puerto rico. the fact that today people are drinking water, contaminated water, tells you the dress operation t tess operation people are finding themselves. or water they don t know is contaminated, or could be contaminated. if one thing could change this moment and make lives a lot better there, to make it easier, to speed up the progress what would that one thing be, from the federal government? we need to restore the energy grid, and we need to restore the water. drinkable water, but we are they not working on that adequately? three weeks later, more than 84% of the people in puerto rico still don t have what is the holdup to fix the power grid? what is the issue here? why is it so much more difficult to get this back up and running three weeks in than it would be in any other place? it was a massive disaster and
goes past it. pharmaceutical companies are biggest lobbyists in washington, that s been the case. father is retired biologist who worked in pharmaceutical companies and i saw up close the political power they exerted to push certain medications that later became dangerous to people. studies came out of don t want to roll into a separate issue. but add to president with attack on news media breaking these stories. it s really important we have to start looking at? ten seconds, how do we fix it? better regulation of pain killers and how they re pushed into communities around the country. anything else? rip the band-aid off and go after it in comprehensive way. not just one person with a panel of recommendations. you have to roll up your sleeves. isn t this larger? money in politics.
donald trump. just said it a second ago when we played the clip in the rose garden. zlooen that, if the president cares about the crisis, campaigned about it, talked about it a lot on the campaign trail, i m going to help you he would say to the families. why not declared it emergency yet? not sure. he said he was going to in meeting at mar-a-largo i think where they were sitting around the table. supposed to be about the crisis. golf course, not mar-a-largo. right. this is the fundamental issue. corruption that americans feel is in the system in washington, special interests dumping money into political candidates without their best interests in heart. beyond donald trump. that he s nominating him to be drug czar is illuminating but
likely be in relation to all of this. depends on who is asking. fair point. our team will be there ready with questions, as we always are. great to see you, kristen. thanks. right now, we are waiting for president trump to start speaking at the department of transportation. expecting that any minute. seeing activity in the room. we ll bring it as soon as it starts. please stay with us. be the you who doesn t cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don t give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever,
order has shown us the opposite is true. when we build these multinational institutions actually is our benefit. except for a decade three-quarters of americans have said we re on the wrong track. for an increasing number of americans, their kids won t have the same economic opportunity. but, mark, look at the polls specifically for this issue. president bannon is on the wrong side of the majority. president bannon may be right when president bannon is looking at president bannon s primary base but when president bannon is looking at the overall scope of american voters, you can talk about the past three decades, president bannon isn t even reading the polls right for today. depends on which group. again, again, a small subset of the population that president bannon is obsessing on. not if these policies increase economic growth. which they re unlikely to the oil and coal industries