host: the nih was pretty young 1964, 1965.bout host: the nih was pretty young then. caller: are you familiar with dr. devito? guest: what she is talking about is wonderful to hear. we had something called the nih clinical center, which is one of the world's largest research hospitals. you can only be a patient of this hospital if you're on a research protocol. and it continues to this day to offer hope to patients who may not have it other places. from all overs the united states. it does a wonderful job. i can tell you myself i happen to be a cancer patient on a protocol at the nih clinical center myself. i can well appreciate lynn's is a story that we repeat every day here at the nih. host: dr. guttmacher, you are currently a cancer patient? i am, and i get my cancer research protocol there. i know it has been good for me. it makes me feel good, because i know in doing this, i've created a research legacy myself. i've contributed to a study of an experimental drug that was just approved by the fda last month for more general loose -- general use for folks with leuk

as long as this committee funded nih or the congress funded nih at a minimum of inflation, then that money would flow on top of it and be a supplement to it. i've been preaching this for 25 years. that some of this health insurance money that we spend ought to go for research and i'm sorry the health insurance industry has always opposed it. but it seemed to me that -- i just say this, this is one way of getting some amount of money that you know every year is going to be there. with that, thank you very much dr. collins. we'll town our second panel. >> thank you. >> dr. michael herd, congressman dennis moore and mr. seth rogan. while they dome the table i'll go ahead and introduce them. first, dr. michael herd, a senior principal researcher at the rand corporation. where he directs the rand center for the study of ageing. also a professor at the party rand graduate school in santa monica, california. his research focuses on economics of retirement, social security and social welfare systems and other topics related to the ageing. congressman moore who has served in the house of repr

i was just said nih. i call it the national institute of hope, that national institutes of hope and i think that is what brings the men and women and family members here. my question because we want to do something in this year's appropriations and i might add every single senator appears also on the appropriations committee. we can feel proud of the fact that we put close to $30 billion into the nih a billion more than last year. we increased the national institutes of aging why $100 million and completed money for the brain initiative so we think we are make in good progress. dr. collins and others deemed witnesses, we would like to be able to accelerate these breakthroughs. what you just testified seemed so promising but i feel we also need a sense of urgency because we are facing an epidemic in this country and the impact again on the family budget in the medicaid budget and ultimatelultimatel y the impact of people being in long-term care. dr. collins i remember what senator harkin and senator spectr

host: the nih was pretty young 1964, 1965.bout host: the nih was pretty young then.: are you familiar with dr. devito? guest: what she is talking about is wonderful to hear. we had something called the nih clinical center, which is one of the world's largest research hospitals. you can only be a patient of this hospital if you're on a research protocol. and it continues to this day to offer hope to patients who may not have it other places. from all overs the united states. it does a wonderful job. i can tell you myself i happen to be a cancer patient on a protocol at the nih clinical center myself. i can well appreciate lynn's is a story that we repeat every day here at the nih. host: dr. guttmacher, you are currently a cancer patient? i am, and i get my cancer research protocol there. i know it has been good for me. it makes me feel good, because i know in doing this, i've created a research legacy myself. i've contributed to a study of an experimental drug that was just approved by the fda last month for more general loose -- general use for folks with leukemia, l

collins at nih. as i was listening to the testimony it occurred to me it would be useful for me to understand whether the prevalence of alzheimer's is increasing or is that just a factor of us living longer? i don't know the answer to that but i assume that has a significant cost consequence so are you expecting greater costs in the future as a result of longevity and then just scientifically on every search basis has alzheimer's been with us and to the degree that it is today and it's now that we live longer and therefore it's not that we are physiologically changing. it's just that we live longer and therefore the evidence exists? i don't know whether that's a question for you.are hurd but before i forgot my question i wanted to make certain i got it in front of dr. collins. >> i can say something about that in two ways. we looked in our data to see if we saw in a trending prevalence adjusting for age so you're exactly right. one needs to be quite careful about increased dementia due to increases i

