hemmer of minnesota. pursuant to house resolution 996, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. emmer, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. emmer: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. mr. emmer: mr. chairman, i rise to offer an amendment which i'm pleased to say i intend to withdraw. because after months of hard work in this chamber and with the administration, it's no longer necessary. minnesota is the proud home to the iron range, which boasts an abundance of natural resources and critical minerals. when it comes to protecting the environment while developing our economic assets, nobody does it better than minnesota. despite this history, on its very last day in office, the obama administration proposed to withdraw over 240,000 acres of land in our state from mineral exploration and development. this last-minute action was an assault on our way of life. threatening thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in state revenue and s

she did the field research on minnesota. lynn is a professor of health policy at the university of minnesota. in the school of public health. and she has also published widely about all sorts of health insurance matters and been on the front lines, both in minnesota and here in washington, as health coverage expanded. and finally, we will hear from mark hall, who has already been introduced, but the remarkable thing about mark at this moment is although he hangs out at wake forest, where he's a professor of law and public health, he's going to talk to us about arizona. we thought we needed a fourth state, and he had worked on all of them. so let's go to louise first. >> good morning. so colorado, we have a pretty stable market. we did have some significant rate increases this year, but we have seven insurers in our exchange, and that is the same as we had last year. and enrollment was slightly higher for 2018 than it was in 2017. so i just briefly wanted to talk about what colorado has done both long-term and more recently t

we also have a basic health plan in minnesota so that's the aca option, new york and minnesota has, they have a bhp between 138 and 200% of the federal poverty level. that's funded by the federal government primarily through 95% of what would have gotten in the individual market, so what their atpc 95% of what their premium tax credit would be so that's financing the bhp. that's about 80,000 people, that's not in the risk boom for the individual market. so, again, you can see how this gets complex very quickly even with a small market. the bhp creates strange incentives because the financing is based on the premiums, so as the premiums go up we get more money from the federal government for our bhp. so stabilizing premiums gives us less money for bhp. so people who want funding for low income populations, you know, go ahead, raise the premiums in the individual market, let's get that federal subsidy in if you're doing the federal maximizing strategy. so it creates really weird incentives. that's not good public policy for all you young people. it's in contrast to two different opposing i

for minnesota, that is a lot of money. on other thing that is going -- most reinsurance is financed by an assessment on insurance. that is typically how reinsurance is financed. in minnesota, we used a state designated fund that is called our health care access fund, financed through our provider tax. that was also controversial. used toa tax that was support our state-funded programs. minnesota care, and because we had our federal funding hadn't had to use that money so it is piling up and when the legislature are doing their things, they see a big pot of money. oh, we can take and use that. that was used to finance reinsurance. we only financed it for two years. that is a 2% provider tax funding reinsurance for the state. this is going to come up in the next legislative session of, is that appropriate use of state dollars? is there a better way to finance it? we will be probably talking about a rebate, or there was a proposal introduced last year to do a tax credit. aptc. state patc, -- but it would be state financed. we

the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. banks, someone who represents a state that is steeped in medical technology jobs and who has been a leader in championing the repeal of this tax. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. banks: thank you. first of all, i thank the gentleman from minnesota who has been the foremost leader in the house of representatives for a very long time to permanently repeal the medical device tax. and, mr. speaker, there are more than 7,000 medical device companies in the united states that contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy every year. these companies employ over 400,000 americans while creating life-saving technologies that benefit patients around the world. many of these manufacturers are located, as my colleague said, in my home district of northeast indiana. in fact, warsaw, indiana in my district, is known as the -- indiana,

is minnesota unique or is that something across the country? >> no, i may have used the term loosely. i wouldn't say minnesota is unique. if it is a narrow network, that is by a simple component. there is still negotiations -- a lot of the -- that they negotiate prices with providers. it is not a complicated managed risk kind of profile. so that is what i meant. it is basically just paying the bills and not managing care. >> i am sophia korten and i'm a high school student from arizona. how do you think the large native american population affects the market in arizona. maybe for colorado, too. does it have affected all? >> that is a weakness in my coverage of arizona. the population is quite large and the rules are much different for them. i don't have a good sense of that. maybe louise does. >> or if you do, let us know. field research. i really don't know. >> i think, i don't have notes on that in front of me but i'm very sure under blue cross blue shield of arizona it was the only insurer that i saw last year in rate filings that added the

