our focus is really on hhs dollars and the expenditure of hhs funds. >> well, but as my constituency, whether they're money they paid for premiums, whether it's the employer paying for premiums, whether it's their tax dollars they participate federal government, it's all their money. so would it not make sense to look at waste as viewed in terms of the immediate and then long-term impact on health care costs in america by looking at what is suddenly the change in costs were? as i indicate from our company it was dramatic and a number of others i know of. >> certainly, we're glad to work with the subcommittee on looking at health care costs and trends in the markets. certainly employers, long standing increases overall in health insurance cost even for federal employees seeing increases in health care cost in recent years. >> let me change directions. there are concerns with those receiving subsidies or payments. can you tell me how many people in year one received subsidies that are improper or determined inaccurate the first year? >> that's a very important question. we don't have th

how long it takes to effectuate the change and put these things in place is a question hhs can answer. as far as legislating, we'll do our legislating this year. >> over the weekend we saw a fair amount of backlash from americans voicing their concerns, directing it to republican members about this. are you concerned that you need to just present a plan but sell it to the american people quickly? >> it's important for people to speak their minds in this country. we cherish the first amendment and people who are concerned and anxious, we want them to know we want to listen to their concerns and that peaceful protests are something we honor in this country. i just hope people keep it peaceful, respect private property, have no violence. this is something we cherish. we've been doing this in wisconsin for many years. we're used to this where i come from. but the point that we cannot escape, obamacare is collapsing. it's not working. premiums are going up double-digits. deductibles are so high. doesn't even feel like you got insurance. the law is in the middle of a collapse and it's our d

it authorizes the hhs secretary to regulate. if confirmed and yo can you cont that you would enforce that act to make sure children particularly are not subjected to the new forms of tobacco products? >> the responsibility we would have is to enforce the law of the land. >> it also requires keeping up with new technologies being used by the industry that require modifications. are you prepared to not only enforce the law but the intent to make sure the children are protected? >> listening to some of the exchanges as it relates to the affordable care act and will continue to debate the merits. i'm a strong supporter and i think millions of people that had coverage and didn't have it before and at the rate of growth are far lower than it would have been but for that we will debate that later. we heard you say several times the principles the president articulated as to what would be in place of th the act and i wod drawoulddraw down more on benef. we talked about the preventive care now speaking of available. we also know tha that

tracks did hhs look? >> did hhs look? not. did >> my constituents, whether it's money they paid for premiums, tax dollars, it is all their money so would it not make sense to look at waist in terms of immediate and then long-term costs of health care in america at what is suddenly the change in cost? as i indicated, at my company and was dramatic and also for others i notice. tocertainly we are willing look at that. long-standing plans increased costs. let me change directions. there are concerns that those receiving subsidies and payments, can you tell me how many people in your one receive subsidies that were improper or inaccurate that first year? important a very question. what we did look at was the risk to the program of potentially weak controls on eligibility. >> let me ask you. we not know how many people received subsidies that were found to be inappropriate and in fact fraudulent? we not how would investigate that and no? ms. robinson: congressman, when we get information about an inappropriate person being in the m

the work of hhs, oig is critical to ensuring the integrity of health and human services programs. i'm impressed with the great work that comes out of their office. i look forward to the hearing about the oig's work regarding the affordable care act. thank you this is robinson for testifying today. also done great work examining the early impact of the affordable care act on private markets and i look forward to hearing about their findings. we are also pleased to have mr. jonathan steagall to hear about his experiences under the aca. thank you for your willingness to be here and testify. i look i look for to the discussion today. congress needs to find a way to make sure americans have access to affordable insurance and can choose among a variety of plans. i know yields were ranking member for the opening statement. >> the gentleman from illinois recognize. >> thank you mr. chairman. think hr witnesses for joining us today. millions of people have high quality affordable health care as a result of the affordable care act. one of my constituents wrote this to me". we are so gratefu