our nih research forms the basis of all of those recommendations. for example, we funded a study that developed the dash dietary plan. it is rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, and that diet has been shown to lower blood pressure. indeed, it lowers blood pressure almost as well as the pills you can take. we recognize that eating healthy reduces those risk factors i talked about before that drive the development of the clogging of the arteries that leads to .eart attacks a healthy diet is critical. we also know that smoking -- stopping smoking is critical to prevent heart attack. clearly, moving more, eating healthier, all good things for your heart. host: can we still enjoy a good steak? guest: as your grandmother probably told you, all things in moderation. it is important to recognize that having a diet in which proteins are really low in fat is a critical aspect of the healthy lifestyle. is also, what we're learning -- what is the connection between diet and heart disease? intriguing research suggests that fruits and veget

i have been two nih and it is not exactly the motel 6. for $3000 i would do it.tists plan to the results from the previous study in a few months. they're looking for healthy people between the ages of 18 and 50. there was a second event in maryland. are we in for a warm-up? dear future olympian, one day you'll be standing on a podium. and here's exactly how you'll get there. you'll work hard, and you'll fall hard. you'll lose sometimes when you really should have won. you'll win sometimes when no one thought you had a shot. and you'll never, ever stop. we know this. because you're one of us. at citi, we believe in everyone's potential, which is why citi and evan are giving back to community sports programs to help future athletes every step of f the way. >> special olympics maryland is rescheduling its annual polar bear plunge to march 8. it was canceled beef -- because of weather. one polar bear plunge did go on as scheduled at sandy point stake -- state park. it was canceled because strong currents pose a safety concerns. after round of the bitter cold weather

then i look at academic medical centers which rely on medicare to train the future doctors rely on nih for the research as well. we all know medicare spending and that will get reined in at some point. but in the meantime it is creating hospitals as we know them today. and then we have ancillary providers and home health what was it be like? welcome if you're hospitals in the city's and rural areas and fewer ancillary providers. in this quote i love from the former president of cardiology, medicare made it as simple as that and we couldn't have stated it more truthfully. medicare spending doing this with the services and there's a number of doctors that started from an explicit government program and we have about twice the number as we did back then and medical schools derive a significant amount of their revenues from these sources and heavily reimbursed by medicare and medicaid and federal grants and research to put them in there by 50%. that number has gone up again because medicare pays for them and the downside is that we have the way we pay for them, we have discouraged the prim

nih? seems on the forefront. >> a friend of ours got alzheimer's at the age of 50. >> my wife's mother was in her 50s. >> he died in a few years. my mom was 15 years. i think it is more normal, it takes a while. >> it is unbelievably painful. i didn't realize it was a fatal disease. >> let's go to "hardball." one problem i saw i didn't see senators sitting there. i saw harkin and moran and other seats empty. usually the senators at least show when the cameras were there. why weren't they there? >> i hope they had somewhere better to be. >> you think so? >> i think it is indicative of the mentality that we find so frustrating is that it seems to be low priority. it seems like these people don't care. that's the direct message they are giving by leaving during the testimony is that they don't care. two of them were falling asleep during the first part of the b. so they don't care. two of them are falling asleep during the first part of the testimony literally. i saw it happening. and then th

at first, the head of the nih is francis collins, and he is the one who sequenced -- or who led the human genome experiment. and he wanted to like map all diseases. that was his grand idea. and the drug companies were like are you crazy? we can't think of some big theoretical experiment like that. we want something that will go into our pipeline and help us make honmoney. so they looked at diseases what patients really needed and they came up with alzheimer's, diabetes, and they also came up with two autoimmune disorders, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. so they focused on those four for this initial five year project. >> so let's talk about this $230 million. put that in perspective about how much these companies would spend if they weren't part of this trial. >> this is peanuts to be honest with you for the pharmaceutical companies. but -- because they spend like over 200 something billion a year worldwide. but what they're doing here is something money can't buy. they're -- they have agreed to give their best scientists a lot of their tissue and blood samples and all their data for the