the gentlewoman from minnesota. ms. mccollum: i reserve. the chair: the gentlelady reserves. think gentleman from california. mr. denham: i'd like to yield the gentleman from california, mr. lamalfa, one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lamalfa: i thank my colleague mr. denham for this amendment. i know the california water board is contemplating their next water grab and how diskecked from reality these the regulators are the latest plan would take 40% of the flows from san joaquin and there's plans to increase the volume of flows in my region that washes out to the ocean under the guise, the failing guise, oprotecting fish. they're contemplating 45% to 65% of unimpeded flow. we know that when it comes to protecting people or fish, sacramento also decides to choose the latter. this plan defies even basic commonsense or fairness. instead, questionable science to impose arbitrary restrictions with no solutions to address the loss of habitat for native species or even the predators in the delta which we

we also have a basic health plan in minnesota, so that's the aca option, new york and minnesota has, between 138-200% of eight-200% of the federal poverty level. that's funded by the federal government primarily through 95% of what would have gotten into individual market. what, 95% of what the premium tax credit would be, so that's financing the dhp. that's about 80,000 people. that's not in the risk pool for the individual market. you can send this gets complex very quickly even with the small market. the bhp also create very strange incentives because financing is based on the premiums because the aptc are based on the premiums. as the premiums go up to get more money from the federal government for our bhp. stabilizing premiums gives us less money for bhp. people who want funny for low income populations, go ahead,, raise the premiums in the individual market. let's get that federal subsidy in. if you're doing and maximizing strategy. it creates with incentives. that's like not good public policy for all young people. it's just, you know, it contrasts to two different opposing in

president trump held a campaign rally last night in minnesota.nd long story short, we are now in a trade war with minnesota. [ laughter ] first lady melania trump made a surprise trip to the u.s./mexico border today and visited a facility holding migrant children. "i can't imagine what terrible things you've been through," said one of the kids to melania. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ]

of nawaz: ruth richardson, of the minnesota organi the minnesota organization on fetal alcohol syndrome, says because symptoms can overlap with other disorders, doctors often miss an f.a.s.d. diagnosis. >> those kids who really have what we see as an invisible disability where they don't have any of the sort of physical manifestations of the disability but they've got this brain injury, those kids are at such high risk of falling through the cracks because they look alpical, people expect typical behavior from them but they've behavior from them but they've got a brain injury and because of that those kids are oftentimes set up for failure within our communities. >> nawaz: tasha is now 16 years old. do you remember when your parents first told you about f.a.s.d? >> i think i was like nine and i was like i don't really care. so like i was young i was like ok i thought it was likea. h.d. but it didn't really affect me eden i was younger it kind of affee more when i was like in high school because then i really started noticing stuff younawaz: like what woul notice? >> i noticed that i got

host: brad in international falls, minnesota, thank you for waiting. caller: good morning to both of you. we are talking about this midterm election and whatnot. the senate pretty well will have between 59 and 61 republicans, pretty solid. on the house side -- guest: let me interrupt. right now there are 51. caller: like you say, there is only nine republicans up on the ballot. basically the remaining of the 33 are democrats. they are going to lose more -- about half. on the house side, there were be about 235, 240 republicans. here is the real -- the point being on all of this is, the reason why the democratic party is in the position they are is that they do not have anybody running. the only way that somebody will take over the party and have a chance is they have got to kick out the media. host: how do you view his assessment? guest: i have all the respect in the world for you and your opinion. i will tell you that i have not met a single republican official or strategist or consultant that shares your degree of optimism for republicans this year.

