dr. collins: i was. david: you were homeschooled. dr. ins: homeschooled, not because my parents were really is in their persuasion at all, but because they thought the county schools where i grew up in the shenandoah valley of virginia were not up to my parents' standards. my mother was incredibly gifted as a teacher, and she figured out early on how to get the process of learning to be something wonderfully exciting, and that is the gift she gave me and my brothers, this excitement about learning new things, which i carry with me to this day. david: you did this until the sixth grade? dr. collins: yeah. david: and then you went to school? dr. collins: i think my mom was a little tired of teaching these four boys and figured, ok, public schools in the city of stanton are maybe up to a better standard, so i started going to public school. david: you were a musician as well. you had a band. how did you come to that? dr. collins: my dad was trained as a classical violinist. he and my mom met at yale, they went and worked for eleanor roosevel

dr. collins. good to have another opportunity this week to talk with you again about the work being done at nih. dr. gottlieb, welcome to you, as well. i'm looking forward to your updates from fda. next week marks the one year since the signing of the bipartisan 21st century cures act. as i said at the time of the passage, and i'll repeat it now, as much as this law helped to build on america's tradition of leadership in life-saving public health initiatives and medical innovation, cures was really first and foremost about providing hope. hope to the millions of people and families who are impacted by illness and disease, hope for our communities suffering at the hands of the opioid epidemic, for example, and like all of my colleagues, including our guests today, this crisis is something i hear about every day. and i have visited with countless communities back home in my home state of washington that have been devastated by addiction. so while we know we can and must do more, i'm glad that cures t

dr. collins: both of those had certain challenges. longer do you think people can keep increasing their longevity? dr. collins: we might figure out how to achieve that by tinkering with the biology. david: what is the single greatest health challenge the united states faces today? dr. collins: more people died of opioid overdoses than car wrecks last year. it is just unbelievable. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪

dr. collins: both of those had certain challenges.: how much longer do think people can keep increasing their longevity? dr. collins: we might figure out how to achieve that by tinkering a bit with the biology. david: what is the single greatest health challenge the united states faces today? dr. collins: more people died of opioid overdoses than car wrecks last year. it is just unbelievable. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a

dr. collins: both of those had certain challenges.r do you think people can keep increasing their longevity? dr. collins: we might figure out how to achieve that by tinkering with the biology. david: what is the single greatest health challenge the united states faces today? dr. collins: more people died of opioid overdoses than car wrecks last year. it is just unbelievable. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪

dr. collins: both of those had certain challenges. think people can keep increasing their longevity? dr. collins: we might figure out how to achieve that by tinkering with the biology. david: what is the single greatest health challenge the united states faces today? dr. collins: more people died of opioid overdoses than car wrecks last year. it is just unbelievable. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪

dr. collins, and you for taking time with us today. nih and16th director of were appointed by two different presidents. by presidentd obama and subsequently by president trump, as a person who co-discovered the human genome, wasn't harder to discover the human genome or be appointed by two different presidents? >> i guess both of those had two different challenges associated area i do not expect to be this ofthis position in january 2017. i was appointed by the president, virtually always have turned over and there is a new president, but somehow they made a mistake here i guess and kept me on. the president trump called you did a great job? i wantt a call and said you to come to you dark, and we met in trump towel -- tower. so i went. tower,ou went to trump and you seem to be a man of simple tastes. more not a shopper of trump towers before? i wrote the bus from washington to new york for my interview, i suspect i may have been the only person on the bus rolled for an interview the trump tower. than half an hour with the president ele

dr. francis collins, that of the national institutes of health, has predicted that the holy grail that was first sought 75 years ago is now within reach. last month he said perhaps within five years. with our encouragement dr. collins has organized and a h researchers and partnership with private companies to speed up the process, and the fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb is on board to fast-track the effort within the bounds of safety and efficacy. but i read at least some of your book to say that this holy grail may never be found. even some scientist who say it should not be found. so hope you will tell us what you think about this. should we not continue to try to find nonaddictive pain medicine to relieve suffering without addiction? is that not the obvious antidote to opioid epidemic? the secretary of a dope to learn from you about is what we can do from washington, d.c. we have tried in a foreign waster dreads the ravages of this crisis which we've all experienced in our states, in 2016 congress passed a comprehensive addiction and recovery act, and the 21st century cures act to g

