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Courtesy photo The Wells Lions Auxiliary recently donated toys to Toys for Tots to make the Christmas of local children in need brighter. Shown, from left, are Lee Ziemba, Mary Derkos, Mary Smith, Jill Johnson, Melinda Broeders, Mary Kallio, Marlene Wiltizus, Joani Miller, Judy Cappeart, Marilyn Dutkavich. 17 members were not in the photo. The organization raises funds through its partnership with the Wells Lions Men’s Club. They help in their food trailer during the fair, the Logging Congre...

Whatever. he is saying the government is not going to provide bailouts for insurance companies or members of congress. the way most members of congress get insurance is through the d.c. exchange which is subsidized by the government by obamacare. what the president has been saying consistently is he is going to allow obamacare to impli implode. one is take away the government subsidies to companies that allow low income folks to afford coverage. that would be to the tune of $7 billion. the other...

Are inhumane. what are we going to do? if obamacare implodes. its easy for him to do that. he is a rich guy with health insurance. everybody he cares about has health insurance. there are americans who need obamacare and are on it right now. what are regoing to do with those sick people if it implodes? what are we going to tell them? what are we going to tell is families of sick children. what are we going to tell spouses? at some point, get over the defeat. get over the political posturing and ...

Sign. senator corey gardner and i, of colorado, introduced legislation that would be tougher on china and cut off any kind of trade between any company anywhere in the world doing business with north korea, including the chinese companies doing that business, especially the top ten chinese trading companies doing that business. we have to get tough, even as we listen to the chinese as they ask us to go to the table to talk to the north koreans to begin to have a negotiation but we have to do it ...

So, the only answer is to deal realistically with china. there was a 37% increase in trade between north korea and china between 2016 and 2017. the president should have known that. as we deploy our defense system in south korea, what has happened is that china has cut off, for all intents and purposes, tourism between south korea and the chinese hurting the country we are trying to help. the president has to get realistic. >> do you believe him that he, you know, they wont -- when he said we wi...

Call it putins payback or maybe vladimirs vendetta. you pick. the russian president retaliating against the u.s. for the sanctions bill president trump is expected to sign. putin is demanding the u.s. cut staff at american diplomatic operations by 750 people. joining me to discuss, democratic senator, ed mar ki. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> youre welcome. >> the president is expected to sign the sanctions. russia did not wait to respond. what impact will that have, what russia ha...

Continue to work on this is a good thing. i agree -- >> maybe he doesnt believe it, hes trying to scare them straight? >> the president wants a success. he doesnt want obamacare to implode on his watch. he wants to fix the problem. thats why hes tweeting and pushing congress. look, this is an opportunity for donald trump to show he can lead. this is the opportunity to say look, we are not going to do it the washington way. we are going to go outside, bring people in, democrats and republicans, g...

Low income people and cutting off insurance for members of congress and their staff. i spoke to senator rick santorum. he said it could be a good scare tactic to get folks back to the table. do you agree? >> if president has a choice. he can engage in repetition, this is going to lead to an escalation or begin to work toward reconciliation, hear whag the members of congress, democrats and republicans have been saying to him to find a way of ensuring the system does not collapse, not cutting off ...

Flogging congress and flogging the senate for having failed. whats not being talked about are the people who need insurance. whats not being talked about are the lives that are at risk. at some olympian, we have to stop saying this as a political chess game and see it as a american crisis that needs to be solved and put the focus where it needs to be. >> the president spoke directly on friday. senator, let me play it for you. this is another round the president is suggesting that congress can go...