we always focus on nih. this ability to respond and protect is every bit as important to protect our fellow citizens against terrorists so very important that that agency remain robustly funded because sadly on your watch we can almost guarantee there will abe pan demmic, there will be something, that's just going to happen. so in is a place not to be pen nipwise and pound foolish. i want to yield to the good lady friend from connecticut. >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, i'm going to ask a bunch of questions and because i just have five minutes what i'd like do is be able to get a yes or no answer on these questions. the -- will the administration commit to defending and continuing the cost sharing efforts for low-income consumers? the administration has done that so far, but despite the house lawsuit against doing so. will you commit to defending and continuing these payments, yes or no? >> ranking member, as you know, the day that i was sworn i changed from house v. burwell to house v. price so i'm a

corian cuts made to nih. in your testimony, you discussed the major strides that nih researchers have made towards cancers such as leukemia. as you noted, 40 years ago leukemia had a 10% survival rate. today the survival rate is almost 90%. that represents just one of the countless medical achievements that have been made as a result of funding to nih. miss carr, as someone with firsthand knowledge, i would like to give you an opportunity to speak to us as members of congress who have the ability to increase funding to nrh to discuss the merits of research being done by the funding. >> thank you. we'd like to call it in the dipg community what we hope for is the home run strategy. pediatric leukemia was considered a rare disease not too long ago. they focused. and i think whether or not you consider dipg -- it's rare. there is no doubt. but brain tumors in general are not rare. pediatric brain tumors are a leading cause of cancer deaths in children. so focusing on pediatric brain tombers is something that mak

over this proposal in nih funding. republican congressman tom cole said this and i quote i don't favor cutting nih centers for disease control. you are much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack so that is part of the defense of the country as well end of quote. mrs. carr in your testimony which i hope every member of congress reads, you point out that we need to devote more funding to this critical research and we need to make sure in cases like your sons which have little or no federal funding devoted to them today. mr. spicer did not make his quote. less funding is not a cut. president trump proposed increasing the pentagon budget by 54 billion dollars next year alone. our committee had a hearing last week, just last week on how the defense department is wasting tens of billions of dollars but for some reason cancer research is decimated rather than trimming the bloated defense budget. i believe there are few investments more significant than the investments we make in biomedical research. the wor

money from the nih funds the vast majority of research at columbia university medical center. dollars chief executive dr. lee goldman says the country can't afford to lose. >> so if you say working the heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, alzheimer's disease and cancer, pick one, we'll stop working on it, or say we'll do 20% less of everything and 20% fewer discoveries will occur. >> reporter: for 80 years, nih funded research helped lead to many of the most significant breakthroughs in medicine. azt and anti-retroviral drugs that transformed hiv-aids from a death sentence to a manageable company. the hepatitis b vaccine and numerous advances in the fight against cancer, including the chemotherapy that cured rihanna. >> ten years cancer-free and i'm living life, i'm happy and healthy. >> reporter: a future made possible in part by federally funded science. anne thompson, nbc news new york. >>> much more about the budget battle tomorrow morning on "meet the press." omb director, mick mulvaney and california congressman adam schiff will are among chuck "today'" todd's guests

talking about job, especially when we're looking at research and development, so we talked about the nih, that 5 billion dollars actually affects 5,000 grants just in the greater washington area. it's not even including the rest country. >> we've been talking about a lot of the hit that federal employee could take >> federal employees yes we talked about the e p a going on a 30% budget cut, nih 20, in a is a about 6%. federal jobs and the research jobs specifically are is looking to be cut down. >> other than the fact that yes, losing jobs and just the research potential, what does competing against other countries? is there the fear we will lag behind when it comes to developing science and technology which is the future >> absolutely. invasion is the principal driver of economic boom. that's what we're seeing nationwide. that's what we've certainly seen in the district and the surrounding area, the projections as far as 2020 goes. if backup cuts down that will be a major blow to the local economy >> i was surprised to find out dc was number one in invasion, i would have guessed it woul

look, we have discussed the nih in particular. i think there is this assumption in washington that if you don't spend more on the on a subject that you are not caring as much. when you will be at some of the agencies and departments and programs that we've seen, you know in many cases they are not meeting their mission. i think there are cost savings that can be achieved so you can focus the dollars that are being allocated towards a more effective use of the mission at hand. but you know, it's interesting -- only in washington do you literally judge the success of something by how much money you throw

