Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Nearly nine million childrenn the us are at risk of losing Health Care Coverage because congress has failed to reauthorize the Childrens Health insurance program, or chip. The program expired on september 30th. Its astounding because both republicans and democrats support the program that mak sure kids get health care if their parents cant afford insurance but earn too much for medicaid. Six states will run out of funding by the end of the year, basically in two weeks 30 other states, and washingt d. C. Say they can only get to march. Groups like the Childrens Health fund, which provides care to kids with the least access, say without funding, progress on Childrens Health will be lost. Dr. Marcee white is a pediatrician and the medical director for the childrens dc. Many of our families depend r this program to ensure th pediatricians, they can get receive immunizations to keep them healthy and ready to learn in the classroom. So many states are reducing the number of children and famili that can be enrolled the programs just because they do not know and they have to lo at the budget and figure out where they need to make the adjustments. Soledad dr. White worries that without the insurance, famils will wait to visit doctors, relying on expensive emergency care. Unfortunately when a family cant access care that means that that ear infection gets more severe. They are going to show up in more high cost venues such as the emergency departments. That means that that ear infection might become more severe, and i might be able treat it easily with antibiotics and get it early on in its course, but if families dont have insurance, they are net going to access care. Soledad a Bipartisan Group of 12 governors is urging chips theyve written a letter to congressional leaders ast priority and act as quickl New Hampshires governor, chris sununu, a republican, signed that letter. He wants congress to pass ch funding before states run out of money and children are forced to go without care. He joins us from the state house in concord with the help wmur. Affiliate, niles to see you, sir. Tell me how many children are well, just in the small chil it has been around some time. It is a vital program. That is why it has such broad bipartisan support. That is why we are trying to be so vocal to the folks in washington to get these funds reauthorized. Soledad and you have additional problems i would imagine considering frankly issue id abuse that exists in New Hampshire and many of the states near you as well. There is no denying o have an Opioid Crisis her these folks that are in hear stories that matter. Recently was a mom. She had been addicted. She had a child. The child the state through the Foster Care Program while the mom was the mom got back on her feet. She got a job, she started living a healthy life, regained custody of that child. The last thing she needs to be worrying about is health care for that child. And that is where the Childrens Health insurance program, known as chip, has been so vital and why we have to stand up as governors with as governors. Soledad if you look at the tax bill that is being pushed , e ney is not there of course cuts before you can reauthorizg a cost. What is the solution, and who do you blame for this predicament . Well, i am not going to focus on the blame. At the end of the day you got to be able to prioritize. You got to say certain programs have to be there. Certain programs are getting real results. The number one thing is washington needs to be doing is pushing these programs back to states. So let states be the innovators in terms of these providing that platform. Rm a funding platform that we bsolutely need, but let state well find the cuts and the soledad how does that innovation work under a ticking clock . Right . We are talking december 31 chip ends in New Hampshire, correct . So how do you what do you do right now to make sure you are going to get your chip money . We knew that this could be potentially happening, and we budgeted very well in New Hampshire, so we have a little more of a buffer. This wont really hit us until about mid next year. Other states will be facing this deadline on december 31. But it is going to hit us to be sure. The real answer is approve the funding and provide flexibility. Let the states innovate. Soledad often when they talk about reauthorization, there are certain lengths of time. Would two years reauthorization basically be you and i would back here in another 12 mont problem . Boy, i hate that we deal with anything with two, four years minimum. When you deal with things in two years, that is when you really let politics get. The shorter term you think, e more politics you are likely to interject into the so. I am 42 and the youngest. Maybe i am a little overly opti look, i believe in people. I dont care what political wn i trump administration, cong should let people know that other end of this. This isnt just big money statistics and case loads that you see down in washington d. C. This is about individuals. Do you feel optimistic that this is going to be resolved i i am optimistic. We got to keep it on the front burner. We got to let people k this is not just an