under poverty and a crisis every day pathways out of poverty. we must make the child tax credit permanent. it is lifting 50% of children from poverty. we must increase the minimum wage to $15 to a living wage. we must provide for clean water in communities. we have communities with lead in their water. just the basics to raise the standard of living. we have laid out in the resolution and how we pay for it and we have to address the huge defense budget calling for a 10% cut which is just right now about $72 billion. that will help in many ways. house the unhoused. so we do have in our legislation ways and pathways out of poverty that the majority of people in the country would embrace once we put this resolution forward and have our hearings.
the overhaul includes carbon neutral housing with organic grocery stores and community gardens. estimate ad price of 119 to 170, that is a big dash, $172 billion. good luck guys. we will all have to pay for it ourselves. steve: meanwhile, tv show host, actress author, our next guest has done it all during a career expanded for decades. ainsley: despite leaving new york city she is not slowing down anytime soon. more on the new project, life in nashville, kathie lee gifford. great to see you guys. i thought you retired. no, honey, i refired. ainsley: awesome. how do you like nashville? i adore nashville. i m on the outskirts of it. it is most fun place. there is culture of kindness down there, oh, my gosh, i m loving it. brian: exactly like new york. so similar. my son lives in santa monica. he spent the night.
john: purdue, they re an opportunity for a public health system in america. senator harris you are want to hold the drug are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to jail? i am. i will tell you as a former prosecutor, i do think of this as a matter of justice and accountability because they are nothing more than some high-level dope dealers. they have been engaged [ applause ] and i ve seen it happen before. i ve taken on the pharmaceutical companies when i was attorney general of california and led the second largest department of justice. i ve seen what they do. the biggest pharmaceutical companies, the eight biggest pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies last year profited $72 billion on the
profited $72 billion on the backs of people like the families that we are talking about that have been overwhelmed by this crisis, which is a public health epidemic. and they knew what they were doing. they were marketing false advertising. they knew what they were pushing in communities and states like ohio without any concern about the repercussions because they were profiting and making big bucks. and, yes, they should be held accountable. this is a matter of justice. and so as president of the united states, i would ensure that the united states department of justice understand that you want to deal with who is really a criminal? let s end mass incarceration and end that failed war on drugs, and let s go after these pharmaceutical companies for what they ve been doing to destroy our country and states like ohio. thank you, senator. secretary castro, are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to prison? please respond. yes, i am. they need to be held accountable n
tally already sits at 149 for the current decade and we re still at the peak number before the end of october. while some people debate the seriousness of the climate threat, one thing is crystal clear, it s becoming a fiscal nightmare. since 1980, there have been 250 weather events costing a billion dollars or mor. that s adjusted for inflation. and almost half of them, 111, have occurred in this current decade. and look at how the costs have gone up. in the 1980s, there were only 28 high-dollar weather events. at a cost of, say, about $172 billion. now, look at this decade. 111 into early 2019 costing more than $761 billion. then, when you tally it all up, the costs are likely to end up at three quarters of a trillion dollars or more. and then, of course, the human cost. the number of fatalities from extreme weather has climbed from