militia -- missouri and provisional enrolled missouri militia, turns out some of the enrolled missouri militia home --derates at turned out to be quite disloyal. so they create a hardened core, which can answer session recycle of violence. whohave now underarms, men are most strong of the union -- fighting against their neighbors. it makes that local neighbor against neighbor fighting even more intense. they to develop a range of tactics. they have towns of course, to carrier patrols. they are under confederate guerrilla raid, they pursue. they also target enemy camps, they're trying to get intelligence, they try to attack them when they're in camp and those are her bottoms, those heavy brush and timber. to carry outin more sophisticated tactics, like a decoy ambush. as early as 1863, i found evidence of a local union --icer putting two companies one on either side of the creek, to draw the confederates out of those -- -- to hide in again, with a lot of cultural industry products -- they would try to drive them towards the end zone -- waiting at the other end. in one case i will get to

he can't both be a minister and also be a constitutional delegate. >> do we know what missouri, how missouri interprets the term church in it's constitution. it speaks about church. is this a matter of the form of the ownership of the facility? is this playground considered by the state to be part of the church because of its proximity to the church? what if it was a religiously affiliated school not with the church. >> it would depending on how it was. any organization that's owned or controlled by a church. >> so it's controlled. >> and also any religious organization so it's not only the church it's other religious organizations and missouri supreme court case law says the way we decide those questions is how much religious influence is there in the church? in other words are they serious about their faith? is it voluntary for the student there is? so there's a question about how religious you may be in order to receive the benefit. but that's what the briefing has conceded into churches. >> my questions about religious uses i think was to get at a broader point and breeoader distinction

then in 1819, the explosion of the missouri crisis that lasted until 1821, missouri applies to become the state, and james from new york says, that is great, as long as we have slavery there. can that kicks off a two-year conflict over slavery's future in the territories. this is a territory that wants to become a state that is carved out of the louisiana purchase. they seem to have states involving that entire purchase, and the future of slavery in the united states. it's a brutal your conflict that raises -- not only conflict -- out of the newspapers, public meetings. for my first book i researched -- i will speak on this issue with brevity coming to goes for three hours? [laughter] you are in the middle of a donnybrook. he does so within the framework of all of these other priorities. really an extended period in his diary that he reflects on the missouri crisis. >> i said the colonization society -- pushing their object so much -- they very much wish their memorial might be taken up by congress under the color of colonizing black people, i was afraid that they would smuggle upon u

missouri is not the first to take action. it joins a list of states, counties and cities investigating or suing drug companies amid a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse. new government data just released shows there was 1.2 million opioid-related e.r. visits in 2014 alone. a 99% increase compared to 2005. president trump repeatedly pledged to bolster federal efforts to combat the opioid crisis. the president and the congressional leaders insisted their plan to repeal and replace obamacare will not pull out the rug from americans who rely on the law for their substance abuse treatment. brett? >> bret: thank you, matt. let's talk more about why missouri is joining other states in suing drug companies over opioid abuse. joining me now is missouri attorney general josh hawley. general hawley, thank you for being here. >> great to be with you, bret. >> bret: what brought the state to this action? what brought you to this point? >> bret, announced a suit against the major drug manufacturers today to hold them accountable for a cam

missouri is not the first to take action.s a list of states, counties and cities investigating or suing drug companies amid a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse. new government data just released shows there was 1.2 million opioid-related e.r. visits in 2014 alone. a 99% increase compared to 2005. president trump repeatedly pledged to bolster federal efforts to combat the opioid crisis. the president and the congressional leaders insisted their plan to repeal and replace obamacare will not pull out the rug from americans who rely on the law for their substance abuse treatment. brett? >> bret: thank you, matt. let's talk more about why missouri is joining other states in suing drug companies over opioid abuse. joining me now is missouri attorney general josh hawley. general hawley, thank you for being here. >> great to be with you, bret. >> bret: what brought the state to this action? what brought you to this point? >> bret, announced a suit against the major drug manufacturers today to hold them accountable for a campaign of

