. >> senator whitehouse, thank you so much for t this hearing, and senator stabenow as well. and thank you to all of you. you don't know this but i'm from nevada which is a right to work state but we have some of the strongest unions in the country and if do today because of those unions. everything you said today i experienced in and we're experiencing in nevada. that's why i'm so glad we're having this hearing and so proud to fight alongside of all of you. let me follow up on a conversation that you started with, senator hirono. about the koch brothers now after this decision, this janus decision that reaching out to public sector workers and saying you don't have to be a part of union. what are you doing to counter that, if anything, or do you see a need to counter it? is there any type of strategy that you looking at or taking, just curious? or is it something we don't want to share? >> well, i can tell you what some people have done. we have had members in various different locals who have set back the e-mails that have gotten with words that come if i use them right now

right now senator stabenow has failed to effectively lead and bring things back.nt, saginaw, detroit, the reasons i came back, that are still suffering, but i don't look any better after 50 years. the people i'm talking about in these cities have been neglected by democrats and after marching from selma to detroit and rebelling from baltimore, people here haven't seen anything change in 50 years. now it's different. i am the only conservative in this race. i've been endorsed by right to life michigan, national right to life, susan b. anthony list, american conservatives union, i am the only one who can beat debbie stabenow, i have a military experience, being a west coast west point grad, and i have grown my family business. >> jason: captain, you have convinced me. you are not running from the trump agenda, you are not running from the right. i do think it will be a winning message. i have got just ten seconds left. when people say the democrats say, let's abolish i.c.e., what? >> i say we have to secure the borders, defund sanctuary cities, and protect i.c.e. in

they sign up and want to fight and keep their jobs >> thank you senator white house and senator stabenow thank you to all of you be of some o havef the strongest unions in the country. that is why i am so glad we are having this hearing and so proud to fight alongside all of you. you. let me follow up on a conversation that started with senator hirono after this decision reaching out to public sector workers saying you don't have to be part of the union. what are you doing to counter that is there any type of strategy that you are looking at or taking, just curious or is it something we don't want to share? >> we hav have been members in n various different locals that setback the e-mails that they've gotten with words that if i use them right now, as the professor said, i would have too much money and i swear jar. individual members and locals have basically set a whole bunch of things back to these folks i'm going to sue you for invading my privacy. so that's number one. number two, we are actually looking at a bunch of different legal options, that's number three, we are exposing this

different approach, one more progressive to battle against the present peer political analyst larry stabenowsays if this is closed the republicans will likely decide and the time to vote for feinstein is more moderate than deleon. and it would boost republican turnout in a could help incumbents and how-- >> anything they can do to increase gop turnout in those districts will help them keep the seats. and maybe keep the u.s. house out of democratic hands. in that sense i suppose you can argue that the democrats have shot themselves in the foot. >> in a statement, deleon says the endorsement is a clear rejection of politics as usual. writing apart, we presented californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out washington playbook. in a quarter-century. feinstein campaign manager released a statement saying he is confident large majority of california democrats will vote to reelect senator feinstein in november. and if you're wondering why there are two democrats running against each other, california operates a top two primary system which sends the two highest vote getters in the p

and in michigan, debbie stabenow has a substantial lead over john james and sandy pensler.l of these numbers with the polls showing president trump's approval ratings in these states in the 30s and it's not hard to see the warning signs of a blue wave coming back to the midwest. we'll be back with more "mtp daily" after this. is is not clo. this is a car protected from storms by an insurance company that knows the weather down to the square block. this is a diamond tracked on a blockchain - protected against fraud, theft and trafficking. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can't see. this is a patient's medical history made secure - while still available to their doctor at their fingertips. this is an asteroid live-streamed to millions of viewers from 220 miles above earth. this is ai trained by experts in 20 industries. your industry. hello. this is not the cloud you know. this is the ibm cloud. the cloud that's built for all your apps. ai ready. secure to the core. the ibm cloud is the cloud for smarter business. ♪ ♪ we carry flowers that

next in line is senator stabenow. ms. stabenow: mr. president.the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you very much. i want to thank our distinguished ranking member on the finance committee and all of my colleagues who are here to talk about and celebrate two programs that for 53 years have changed the lives of michigan families and the families of our country for the better. the words of president lyndon b. johnson who signed the programs into law are a great reminder of what life was like before medicare and medicaid. he said no longer will older americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. no longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years. no longer will young families see their own incomes and their own hopes eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents. and to their uncles and to their aunts. and no longer will this nation refuse the hand o

