the position of general counsel at hhs brings with it challenges that are sure to be new. there are likely to be times where the officials in the department in the white house may disagree on how to proceed on a specific course of action. if confirmed, you're responsible he will be to ensure that the laws on the books as written are followed and implemented. we have seen some thorny issues in both commerce and at hhs as the administration, has in somey ways, gotten off to a rock start.al that is all the more reason for the committee to move as quickly as possible to report these nominations. before i conclude i want to take a moment to take about the committee's agenda after the august recess and in the next few months thereafter. in the fall, the main priority of the committee will surely be tax reform. i intend to work with my colleagues to draft and reportue tax reform legislation, the regular order that will mean that we will have to work very assiduously and close together to get things done and if that means hearings and eight markup here in the committee tax reform

we'll hhs people to hold states accountable if they use these waivers?. >> i believe the department will be in the position. >> thinks for being here today. and with in foreign investment with export goods sales services over to $20 trillion much from those small companies love that bmw michelin and the like. the test so simply portrayed our auto manufacturers tire makers and paper products to get greater access to those outside the united states and then gives us the tools necessary to make sure they play by the same rules. the chinese government caps market access for freddie in services firms and they did not do the same to their companies while eliminating the trade imbalance i think it is important with the manufacturing side was eating the dead chinese institute these caps and would you prioritize as one of your prioritized?. >> capsule eln prioritize to eliminate those caps to eliminate the financial service industries to access the chinese market fully. and with those limits to financial-services our industry and services are so strong that once w

that was hhs night at the ballpark and we had over 3000 employees from hhs to come out to the game and we had a good game, the nats one. host: do they have what it takes for the playoffs? sec. price: absolutely. we will wait another year for them, but the nets welfare externally well in the playoffs. host: after four years in this position, or eight years, what do you want to leave the hind -- leave behind? sec. price: i want to improve the health and safety and well-being of the american people. i would like to be able to say we moved those three clinical areas in the right direction, that we turned that awful tide and scourge of the opioid crisis in the right direction, that we just mental health and severe mental illness in a better way, more responsive to those individuals and we tried to encourage young people to become more fit. at the end of the day, if we can have a health care system more responsive to the patients and develop greater trust on the trust of the physicians and providers out there, trust in their federal government we are looking out for them. host: do you miss t

all of those are being addressed through fema and through hhs.rom a pharmacytandpoint, there are over 2,000 pharmacies in the affected area, and only about 200 of them have had to close. so what people have had to do is to get to a different pharmacy, maybe the same company, but a different pharmacy, and they're able to fill those prescriptions. in the shelters, oftentimes there are health care units. you mentioned the federal medical station that we set up in the hall there. those folks are able to care for individuals and provide pharmaceuticals, medications that they might need for chronic disease. what we're trying to do, however, is get folks back to their communities as rapidly as possible. it's the chronic disease challenges that tend to harm folks more than the storm itself. >> we haven't even seen the wave of water-borne illness that comes from this toxic soup that people are forced to live in. let me ask you something else, >> is better than the one we saw with sandy? there are a lot of hard feelings about how many republicans didn't v

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he was asked, the head of hhs, should this be designated a national emergency? he have 142 americans dyer day from over -- die every day from overdose. isn't this a national crisis? >> well, there is no question it's a national crisis. once again all we are hearing is talk. there is no plan, there is no proposals. that's what's scary here. i'm glad they are bringing it to everyone's attention. but we on the front lines are dealing with the death of our young people every day. i was in a hospital in l.a. just yesterday, and they are only getting 3 to 5 medicare in-patient only. gerri: that's what the head of hhs is saying, when need more money for treatment. is throwing money at this the thing that will solve it? does the medical culture have to change in some way? if you are under the care of a physician. i was treated recently for breast cancer in 2016. i got all kind of drugs. i was shocked at what the doctors were willing to give me. >> the american society of anesthesiologists is trying to educate the care between the surgeon and the interoperative and post-