-- head of this new office at nih? and it happened like that. here was someone from my past that i had known who gave me an opportunity that i never would have pursued. i would have never thought to apply for a position such as this, and it is really made a difference in my life. i love what we are doing and it put me in a whole other realm of opportunity and a whole other realm of career. support ofthink her what i wanted to do in this position made a difference. proud of am very knowing her and i am very grateful to her for allowing me to actually bring in the situation and provide me with support that i think really make the difference in bringing women's health research off the ground. host: do you see learn -- do you see your legitimacy as a leader to persuade people to follow an agenda, or your ability to articulate that agenda? how do you see your leadership in that vein? dr. pinn: i would like to thank havingership is one of -- how do i phrase this? rather than my coming up with an agenda, which i will often do. but i think in terms of l

on november 20 white house press secretary sean spicer was asked specifically about nih funding. >> i think there is an assumption in washington that if you don't spend more on a subject that you are not caring as much. i think there are cost savings that can be achieved so you can focus the dollars that are being allocated towards more effective use of the mission at hand. >> reporter: carr says she won't honor her son. >> we are in the united states of america. our kids deserve better than that. >> reporter: tammy and jason started the chad foundation to raise funds for cancer research. if you plan on posting about this they have the #chadtough to raise awareness. i'm shomari stone, news 4. >>> when do we want it? now. >> these protesters don't dig the president's executive order on coal. environmental activists marching outside the white house calling the order an assault on the environment. but president trump called it a new era in energy production. the sweeping order gets rid of six obama era policies on climate change and makes it easier to mine coal on federal lands. tonight

and we have a link to the nih site at wusa9.com. >>> cardiologists are recommending u.s. schools step up when it comes to life-saving defibrillators on campus. doct increase students survival in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. but only 17 out of 50 states require them. >>> a new study suggests antibiotic treatment is safe and effective in most cases of acute appendicitis in children. doctors in china initially were looking at a specific type known as an appendix mass. this is where a lump develops in the appendix. they found the nonsurgical approach successful in 90% of cases involving uncomplicated acute appendicitis. >>> a texas mother has questions for the tsa after her disabled son was given an extensive and rigorous patdown at dallas fort worth international airport. don champion has more on the video that's been viewed more than five million times on facebook and the new procedures in place this month by tsa. >> reporter: jennifer williamson posted this facebook video of a tsa officer patting down her 1- she says the experience left him traumatized. >> we were treat

the children inn at nih is indispennsylvania i believe to families with serious medical problems.ldren rock and roll foundation and children of nih get together. >> we're a group of volunteers who raise money and donates it to kids causes for kids in need. and in our area we are really messed to have children's inn inside the nih facility and what people don't realize is their presently serving 1500 children from 96 countries. this is premiere facility in the world for kids who have exhausted all of the treatment options that are available. and it really is that is quite special for these kids and families. >> and you know the vibe has got to be great. we're talking about people that want to be there and that want to help get involved and it's all volunteer based and so as you just mentioned, these are families that need it most. the most critical families. where is this money going to that is being raised. >> well nih is obviously a government facility. children's inn is separate and relies on all funding from community and donors. so it costs probably $125, $135 a night for chil

. >> my name is adam this but i wanted to ask a question about the increasing nih budget. i am a big fan of bumping into the nih budget, they did great work for basic research that leads into applied research in the pharmaceutical sector. if you have nih, and down to 0 tariffs, other countries contributes 75% outside the others, would that be forfeiting all that income, we are large enough to absorb that hit with 20% of the revenue, what happens to a country like switzerland's which has a thriving sector, probably 1% of the market, how will they survive? >> good question. you need some sort of international arrangement, what do you think you guys are doing with the tpp? those are complicated too. i want to replace it with a complex system, we have a very complex system now and i want to replace it with a different system. i envision something where countries have to contribute to research based on gdp and per capita gdp. and a higher share of gdp, a token contribution, not expected to makeany payment and say to whom? what i would envision, you need a fully worked on sort b

