kennedy, if confirmed, will have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our nation's health care system. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic and has been a leading advocate for health care transparency both for patients and for taxpayers. mr. kennedy has also clearly responded to our questions during the rigorous due diligence process and his hearing also and in the course of answering over 900 questions for the record that were asked by members of this committee. in response to members of the committee, mr. kennedy has even amended his ethics agreement, going beyond what is required by the government office. mr. kennedy has proven his commitment to the role of secretary of the hhs. and i will vote in favor is the nomination-- of his nomination. i strongly encourage my colleagues on both sides of the altar do the same. with that i reckon eyes are ranking member senator wyden for his remarks. sen. wyden: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i will have a brief statement, and then several of my collect on our side are going to make brief st

and the same is true for the person who is responsible for our nation's health. the secretary of health and human services is responsible for making sure that the best science guides our health care, from developing lifesaving medicines to preventing deadly diseases. this job requires a commitment to science, facts, and to public health. but the nominee before us today, robert f. kennedy jr., has spent much of his career doing the exact opposite. rejecting science, spreading conspiracy theories, and putting public health at risk. that's not someone that i want in charge of keeping arizonans healthy. and that would be his job, by the way -- responding to disease outbreaks, approving new medicines and treatments, overseeing health care coverage for millions of arizonans and millions more americans. so this isn't just some bureaucratic decision that we're about to make. this is about whether the next hhs secretary will protect public health or undermine it with dangerous misinformation. let's be clear about mr. kennedy's record. this is not someone who is simply aski

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are people who work in the state and local health departments who teach and do research at our nation's health centers, public interest groups like the diabetes association and other nonprofits interested in health, a lot of them small. host: as the executive director of the american public health association, is rfk junior qualified to serve as health and human services secretary? guest: we believe he is the wrong guy for this job. we don't believe he has the proper training, the management skills and the judgment to do this job well and we saw that on full display during the two hearings he had this week. host: talk about proper training. what is needed? guest: somebody with a background in health. we have had a lot of attorneys in that job but they all had health experience. they have been legislators or they had a broad health experience in healthcare financing or health insurance. he does not have that. he is an environmental lawyer that has been in a very narrow focus area. environment is important for your health but he does not have the broad range of skills necessary for this job. hos

yesterday, colleagues, the director general of health from samoa, called this claim a total fabrication. peddling these conspiracy theories as the nation's chief health officer is going to be deadly for kids across the country. on abortion, mr. kennedy's answers once again raise still more questions. he refused to tell us whether he would blindly follow a directive from donald trump to break the law and end access to mifepristone, and he seemed to have no understanding of his role in enforcing existing federal laws that guarantee women the right to life saving abortion care. mr. kennedy also failed on several occasions to show a basic understanding of the medicare and medicaid programs. he would be tasked with overseeing colleagues. that alone should be disqualifying. mr. kennedy has given us no reason to believe it will be anything other than a rubber stamp for plans to gut medicaid and rip health care away from the american people and be a yes man if ordered by mr. trump to take an illegal action. i close with this colleagues today. we're going to make a judgment about the future of science in this country. we're going to make decision

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is unfit to lead the highest health office in our nation. t of all, rfk has no -- let me repeat -- no health or medical experience. that in and of itself should be a red flag on this nominee who is supposed to be tasked with leading our nation's health agency. but sadly that's not where the red flags end. from his radical and dangerous opinions on vaccines and other public health to his promises to cut medical research to his ever changing position on women's rights to access reproductive health care, he has proven that he lacks the credibility, the knowledge, and the capability to be the secretary of health and human services. so let's take a step back. when president trump ran his campaign, he ran a campaign on lowering costs for working americans. well, where has that promise gone. we saw today that inflation has gone up in the last quarter. it's over 3% now. and we've seen nothing from president trump's first weeks in office that addresses the high cost of health care, of food, of housing, of child care. two weeks ago this administration

his success will be tied to the health of our nation. he has the opportunity to address the most pertinent issues affecting americans' health. we also need to reform institutions like fda and nih and those as have already been indicated are my priorities as chairman of the help committee. i look forward to his support in accomplishing it. if confirmed, i look forward to working together with mr. kennedy to achieve president trump's mission of improving the trump's mission of improving the from washington to across the country. north carolina republican congressman afghan war veteran and armed service committee member talks about his legislative priorities and house republicans agenda. tennessee democrat member of the senate judiciary talks about elon musk doge ever. president trump's meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin yahoo. also political echo no correspondent reviewing the use of tariffs to achieve policy goals. c-span washington journal, join the conversation live at seven eastern wednesday morning on c-span, c-spa now or onl

his success will be tied to the health of our nation. he has the opportunity to address the most pertinent issues affecting americans' health. we also need to reform institutions like fda and nih and those as have already been indicated are my priorities as chairman of the help committee. i look forward to his support in accomplishing it. if confirmed, i look forward to working together with mr. kennedy to achieve president trump's mission of improving the help of eslp of