we activated from those forces from dod and hhs to move those patients. we're soon going to move into a long frustrating recovery process. the important message for me to leave for the people of texas at that point is we're not going anywhere. all this talk about supplemental funding, it's about having to money in the reservoir of cash for us to use to help you as rerebuild and get you back into your homes and get your jobs and kids back to schools. that's what makes america great. we'll have houston and texas bigger, and better and stronger before the storm and the resilient nature of the american people is awesome. thanks for your time and attention. that's the last question. a local gets it. i'm sorry. i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, tom. finally, before i open it up for further questions, i wanted to be sure and highlight a major step forward in the fight against isis. earlier today, the iraqi prime minister declared that after nearly two week-long military operation, the city of talifir fully liberated from isis. this represents the

we've activated all this forces from dod and hhs to move this patients. we're soon going to move in a long, frustrating recovery process. and the important message to the people in texas and louisiana at that point is that we're not going anywhere. and all of this talk about supplemental funding, it's about having the money in the reservoir of cash -- i already used that pun, for us to use as we help you and get you back into your homes, back into your jobs, and get your kids back into the schools. that's what makes america great. we're going to have houston and texas bigger, better, and stronger than it was before this storm and the resilient nature of the american people is just awesome. i couldn't be even more proud to be in this job, and i thank you for your time and attention. that's going to be the last question. a local gets it. i'm sorry. and i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, tom. finally, before i open it up for further questions, i wanted to be sure and highlight a major step forward in the fight against isis. earlier today, the i

we've activated all of those forces from dod and from hhs to move those patients. but we're soon going to move into a long, frustrating recovery process. and the important message for me to leave to the american people and to the people of texas and louisiana at that point is that we're not going anywhere and all this talk about smemt alfunding, it's about having the money in the reservoir, having that money in the fist for us to help you as you rebuild and get you back into your homes, jobs and get your kids back into their schools. that's what makes america great. we're going to have houston and texas bigger, better and stronger than it was before this storm, and the resilient nature of the american people is just awesome. i couldn't be any more proud to be in this job and i thank you for your time and attention. that's going to be the last question. a local gets it, i'm sorry. and i appreciate your time. thank you.

price's team were obviously all well versed in the health care issue, so they all went with him to hhs. so, it's a good thing and a bad thing where i had a completely open palette to start over. so, we have a great chief of staff and we're filling out the rest of the team. >> tell us about the day-to-day. what's it like in the life of a representative? >> i am usually here by 7:00, 7:30, make sure i catch up on the news, what's happening from the day, look at the votes, get briefed, any additional reading that i need to do, and then it's briefings, committee meetings, usually votes in the midmorning and votes again towards midafternoon, late day. >> so, as part of that briefing as well, you talked about people you're depending on. you mentioned secretary price, who served in this position. newt gingrich previously served in this position. >> right. >> did they offer you any advice coming into it? >> you know, i have extremely big shoes to fill with the leadership that have been in this position, and secretary price has been a longtime friend and mentor, and he and i still try to carve

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they work at hhs for the federal government during the day with superheroes in the federal government, they might take off their suit and then put on the uniform of the public health service which is an unarmed branch of the us military and they go to rescue efforts, disaster areas across the country, often all over the world and they apply their expertise of taking people in trouble so the public health emergency is one way , is the way that you trigger deploying those people but also brings up federal resources and expand cooperation to state and local governments but the importance cethat secretary price took on is that. >> host: albany new iyork, good morning. >> caller: i would like to say that i don't believe anything on the news about some of the people that have terrorists during this time and in texas, because they only keep reporting only two people died and in all this flood and they had even got a lot of people and i wish they would tell the truth about how many people. today i heard that it was six people who drowned in a truck trying to come out but there's a lot more de

the stimulus act businesses partners of the hhs could tell the personal health of every person in thees. >> trish: you think this is a lobbying effort in your view? members of congress that are not willing to go that final step, because they are fearful that somebody is going to pull away the funds for the next campaign? >> big pharma will pay whatever it has to pay to make sure obamacare is not repealed. big pharma stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars. was they gain access to the personal health information of every american because they may no longer have to spray and pray as advertisements call it when they put out expensive advertisement. instead, they can use the database for potential clients. spew it let us talk about the health care providers they cannot be in business with the affordable care act. they cannot actually. -- you had seen them pull out of states. it does not work economically, it does not make sense. from a business standpoint, do you also run the risk, as much as you may get some money on the lobby inside, you also get the other side with a health insur

