green. it looks like a florescent pistachio. i m not even wearing green so you re doing better than me. coming up next on morning joe, the trump administration is working on a lot. travel ban, health care overhaul, will any of this land. we ll talk to three republican congressmen who hold the keys to those answers. and later we ll talk to one of the people who oversaw the implementation of obamacare. sylvia burrwell joins the table live. morning joe is moments away.
should americans trust the government when it comes to setting dietary guidelines. lawmakers were asking that question on capitol hill today. those guidelines have an impact on school lunches for kids to the advice your doctor gives you. for decades now the feds told us cut out the fatty meats, the whole milk and butter. drink skim milk, don t drink the full on vitamin d milk. shouldn t do it. don t put this on the corn like that. don t do it. the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle question whether those guidelines are still relevant at all. health and human services secretary sylvia burrwell and tom vilsack appeared before the house agriculture committee today. and the fox business network s peter barnes is live in washington. what did they say? the government updates these dietary guidelines every five years and the agriculture secretary said that s in part to allow for new research to be checked and considered in their
likely any changes will remove provisions many democrats also oppose. what are some of the things we could see the administration sign into law include a repeal of the medical device tax and also a repeal of the employer man tate. sylvia burrwell says the latest numbers are an encouraging start, though she acknowledges the administration still has a ways to go to reach it s target. 2 million shy offensive open enrollment ends february 15. speaking of fox business stocks were down across the board today, the dow lost 55 to fall below 18,000. the s&p 500 was off ten. nasdaq finished 29 behind. former president george h.w. beneficiary was released from houston methodist hospital today. a family spokesman says the 90-year-old bush is currently resting at home quote, grateful to the doctors and nursing for
children that are on the border and get them back to their homeland. look, as a father and a grandfather, i cannot tell you what could be going through these parents mind as they put them on a bus or a train or in a van to ship them north to our border. it s got to be gut wrenching. we need to deal with this problem and we need to deal with it in a way that makes sense for the american taxpayer, and for those kids that are on the border also. so i am hopeful that the senate will pass a supplemental that will solve the problems. look, the agencies are in front of the appropriations committee today. they got asked some tough questions. they re going to give us the answers we want or there may be a problem, but i have full confidence that they will. i thought jeh johnson, in particular, and sylvia burrwell did a great job, and i think that we ll get the questions answers and i think it will go out of the senate because we
president, what was relayed from him and her to me, is that she thought it was a good time for her personally to leave. it was five active years to say the leave on her part. and she was able to get the enrollment numbers after the troubled and initial phase of implementation in the fall and that was a good time for her to leave personally and a good time that isn t a vessel of controversy to take over. i thought it was good for the program and you have a change in leadership son so sylvia burrwell will have time to get ready. we invited you and appreciate you coming on and i want to judge about job training. house republicans passed