you've got cuts of 21% in agriculture. 18% in nih, some medical stocks or health stocks went down on that news today. as well as cuts in the commerce department. now, what is the likelihood that this will be enacted? not very much at all. why? fwu have a shi because to have a shift like that, you have to pass a new law changing budget caps. need 52 republicans and 8 democrats. those 60 votes won't be there. some elements of the budget will go through, but the totality of this priority shift is not going to materialize. >> thank you very much, john harwood. and this is what is interesting. despite being one of the biggest winner, defense stocks all ended the day lower. and the other big loser was health care. those stocks reacting to possibly higher regulatory costs. so this is how it broke down there. the winners were losers. and the losers were losers. guy, let's start with defense. >> the winners that were losers, for example lockheed martin, which closed down i think half a% on t a% on the day after an all time high earlier in the day. and i don't think the reason is president tru

you're hot to talk about nih. any budget cuts for nih. you've got big problems with that?itive or negative this presidency? >> we don't know what's going to happen. people look at regulation and health care differently than they look at regulation for everything else. you had richard lefrak on talking about rebuilding america's infrastructure regulation. i love richard. there people don't feel infrastructure is a right. everyone feels health care is a right. it gives you a different mind-set. we've got to be very circumspect about what we do. nuance isn't a part of politics any longer. >> when you call it a right. if everybody has the ability to get health care if they do what they need to do in terms of personal responsibility, if the right is out there to get, is taking away the mandate, can you do that and be right -- do you need to force it? do you need to make them get it? >> no, i don't want to do that. i'm not going to get into that debate right now. >> how are you going to do it? >> first of all what you do do, if you've got a society right now that is aging. >> sp

. $6 billion to nih. congress but additional money into helping find medical cures that save lives and now they want to cut $6 billion. they are cutting programs like meals on wheels. i've help deliver meals to seniors and others. that would be a devastating cut to people like that. my mom can barely leave the house. that is people across the country. big bird ever due to this administration? real are the things that people are infected by. but then we are going to have money to build a wall. and now we seem to be paying for that. to take moreing money and put it into some of the other defense and other programs that are all coming out of programs that help real people. that is a big mistake, luckily congress can still impact this budget. it shows the real disconnect in the campaign trail promise to people, working families in wisconsin, where president trump one by 22,000 votes and now they are getting a budget and health care that are showing them they are on the side of the road and we are keeping the

and the modern library, where i worked today, opened on the campus of the nih in 1962. has grown over the past 100 80 years to be the largest bio-medical library, home to nearly 30 million items and a variety of formats. traditional analog formats and a variety of digital resources that deliver these collections and data every day to millions of people not only around the nation butter of the world. historians, scientists, historians, the general public. within the library's history of medicine which i direct, it houses one of the world's largest history collections related to human health and disease. it spans centuries from the 11th to the 21st including a wide range of formats. books, images, fine arts, fmr, , and digital material. it is collecting, preserving, interpreting this collection for the general public and our mission relates to general policymaking and waste distinctive to our institution. internally, anna edwards, the history of medicine division operates fundamentally as part of not apart from our home branch of the library as a whole. we are a special c

i will say that nah a popular in congress we passed the curiosity act to increase, spending in the nih, because we think we are getting close to breakthrough discovers on cancer other diseases, so that is something that i think in congress you will see probably changes, but with respect to any one of these types of principalograms beginning of multistage process budgeting i do believe at the end of the day we are going to honor 3r0ir9s particularly defense spending priorities i am glaed the administration got going i want financial pressure i want spending caps because that makes us, focused on cutting spending that is wasteful there are a lot of programs duplicative wasteful not measuring up to goals supposed to achieve you want that fiscal pressure go oft weight fraud abuse move money from programs that are not working our achievement goals to those that do we honor or priorities, so this is just the beginning of that long process, i am encouraged that we are up and starting with it that is what i am really most enencouraged about. >> in week three of allegation the object administra

history of medicine division at the library of medicine and has a highly collaborative portfolio for the nih and national library of medicine. as a social and cultural historian of medicine and war, he is the editor of two books published by the manchester university press. prior to joining the national library of medicine, dr. reznick held other positions including director of institute or study of occupation and health of the american occupation foundation and senior curator for the armed forces institute of pathology. he earned his master's degree and phd from emory university . all the way on the end is eric boyle. lecturer attly a the nurse of maryland in the public health science program. chief archivist for the national museum of health and medicine at an essence been chief historian for the department of energy. , "quackt book medicine," was a list in 2013. -- published in 2013. so you see why i am honored and to be among such esteemed panelists. for our conversation today, the five of us talked about a few broad themes. i will introduce those to frame the conversation. we would like