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will oversee the nation's health care. he was confirmed by the senate yesterday on a 52-48 vote largely along party lines. mitch mcconnell the only republican to vote with democrats in opposition. later on in the day yesterday sworn in at the, in the overall office at the white house supreme court justice neil gorsuch delivering the swearing in it r.f.k. jr. as president trump watched. also yesterday agriculture second brook collins was confirmed it lead the department 72-28 including 19 democrats in support for her. kash patel the pick to lead f.b.i. the senate judiciary committee vetoed 12-10 along party lines to proceed with his nomination and that will head then to the spat floor. robin in silver spring, democratic caller. we are in open forum. good morning. host: -- caller: i want to talk about fraud, waste and abuse. one thing i notice is that elon musk and trump are accusing the federal government for a lot of fraud, waste and abuse, which i'm sure there's some we can find. but i want people to realize that some of

the national science foundation, the national health institute.ll of those are critical funding sources for ongoing research and medical, mental as well as economics. so that is happening, and those research programs are coming to a stop, or they have stopped and they're not likely to start up again. also, take a look at golden gate national park, all of that. and over on the east bay side, there are three other national parks that are losing summer employees as well as probational employees. so the services and the availability of access to those parks is likely, as is already, and is likely to continue to be very bad in the months ahead. we know you. yosemite is going to be a very difficult place to find enjoyment because of the national park service employees. some are not being hired. but we can go on and on about this. some of this is deadly serious. we know, for example, and you heard part of it there about the united states agency for international development, which provides critical food for starving people all around the world, whether t

gaza the second largest in the west bank and health services are in to go to building a strong national healthtem. they handle the role to play in education in gaza today and 636 and 50000 girls and boys living the rubble learning nothing more than how to survive ever early left more than two years of learning. absent they have the diversity to bring the children back to learning is so great is this for resuming learning gaza more than two or 60000 children households enrolled in our own homeland learning and if we failed to resume education in gaza come into preserve the occupied west bank, will sacrifice an entire generation of palestinian children treated members of counsel, political effort is compounded by financial challenges in deciding to and reduce the concentration to the agency pretty and appealing than urgent increasing financial support in the early disbursement of allocated cost review currently on hold. and i also two -underscore the agency long-standing commitment to neutrality rated presentation advisory commission meeting november, appear that a high level action plan to impl

health science as a whole. to place mr. kennedy atop our nation's largest public health agency is to provide this voice of constantly questioning science and telling parents they shouldn't get their kids vaccinated. it gives that voice a megaphone. people are welcome to their opinions. certainly they are in this chamber and walking down the street. that's fine. this is america. but it is giving this voice that is not based in science a megaphone. for generations america has led the way on medical research and global health. our nation's scientists gave the world pennell sill lynn -- penicillin, anesthesia and more. mr. kennedy's puts decades of scientific advancement at risk. so much so in fact that the "wall street journal" editorial board, not exactly a bastion of liberalism, called it a threat to american medical innovation. of course mr. kennedy's opposition to science is hardly a secret. over the years he has repeatedly chosen to ignore scientific evidence in favor of conspiracy theories, most notably those involving vaccines. let me be absolut

just yesterday colleagues the director general of health from somoa called this claim a total fabrication peddling these conspiracy theories as the nation's chief health officer is going to be deadly for kids across the country. on abortion, mr. kennedy's answers once again raised still more questions. he refused to tell us whether he would blindly follow a directive from donald trump to break the law and end access to the abortion drug and no understanding his role in enforcing existing federal laws that guarantee women the right to life-saving abortion care. mr. kennedy also failed on several occasions to show a basic understanding of the medicare and medicaid programs he would be tasked with overseeing. colleagues, that alone should be disqualifying. mr. kennedy has given us no reason to believe he will be anything other than a rubber stamp for plans to gut medicaid and rip healthcare away from the american people and be a yes man if ordered by musk or trump to take illegal actions. i close with this, colleagues. today we are going to make a judgment about the future of science in this country. we are going to make decisions that will