hhs, oig and the department of defense oig. in addition we have an audit that we are doing right now of the rising cost of compounding and why that occurred and what the department is doing with the cost. >> and you commented on now or you don't want to comment going up from 2 million to 600 million of five years is kind of a dramatic thing. >> ray. it looks like it didn't increase as much in 2016 as was said. but the increase was still substantial enough that we are working with the department to recommend programmatic fix for. they sent out a letter of medical necessity that require providers to complete now before they can prescribe compounded medications and that appears to have had some effect on the cost of compounding drugs. but we are -- this is a very big risk that we are concerned about and we are also concerned about the fact that the fica program didn't see this coming until very recently. >> okay, maybe this is an example of what you're talking about. this apparently tube of cream paint dirty to -- $32,000 but the

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especially to both the gao and to the hhs/oig. my understanding is for 14 years running, medicaid has been on your high risk list. what is behind that? is that because cms does not collect the right data to begin with? >> i think there is a couple of things behind it. one is the nature of the partnership itself that by the time the federal government is reviewing expenditures, the expenditures have occurred so that prevention ability is always challenging. the second piece really is about data, you simply cannot run a program this large when you can't tell where the money is going and where it has been. and we need better data. >> and so have you made recommendations to cms to collect better data and have they ignored those recommendations or what is the issue there? >> we have a report coming out in a few days that might answer that question a little more fully. but i think -- >> feel free to go ahead and share it today. >> the ig has been focus ed on this area for quite some time. we have followed evolution of the national data

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is -- withthe hhs their rulemaking, has an extraordinarily amount of power now. and not all of that power has been for the better. host: our caller from california, her words were that have a lot to learn. being targeted by a democratic and pain is the 19th in new york. what are you doing to fend that off? guest: there is a lot of political spinning going on in washington. i am not paying a lot of attention to it. i have a two-year term. the next election is in 22 months. but i am focused on how do we fix the problems we face? i am focused on the issues i ran on. i am not focused on an election almost two years away. host: the house get started here in about five minutes. we get to fill up on the -- philip on the independent line. caller: god bless c-span. do you recall the law that existed when george bush junior took office? he had a $3.5 trillion surplus. if people were in a serious accident, they did not have to pay the hospital. their credit would not be destroyed in the event that they were in a serious accident, because the hospital could not affect their

to do whatever she wanted to obama because she was secretary of hhs.e is on the other foot. i done know if they have to replace and replace they can do it from within. >> also on obamacare, this week the message from the administration and the hill this is go to take so much longer than people expected. i'm told they repair part of this will take years to do. republicans are starting to realize, they are going to -- whole health care system. it's a lot more come any kated. >> what do you think they are thinking when they see the stickerstick on the wall. >> one thing we learned, there are back channel discussion going on between wlohite house d jared kushner about funding the wall. >> mexico funding it. >> it's about what kind of arrangement will there be between the countries. in nafta adjusts it. you have to work with congress, will have a border tax, or will there be a tariff. >> $21.6 billion we can hire people to hand hands with that kind of money. you can hire people to stand there. >> worse thing that happened it pr president trump this week? >>

we have obtained one of these memos that were issued by the new acting secretary of department of hhs and tried to prohibit federal employees from speaking to members of congress. let me repeat that. the trump did ministrations tries to prevent federal and pleased to speak to members of congress and something is wrong with that picture. , that violates the enhancement act because it does not include what we require to protect whistle-blowers but any disclosure policy to include a mandatory statement including specifically communications with congress and reid passes unanimously. now they first tried to deny that then they have a clarifying statement the minders standing is even a the clarifying statements still fails to include a mandatory statement from the whistle-blower protection act. i ask the this committee to obtain all e-mail's and other communication in the position at hhs relating to this directive and clarification as well as prohibiting federal employees from speaking to congress. >> i am making a simple request back i have no idea what you last i was otherwise in gauge. >

