thank you. >> . >> you are back at recently completed service at hhs in the white house.ing you to reflect on the recommendations in the report and drawing on your perspectives what the most optimistic about where changes in reform can be carried out? >> first of all thank you to the csi is team for inviting me into the process i have great admiration for the work you have beeneg doing here and it's a privilege to be a part of the process i went to echo i started the greatest admiration for the cdc mission and we have to acknowledge what that organization has gone to the last few years. and then to strengthen this institution and in the spirit with the hope of being able to help that effort that has been initiated this summer and to help propel and provide momentum. >> what we recommended in the report to think about the overall context. and those recommendations breakdown to strengthen and clarifying the mission and its mission as compared to other missions with the federal government including leadership and accountability and strengthening operational capabilities with

how is hhs working to advance mental health security? sec. becerra: we are probably going to have a tough time getting more resources out to local governments. we are hoping we can keep our head above water this coming fiscal year. what we are trying to do, as i just mentioned, we are trying to seed the programs that are working well so we can highlight them and shop them around and hopefully encourage some of your members in the house and senate to come together to support further funding. the president last year in his state of the union made it very clear we are taking this to the next level. his budget went way beyond what any president's budget had committed for behavioral health. this year's budget, when it comes out, you will see once again he is making that commitment. the president's budget is just a blueprint and with your help, maybe we continue to get out there and support some of these innovative programs. >> we touched on medicaid. and i want to express my appreciation. administrator brooks and her colleagues at cms for the appr

what people insight hhs say is becerra started putting pressure on them to discharge these kids more the call would be, how many kids have been discharged from care today? how many are still there? the people working at all levels of the agency say, that created a situation where kids were being pushed out too quickly to people who were not vetted. a lot of people inside the agency told he would say, why can't we read this likeness ugly line? we need to be more efficient. henry ford would never have gotten rich if he ran us ugly line like this. that is intense then to say we're talking about the most vulnerable children in this country. somebody eventually leaked a video of him braiding staff and saying that on tape. he himself is probably under a lot of pressure but there's a lot of disappointment within the agency and among immigration advocates about how this has been handled. amy: i would like to ask about the children. if you could tell us some of the stories. it is the heart of your story, talk about christian who works in a construction job instead of going to school, 14 years

but we will see, will aoc show up, you know, to hhs crying?ese locations in michigan, factory, slaughterhouses, will she go there and cry and really talk about this? i doubt can it. pete: their ironclad follow-up processes, they call in a month. and if they call the kids or the sponsors in a month and they're not there, then they're just lost. and that's the 85,000 the they're talking about, one phone call. rachel: and, by the way, i don't believe any of these numbers. these numbers are probably much, much larger. this is a spokesperson who says there are numerous places along the process to continually insure that a placement is in the best interests of a child. pete: it's garbage. and this is all a result of the fact that they will not secure the border which crypts the cascading effect of inhumanity, an assembly line where kids are indentured servants in the united states of america right now. rachel: right. and our government is totally complicit in this exploy asian, it's very sad. pete: for sure. all right, well, we've got another wonder

they'll get dinged by the hhs bosses.out and again, it's all political. the biden administration wants the borders open. by the way, lots of corporations are enjoying this cheap labor as well. but they don't like the images of them being in detention centers. because that looks bad and they criticize trump for it so they were in these detention centers until we could find out who they actually belong to, who should these children go to. right now, pete and will, they're going to sponsors which is very different from how things used to be in the past. used to be the child was reunited with a parent or relative. now these sponsors can be anyone. and many of them have multiple children. they're making money off of this. and so you can see where the problems go and so many of them i have a figure here, two-thirds end up in full-time working conditions. they're as young as 11, 12, 13 years old. >> it's a staggering story. the new york times rarely does real investigative journalism like this anymore especially when it shines a

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let me move now to hhs. we know that the science indicates that this water is safe, the air is safe. but we also know very understandably that residents of east palestine are concerned. they ask themselves, you know, they might have a headache, they might ask themselves is this a headache or is this caused -- a headache that that is in fact, caused by the train derailment or other medical symptoms they may be experiencing caused by the train derailment. these are very legitimate questions. residents deserve an answer. they have suffered a great deal. this has been a traumatic time for them. this has been a horrific trail -- train derailment and we understand, you know, what -- have some understanding of what they have gone through. we have asked for medical experts, from the united states department of health and human services, to come to east palestine. this request has now been granted by hhs. we are establishing -- we are now going to establish in the next several days a clinic in east palestine. this is

