back in 1936, when the social security began issuing social security numbers they were only used to track earnings and administer-- administer the social security program. back then it wasn't much thought about keeping your numbers secret, but today's social security numbers are the key to the kingdom for identity thieves. social security and identity security experts make a point of telling americans how important it is to protect their numbers. social security numbers are valuable target for identity theft because of their regular use by both federal government and private sector as a unique identifier, especially by the financial industry. time and again we are reminded to protect our social security cards in order to avoid identity theft and it to be careful with what documents we throw away in the trash. our social security numbers are connected to so many personal aspects of our lives from our social security benefits and finances to our medical histories and education. in recent years privacy concerns have become more and more critical. when i was in law school in the dark ages our

the social security administration in longer prints social security numbers. the center for medicare and medicaid services is in the middle of efforts to remove the number of all medicare cards. like wiesz the department of veterans affairs have seized social security numbers on certain forms of correspond ens and is working to -- reducing the visibility of social security numbers. these steps represent real progress and i commend the agencies on their work so far. but barriers still exist of full implement of guidance. gao found that the 20007 memorandum did not define unnecessary use nor did it outline requirements of this time line or performance goals. as a result many agencies were vague and subject -- additionally omb did not require agencies to update their inventories of social security collection points making it difficult to determine whether agencies were actually reducing collection and use. omb must provide clear direction. in addition to poor coordination federal efforts to reduce social security numbers have faced other challenges. agencies are

to cut social security medicare and medicaid. president trump has promised repeatedly and explicitly throughout the campaign not to cut social security or medicare. this broken promise should be especially alarming to millions of people who voted for the president who spend their working lives paying premiums into the system believing those benefits would be there for them in retirements and-- or should they become disabled. bottom line is this, social security is the nation's insurance program. it is not an entitlements. it is the insurance that individuals have paid for throughout a lifetime. the problems with social security at its core, this issue we are taking up-to-date especially as it relates to theft is vitally important to protect people's identity. equally important and the responsibility of this committee is is

so, i don't delineate between social security and social security benefit. workers paid to social security. the average social security worker worked and paid into social security 22 years before becoming disabled on the job. mr. secretary, you can spin it any way you like, a cut to social security disability is a cut to social security especially those who are disabled and can no longer work. making it difficult to receive that benefit is cutting social security. with that, i know my time is up. i yield back. >> excuse me. thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you mr. secretary for being with us. i was grateful to hear your discussion about the time you are spending looking at a terrorist financing arnds the world. one legacy issue we are unclear on relates to the iran nuclear deal that was struck by the previous administration. you are now in a powerful position to understand more about details that were not so clear previously. one ambiguous question relates not to the small sum or significant sum turned over to iran, the $1.7 billion that they have

social security is prohibited as one fund they can take from. funds for maller certain employee retirement or isability funds, this will not inhibit employees or retirees' access funds in the accounts or get benefits that come out of the accounts. t's really just an accounting maneuver congress put into place to allow for this grace period. federal does the government borrow from and what is happening right now since we've reached the amount, the how much we can borrow? guest: the government borrows from the public effectively and consist of an individual investors, financial institutions, the federal investors, reign foreign countries, there are many different people the 19.8 trillion s dollars in debt to. we've been accumulating that at rapid rate over recent years, especially since the great recession of 2008, and we problem rge fiscal going forward in the sense the difference between revenue we we take outspending each and every year is already large and expected to grow of er in the future because obligations that we have to ocial security

the new ones get social security, medicare. they get a life insurance policy. they get flexible spending accounts. they get long-term care insurance, they get supplemental vision and dental. sick leaves. i won't -- i mean, that lays out. annual leave carryover, exchange. they get sick leave for dependent care. >> got it. that's a long list. what would you like our guest to address then? >> caller: okay. the question i have, when you talk about entitlement primogra, there's a limit. arkansas changed the limit of 130% over -- >> poverty. >> caller: to 100%. you yourself get compensation and then go right into benefits. should the discussion not be about how much money can you make a year and get no subsidies? >> okay. >> caller: no subsidies. >> let's leave it there. >> the caller asks a broad question, but i think that this is the crux of what we're going to do in terms of how do we fix our financial situation as a country. we are demographically all living longer and getting older and that's the good news and also means with the mandatory spending or entitlemen