that tailpipe is now on display at a bar in minnesota. >> jimmy: look out, florida, minnesota's givingto answer all our questions, please welcome kaitlin strom and the owner of the truck, too, tom. so you really -- you're in the town of darwin, minnesota, which seems beautifully ironic. or fitting, really. not even ironic. so kaitlin, how is your head, first of all? >> it's doing great. it healed beautifully. >> jimmy: tell us how this happened, and more importantly, why this happened. >> so i just went to the music festival to see miranda lambert. that was the reason i'd gone. i saw this big tailpipe and i wanted to see if my head could fit in it. >> jimmy: is this something you do regularly? >> definitely not. >> jimmy: no, okay. you're curious by nature. you wanted to see if your head would fit in the tailpipe. lo and behold, it did fit in the tailpipe. >> it did. >> jimmy: how long was it in the tailpipe? >> my boyfriend and i estimated that it was like 45 minutes. >> jimmy: 45 minutes. so then -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: tom, you were where when this was first happening? >> i think i wa

as kim gittleson reports from minnesota.panse of green beans, with row after row of soy beans. it is easy to see why this pa rt beans. it is easy to see why this part of minnesota is known as the prairie 0cean. and for nearly five decades eachjuly, prairie 0cean. and for nearly five decades each july, bob prairie 0cean. and for nearly five decades eachjuly, bob worth has worked on his time here. —— worth. this is not the first trade war or trade fight, with tariffs and embargoes, it is nothing new for me. while he thinks is far more be ok, at least this year, he worries for the next generation.” at least this year, he worries for the next generation. i can weather the next generation. i can weather the storm. what bothers me is the younger farmers the storm. what bothers me is the youngerfarmers who the storm. what bothers me is the younger farmers who are just getting started, they are going to suffer. i mean, this could lower the prices more, this is really going to hurt them. they might not be able to survive. that is bec

that is representative erik paulsen, republican of minnesota. coming up, seeds of discord.s china for struggling american farmers. what is going to be china's response? we will talk about that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power." i'm david westin. shery: i'm shery ahn. no more mr. nice. president trump took in a matter time at and a pointed tweet yesterday writing, china is targeting our farmers who they know i love and respect as a way of getting me continue allowing them to take it manage of the u.s. whatare being vicious in will be their failed attempt, we were being nice until now. china made $570 billion on us last year. comes afterts tweet the administration announced a $12 billion plan to aid farmers hit by the trade war followed. for more, let's bring out li china association of international trade a senior fellow. thank you so much for talking to us today. the president characterizes the u.s. relationship, or actions toward china so far as nice. is that how china would be -- view it as well? is not reallyat

he barely lost minnesota. look at his approval rating in those states right now in these new polls. 36%, 36%, 38%. that's bad news for republicans in a midterm election year when they have some house districts and some senate seats, governors races out in the heartland. look at this. choice for congress in the heartland as well. again, the republican president's approval rating is what matters. democrats, eight-point advantage in wisconsin when voters are asked which party do you want to control congress. michigan, a nine-point advantage for the democrats, same question. in minnesota, it's a 12-point advantage for the democrats. in part, republicans say, because of the president's trade policies. the president is on the road now trying to tell everybody this will be okay, stick with me. listen to his white house counselor saying this is a fight the president thinks is necessary but the farm states will be okay in the end. >> the farmers, of course, know this president is a great friend of farmers. he's made ma

like a minnesota pot luck dinner. everybody's kind of expected to bring something to the table. you know? you really have to have everybody that can come back with some advantages with some wins and things like that. and the best way to do that is through those relationships. so i guess we would urge anybody and everybody that's listening how important it is do we maintain the relationships because once we lose that market, it's really tough to get it back. and you think about that as you do business normally. if you don't get the service, you don't get the product you want. you go to someone else, someone else takes good care of you. you really shouldn't have a reason to go back to that original place. and that's our worry. 60% of the soy beans that i planted last may are exported. i rely on that export market. so we're going to continue to hopefully build those relationships to be at that table. but really farm bill is important to all of us. but our true safety net in agriculture quite frankly is that international