>> 15 months ago we sent a request to hhs to schedule.e then, last fall, send a follow-up request with additional information enough but welo were seeing. at this moment, my believe is that we have to do everything we can internally get dea to stop this threat from happening, and my commitment is we will do everything we can to stop it. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i wouldld argue tt this committeeth may want to tae a position on that with the fda and hhs to schedule this when it's being used illicitly. >> i want to go back to senator risch and others comments about social media, because that, to me, is the most insidious aspect of what we are seeing right now. because social media platforms, snap chat, tik tok, instagram are all used to market pills laced with fentanyl. right now senator marshall and i have a piece of legislation named after a young man from kansas who,, much like senator ricketts housewife, used, found a fake prescription online on snap chat. he thought it was percocet, took half a pill and he died. i think we've got to

this request has now been granted by hhs. we are establishing -- we are now going to establish in the next several days a clinic in east palestine, a clinic that will be established by the ohio department of health. we will get assistance and help from hhs. we want them to be able to engage with the residents of east palestine. we want them to be able to answer the residents' questions, evaluate symptoms, provide their medical expertise. the people who will come in -- we expect them in early next week -- will also have access to the best experts in the world in regard to chemical exposures. again, we are doing this because we know the concern that has been expressed by so many of the residents. a doctor spent a few days there. he talked to a number of residents. other members of our team have talked to residents. we know the concern that they have. that's they are very understandable and they deserve answers. working with the ohio department of health and the u.s. and ohio epa, they plan to begin seeing patients early next we

walked into the hh are probably to sign up for benefits. out of the people she was working with there she liked them and everything was all good. lo and behold one thing led to another all of a sudden tried to branch out into a new career of social work. she became one of our c.p.s. workers. she has been at for eight years. in jeff right with you not many years ago, overseas that and jeff reports she is outstanding beyond belief. where is amy? if she is here with us when she stand? there she is, please give her a big round of applause. [applause] [applause] okay, we still have lots to do. there is no question whatsoever these are just isolated things and there's so much to do. please remember what i said about the wisdom. remember what i said about the respect. literally let's work together with all of our ideas and we will solve it. we will solve it or make it a heck of a lot better. now i would say just this. in this statement that plus or minus 1000 foster kids, don't we? a bunch of them do not have a home. we can go to wendy's and we've

and today we announced, and i talked yesterday about how hhs and cbc were getting involved. today both the agencies announced they are deploying a team of medical personnel and toxicologists to conduct public health testing and assessment. we are committed to supporting the people of palestine every step of the way and we will be on the ground helping them as long as it is needed. we will hold norfolk southern accountable as well and we are seeing that accountability. we are already doing that process. >> are there personnel changes happening at the white house? how quickly will you be announcing nominees for the labor department jobs? leo brainard at the fed. >> say the last part? we don't have any personnel and announcements to make it this time. i can say that under the department of labor, julie sue will serve as acting secretary, which is common. as far as personnel announcements i don't have anything to share at this time. filling those two roles is critical and important and a priority. i just don't have anything to share. >> what marty walsh brought to the job, what

>> did you approve a contract without going through proper channels at the hhs, without talking to dr. redfield, dr. fauci, dr. wong? >> i did not. i was not allowed to. >> did you negotiate or look for possible employment opportunities? >> that is another fortunate lie in the testimony. i was not negotiating any employment while i was negotiating contract. who was that contract with? >> i have no idea. >> it says johnson & johnson. would you disagree with that? >> did you seek employment with johnson & johnson? dr. birx was. i saw her every day on tv. dr. redfield, i saw him of the time. you weren't allowed to. >> many civil servants -- many scientists were not allowed to speak. >> was it misinformation when the biden administration told the american people that if you get the vaccine, you will get the virus? -- you won't get the virus? >> was not an accurate statement they told us that? >> the truth is that the vaccines are highly effective. >> was it an accurate statement to say? that came from government officials. you were the one who brought up misinformation. i didn't. >> sir,

how is hhs working to advance mental health security?ecerra: we are probably going to have a tough time getting more resources out to local governments. we are hoping we can keep our head above water this coming fiscal year. what we are trying to do, as i just mentioned, we are trying to cede the programs that show -- twoseed -- to seed the programs that are working well so we can highlight them and shop them around and hopefully encourage some of your members in the house and senate to come together to support further funding. the president last year in his state of the union made it very clear we are taking this to the next double. his budget went way beyond what any president's budget had committed for behavioral health. this year's budget, when it comes out, you will see once again he is making that commitment. the presidents budget is just a blueprint and with your help, maybe we continue to get out there and support some of these in a -- some of these innovative program. host: we test on medicaid and i want to express my appreciati