because of obamacare, this is according to hhs, premiums increased 105% nationwide, up to 476 d $476. line. one thing i laid out for our senate colleagues who were saying the senate bill would reduce premiums 30% to the trend line, we're still not bringing it down to where we should, if we tul did a root cause analysis of what caused this trend line to increase and we have the answer, because hhs, commissioner study by mckenzy. here's one example, ten. their premiums tripled in t tennessee for a 40-year-old male. >> nonmedicaid expansion site. >> here's the main cause. covering people's conditions. and community rating. chris, here's the good news. you can actually cover people with preexisting conditions, like maine did, didn't repeal guaranteed issue, supplanted it with visible high-risk pools. this is what their premiums were prior to implementing invisible high risk pools. this is what they went to. this is a third of what it was prior to. that's about a half. so they cut premiums in half to two-thirds by instituting an invisible high-risk right. >> right. which is a great -- invi

can't imagine that would be something we would want to be involved in, but i would have to refer you to hhs specifically on that question. >> and secondly, the president tweeted in july i believe talked about taking away the obamacare exemption for members of congress and staff. is there anything that would stop him from taking that action now? i mean, is that something that could be done executively? >> i think that's something he is certainly still considering. alex? >> -- on the policy, the u.n. said that last week saudi led coalition in yemen killed 42 civilians. is the president concerned about the humanitarian situation in yemen? >> something that we're certainly keeping an eye on and i would refer you back to them for anything further at this point. >> sarah, the kuwaitis are saying today that the emir will be here next week to meet the president, i was wondering if you can confirm that. on the russia diplomatic move did the president initiate this? >> this was a decision made by the made by this. on the kuwaitis i'm not ready to make an announcement on that. i have to check on the s

sunshine, gives away to a few hh clouds in the afternoon with 82.i'm forecasting a high temperature 85 at national airport. today, we got to 86. right now, 82. upper 70s on the shenandoah val. 85 across the bay in cambridge. that's the warm spot but it's a pretty evening in washington with winds fairly comfortable. southeast at 8. humidity is down and temperatures of 82. i hope you can get outside and enjoy the evening, take a walk. whatever you can. dryer air in place tomorrow. there's a good deal of sunshine. comfortable humidity levels. that dry air starts to pull away as we head toward friday morning as the clouds thicken up. we're going to see showers into the mountains here in the morning. looks like the best chance of showers friday are storms will be west of us. notice the future c i-81 and west, we may see a few showers by friday night. as we head toward dark, the concern is saturday morning >>> i have seen -- bringing the showers in friday afternoon. we're watching this. could be a slug of heavier rain for saturday before it drys saturday

and in 2011, hhs released its first federal action plan to reduce disparity. host: how much priority has this been undersecretary price? guest: what we think about in the current situation is that the recent effort, really, to reduce health coverage, some of the changes that were proposed to medicaid, could really have negative effects on the recent progress we've had in reducing disparities. in particular, going to the point that coverage is really a key first piece to helping address some of these issues because it connects people to the health coverage -- the health care system. is tied tot coverage improving utilization. result iny efforts to reductions in coverage and scale back the medicaid coverage that you pointed to the statistics we importantshowing the move.t those could host: insurance rates, 70% by 2015, 26% by 2013. 17% in 2015. 12% intes in america, 2013, 8% in 2015. numbers available at the kaiser family foundation's web site. if you want to join the discussion, we will be talking this issue for the next 10 minutes for the house comes in for a

they work at hhs. they worked live to theo pentagon for a briefing on the national guard's relief efforts along the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. >> good morning. i'm curly the director of domestic operations of the national guard bureau. and that re

about it, it happened, it just wasn't this crazy memory but our parents always said when they told us hh was going to run for president we cried as teenagers do, you're going to ruin our lives. then he said, i want you to have a normal, this is not good to change. that was naÏve on all of our parts, that you can have a normal college experience. so when we got in trouble, everybody i think thinks based on tv and stereotypes that we tried to spin it tore my parents were furious, i'm sure they were disappointed, i know they were disappointed. more than that, they were sad that they promised us normalcy that was not delivered upon. looking back at it, i'm so happy that had parents that allowed us to make mistakes. imagine if we were perfect. life would be horribly boring. it would be too much pressure to be these political daughters that never made a mistake, that never were able to stick their tongue out for example. let their hair down. as a mom of two little girls, i'm so thankful my parents allowed us to explore and make mistakes and be these humans and also to learn about empathy and c