senator stabenow asks will be about this and you responded that we need competition. i would say what we do about this? it's been available since 2001 and canadians spend less than 9000 and. that is -- are 5% of the list price patient cannot afford. what to do about that? >> senator, i may be misinformed here but i do believe that the generic is available. >> let's say that we are back in 2015 or 16 in which this would apply and again, a drug 15 years after release is 144,000 because there will be another one if there is now a generic. how do we address that? >> one of the items inlt terms f affordability that we have is in the president's budget which i would love the chance to work with would be to create several changes and one of which would be a genuine for the first time ever ranking member widen has a separate piece of legislation to this fact that a genuine out-of-pocket catastrophic -- >> let me pause on that. as we both know for context one of the pernicious effects of the rebate system which we have is that moves people more quickly into the catastrophic bu

know if this endorsement will be enough to take down the gop rival next week and democrat debbie stabenownovember. >>> new report claims that oil could hit $120 a peril by end of the year. sounds pretty farfetched but could it happen? what would that do for gas prices? >>> the president is going on the offensive against the mainstream media after "the new york times" publisher calls his rhetoric divisive and dangerous. >>> a teenager says hacking pays off, how he made $100,000 from hacking government agencies and the including the defense department. you're watching the second hour of "varney & company". ♪ charles: so says the big board we're up 10 but the story right now is the story of last week when it comes to stocks. nasdaq is getting slaughtered again. megatech down big. netflix down four%, facebook down 2%, google down 2%. microsoft is down, nvidia, amazon. smaller cloud plays are under a tremendous amount of pressure. we have a lot of pressure counteracting the big board. caterpillar had record profits, increased guidance. not sure how the conference call is going, but tremendous

she contacted senator stabenow about this and in the critical year of 2002 and thanks to the senator for raising on the senate floor, the risks of barge shipments but not only is yucca mountain not a solution but these proposals would put the great lakes at even greater risk than before. that issue is immunities against each other, get it out of here, we don't care how it leaves or where it goes. that is not just. we are one nation, under god, indivisible. there is no exception for radioactive waste. screw nevada is not an option, screw new mexico is not an option, screw texas is not an option. the communities that are very much in harm's way, what about camp pendleton? how about a five-mile move of the waste to a place where houses of u.s. marines can help guard it out of this tsunami zone, out of the earthquake zone. there's something else at work here. what is, it is in hr 3053. transfer of title for this deadly waste that the industry has profited from generating onto american taxpayers. that is not a good reason for these very dangerously bad decisions. >> one thing you mentione

thank you. [ applause ] >> we've been joined by senator debbie stabenow from michigan, senator whitehouse from rhode island, senator patrick leahy from vermont. but we'i'm going to tell you jua little story. last year i had an idea for a bill. and i shared it with our next speaker, united states senator. it was a bill to create technologies that could detect fentanyl before it reached the borders of our country. 75% of all the opioid deaths now have fentanyl in the bloodstream of those victims. so for 10 minutes in his office, we spoke about that issue. and then, for the next 50 minutes, we talked about robert f. kennedy. his knowledge of robert f. kennedy and john kennedy and ted kennedy was enormous. his ability to relate the message of robert f. kennedy to today was powerful and deep. and his message today is something that i think reflects to the american people his ability to understand what robert f. kennedy was trying to signal to our country. i give you my friend, the great congressman from the state of florida, marco rubio. [ applause ] >> thank you. i'm honored to be here. a per

and so what happens there in terms of trying to deal with that, senator stabenow and i introduced a bill a few years ago, the excellence of mental health act, and eight of our states now have situations where they're treating in that eight-state pilot where they're treating behavioral health like all other health, that particularly steps up somebody with an opioid addiction problem has a behavioral health problem, they wouldn't have had otherwise, and there's no limit, just like there would be no limit if you had kidney dialysis, there's also no limit in those eight states for your behavioral health element. there is no 28 days and if you haven't quit this in 28 days, you're going to have to deal with this as a unique problem, dealing with mental health and behavioral health in the same way matters in all cases. but it particularly seems to apply as people try to beat this addiction. the department of labor and health and human services bill includes $60 million for child abuse prevention and treatment programs to support what happens in families when somebody in that family gets into an