with republicans choices. part of this is to eliminate public support for the most vulnerable people in our society for health insurance and rely on private charity is what you are saying. kate, i know you to be a thoughtful republican who s run a party in a southern state. is your view at this moment that the party s getting it about right on health care or they need to change? ari, one of the things i ll tell you is that when you look at medicaid, and you look at 68 million people, $545 billion spent on it, it is a large, large public program that does a lot of good. there are machining care companies out there that have stepped up and filled the gap and made it work, especially for some conservative states like kansas and south carolina and other places. but let me put the politics to it just like my friend dorian said. you put the politics to this and you start looking at national
for. i m going to be joined by a man who played a role in shaping one of the key parts of medicaid that allows recipients to receive that home health care joan was talking about. he worked for reagan. next. 7
what we do to help the rest of the world. that can mean fighting for freedom. sometimes it means honoring humanitarian work, which is the spotlight for today s normal or not. the united states spends over $40 billion a year in foreign assistance. right now, one of the most urgent challenges is a famine unfolding for 14 million people. the u.n. says this could pose, get this, the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. if you don t know what country i m talking about, maybe that s because we don t cover it very much. but the epicenter is yemen, ravaged by a civil war, famine, cholera, which has killed over 1500 people. saudi arabia has picked sides in the civil war and scored $110 billion arms deal with the trump administration. while the weapons trade is counted in many, many billions,
things need to be covered. the attacks that i mentioned earlier, for example, the one in quebec city, for example, when it firsthand and it was originally thought that perhaps the shooter had been a muslim who had started shooting in the mosque it is almost like a live action experiment. because we are at end of our hour, i m going to pause here. we talked about some of the problems. i think you both also offered some solution ideas so i appreciate you both doing that. thank you. thank you very much for having me. we are just getting started here on the point. in our next hour, that republican health care bill blocked. not just because of politics. we ll look at how real americans like michael phelps who has spinal muscular atrophy, how he is speaking out in d.c. also, how katy beckett tugged at president reagan s heartstrings and may have changed medicare forever. we ll explain. and crack being the code of
invest in your neighborhood. support other entrepreneurs. and build generational wealth. jay-z also has tried to say, we should all be oriented towards prosperity. not just having money as materialism or capitalism as bragging. but prosperity within the neighborhood. what does that mean to you and the way you ve worked with him? one of the great things about our culture, when we started, it was about expressing ourself. then it became, oh, let s get money. then it became, first generation wealth. all of us grew up with bronze spoons in our mouth. they were rusted. we never grew up with silver spoons in our mouth. we went from getting money to creating wealth. now we talk about wealth preservation. when he talks about don t just have a street named after you, build your neighborhood. when he talks about creating legacy and generational wealth, i think that was a process. jay would tell you there s levels to this. we re off the street corner now and we re in a corner office so let s ma