. >> you know, hhs secretary gary, tom price, he was asked about this on tuesday, and it wasn't neededse the administration was doing everything they needed to do. they were aware this was a terrible crisis. and they were dealing with it. from your perspective, is it being dealt with? >> no, it's not being dealt with. >> i think it's being dealt with at a very judicious level. for example, there are nine recommendations that we have made in our report and each one of them is being considered by ondcp, as well as in discussions with hhs, the department of justice. the veterans administration. all of the agencies that are involved, department of labor. in order to try to accommodate the recommendations and make certain that some of these have not gone beyond the bounds of the purview of the president and the executive branch of the government. some of them require legislation from congress. others require decisions made by state governors and others can be handled at the level of the president and his cabinet. >> so gary, i want to ask you, because you have been affected by this so perso

i'll look into the and talk to our friends at hhs about the contraception thing. >> my second question is, in russia the major story there is the theater director who is a well-known figure in the russian entertainment industry and part of the putin regime has been arrested and is being tried on what he said are trumped up charges regarding finances. massive demonstrations beginning. does the administration have any comments? >> i cannot make an official statement at this time. >> given the part in congress, is there an -- for vice president pence been in congress and in terms of working with congress to negotiate in the budget? >> the vice president plays a pivotal role in the administration of the white house. he certainly will always be an important part of the process of moving legislation forward on whatever that circumstances or whatever the matter is. he is probably one of the best advocates hear the white house. and certainly some of the president has a great deal of trust in and is happy to have on his team. >> is that role elevated? >> i think the vice president is a second i

departments in and human services to coordinate efforts y push forward to reduce disparities and in hhs released its first federal action plan to reduce disparities. how much priority has this been under the trump administration under secretary price? guest: so i think what we think about in the current situation recent efforts really to reduce health changes that were proposed to medicaid could negative effects on the recent progress we've had in disparities and in particular going to this point key coverage is really a first piece to helping to address some issues because it people to the healthcare system and we know is research that coverage tied to improved access and utilization and contributes to improved health over the longer term. i think any efforts that would reductions in coverage and particularly scale-back of he medicaid program, as you pointed to the statistics we have showing the particularly important role of that program groups of color in low income population that those could move reduce disparities in the wrong direction. ost: uninsurance rates for the black commun

and i grab the bat wit hh two h. and he goes down.e, okay, he's not going to get up. okay. looks like the threat is over. >> what do you mean he's in bad shape? he's hurt? >> he's bleeding all over. and iiay m hit him in the head. >> with what? >> with a baseball bat. >> reporter: mollynd aer h it w self-defense. and just days after jason's death molly begins fighting for custody of the children she raised for eight years. while she's focused on sarah and jack, the police have turned their focus to and tom. molly davidson county prosecutors say they took a hard look at these photos and noticed a vast difference between jason's injuries and the absence of injuries they say on molly and her father. >> they walked away with nary a mark on them, and he left on a board with his skull cshednd his scalp ripped off. >> reporter: investigators say that bloody brick found in the bedroom is a key piece of evidence. i erervi hinew that night molly admits she hit her husband with it. in the head. >> you hit him on the head? >> with a brick on my n

yesterday hhs secretary tom a public health emergency. mean?oes that guest: it's a group at department of health and human services gets enough credit. health service. these are dedicated professionals that have some the medicalee in field. rb. they work for the federal government during the day. i call them the super heroes of the federal government. put take off their suit and on the uniform -- they go to rescue efforts disaster areas all other country, often all over the world. they apply their public health expertise to saving people in trouble. the public health emergency is one way you trigger deploying those people. think it's important secretary price took that step. york, good morning. to say thatuld like -- [inaudible] in texas, they always keep died.ing on two people all this water and flood and ofy haven't even got a lot people. wish the fed will tell the truth people.w many today i heard it was six people drowned in a truck trying to come out. deaths than two. i wish the press would just tell about that. host: the number is going u

they work at hhs. they worked live to theo pentagon for a briefing on the national guard's relief efforts along the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. >> good morning. i'm curly the director of domestic operations of the national guard bureau. and that responsibility, i'm responsible for essentially coordinating response and recovery told the mystic events the national guard is responding to. of the soldiers, i would like to give you a brief update on the national guard's response to hurricane harvey. our sympathy goes out to the citizens of texas and louisiana potentially. this hurricane and record aooding occurring has been great strain on families in citizense individual and our first responders. our thoughts and prayers have to be with the victims of this incident in the state of texas. we are proud of the texas guardsman who have responded. the soldiers and airmen have ton working around the clock alleviate the pain and suffering that have been experienced by the citizens in houston

