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Were working to draw up a legal justification for that move after the fact. again, this reporting suggests that this was yet another instance of a scramble by officials to essentially catch up with another one of president trump's decisions. the office of management and budget, though, is denying that anything improper took place. here's a statement from a spokeswoman for the office of management and budget, rachel semmel. she says, to be clear, there was a legal consensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. omb works closely with ag...

Here at the white house, intrigue between the national security council, which didn't think it was a good idea, and the office of management and budget, run, by the way, by the acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney. they thought it was perfect perfectly okay. the white house is saying routine practices and procedures were followed and there was legal consensus every step of the way, the office of management and budget says. of course there is a law that controls all this and says the president has to spend money that congress appropriates for certain measures. >> ultimately that's what forced t...

Else is president, is that illegal? >> no. they thought jared kushner was a good person and has the best of intentions. i have no argument with that. i just thought that was bad idea, all right. what was he trying to accomplish by creating indebtedness to someone like the russians whom we knew at that time had intervened in our electoral process. i mean, the disregard for the routine practices, i don't want to say contempt, but it might have been for the administration that they were replacing. how about the suspicion of the intelligence community on which they were going to have to rely. all ...

List of routine practices and they say they are wasteful and profit-driven including x-rays and ekgs an antibiotics, and as a patient, you want the stuff, but are you guys prescribing too much? >> first of all, yes. we have 30% more tests than we need to be ordering in treatment and this is called choosing wisely and comes from the american board of internal medicine, my board and actually "consumer reports" and putting together analysts in all specialties to decide whether the tests are overdone. on the surface it is a great idea and the problem comes in in actually doing it. i look over the ...

Doctor shortage on the new $1 trillion healthcare law. so steve, is this money well spent or not? >> instead of $1 trillion it's $2 trillion in the real world. no, it's an absolute disaster, soviet style medicine to create artificial shortages and try to tap people to fill the gap. in medicine, nurses have been taking over more and more of what have become routine practices which is the way it should work. when there is a shortage do you want your kid or grand kid going before a physician not fully trained with a serious illness? that is what we're looking at. the elderly, the same thing. >> d...