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Hunter was killed in afghanistan just there summer. >> whitney first of all im so sorry for your loss and that were talking under these circumstances. first of all, what do you want people to know about jonathan? what was he like? >> he -- he -- i feel like whenever something like this happens a lot of people bring out all the good things about someone but i -- he was genuinely the best person ive ever known. and even though we were only together for such a short amount of time he made me the be...

There was no coordination with the russians during the campaign season, but leahy does not see it that way, sees an equivocation of sorts from jeff sessions. but session also said that he does not remember having discussions about the magnitsky act, that russian sanctions legislation that went into affect here in the united states, which was a big push by kislyak and the russians to try to gut and repeal. he says he does not believe they discussed that issue or any campaign issues for that matte...

Priority, end quote. i was really very pleased to hear that. however, this year, the justice department discarded its long-standing position on a texas voter i.d. law. for nearly six years, the department of justice had argued that the texas law was unconstitutional, and intended to discriminate against minority voters. based on evidence that shows voter i.d. laws, quote, have a disproportionate affect on minorities. despite this, just two weeks after you were confirmed, the department dropped i...

Medications are opiates because they have certain brand names but it centralized prescribing unit we can monitor what patients are using and we should have strong guidelines how to -- make sure physicians, why we have addiction. >> when we talk about a centralized system tracking more of it that will allow pharmacies to do a better job. >> this is not implement it a little bit, pharmacies take action saying we wont see a doctor they cant prescribe but only going to give patients ten pills so the...

Suffers from the same anomalies as the previous ban. the justice department says it will appeal it. all right, so the da speaking out after its exkploesive report that its agents were handcuffed by a law that made it difficult to go after an opioid epidemic spiralled out of control. according to "the washington post" 60 minutes report, the law actually weakened the market for drug distributors from flooding the market with addictive opioids. yesterday the da pushed back. >> i should assure you...

Affect our understanding of some of these big arguments we have been following? the hillary clinton email thing? the james comey firing? notices new information change our thinking about this? speak of a general concern is te investigation, as it were, of mrs. clintons email practices, was biased to help mrs. clinton, both by the justice department and the fbi. the most vivid illustration of that was the attorney general of the united states at the time, loretta lynch, meeting with a witness and...

Vocal about the deal. he has dealt a blow to barack obamas health care legislation. lets talk about this with scott lucas, professional of international politics at the university of birmingham, england. scott? >> we knew he was going after barack obamas legacy. and in the past week hes undermined what were arguably mr. obamas two most significant policies internationally and domestically, iran and health care. >> yes. i mean, the first rule of thumb for donald trump is if barack obama did it, r...

Money -- >> the president keeps implying that the money gave -- >> taxpayer dollars. >> its a resource for destruction we were able to withhold from them and now have given them. what would a normal policy look like? it would be that you focus on the deal is there, unfortunately, and you have to now work within it because they have received the benefits from it and you focus on the issues that are immediately present and you do that by building an international coalition for a new round of press...

Fighting for me. why isnt anybody else saying the same thing this president is saying? donald trump knows what hes doing here. >> adrian, to health care with you, and the president rolling back subsidies, and even some republicans are balking at that. heres senator collins. >> its true that it will also have a destabilizing affect on the insurance markets and i think thats the last thing we should want and may force some insurers out altogether. my number one concern is the impact on low income ...

Do. we know that the president fired james comey, why did he fire james comey. did he do it to try to stop the investigation? reince priebus was talking to the president all the time, the white house chief of staff is physically there, especially this chief of staff. so any conversations we had with the president about why james comey was fired and how that will be explained to the public was a false statement put on. all of that is going to be central to what muellers going to be asking. >> the...