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probably talk to our friends at hhs specific to the contraception thing and get back to you. >> already, and my second question is, in russia, the major story there is the theater director, who is a well-known figure in the russian entertainment industry, and an opponent of the putin regime, has been arrested and is being tried on what he says are trumped up charges regarding his finances. there are massive demonstrations beginning. does the administration have a comment on what has happened? sec. huckabee sanders: i certainly cannot make an official statement at the time, but i will circle back with you. fred? sorry, thought i saw you in the back. >> yeah, two questions -- one, given what the president and other public and leaders in -- other republican leaders in there an elevated role for vice president pence having been in congress, "languages in terms of working with congress, and is negotiating a budget? sec. huckabee sanders: the vice president plays a key and pivotal role in the white house. he is certainly always going to be an important part of the process of moving legislatio

we talked to septa officials.ffecting the istown hh speedne bey continue to have one track closed.will be running every 15 to 20 minutes but local service only. all trains making all stops with the norristown high speedline so you want to expect delays during this. so, here's the 69th street terminal. this is the norristown high speedline. you could take the paoli thorndale line instead. i'm no ou give yourself some extra time you might be okay with that but even just dropping somebody off or going to the 69th street terminal give yourself some extra time. we have a big accident on the ressway. it's west of the conshohocken curve. this is westbound trafficking a you head towards the blue eed to b a singlee saw a lot of emergency workers on the s with couple minutes ago i watchedan ambulance leave the scene. i'm still seeing a fire truck out here. only one lane getting by so a delay on the schuylkill wenshohocken curve headingoute because of an accident right here, tam. >> okay, thank you karen. >>> and of course we're going to stay with the train accident. breaking news at the 69th

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i would have to refer you to hhs specifically on that question. >> and secondly, the president's tweet tweeted -- talk about taking away members of congress and staff, is there anything stopping him from taking that action now? something that could be done executive executively. >> i think that is something he is certainly still considering. alex. >> once said about last week, saudi-led coalition in yemen for 42 civilians. is the president concerned about humanitarian situation in yemen? >> something that we're certainly keeping an eye on and i would refer you back to them for anything further at this point. >> thanks sarah. they are saying today that he would be here next week, i want to confirm that. then on the russia diplomatic move, did the president initiate this? >> this was a decision made by the president, yes, and on the other, i'm not ready to make an announcement on that, i'll have to check on the specifics of that. sarah. >> the president believes all options are on the table when it comes to north korea as he indicated military option is certainly among them, but is negot

to be fair after the baby was born she called me to say how wrong she had been and appreciated what hh had done. now she's a young girl doing great and i asked it wasn't just the mother's intuition on this story, it was the grandmother's intuition as well. i said what was it why did you come to me for a second opinion and she said he had a feeling we didn't want just a second opinion but we wanted an expert opinion. so that's the theme that goes through the book. this whole world of pediatric medicine, children's hospitals and specialists is a different world. it's what we all deserve and want for our children and we are fortunate to have that here inue washington but that isn't true across the country. we need to do more. i'm also concerned i don't getet deep into it and think that it's important i say we are at a rear crossroads in our country so the conversations i hear are cutting things like medicaid, nih, givindoingall these things whenn the cusp of such terrific a discoveries. when you think about half of the people that are on medicaid, half of the beneficiaries are children so

the confirmation hearing for commerce undersecretary, hhs assistant secretary and general counsel nominations. and a panel on the israeli-palestinian conflict. later, we will show you the discussion on south korean military defense again. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, author talks about his new book the big lie exposing the nazi roots of the american left. then roughshod robinson color of change joins us to discuss the trump administration's approach to civil rights issues in its recent announcement that it will challenge affirmative action in college admission. npr justice correspondent, carrie johnson, previous the announcement by attorney general jeff sessions regarding stepped-up efforts on the investigation. be sure to watch seasons washington journal i that seven eastern on friday morning. during the discussion. >> saturday night on c-span twos book tv, on "after words" journalists jesse reports on how the justice department handles white-collar crime in his book the chicken ship club while the gover