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>> they're talking millions for these trials and they're done right here in our backyard at nih. >> johnnie lee miller seemed a lot more laid back than the character we see on tv. >> he still has that same passion and it's really cool to see him out and front and center with a cause like this. he said he wasn't looking for something. the cause found him and elementary was just picked up for two more seasons doing very well. so tomorrow on wusa9 we'll talk about the show and he's going to give me some insight into that and perhaps if there's any kind of romance between him and lucy lu who plays watson. >> some sexual tension. >> think so? >> yes, there is. >>> i don't know if you believe in miracles. i know jonah needs one, but i certainly do. >> these folks in mississippi planning a funeral for their loved 1 until they got an interesting phone call. the nephew of his deceased uncle said they put him in a plastic body bag and zipped him up and took him away. two hours later they get a call from the mortician. williams' leg was moving. the family was told to get to the hospital right away. th

technology, but how that is applied to, increasingly, to health care, the other jurisdictions, the fda, the nih. and so it's very exciting, and i think that i have a skill set that fits with that and the leadership style that can leverage that. so i did announce my candidacy earlier this week and is will work hard at it. but it'll be a long effort as well. and i look forward to it. i think the competition is very important, the competition of ideas the candidates have, and then members will take their decision. >> host: how would you describe your working relationship with your current chair, greg walden, on the subcommittee, and fred upton, the full chair? >> guest: i think we have an excellent relationship. we respect one another, we have, of course, we've served together for some time before i was the ranking member of the subcommittee. and i think that we've produced important legislation on a bipartisan basis. i remember saying to the chairman, greg walden, you know, in our day, in our time the congress is really dysfunctional. but we can set a different model and an example here, and we d

do we need while we did some independent research time and institute for on at nih national institute of health for example or independent scientists who wanna take this on privately funded. we need this kind of research done the research coming out of the industry. it's getting somewhat biased results in favor of the product they're selling. no surprise there and wales in the long term scientific research done on this free in a short term studies were not given a lot of the long term once done so you don't think there should be any funds in the previous test. what is an opportunity for that. i think that i think all of these studies put another piece into the puzzle and can look at the data they think that when the most important things that we do need is privately funded research on this because it takes some of the bias had the whole of creation many of the privately funded research said the spread of petitions called the results of the well i suppose they could but it's a would be another piece of the puzzle. have any scientist or trip started with these additional test anywhere w

and there is a lot of basic science and nih-based studies and other -- a lot of work done in this arena described group of disorders since the late 1950s, when the first adults first presented with clinical symptoms for the disease. >> and yet, the reporters took an in-depth look into the case seem to be casting doubt on whether the folks at boston childrens really believe in this particular disease because justina's case is not an isolated one. >> yeah, hi, megyn, thank you. you know, i think children's does believe in this disease. but they use different criteria for diagnosing it than tuft's medical center does. and i think that is the root of the diagnostic dispute. the doctor knows this better than i. but there are certain tests that are sort of a standard criteria for diagnosing this disease. but some of those tests apparently missed actual cases. and so tufts uses a broader set of definitions for mitochondrial disease. >> at bottom, what we have here for folks at home is two hospitals disagreeing what justina has, and the second hospital getting custody of justina through dcs jus

wall street journal about a collaboration between ten of the biggest pharmaceutical companies and the nihey're going to combine money and the best and brightest of minds to find cures for diseases like alzheimer's and other things that especially affect the brain. this was a good example of public-private partnerships and way for americans to really put some muscle behind trying to figure out alzheimer's and other diseases. anybody else? >> done, done, done. going once, going twice. don't forget to set your dvress. we'll see you tomorrow. "special report" is up next. aut >> it is wednesday february 5th. round two. old man winter is at it again blasting the east coast. from half an inch of ice to a foot of snow maria molina tracking it all. >> breaking news while you were sleeping, four suspected heroin dealers arrested in the death of phillip seymour hoffman. plus new tests are revealing about the drugs that were found in the actor's apartment. >> are you willing to try anything to get a date. >> i am a lawyer. >> i went to harvard law school. >> i am a stewardess. >> how much it will cos