the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. graves: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i'd yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. woodall. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the chairman for yielding me the time. i want to thank him for his leadership. the bill, as amended, was an amendment by the chairman to perfect the bill. i want to thank the ranking member for her support on the committee. i want to thank julia brownley of california for her work on the amendment. madam chair, i wish more high schoolers were in the capitol today. i wish there were more american government students in the capitol today because this amendment is exactly the way that the american people expect the process to work. as the ranking member pointed out, we made a great step in the fast act to try to put more veterans back to work, to try to fill more empty spots in commercial truck driving, and we did a great job together in a bipartisan way. a

why missouri is joining a list of states trying to take a big chunk out of big pharm. >> bret: missouri is now one of 20 places suing the pharmaceutical industry over the deadly opioid epidemic. correspondent matt finn in the newsroom with what has led to the outbreak of lawsuits. >> the scale of the epidemic we face is startling. >> reporter: missouri's attorney general josh hawley filed a scathing new lawsuit against three popular drug manufacturers, arguing they committed fraud by lying to doctors and consumers about how addictive and deadly the prescription drugs can be. >> every parent disabled by drug abuse is a tragedy. every child lost to this epidemic is irreplaceable. >> reporter: missouri named one of the largest lawsuits in state history and says the companies helped create the worst drug abuse epidemic missouri has ever seen. contributing to roughly 500 opioid deaths in to 15 alone -- in 2015 alone. >> something no parent should have to do is bury their own child. >> reporter: jamie said her high school age daughter died from a hidden opioid addiction. >> we never got to se

missouri has some with zero options. they have been promised that their preexisting conditions would be covered and no one is selling insurance in those counties. they have been misled by obamacare. what we're doing, mr. president, is covering people with preexisting conditions in the republican plan. let me say again, next year thousands of people in missouri will have no insurance company willing to sell insurance in the obamacare exchange. it's clear insurance markets in missouri are collapsing, as they are all around the country. this bill isn't the solution. instead of giving people more choices in missouri? what does the bill do? it sends people to washington, d.c., to buy their health insurance typical solution from the other side of the aisle. instead of empowering states with more flexibility and authority at the state level, they think, once again, that washington knows best. they think the people they represent would rather call a bureaucrat hundreds of miles away than talk with local people who live and work

. >> now, to programs for the recent on bound book festival in missouri. first up, a discussion on notes of the native son author, james baldwin followed by a panel of authors on wartime stories. [applause] [applause] >> like many of you, i was deeply moved by the film, i am not your negro at this year's film festival. at the april 12 the service of james baldwin, his moment is now. it does seem that in 30 years since his death baldwin has not been more widely read and review since the world and me, "the fire this time", and a new annual journal devoted exclusively to baldwin. and of course the release of the academy award winning documentary, i am not your negro. today, we have a panel to discuss james baldwin, the literature of further implications for assault. today, our moderator is stephanie, chair of the department of black studies, please german welcoming our panel. [applause] >> a morning. very happy when not your negro was screened during the film festival there is a great deal of excitement there is a real hunger to kid into the concepts that wer

missouri is sort of the south.ad lived in new york for many years, new york city and around new york where a lot of people pretend there isn't racism in new york city. of course there is, but where i grew up it was obvious all the time that there is racism and that became such a part of our identity as white people, as black people, as any personal color and my own sort of identity as a white person and what baldwin's work does for me is it burrows through all the thoughts and i have about identity like you tended to intellectualize these things as you get older and tended to turn sort of, okay now that i have grown up in a place where there were literally wars as we called them when we were like seven in seventh grade where black people and white people would just punch each other in the face all the time and i would stay home because i was too scared to get involved. when you get through that and you sort of identify yourself as a southern white person who then moves to new york city, which is a choice to make. m

they are near the head of the missouri river. later, with lewis and clarke, the route that they followed across the continent across the missouri river. this book here is by gerhart frederick, a german, french explorer and geographer. this is very little-known and i rarely see it cited in the historical literature but the map is stunning. [speaking french] >> a new part of the discovery made by the coasts, the unknown coast of north america. in the 1730s and 40s russian explorers including baron, sailing with the russians and a number of others traveled from the west, the east coast of russia or siberia to alaska and the northwest. this map shows a number of barges. what i find striking is siberia on this map is a dense network of mountains and rivers and towns, very well known and well mapped. north america again has just ended. it would have been equally empty on any other map made in this period in the 1740s and 50s and the russians, this shows party of california, the spanish california, where they established this post at th

