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Anything to help it but getting people on to these roles in recent years. this is a program that has nearly quadrupled in size since the beginning of the bush administration and tripled in how many recipients. not doing what it set out to accomplish. >> martha: doesn't make any sense. during that period, the obama administration, president obama talked a lot about how the economy was recovering. it was growing. and, yet, more and more people were being added to this program, richard, in terms of the big gulp magical to break that down for a moment an individual citizen who is buying a soda oug...

Instead of retail. poor people rate very low on healthy eating indexes. this is something that if americans care about the health of low income americans they should care about this. and people on these programs tend to eat a lot of cookies, candiys, sugary snacks and not enough fresh vegetables and whole grains. i'm not saying it has to be this program. the federal government allows states exexperiment with how they implement this program. something needs to be done if you care about food related problems with low income americans. >> i agree with you. at love them are not because of the snap...

Show. and you know what that means. that means there is always room for good news because we think good news rules. check out this video. it's gone viral, thank you very much. that's a raleigh police officer giving an 8-year-old boy a hug after his family was effected from their hotel after being displaced by hurricane maria. the boy has adhd and autism and his mother can no longer afford his medication. but the officer didn't just give them a hug. he gave them money for a place to stay and set up a gofundme page. so for example, if they were in the s.n.a.p. program and they got a box of food ...

Kimberly, tell me something i don't know. >> there's one particular part of the president's budget facing derision from the left. he proposed for the snap program, the food stamp program, instead of giving money to give boxes of food harvest boxes they call it, something like blue apron, but the left is calling it blue apron but terrible, literally a food delivery to the home. >> packaged foods. >> instead of money. so it's sort of a throwback to food. >> you get to pick what you want? >> i don't think so. it's like government cheese. >> andrea. >> there's been a little bit of criticism about ...

I go grocery shopping. how much can you get for $29 a week? if they're cutting it by billions with a b, how much can we go further in this? >> i'll tell you. usda explained this. the way they're going to do it, currently under the snap program, consumers are buying products by retail. now the government will be able to buy products wholesale and realize tremendous cost savings. this is the product -- this is what you get by having a ceo of president of the united states. this is bold, it's innovative -- >> and you get fewer choices and government run. that's what the -- >> people are complaini...