price and now hhs secretary dr. price.s he going to do it. >> well, i think he is going to be a point person for this. as carl cammeron is just saying we don't know the pace this is going to roll out. is he committed to restoring the doctor-patient relationship as front and center for healthcare decisions. he doesn't assume, dr. price, that insurance is always the answer or government is always the answer. i can tell you in the doctor's office a lot of times somebody comes in with insurance, like obamacare and they don't necessarily get the services they need. dr. price is aware of that. he is a practicing orthopedickist for 20 years. he has been talking about this since you obamacare was initially passed. he is very aware in the future we need something there is more choice involved. there is health savings accounts where patients can pay out-of-pocket for more things. where there is tax deductions. he put for the a proposal where you get tax credits and use that to buy insurance with. as well as directly services. >> mar

one of the reason is we don't have the secretary of hhs. the longer we have boycotts the longer it will be to get the replacement for obama care done. i appreciate your leadership and chance to say something. i'm here and ready to vote and i hope democrats will come to the table soon into the same thing. >> thank you. i'm here and ready to vote. it's astounding to me. i'm still -- that they won't show up for a vote they will all vote no. two a hate people so badly in this country because we differed with them that we can if into our jobs? i think that is pathetic. i understand that they are upset that donald trump and his administration. but to cripple the administration right out of the box is certainly not the way to do things. it is beneath the dignity of this body on this committee. i'm very disappointed that they are not here. they don't all have to be here but we need at least one in order to proceed. maybe we are to change the rules so you don't need them to accommodate a situation like this when people are unwilling to do their duty

when hh secretary price tries to cut medicare and medicaid, the public knows his record and will be on his case about it. when betsy devos tried to shift money away from public schools, the public knows her record and will be on her case. and when scott pruitt undermines environmental protections for clean air and clean water, the public will be wise to his record and on his case. and of course, labor won't have to deal with the viciously anti-labor puster. because of what democrats did during the confirmation process, these cabinet officials, all of them, are going to have to look over their shoulders after everything they do. so on both the cabinet and aca, the two biggest issues we faced as a senate, in the first month, democrats are united and are on offense. republicans are divided on defense. we're doing a lot better than we thought. next, president's speech. what about the speech tomorrow night and the administration so far? well, in the first month as nancy said on tv yesterday, the president hasn't done very much, but what he has done is fore sake his promises to the working c

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certainly support him as hhs secretary. he's one of the kindest, wisest men i've ever met. so i think having his ear, listening to him, dr. price and i have been throwing ideas off each other now for almost a year and eph question i've had dr. price has had a great answer. just to expand, i think first of all i want to reassure the american public we're not pushing anybody off the cliff. we're not going to pull your rug out from under you. if you like your aca policy and the $12,000 deductible, great, keep it. but we think when we let free market forces move ahead that we'll have a better, more affordable insurance policy. there are some very, very simple things we can do. number one is transparent prices. i think if there were transparent prices that that's going to drive the cost of health care down. expand health care savings accounts. make them look lake an i.r.a. let anybody have access to them. let health insurance be bid across state lines. i already talked a little about the high-risk pool, to help those people that need the help. those are some real simple examples

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. >> there are 2,200 references to the power of hhs secretary.a republican secretary of hhs has that pow and the democrats are not too happy. it seems to me you can do a lot of things within obamacare that the secretary has so much power. >> that may be the. one of the problems he playing with dynamite, the secretary is not known of fan -- he believes free market works in health care. a lot of doctors do but they are not exposed to the they are just part of it. he has to be restrained by donald trump if he isn't he going to take it in the chin. you cannot take people off health insurance and install preexisting conditions it's not going to work. you cannot do without congress is to purchase state insurance across state lines that has a race to the bottom of the american people would be upset about that you can to the do that without legislature. >>> health care is important it would be great in everyone work on it. >> it would be. >>> security questions over what happened at mar-a-lago over the weekend. >>> why oprah winfrey may affect whether pr