missouri has changed the policy to allow churches to apply for the money.chool voucher advocates see it as a possible test to see if they can make it easier for the use of state money for the private and religious schools and states that prohibit it. >>> more about the possible political interference into the hillary clinton email scandal and the judiciary committee sent a letter to former attorney general loretta lynch asking for more information about role she may have had in shutting down the fbi investigation. the questions about the role of loretta lynch were raised during the investigation into the president trump firing of former fbi director james comey. a spokesperson for loretta lynch said she will cooperate fully and to respond directly to the judiciary committee. >>> republicans expressing doubt about holding a vote on the bill to affect the healthcare plan, and waiting for the report from the budget office and five congressional senators oppose the gop plan that would erase much of the former president obama and healthcare law. that is enough t

in missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car sense.you're a first responder in missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. so it's a problem. i don't know exactly what the right number is but certainly i think members of the senate and house are rightly concerned about it. >> woodruff: to appeal to conservatives, we're reading the majority leader is giving more options for coverage plans, allowing people, in other words, to have a choice of some less costly, cheaper plans in effect that would provide less coverage but give them more choices. >> give them more choices. it might also provide more up-front coverage. i think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage but there is not really, many times, access to healthcare. if you have high deductibles, there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay the other, i think the average of deductibles on the individua

so later with lewis and clark that would be the route they followed across the continent of the missouri river and down the snake river. so this book here is by friedrich or who was a german french explorer and geographer. this is very little-known and i rarely see it cited in the historical literature but the map is absolutely stunning. and the book and the map are in french, it's entitled how they sell hooch or. [speaking french] that means a new part of the discovery made by russian vessels on the unknown coast of north america. and starting in 1730s and 40s, russian explorers including baron who was then with the russians and a member of others traveled from the west, sorry, the east coast of russia or siberia through alaska and the northwest coast of america. so this map shows a number of their voyages. and what i find striking is that siberia on this map is a dense network of mountains and rivers and towns, very well known and well matched. . so north america again is just empty. >> but it would have been equally empty on any other map made in this. in the 1740s and 50s. the russia

this is a big win for the church of missouri to help make their playground safer.2 decision. this was written by the key justice, joined by the new justice on the court, gorsuch. what's interesting to note is that shortly after this opinion was issued, there was -- it was read by justice sotomayer. saying by allowing state money to go to a religious institution, particularly here in missouri, this violated the separation of church and state under the constitution. it is very rare for a justice to read a dissent, but justice sotomayor is doing. people who opposed this decision, who wrote against it, the american civil liberties union railed against it saying it could further open the door to state's funding religious institution. this is a minor case where the church said this has nothing to do with religion, it's a state grant to make our playground safer. many of these institutions, the aclu saying if you open the door to this, it could open the door for state funds being used for religious purposes. interesting to note, the provision that does not allow state fun

i a church school in columbia, missouri. applied from the department of natural resources for researching of the playground, a pebbled playground, gravel prey grown, and the missouri resources had grant money to resurface it in a rubberized format. are they denied the application because of the trinity lutheran church, in their opinion, a religious affiliated school. in its opinion, the high court said today that the exclusion, and i am reading here, the exclusion from trinity lutheran of a public benefit to which it is otherwise qualified is odious to the constitution all the same. and it cannot stand. so yet another victory for conservatives in the high court today. a much more interpretation will go up as it evolves. one lingering issue, the fate of fate of chief justice kennedy. there's been speculation that he may be retiring, there was no announcement in the court, but the high court justices are now in a private luncheon to wrap up business for the year. if he was to make that decision, it might come at that private m

