It is a self reversal from the president pted from barack obama, who voluntarily released more than 6 Million White House visitor records, even as his administration fought successfully in federal court for the right to keep some of that information secret. Host we have got some calls coming in. First, lets go to carol calling from san diego, california on the republican line. What is on your mind, carol . Caller i am sorry, that was not what i was calling about. Host by all means, go right ahead. Caller i think the fact that they are a limiting prescriptions by people who are in real need, like in california, you only get a sevenday prescription, it is absurd. A have to really need have these renewals over and over again. Last year, i was at kaiser, and i was going on vacation, and i had to take a prescription, and low and behold, they cut it in half because of the new restrictions relative to opiates. On vacation and we are on the border country, so there are a lot of Illegal Drugs c
, isident, Abraham Lincoln bracketed by a the least successful american president s. Washington journal continues. Host welcome back. Joshua hammer is with us. He is a freelance correspondent for smithsonian magazine. We are talking about his piece in the april 2017 issue titled a modern odyssey. Thank you for joining us. You are joining us from germany via skype. Tell us why you wanted to write this story and how you ended up focusing on these two particular refugees. Been spending a lot of time in germany over the last couple of years. Chancellor merkel opened up the floodgates allowing a million refugees to enter the country in 2015. Wholeed to see how that how would would unfold given the power level, whats going on in the United States right now. Ive been following it on and off for a couple of years. Death was looking for a new way to approach the story and i talked to my editor and said, what about the refugees who didnt make it . What about the ones who went back . I took a bit