senator murry. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and i'm glad that we're able to continue this discussion about the 340b program with witnesses from the government accountability office and the department of health and human services office of the inspector general. i'm intere so many hospitals and health centers stretch their resources and serve their communities and how we can strengthen and preserve it. 340b is critical for safety net providers that care for patients and families with the greatest needs and fewest resources. the program works by requiring pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs at a lower price to health providers who take on a larger burden by serving vulnerable populations and low income patients. the congressionallal intent of this program is to help providers stretch scarce federal resources and provide more comprehensive services. they're using their 340b savings to do that. olympic medical center uses 340b savings in squim washington to fund the only full service cancer center on the olympic peninsula allowi

senator murry. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. in fiscal year 2015. the va was given a three-year surge of 207 million in the sfva funding to improve ability to rehouse growing members of homeless veterans. that surge funding has now expired. and these communities are seeing services decrease for veterans and their communities. and these community haves been saying they've relied heavily on that resource to decrease homelessness. congress has increased the annual vf authorization in the last year, we still have an 88 million-dollar gap. i wanted to ask why your budget, dr. clancy, did not include sufficient funding to maintain the program at its current operating level. >> i would need to take that for the record to look at the year. >> it was a three-year surge granted back then. >> what i would say to you is we have a particular problem. we've seen progress in homelessness over all among veterans with the exception of some selected cities on the west coast. seattle, l.a., san francisco, and so forth. and working with hud and our other partners, we a

and sar rather murry. and josh camp bell who was an fbi supervisory agent and an assistant to jamt comey. jeff you first, president met with rosenstein at the white house. sflaned an investigation of the investigation and appears he's getting his way. >> don, it does appear that there is going to be that investigation. we saw the president was calling for it over the weekend. you see the video of it here of the department attorney general, the fbi director, the director of national intelligence as well coming to the white house. they met for a little under an hour or so, and boy to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. we didn't get much of an emotion or mood in there. when they were leaving they were all smiles. the reality is, this was a very big moment here today. the department of justice essentially agreed to ek up and down its investigation having the inspector general essentially do what the president wanted and look into the considerable source. now, there is a different school of thought from some

let's get right now cnn sara murry join us and tell us all about this.ara, i believe what it is as we were watching, giuliani says trump reimbursed cohen for the $130,000, saying he knew about the general arrangement but not the specifics of it. >> that's right. he came back to that and giuliani says it was paid over a period of time. remember, miguel cohen says he was doing this on his own, on the president's behalf, that he did not consult necessarily with the president on this. president trump when we spoke to reporters on air force one not too long ago says he didn't know about this payment stormy daniels and says you're going to have to check with my personal lawyer, cohen. the bottom line up to now is that the president didn't know about this payment or was involved in these payments. and michael cohen sort of took these thing upon himself as donald trump's fixers to take care of thing. we heard something different from giuliani trying to backtrack a bit and saying i haven't looked into this. of course he's now one of the main players on trump's le

so i'll go to ranking member and senator murry. >> thank you very much. and thank you senator test tear for yielding. thank you for being here. i have to stay i'm really disappointed in this administration's treatment of our immigrants and religious minorities and many others. i can't say i'm shocked. i listened to president trump's rhetoric during the campaign but i am disappointed and i'm going to keep standing with these families across our country to fight back, whether talking about dreamers who have come out of the shadows to participate in the daca program, or whether talking about tps recipients who have been part of our communities for decades. there are families being torn apart at our borders and banning people from visiting our country because of their religion. so i want to say i do not agree with this administration every step of the way. but i want to talk to you about one of the more damaging decisions. in december, acting pregnant women in our policy. and the new policy a lot more pregnant women will be stuck in detention longer period of