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They release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® and joining me now from capitol hill is maggie hasan, a member of the health, education, and labor and pensions, front and center in key part of the health care cris i the crisis, opioid epidemic. i want to talk to you about that. we do have breaking news at this moment, we understand that another senator murkowski is saying that she would oppose the motion to proceed. we dont know, you know, the numbers yet, but doesnt appear that th...

>> this is a glass half full story. unemployment rate lower. total jobs higher. but if you actually look at wages year over year, they have only gone up 2.5%. even the last 8 years, the medium income household that the average family earns in this country has barely gone up. todd: what changes that? what gets wages to rise? >> this is really confuses the fed. looking at the number. unemployment rate is really low. number of jobs why arent wages going up? and there is a multitude of reasons. high...

Depression. you touched on something, and i think it was brilliant, as you typically do. whats going on in illinois, you could extend it to other states that have been in financial duress. new jersey comes to mind, maine comes to mind, vast unfunded liabilities. and to say nothing of our federal government, to say nothing of all of these governments and europe that has exceeded this sort of cradle to grape protection that some of them only now are trying to dewing themselves. so i guess ill ask ...

To work there years and years ago. i helped launch the website back about a decade ago, but hes famously captured brandishing an ice cream cone on the boardwalk after he had gotten into a verbal altercation with the new jersey resident i think over pensions or something. you know, what is so stunning about the exchange i think for most folks in the state is that the governor came out there on the beach and his defense of all this has been this is our residence. we can go there. were entitled to ...

>> shannon: all know i do say as a lawyer i always toll people if they ask to search your car and they dont have probable cause you tell them know. there is more why the cooperative. a lot of these folks may come to regret there has been an investigation and maybe devil more further than they had expected. >> that investigation is going to be hands largely in the republicanly controlled house and senate committees. before if they thought it was all going to be their team that got to set the ques...

Congress. its an efficient system. it works well. it dozen mean that if you dont have a lot of money, you cant add on to some of those basic coverages. just like you can now with medicare. i think thats the way to go. but here we are today, i think a good first step for us is to say, lets bring medicare down to 50. we have so many people in places like youngstown and akron, ohio. they lost their pensions and they lost their health care and theyre working at a job that pays half of what it used t...

Thats true. ive been meeting with a group of members of the democratic caucus for about three years trying to develop some fixes for obamacare. nobody argues that the aca is a perfect law and it can be -- it certainly can be improved. weve got to deal with things like premiums and deductibles and how the whole system works and how it works with small businesses. so, there are lots of things that we can do. i have a radical suggestion for the majority leader. submit the bill to the health educati...

$15 billion nearly and unpaid bills without a budget over the course of the past two years. $800 million burned in fees and interest on the unpaid bills. when it comes to pensions, $251 billion, a quarter of a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liability appeared what is the answer? most people say cut spending and raise taxes. illinois is one of the lowest income tax rates in the united states among the states that tax income. seven dont. illinois, 3.75 is the percentage rate for the income t...

$15 billion nearly and unpaid bills without a budget over the course of the past two years. $800 million burned in fees and interest on the unpaid bills. when it comes to pensions, $251 billion, a quarter of a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liability appeared what is the answer? most people say cut spending and raise taxes. illinois is one of the lowest income tax rates in the united states among the states that tax income. seven dont. illinois, 3.75 is the percentage rate for the income t...

Done before the august 1st deadline tweeting -- we need to do it this week, and there we see the president shaking hands with the india prime minister. they plan to meet and will issue a joint statement following their meeting sometime later, we are also waiting this afternoon for the congressional budget office to issue a score of the senate versions health care bill, as the president talk foreign policy, we will be focusing on do metz ig policy. those two things happening simultaneously. one o...