that is $28 billion more than the entire nih health budget. of which only a fraction is dedicated to drug discovery. the drug discovery process is complex and not well understood. after 38 years in the industry, it is one of the most complex undertakings that humanity has. to take an idea and shepherded through the drug discovery process, ensuring excellence at every stage and data at every stage to finally get a drug that can be taken by humans with a positive risk-benefit equation. let's briefly review what it takes to discover and bring new medicine to patients in layman's terms. the process begins with basic research done by researchers within academic institutions. these researchers find postulate -- find, postulate and get insights into a disease and approaches for treating the disease. this is a critical step. it is light years away from having a medicine that can treat your condition. the pharmaceutical industry draws from this research findings once it has been validated. normally, you publish, it gets validated. you understand. the u

how do you square those things when you're cutting nih by 19% and many conservatives want to increase the budget. >> director mulvaney -- somebody asked him during the q&a period. >> he said -- from my listening to him yesterday, it wouldn't be cut. >> this is the assumption in washington. if you get less money, it's a cut. the reality is, in a lot of these, there's efficiencies, dew -- dublicity. when you look at the way the president approached the budget, it's can we ask, can we get more with the same dollar, can we find efficiencies, can we combine facilities at nih to enhance a better experience where we have an outcome that is reduced savings. to assume that because you spend a ton of dollars you're going to get a better outcome. look at the district of columbia. they spend more per capita than any other city in the country on education. i think i that they have tremendous issues constantly being dealt with. so to assume that you throw money at a problem it magically solved is a very washington way of looking at a budget problem. i understand that. part of the issues that we're

we're not going to cut nih. we're not going to cut meals on wheels. he will get defense increases, but i think a lot of the budget which maybe pleased his base is dead among republicans right now. >> that meals on wheels cut really resonated online and social media yesterday with people picking it apart. here is budget director mick mulvaney explaining and justifying the cut. >> you can't spend money on programs because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. a state decision to fund that particular portion. take the federal money to give it to the states and say we give you money for programs that don't work. i can't defend that anymore. >> congress handles budgets. what does this tell you about president trump's issues? >> he cuts domestic spending. he would not touch social security and medicare. he didn't. i give him credit for keeping promises. the problem is the budget writers in both houses are republicans who don't like this. >> greg, he did not keep the promise to get rid of the national debt in eight years. he would balance a budget.

how do you square those things cutting nih by 19% of the many many conservatives want to increase budget? >> director mulvaney someone asked him during the q&a period -- reporter: my outtake listening to him yesterday it wouldn't be cut. >> assumption in washington, jonathan, if you get less money it's a cut. reality there is efficiencies, duplicity, ways to spend money bert f you're wasting a lot of money, that is not a true dollar spent. i think when you look at the way that director mulvaney and president approach this budget. it was, can we ask, can we get more with the same dollars? can we find duplicity, can we fine efficiencies? can we combine facilityies in some cases at nih to enhance a better experience whereby we have an outcome reduced savings. but to assume because you spend a ton of dollars you will get a better outcome, with all due respect look at district of columbia. they spend by far more per capita than any other city in the country on education. and i think they have, you know, tremendous issues that are constantly being dealt with in their education system. to assum

. >> white house has argued that the cuts forced the nih to reorganize and focus resources on the highest priority resource. the carr family started the chad foundation to help fund research. >>> you saw it first on news4. montgomery county public schools are reviewing security, after the rape of a 14-year-old girl. parents demanded safety changes that far 14-year-old girl was assaulted in a school bathroom by two classmates. the review will start at rockville high. and then don't all 24 other high schools. the district says officials will be checking the security cameras >> we'll take a look at wheresi. and if we need to relocate some of them, angle them differently to provide better visibility. and if there are areas that are blocked then we'll want to add cameras in those spaces as well. >> the high school safety review should be finished by the end of april. the review of elementary and middle schools should be wrapped up by june. >>> police say a maryland teenager methodically planned to kill her classmates at catoctin high school. coming up, we are going to tell you the chilling ste