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dr. collins ahead of the national institute of health has made the prediction before a committee that we keep up our investments and biomedical research. senator blunt senator murray and the rest of us have been doing pretty well for the last three years. we may have a universal flu vaccine as well as a vaccine for zika within the next decade and dr. fauci at nih has said the most effective method for protecting americans against another pandemic influenza is to encourage in development stock piling of influenza vaccines that will protect against the virus. in tennessee the hospitals are filling up with people with the flu. dr. kadlec and dr. gottlieb researchers are nih discover a platform technology that could speed the development of a universal flu vaccine what would barda do to support the advanced research and development of that technology and dr. gottlieb what is the fda ready to do to encourage the use of that technology for innovative vaccines? i have three minutes. >> mr. chairman i will be very brief. barda is an integrated portfolio so once barda gets through clinical trials

dr. collins has talked to us about expediting a universal flu vaccine which he sees soon. tennessee has seen heartbreaking stories already this winter as the flu spread across the state and country. in our state already this season, a pregnant woman and three children have died and tennessee of the flu. the act provides a preparedness framework that enables us to be prepared and respond to public health threats by ensuring we have enough medicine to ensure americans and to ensure our health services can respond to public health emergencies. -- thanks to all of our witnesses were here today. thank you. >> this morning we are holding a hearing entitled "facing the 20th century threats". we will hear from the director of the center at john hopkins school for public health. commissioner of tennessee department of public health. president ande cochair of the alliance for bio head of -- and the pediatric emergency medicine at children's hospital. senator casey and i will have an opening statement and then we will hear from witnesses. members will have up to five minutes for ques

dr. collins has talked to us expediting of the universal flu vaccine which he sees soon. tennessee has seen heartbreaking stories as the flu spread across the state and the country. our state already in this season, a pregnant woman and three children have died of the flu. the act provides a public health preparedness framework that enables us to be prepared and able to respond to public health threats. by ensuring we have enough medicines to protect americans and to ensure our hospitals and state and local health departments are prepared to respond. thanks to all our witnesses for coming here today, especially dr. dries in her -- dr. dreis ner. sen. burr: we are holding a hearing entitled facing 21st century threats. medical and public health profession -- fairness and response. tomuld hear from dr. nglesby.e --i brent macgregor, senior vice president firm occurs -- commercial operations and cochair of the alliance for bio kruge,y and dr. stephen head of pediatric medicine in chicago. senator casey and i will have an opening statement and we will hear from the witnesses

dr. collins has organized researchers to speed up the process. the fda commissioner was on board to fast-track the effort within the bounds of safety and efficacy. i read at least some of your book to say this holy grail may never be found. you even quote some scientists who say it should not be found. i hope you will tell us what you think about this. should we not continue to try to find nonaddictive pain medicine to relieve suffering? is that not the obvious antidote to the opioid epidemic? the second area i would hope to learn from you is what we can do from washington, d.c. we have tried to address the ravages of this crisis which we have all experienced in our states. passed thengress comprehensive addiction and recovery act and the 21st century cures act to give states and communities the tools and resources they need to combat this crisis. for example, a provision by senators warren and cap ito was included -- and o was included only fillies can parts of prescription, that way a mother filling her sons pain prescription could ask only for

dr. kadlec, why don't we start with you and then admiral? >> thank you, senator collins. i think one of the issues -- and again i have some incites on this historically but currently the watch run by the homeland of security provides area protection for cities, so i think there's a real desire and i've met with the director at over at dhs about improvements we can make to our chemical and biological attack detection. quite frankly, our capabilities are fairly still limited and primitive, quite frankly. and i think there's a sincere desire on the part of dhs and hhs between ourselves to basically do improvements to do that. to your second issue, how well prepared we are, certainly we have a strategic national stockpile that can address many but not all of these threat agencies so there's work to do there. but one of the critical areas that collectively cdc and our office are considering is really on the last mile of distribution as mentioned by senator murray, we can move strategic national stockpile resources anywhere in the country within 12 hours. the question is, from

dr. collins and the surgeon general, talking about a full on, you talk about a full on offense really on this issue. i think that's a positive because that's face it. with supply and oversupply comes more demand. i want to go back to something i said 40 minutes ago which is because it's an mom and dad medicine cabinet in your house, liquor is locked up, and nobody's doing come nobody is in a back alley with a needle coming out of the thing pickets and mom and dad medicine cabinet and that tiny bottle has a label that there's of these family doctor local pharmacy. that is what makes this so different and so i think unsuspecting in cities and many commuters. so that we have to make sure people know just because it's a very, it's a safer you are in the house, doesn't mean it's for you and does it mean you should try it. now for the medical perspective. >> just a couple things. i think one of the things were grateful for is cdc has put out some guidelines around prescribing which i think a very critical and we're very much needed. what we are doing at cms is taking those guidelines and worki