in your own home congressional district, tom price is now headed to washington to run hhs and and you a special run-off election, 17 possible candidates. give us a sense of how the people are positioning themselves, are they the antitrump candidates or are people saying i'm going to take trump on and who is lining up behind trump? >> people who barely mention trump's name who are much more establishment minded candidates. >> this is a swing district. >> this is a swing district, 62% for tom price so a pretty establishment republican district but at the same time trump only won the district by 1 point. so this is why it's seen a dry run for what 2018 could look like and you have five democrats won this former congressional, john assa, the car lick of democratic fundraising circles, he's raised close to $20 million in campaign in two months. says how much democratic energy is out there. he faces a very long shot. i mean, this is a republican district that republicans should -- should win. >> if there's anything republicans learned in 2010 and in 2016 is who knows what happens specially

>> i believe that collaboration and coordination is critical within the hhs. i appreciate secretary price and his leadership there and careful coordination and collaboration between similar agencies or the sister agencies is important. i think that being on the front end, and discussing with them, and understanding what their intentions are, and what is coming down the pipeline and making sure that cms is prepared to and coordinated with any efforts of the fda has. >> i must tell you in overall health care delivery system, and in talking to the many hospital administrators and the rural providers and cms, the term used in the pasts is it's a mess. i know that you will fix that. but there is a cms is the center for consumer information and insurance oversight, cicio, and i thought i knew most of the acronym acronyms. and what part do you see them paying under your leadership? >> if i am conu firmed, my job is to implement the law. so they are currently cicio enforcing the law, and so my role with cicio will depend on how congress depends what to do with the aff

price who is the new secretary for hhs, both of them said that mr. trump is very focused, he's very good at making decisions, he'll listen to stuff and he makes a decision and moves forward. >> why is he -- >> sorry about that. >> i know the earpiece gets whirly. what is it that he says the news media is the enemy when you have russia trying to effect a u.s. election. is russia the enemy or do you think the news media is the enemy? >> you're going to have to ask him. i think part of that -- >> i'm asking you. i'm not asking you what he thinks. i'm asking you what you think about that. >> well, i don't want anybody to be my enemy and as mark twain says don't take a fight with a man with an ink pen. >> i like that. >> i've learned that. so what we have to do is he's got his style. do i think russia is my enemy? no. am i cautious of russia, absolutely. and our goal is to make sure that we have strong foreign affairs relationships with all nations. we've got to have a reset on our foreign policy, and it's not just over the last eight years. i'm going to

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lo how hh they were in the 1980s. they said we have to worry about the debt.that point we had interest rates at 14, 15, 16%. and we got debt under control by growth. reagan said to heck with it, we need to prime the pump and he turned out to be right. gary: when the prediction was made that donald trump would win the election web said trump is a guy comfortable with debt. the fact that he's comfortable with debt means he has found how to handle the cycles. but there will be times when the rates start to move you have and servicing the debt will be a concern. >> we had 18% interest rates. >> at that time there was not this idea that interest rates were such a driving impact on the -- on the overall global economy. we are two months into the year and you said the markets wouldn't continue the run. do you feel the stock market has gone the ahead of itself in terms these expectations being built into the market? david: people were saying during the last four years of the obama administration, the market is going bow man zas. if you x -going bonanzas. if you look a

they tried that with awhich he is -- hhs. happened with the epa when they circulated plans to remove the climate data from the epa web site. an epa employee publicized that instruction, they got obviously huge pushback then they reversed that decision. they climbed down, left the data up there. happened also at the department of energy during the transition. they demanded to have the individual names of all energy department employees who worked on anything related to climate change and because it was the transition that agency was still run by obama appointees and they publicized that demand for names and pushed back directly on it and said no and the trump folks caved. they rescinded the request. we've even seen it happen at the usda. the agricultural research service is part of the usda. they have about 2,000 scientists, public employees, scientists that work for usda. they were initially told they were forbidden from discussing they scientific findings in any public-facing venue. like this casual order from the trump folk