issue of the day that we are not going to be dealing with next week or next month. This is an issue that we need to keep fighting for until w get the right solution. Soledad chris sununu is the governor of New Hampshire. Nice to see you. Thanks for talking with us. Thank you soledad. Next on matter of fact. Two freshman congressmen say theyve brought something new to capitol hill. As freshmen, i think a lot of us are trying hard to wk together. This is our job as members of congress. Then why do so Many Americans think bipartisans soledad do you think that t media gets it wrong . And later, are you a secret santa looki for the perfect gift . Consider this. An ugly christmas sweater wi a lifetime guarantee. Our question . Soledad is that a good thin hey, man. Oh nice man cave nacho . [ train whistle blows ] what . stop it mmhmm. Weve been saving a lot of money ever since we switched to progressive. This bar is legit. And now we get an even bigger discount from bundling home and auto. I can get used to this. It might take a minute. Swing and a miss slam dunk touchdown together sports touchdown was supposed to be a wake reup call for our government . Sh people all across the country lost their savings, their pensions and their jobs. Im tom steyer and it turned out that the system that had benefited people like me who are well off, was, in fact, stacked against everyone else. Its why i left my Investment Firm and resolved to use my savings for the public good. But here we are nine years later and this president and the Republican Congress are making a bad situation even worse. They wont tell you that their so called tax reform plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. It blows up the deficit and that means fewer investments in education, health care and job creation. Its up to all of us to stand up to this president. Not just for impeachable offenses, but also to demand a country where everyone has a real chance to succeed. Join us. Your voice matters. Soledad crunch time on capit hill as lawmakers push towa the holiday break. The todo list includes passing tax reform, avoiding potential government shutdown, and finalizing a series of leftover spending bills all facing congressional infighting and last ditch efforts at deal making in an extremely toxic political there are opportunities for democrats and republicans to cooperate a critical round of emergency aid for hurricane and wildfi victims, toughening Sexual Harassment policy on capitol hill and efforts to reauthori a Popular Health care program for children. Wrapping up their freshman yr on capitol hill, democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi, from illin and Republican Congressm anks of indiana. Welcome back, gentlemen. We talked at 100 days. 0 what day are we on . Not that i am counting. Soledad really you sound liar for both of you, we will sta with you congressman banks, what has worked . Tick off you feel have been great ts year . I found on capitol hill there is a lot more room for bipartisanship, for collaboration by members on both sides of the aisle. I have seen that nowhere more than on the House Veterans Affairs committee where we he one a lot of work this year to support our vetera reauthorizing the choice pr ptions outside the traditio House Armed Service committer military. That more th soledad that is good news. I wouldnt have put bipartisanship as the first words to come out of anyons mouth for this year, but you were nodding your head. You think the same thing . There has been some room for . Yeah, my passion in this congress has been work for training, career technical vocational education. My bill with congressman thompson a Pennsylvania Republican it is called thompsonkrishnamoorthi, the longest titled bill in congress, passed out of the house unanimously. We are trying to get it through the house. Soledad bipartisanship is not how i think your average person, myself included, fee about it. Is the media just getting i dont know about that. But when we go from day to d, and follow the president s twitter account, and whatever is going on that sort of sensationalizes the news of e day, we lose sight of whats getting done. I dont want to sugar c there is a lot of gridlock a partisanship on some really important issues. The best example is chip for. The Childrens Health insurae program has huge bipartisan support on both sides of t aisle. But it is being held hostage to other priorities which dont have support, and that is why this place doesnt work as well as it should. Soledad Sexual Harassment conversations. What do you make of how those onversations are going rit now in the congress . New and Young Leaders like raja and theul are coming into the address issues like sexualte way. Those are good and conversations. We ar freshmen, and i think what is shocking to me is that congrs is lagging behind the prive. We have these archaic, horrie ways of dealing with Sexual Harassment in the house. There is no mandatory sexual if you as a member of congre engage in Sexual Harassment, i you settle a claim with a victim, that gets paid outf tax payers dollars. Thats absolutely unac. Soledad it is insane. It is insane. So, i am a cosponsor the me t legislation. It is a bipartisan piece of legislation