senators start voting on the nation's health and human services secretary in about an hour. just past 6 a.m. here on the east coast. here's a live look at the capitol. a little cloudy this morning. good morning everyone. i'm jim sciutto in for kasie hunt. great to have you with us. and new this morning a wave of firings is now under way here in washington. donald trump and elon musk charging ahead at full speed in their quest to drastically reduce the federal workforce. last night, some employees at the department of education and small business administration began receiving letters informing them, quote, the agency finds, based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment, employment at the agency would be in the public interest. the full scope of the firings is not clear yet. so far, the trump administration has not said exactly how many people will be impacted. the wider doge driven effort to fire federal workers receiving a vital legal boost. yesterday, a federal judge allowed the president's so-called deferred. resignation offer to pr

has moved one step closer to becoming the nation's health secretary.ted along party lines to advance his confirmation and a final vote is expected later this week. u.s. inflation increased more than expected last month at higher egg and energy prices helped push up the cost of living for americans. inflation rose to 3%, the highest in six months. above the two .9% expected by economists this. comes weeks after the u.s. central banks decides to hold rates saying there's significant uncertainty about where they're coming might be headed. it poses a challenge to president trump who may tackling inflation a secular -- centerpiece of his campaign. the trump administration is blaming inflation on the preceding biden administration. here is what white house press secretary karoline leavitt had to say. >> we did receive those numbers and they were worse than expected, which tells us that the biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with. as for tackling inflation and interest rates, the president has made his position on this very clear. he want

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is now officially in charge of the nation's health.but his first goal is regulating what people eat. listen. >> we want to do a number of things, but not take away choice from people. the one place that i would say that we need to really change policies is the snap program and food stamps, and in school lunches, because there the federal government in many cases paying for it. and we shouldn't be subsidizing people to eat poison. >> republicans love this push for healthier food. but when michelle obama lobbied for the very same thing, this was reaction. >> when i heard this, i thought. >> get your. >> hands off. >> my fries, lady. >> if i want to be a fat, fat, fatty and shovel french fries all day long, that is my choice. we're going. >> to have, uh, you know, the government fining us if we use salt. >> a new report finds that americans are consuming a dangerous amount of salt. and right now, the fda is pushing to regulate how much salt is in certain foods. but as salt, always a bad thing. >> i hate. >> the government getting involved

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are people who work in the state and local health departments who teach and do research at our nation's health centers, public interest groups like the diabetes association and other nonprofits interested in health, a lot of them small. host: as the executive director of the american public health association, is rfk junior qualified to serve as health and human services secretary? guest: we believe he is the wrong guy for this job. we don't believe he has the proper training, the management skills and the judgment to do this job well and we saw that on full display during the two hearings he had this week. host: talk about proper training. what is needed? guest: somebody with a background in health. we have had a lot of attorneys in that job but they all had health experience. they have been legislators or they had a broad health experience in healthcare financing or health insurance. he does not have that. he is an environmental lawyer that has been in a very narrow focus area. environment is important for your health but he does not have the broad range of skills necessary for this job. hos

we don't have as much respect as we have and the national health service in the u. k, which is free until point of service, although not disabled, people are paying out of pocket to get extra support and service which often happens, which is called the invisible cost of disability. and i'm for the insurance company . so, you know, worked around this is the more conditions you have, the higher premiums will be an item. what can american system so i can't say like, you know, an exact way of, of working. but my friends have been and he live in america. i've said it is just this just battery after battery after battery. yeah. mm hm. so i think what we really need to do to have these conversations to make sure that people are getting the right care and support is to understand the accessibility and support and treatment isn't necessarily just the medical full treatment. what you said is very important because obviously determines in so many other aspects of your life in terms of getting a job, your integration staff is and, and so one um beyond these challenges, there's

still ahead on algae 0, donald trump controversial pizza, national health secretary is on trying to get the job back to overcoming a major. have had a lot of that high pressure is a dominant feature across europe at the moment. so there's lots of dry in settled whether to be found across most central areas. and we'll see that trend pickup for the northwest. yes, it is looking a little bit breezy with some showers in scotland, but for bruce and an island, we all seem to win to sunshine. some bright to spells here now that would hold will turn cloudy, and cooler as we go towards the weekend. but enjoy it. now there's lots of sunshine as well for the south, west of spain and portugal with temperature is sitting in the teams. temperatures are above average, across scans in a bit where we're seeing some wintery features come in. so no way, winter, we features a rule. so the dominant factor across that southeast corner was snow coming in to, to keith, went to weather, pulling into cyprus and eastern parts of the mediterranean. now we'll get cooler across that southeast corner. if we have a lo