collins, is also here. and the principal of galileo high school has joined us. dr. matthews, our superintendent, wanted to be here, but unfortunately, his father passed this weekend, so if we can keep his family in our hearts and our prayers as they go through this difficult time. this is a really incredible occasion. the first time in the history of our city we can gather in honor of a state football champion. so welcome to city hall, congratulations, galileo high school. let's do it again next year. [applause] >> now, as you know, you have a very famous alumni who went out of her way to put this together for you. she's sitting here in the front row. she's been here for all the right reasons, and we all trust her, and if it wasn't for her, i wouldn't be standing here. so ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the one and only president london breed. [applause] >> the hon. l. breed: all right, all right. it's time for a real celebration, and let me start by saying that galileo is always making history. when i went to galileo, with tyrell and dari,

collins. >> it is, i would have to say, a terrible surgery for a child to go through. >> reporter: dr.craniofacial center. he knows how debilitating nathaniel's trach tube can be. >> we gotta make sure you're clean. >> it's keeping him alive. but for him to have the quality of life that we all take for granted, the tracheostomy needs to be gone. >> reporter: in order for that to happen dr. hopper will have to literally rearrange the bones in nathaniel's face opening up his airway. >> what we need to be able to do is separate his entire face off of the skull and swing his face forward into the correct position. >> reporter: at his consultations no detail is spared from nathaniel. >> he listened to the whole thing, very attentive, and finally he turned to the doctor and he said, "i have a question." >> do they change their face a lot? >> it's not giving you a new face, but it puts your face into a different position. >> will i still look like this? >> yes. >> he goes, "i want my trach out. but you're not changing the way i look. i love my face." >> that's extraordinary. >> i really learn

collins of maine reacting to the president's vile remarks about african countries and he ignored questions about whether he made the comment. ironically as the president signed a proclamation for the dr. martin luther king, jr. holiday. let's get more from the house of representatives. democratic congressman, james clyburn of south carolina joining us from columbia right now. thanks so much for joining us. what's the impact of the president's comments? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me, wolf. i think the impact has been dramatic. i think that the president has really stepped into it here. i think that the congressional black caucus solidified efforts and one of which is to pursue the essential resolution. i hope we can do that and get bipartisan support for it. the president is the commander in chief. this is kind of the conduct of unbecoming of an officer. if a general or some other line officer in the military were to say something like this, he would be censured. it should occur here with the commander in chief at a minimum. and then of course when we get back next week, i think that the congress ought to sit down in a bipartisan way to find what it is we are trying

susan collins, senator bernie sanders of vermont, and a special interview with illinois senator tammy duckworth. >>> there's a lot more fallout this morning from the sexual abuse scandal involving dr. larry nassar. on friday hundreds of michigan state students protested the university's handling of charges against nassar who was also the school's sports doctor. they demanded greater accountability. >> last night usa gymnastics said that all the remaining members of its board of directors will resign. several have already left. nassar was sentenced this week to as many as 175 years in prison for abusing more than 150 athletes. dr. jon lapook reports on the questions facing the team and the university. >> reporter: amanda tom a shaw was one of the 156 women who confronted larry nassar during his sentencing hearing. >> i didn't know who to tell and i was scared no one would believe me. sometimes i had a hart time believing myself, but in the end i knew i had to report it. >> reporter: in 2014 tom a shaw complained to michigan state university that she had been sexually abused by nassar. the university conducted a sexual harassment investigation and cleared him. the report given to he

senator collins and madam chairwoman i would respectfully respectfully -- respectfully suggest that this would be a good topic for the committee sometime in the future. thank you so much for that. dr. ayati in the time i've got left i understand and i can relate to the challenges over the last year orar so facing me with my aging parents and we are fortunate in birmingham to have a fair amount of resources available but it's still a challenge. alabama in particular has a very rural population in one rood health care is a challenge in itself much less to the aging population. you have any suggestions on what we can do that might address the challenge is specifically to our rural segments of this country? >> thank you so much. a great question and one of the biggest challenges discussed in our area. one of the suggestions is that we actually utilize the reese's that we have rightso now. for example we have a lot of technology today. we can use telemedicine for rural areas. one suggestion is thege expandig geriatric consultation. we have a wonderful primary physician working in the area but the problem is patient needs a second opinion because they are frail and they have a lot of ge