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Anything to help it but getting people on to these roles in recent years. this is a program that has nearly quadrupled in size since the beginning of the bush administration and tripled in how many recipients. not doing what it set out to accomplish. >> martha: doesnt make any sense. during that period, the obama administration, president obama talked a lot about how the economy was recovering. it was growing. and, yet, more and more people were being added to this program, richard, in terms of ...

Instead of retail. poor people rate very low on healthy eating indexes. this is something that if americans care about the health of low income americans they should care about this. and people on these programs tend to eat a lot of cookies, candiys, sugary snacks and not enough fresh vegetables and whole grains. im not saying it has to be this program. the federal government allows states exexperiment with how they implement this program. something needs to be done if you care about food relate...

Show. and you know what that means. that means there is always room for good news because we think good news rules. check out this video. its gone viral, thank you very much. thats a raleigh police officer giving an 8-year-old boy a hug after his family was effected from their hotel after being displaced by hurricane maria. the boy has adhd and autism and his mother can no longer afford his medication. but the officer didnt just give them a hug. he gave them money for a place to stay and set up ...

Kimberly, tell me something i dont know. >> theres one particular part of the presidents budget facing derision from the left. he proposed for the snap program, the food stamp program, instead of giving money to give boxes of food harvest boxes they call it, something like blue apron, but the left is calling it blue apron but terrible, literally a food delivery to the home. >> packaged foods. >> instead of money. so its sort of a throwback to food. >> you get to pick what you want? >> i dont thi...

I go grocery shopping. how much can you get for $29 a week? if theyre cutting it by billions with a b, how much can we go further in this? >> ill tell you. usda explained this. the way theyre going to do it, currently under the snap program, consumers are buying products by retail. now the government will be able to buy products wholesale and realize tremendous cost savings. this is the product -- this is what you get by having a ceo of president of the united states. this is bold, its innovativ...

To do nationally. >> i believe that is correct. ive spoken to the president about it. he likes what were seeing in maine. right now, weve done some welfare reform in our snap program and revenues for the folks gone to work were up about 114-120% people are dropping out of the system. they dont need to be on the system any more and theres a couple things nobody wants to talk about on the left. one, you remove these people from isolation. you get them into relationships into the workforce. theyre ...

I want to change the way we conducted. >> reporter: senator rubio supports a merit system but disagrees with setting a on the number of green cards issued. >> take from the rich give to the poor, wanting to use the robin hood approach to help schools in his cash-strapped state, executive action to shift funding from wealthy districts in connecticut to for once to create a balance. the proposals breaking instant backlash, critics say it could lead to teacher layoffs and class warfare. state lawma...

Away. theyre a little slow to come around. >> tucker: kind of weird since i remember, at least a year ago and the leadership was saying we want to build a wall and we want to defund planned parenthood. you provide a solution to both of those things simultaneously and yet they arent congratulating you, arent buying you a beer?d >> you think that they would say "why didnt i think of that, lets do that right away." another thing on this is that the planned parenthood proposal, if we could ever get ...

I remember, at least a year ago and the leadership was saying we want to build a wall and we want to defund planned parenthood. you provide annoyance to both of those things simultaneously and yet they are congratulating you are buying you a beer? >> you think that they would say wide and i think of that, lets do that right away. another thing on this is at the planned parenthood proposal, if we could even get this done, is only for a single year instead of a perpetuity which is what i prefer. b...

Theyre a little slow to come around. >> tucker: kind of weird since i remember, at least a year ago and the leadership was saying we want to build a wall and we want to defund planned parenthood. you provide a solution to both of those things simultaneously and yet they arent congratulating you, arent buying you a beer?d >> you think that they would say "why didnt i think of that, lets do that right away." another thing on this is that the planned parenthood proposal, if we could ever get this d...