even on friday, the national institutes of health terminated some researchers.d i mean, just what are you hearing from the people that you represent who are being targeted because of die? i just i do not understand this. >> well, i'll tell you. i talked to many researchers. >> that our union. represents on friday. >> that were going through panic attacks. >> all week. >> that were just recovering from panic attacks after i had talked to them. and it was just an incredibly dark week at work. right. >> and it's not just the losing. >> of the jobs, because obviously that's awful. and obviously that's going to delay research. but some of these things. >> that are harder to see. >> is this chilling. effect on research that that might have. why would i be the one to take on this multiyear, complex project to solve alzheimer's or als? if i could just be terminated at any time? >> why would i. >> be the one to try to solve heart disease, something that could take years. >> and. >> years of my hard working time, when i don't know if the money will be there? >> that's wha

remotely killed in a drone and talked to more wounded by as rarely fire this according to the nation's health ministry. thousands, the locals meantime returning to what is basically not being left is all corresponding states we on tuesday morning they came in that drove south liberties, but it is funny. returning to that homes of to 15 long months for weeks i have been shot that by his way, the soldiers who refused to leave the land. but finally in the 80 hours as the see spot extension came to an end, they still wanted to withdrawal one mind waits for his grandson outside lita. schroeder but didn't know how to know. i feel like i am building with a desire to return to my homeland, to this last issue, there is nothing more precious than a homeland homeland is life. it is all we have i it can for me. lead up is my country and my home. it is the place where i have spent my entire life. we were able to return without coverage of course, and without weapons and strings. thanks to a law. that law is the most important thing. a huge thank you, move on to the resistance for everything they have done

health, safety, national security. simple. how do we best protect the american people in terms of health, includes but not limited to medicare and medicaid along with the affordable care act. how do we get to an agreement that protects the american people terms of health and safety, national security and economic well-being? immaculate safety to come up with a proposal, the conversation with the american people with these proposals that may be included? when in 2017 because republicans decided to go it alone. in common sense way, we at the common sense caucus. the agreement in 2017 around tax reform decided jam it down their throats of the american people set up a situation where 82% of the benefits without the wealthiest countries and in america. go back to 2017 just related to this, a combination about lowering the corporate tax rate to make sure america could be more effective 33% and the obama administration budget indicated prepared 28% for right republican ceos came to us and said 24% economically republicans were really

the department of health and human services overseas and nation's largest health care programs, providing coverage for nearly two in every five americans, the medicare, medicaid and chip among other initiatives presents challenges, especially in the face of a rapidly aging population, stubbornly high cost and persistent barriers to access. however, this also provides us the opportunity to deliver bold, transformative solutions. as a committee, we share a commitment to advancing common sense, bipartisan policies that improve the delivery of health care in this country. this committee has worked to realign incentives and the prescription drugs by chain, to enhance access in rural communities, to expand the availability of telehealth and improve the broken clinician payment structure. across these and other issues i look forward to working with the administration to continue pursuing meaningful reforms that serve the american people more effectively and more efficiently. too often, patients encounter a health-care system that is disjointed and is a dysfunctional maze. complex and bureaucrati

. >>> well, the wave of federal layoffs now impacting the nation's top public health agency. about 700 employees from the centers for disease and control and prevention had been fired since friday. among the layoffs, ph.d. trained scientists who help local and state officials respond to outbreaks. the cuts are also impacting the workers with the food and drug administration, the fda, and the national institutes of health. and there are also concerns federal cuts could impact fire preventions in california. placer county in the sierra and more than half of their force managed by the u.s. forest service. and now people living in high fire risk areas are worried about mitigation projects like controlled burns won't happen. and the fear is more fuel could mean a bad fire season. >> yeah, it is nerve-racking. if it wasn't for kind of the teams that were prepped during the mosquito fire, i'm sure many more would have lost their houses. up here, i mean, if you look around, we're surrounded by trees and nature. if it's not taken care of, we lose a lot more than just our houses. >> we