this was a church in the state of missouri had been asking for public money there in missouri for a privatech. the supreme court justice ruling overwhelmingly here 7-2 that the church in missouri can indeed accept public money. here is one of the key passages. read it briefly. the department's policy violated the rights of trinity lutheran under the free he exercise clause of the first amendment by denying church otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status. they're saying because of their religious status you should be able to get the state money. win for religious rights. we're awaiting whatever news may or may not come down on president trump's travel ban, executive order. all the speculation you've been talking about as it relates to justice kennedy. stuart: you just perform ad very valuable service. it is very difficult to sort you through the jargon that is involved in supreme court decision and tell our viewers exactly what it means. you just did that we really appreciate it, mr. burman. you're all right, lad. well-done. reporter: thank you. stuart: here is w

also expected to make a decision about a missouri churches playground and state money. the latter focuses on church of columbia, adding about separation of church and state. trying to decide whether or not it's legal for the missouri department of natural resources to exclude the program that reimburses the cost of a playground. another big decision is the so-called travel bed executive order restricts travel from six predominantly muslim nations. the justice department asking the supreme court for permission to enforce the second version of the executive order while they appeal for the lower court. they expected to issue a quarter but the larger question could be litigated down the road. if they decide to take up the larger case from a oral arguments could start as early as the sober. there were six opinions that have not yet been released. three of those were argued before justice neil were such took the bench. there is a rumor that could overshadow at all. justice anthony kennedy. the 80-year-old could be considered retirement. according to "the associated press," ke

this guy from new jersey and the other guy from missouri are spewing liberal propaganda.t is not true. there has been a problem since it has been enacted. since the civil rights act. it has been a problem for black americans. black americans have been in this country 400 years, what about the kids of black americans, our children, for 10% increase in immigration, black america loses one half of 1% of their wealth. increased 700% since the 1970's. , until the liberal propaganda that the callers from new jersey and missouri are spewing, is the fact. the data is the fact. host: what part of los angeles do you live in? compton --ed to have caller: we used to have compton, watts, inglewood, lock it now,e, baldwin hills, inglewood, watts, where have black people gone? we do not have jobs, they do construction work. black young men need construction jobs. these people are taking the -- now, you have illegal immigrants complaining about -- keg -- legal immigrants complaining about you illegal immigrants. black people need to stop voting democrat, like maxine waters who push for e

. >> i've been that is true alaska indiana, indiana, missouri, tennessee indiana, missouri, tennessee , louisiana, i a bad is true. >> is still nikki goes in their beds states first because they want freedom to go back to the states so how do you make that happen with the same three principles?. >> so take just fiscal responsibility if oklahoma wants to send 10 or 20 but they still get one vote you have to pass a recommendation here is the constitutional amendment to have a balanced budget amendment if you have to move over the next ted years. because most of the timeenator they will not make a hard choice because they may not be reelected because maintaining power so if we have the balanced budget amendment but i had to vote the analysis they have to work within our means instead of continuing to bar off the backs of those who did not support it. >> host: independent line from florida. >> caller: good morning.g i agree with the earlier callers this is another bone negative nothing more than undermining democracy in america with the hedge funds that is going on there. >> host: how do

the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. a senator: may we suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blunt: i come to the floor to highlight the importance of travel and tourism in our economy and also to make the point that we are welcoming of people from other countries as well as we are welcoming of people in our country who want to be part of for a short time or a long time america. the travel and tourism business is an incredibly important part of the tourism economy. last month i along with my fellow cochairs of the senate tourism caucus, senator amy klobuchar and senator heller and senator brian schatz led the senate in passage of a resolution recognizing the week of may 7 as the national travel and tourism week. there are really good statistics whether it's missouri or west virginia or the country at large on this topic. one out of every nine jobs in the united states depends on travel and tourism. it accounts for over 15 million jobs nationwide. international travel to the united states is our single largest export industry, the

ruled fundingurt for playgrounds could not be denied to a church run school in missouri. oral dissent, justice soda -- sonya soda mayor said this case is less about the relationship tween civil the courtns and -- today profoundly changes that relationship by holding for the first time that the constitution requires the government to provide public funds directly to a church. meanwhile, the supreme court also a great monday to hear the case of a colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his religious opposition. this opens the door for the court to set precedent on whether people can be denied services because of their sexual orientation. the couple has sued the cake alwaysnd said, "this is been about more than i'm at cake. his message should not be able to discriminate against us because of who we are and who we love." why don't you talk about these two cases. start with the one they ruled on an sonja soda mayor's dissent. tomajor's dissent. >> it seems to me that the next front and american civil rights legislation will be this, people wh