once they leave hhs custody, even if they do a good job on the front end to make sure they are goingor and hhs said they are trying to crack down on the issue and they want to track the children that leave their care, and the labor department wants congress to pass enhanced penalties on companies that hire these children. >> thank you so much. good to see you. >>> up next, why the history-making mayor of the nation's third largest city would be voted out of office. >>> plus, alex murdaugh talks about who could have really killed his wife and son. you're watching "josÉ diaz-balart reports." [ spray, spray ] you can astepro and go. subway keeps upping their game with the subway series. an all-star menu of delicious subs. there's the philly, the monster, the boss. if i hadn't seen it in person, i wouldn't have believed it. eating is believing steph. the subway series. try subway's tastiest menu upgrade yet. - psst! susan! the subway series. with paycom, employees do their own payroll. - what's paycom? a magic payroll genie? - it's a payroll app. - payroll is way too complicated for the

. >> yeah, well you led off with talking about hhs where i served sect levitt and azar.'m surprised informed is the first they're announcing next week will be the first set of hhs advisers and staff people from the cdc to do monitoring and public health officers to man a clinic. that's what these folks live for is to flood into a rural zone, a tribal zone where public health officials underserve when there's a time of need and not wait for two weeks for the federal government to be there. i'm just not sure that two weeks later for the epa administrator show up is necessarily the right thing either. should have been there day one. >> by the time he gets there could be three weeks. doctor, one of the residents told me this today. >> i spent half an hour outside of my house, by the time i come in i'm choking coughing. my lungs are hurting. can you feel the congestion build up. this is no joke. i mean, this is detrimental to everybody's health around here. >> i mean dr. neshwa something killed the fish frogs and chickens. if i about there i'd by scared too. >> we keep hairg

guest: hhs's substance abuse and meealth administration has it is the treatment finder.hat inumber that is appear. it anonymous -- that is up here. it is an anonymous line. i would encourage people to carry naloxone. naloxone is an overdose antidote. you can get it in most places in the country in pharmacies. if you are in washington dc, you call or text 888-811. text "live long d.c." and you can get it for free. that is part of the strategy. host: let's talk to ruth in palm harbor florida -- palm harbor, florida. good morning. caller: i have been using fentanyl for 15 years. i used the patches. they are 25 microgram patches. i can change them out every 48 to 72 hours, if i need to. i have quite a few issues with the knees, hips, back. if it were not for fentanyl, i would not be able to get up and move around. on top of that, i take codeine, tylenol with codeine. i used to get everything in a 3 month supply. go to the doctor, get my check up, go get my hearing test to make sure i am -- urine test to make sure i am not doing anything else. in this whole situation i cannot

what i can tell you is that we know a number of things are being researched at hhs. and one think i have lots to see, and to make sure that i can understand is the use of something like a fentanyl test strip on a counterfeit fake pill, and just how effective that can be, to make sure that people understand, again, one of our core things is public awareness and making sure people understand the threats. our one pill can kill campaign. i would really turn to the health experts at hhs, and we are looking at that issue. >> can i get you to respond for the record, you said something i thought was very important, that you are not using the like which overdose anymore. they are taking something else, and then they take one pill, and face this horrific health reaction, and result in death. and you could understand, at least, these republican and leaders run our country let's try to figure out ways we can prevent that from happening. maybe this is one way that people are looking to save lives. perhaps this is one to go about that. >> center, i could tell you, part of our divi

