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June 27, 2019
Reestablish confidence in the process that candidates feel like its fair? >> thats a fair question. we have said from the beginning that we want this to be a fair and transparent process. we know not everyone is going to make it to the mountaintop that we want to make sure that everyone and their supporters feel like they got a fair shot. we are doing that by announcing the threshold early on. when if you seen a 20 person debate two consecutive nights in prime time, ten candidates each stage we ...
June 27, 2019
>> i dont think were going to add a third night but they have a chance to make the third debate. when you are seeing campaigns going across the country, crisscrossing a talking about the issues, your sinkholes go up . are seeing people gain enthusiasm and everybody has their shot. thats the f beauty of it. the threshold its veryre low f the first two. you can make it through grassroots fundraising. so you have grassroots support andd you could potentially make that stage and that is the beauty o...
June 27, 2019
Add a third night but what i will say is they have a chance to make the second debate. they have a chance to make the third debate. when youre seeing campaigns crisscrossing, talking about issues, youre seeing polls go up. you are seeing people gain enthusiasm. everyone has a fair shot. the threshold for the first two debates is very low. you dont have to make it through polling. you can make it through grassroots fund-raising. if you have grassroots support, you can potentially make the stage a...
June 26, 2019
We wanted patients to take them to their doctors and say okay its okay for you to keep me on these medications since im doing well. now many of the doctors are afraid of the d.e.a., the drug enforcement agency and also cms sometimes wont cover it and state agency he is. there is still a lot of misconceptions and, yes, we had to cut back on prescribing. there is no question that too many doctors were a little too liberal. they had a low threshold for prescribing for acute pain, especially. this i...
June 26, 2019
Number of donors hes going to need to hit, that 65,000 threshold. how does he create momentum and give that some legs tonight? >> the theory of the case in cory bookers camp is not to keep on mixing it up with joe biden. its not to keep on drawing big, stark contrasts over core culture and sort of ideological issues with the front runner. its to talk about cory booker. i think what youre going to see from a lot of the candidates, especially in this first debate tonight, where you have a more mil...
June 26, 2019
Both of them came to this race with a very high expectations. orourke coming off that close senate race in texas last year. he fallen off there. booker is there. i covered him in new jersey, almost 20 years ago he was talked about as a future president back then. both of them have been under performing in the polls. the other seven candidates were on stage. a lot of them this is a survive and advance moment. what i mean is they are doing things differently. the dnc has rules theyre going to chan...
June 26, 2019
Essentially said there is a crisis with opioids. have you got to cut back. for people in a lot of pain, didnt help them. >> well, yes. they issued their guideline in 2016. it was on chronic pain and it was for primary care doctors. to be fair to the cdc their guidelines were not bad. they urged caution and they urged a weighing of cost and benefit. what was unfortunate is that some doctors and healthcare systems and insurers and states and state medical boards, they tended to misinterpret those ...
June 25, 2019
Years of representing children and families detained. >> reporter: and, hallie, we spoke with another immigration lawyer who worked with siblings 6 and 10 years old that also describe similar conditions at that facility. she called the conditions appalling, hallie. this is something -- the question will be what will happen to these children. 300 children in that clint facility have since been moved to other facilities. but there are still so many coming across the border every day, hallie. >> yo...
June 25, 2019
I could trust them, that would be a different question, but they have continued to break the law and at the cost of these kids. and what the professor said is right. this is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars. >> yeah. >> incredible mismanagement of the agencies. and ongoing every step of the way. >> all right. congresswoman, thank you so much for sharing your time. >> thank you. next, how president trump has brought us to the threshold of war. even today taking another step toward potent...
June 25, 2019
From using the international banking system and financial vehicles set up by europeans and other countries. do not likely keep substantial assets in european banks and additional pressure from sanctions is likely to be minimal." so the president almost went to war and now issued sanctions that said will do nothing and continue to humiliate and box in irans leadership. it is obvious rhetorical de-escalation. the president doesnt want war and mad at his advisers beating the donald trump for it. he...