wall street journal about a collaboration between ten of the biggest pharmaceutical companies and the nihing to combine money and the best and brightest of minds to find cures for diseases like alzheimer's and other things that especially affect the brain. this was a good example of public-private partnerships and way for americans to really put some muscle behind trying to figure out alzheimer's and other diseases. anybody else? >> done, done, done. going once, going twice. don't forget to set your dvress. we'll see you tomorrow. "special report" is up next. >>> disastrous predictions for obamacare. millions will lose or quit their jobs, and millions more will lose their health insurance. this is "special report." >>> good evening. wrp shannon breen in for bret baier. new statistics on the immediate future of the president's health care plan has obama supporters scrambling for cover. number crunchers are making dire predictions about losses in the very areas the health care plan was supposed to bolster. employment and coverage. ed henry has tonight's top story. >> a fresh bl

$100 million in 2014, 20 million more than the requested by president and increased funding for the nih1 billion in the last appropriations bill. is funding still out of whack? >> the funding is still out of whack. it's exponentially more costly than other diseases that get, you know, more funding than it does and it -- yeah, it could use much more. i mean, i feel like it is great that they did that and i shouldn't scoff at that. it's a very large amount of money and i'm obviously grateful that that's moving things in the right direction. but, yeah, i mean, one of the doctors who was there was telling me that people who are choosing what type of career they want to enter as doctors are less inclined to choose alzheimer's if it's something that they want to procure because the funding is not steady enough to tell them as a doctor that it is financially a stable line of work to go into. and that, to me, was very upsetting. >> you also mentioned something i thought was really interesting in your testimony. that you have a lot of misconceptions about alzheimer's because of the way it's port

does this have to do with nih research and development? guest: they are the ones telling us that overdose deaths have surpassed car accidents. they tell us what the problem is. we know an awful lot about how heroin works in the brain. we have a lot of ways to treat heroin and opiate addiction. you may have heard of you been enorphine, of eup which blocks the opiate receptors in your brain. people can function and go back to being productive members of society and this pill stops there addiction. it has been around a decade. to have to be licensed prescribe it and you have to see your doctor a lot. us, she coversns breaking news and crime. we are talking heroin and substance abuse. there he for michigan on the democrats line. thank you for holding on. caller: i am more interested in the doctor's aspect of this. i busted my back 35 years ago and i have never had insurance. thearned a little bit about medical care we have in this country. i have never been addicted to drugs. i never had a problem with drugs until i started dealing with doctor

. >> over five years the nih will collaborate with drug companies and seven nonprofits to share researchilk in hopes of finding an effective treatment faster. >> there was a new report on colorectal cancer. simple home tests can save lives. jon, this is your specialty. why are these home tests so important? >> it turns out americans don't get proper screening for whatever answer. colon cancers have a tendency to bleed. if you do a simple test of your stool and look for invisible blood you can pick up colon cancer and it turns out 79% of the time you can pick up colon cancer. of course, they can't do a biofeed. they can't take it out. it's rotten for picking up polyps. it's polyps we can find with colonoscopy they're benign but in five or ten years you can prevent it from happening by plucking them out. >> is there anything new on that front in terms of how doctors can analyze what's going on? >> there's a new thing calls a pill cam. when i do colonoscopies, you advance the instrument and it's a long and winding road. sometimes it's tough to get a corner if it's angulated, kivg kinked, pr

