dr. marc siegel. author of the inner pulse unlocking the inner code of sickness and health.u can read his stuff in usa today now too. >> we'll get to see you more now. >> congratulations. >> we are going to start with a new study showing americans have fewer t

dr. marc siegel. he's a columnist at "usa today". >> congratulations. >> well, we are going to start today with a new study showing that americans have fewer types of gut bacteria than people in less developed countries. dr. samadi, it seems like this makes sense. what sort of gut bacteria are you talking about and why do we have less of it? >> we've spoken about this before but it's a very, very important thing. we have in our guts about 100 trillion, 100 trillion bacterias and some people have said that almost 90% of us are bacteria and 10% is human. so this co-existence in our gut is very important. a lot of good bacteria and bad bacteria. that balance, arthel, is very important. once you change that is when we start having a lot of chronic disease. diabetes, colitis. they looked at the u.s. population and compared it to people in new guinea that haven't been exposed to all of the antibiotics wewe have. what they find is the diversity of bacterias in those tribes are a lot more than us. we're not -

dr. marc siegel.olumnist at "usa today". >> congratulations. >> well we are going to start today with a new study showing that americans have fewer types of

dr. marc siegel, part of our medical a-team. martha what's next?ator rand paul who was here yesterday calling out fellow republican senators. here is what he had to say about john mccain and lindsey graham. >> this comes from a group of people who have been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. if anyone who is the most opposed president obama's foreign policy it's me. martha: why he is attacking members of his own party on defense and foreign policy? bill: you ever posted something online and later regretted and wish it did not exist? check out a new app to wipe your history clean. is that possible? there might be an app for that. >> medical history? ♪ martha: so the head of the irs is on capitol hill facing tough questions about wasteful spending while cutting the budget for customer service. a new report find the irs spending decisions are harming taxpayers. doug mckelway is looking into this for us from washington. a lot of frustration in tax season. irs claims they don't have enough people or money to do the job, ri

dr. marc siegel.t commercial i see a fantastic tableau of married life. >> united healthcare and other insurers are worried the middle class is not signing up. i grew up in the middle class so did you. and every dime is being checked carefully. when you find out it's going to your deductible. you say what do i need obamacare for if i'm going to pay out a pocket for 1000 dollars or more before i get anything covered. the employer market, 80% have to pay towards their deductible before they get care. >> i think the most commonly bought or purchased obamacare plan is the bronze plan of the metal plans. i think for a family the deductible is $10,000. per year. >> exactly. you're not going to get any services. those poor people if they break a bone on that table, it's not going to be covered under obamacare. that virtual doctor visit i don't think he can see whether they broke a bone. that virtual visit is not covered under obamacare. that doctor can't see if they hurt themselves. >> what you're telling me

dr. marc siegel will separate fact from fiction he said on that today. >> pizza shop owners getting deatheaking their minds about the indiana religious freedom law but did a tv crew twist their comments. we'll talk about that coming up. >> i do not think it is targeting gays, personally. i don't think it is discrimination. it is supposed to help people that have religious beliefs. bill: there is an update out of indianapolis now. lawmakers unveiling changes to that state's new religious freedom law, hoping to diffuse concerns the law might have allowed for discrimination. this from last hour, state capitol indianapolis. >> was never intend toddies crime nate against anyone. its goal was to simply create a new standard, that is the common standard across the country and federal courts, 30 other states. reaching agreement to clarify the law which will unequivocally state as speaker said, in the strongest possible terms, that indiana's rfra law is not and will not be able to discriminate against anyone anywhere at anytime. bill: that moves comes as owners of a indiana pizzeria get death thre

dr. marc siegel, great stuff. >>> back to the clip torn cash -- clinton cash horde.ews calm out about might marco rubio or any other republican candidate for that matter, would they be finished? look you advise the gop, what would you advise the clintons in this -- we've called them the teflon dons of politics. what would you advise the clintons with the revelations in this book? >> i don't think hillary's going to take my advice, and if you're asking me if there's a double standard in the media, i think there's no question, there is. if republicans had been caught in this kind of situation where they were basically taking money from foreign governments and from foreign operations and then giving out hillary was essentially giving out favors to these companies a kind of quid pro quo, i think the media would be all over it. so far they've treated it with a feather. ashley: has this come out early enough that the clinton political machine will be able to handle it? [laughter] i mean, listen they'll push it off as some conservative hit job, but the documents in here are

