migrants pose no threat or danger to the united states. we know from past history that when we connect them with case managers in a community, they have a 99% chance of meeting their court dates and their appointments with i.c.e., and it costs us a tenth of what we pay to keep them in detention and in custody. so in other words, catch and release is something you support? no, i wouldn t call it catch and release. identical it helping those who are seeking asylum in this country to follow our laws. so, david, do you agree with o rourke? is that the best option to just basically let these people go as they come in and help them navigate the court process, setting them up with somebody? well, what beto o rourke was saying, ana, and saying correctly, by the way, is that we can use alternative forms of detention. we have used those successfully. folks that are involved in the asylum hearing process, they show up at court in the percentages of about 90%.
where their produce they are not taxed at least not through the corporate tax where they re sell their goods and the open commission alice says google serves its services in europe we want to tax those services the services are already taxed with a value added tax and now the european commission wants to introduce an additional tax this is like introducing a tariff and would lead to countermeasures by the us what we really have here is a conflict about taxing right so who has the right to tax google the it is primarily the us now the us allows google to avoid u.s. taxes that s the real problem here but this is not a problem the european commission can solve if the americans don t want to collect taxes from google that s that problem do you believe do you believe there is a case to be made for alternative forms of taxation however given this. argument of inequality and fairness there are other options besides a digital tax or they re not. absolutely so it is correct that tax avoidance b
variation. they believe some of it may have to do with access to resources, opioid prescription rates tend to be higher in areas where people are have higher rates of not being insured or higher rates of unemployment. people who live in smaller towns, they say, may have less access to physical therapy or other alternative forms of pain management. so they have to rely on the meds. the cdc also found that prescription practices are so inconsistent that some counties are prescribing opioids at six times the rate of other counties. now, shep, some states are trying to crack down on opioid abuse, trying to find the abusers before things get completely out of hand. here in georgia, they recently passed a law requiring pharmacists to report any controlled substance prescriptions that they fill within 24 hours. listen. the georgia pharmacists, the
down to mike pence to have to be a deciding vote here? at this point it is going to have to fall down to mike pence. mike pence is going to have to break the tie because they have had now two republican senators say that they are too concerned about the fact that betsy devos doesn t have enough experience in public education and has been too involved in alternative forms to public education to believe that she has their best interests in mind. i will also say those senators have been hearing from thousands of constituents who are teachers, who are parents, who are union activists, who are telling them this is going to be a problem, so i think there s also this political calculation that they re making to not support her. however, if the democrats can t convince another republican to come over to their side, then betsy devos is going to be confirmed on monday. we will wait and see. thanks so much for being here. appreciate your time. we know one member of congress is likening the
safely through a pipeline and our objective is to have zero incidents. one of the great ironies, brian that a lot of people don t talk about, president obama s own environmental assessment through his own state department showed they would emit more greenhouse gases by not building this pipeline because this product is moving through alternative forms. greats irony we stop the safe process the one that protects the environment the most but they don t want to talk about the other adverse impacts. steve: there are other things that are great benefits to the american public. one of them the fact that donald trump himself said it s going to create 28,000 good paying jobs. plus, all the steel is going to be made here in the united states of america. but, jack, for the folks watching right now, what s the benefit for the of these pipelines to the folks watching tv right now? well, it s a great win to the consumers, to the american people. not only the job creation you