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"americas newsroom," im dana perino. >> bill: im bill hemmer. she is accused of serving her husband adrink laced with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. both sides previewing cases during a detention hearing yesterday. prosecutors presented their evidence. the defense calling the case purely circumstantial. in the end the judge denying request for bail finding that she is a substantial danger to herself and others. >> dana: jeff paul has more for us. >> bill and dana, the first ti...

in a letter to colleagues, speaker of the house nancy pelosi gushed over what was happening saying weve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful action. they even got support from the white house. >> these activists posted a map with the home addresses of the supreme court justices. is that the kind of thing the president wants to help your site make their point? >> i think the presidents view is that theres a lot of passion. >> laura: deputy white ho...

And you apply because we all know that its a substantial sum. >> only what she calls that donation of investment, it does nothing to stem the caravan headed this way, laura. nor does it address the biggest national security threat we face. talk about an unseen story, writers did a trade analysis of the last six years or so, putting mexico aside, guess who has surpassed the united states in trade with latin america? you said it earlier. china is now the leading trade partner with latin america, s...

Taking on kim jung un. kevin cork live in beijing this morning. >> you are right about that. this is a very interesting opportunity for donald trump as he makes his way to beijing and percolating trade war. the president comes here to beijing with a promise to deliver and help hes looking to get from leadership in china and i will tell you about both. we show you pictures of the president landing here with his lovely wife the first lady this afternoon. the president promised to level the playing...

Be very busy for the foreseeable future trying to check state news and erroneous tweets. >> ill let you ask the questions from there. >> lets talk about federal waste. i know that thats something that youre focused on. youre putting out your second annual report on government waste. you say that you found $247 -- 247 billion worth of federal waste and as always there are sort of silly entries into this when you find out what the government is spending money on. lets put this up, $2 million spent...

Who lend you the money. in this case china and then japan and other for inpowers. not good. martha: interesting. i remember back during the election candidate mitt romney used to talk a lot about, you know, if im president, whatever expenditures we add to the budget we have to ask ourselves, is it worth owing that much more to china? just as an exercise and reality to figure it out. so it is interesting to look back. >> $1,000 owed to every chinese citizen is a great deal of money. martha: thats...

Sells cereal. you have one choice -- the basic package. only the copay and deductible is different. secondly the subsidy, if you get one, is from the government rather than your employee. so only people with low income get the subsidy. third, you are at big risk on the obamacare exchange of not being able to use the doctor and hospital you prefer. those exchange plans pay doctors and hospitals so little that only a few will participate. >> i want to ask you about it. speaking of hospitals here. ...

247 billion less to care for the same number of seniors than if the law had not passed. so purse strings, is that a way that congress can somehow attack obamacare? >> well, john boehner was talking about whatever powers congress has to change obamacare, and youre absolutely right spending is part of that. and also, you know, the big parts of obamacare arent in effect yet, the mandate, the insurance exchanges, all of these things that make up the heart, the expansion of medicaid that make up the ...

That, weighing dropping coverage, i think the larger employers will stay in because there are incentives that the government gives them to retain their employees on their health plans. that is going to be the biggest thing i think that a lot of people will be watching is how many employers drop their employees. gregg: yeah, because of the medicare cuts, hospitals are going to have $247 billion less to care for the same number of seniors. its crunch time for everybody. bob cusack of the hill, bob...

Has third or more. other employers will say no fine. im just going to push my employees down to part-time status and be done with this problem. >> steve: lets talk about cuts to medicare. >> well, cuts to medicare are paid for over half this law. >> steve: we heard about this on the campaign from mitt romney. >> yeah. seniors and baby boomers who will be enrolling in medicare soon will get less care than theyve received in the past. for example, hospitals will be paid $247 billion less to care f...