we currently have social security, people paying payroll taxes. is of the things we could do subsidize the fica taxes that are being paid to a certain limits. it would be relatively transparent for most workers, and their already cap's -- there are already caps. what do you think about leveling people up to some reasonable level like 50 dozen dollars a year? five making $25,000 a year, my social security taxes make me look like i been working at $50,000 a year. over the long term i am still getting my benefits in the future. it will make me look like i had i did.r job than using the current system in a different way. katherine: that is probably the strongest counterpoint to the broad discussion of basic income. as attractive as it might be to simplify the system,, added, -- come at it, it is unlikely to happen. we have this incredibly elaborate system in place. we could tweak it to include outcomes in a new direction. there are many proposals like yours with her more likely to become reality. for me, the main appeal of the don't back the proposal,

however, i think there are mandatory spending items besides medicare and social security that we can't be looking at -- we could be looking at. the country right now -- i know get thrown about, the one thing they are very good at is telling us what is our projected deficit and what is our projected national debt. they told us earlier this year that our national debt is currently $19 trillion and counting. years, it will be $29 trillion. we need to get more economic growth going, and we need to spend tax dollars wisely or as we are going to bankrupt our next generations. you would like to call in and ask a question, 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8002 for independents. what are those other programs we can look at? guest: you hear about the food stamp program. on the agricultural committee, we are looking at a program that could be spending billions of dollars a year. there are certain aspects of food stamps spending that are unwise. this is called the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and what we spend on food stamp purchases includes $3 milli

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some of you may have at some point received a green statement about your social security benefits? i'm amazed how often people remember having received those, but they did that as a randomized trial which is what made social scientists so happy just to be able to say. [laughter] so that you could actually measure the impact of people finding out a statement of here's how much you paid into social security, here's what your benefits are going to look like, and if you keep paying in like this, this'll happen. not only has it increased people's knowledge, it increased their confidence. there's a lot of misinformation about what's happening with social security. so i think to the extent we can make the benefits of government visible, that's important for two reasons. one, because it would be good for people to know what benefits they're receiving so they can judge those. but also because people aren't just consumers, they're citizens. they need to know what government's doing, and it needs to be obvious to them. and whether we do social policies in the tax code, we often lose that conne

possible i didn't but i'm pretty sure i got this right that there will actually be savings in social security with this senate bill about four billion dollars because presumably they didn't specify exactly why but it seems that the numbers they're using are assuming that over a decade long period of time based on the harvard study about two hundred thousand people will die for lack of health care so therefore social security won't have to pick up their bills your thoughts. that's kind of a sick thought but i mean it's probably true lasts less medical care means less people will be alive less people below they won't be here anymore and that's bad for everybody i prefer to live in a country where everybody can continue to live in the country successfully i don't want to live in a country with a few rich people getting even richer and lots and lots of people getting even poorer there are countries like that but the america is not or at least has not been one of them and i'd prefer not become one of them donald trump famously said that he didn't want the senate health care bill to be mean in fact

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this bill puts an end to this taxpayer abuse by requiring the social security administration or the department of homeland security to verify the immigration status of every tax credit applicant before the treasury department issues the credit. texans and hardworking taxpayers around the country already struggle to pay for their health care. their hard-earned dollars should not be use to foot the bill for those who broke the law to come here. my constituents in texas and american taxpayers deserve better. i want to thank congressman barletta for his dedication and continued leadership on this issue and, mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation and i yield -- reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to my friend, the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized f

financial planners won't even count social security if you're under the age of 45.ck: if you have a question for rob, post it on his facebook page and we'll try to answer it on the air here on kron4. (steve) rattled nerves in the seirra..after a swarm of earthquakes today. it started at 2:00 a-m... with 30 small quakes shaking the ground over several hours. today kron4's dan kerman got answers from the u-s-g-s about whether we should be worried about a bigger quake striking soon. seismologists at usgs in menlo park says the earthquake swarm north of truckee is not uncommonsot jack boatwright/us gs seismologistwe get these fairly infrequently but it is an active seismic zonethe fault where the more than 3 dozen shakers hit in the last 24 hours is called the mohawk valley fault.sothere's portola, this is the sierra valley, i just comes down does a little turn and probably continues through right here. while the biggest quake in this swarm measured 3.9, this area has seen its share of big quakessothistorically the biggsest quake was in 1888 in mohawk valley which was a