like a minnesota pot luck dinner. everybody's kind of expected to bring something to the table. and you really have to have everybody that can come back with some advantages. with some whims and things like that. and the best way to do that is through those relationships. so i guess we would urge anybody and everybody that's listening how important it is to maintain those relationships. once we lose that market. it's tough to get it back. you think about that as you do business early. you don't get the service. you don't get the product you want. you go to someone else. someone else takes care of you. you don't have the reason to go back to the original place. and that's the worry. 60% of the soy beans that i planted last may are exported. a reliable of that export market. we're going to continue to build those relationships. to be at that table. but really, farm bill is important to all of us in agriculture. but our true safety net in agriculture, quite frankly is that international trade. that 95% of our customers t

ruth richardson is the director of programs for the minnesota organization on fetal alcohol syndrome, the sponsor of this meeting. >> this can also be a very isolating experience for families, becae if their family members don't understand f.a.s.d. or their overall community doesn't understand the disability, we've seen families who are afraid to take their kids to church because they don't want to deal wite the sh the stigma when people don't understand the disab: ity. >> nawazdave riege adopted ben when he was five-years-old.dy >> everyho is here has e ildren with the same problems. i mean, it's not lybody looks at him and goes, jeez that's kind of strangey ecause everyb in the same boat, so it works out good. >> naz: lisa joy says the group is good for her son, andrew, and for her as well.en >> p can come together and get to know and connect to find out what they're doing to hea their kids imilar struggles and what they are doing to overcome them. just that support is really

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. conaway: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conaway: the ranking member's motion is very much in the spirit of the house's position and i am appreciative of that and it makes our bill better. h.r. 2 makes historic commitment to helping our livestock herd and our national security by establishing and studying forward looking animal health issues that looks at emerging pests and disease threats. i look forward to continuing this discussion in conference and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. peterson: i'm -- i said what i'm going to say. i ask my colleagues to support the motion. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman yield back? mr. peterson: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman

minnesota have released body camera video.... from one of the police officers involved in the fa man last month. >>> officials in minnesota have released body cameras video for one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man last month. they also said there is no plans to charge the officers. the video shows officer ryan kelly and justin schmidt chasing through an alley where both shoot 14 times. four of the bullets hit the man. >> the footage has been released. this is just one part of an effort to bring greater transparency to this process. >> police say forensic testing and the video proves he had a gun in his hand at the time of the conversation and the officers were responding to a report somebody was firing a handgun in the air. >>> the first lawsuit to challenge the printing of ghost guns will be announced today. into two days downloading the instructions could become legal. they will made of plastic. they will be available for purchase online. he trump administration recently settled a lawsuit to

the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. banks, someone who represents a state that is steeped in medical technology jobs and who has been a leader in championing the repeal of this tax. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. banks: thank you. first of all, i thank the gentleman from minnesota who has been the foremost leader in the house of representatives for a very long time to permanently repeal the medical device tax. and, mr. speaker, there are more than 7,000 medical device companies in the united states that contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy every year. these companies employ over 400,000 americans while creating life-saving technologies that benefit patients around the world. many of these manufacturers are located, as my colleague said, in my home district of northeast indiana. in fact, warsaw, indiana in my district, is known as the -- indiana,

paap and president of the minnesota farm bureau. i would yield to mr. paulson for any additional comments of introduction and he would like to make. >> i am proud to welcome kevin paap here along with his wife who is joining him as a fourth- generation farmer. he is going to provide the minnesota perspective on the negative impacts of tariffs. i welcome him. >> our fourth witness is scott vanderwall. he is secretary and treasurer of vanderwall farms, president of the south dakota farm bureau and vice president of the american farm bureau iteration. i would -- >> i am proud to introduce my friend and fellow south dakota and scott vanderwall traveling here today. i think it is imperative when we have these discussions and have folks testifying that live the reality of these tariffs and retaliation we are seeing from other countries against our farmers and ranchers, but has longtime been a leader for agriculture across the country. his farm and ranch is about 45 miles south of my ranch. i have appreciated his leadership not just at the state level, but the

