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the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he's the man to do it. chad, what's happening? >> reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. >> the closer you c...

Be. we should have a simple tax the system that's easy to comply with but easy to administer. the i are rs is in the process right now of hiring 5,000 people to help them deal with the back load of 17 million paper tax returns. they are that far behind. and yet they say that we're the problem? no. the irs is broken. it's fundamentally broken, it can't fix itself, and adding more auditors and adding more to its budget is not the solution. david: and adding more regulations that force small business to hire more accountants that they can't really afford particularly with the labor shortage. it i...

So powerful, computers got so powerful that it was no longer necessary for entrepreneurs to listen to customers or worry about what other people thought. they being make a global product and impose their will and that is exactly what facebook has done. >> you've said for years now that facebook is partly or directly to blame for various problems in our society whether it's the outcome of the 2016 elections and the rapid spread of anti-vax lunacy, and white supremacy, you say facebook won't fix itself, so what will? >> so the key thing that we have this past week was a whistle-blower who testif...

Home, brian. all right. well outfront now, michael smerconish, host of cnn's smerconish. so, michael, today on capitol hill, you know, something that seemed to finally unite many democrats and republicans was their frustration and anger at facebook. senator after senator from both parties were placing blame on facebook saying it needs to be fixed. um, okay. but should the government be involved in fixing? >> if facebook doesn't fix itself, erin, i think the government will have no choice. i mean, what's obvious about this issue is that polarization threatens democracy. now, we see the proof ...

Service lines that go into people's homes. we follow the progress of the $1 stept million bill, which may have relief for flint in terms of trying to heal, fix itself, to get safe watt to people now more than two years after this crisis started. what itself the status of the door-to-door bottle of water delivery in the city and what proportion of the city is able drink their water safely at this point in. >> well, i don't think any proportion of the city by any standard can drink it safely. because you have to have a filler. and the idea that you are putting the honus on the residents to make ...