, blows everything up with the passage of the kansas-nebraska act that eliminates repeals of the missouri compromise by which slavery was prohibited in the north. so now the extension of slavery becomes an open question. this is a question also about the political balance of power in the country and the power of what people called the slave power. the parties blow up. the whig part cracks apart. after 1852 there's never another whig presidential candidate. this party just disspin entity greats between lincoln's feet and the democratic party splits went anne and pro slavery and there's an anti-immigrant movement that turns into a party called the know-nothingings and one plank, only native-born protestants can hold public office in the united states. so,. >> host: history repeats itself. >> guest: they have a slogan, and here's the slogan of the know-nothings: americans only shall govern america. and there's a -- lincoln writes a letter in 1855 -- i know i'm not a know-nothing. that's certain. the declaration of independence began by saying, all men are created equal. then some people say,

missouri sought admission to the union as a slave state in 1819. it precipitated a political crisis by threatening to upset the balance of congress between slave and free states. the series of agreements collectively known as the missouri compromise settled the issue for the time being. monroe signed off on the compromise with release -- release and expressed optimism that it would be resolved. his old mentor called the missouri compromise the fire bell in the night. to did not bode well for the union's future. much as he believes separation was the solution to problems between the indians and whites. monroe's to send free blacks back to africa. monroe was present for the founding meetings of the american colonization society in washington dc on december 21, 1816. four years later, the ship elizabeth took the first group of african-americans to the colony that would be named liberia. the capital of which, monroe via , is named for you know who. of the war of 1812 and the final defeat of napoleon had largely result of free trade of britain. acquisit

the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. blunt: mr. president, since the current health care bill, the bill usually called obamacare, passed, every year missouri families had have to worry whether their health plans would be canceled, whether their access and options would be taken away, whether they could have the same doctors next year that they have this year, whether they could go to the same hospital next year they could go to this year, whether their premiums would be going up. but if they were worried whether their premiums were going up, that was a worry that everybody else in every state had because premiums went up everywhere. in fact, this situation has gotten so bad that in a third of america's counties today, only one company in a third of the counties today will even offer insurance. so the options are to buy from one company or pay the penalty because your only choice is that one company. that one company gets to file a rate that the state regulator gets to agree to, if the one company is going to stay. in fact, i think

the supreme court today cited with the missouri school. at the trinity lutheran church and school appeared in their opinion, they said, the exclusion of trinity lutheran from a public bona fide on which it is qualified solely because it is a church is odious to the constitution all the same and cannot stand. an important victory for the religious liberty, not only at that particular school, but wide-ranging repercussions in as many as 29 other states which are direct involvement by the state in funding for any religious institution. much more on this as the day progresses. >> meghan: thank you for that, doug. if this is "outnumbered." i meghan mccain, kennedy is here, host of fox and friends, abby huntsman, trish regan, and the former secretary of education under president reagan, bill bennett. he hosts the bill bennett's podcast. welcome back. you are "outnumbered." >> bill: it's nice to be here. >> meghan: great to have you on the couch. we will get started with the travel ban, what doug was talking about. are you surprised that it ended

blue cross-blue shield just pulled out of wisconsin, missouri, ohio. 94 out of 99 counties in iowa, no health insurers left next year. double-digit premium increases. so this problem's getting much worse. i think because of that, our friends in the senate will step up and get this done. reporter: you said the white house is working hand in glove with you guys. the president's tweeting and targeting vulnerable -- [inaudible] mr. ryan: let me -- reporter: let me pick up on that. you have been critical of the president when he has made some comments that you have felt were out of line are these comments out of line? mr. ryan: are you talking about this morning's tweet? i saw it a little bit ago. i don't see that as an appropriate comment. what we're trying to do around here is improve the tone, the civility of the -- the civility of the debate. this obviously doesn't do that. reporter: how do you get past that you? said strong things on the campaign trail -- mr. ryan: we're doing our jobs. look at what we're doing today. we're keeping promises. we're bringing kate's law to the floor and d

