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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but hes the man to do it. chad, whats happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost...

Be. we should have a simple tax the system thats easy to comply with but easy to administer. the i are rs is in the process right now of hiring 5,000 people to help them deal with the back load of 17 million paper tax returns. they are that far behind. and yet they say that were the problem? no. the irs is broken. its fundamentally broken, it cant fix itself, and adding more auditors and adding more to its budget is not the solution. david: and adding more regulations that force small business t...

So powerful, computers got so powerful that it was no longer necessary for entrepreneurs to listen to customers or worry about what other people thought. they being make a global product and impose their will and that is exactly what facebook has done. >> youve said for years now that facebook is partly or directly to blame for various problems in our society whether its the outcome of the 2016 elections and the rapid spread of anti-vax lunacy, and white supremacy, you say facebook wont fix itse...

Home, brian. all right. well outfront now, michael smerconish, host of cnns smerconish. so, michael, today on capitol hill, you know, something that seemed to finally unite many democrats and republicans was their frustration and anger at facebook. senator after senator from both parties were placing blame on facebook saying it needs to be fixed. um, okay. but should the government be involved in fixing? >> if facebook doesnt fix itself, erin, i think the government will have no choice. i mean...

Service lines that go into peoples homes. we follow the progress of the $1 stept million bill, which may have relief for flint in terms of trying to heal, fix itself, to get safe watt to people now more than two years after this crisis started. what itself the status of the door-to-door bottle of water delivery in the city and what proportion of the city is able drink their water safely at this point in. >> well, i dont think any proportion of the city by any standard can drink it safely. becaus...

Government is exempt from foya. we need answers. i hope the attorney general continues this pursuit all the way up to the top, so we can get the answers the people of flint deserve. >> on the grounds in flint, we have been following the progress in terms of replacing lead service lines that go into peoples homes. we follow the progress of the $1 stept million bill, which may have relief for flint in terms of trying to heal, fix itself, to get safe watt to people now more than two years after thi...

Now, with what the attorney general has said as far as pursuing this, you would hope to see this open that door ap we can finally get some answers. just today you had elijah cummings was la meanting the fact the governor has responded the subpoenas. in the state of michigan the government is exempt from foya. we need answers. i hope the attorney general continues this pursuit all the way up to the top, so we can get the answers the people of flint deserve. >> on the grounds in flint, we have bee...