning the decision? >> are you questioning the decision of the education secretary t

bill cassidy, r-la:>"if youre such a believer in liberty that you do not wish to be vaccinated then thereld be a consequence and that is that you cannot infect other people." while that debate continues vaccine advocates are calling for a nationwide marketing campaign on vaccine safety and effectiveness to counter misinformation parents receive online. in washington, im drew petrimoulx (grant) coming up... a manufacturing business closes its doors in berkeley. how you could help decide what the city does with the space... as crime reduction is a top priority.. (pam) plus... with so much rainfall, lake oroville is filling fast ... and that means the oroville dam spillway may be back in action for the first time in a couple of years. (lawrence)ten at ten even if no one in your home smokes, secondhand smoke can be closer than you think. secondhand smoke from a neighbor's apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures and even through cracks in the walls and the floors. secondhand smoke is toxic. especially to children. protect your family. visit tobaccofreeca.com. (g

reporter cassidy williams showshow her caring spirit .. is lifting others.lease,"allison krueger and her mom tina are signing cards of encouragement. allison:"you're awesome, rawr" but to understand why you have to step into allison's bedroom. which shows off her two favorite things.tina krueger: "yeah that's her room. pink and police."allison:"from police officers all over the world almost."she's been collecting police badges for almost half her life..because she knows exactly what she wants to be.allison:"a k-9 officer"so when she heard another milwaukee police officer had died in the line of duty... she had a question. tina:"she was sad about it, and she was like what can i do to make them feel better?" that's how the card making began.they made cards and passed them out that day.but allison hasn't wanted to stop. allison:"there are more police officers that probably feel bad."with the help of some friend's they estimate they've passed out almost 200 cards. she even wanted to keep going today... despite the subzero temperatures.allison:"we can put on jack

my name is leo cassidy. we have a project at 680 illinois street, which is a restaurant, and we got it approved by the city and county of san francisco in 2016. and we were looking for an encroachment permit. we have a 15-foot sidewalk that we submitted to the port numerous times, to no avail. we're looking for your help today to give us some direction. the sidewalk is 15 feet wide. we're looking for 6 feet, and we want to have seating for the restaurant on the outside. so that's the purpose for the meeting today. i'm one of the owners of the property, and james and joe are, as well. thank you so much. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jonathan. also working with the group here. as leo mentioned, we've been working on this restaurant. we're quite excited it's at the final stage of completion. we're petitioning the city of san francisco of 5 feet of sidewalk for sidewalk dining in reference of the following points. the property manager who we've been in contact with has brought up construction as a

recently, casey and cassidy sullivan, a brother and sister team took over jackson fillmore and its dining traditions. staff is recommending approval of the -- i forgot to note one item. the department identified this property as a contributor to an upper fillmore cluster of historic place significant storefronts. staff is recommending approval of the application with the following features to are safeguarded -- to be safeguarded. their antipasti bar, their knee an trottoria neon sign, their brick surrounding entry, and the terazzo floor. the staff is also noting they note the location at the corner of jackson and fillmore which resulted in the restaurant's name, and that concludes my presentation. i believe some of the business owners are here. >> excellent. great. open up with the public comment. please step forward. welcome. congratulations. i apologize for the long delay. >> we'll be less controversial. i'm dave, and i'm the director of curry senior center. i've been the director for 12 years and i've actually worked in the neighborhood, tenderloin neighborhood since 1989. i just want

. >> we do have senators cassidy, scott and others who are going to be working on this.cal professionals. >> that is part of the working group the president talked about yesterday. let's figure out how to lower premiums. we have shown we can do it with prescription drugs. last year the price of prescription drugs fell for the first time in 46 years. we can do more if we can get both sides together and if they face a deadline things typically get down econgress. >> i love deadlines. the president made promise. one is he will protect patients with preexisting conditions. the laws the administration are supporting would not do that. here is what i really want to know. he promised the crowd in michigan that he will fully fund an initiative to protect the great lakes. >> and i am going to get in honor of my friends, full funding of $300 million for the great lakes restoration initiative which you have been trying to get for over 30 years. >> here is the thing, the president's budget this year and in previous years does the exact opposite, not even close to fully funding it. w

david: that was louisiana senator and medical doctor bill cassidy on our show yesterday criticizing for new push by more than 100 democrats for medicare for all. government-run health care. a bill that would transition the u.s. healthcare system into a single payer program. we're joined now by another doctor with a very different perspective, adam gaffney, president of physicians for a nation health program. doctor, you have been quoted as saying accept no substitutes only single payer medicare for all can fix the grave dysfunctions and in justices of the american healthcare system, but the cost would be extraordinary would it not? >> well i would argue that the cost is already much too much. i mean, we spend twice as much as other countries with other high income nations. we're spending well more than we need to, and reality is that single payer systems are in fact less costly, more efficient so we can actually save money by moving to a universal healthcare system. >> we talked on the show there's a lot of pieces why we spend a lot here drug companies advertising that are different tha

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. >> the plan many point to is grant cassidy which is something that came up in the fall of 2017. it didn't have votes to pass. while it says in its language it would protect the right for people to have coverage with pre-existing knch there's not a guarantee that rates wouldn't change. people with pre-existing conditions under the plan the president supported in the past their rates could being prohibitively expensive. >> they have not come up with a plan. if you were to come up with a plan thated a here's to republican principles it would look a lot like obamacare. seriously, obamacare is a market based plan. largely relies on existing private insurance. it is modeled after a plan that have implemented by a republican governor who went on to become the 2012 presidential nominee. >> his name rhymes with? >> omni. so it kind of resembles everything that republicans love except for the obama part. and contrary to the characterization that this was some sort of socialist take over of health care, it's a hagerstownly market based plan. of course they can't admit to that. >> of course

. >> we put together a group of four or five and bill cassidy is a terrific health care person and they come up with something that is really spectacular and maybe we will even get support in the house from democrats. it is going to be far better than obamacare. if we win, it will be terminated. we'll see what happens. >> bret: what are your thoughts? >> i can tell you what is going to happen. millions of people will be without health care and many off those millions voted for the president and support the president, but they also support and like their obamacare. in addition republicans have felt on the past on more than two occasions, i guess i would say to republicans and to the president, thank you for the extra vote, 2020. many republicans are pushing back on this. >> bret: it is daunting, they've been around this track before on health care. mother to replace it is there that is the question. he says he has these lawmakers ready to go. it is not there yet. >> i don't think he has the lawmakers ready to go and i don't think the replacement is there in my view or my world. the state