griffin rogers, the director at nih, said the main drivers of kidney's disease in the country are the alarming rates of diabetes and high blood pressure. >> one in four americans with diabetes will develop kidney disease. one in five people with high blood pressure will develop kidney disease. that's really the tragedy. >> the other tragedy, most people are unaware they are at high risk. >> if you have diabetes, if you have high blood pressure, if you have a family history of people can kidney disease, these diseases tend to run in families then you're at high risk and should be tested. >> t determine how your kidneys are filtering out waste and a urine test. >> if you find out that you have kidney disease early on there are lifestyle changes, exercise, weight loss, stress reducing activities that can be implemented. there are also drugs that can slow that progress to in stage kidney disease. >> you can find a link to the national kidney foundation's rate your risk quiz on our website at wusa9.com. >>> a new study is urging parents of children with autism to teach their kids to swim a

cutting costssts, at the state department, the epa, and nih.trumpe with a president political strategist outside of the white house who said it is bad news for big pharma companies. they rely on the trials of nih to speed drug administration approval's. good news for the business community. business is working with infrastructure. a is interpreted as largely political document, but it is also setting the tone for deregulatory policies that could promote private and public ownerships, which would encourage some infrastructure companies to work with their boostments to infrastructure spending. scarlet: anything mentioned on the entitlement program? kevin: devastating for entitlement programs. i spoke with a senior aide to a of president trump member congress who said this is "awful." when you look at several of these entitlement programs and how they have impacted impoverished americans, especially in wisconsin and indiana in the flyover portion of the u.s., this is devastating for them. another senior aide, a prominent member of congress here th

that's $28 billion more than the entire nih health budget. of which only a fraction is dedicated to drug discovery. the drug discovery process is complex and not well understood. after 38 years in the industry, i tell you, it's probably one of the most complex undertakings that humanity has. to take an idea and shepherd it through the drug discovery process over 15 years, insuring excellence at every stage and data at every stage to finally get a drug that can be taken by humans with a positive risk benefit equation. so let's briefly review what it takes to discover, develop and bring a new medicine to patients in somewhat layman's terms. the process begins with basic research, undoubtedly done by researchers within institutions and government institutions like the national institute of health. these researchers find, postulate, sometimes find biologic pathways that give insights into a disease or possible approaches for treating that disease. this is a critical step. but it is light years away from having a med is sin that can -- medicine th

includes $33 billion and $18 billion cut from nondefense discretionary budget come including things like nihthe country. those are things i don't think democrats will be for. republican appropriators won't be for those, either. want to tryhat they to push through, they will have a hard time keeping the government from shutting down on april 28. david: is there anything in either document that you can be open to? are there point of compromise on the horizon? understandsverybody and realizes that we probably need to boost defense spending. we have some capacity problems right now. we have a very few battalions able to be deployed with adequate training. we have a lot of planes that are unequipped to fly. we need to make accommodations there and try to shore up our defense. inthe other hand, the ministration proposed cutting $54 billion out of the nondefense side with $30 billion from the state department, 20% , zeroing out things like the national endowment for the arts and public television and the national endowment for the humanities and hud. we will not agree to that. when we actually pass

office of budget and management director mulvaney who defended cuts to programs like meals on wheels, nih research into alzheimer's and what have you. now you have republicans splitting with the president. take a listen. >> my mother-in-law prior to her passing on, she had meals on wheels at her apartment five days a week. it's not seven days a week, but they bring that extra meal for on the weekends, and it was her way also to know she was safe. she lived alone. this is the president's budget. i'm not sure where the details came from, but i can pretty sure assure america the congressional budget -- and when we get into appropriations, meals on wheels is a wonderful program. it is one i would never vote to cut even one dollar. >> good to hear. >> keep in mind, that is one of the earliest if not the earliest republican congressmen to come out and support donald trump. do you expect other republicans to come out against this? what are the implications when you hear longtime supporters of the president, you know, cutting out categorically and saying this is pad? >> the president's budget is

and republicans were doubling nih funding. no question there. but what is going on at fda, a lot of these organizations, within government, crushing medical innovation, and that is unloosening that -- hasn't appointed fda commissioner. big things to do in the future. >> more with the panel ahead but quickly to wolf. >> chuck schumer is joining us. we have a bunch of questions. start with jake tapper. >> appreciate you joining us. there were obviously attempts by president trump this evening to raise issues that are traditionally embraced by democrats, talking about trade, new infrastructure, lowering cost of prescription drugs, paid maternity leave. did you hear areas where you think you can work with president trump? >> well the problem jake, this is simple. another one of his speeches where he talks like a populist but the way he's been governing is opposite, governing from the hard right. he's talked a good game on trade but ran in the campaign, said would declare china a occurrencely manipulator first day of the presidency. hasn't done anyth

