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Secretary yesterday, he said that the allegations were false. >> and i know you heard about this culture from multiple people who worked or still work in fact at the white house medical unit. what specific anecdotes do they tell? because this is a wider issue in the medical community now, overprescription of medications, one cause of the opoid crisis. this is a real issue. >> that's right. two examples i want to point out. we're told that one well-known obama official went to the medical unit to get provigil. it was treated as part of a parting gift. and a second example, one obama staffer wen...

Get some proceed vigila provigi. the person was given around 20 pills and that it was treated as kind of a parting gift for that official. and a second example is that one obama white house staffer went into the clinic and demanded that he needed z-paks for himself and his wife. z-pak is a strong antibiotic. and one of the doctors reject that had request and said that you need to first get an exam because there are serious cardiac issues that can come from taking this antibiotic and that white house staffer got frustrated and responded dr. jackson said i can just pick it up and don't need to b...

A staffer got frustrated and responded look, dr. jackson said i can just pick it up and i don't need to be seen. so they were eventually handed the z-paks without an exam. so these date back to the obama administration, but some say that they continued into the trump administration as well. >> that is a key point because this is about oversight, not just of the trump administration, but wobama. has the white house responded specifically to these new details? >> so the trump white house has not responded when we asked for comments. and as for whether jack son can stay in his job because i think...

We've heard positive feedback from both democrats and republicans, and we do expect the majority leader to bring this to the floor, ask for unanimous consent, and then the house and senate will work out a final package to send on to president obama. jenna? jenna: maybe a rare moment of bipartisanship, mike. thank you very much. mike emanuel on capitol hill today. jon: z-paks, they are a popular choice for treating common infections, but the antibiotic is now link today a deadly heart problem. what you should know about the risks before it's too late. plus, the jury is about to get the case e...