a church in missouri the supreme court is being asked does the missouri constitution which says we don't want to have anything to do with religion in any way, does that violate the federal constitution and a van -- disadvantaging the church. of big immigration related cases, one of them a cross-border shooting, a border guard shoes and mexican born across the u.s.-mexico border. the mexico side. can his family ring a claim in american courts. and another claim which became now pressing -- more pressing, what about people held in immigration detention who are seeking asylum and are held for years? do they have a right of review to make the case that they should be let out? host: decisions are based in our and monday. guest: as you say, i think it is they host:kely that added one more day next week. mobile, alabama, line for democrats. caller: i would like to say alabama and mississippi have always had gerrymandering problems. that we've --ing there is no early voting. closed, nowes were all businesses are open. a way to disenfranchise the poor and the working class because they have to ta

his old mentor called the missouri compromise the fire bell in the night. that did not bode well for the union's future. much as he believes separation was the solution to problems between the indians and whites. monroe sought marriage and efforts to send free blacks back to africa. although not as active within the movement as others, monroe was present for the founding meetings of the american colonization society in washington, d.c. on december 21, 1816. four years later, the ship elizabeth took the first group of african-americans to the colony that would eventually be named liberia. the capital of which, monrovia, is named for you know who. while the end of the war of 1812 and the final defeat of napoleon had largely result of free trade resolve the free trade and impressment conflicts with britain. acquisition of florida had still not occurred when monroe entered the white house. in 1817 he sent general andrew jackson into east florida to suppress seminole indians and fugitive slaves that were conducting raids into u.s. territory. enlarged upon his or

missouri was number five with 153 entries. a couple more calls here. kirby in turner, oregon. caller: i want to talk to them they act like they are trying to cover up the thread of isis. i want to expose it and blow it out of the water. it's more local than they realize. they are trying to tell us that it's not. i have actual physical evidence it exists in oregon. -- last night, putin said you guys have to quit using those terrorists. even he knows something is going on. host: we are asking our colors to respond to the same question studentcam entries reflected on -- what should the president and congress do, what is the most urgent issue for them to address this year? thomas is on the line from new york on the republican line. go ahead. caller: i'm in arizona visiting my granddaughter. the sanctuary city stuff, this has to stop. it's a haven for criminals. how does the government allow these people to get there? it seems everything is forgotten once they are there and they cannot be prosecuted. we have a tremendous problem with immigration. take this as a major threat. there'

and missouri can't seem to catch a break. a sinkhole swallowed this car early this morning. the car owner was coming back from the gym when he noticed that his car was buried in the concrete. he says he is just happy he wasn't inside. >> we could have been in the car. someone could have been driving, fell in, you know, at higher rate of speed obviously. if you look over on the corner, there's only 6 inches of blacktop. so it definitely ate away all this support. >> as the car is lifted out, you can see just how deep the sinkhole is. it's not clear what caused the collapse. >>> new at noon, reaction pouring in to president trump's latest controversial tweet. he slammed two msnbc news anchors, joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. ...to mar- nights in a row around new year's eve, ted on jo . she was blee adly from a face-lift. i said no!" the white is defending the tweet, sayin is is a president who figh with and certainly will no bullied." but lawmakers on des of the aisle say the pr 's co ere uncalled for. :1 ously, i don't se

buchanan during the missouri crisis had favored the missouri compromise that would have kept slavery from some territories. congress,en he was in he gave a speech in which he announced he was glad he lived in a northern state, that he regarded slavery as a social evil. when he brother-in-law hadied buchanan's sister owned slaves. you can and saw to it that his brother-in-law would sell his slaves because buchanan did not want to have a family member in pennsylvania even in the 1830's who was a slaveholder. on the one hand, he recognized that slavery was divisive. during his presidency, buchanan had really lacked the understanding how slavery itself had been such a crucial issue for so many northern voters, not just republicans but democrats as well. buchanan was not really prepared the anger across the north that showed itself in the dred scott decision. nor was he prepared for the response among the northern public with respect to the matter of kansas being the minted as a state into the union . as michael noted, kansas had been a divisive issue since the kansas nebraska act provide