the so-called verify first act would require a new verification process of an individual's social security number before he or she can receive any tax credit for health coverage, either under the a.c.a. or under the house-passed trumpcare bill. this bill does nothing to address the reality that more than 23 million americans would lose health insurance under the republican health care legislation. nor does it address the harm caused by cutting $800 billion from medicaid, by eliminating the expansion for moderate income workers, and by imposing

it would also affect newborns who do not get their social security number right away. republicans claim that reports released by the g.a.o. and the nate homeland security and government affairs committee was proof of immigrants defrauding the government, but neither of these reports backed up this claim. first of all, the g.a.o. report was actually a test to identify vulnerabilities for fraud in the system. they did not find instances of immigrants committing fraud for health care subsidies. the senate report found that 500,000 individuals did not complete their verification process and were thus deemed ineligible for subsidies. the author of today's bill takes this information and leaps to the conclusion that all those who did not complete the process were undocumented immigrants and were attempting to commit fraud. but there is nothing in either report to substaniate this. in fact, the a.c.a. requires undocumented immigrants or receive o does subsidies to pay back every cent on their tax return at the end of the year. this bill seeks to receive subsidies address a pro

index in order to avoid having to pay out that increases to social security payments in the united states and the united kingdom in europe to avoid paying increase medicare payments or anything like that they say the met other stealing it and here they just say they're just stealing it well you'll eventually get it they most of these people eventually get it but it's bureaucracy they make they push it back a year or two or three years or so and they're going to go this is what they said that's what it could be. anyway wells fargo stole money out of people's accounts they just stole it yes oh yes i got a but i'm going to go outside i'm going off having to show these guys my fish in other words see what happens said over the second i have a lot more. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time out of turn to say rodriguez is the v.p. of payments at it so it's a welcome back thank you very much magnum welcome back to mexico to yeah yeah we're here to a half years ago and so we have done is that things are growing quite rapidly in a lot of neighborhoods and we also have to currencies a

your social security disability. your social security. your medicare. so those are not -- those are revenues that are specifically for either your retirement future or if you have a break in your employment. or, god forbid, you become permanently or temporarily disabled. with social security disability having its definition of what temporary disabled is. just understand that's our revenue sources. and then you'll see the little slivers on the bottom. some of that is tariffs and some of the other fees that come in. partially through trade. all right. i know sometimes these slides are a little hard to see. so we blew a couple of them up. the idea here was so you could see the total revenues. this was for 2017. this is our best projection of what's going on this year. my wife right about now is when she would typically start texting me and saying i'm putting everyone to sleep. but i'm married to an accountant. so could explain why we have no friends. that's the payroll taxes. do you see the far side -- let's -- turqoise. that's the individual ways and mean

the policies in this manifesto will restore fairness to our social security system. mistake. the tories have sought to i undermine faith in the wealthiest state itself. they have set out very deliberately destigmatize those on benefits. of course no one should be allowed to abuse the system. c their rhetoric is cover for the hardship they are causing for those who work hard and struggle to get by on low income. children, the elderly, women, the disabled, even the bereaved are feeling the brunt. there are about 9 billion pounds in social security cuts still to come over the next four years. not surprisingly, the tories want to press ahead with every single penny. what is surprising is that labour is pledging to reverse less than a quarter of those cuts. so let me be clear today, snp mps will stand against all of the planned cuts to social security. [applause]we will do >> and we would do so because they punish the disabled and those who work hard to make ends meet. we were also support the reversal of the two child cap on tax credit, and we will -- [applause]irelessl

less necessary amount of money coming from social security. i mean really? also, if we are talking about terrorists [indiscernible] historyo read up on the of the united states to get a true picture of terrorism. read about the wall street of oklahoma, read about rosewood. the lynchings that took place in .he south when i asked my auntie why she to new york from savannah, georgia, we asked her why and she said because there were three lynchings a week. that was all recorded in the newspaper. of the republicans and people who think like him need to study up on history of our country, which we love. we have been paying taxes. we will go to california, independent line. caller: i would like to know why maxine waters made the statement the cia creating gangs and stuff. age and in the 60's, had people telling me about the old,, 1011 and 12 years they were really dangerous and stuff, and then in the 1980's, i had a friend of mine who had a son who was in gangs and stuff who was killed. the street and stuff and he had security clearances and he started going off ab