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. >> brand new from the ohio governor a short time ago, hhs now deploying the east palestine ohio tot with medical efforts, but not until next week. health fears continue to plague residents after that toxic train wreck. the governor answering questions that many have been asking. why isn't fema helping out? watch. >> based on what fema has told us and continues to tell us, my chief of staff talked to them this morning, we don't qualify for assistance. although fema is synonymous with disaster support. they're most typically involved with disasters where there's hope or property damage. tornadoes, flooding, hurricanes. >> martha: so garrett tenney is on the ground in east palestine. in mowments, two residents. one after said her skinned burned after using her shower. first to peter doocy live at the white house. >> officials say fema is in contact with an operations center there in east palestine but fema is not on the ground administering aid because norfolk southern says they're going to cover cleanup costs. the way the rules are written, that's just that. but the white house press

have to test for a minimum of the next 10 years anybody who wants a test the, and we need to get the hhsrt doing some studies and, you know, make -- document everything so we have data-driven evidence for our residents. rachel: yeah. you know, that's the mayor of that town, east palestine, ohio, but to be clear, we're talking a lot about the federal government, there's a lot of blame to go around. i think governor dewine, it's been interesting, there was an incredible interview yesterday on "fox & friends" with ainsley are, steve and brian and just the lax daze callness that everything should be fine and he just was really slow to the react as well. i think it's interesting to compare the way he's reacted to, you know, this environmental catastrophe in a town in his state, and then the way he reacted to basically the flu, covid, you know, in his, you know, it was one of the most draconian, you know, governors locking things down and all kinds of stuff. this is, this just seems to so right in your face that he didn't react. i was as disappointed in him as i am in fema and president biden.

fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio's governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio's governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chickens, rabbits and other animals like the poll pot bellied pig and she they were s. >> we're not getting -- the financial part of it is not going to fix this. some of us have closer addresses than some of them with the same zip code. i'm 3.5 miles away and she's closer. so where is our help? >> since that massive train derailment about a half mile from where i'm standing, norfolk southern is handing out $1,000 checks to

quote, the experiment to generate sars-like coronaviruses are not subject to the hhs e3 co framework. do you agree with that? >> i don't. i would like to get to the root causes. we need to know who is on the panel. all those things need to happen and then he would not have a result -- rep. jordan: >> two times. >> i want to put the luster back. >> the last paragraph from your testimony. you just read it a few minutes ago. i think this is an important lesson we need to learn. political leadership is why we have elected leaders. he thought that was so important. it was the closing point in your presentation. it is the people whose names he put on the ballot who make decisions or, people whose names get put on the ballot and nominate people who were elected by we the people to make the decision. that was the point you are making. >> i think this has been confused in the report. this country needs leadership by elected official and by appointed. >> that is how our system works. but that is not what happened. >> you cannot have a person with a narrow focus running a national response. that

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as i mentioned the governor says that hhs and c.d.c. will deploy teams to set up a free medical clinic here, including toxicologists in addition to personnel. and the train derail half a mile from where i'm standing, norfolk southern railroad has been handing out $1,000 checks for this zip code only. but we spoke with women two towns from that, and she responded to the farm after the derailment and tiffany says she's nervous about sending her children to school. >> i lost two chickens, three rabbits and sick chickens. and this is after 24 hours. >> i sent her back with bottled waterment do not drink the water. she did bring us home a sample out of the water fountain, it was foul. it smelled bad. >> now, just minutes before joining us on air, neil, one man stopped his car to say that pennsylvania residents on the border of eastern ohio should deserve combination because they're located just out of town. we visit add local creek out of town and one local resident showed a visible sheen as you can see here. senator jd vance who represents

the two years since the law took effect, cms has only issued two fines, given as nbc was pressing the hhs secretary last summer. >> the buck stops with you you're the secretary. brooks-lasure says they have given 500 warning letters to hospitals, and now the maximum fines have been increased from $100,000 to $2 million so we asked what's the biggest holdup cms blames the pandemic. >> they haven't always had all of the staff to really focus on some of the i.t. system changes that need to happen. >> reporter: the american hospital association, which represents health care networks and hospitals, says health systems remain, quote, deepl committed despite considerable strains on the hospital workforce over the past three years. >> who hurts the most? >> it's the american people. >> reporter: in washington, marissa parra, nbc news. >>> when we come back, the heartwarming reason these grannies are dancing through the streets of the big easy. >>> there is good news tonight about the power of friendship and how love and dancing helps heal the pain. ♪ for the famous milwaukee dancing grannies, thi

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>> we do not disbar that -- the official sits in hhs. >> all right. should we have financial penalties to ensure strict compliance that they failed to meet obligations and failed to give vital records? to they need incentive that is a negative? >> we can't put such incentives in our terms of conditions. we cannot. >> i suggest you do so. should we add financial penalties to the nih if they fail to do oversight on important research being done with the american taxpayer dollars? >> i can't speak to that. >> all right. in 2015 to 2019 eagle health alliance gave multiple nih grant he coronavirus research gave multiple transactions toct wuhan institute of virology. eagle health seriously deficiencies as we've discussed in the inspector general confirmed this in a recent report how do you allow that without consequence? >> the consequences were initial inspection, reinstatement, inspection of the grants and we have worked with the primary grantee you will health alliance to get them back into proper order. >> it does not seem sufficient. i yield back to my