he's going to provide the minnesota perspective on the negative impacts of tariffs. i welcome him. >> thank you. our fourth witness is scott vander wall, secretary and treasurer of vanderwall farms. president of the south dakota farm bureau and vice president of the american farm bureau federation. and i would yield to representative gnome for any additional comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm proud to introduce my friend and fellow south dakotan paul vanderwall. it's imperative we have folks testifying that live the reality of the tariffs and the retaliation from other countries against our farmers and ranchers. scott has been a leader for agriculture across the country. his farm and ranch is just about 45 miles south of my ranch. i've known him for many years and appreciated his leadership not just at the state level but at the national level as well. him and his wife michelle have been active. they raise corn and soybeans. they have a custom kalgt feeding operation. he's here to tell the story of what every south dakota farmer is going through during these d

they're at the university of minnesota masonic children's hospital to try and fi why. where should i listenh my stethoscope? >> nawaz: one possibility: moses might have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or f.a.s.d. caused by prenatal a exposure. moses was adopted, and brandon believes his birth mother drank while pregnant. dr. judith eckerle specializes in adoption medicine, and sees lot of familieruggling with f.a.s.d. >> we e kids on the f.a.s.d. spectrum who have i.q.s above the normal range actuallon some who aredered very smart, but then they're missing certain other areas like the abstract reasoning, or being able to control impulses. then we have other kids the spectrum who have frank intellectual disability, used to be called mental retardation, and those kids really do struggle with kind of the basic learning and may need support lifelong because just cognitively they're not able to process in the same way. >> nawaz: doctors in minneapolis see around 300 kids in the f.a.s.d. clinic, but they say that's just the tip of the iceberg. they estimate across minnesota

minnesota, minnesota been the third-largest producer of soybeans in the country. the farmers have been planting soybeans when before the trade disputes took place and before the president announced tariffs on soybeans. prices for soybeans are down and continuing to drop. uncertaintyfacing knowing they have to harvest the crops but will not have access to the foreign markets they have come to rely on. i think that uncertainty farmers are facing from these tariffs is not just handling their ability to provide -- hindering their ability to provide for their family, but hurting the economy on a broader perspective. as a fourth-generation farmer, do you think that these tariffs will hinder future generations of farmers from a long-term perspective and make it more difficult for the family farm to be handed down? putting us in a tougher situation for a long-term impact on the farming community? >> mr. chairman, congressman paulson, that is a great question. you know, the driveway that julie and i drove down yesterday on the way to the airport was the same driveway our f

i have a lot of interest in minnesota as well as a longtime resident there the two senators from minnesota both closer char and franken put their electoral vote for hillary clinton their superdelegate vote for hillary clinton when bernie sanders won that people that's the problem the fix is in there was political money that was going to all of these super delegates before anybody was given any debate speeches or any kind of stump speeches that they were committing to people that they thought were going to win they thought the party was going to the best chance to win but all of a sudden bernie sanders came along and he proved to america how crooked the system is it even got so bad where donna brazil was feeding debate questions to hillary clinton if that's not crooked i don't know what is so that's the point i'm getting to know mainstream media is focused in on russia through that russia expose this allegedly well shouldn't they be focusing in on the fact that the democratic primary was a fix and that we shouldn't we actually be think if the russians did it should we be thanking them for e

so if you have a great idea and you're living in minnesota, you're not going to get access to that capital. you're going to get it if you're in california, massachusetts or new york. so you need to be able to, you know, kind of run with your ideas in other places in the country too, and that's one of the big ideas that we think could help folks really be able to expand their opportunities. >> host: you also take a look within the context of your report about this $15 an hour minimum wage. how does that fall into -- >> guest: you know, there's been a lot of polling about some of the other ideas on the table whether it's single-payer or $15 minimum wage showing some of these ideas are popular when you ask them by themselves. so we did a head to head. on the minimum wage, would you prefer a candidate that says i don't want to raise minimum wage? would you prefer one that wants to raise it to $15 an hour everywhere, or would you prefer to do it in a regional way that's pegged to cost of living? a hamburger costs something really, really different in the suburbs of des moines than it does down

