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Were lagging in our numbers. whether its children, pregnant women, and all other adults. you have to go out and get a flu vaccine. >> you just mentioned children. what is scary for so many parents i talk to is how many young children are in hospital as well. is that what you ever seeing? >> yes. its been surprising to see the amount of our pediatric hospitals being literally full. and that includes our neonatal, as well as pediatric intensive care units. we have been on calls with our state coll...

>> and i appreciate you getting specific. because there has been a lot of confusion about such a bold call. but what you are saying is basically a lot of the agencies may be able to do this through regulation, presumably that may delay implementation through the courts, but that is the level of specificity we havent seen, so thank you for that. i want to ask you about the overall effort. there has been debate about whether maybe they should be broken up. there are questions about how you bring m...

Previous fires led to some structural changes. what would you like to see done now? what will you push as a member of congress to have done now to make a fire like this less likely in the future? >> my colleagues and i -- im a congressman and im going to collaborate with my state colleagues and local colleagues and what policies have to be put in place to improve fire safety. every american have access to safety and affordable housing including housing thats safe from fires. >> we know you have ...

Outside in the pasture and possibly in parron. is there anything to do to stop the afghan troopsing to make a resistance and pull back. >> on your first question, we are -- and you heard the secretary talk about this yesterday, willing to support the movement, safe movement of citizens of our allies and partners. in fact, we have already done that and some of the numbers that the general briefed that got out of the country were obviously sis of other countries, allies and partners. so we are doi...

Damage to the united states. he considers us the main enemy. you know, even though the u.s. government is certainly pivoting towards china, in terms of looking at our existential threat. russia is still there first and foremost. no doubt in my mind vladimir putin and russians are capable of this. going back to the state department, i really sympathize with my state colleagues on this. i went through the same things theyre going through now. i wrote a book on leadership. ultimately leaders are re...

Saying rex tillerson is unaware of the reason the president is replacing him. tillerson is proud of his national security accomplishment hell miss state colleagues and work the department of defense and secretary matis. he wishes secretary-designate pompeo well. if youre just joining us, here is the news, rex tillerson is out as secretary of state. mike pompeo has been nominated by the president to be the next secretary of state. and gina haspel working at the cia will be nominated to be the nex...

There is a complete disconnect here between president trumps policies which are seen as the policies of his administrations that one would think he signed off on, right? his twitter feed for the point. >> today he tweeted cochran very disappointed that china is allowing oil in. there will never be a friendly solution if this continues to happen. you look at the tweet and you look at what tillerson said. what do you think? >> the tweet seems to confirm an anonymously sourced south korean media re...

Partnership with city officials and the people of flint. we want to work closely together to earn the trust. >> colleague rachel maddow following the story closely, in fact from the very beginning. >> february, epa telling the state of michigan, telling the rick snider administration, high levels of lead reported, being found in flint, the waters core rosive, leeching lead out of the pipes there. that was state being told what was wrong by the epa last february. still, the snider administration ...

The water is corrosive, it is leaching lead out of the pipes there. thats the state being told what was wrong by the epa in february. the snyder administration told the people of flint to relax, keep drinking the water. then there was the memo in june, "high lead levels in flint, michigan." copied on that memo, four different officials on the state agency. "there does appear to be a higher proportion of elevated blood lead levels last summer than usual." an e-mail in september to three state col...

State colleagues, "sounds like there might be more to this than what we learned previously. yikes." thats literally written in the e-mail, yikes. and from the governors chief of staff "people in flint are concerned and rightfully so about their water. theyre getting blown off by the state of michigan. but all the while, for months after that, the snyder administration kept saying publicly, relax, drink the water, drink up, serve it to your kids, go on, while this was what was going on internally...