institutional capacity or limited or social capital that is necessary to reach out to their local hhs's, health and human services folks, their regional fbi field offices, or even local law enforcement. or maybe they do not even have enough support from us in the community to tackle these issues head-on because a lot of the political baggage that is associated with the acronym. in so many words, we are also seeing a shift toward a more law enforcement-centric approach, and that seems to be what this current administration is encouraging as well. with that in mind, what kinds of recommendations would you provide for local law enforcement agencies that are interested, that are willing to take the lead on this issue with a particular eye on some of the challenges and lessons learned from the past? mr. simcox: ok, we have the trust gaps, narrowing focus. mr. fraser-rahim: the simplest thing, establishing community liaison partnerships. low cost in tight fiscal times. that can probably help dialogue that can probably help dialogue between law enforcement community and certainly communities t

it's not just hhs but multiple agencies are needed and not just the immediate response by the recoveryi'm also glad they had some practice and tabletop exercises included one on the first day when they had a cabinet wide exercise. >> molly: politics, when the needs are so dire, you still see some hard feelings when the funding doesn't come in as soon as folks would like. >> i'm encouraged with what i see with the rescue efforts, volunteers, people responding via twitter feed. nobody says if your democrat or republican when you're risking somebody. so for all of us to get together over a national crisis, politics aside and focus on the real problem. >> molly: the problem made a conscious choice to not go into the most hard-hit areas so rescuers can do their work. he's been hammered a little bit in the media but not expressing enough empathy initially. do you agree with that assessment some folks are making? >> i think it's really important for the president to express sympathy and empathy to show you care for the victims. i'm not sure is fair to say that he didn't go into those areas th

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. >> president trump signed an executive order allowing hhs to waive the individual mandate. that is still an option, right? >> all things are on the table. >> in the white house's view, they can't move on. >> i have heard from some staff saying they may pay more for health insurance. we have word from orrin hatch who says congress will probably need to keep giving insurance companies subsidies. >> bret: mixed day on the markets. the dow rose 61 to hit another new high. s&p 500 down 2. the conservative movement is lost, that from a republican senator was taken on president trump before. arizona senator jeff flake joins me to talk about the latest in his new book >> bret: has the republican party lost its manners and possibly its principles? one g.o.p. senator thinks so. jeff flake, author of the book "conscience of a conservative." thanks for being here. moments ago the president tweeted "a great day at the white house. that's all it says. it's the first day for his new chief of staff and the last day for his incoming white house communications director. your thoughts on this

told me that it can take many years to rebuild the health care infrastructure here, in the meantime, hhs has a focus on keeping the medical supply lines open. >> the challenge in the storm, because of the incredible flooding that has occurred, is getting the resources to the individual, so the pharmaceutical supplies are available, making sure that we get it to the individual, the dialysis units are individual. >> he has heard these scenarios, helping in the past, to ensure a coordinated response, in order to help save victims of these terms, one by one, force, there is a lot of work left to be done. >> shannon: a lot of strain on the medical system there, as you noted. thank you very much. >> thank you, shannon. >> eric: meanwhile, those looking to profit from the disaster are out there, looters face heavy penalties and jail time. more on that, the attorney general. state attorney general, welcome. >> thank you. you know, it is so heartless at this time to have people take advantage of victims, what type of cases are you seeing? >> so we have dealt with water, fuel, food, hotel rooms, a

companies that cut job this year as you can see, macy's, 10,000 workers, jc penny, 5500 jobs, followed by hhsfarm and the limited. many of those obviously retailers, nonretailers in the list of 12, tops 2 including oil services company weatherford international, general motors and hershey. thousands and thousands of layoffs so far this year, unfortunately, cheryl. cheryl: when you need an economy that needs to grow and a president promising jobs in the country, those really aren't good numbers for him. the president has been very focused, of course, on his tweeter account. with all the infighting, do democrats have a political advantage? let's bring in robin, robin, good morning. >> good morning to you. cheryl: it's interesting because the president is putting pressure on mcconnell, putting it on ryan but at the same time we've got the debt ceiling fight that's coming up pronto, do democrats have a strategy of being obstructionists and is this their time to make their mark? >> i'm not going to sugar coat it, i am going to give it to you straight. we -- we are basically giving him enough rope