numbers, the last four digits of the social security. not going to hand that over, but you heard him say basically what i'm looking for here is publicly available information. you can walk in and find out who's registered, what party, when the last election, is that true and if that's true, what's the objection here? >> well, i mean, not so fast, right? even in his own state, he's the person who put up the letter requesting this information. the last four digits of the social security number is not available. here's the problem. we have to look at this in a larger context. we are talking about people who are in place, this is a set-up for voter suppression. who are the characters in this movie we're watching? kris cobach is the architect and then jeff sessions who said that the voting rights act was an intrusion on states rights and he's separately sent out a request to the states and then a former doj person who wants to make it harder to vote for everyone across the country part of this, you know, effort to suppress the vote that is re

that is why social security has always been a lightning rod.mong conservatives, republicans who believe in less government, less establishment, social security and cutting back the benefits is core to what they want to get done. it is one of those entitlement programs, if you scratch it, even if you nick it, wait until you see the people who care about it rear their heads. oliver: a feature story about caterpillar. what did you find to be the most compelling angle? megan: i am from illinois. how long they ran an elaborate tax scheme out of switzerland, and i love a good whistleblower story and this is one of them. oliver: for those details, we talked to a reporter in chicago. megan: bryan, you talk about one individual, and accounted at caterpillar. he is the center of the story. tell us who he is. >> dan was a tax accountant, cpa. he has a law degree. joined the company in 1992. he opened caterpillar's first overseas tax office in brussels in the mid-1990's. then he went to geneva and worked there, and then came back to peoria. by around 2007,

. >> save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. have to do it. >> a major point of contention for the senate gop health care bill, medicaid. >> this bill is currently in front of the united states senate. not the answer. it's simply not the answer. >> mitch mcconnell and them are just playing political games. they want a win. it doesn't matter what it looks like. they just want to win and what that means is that the other side's got to lose. >> i think they're solving a short-term political problem. i think they're buying long-term pain here. >> today president trump illustrated the danger of doing an interview with a friendly media organization in the midst of a federal investigation into potential obstruction of justice. >> when he found out that i -- you know, that there may be tapes out there, i think his story may have changed. >> this couldn't have been a good day for president trump's lawyers to hear these freewheeling comments from donald trump. >> it shows a real pattern of trump trying to change the trajectory of this inv

and the eligibility for disability under social security has been reduced dramatically.you have some unions with 75% of their members get disability designation when they retire. this program's clearly abused. so, we need to require people to work, able-bodied people to get welfare, or to at least go to school. you know, we can do all this stuff by computer. the labor force participation rate is down. i've said it earlier, you weren't here, that back during when the reagan program first took hold, one of the most astonishing numbers was the number of people on social security disability declined. and i used to say not totally joking, people are getting up out of wheelchairs and going to work. so i think that's part of the problem. i think another part of the problem is we're wasting huge amounts of labor. there are high schools in my state where more people go to prison than go to college. if we reformed our education system, gave people a choice as to where they spent public money in educating their children, we could revolutionize the labor force in america. i wonder h

index in order to avoid having to pay out that increases to social security payments in the united states and the united kingdom in europe to avoid paying increase medicare payments or anything like that they say they met another stealing of it here they just say you're stealing it well you'll eventually get it they most of these people eventually get it but it's bureaucracy they make they push it back a year or two or three years so i'll never get it well that's what they said that's what it could be. anyway wells fargo stole money out of people's accounts they just stole it yes oh yes i got it but we're going to go outside to go off out of the show he's got my fish in other words see what happens said over the second half of all of our. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we earn one hundred six point. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart associate. with all due respect i have to say i don't t

two, undo the safety net of social security, medicare, and medicaid and this bill takes the first big step in that direction. it's an ideological document to please the hard right. unfortunately, it badly hurts the american people. questions? >> senator murray referenced, they're going to cut backroom deals and twist arms and things. done for obamacare was those. how can you upbraid them. senator schumer: the core of our bill was good and covered more people. the core of their bill is bad and will cover fewer people. >> can i have one point on that? in the finance committee where the two of us served, we took 14 republican amendments. senator wyden: as part of the senator finance committee markup. there aren't going to be any democratic amendments this idea that somehow this was just a repeat of what happened in 2009, that's just not right. senator murray has already outlined, for example, the numbers of difes hearings we had, number of joint markups, i can tell you 14 republican amendments were accepted in 2009. senator schumer: i'll go after this one if you guy cans stay. >> with se