robert f kennedy jr, our nation's new health secretary, says that taking that vaccine makes us the land of the cowed home of the slave. robert f kennedy jr has advocated. i kid you not, not only against that vaccine. in the abstract, he has advocated specifically that getting measles is good for you, that you should try to get measles, quote, facts about measles. you won't learn from miss fama pedia. i don't even know what that means. number six unlike merck's vaccine, wild measles infection confers lifetime immunity from measles having measles in childhood, he says, quote, may also reduce the risk of atopic disease, heart disease, hodgkin's and non-hodgkin's lymphomas, and some other cancers. got that? get measles. try to get measles. it's good for you. it keeps you from getting cancer, says podcast man. but if you're the chairman of the senate health committee and you're a practicing physician. and our country has a current measles outbreak that has already put at least 13 kids in the hospital as of tonight, you know, one of the things you could do is you could call podcast guy in for

i think she's been getting health care through the national institutes of health, cutting edge healthe thousands of americans who seek nih health care every year. but he wants to lay people off. he doesn't really know what it does. his cynicism about this role, his cynicism about science, the way he uses it for his own personal fame and benefit is really, really damaging to the cause of science and progress. and it will impact people all across this country in just dramatic and terrible ways. >> senator maggie hassan, thank you for speaking so passionately with us. and at that hearing, i appreciate you joining me today. we'll be right back. >> thank you so much for. >> having me. >> back. pain. >> when you've. got it. >> you know it. introducing the. zpack from copper finn. >> our groundbreaking technology. >> designed for compression support of your lower back and core like you've never experienced before, engineered with our most innovative patent pending advanced x compression system. evenly distributes the support across a broader surface. area of your back for relief of lower bac

to do the advanced will help in national health you can have national security if you don't have health. >> are you supportive people in these countries allowing us to have early detection? >> it really does and we have missions, we can monitor the spread if they are trained in the medical field and all of these things, we can see what's breaking out and quarantine the area before it gets to pandemic and his national security, we don't want to cloud the goods they do with these programs should never have happened because it ruins the whole readability of us. >> do the witnesses have a comment? twenty-eight seconds. >> every single word, absolutely correct. i didn't think of adding in the institute, that is a good idea. [laughter] >> these are important ideas that we have the strength and capability of other countries countries in africa and year after year we spent a ton of money but we are not getting ownership from these countries and that is more. >> thank you, my time is up. >> my chair now recognizes. >> the trump administration and unelected billing and elon musk, a reckless illeg

trump plan would affect the ucs epps research. >> ucsf gets more research dollars from the national institutes of health than any other public institution in the nation. but that research is now in jeopardy. following the nh is announcement friday, but it was cutting billions of dollars of medical research funding 2 universities across the nation. >> it's completely friend to means that a lot of researchers can't do their work. their lives will work. people have to be laid off. it would really have devastating impacts to research and our research advances, human health. so we don't want to do that. doctor monica gandhi is an infectious disease specialist ucsf. she says the funding the trump administration wants to cut at ucsf and that labs across the country pays for things like support staff, lab space, electricity and other types of infrastructure. >> she says if the cutbacks prevail, it's the sick who will suffer. >> we are really big cancer center at ucsf. so, for example, we're studying new cancer drugs. and if that has to stop, and that means that someone can't get the most novel come to therapy.

ad is really probably going to spur a national health care debate, because they're talking about a lowhink, kind of shocking and will likely be very effective for the company. >> also, tom brady and snoop dogg coming together to fight anti-semitism. >> man, i hate that things are so bad that we have to do a commercial about it. >> me too. >> some advertisers opting for a unifying message after a divisive election year. >> jeep ad was kind of unexpected and stunning in a way, but it was a unifying message. you know, for america from harrison ford and, you know, taking a little bit of a shot at a competitor by saying he's doing the ad, even though his last name is ford, that really builds brand equity. >> and heartwarming nostalgia. >> there's a reason. >> and in the can't unsee this category seal as a seal. >> baby, i compare it to a kiss from a lamb on the bed. ooh, the more i think of it. strange. i'm a seal. yeah. >> alison kosik, abc news, new york. >> is anyone still having nightmares about that? >> things you can't unsee, right? >> oh, man. >> i fell asleep during some of them, i