the chair recognizes gentleman from minnesota, mr.llison. >> i think the chair and the ranking member welcomes committee dr. carson. >> thank you. >> i represent minnesota and have for the last 30 years but i went to high school and grade school right there in the city of detroit. >> wayne state too, huh? >> yeah. anyway, mr. secretary, i will admit to you that when you became hud secretary, i met with people in my community who i work with on housing, and because of just politics not all of them were exactly excited about you becoming hud secretary, but we agreed that we would invite you to our district to talk with you about your ideas and share with you ours. so i wrote you a letter on i believe march 22nd inviting you to come and it didn't get a response. i wrote you another letter on july 6th, and that got no response. so we sent you an e-mail and in the e-mail, your assistant said that you didn't get the mail and apologized for that, but said that they don't have any travel plans booked for minnesota. i want to offer an invitati

obvious ones a summit out of professor of geography at university of minnesota we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed of course. there's confusion in brazil as to whether or not the former president lewis enough feel and know that this is to be released from prison a court of appeals judge overruled a decision to free libya but it seems the original order does now stand and he will be allowed to leave lisbon serving a sentence of twelve years and one month in prison for corruption let's go now to douglas wyman he's joining us now via skype daniel there's a lot of back and forth on this just give us the latest where are we with this. well the only thing we know for certain is that the civil will not be coming out of prison so tonight a federal judge was asked to step in to try to solve the the impasse he has ruled that the arrest warrant is still valid and former president lula da silva must stay in prison including chiba where as you say so and not twelve year and one month sentence on charges of corruption and money laundering but his team are going to continue working

julie anderson in minnesota, to expand their practice. without having to worry about the headache of filling out mountains of paperwork and excessive insurance forms because it lets the doctor work directly with the patient and you don't have to go through extensive billing services and insurance. health care savings accounts, mr. speaker, have already been proven to help lower health care costs and expanding them, giving consumers more flexibility and more choices will mean families will be better off. so let's allow health care savings accounts to be used for direct primary care and support the underlying bill and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from kansas reserves. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. . blumenauer: mr. speaker, i have no further requests for time, so i'm prepared to conclude when my friend from kansas is -- to close when she's ready. ms. jenkins: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers. i reserve. mr. blumenauer: ok. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oreg

. >> peter baker, what about the important "minnesota law review" excerpt that is being looked at by both sides? some are saying this was the president's primary goal here, because he's thinking about the mueller investigation and he's thinking about having a justice on the court who will have to rule or likely have to rule on some very big decisions about presidential immunity and presidential requirements that they testify. and this is what he said, he had a conversion, if you will, after having served on ken starr's investigation and having written key segments of the legal justification on the starr report. >> that's exactly right. i'm sure this will come up a lot at his confirmation hearings. he did go from serving with ken starr in which they did push the legal argument that the president of the united states, at that point bill clinton, had an obligation to respond to legal matters, in that case the investigation into whitewater, and his possible perjury and obstruction of justice involving monica lewinsky. ten years later, having worked in the white house under george w. bush

the chair characterizes the gentleman from minnesota. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you mr.secretary for being here today. wanted to follow the terms question just now and i think it was representatives that touched on this it stuff before representative royce -- i have not heard and if you already said it, i apologize, but everyone is raising this as an issue and asking you to confirm that the it systems are behind an outdated and in some cases 40 years old. i don't know that i've heard you describe what efforts you are undertaking internally to address the problem when you talk about the appropriations that is great but what is that you are doing in the agency and is there a strategy or approach and could you fill us in if there is? >> yeah, unfortunately we are spending about $250 million patching up the various networks that we have. we are in the process of transitioning cloud -based system and that has been going on for about the last eight months or so. it really needs a much bigger overhaul than that. right now were doing a pet. >> have you prioritized which is syste