that's why we've got to get tom price at hhs so they can get to work with replacing his collapsing lawa: i'm going to make a point for my great point journal. president trump and speaker ryan get together as a tag team on that issue, they were effective. they sounded reasonable. one of the problems is obamacare was frontloaded with all the goodies up front, all the sugar initially and now if you're going to make changes, there are risks for that to be painful. >> eric: not only that but the longer you wait to replace it, you can repeal, as speaker ryan pointed out. you can replace, repeal right away. it will take longer to replace, but as you take time, the cost are astronomical. it was cheap up front and backloaded, year five, six where the cost of the government was going to be phenomenal. they need to get it pushed through. they need tax reform pushed through. the conservative right ones obamacare done right away. the tax reform, he will ingratiate himself with the entirety of the american population. do those first. the border wall will get done over time. that's what i would do. >

real quick, what do you think his number 1 agenda point will be, tom price as hhs secretary now? to go in, find those instances where the secretary has discretion. he's going to provide relief to patients, to doctors and to businesses as best he can. that will be a huge help, not enough in terms of -- still need to repeal obamacare but that will make a difference, maria. no doubt about it. >> thanks, congressman. >> thank you. >> we'll see you soon. don't forget, the cost of freedom kicks off tomorrow 10:00 a.m. eastern. catch that. join me sunday morning on "sunday morning futures." i'll have lindsey graham and rand paul and john ashcroft on the fox news channel. see you monday morning on "mornings with maria" on the fox business network. join me monday morning as we await the confirmation of steven mnuchin. have a great weekend. >> hello, everyone, this is "the five" ." ♪ "see you in court." those were the first words from president trump after a block was upheld on his travel ban last night. today he vowed to fight on during a news conference with the prime minister of japan.

. >> a man in a wheshot inside hh philadelphia. hear what police say happened before the shooting. >> people living in a south jersey community find disturbing messages promoting racist and homophobic views. >>> looking he the benjamin franklin parkway, -- looking at the benjamin franklin parkway, flags are flapping in the wind. let's go over to david murphy good morning. >> reporter: when i was coming into the station, i had to push the door and pull it close. we have a high wind warning in south jersey and delaware, and maryland. it's in the northern suburbs in both cases you're looking at strong blustery winds bringing down trees and branches and wires. you want to be careful of debris on the roads. wind gusts are as high as 50 miles per hour, higher than that the closer you get to the shore. we'll see plenty of the shades ready. looks like we are encountering wind out to the west. overall sunny skies, 37 in philadelphia. 37 in millville. 4 in allentown. the big story are the strong wind gusts 41-mile an hour in philadelphia. 45

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hhs more generous >> all right. now on page 26. >> 27 is a plan design and here i would say it's comparable. guthrie co-pays that were benchmarking to get very similar to our database from a co-pays perspective. >> all right. so your summary conclusion is- >> hhs benefit design is a lot more generous than the benchmarks >> thank you. all right thank you very much for bringing us information. you come back as our actuary and remind us of this in several different ways during the course of the rates and benefit process so thank you for this being the first of the illustrations for the cycle. we are now ready to go to discussion item number eight. >> item 8 discussion and presentation on united healthcare's audit. >> want anderson standing in for page who cannot make the flight out today from >> i am shocked. does it have something to do with the weather? >> exactly. same thing here, to go through the 36 pages. >> thank you >> this is the healthcare united plan medical audit why don't we obviously wanted the program to

were not working for social justice and also at that time almost 10 years ago filed a complaint with hhs asking that they are no longer accredited to our standards. anything not successful hhs found no basis for their complaints that they were violating first amendment rights and they responded by providing a context so a conservative institution of higher learning like baylor and brigham young in which that is interpreted to mean those accreditation standards. and other professional programs will become more common in the future. i want to say one more thing regarding what those programs can offer with this content that could be seen as a conflict with diversity and academic freedom we have been doing this type of work for decades. we struggle with it we may never arrive. this is the ongoing activity but we have skills and of programs and evidence based practices to create these brave spaces to call people in who could be expressing the views rather than calling about to recognize the hidden group in the of class and with the dynamic of challenging discussions and those that can exist w

