the picture there of david purdue, the senator from georgia, what is his role in this discussion and negotiation and what is left to be done on this senate side before the deal is sealed? >> he has been talking to the president, really frequently for the last several months on this. the president has dug in on his opposition to expert, that was what the senate was before. we had boats on this early this year end neither one was successful. the democratic and provoking plan failed. leader mcconnell said we will pull these from four into it behind closed door. the only got more heated in the debate over puerto rico aid, the president tweeted last month against recent puerto rican republicans, they took from the u.s. to democrats who said they are not going to pass the racist bill. in the meantime, those senate votes failed, they only got messier. one of the most politically charged legislative fights of president trump's presidency so far. the congressional fights probably in the shutdown. so right now, behind closed doors, the final text is basically what both chambers will hopefully

i'm with senator david purdue. i was wondering when you change the poverty threshold i'm assuming that originally used cpi w and you change it to cpi-u. cpi-u, that ot use is my question. >> there are several good reasons for that. one is of course what's called cpi w doesn't technically exist before, it depends on how you define it. technically cpi-w goes all the way back to 1918. en cpi-u was introduced in 1960, something, i forget the exact number but about that time, late '60s. that was, we now have to make indexes that were weighted slightly differently. the cpi-u was in selected to be from that split, was selected by omb so that's just what omb uses i'm repeating the omb process. and the reason for not using the change index because it all goes back to the 1980's, 1988 or something like that. it doesn't affect any further than that. what was used as the ideal index is we use -- personal expenditure index and then subtract further from that because it also suffers from about half a percent per year in the stat

stacey abrams, widely viewed as the best challenge to take on georgia incumbent david purdue but said recently she's not going to run for the senate. so the democrats have a enormous presidential field and a very real and pressing issue in the u.s. senate. here with me now to talk about the u.s. senate, barbara boxer, herself a former member of the senate and co-host -- author of "one nation after trump." senator boxer, what do you think is going on here. >> well, i think it's really a non-issue that some of the more famous people have decided they don't want to be part of a you why. i think there are three factors that will weigh into whether we take back the senate, and, boy, i hope we do. one is recruitment. >> yep. >> but sometimes you get some fresh face -- >> mmm-hmm. >> and that person is going to win. in my race, i ran against an establishment lieutenant governor. i won. i got there. now, secondly, the top of the ticket. remember, this is a presidential year, so if there is a huge amount of enthusiasm, our candidate can get in. and lastly, unique to this, the senate has turned

/china trade talk, let's bring in our guest, david purdue, republican of georgia.ou this morning. welcome. >> good morning, guys. >> so many things swirling around, specially in what's happened in the last week or so. what are your overall thoughts of where we are and what's going to transpire over the next 24 hours? >> joe, i used to live over there. i traveled over there recently negotiations with china are not linnier, so this was not really expected it's disappointing that last week we did hear that the chinese were backing up from some of the things that we thought we had earlier agreements on. but the fact that the vice premier is coming today and we are entering into the negotiations again today, i think are encouraging. so i'm very hopeful that mnuchin and bob lighthizer will be able to get us back on track where we were last week, joe. >> and do you think where we were last week is more than just half measures for what china is willing to take? because that's the one thing that keeps coming back with people that i guess are somewhat cynical about any advan

they agreed to contribute $75 million toward that $270 million settlement in oklahoma that purdue settled david family members who served on the board, is listing his apartment on new york's upper east side, so this will be a test of their name in the market for $6.5 million, the sacklers saying in a statement that while the allegations against our family are false and unfair, we understand that accepting gifts at this time would put certain organizations in a difficult position purdue, the company, which is separate, saying it has multiple banking relationships and that its banking and financial service needs will not be affected guys, back to you. >> there is different branches of the sackler family, aren't there? some more connected with purdue than others, i guess. >> that's right. there are two basic branches, what is known as the a and b side, depending who they're descended from there is an emerging split eight members on the board, they all said for years they were passive investors, passive board members. of course, these cases in massachusetts and new york seeking evidence that they w

$13 billion, but they agreed to contribute $75 million toward a $270 million purdue settlement in oklahoma recently. and davidmembers who served on the purdue board, is listing his apartment on new york's upper east side for $6.5 million the sacklers saying in a statement, "the allegations against our family are false and unfair, but we understand that accepting gifts at this time would put certain organizations in a difficult position. purdue, the company, saying in a separate statement, it has multiple banking relationships and its banking and financial service needs will not be affected >> robert, thank you >> thank you. >> for more, let's bring in our guest this morning, ronnie gal, senior research analyst at bernstein. he put out a note on johnson & johnson and teva ahead of the opioid case. he has a market perform rating on j&j also former attorney general of maryland, douglas gantsler is joining us douglas, let's start with you, because looking the at the cases that are lining up, oklahoma certainly leading the way, but there are lots of states attorneys generals looking at this, but also local municip

the picture of david purdue, senator from georgia, what has been his role in this discussion and negotiation and what is left to be done on the senate side before the deal is sealed? >> senator purdue has been talking to the president frequently for the last several months on this as the president has dug in on his opposition to x-ray for prayer we go and that is what some senate effort before so we've had several test votes on this earlier this year and neither one was successful. democratic plan failed and republican plan failed leader mcconnell said we will pull these from the floor and the people take it out behind closed doors but in the meantime, things got more heated in the debate over particle aid. the president tweeted as recently as last month, insults against prairie reagan officials saying they were incompetent and that they just take from the united states to the chagrin of democrats who said they are not going to pass a quote, racist bill. in the meantime, the senate votes failed and things have only gotten messier but this is one of the most politically charged legislative fi