dr. marc siegel reports on that. also we have the stars from deadliest catch.how one monster storm threatened the entire fleet. look at that. now, that is a ratings winner, and we're going to help 'em. two days away from tax day, and here's a new report that shows the top 20 percent of income earners pay 84 percent of federal income taxes. how does this happen? ashley webster. >> well a good question. talk about paying your fair share, this comes from the tax policy center, a nonpartisan group based in washington. i want to say that because it's not some skewed numbers from a conservative-leaning group. whether those people are upset with the 1%, you have to understand how much of the tax burden the highest earners are shouldering. three million people earn, 3.2 million people are the top 1% earn user in this cub. concern earners many this country. as you said, the top 20% pay 84% of all federal income taxes. 40% 40% of americans pay negative income taxes. so they are being, essentially they're being supplemented by the other 60%. stuart: so the bottom 40% of i

dr. marc siegel, langone medical center. looking into this. it is new.e florida, texas and ohio. what is it, doctor? >> it is dangerous. 136 deaths were ascribed to this and drugs like this. it is called gravel because it looks like gavel. it is based on a chemical called alpha ppp. similar to a chemical bath salts had in it. bath salts got banned. let me tell you how it works. it works in the brain on hormone called dopamine. dopamine is happy hormone and making us feel great it builds up in the brain. we don't know how much builds up. too much, causes very aggressive, very violent behavior and cause hallucinations and psychosis. why people are unking are naked with this. that's why they're attacking -- bill: with have a couple of examples. police were saying this, earlier in the week, arrest ad man on "flaaka" running make asked across a street people chasing him. back in february a man on "flaaka" was accused of kicking in glass doors on "flaaka." a man reportedly impaled himself on a metal fence. >> it is synthetic. called a guinea pig drug just for

dr. marc siegel with us.n as we head into barbecue and picnic season, how afraid should we be? >> the problem with listeria and the bluebell is that it gets added at the distributer level, and that's very hard to control, charles, because they check the ice cream, and it doesn't have this bacteria in it. charles: but then they pull a big tub of chocolate chip, and wasn't it in more than just one product in one state? >> that's why i think it's the distributer. in other words, it's not where the ice cream is made -- charles: at the ice cream plant, it can still be con tam may noted? >> of course. someone gets it on their hand then it gets into the ice cream and the yogurt, and it swarms especially in hot seasons. it's a big risk to pregnant women. anyone that's immune know compromised or a pregnant person has a problem with this particular bacteria, it can be life threatening. they've got to really control it. charles: this is scary stuff. three people dead five people ill, i know in a normal year a fair amoun

dr. marc siegel.astic reputation. would you come to his side on. this i would come his side for that point of view. he who lives in glasses houses. i don't think anybody should be telling any university like colombia to remove dr. oz from faculty. great reputation as a surgeon number one and number two they don't know what's going on at colombia. some of these doctors have questionable reputations themselves. one of them actually lost his license and went to federal prison for two years for medicaid fraud. how dare he sign a petition to say another doctor should be removed from a faculty. that's a witch-hunt. totally against that. >> as far as critics who say dr. oz is just after the money. he just wants the coin. he says i bring the public information that will help them on their path to be their be we provide multiple points of view including mine which is offered without conflict of interest. that doesn't sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts. critics would say he is distorting the

. >> joining us professor marc siegel. >> and dr. david samadi from lenox hill hospital. good to see you, docs. >> happy passover. >> same to you. we start with major advances in cancer research this month. a new

. >> joining us, professor marc siegel. >> and dr. david samadi from lenox hill hospital. good to see you, docs. >> happy passover. >> same to you. we start with major advances in cancer research this month. a new treatment was announced for melanoma that works by quinn jebtsing tumors with viruses that are wired to destroy them. how does this work? >> this is very exciting. we've been talking about viruses to kill cancer. but now they're finally starting to make head way. fighting cancer is like a war. but we're getting to the point now where we have guided missiles, where they go right into the cancer cells. and the biggest problem that had to be overcome was to teach the body that these cancer cells are foreign. because before cancer hid in the body. and melanoma is not being attacked by the immune system. they're taking a herpes, a cold sore virus and getting it to be pecked up by the melanoma cell. once it's in the cell, the immune system sees it and says there's that invader and comes marching in with t-cells to destroy the melanoma. so you have a twofer. it's still