the senate finance committee by senate democrats, boycotting two of trump's nominees, tom price for hhsecretary and steve mnuchin for treasury secretary. today sets up a potential for more chaos as they work through confirmations as well. in just a few minutes, nick mulvaney, omb nominee get his hearing, potentially move towards getting a vote. we heard from one top republican on this committee, senator jain who sa john mccain who may vote against him. that may complicate his confirmation as well. also today we'll see senator jeff sessions, the attorney general nominee, get finally a vote before his committee after it was delayed yesterday. this means his final vote could get pushed to the full senate late they are week. carol, at the end of the day, there could be one key takeaway, one tangible takeaway for the trump administration. we will very likely see by the end of the day today rex tillerson voted on and likely passed through to the full senate for secretary of state. >> fascinating, sunlen serfaty live from capitol hill. here to talk more about this, jackie kucinich from the dai

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this arguably the most important office within the hhs. an office that covers the health care needs of over 100 million americans . the budget of almost $1 trillion. you heard that 20 year career as an innovator in healthcare sector, she's worked extensively with a variety of stakeholders , both sides of the aisle to deliver better access to healthcare. the president, ceo and founder of sdc she helped several states redesign their archaic medicaid system. including in my home state of indiana. fema revolutionized the medicaid program as our healthy indiana plan which we know as it. the nation's first consumer driven directed medicaid program. she transformed a complex medicaid system into one where hoosiers are back in control of their healthcare needs. since 2007, hipp has achieved impressive results. seniors are more likely to seek preventative care, keep their prescriptive medication and seek primary care services as their physician's office, not the emergency room. fema's innovative ideas work is now in a group of concepts that medicar

senators voting along party lines early this morning to welcome price to head hhs. him because heed was an advocate for the undoing of the affordable care act and also has advocated major changes to medicare. let's change gears completely and talk about the forecast. many still trying to adjust to the going from record highs days ago and now we have the bitter cold. doug hill is here. doug: at least we have dropped a strong wind we had yesterday, but it is plenty cold outside and plenty of sunshine. if you are actually in the sun you will feel the radiant heat. washington, 28 in hagerstown, 36 in quantico. plenty of sunshine but as we get through the late afternoon, high clouds will increase and it will become mostly cloudy through the late-night and overnight hours. temperatures will top out near 40 but i think we will hold in the 30's this evening. here is the next system coming in, the leading edge of some much warmer air that will replace the numbers we have now with much more comfortable air. we will quickly start rising tomorrow under clouding skies -- cloudy

into an debates and votes through the work on jeff sessions for attorney general hhs, r the nominee for and essman tom price possibly also the treasury secretary nominee. watch it all on c-span 2. days this ting long week here in washington. randy from pennsylvania. democrat. randy. >> good afternoon. good morning. ironic for little eagan to be in berlin saying tear down this wall. now the american voters are telling trump erect in wall. have to say. thank you host: all right. reminder of the phone lines on bottom of the screen. up on 10:00 o'clock. ohio, linda. you there? am.i host: go ahead, please. >> good morning host: good morning. on the have a comment ban and these polls where, you americans aid 53% of don't want us to ban the muslim population. where are these polls at? i mean, i go on a lot of polls that.cebook, things like i look at the comments and a lot there are ents on from people that are muslim. you can tell by the name. thinking how -- you know, how contract can these polls be? i'm going to have to agree with these are nt that fake polls. them?all of >> i'd say the majo