. >> because of their connections to the hh-profile se, stark and nunez were immediately placed in separate maximum security housing units. most other new inmates were assigned to a temporary unit until the jail's classification team can determine the most appropriate housing placement. deanna collins has been in the female pre-classification unit for two weeks now. >> we have women in here who have done everything from kill their kids to kill other people to -- just have a littering violation. loud. obnoxious. >> i may have done something wrong but i don't feel like i should be sheer. i feel like house arrest or maybe probation or something. >> the one we're going to see today. >> is that the one with the hair? >> yeah. that will be a good story. >> yeah, there's got to be a story behind that. that's definitely done on purpose, you know that. >> yeah. >> that's definitely done on purpose. you know that. >> classification officers will interview collins before determining whether to place her in minimum, medium or maximum security. collins says her hair loss was due to a salon mishap. the o

request published by hhs, major marketplace players in new mexico, no dakota and hawaii are looking for averages at about 20%. some big figures there. >> i think it goes back to the cost-sharing reductions that might not be paid over the course of the year end insurers have to make up for that. the other thing is we have inflation in healthcare. it tends to run much faster than growth in the economy. we can't continue this way forever, but that's a large part of the problem. it's probably ten or 15% of the increase. >> good morning. it doesn't directly affect me because i'm entire law enforcement and i have coverage and also i'm a va. my mother was in her 80s her insurance went up like 60% and my sister and husband and niece and nephew live in a different state. the one reason is we only have one insurer in the state. i don't recall her name. i see a ca is a total disaster for my family, and i don't understand what either one of you are talking about. >> thank you were calling. she is one of our guest. she senior research fellow at georgetown university center on health insurance reform

he also served as hhs secretary under bush.e payments are essential to their participation in the exchange because without them, they say, they couldn't afford the costs of low-income participants, president trump described the payments as bailout but changing the aca has proven very, very difficult and time on the legislative calendar he said it's running out fast specially come september. lauren. lauren: which is just a few days away and consumers are stuck with few if any options, gerri willis. the dow gaining strength. high in the session, 21,712, nasdaq needs some help. it's fractionally lower at the moment. thousands of americans protecting their eyes from today's solar eclipse outside but up next lee says everybody would have been better protecting the portfolios, september is two weeks away, his eclipse proof take, if you will, coming up next on count my a1c wasn't were it needed to be. down. that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin

resources all around the southeast where they'll be able to mobilize them and they've also coordinated with hhsy medical teams, the coast guard, national army corps of engineer, i mean, there's just a lot of logistics that they have really managed with exceedingly. heather: yeah, at least ten other states helping out because fema apparently now has in place much -- a national system where people can jump in and help, the first responders that are there that cannot work continuously, they need some help. you're speaking from experience because you've dealt with sandy and irene. >> it's important to have the coordination between the local and the state and the federal officials and agencies because it's just a massive mobilization. heather: so what does that mean to an individual? someone who has been impacted because we have thousands and thousands of people, there will be more as the sun comes today that lost homes and belonging, what does the aid mean to them? >> what it means is not only is they're in the immediate period, a way to safety, search and rescue, recovery but also in the weeks and

statute itself says states should have flexibility, but it's turned out when states have applied to hhs the flexibility, they've been turned away or it's so honorous they just give up. let's take the flexibility they were nts grassed and make sure they actually have it. if you get into talking about relaxing the essential health benefits, you've got to get into put a proposal on the table and let's look and see what the benefit is that you want to relax and how would it affect people. but i do think many states have a really good argument that they were supposed to have flexibility under the act but in practice it hasn't worked that way. we should respond to their concerns on that. the. >> i keep hearing people, no the on capitol hill, outside of the beltway, saying maybe now's the time for single payer. for single payer system. is there any talk of that on capitol hill? >> sure. alisyn i think you're going to see one introduced by senator sanders. he's indicated i think publicly that he wants to. i have a different view. the i want people to have more options, no the fewer. the so i wo