most important achievement of fdr's first term and the one that he was most proud of was the social security act, passed in 1935. it provided for old age pensions for americans and unemployment insurance. again, this was probably fdr's proudest achievement of the entire new deal and a real high point of his first term. one of the things we wanted to be sure visitors to the museum understood was the continuing reality of fdr's disability. this is a man who is paralyzed from the waist down. what is interesting is to see what the public perception of that was. one of the things we always point out to visitors here is that we have 130,000 photographs of fdr in our collections, but we only have four that show him in a wheelchair. that is because there was an unspoken rule that was observed by the press and the media at the time, that you don't photograph the president sitting in a wheelchair. you don't photograph them in ways that would reveal -- photograph him in ways that would reveal the extent of his disability. the public knew that fdr had contracted polio, and they knew that he had some for

index in order to avoid having to pay out that increases to social security payments in the united states in the united kingdom in europe to avoid paying increase medicare payments or anything like that they say that met another they are stealing it here they just say they're stealing it well you'll eventually get it they most of these people eventually get it but it's bureaucracy they make they push it back a year or two or three years so i don't ever go this is what they said that's what but it could be. as you like wells fargo style money out of people's accounts they just stole it yes oh yes i got it but we're going to go outside to go off out to show these guys my fish in other words see what happens said over the second half of all of your. people with stories to tell. those who deserve to her. insight. would still put the new york city. alcohol users politicians to see first and witnesses. they're here to speak are you there to hear. about your sudden passing i phone lee just learned you were yourself in taken your last wrong turn. your act caught up to you as we all knew it would

heard donald trump was not going to touch social security. turns out there are going to be a great deal of cuts. this is going to hurt some of the people that supported him. is a perfect issue to look at what he said on the campaign trail and promised versus what is actually happening. is partd be clear this of a budget that is unlikely to perceive. you hear a lot of rhetoric about disability insurance and disability benefits, being something that is subject to fraud. when you place it out, looking it out, look at this, a lot of the areas that have the highest proportion of disability recipients is counties trump carry. that is because so many people who claim disability benefits are workers forced out of manual labor type jobs. coal, tobacco, textiles. those are very taxing jobs. people have used disability benefits as a bridge to get affordable health care. of the 20 counties with the highest share of adults benefits,disability 17 voted for trump. one of the administration -- what is the narrative the administration is going to try to commu

social security numbers, your dates of birth, your entire voting history, whether you've served in the military, criminal convictions, it's overly broad, it's sensitive, personal voter information. also let's make sure that people understand the national association for secretaries of state has repeatedly stood by the fact that the 10th amendment is there for a reason. elections are left for the states to run. this is encroachment at the federal level at its finest. i sit at the national state meeting right next to kansas, and i can tell you time and time again i've heard my republican counterparts echo as i am now, this is not an area where the federal government needs to overreach, let alone one that's on a baseless sham commission trying to back up a purported lie of 3 to 5 million people voting illegally that simply hasn't happened. >> why do you think chris kobach and this commission want this data? >> obviously you have someone who is running the commission that himself is putting himself on the ballot to try to become governor of kansas. and one can only speculate. i think it's

they are going to go after social security. they just cut medicaid by $88 billion over a 10-year -- $880 billion over a 10-year period. i think it gets back to the argument of whether we can afford to spend a huge amount of money getting involved in wars and adequately take care of working families in this country. that's a simple and i think straightforward explanation. >> hi, senator sanders. my name is colette. i am with the u.s. human rights network. thank you for being here. i come to the human rights work from the aftermath of hurricane katrina and the bp oil drilling disaster. one frame i hear mentioned subtly but not as in front as i would hope is the issue of climate change. i wonder how you see the fight for human rights and the climate reality connected. sen. sanders: well, if you're talking about the survival of the planet and the lives of billions of people, i guess we're talking about human rights. if we are talking about the fact that the people most immediately impacted in this country and around the world would