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hhs and cdc crews now deploying. meanwhile, in michigan yesterday another norfolk southern train wasand no chemicals were spilled. the number of toxic train derailment nationwide has been declining. in recent years, rail carriers have been involved in more than 13,000 hazardous material incidents since 2002 norfolk southern involved in 1530 of those incidents, more than 100 of them classified as serious, including a 2005 derailment in south carolina that released toxic chlorine gas. nine people were killed. back in ohio high school basketball tournament game had to be canceled because the visiting team forfeited rather than playing in east palestine. new video overnight of the most remarkable rescue yet from the earthquake in turkey, two men were pulled out of the rubble alive after 261 hours buried in debris. that's more than 10 days inside a collapsed building. the quake has claimed 42,000 lives, a pledge drive aired by several turkish tv channels raised $6 billion for survival. rivers grand jury in georgia, lookin

and ohio democratic senator sherrod brown is calling on more federal agencies, including hhs and cdc to be on the ground helping make that assessment. brown says representatives from the train company responsible should also be there. that accountable to the test for people to move back accountable for all the cleanup. >> brown says cleanup could take weeks and he says it could be days even weeks before they can assure residents our safe to return home. for now live in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. back to you. all right. and thanks for that update. well, still to come of the kron, 4 morning news, we're talking about the white house. >> as they're observing black history month and their own special way. they had a screening of a special will have the details on that after the break. well, in the north bay, sonoma county, they're ending their covid emergency declaration by the end of the month because their health officer explains it falls in line with the state's expiration because covid-19 case rates are low compared to the last 2 winters. many people are either vaccinated or they

>> where the public health agency not the prescribing agency. >> hhs issue was it a cms issue?ave to defer i do not know. >> there are therapeutics that were working around the globe the doctors wanted to prescribed to patients in the united states. would you also agree people following the guidelinesth of cc that treated face patients with whatever indictment they died based on those treatments? or closer covid-19 guidelines, the nih i like to pass this if that's okay. >> the treatment guidelines dr. walensky are a compilation from nih as well as outside experts across the country. >> i gett' guidance or and i appreciate guidance. what i've been toldd his doctors were they could not use certain therapeutics that they thought might be in the best interest of treating that patient saving a life. patient died based on treatments pushed down from washington. patient died inpa this world. doctors make better decisions that when government gets in between that doctor-patient relationship. i would love to further follow-up i agreed to yield time. >> thank you gentlemen for-u yielding

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>> so we are the public health agency napa prescribing agency. >> is that an hhs issue? was it a cms issue? >> i would have to defer. i don't know. it's not cdc. >> there were treatments, therapeutics were working around the globe that doctors want to prescribe to patients and the united states. would you also agree that people following the guidelines of cdc that treated patients with -- that died, which you read that patients died based on those treatments? >> there are covid-19 treatment guidelines. those are guidelines coming out of the nih. i'd like to pass a doctor tabak, if that's okay. >> the treatment guidelines that dr. walensky refers to our compilation from nih as well as outside experts across the country. >> i get guidance, or. i appreciate guidance. what i've been told is doctors were told they could not use certain therapeutics that they thought might be in the best interest of treating their patient and saving a life. patients died based on the treatments that were pushed down from washington like -- patients died in this world. doctors make better decis

and he was still working at hhs at the time of these events. he contacted rose to be a speaker on the line up on his stage and connected rose to his of the desk to his event planner, he is going to be covering security talk to him. and it seems small, until you realize that it's a paramilitary leader and it is a trump employee trying to contact him for his event. and another trump administration employee said that they were the ones that were in communication with the white house. we have testimony that says that one was talking to the white house and one was talking to stuart rose. when you zoom out and look at the picture of what president trump created before january 6, it is a normalization of the necessity for political violence. host: and the one degree of separation always plausible deniability. >> i agree with everything that my colleagues have said i will add zooming out further how important it was for president trump to be a factor to coalesce these groups. these groups sometimes have diametrically opposed views, he brought together

then at 2:30, hhs secretary and the surgeon general will discuss mental health solutions at a conferenceby the national association. you can watch on c-span.org, our free mobile video ap