400 mass choir and orchestra and trump is interrupting his vacation to come back and speak tomorrow night at our rally about the importance of our veterans and the importance of religious liberty. it will be a great evening. martha: thank you for being here. happy independence day. for the trump administration seeking to reverse policies that were laid out by president obama that essentially threatened colleges if they didn t take certain actions against students who were accused of serious crimes. candace jackson from the office of civil rights said this this week. she s a new person. office of civil rights has fallen into a pattern of practice of overreaching of setting up to punish in a paris institutions. the obama administration approach every complaint as a fishing expedition through which our field investigators have been told to keep searching until you find a violation rather than go where the evidence takes them. a senior contributor of the
jumped to 108 rehab centers. drew joins me now, with toby douglas, director of the california department of health care services. appreciate you being with us. i want to start with this. in an editorial today, it s not enough to stop payments to problem clinics as the state appears to be doing now. who at state government or at the county level was responsible for years of lax oversight? can you answer that question? who was responsible for years of lax oversight? anderson, first, thank you for having me on tonight. i can t talk about the past. what i can why not? what i want to tell you is that this past year, the governor and the legislature transferred authority of this program to the department of health care services. once we received authority, and i as the director was accountable, we started a top-to-bottom review of this program. we initiated audits, put field investigators on the ground.
drew joins me now, with toby douglas, director of the california department of health care services. appreciate you being with us. i want to start with this. in an editorial today, it s not enough to stop payments to problem clinics as the state appears to be doing now. who at state government or at the county level was responsible for years of lax oversight? can you answer that question? who was responsible for years of lax oversight? anderson, first, thank you for having me on tonight. i can t talk about the past. what i can why not? what i want to tell you is that this past year, the governor and the legislature transferred authority of this program to the department of health care services. once we received authority, and i as the director was accountable, we started a top-to-bottom review of this program. we initiated audits, put field investigators on the ground. what we found so far is appalling. we have found fraud and we have
appears to be doing now. who at state government or at the county level was responsible for years of lax oversight? can you answer that question? who was responsible for years of lax oversight? anderson, first, thank you for having me on tonight. i can t talk about the past. what i can why not? what i want to tell you is that this past year, the governor and the legislature transferred authority of this program to the department of health care services. once we received authority, and i as the director was accountable, we started a top-to-bottom review of this program. we initiated audits, put field investigators on the ground. what we found so far is appalling. we have found fraud and we have but you didn t just get born last year. this thing, for the last two years, according to our reporting, you paid $94 million to clinics that have shown signs of questionable billing or fraud. that s half of all the public funding for this program.
drew joins me with toby douglas department of healthcare services. apriest, mr. douglas, you being with us. in an editorial today it s not enough to stop payments to problem clinicclinics, who at c level was responsible for years of lack of oversight? can you answer that question? who was responsible for lack of oversight? anderson, thank you for having me on tonight. i can t talk about the past why not? what i want to tell you is that this past year the governor and legislature transferred authority of this program to the department of healthcare services. once we received authority we started top to bottom review, audits, put field investigators on the ground and what we ve