have no choice at all, meaning, yet again, americans could be thrown off their plans in states like missouri and ohio and wisconsin. does it sound like obamacare is working? democrats tell us it would be wrong for the senate to actually address these problems in a serious way while the law they've defended for seven years teeters -- literally teeters -- on the edge of total collapse. they were wrong before, they are wrong again now because obamacare isn't working by nearly any measure it has failed and no amount of lefnth hour denying or buck passing by democrats is going to change the fact that more americans are going to get hurt unless we do something. i regret that our democratic friends made clear early on that they did not want to work with us in a serious way to address the obamacare status quo. but republicans believe we have a responsibility to act and we are for our constituents, for our states and for our country. we've long called for a better way forward and we've been engaged in intensive talks on how to get there. through dozens of meetings open to each and every member of the

joining me now is democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> so you were called out today on the floor by the most senior republican in the united states senate orrin hatch. and he went through specific states and of members of the finance committee where the premiums have gone up and he said in missouri that premium versus gone up on obamacare 145%. the implication is where have they been and he singled out only states for members on the committee, essentially asking, where has senator mccaskill been? where have all these senators been in trying to fix obamacare in the last three, four years. how would you have answered him if you have been on the floor when he said this? >> i would have said i have been right here trying to get fixes for obamacare. i have asked different times different colleagues for various things to strengthen the individual marketplace. keep in mind thatting in is so misleading because only .5% of missouriens are buying insurance on the exchange without subsidies, so that is a very mi

they are expected to make a decision about a missouri church's playground and state money. the ladder focuses on a playground at trinity lutheran church of columbia. a case of separation and church and state. the justices are trying to decide whether or not it's legal for the missouri department of national resources to exclude the church from the state program that reimburses the cost of rubberizing the surface of a playground. another big decision the so- called travel ban. they restrict travel from six predominantly muslim nation. the justice department is asking the supreme court to enforce the second version of the executive order while the appeal rulings against it from the lower courts. they are expected to issue an order on that this week, but the larger questions, they could be litigated down the road. and all there is, there are six opinions that have not yet been released. three were argumented before taking the bench. but there's a rumor that could not overshadow it at all. the 80-year-old could be considering retirement according to the associated press. kenned

three of them are in missouri. i think in the bill that the congress voted on in april we increased job corps by about $15 million. this proposal cuts it by $256 million with expressed intention i think at the department that some of these job corps sites would be closed, maybe as many as 20. i really have three questions. o one, what methodology would you use to decide what centers to close? how would you relocate any students in those centers? and are you committed to keeping at least one center in every state? >> senator, thank you for those questions. first let me take them in order. first methodology. i think it's very important to have -- if -- depending on where the budget ends up, we need to have a methodology because these are very sensitive centers. that methodology should be based on outcomes. the measure should be sensitive to differences in regions. so a region that has significant challenges in jobs and job growth may have a job corps center that is phenomenally successful even though the employment r

they said missouri was wrong to exclude a lutheran church in columbia missouri from a state program of nonprofits could resurface their gravel playgrounds with rubber made from recycled tires. the state said it had a provision in the constitution that said no taxpayer money could ever go directly to a church and today the supreme court said when it comes to that kind of general public benefit, not a strictly religious purpose, but a general public benefit, it's religious discrimination to leave churches out. you raised the right question, leon, how broad is it going to be on its face it is. >> the court today sent mixed signals on the issue of gay rights. >> when one is the birth mother. the other mother cannot be listed as the parent on the birth they're married. the court today said you don't do that with straight couples. if a woman has child and married someone who was not the father, the state puts their names on the birth certificate, so it shouldn't handle same sex couples any differently. but today the court agreed to hear a challenge from a denver baker, who said it violates h