ago in 1993 that there was a law passed that mandated the incluns clooufgs women and minorities in nihith the data. >> well, there's a real lack of focus, which is we're not actually including women in another enough bers to really understand the impact and then we're also not analyzing the data across all types of research and then there's the research that comes before a clinical trial. so really from stem cells to animal studies to human studies, we're really not focusing in on these sex differences across the board. >> why not? >> well, i think there's been a real lack of focus on this issue. and i'm so pleased to see that the awareness is being raised. you know, it took a law 20 years ago to include women and minorities. i think that there's been some focus, but we really haven't done enough. >> what kinds of drugs are we talking about? lesley talked about ambien as being the first. >> aspirin. something as simple as an aspirin. we learn it varies differently. we knew it prevented heart attack. now it prevents stroke, but only in women over the age of 65. statins, very commonly us

bernadine healey took over the nih and said with all the taxpayer money we're only doing tests on malesmen in you should be looking at them separately. we don't. >> and it even includes in your point aspirin. we're all told very frequently to take an aspirin every night at bed. that affects men and women differently, right? >> well, what larry cahill just said is we don't know. and the fda says they are not going to go back and look at all the other drugs. they're going to go back and look at other sleeping medications but not everything else on the shelf right now. and think about how much that would cost. think about how many medications there are. >> leslie if we metabolize ambien differently, do we metabolize staten differently? i mean the list could go on and on because men and women are taking the same amount when it comes to lipitor and other pills. >> we don't know. larry cahill says we should look. but they're not going to. >> why wouldn't they? >> because it's too expensive. it's ridiculous how many medications are on the market. it's not just statens. it's antidepressants, ev

as far as the marijuana issue, if you want to learn a lot about marijuana as far science, go to the nihand look at the work of the institute of addiction there. it is pretty remarkable how much problems they can cause. it acts as a carcinogen and long-term. they can cause cognitive decline over time. as we debate this issue, from the standpoint of the surgeon general, you look at the cost benefit and risk benefit analysis before you invoke any policy. there are often unintended consequences. host: our viewers will remember that you are a democratic candidate for senate back in 2012. what are you up to now? guest: i do a lot of work with the emf to muni. i teach at the university of arizona and ohio state university. i sit on some corporate boards. i work with private industry to --ntify merging science emerging science. awas recruited because candidate was needed. when the community: may come i work hard at it. i learned a lot because it is a whole different world once you are running from this. i'm very happy with what i'm doing and looking forward to continuing what i'm doing. eddie a

the director of the nih and the national institute of aging.rs for that part for the first panel, it was better attended and mark kirk who has you mentioned seth rogan tweeted and he was there for the first panel of medical experts. that's just one example of how things work. just keeping senator kirk as an example. he said in a follow-up tweet, you see he had to leave, but he was also meeting with constituents from his home state of illinois. they have other obligations. it does not make it easy or necessarily right for a witness. seth rogan or anybody else to sit there and speak to him, but several not. >> when do they get up and leave? he was the second speaker during the break or are people getting up while he was identifying? >> you know what, in virtually every hearing that happens, members of the senate and the house are getting up and moving around. it is not unusual. it is common practice for when people are testifying. it happens all the time. >> we were wondering because ben affleck is testifying. that is versus the seth rogan story.

important for investing in our future, many of those are under the domestic discretionary side, which are nih, research, early childhood, pel grants. maybe there's not as great a constituency because it's about children and the future, and what we don't want is for our deficit reduction to come at the expense of the investments in the future... and to change the composition of deficit reduction so we allow more investment in the future in education and training in the middle class and that our uppers are more directed towards the long-term and they are a responsible mix of revenues and a sensible mandatory savings. >> there will be further tax increases included in the budget is what you're saying. >> compared to what the status quo is right now, we would have a mix up future mandatory savings and future revenues that could be used to deal with the long-term situation but it would less of a drag on the economy now and allow for more investment and the things that we think are the most important for growth and productivity like research and education. >> would it be in there as something the p