the national institutes of health is going to be cutting funding by $4 billion for medical research. the order by the trump administration is taking effect on monday. locally, ucsf stands to lose millions of critical dollars. it's one of the biggest recipients in the entire country. but as abc seven news reporter tara campbell found out, the school is now pushing back. >> the bay area's medical researchers are bracing but not backing down as they stare down devastating funding cuts set to go into effect monday. friday, the trump administration announced the national institutes of health will start limiting the amount of money it doles out for what are called indirect costs payments that cover the costs of things like research, labs, equipment and staff. >> you're cutting off universities at the knees. you're not allowing research to continue. this is not how you conduct science. >> doctor monica gandhi is the director of the ucsf center for aids research. the university is among the top nih funded institutions in the country. in 2023, it received more than $789 million in grants from

a vaccine critic running the nation's public health agencies became a reality. secretary robert f.dy jr.. owes his new title in large part to a coalition known as the maha movement. we spent time learning about how wellness influencers took their mission to make america wealthy again. all the way to president trump's cabinet. >> let us in. let us. >> in october 2024. battle creek, michigan. >> this is a monumental moment. >> an army of protesters delivered 400,000 petitions to kellogg's headquarters, demanding the company make good on a pledge to remove artificial dyes from its food. >> i'm here for the mom. all the moms who. >> struggle to feed. >> their children healthy food. >> the leader, vani hari, a food activist known as the food babe, who says cutting out the processed and fast food of her youth not only helped her shed weight, but curbed serious health struggles. she has a wellness brand and a massive online following. >> i feel like my voice. >> represents so many ordinary citizens. >> moms and activists and dads and and so many people across the united. >> states that ha

health. i always remind people to national institutes of health enough the national institute basic science for this is an opportunity to look at what those priorities are. the fact that 77% of young people's graduate from high school cannot pass at military entrance physical exam is very disturbing. the fact that we have a chronic disease epidemic in america is substantial. so, i think part of this is looking at these agencies and trying to resize them for priorities. i do not know what the ultimate consequences are going to be. whether itt is going to be good or not good. i do think though we could try to focus on this time to transform our health systems and health agencies that they are focused onhe health. that they are not focused on what i say is an equal disease system pair we have to build a health system. whether that's the research nih does to deliver solutions, or whether that's an agency that iran, cdc which i have enormous respect for. but i will say that agency is sorty of moved away from its primary mission of what i call a health response agency it has become culturally very mu

health. i always remind people at the national institutes of health, it's not the national institutes of basic. so i think this is an opportunity to look at what those priorities are. the fact that 77% of young people graduate from high school, can't pass the military entrance physical exam, that's very disturbing. the fact is we have a chronic disease epidemic in america that's substantial. so, i think part of this is looking at these agencies and trying to resize them for priorities. i don't know what the ultimate consequences are going to be, whether it's going to be good or not good. i do think though that we could all try to focus on this time to transform our health systems and our health agencies so that they're focused on health. they're not focused on what i say is we build a disease system. we need to build a health system and whether that's the research that nih does, and trying to look at solutions, or whether that's an agency that i ran, an agency which i have enormous respect for, but i will say that that agency has sort of moved away from its primary mission of what i call a pub

ground and get to an agreement that meets the needs of the american people in terms of their health, safety, national security and economic well-being. pretty simple. that's all we want to do. how do we best protect in terms of their health that includes but not limited to, medicare and medicaid, along with the affordable care act that protects the american people in terms of their health, safety, national security and their economic well-being? reporter: let's say republicans do come up with a tax proposal that you have been looking for. going back to 2017, any lessons you have learned on attacking that 2017 tax bill that you can apply to the conversation you will be having in your district, with the american people about the issues that you have with some of these proposals that may be included in this tax bill? mr. jeffries: we were very disappointed in 2017 because once again the republicans decided to go it alone as opposed to working with democrats in a commonsense way. we, house democrats, are the commonsense caucus. instead of working with democrats in a commonsense way to actually find bipar

and it's an outline that how our nation deals with any and all threats to the health, safety, and security of the nation where a community's resources may be spent. so i think we're better prepared. if i was going to recommend to the new president that we should be testing these systems at a local, state, national, and global level to make sure that when and if we are threatened with any and all hazards that can threaten the health, safety, or security of our nation, we understand how this rolls out, how we surge, how we get together, what the communication networks are, what is our logistical supply? all of those things are important. and if you don't test them once in a while, you won't remember how to use them when an emergency occurs. - dr. richard carmona, for your service to this country and for your expertise here on "firing line," thank you for joining me. - margaret, thank you so much for being the portal that the public needs so we can educate them as to these challenges and hopefully get rid of a lot of the mis- and disinformation which is scaring people today. (bright music) -