CNNW CNN Newsroom With John Berman And Poppy Harlow October 26, 2017
Reporter it is sort of a sense of surprise here at the white house simply because theres a big difference between declaring a Public Health emergency and declaring a president ial emergency under the emergency the National Emergency act. Much more sweeping powers, the president has, under the emergencies act, including waiving privacy laws and waiving medicare regulations, and creating the ability to have more beds to treat substance abuse. While the Public Safety emergency, the Public Health emergency we will hear about today is much more limited. We have had a number of those, and a number o...