washington journal is live from the national institutes of health to look at the research of the nah -- nihdr. alan gotto lan guttmacher. and dr. steven katz. journal, live from the national institute of health. at 7:00 a.m. eastern. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow here on c-span. beginning with the brookings institution for him. -- forum. panelists will include ambassadors from lebanon and iraq. at 3:00 p.m., the heritage foundation focuses on political protests in that is where the -- in venezuela. and how the relations may be affected by the expulsion of diplomats. >> this weekend, american history tv debuts its new series, real america. archival films that take you on a journey into america's past. this week, films on d.c. during world war ii. and women workers during the milled very -- the military buildup of the second world war. >> american industry rolled out -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

. >> so that's the national institutes of health, nih, national cancer institute, medicine speed alln that category, yes. >> infrastructure and defense as well? >> defense, discretion spending is also on track have also lower share of the economy than it's been at any point in the last 50 years. and again how those cutbacks are allocated between the research done by the defense department in the things the defense department something that congress we did decide in future appropriation bills. >> a lot of folks are believed that this question has been replaced here in the short term for a couple of years. and they tend to focus on the crisis that is right in front of them, but the challenge of looking ahead in the next decade is going to be how we maintain these investments in what makes america great in education and research and development, and infrastructure. and that's why i do think it's important for us to work together as we learned that the aging population is going to be a challenge, a fundamental budget jumped into my colleague, mr. gore, i would agree to work with you -- m

american competitiveness is very small relative to the 26th of 2h $27 billion that we invest in the nih every year. and so, the one big transformation in my view would be that rebalancing of america's investment in the core agricultural science to tackle all of the challenge is to bring a generation of young people who want to be scientist and want to be on the cutting edge of technology has to offer and to get a broad range of institutions pulling against that goal but with real resources into focus. >> we have about 20 minutes left in the program and based on the cloth that's in front of me we have roving microphone and told coming and we need our -- we need a few brave souls to ask a question and then we both -- it will take off from there and i would invite the young folks that are here to have been introduced if they have a question and we would like to start with you. if there is a brave soul, yes, sir you raised your hand. let's see if we can get you a microphone. >> you were talking about in the five years where do you see the agricultural research building in five years? >> i w

steven katz. 27 separate institute at nih.

american competitiveness is very, very small relative to, say, the 26, $27 billion a year we invest in the nih every year. and so the one big, transformational opportunity, in my view, would be just a rebalancing of america's investment in core agricultural science to tackle all of these challenges, to bring in a generation of young people who want to be scientists and want to be on the cutting edge of what technology has to offer. and to get a broader range of institutions really pulling against that goal but with real resources and focus. >> okay. we've got about 20 minutes left in this program, and i think based on the clock that's in front of me. we've got rowing mics -- roving mics, i'm told, and we need a few brave souls to ask a question or two, and then it will take off from there. and if -- i would invite the young folks who are here who have been introduced if they have a question, we'd like to start with you. if there is a brave soul there that wants to -- yes, sir. you raised your hand. let's see if we can get you a mic. i don't know how this works. >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> do yo

. >> so that's the national institutes of health, nih, national cancer institute, medicine speed all in that category, yes. >> infrastructure and defense as well? >> defense, discretion spending is also on track have also lower share of the economy than it's been at any point in the last 50 years. and again how those cutbacks are allocated between the research done by the defense department in the things the defense department something that congress we did decide in future appropriation bills. >> a lot of folks are believed that this question has been replaced here in the short term for a couple of years. and they tend to focus on the crisis that is right in front of them, but the challenge of looking ahead in the next decade is going to be how we maintain these investments in what makes america great in education and research and development, and infrastructure. and that's why i do think it's important for us to work together as we learned that the aging population is going to be a challenge, a fundamental budget jumped into my colleague, mr. gore, i would agree to work with you --