paul, minnesota for $140. she's going why is this? how do i afford this?posal to help her afford it? >> i have a couple of proposals. one of them is to say, boy, you know, there's this loophole that allow the big drug companies to basically pay the generic drug companies to keep their lower cost products off the market, it helps boost up the cost of drugs. that's one proposal. medicare ought to negotiate with drug companies to lower costs. >> given the president's performing according to polling in state of minnesota is your opponents putting some distance between herself and the president? >> my opponent in the general election gives donald trump an a, so now she's trying to distance herself a little bit but i think actions will speak louder than words. >> how does the dynamic in our own party affect you. you come from one of these midwestern states that were key to the president's victory. the left of your party is ainge we need to abolish i.c.e. is that helpful? >> minnesotans are practical. they want to solve problems. they don't want this to come to w

>> a number of minnesota counties. we've been working with secretary simon in hanipin county, they've been using our product for about two years now, close to two years and i think the primary elections coming up in august 15th or 16th, i believe, we will be full -- >> 14th. >> 14th. >> not that i would know that. >> i will be there and a number of us will also be there, but we have about 50 counties that will be moving towards that solution. >> and how many voters do you think were included in the registration material you were managing in the last election cycle in 2016? >> 2016 -- >> this is just an estimate. >> it would be several million. >> where i'm really going here is this question of how many people try to get into these systems and what do you do to determine the vulnerability of the systems that your company works with? >> there's a number of things that we do. from our knowledge nobody tried to tamper with our product. one of the nice things about using the ipad is the baked in security that is already off

oregon, alaska, and minnesota have implemented theirs. pending include maryland, new jersey wisconsin and maine. i think it is interesting in and i am many trend of states that currently are operate on a healthcare.gov or the federal marketplace platform, that are pursuing a shift to a state run platform. that would give them -- potentially a lot more flexibility over the operation of their marketplace and be able to do things like extend open enrollment, support outreach and navigator programs. more robustly. these include nevada, new mexico and potentially oregon. on the flipside there are states that are embracing the new environment at the federal level. it encourages regulatory rollbacks of some of the aca protections. folks may already be familiar with iowa's situation where they essentially exempted certain health plans from the insurance regulations. so they get a free pass from the aca consumer protections. another states are pursuing what they call state-based plans like the state of idaho. we expect to see an announcement on th

but they have there is no end in sight to liberation you know to the dictatorship in minnesota so that lasted for years and this is more brutal and in the words this is sort of more people dead in a shorter period of time more effective government repression and more brutal government repression then we can see this lasting for a very long time as well other than sort of devolves into civil war which of course you could al gore has a history of but the people are by and large not armed and the use of the paramilitary forces and the censorship and the paramilitary forces on motorcycles are particularly frightening and again we had that too is you know means that this can go on for a long time and it gives the government some form of like knowledgeable deniability you know down down the line but so you know that i unfortunately i think the the people the student protesters have a very long battle ahead of them i don't see or think a letting go anytime soon and you know for the last three years at least that we know of the russians have been training in arming the military and the paramil

. >>> also, this scary scene on a road in minnesota as a car plunges into a sinkhole. how the young driver was able to get out unharmed. >>> back now with a warning. if you're around fireworks, if you hear a ringing or buzzing sound after those loud bangs, you may be experiencing tinnitus. 50 million americans suffer from it, but a new treatment could be life-changing. nbc medical correspondent dr. john torres on a problem he knows all too well. >> reporter: as an air force pilot, i spent eight years within earshot of loud jet engines. now i sometimes get a ringing in my ears. talking to my pilot buddies, they're all having the same thing, especially as we get older. is that unique? >> there was damage being done consistently to the your ears. >> reporter: military, construction worker, musicians, anyone exposed to loud noise is at risk. david giles was a teenager when a firecracker exploded next to him. >> bam, my ear started ringing. >> reporter: common treatments include antidepressants, white noise machines, even meditation. like many americans, nothing worked for