there is reductions, for example, in the nih, national institute for health. why? because we think there has been .ission creep we think there is tremendous opportunity for savings. a couple facilities should be combined. this comes back to the president's business person view . if you took over this as a ceo and look at this on a spreadsheet and ask why do we have seven when we can do the same job with three? answer is focusing on efficncies and doing what we do better. fairly change, he is straightforward. we consider that to be a waste of your money to do that. that is a specific type to his campaign. -- tie to his campaign. reporter: you mentioned meals on not beenhey have been doing their job correctly. what information are you basing that on? director mulvaney: from having been in the state government, and i have been on several times a day, but my and standing of meals on wheels is that that is a state determination. federal government does not fund that. it is the community development block grant and some states doose to take the money and the meals on whe

look, we have discussed the nih in particular. i think there is this assumption in washington that if you don't spend more on the on a subject that you are not caring as much. when you will be at some of the agencies and departments and programs that we've seen, you know in many cases they are not meeting their mission. i think there are cost savings that can be achieved so you can focus the dollars that are being allocated towards a more effective use of the mission at hand. but you know, it's interesting -- only in washington do you literally judge the success of something by how much money you throw at the problem not actually whether it's solving the problem or coming up with anything. >> we are going to continue to monitor the sean spicer briefing over at the white house. i want to go to the house intelligence committee meeting. james comey, the fbi director and the director of the nsa, admiral mike rogers is also being questioneds well. >> i should emphasize something admiral rogers said earlier, we made no judgment on wheth

but, look, we've discussed the nih in particular. think there's this assumption this washington that if you don't spend more on a subject that you're not caring as much. when you look at some of the agencies and departments and programs that we've seen, you know, in many cases they're not meeting their mission, and i think there are cost savings that can be achieved so you can focus the dollars that are being allocated towards a more effective use of the mission at hand. but, you know, it's interesting, i mean, only in washington do you literally judge the success of something by how much money you throw at the problem, not actually whether it's solving the rob or coming up with anything. april. >> sean, a couple topics. one, back on wiretapping. comey says he has no information supporting that president obama wiretapped president trump. so with that, you have. [inaudible] saying things like half-truths coming from this president, it's dangerous, we're alienating allies, we need to be able to trust our president. and with that i want

she spoke to us from nih headquarters in maryland.logically, they're very similar to humans. bigad: primate testing is credited for helping develop the polio vaccine, insulin for diabetes, the hepatitis b vaccine, and treatments for parkinson's disease, to name a few. researchers at duke university say primate testing also allowed them to develop prosthetic arms and legs that can communicate directly with the human brain. carrie: these are areas in which we just haven't developed sort of alternative technologies that allow us to replace non-human primates. bigad: you don't believe the science is there yet? carrie: the science is not there yet. bigad: but critics point to problems over how researchers are caring for the animals. not including federal facilities, there are 159 primate research centers throughout the us. sixty-nine percent have been cited over the past three years, with seventy-seven violations directly impacting the health of animals. uc davis is home to one of the largest research centers in the country, with more than

there is reductions, for example, in the nih, national institute for health. why? because we think there has been mission creep. we think there is tremendous opportunity for savings. a couple facilities should be combined. this comes back to the president's business person view of government, which is if you took over this as a ceo and look at this on a spreadsheet and ask, why do we have seven when we can do the same job with three? will it save money? the answer is yes. part of your answer is focusing on efficiencies and doing what we do better. as to climate change, i think the president was fairly straightforward. we consider that to be a waste and do money to go out that, so that is a specific tie to his campaign. reporter: can i follow up quickly on meals on wheels, you program wasat this determined to not have been doing its job effectively. what information are you using to make that statement? is not feeding seniors and an of itself the fulfillment of -- dir. mulvaney: from having been in the state government, and i have been on several times a day, but my

you don't have medical technology and new drugs because the nih has done it, unless you have public resourcesat the conservatives are trying to do is get rid of public resources. that is what is happening every day in congress. getting rid of public resources and public protections. absolutely crucial, and it's being hidden because people are criticizing donald trump. now what donald trump is doing is taking -- making a front for that. and criticizing donald trump directly is like saying don't think of an elephant. i wrote a book called "don't think of an elephant." or nixon saying, "i am not a crook." you negate something, and it makes people think of it. it strengthens the people you're arguing against. what you need to do is argue for -- always frame things from your point of view when you start. so suppose you're in the press and you have to cover trump. you're in the media. what do you do? and i've been on -- in the program, on the media. and that's what i said. i said, look, first of all, is he going to try to divert attention for someone, start with the real issues confronting the coun