the same thing for social security disability. i don't overreact. the goal ought to be if somebody needs help, we need to help them, but also help them maintain to be personally responsible. one dependency is tierneyit because one thing is you lose the ability to flower and grow into what you can become that the earned success is happiness. and it's true. if we create programs that help the people that need it and we don't allow for fraud and abuse, and we know that there is $120 billion of fraud in the medicare and medicaid, think about that.s enou that is enough to build everyed bridge that we need. that's because we will vote money from the public treasury and that is how they died. every republic dies. we are the longest standing republic and they all stand on the same thing, fiscal impropriety. >> host: kathryn in ohio cathero ahead. >> caller: good morning. you are a true politician because you speak out of both sides of your mouth. you were the elite in washington. if it were so bad why didn't you try to do something at the time. you have a g

greater things whether it was social security or medicare? it was two parties and got together and came one great solutions to problems. i don't think that's going to happen, but that is what

i don't know through social security or whatever. too, i think we inuld invest a lot of time women being trained to be healthcare workers for the care.y and child lot of young women are good with children but they're not teacher orbeing a doctor. they might be interested in taking care of our children. themt a program to support and their training and invest a ablef money in them being to work as they won't have to hire a babysitter. sometimes you got three or four children, you want to go to for, you're really wagger -- working for the babysitter. point: i think that the she made about lot of elderly people need care is exactly right. how expensive it is if there aren't family members available, to take care of an elderly relative and they end up medicaid and in a nursing home. that's much more expensive than if you can free up family members to help with the care. it's also better care typically. training, i about couldn't grow more. healthre tons of jobs as aids in the healthcare system. we do need to train more people that. host:

watch. >> save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. have to do it. [ applause ] get rid of the fraud. get rid of the waste and abuse. but save it. people have been paying in for years, and now many of these candidates want to cut it. >> i'm not going to cut social security like every other republican. and i'm not going to cut medicare or medicaid. every other republican is going to cut. even if they wouldn't, they don't know what to do because they don't know where the money is. i do. >> you weheard him. he said it -- he has a haerkear and he's not going to throw people on the street. >> you see what's happening with the health care bills which have, you know, states could have opted in or out of medicaid subsidies. and now this senate version that gets phased out by the year 2021, that is what is giving some moderates real heartburn here. they know how much their constituents depend on medicaid. so i think if you look at it as a presidential promise, you'd have to say, well, broken. what we don't know because we're not watching this p

social security number is publicly available. it is not publicly available.t requesting it. >> why did you ask for it? >> if it is publicly available. then the commission would look it, too. in most states it's not. >> you want to avoid falls positives. >> i hear you, what are you trying to get at? asking for people's names, initials, date of birth. >> and the political party. you want voter history and information regarding felony convictions and information regarding voter registration, information involving military status and overseas citizen information. what will you do with all that information? >> okay. let me give you an example t. pugh charitable foundation one of their trusts estimates 1.8 million deceased individuals are on the voter rom in the understand country. they think that's low. we can find out the number if we match them against the social security administrations deaths, let's find out the real number. if have you the voter history, how many of these names appear to have voted after the date of death. >> right. >> so it's a matter of act

. >> save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. i'm not going to cut medicare or medicaid. you can end up with great health care for a fraction of the price. >> all right, he wants this senate version to have heart, no cuts in medicaid, there are hundreds of billions of dollars, potentially, in cuts that have been included. so is the president keeping his promise? >> well, i think the thing that we have to examine about medicaid expansion is i think that under obamacare was dishonest accounting because what we did is we expanded it to a lot of new people, maybe 12 million new people, but we paid for it all at the federal government level. really nothing at the federal government level is really paid for. we borrow the money. we're $500 million in the hole. we had trouble funding traditional medicare, medicaid, food stamps, social security before we expanded into obamacare. there isn't enough money for everything. and i think we need to be honest with the american people. if people want medicaid expansion, the most honest ways to sa

in the nation to provide donald trump's new voter commission with the names, birth dates and social security information for registered voters going back to 2006. kobach, a candidate for kansas governor in 2018 serves as vice chair of the president's advisory commission on election integrity. in a wednesday later, kobach asked the connecticut secretary of state's office to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data, including the full names of all registered voters along with their addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of their social security number, voting history and other personal information. take a look at the letter that was sent. this from dennis -- denise meryl, the secretary of state responded. -- denis merrill, the secretary of state responded. jessica, a reporter, has on twitter the letter, the request to all states yesterday requesting information on voter fraud and copy of their voter rolls. you can find that information on twitter and if you're interested in that story. then there's also in "the wall street journal" this morning. shane has thi