. >>> a controversy in minnesota. two moms are getting support after a confrontation at their local pool. they staged what they call a nurse-in to side with women who are breast feeding and told to cover up. >> we support breast feeding mothers. >> reporter: it's the breast feeding backlash that sparked this so-called nurse-in. >> it's their right to nurse when and where they want. >> reporter: a minnesota pool becoming a site for protest as dozens of moms flock to feed their little ones to prove a point. >> no mother has to feel the way that i was made to feel, humiliated and shamed, for doing something so natural. >> reporter: it comes after stephanie buchanan and mary davis say they were breast feeding their babies in the kiddie pool of the moore aquatic center. complaints turned into a scour sufficiently. >> a patron at the pool came up to me and told me that i needed to cover because her sons were swimming. >> reporter: the city saying a teen staffer at the public pool politely asked the moms to be more discreet

that according to the minnesota starr tribune. >>> a happy reunion to tell you about tonight. man and his blae pug guido gether once again. >> good boy, yes! >> well, guido was in his owner's car when a thief stole it back in may. detectives near tampa were able to find hiit. the abandoned guido soon after taking the car. guido wandered to a nearby cleaners, an employee there has been watching him er since. i think he recognizes his owner there, d't you think? what a bond. >> it's hard to tell which one is happier. >>> fireworks weren't only going off in d.c., but across our region tonight. one of them was in college park. news4 viewer captured video of a fireworks display. and what goes better with fireworks than a little music from the hit 1970s movie ma "sup the movie". >>> b.i.g. night at the wharf. it was packed with people. take a look. this was the first fourth of july celebration since the wharf opened last year. kids enjoyed cooling off by running through a fountain. >>> well, did most of us get the fireworks in without rain, amelia? >> most of us di i have to say i h

some may not have the built-in infrastructure that, for example, minnesota or in alaska has. and then there are other options that are just really tough in terms of political capital that would need to be expended in order to get those policies through. so, i'm hopeful that we will see more states lean in and step up to maintain and stabilize their markets, but i wouldn't underestimate the challenges that lie ahead. thank you. >> well, at kaiser family -- oh. at kaiser family foundation we've been looking at insurer financial reports over the last several years and when we're talking about aca stabilization, i think one thing to keep in mind is that at least as of midway through this year in 2018, insurers in the individual market are really having their best year yet. they're performing better in 2018 than they have in any year since the aca was implemented and really even probably since a few years before the aca was implemented. so, that's on average. of course, there are still some markets that are struggling that could be local, rural areas or certain states where insure

unshipped that you know dialogue in minnesota hasn't worked and it says not going to not going to happen all partly because you have all of these proxy interests of russia of cuba. that are that are propping it up so they really need to the fourth they've got to sort of stay stay in power and that's even more important to relate in some ways it's a stronger older relationship for them there than it is and that's why so i don't see how dialogue is going to work then the other thing that does need to go i think that once you start murdering her own people you know because they want free and fair elections using paramilitary forces and he's been asking by the way and other powell is that they've been asking for and got and are getting are going to get forces from the us while out to help keep them in power so if you're supposed to be in a liberator who's against foreign intervention but apparently some foreign intervention is ok as long as it's backed by the same people so they're going to fight that turf war as well so there's no there's no there's no end in sight he needs to go there's no

for the last 50 years, if you look at the numbers in minnesota, they are closing, he's doing rallieshat as a state to watch if they nominate someone like elizabeth warren, anyone from the coast. i think trump can expand republican margins in the midwest. jill ji we appreciate you joining us this morning. >> time will tell. thank you. rob: 37 minutes after the hour, patriotic price tag, risked his life to protect stars and stripes and now being evicted just for hanging the american flag. the veteran sounding off this morning. ♪ ♪ jillian: you know the song, right, former president george w. bush inspired the song, the washington post thinks so, i want to hear this, carley shimkus here with the reaction to the fake news fallout. [laughter] or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can be serious and may be life-threatening. injection site reactions may occur. tell your pres