hhs more generous >> all right. now on page 26. >> 27 is a plan design and here i would say it's comparable. guthrie co-pays that were benchmarking to get very similar to our database from a co-pays perspective. >> all right. so your summary conclusion is- >> hhs benefit design is a lot more generous than the benchmarks >> thank you. all right thank you very much for bringing us information. you come back as our actuary and remind us of this in several different ways during the course of the rates and benefit process so thank you for this being the first of the illustrations for the cycle. we are now ready to go to discussion item number eight. >> item 8 discussion and presentation on united healthcare's audit. >> want anderson standing in for page who cannot make the flight out today from >> i am shocked. does it have something to do with the weather? >> exactly. same thing here, to go through the 36 pages. >> thank you >> this is the healthcare united plan medical audit why don't we obviously wanted the program to

he's now donald trump's secretary of hhs. >> a plan that's now being scored by the cbo. >> correct. >> here's my question. i just listed his agenda, what he ran on for the forgotten men and women that voted for him. do you -- >> again, that's the agenda we're working on right now. that's the -- >> any item that i mention that you disagree with? >> not at all. >> you're saying that the american people and conservatives that are impatient including myself. >> i would love to do this yesterday but getting congress to act on all those things like you said just in one year's time, unprecedented. we do these things, this will be the most productive presidency and congress in our lifetimes. >> the most productive presidency in our lifetimes. but former gop congressman dave jolly wrote if republicans in turn fail to challenge trump, fail to challenge him on his overreach, his attacks on an independent judiciary, a free med media, they will have ampled his actions even the actions that undermine the very power of the congress, the rightful authority of the courts. to be silent is to be a follo

we are watching up here, yes, the session swearing in and what's next for tom price, the hhs nominee, he's coming up next in the senate. he may be voted on as late as 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning unless they speed up the schedule. that is followed by a vote on saturday. i think it kind of underscores the level of opposition right now and the anger in the democratic ba democratic base. the reality is we like to joke you can smell the jet fumes on thursday afternoon when all the senators want to get out of town, go back to their district or their states for the weekend. you know, we are going to see if that happens again in this case. i do think, you know, price is probably something that will animate democrats a little more than the other in many ways. the face of the broader trump cabinet. tom price, concerns about the health care law that democrats will focus on. we are waiting to hear from leadership how this is going to play out today. we could see a price confirmation vote early, early, early on friday morning. steph? >> i want to bring my panel in. help me understand, what are dem

. >> that's what the next hhs secretary is facing. you might say an humpty dumpty like task of picking up the pieces and rebuilding from the ground up. as we consider this nomination i think it's appropriate to ask ourselves if we need someone who will focus on the needs of patient, why not pick a doctor? >> reporter: up next for senate confirmation, steve mnuchin monday night. then after him, veterans affairs. then linda mcmahon for small business administration. that vote will happen tuesday morning, heather. >> heather: so it was a party line vote, talking about price again. so why did some democrats not vote for him? what are they saying? >> reporter: well, some democrats warn they fear he may try to change those health care entitleme entitlements. some were critical of his stock trades which price said were legal and made by his financial adviser. here's more of the criticism of dr. price. >> this is the record of someone who wants to use his position at hhs to advance a radical reckless agenda that puts right wing anti-governmen

will you join me in a letter to hhs and other agencies requesting those documents, mr. chairman? i'm just making a simple request, mr. chairman. >> would the gentleman from maryland repeat his request? >> oh, sure. >> sorry. i was otherwise engaged. deer in the headlight look was bus i h because i had no idea what you requested. >> i didn't moean to catch you off guard. mr. chairman, you have been absolutely wonderful and a good bipartisan member and i really appreciate it. what i said, i asked the subcommittee to seek and obtain all the e-mails and other communications in the possession of anyone at hhs relating to a directive in the drafting, circulation and subsequent clarification as well as any communications about prohibiting federal employees from speaking to members of congress. i think that should be a no-brainer for most of us. >> the gentleman knows very well that regardless of who is in the white house, that the chairman believes that having open communication between members of the federal government and members of congress is something that should not be inhibited,