that ends all of that. Soledad can you guys walk me through now what your next yr looks like because you areh up for reelection in 2018. Give me a sense of how much money do you have to raise d how does this next year play out for you . It depends on the type of district you come from. I come from a fairly republ district in north east india. I am not focused on raising how about you as you head back to your district . In chicago because it is media market and because of unleashed super pac money, it costs about 4 million to defend a seat chicagoland, which is a ridiculous amount of money. I think people run away from their phones when they see t caller id from me at this point. I am an expensive friend and relative to have sometimes. Soledad well, we will be talking again in another probably about 100 days to s how it is all going. Congressman banks and am thanks so much for joining always nice to have you. Thank you so much. Next on matter of fact. More than six decades aftn education, the strugglee americas Public Schools continues. Black children have to be where white children are to t the things that white chil get. What this genius award winner says will insure every child gets a quality and later. Both parties helping dreame stay in america. Well break down the plans to keep young immigrants in the country legally. This little home of mine, im gonna let it shine. Its Energy Saving time, im gonna reduce mine. Californians all align to let our great state shine. Let it shine, the powers ours to let it shine unplug chargers go, devices go offline. 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Soledad really . laughte keam happy to call you geniu why are american schoolso segregated . I mean the simple answer american schools are segregad because they were created toe segregated from the foundingf Public Schools in this count and because large numbers of white americans choose it to. So if you look at data from u. S. Department of education, you can predict the resourc school receives, and i am talking about the quality of the teachers, the quality of instruction, whether or not those schools have advanced math and science classes, whether they have honors classes, whether they have decent facilities, all of the can be predicted by the color of the skin of the studentsn those buildings. S long as we continue to ha in this country, black childn have to be where white chin are to get the things that white children get. Soledad bussing children, usually black children, into white schools. Have those experiments been successful . Is it fair to call them where there was bussing t successful. I think the that is Mecklenburg County which serves the city of the supreme Court Ordered the bussing of white students in black schools and black students into white schools, and it was an integrated city for many years until that c order was closed out. Soledad and then it shifted pretty quickly. And now it has gone back d there is a great deal of segregation. It is one of the most se the country now. Soledad what are the longtm impacts of segregation . Of data of what happens to ks who go to segregated schoo versus kids in desegregated integrated schools. Absolutely. So what long term data showss that segregation harms the entire lives of black childr. That black children that got access to desegregated schoo when they became adults were less likely to be poor, they were more likely to go to college, they were more like to be employed, less likely t have health problems, they le longer, they were more likely to live in integrated settin themselves and most importany they passed that onto their children. So integration actually chand the entire trajectory of bla families and the opposite effect happened to black children who were stuck in segregated schools. My daughter is not white obviously but we enrolled her in a segregated, high poverty school, and i think the most important thing she has gotten out of that is because the other children have less than her doesnt mean that they e less than her. Soledad but she is you could have chosen a desegregated school, cori about desegregation. We live in a poor black neighborhood. So we made the decision to enroll our daughter in that school. I think that is what is important for middle class parents to understand is anything that my daughter wod be lacking in a segregated school, i could make up for those other parents, for low income parents, school is the only advantage they may ever be able to give their child and we are depriving their child of that one thi. Soledad so what is the solution . We could zone in a way at integrates schools very easi. That is probably biggest tool that any community has is how we zone which neighborhood which schools. We could actually have some type of incentive for desegregation which we don have. Even your most liberal politicians wont take touch the issue. No one wants t it. Soledad we act as if the promise of education is equa right . If you go to an american pubc school, you should be getting roughly the same education as omeone else who went to a. We dont even offer tha within the same system a mile away from each other. I think to me that is immor. 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