iowa, wisconsin, illinois and missouri this afternoon and still ongoing this evening. no damage.this is in stewart, iowa, from this one, but still very spectacular. that big storm system is headed our way. i'm not saying we're going to have a tornado, but i want to prepare you that we could actually have some gusty storms, especially on saturday. it's going to be so hot and humid, that's when the first of these big systems will cross this area. we're looking at quiet conditions with doppler radar across all of philadelphia. not too far away, already the storm system, the first of two, is kind of separating out. some of the rain is headed through michigan, and you can still see severe weather across parts of missouri, and the chicago area. so all of this is going to kind of break apart and reenergize for tomorrow. then the second wave, the one that may affect us on the fourth, is still coming across parts of the central plains. so we're going to be watching both of these systems. let's break it down for you so you can try to plan around it. this is going to be an evolving situatio

heavy rain and hail flooding reported around kansas city, missouri. more than 80 million people at risk of dangerous weather from the plains to new england. and triple-digit heat in the west. here's rob marciano. >> reporter: extreme weather punishing the heartland this weekend. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: hard hitting hail shattering this car windshield in missouri. and in kansas city, lightning tearing through the night sky as residents run for cover. torrential rain and 70-mile-per-hour winds downing trees, swamping roadways and knocking out power to over 80,000 homes. the same wave of storms unloading on lincoln, nebraska. with hail the size of tennis balls. >> wind, rain, stuff hitting the side of the vehicle. >> reporter: cars crushed. trees uprooted. this tractor trailer overturned, meanwhile, the southwest sizzling in the midst of a dangerous heat wave. >> it's still too hot, even with the a.c. blowing. >> reporter: american airlines warning travelers the extreme heat could ground flights out of phoenix this week, with temperatures expected to

joining us now is missouri's attorney general josh pauley, are you there?m >> sorry about that. what's the primary reason and legal rational behind your lawsuit? >> they have perpetrated a campaign of fraud and deceits and they told doctors and consumers that these opioid drugs are not addictive which they are they have been beneficial long-term side effects which they do not. they perpetrated these frauds and told these lies when it is not true and led to this ed democrat epidem epidemic >> what's sort of the worst case scenario for them. is it like a bigger warning label on the package >> well, this last pursuit follows two others where we see from mississippi, there were additionally two other drug makers including in the ohio suit they disputed the claims in that lawsuit which are similar to the ones here in missouri, they are committed to their drugs being prescribed correctly and they say the fda approved the drugs and they have been prescribed according to their labels. the biggest concerns here for drug company potentially and mounting lawsuits over

two months ago, he stood in a federal court in missouri expecting to r receive probation because what he was accused of the wiwing has not been a crime now for nine yeyears. yet he was sentencnced to three in federal prison, which he began serving two weeks ago at fort leavenworth. i was able to speak to his son and son-in-law on the devastation this has wreakaked n dr. moody also hihis family. he has several college-age students. has another son who is 16 years old and is a junior in hihigh school, and his brother totold me about the way in which this has affected his brother at a very vulnerable time, six years old, to have his fatather disasappear. 60-y-year-old man, highly educated, now consigned to a cage for the next three years for literally having done nothing other than try to save hihis family from starvation, starvation that occurred because of the same government that just prosecuted him for doing that. this is the kind of story that if you go into muslim communities in the united states you will hear over and again. it's the sort of thing you can become angry about if you

. >> did you see video out of kansas city missouri. >> what? >> that is heading our way we will play that after the break it's time, america. there's work to be done. it's not going to be easy but there's grit inside of you. and if you need extra motivation the grad fund at strayer university can help push you forward. because up to your last year of classes could be on us. that's right. on us. today is the day. strayer university. let's get it, america. >>> you know my friend bob lives in kansas city missouri. >> you guys text through every morning. >> look at this, that is kansas city, missouri and kansas city, kansas people running for their lives. >> how will they barbecue in that. >> that is your biggest concern. >> they are known for their barbecues. >> well, true, well, they have to do it inside. >> thunder, lightening, severe weather, a lot of hail, lot of hail, and no injuries were reported but that same system, is heading our way. >> what do they say turn around don't drawn is that right. >> sue lulu win ski is in with the weather. >>