important for investing in our future, many of those are on the domestic discretionary side which are nihearly childhood, pell grants. these are the things where maybe there's not as great of a constituency because it's about chirp, it's about the future. and -- it's about children, it's about the future. and i think what we don't want is our deficit reduction to come at expense of the investment if the future. -- in the future. you want to have a more robust ability to invest in research and children and training and higher skills. those are things, infrastructure, those are the things where one generation invests for a stronger future. so i think those, that's the component you look for. ryan murray moved in that direction. it had savings that did more in the long term, but it relieved some of the drag on the economy now and created more room for investments going forward. so i think that what you'll see in our budget is more of a move to be more pro-growth and to change the composition of deficit reduction so that we do allow more investment in the future of in education, in training,

next washington journal is live from the national institutes of health to look at the research of the nih. we will talk with landis, the director of the institute of disorders, dr. gary gibbons of the national heart and blood institute, and stephen cap, the head of the institute of arthritis and skin diseases. washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern. of america is in this country we have the ability to write the script of our own life. we are in a sense in the driving seat of our own future, and our biggest decisions in life are made by us. creates this sense of possibility, and out of that, you can become an activist, a community organizer. in this sense, what are you doing? you are living off the great capitalist explosion of wealth. >> so many strongmen it is hard to know where to begin. nobody said america is the most terrible place, but there are a couple of assertions you have to take on faith that are astonishing. what is the idea that america's great invention was wealth creation. what about the theft of the entire continent? that was a theft. 90% -- 90% ofean the residents who

does this have to do with nih research and development? they are the ones telling us that overdose deaths have surpassed car accidents. they tell us what the problem is. we know an awful lot about how heroin works in the brain. we have a lot of ways to treat heroin and opiate addiction. you may have heard of you been enorphine, of eup which blocks the opiate receptors in your brain. people can function and go back to being productive members of society and this pill stops there addiction. it has been around a decade. to have to be licensed prescribe it and you have to see your doctor a lot. us, she coversns breaking news and crime. we are talking heroin and substance abuse. there he for michigan on the democrats line. thank you for holding on. caller: i am more interested in the doctor's aspect of this. i busted my back 35 years ago and i have never had insurance. thearned a little bit about medical care we have in this country. i have never been addicted to drugs. i never had a problem with drugs until i started dealing with doctors. i ca

as far as the marijuana issue, if you want to learn a lot about marijuana as far science, go to the nihook at the work of the institute of addiction there. it is pretty remarkable how much problems they can cause. it acts as a carcinogen and long-term. they can cause cognitive decline over time. as we debate this issue, from the standpoint of the surgeon general, you look at the cost benefit and risk benefit analysis before you invoke any policy. there are often unintended consequences. host: our viewers will remember that you are a democratic candidate for senate back in 2012. what are you up to now? guest: i do a lot of work with the emf to muni. i teach at the university of arizona and ohio state university. i sit on some corporate boards. i work with private industry to --ntify merging science emerging science. awas recruited because candidate was needed. when the community: may come i work hard at it. i learned a lot because it is a whole different world once you are running from this. i'm very happy with what i'm doing and looking forward to continuing what i'm doing. eddie andill

nih is supposed to do that kind of research.frankly, i'm going to mention which is f 35 program, a big program for the air force. it is a program which has involved $160 billion in cost overruns. program thate lockheed has imposed on the pentagon and the pentagon has meekly accepted from lockheed. there is a lot that the pentagon these to absorb reductions in increases brought without sequesters really affecting very much the readiness of the u.s. armed forces. problems that mr. last you touched on. on the area of defense identification zone that china has imposed which has gotten a lot of attention, other countries, including the united aires, have long had defense identification zones. we have those off our east coast and even worn portly, off our west coast. importantly, off our west coast. rights and the powers that other countries claim to be able to exercise dic's,h their own a compared to what the u.s. says it can do, in terms of operating its military forces and its adic , what new military activities affecting the immed