for my beloved wife once worked in greece struggle to get money for research for nih and it is also true the pharmaceutical companies have invested their own talents and resources once there is a development to bring into fruition. >> it is contrary to the of far met position with the affordable care act was put together just to read this if i might we believe comprehensive health care reform will benefit patients in the future of america. that is why we have been involved in the public policy debate -- debate over a year in support the final health care reform bill in the amendment filed with the reconciliation legislation for so essentially what the majority is doing is to give back the pharmaceutical industry essentially what they agreed to 10 years ago and that is a serious mistake. so now to discuss the money. first of all, i'd like to have placed in a the record the graph of the profits of the index that comprises the stocks. of a bike to have this entered into. >> so when we pressed to it was interesting because we respect you. you were pushed produce steady economist expect

. >> reporter: cuts to the tune of $6 billion at nih. >> that's not only an employer of 20,000 peoplee in bethesda, it's a vital source of research and hope. >> reporter: and the affordable care act. >> i would be one of the people who would not only lose insurance, but i probably would die if the affordable care act is repealed. >> reporter: the trump administration unveiled a budget that targets maryland for extreme and decimating çcuts. it would hurt all areas of the state. they are calling on larry logan to be more e vocal on those issues. >> he is silent simply because it's politically expedient to do so. >> reporter: governor hogan indicated some from the agenda and has written letters about how well the state is doing under obamacare as well as support for medicaid extension and he wrote in his father's name on his ballot instead of vote iing for the president las november. but critics say that's not enough. >> if we're going to be vigilant and continue to ask the questions, where's our >> reporter: we did reach out to the governor's office e get a response on the claims and s

another move that's getting push back is the $5.8 billion cut to the nih. a 20% budget reduction. the american medical association issuing this statement. the american medical association has concerns could the cuts. nhi conducts research in chronic diseases which are major drivers of health care costs. bottom line, will private companies fund research into very obscure diseases? that's what the government steps in and researchers step in. that's a big concern. >> highly controversial day. >>> the bill to replace obamacare hanging in the balance this morning with the growing number of republicans voicing opposition to the plan. house speaker paul ryan clinging to his hope measure will survive. he cannot afford to lose support from more than 21 republicans. right now, exactly 21 republicans on record they wi will oppose or leaning against. president trump tweeting, great progress on health care improvement being made. republicans coming together. more now from cnn's sunlen serfaty on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. opposition continues to stack up here

. >> reporter: we're reporting from nih tonight, one of county is fighting to protect. now, the council today may have achieved something that no other local government throughout the united states has ever even tried before. the montgomery county council proposed the resolution to condemn president trump's federal budget proposal and to urge the united states congress to reject it on behalf of montgomery county residents. >> all in favor of the resolution before us, please raise your hand. and that is unanimous. >> reporter: afterwards i asked some of the council members what they've achieved. >> we understand that this is not going to resolve anything. >> reporte has this ever been done before, a county council condemns a presidential budget? >> i'm not aware of it being done before. >> reporter: you think it will have an effect of any kind? >> i do think it will have an impact. my belief is that local governments throughout the country will be encouraged to fo firefighter was surprised to hear that the koim wcouncil wasg on president trump. >> it's incumbent upon the

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. >> white house has argued that the cuts will force the nih to reorganize and focus resources on the highest priority research. the carr family started the chad health foundation to help fund the cancer research. >>> montgomery county public schools are launching a new safety parents demanded safety changes after a 14-year-old girl was raped in a school bathroom by two classmates. the review will start at rockville high and will continue throughout 24 other schools. officials say the officials will be checking the security cameras inside and out. >> we'll take a look at where they're positioned and if we need to relocate some of them in, angle them differently to provide better visibility. and if there are areas that are blocked, we'll want to add cameras in those areas as well. >> the high school safety review should be finishedly the end of april. the review of middle and elementary schools should wrap up by june. >>> well, police say that a maryland teenager methodically tried to kill her classmates at catoctin high school. this is one story that we've been following and updating