soldiers were killed back on october 4th. msnbc s garrett haake is here with more. lawmakers said they were out of the loop on the extent of u.s. involvement in africa. did they get so many answers today? they did, craig, although it s very clear this is going to be just the first briefing on this issue, certainly not the last. you had these back-to-back briefings. first the house, then the senate. with senior military officialing comes over here and talking to these committees, again in a classified setting. so the lawmakers we spoke to couldn t go into detail but they did tell us they got a much better essential of the time line of this entire incident, leading up to the attack itself and what happened afterward, as well as getting an update on the status of the investigation, which is clearly very much still ongoing. and i asked a couple of these lawmakers about this transspa transparency issue, about whether or not they re getting enough information from the pentagon, frankly, to
contributor. the man who never leaves the capitol, jake sherman, senior writer at politico. since you are there on assignment, i will start with you, good sir. a close vote to a party that holds 239 seats. why so close? they let a lot of people vote no at the end when it was clear it would pass. it does get to an issue that republicans have to solve. they re seeking to scrap what is called the state and local tax deduction. so a deduction on state and local taxes. aptly named. and big states, blue states like new jersey, california, some high tax states like new york. lawmakers are opposed to that and they ve not seen a fixed. they heard promised from their leadership that this issue will be solved and they re working with the white house to solve it. they haven t seen that fix yet. they were opposed to the process that would, you know, pave the way to tax reform. it s expected that they get this fix through. we don t know what it will look like. we expect tax cuts next week. so this
under way quickly. something else that s become a contentious issue. so far as relates to this tax bill. 401ks. the pretax max i believe is 18,000. there s some talk, there s so many talk that it would fall to $2,400 a year under this tax plan. yes. is that something that is politically feasible? no, we saw this with president obama. he tried to get rid of a sort of similar deduction that s mostly taken by middle class people related to college savings account. people are emotional about their 401ks. this is the primary vehicle for saving that most have aside from their home equity and social security. a lot of people who put a lot of money in these accounts will feel restricted by this. my expectation is what the provision will do. it won t stop you from using the account. there s two kinds of 401ks. there s the regular and the roth. basically the way the roth works, you pay taxes now and you don t pay tax when you take it
ravaged by this epidemic. dr. wynn, how much of this goes back to training new doctors? the overprescription, the overprescribing we ve seen in recent years specifically, how much of this goes back to training new doctors and just how we view and treat pain in this country? there is a supply and demand issue that we have to address in equal force. we have to stop the supply of drugs, whether it s heroin or fantanyl. i have to admit i didn t learn about the danger of opoids in my medical training and i m sure i overprescribed to so many patients that should have gotten other methods of pain control and that s something that has to change. we have to focus on demand. because slogan there are millions of people who need treatment and as an er doctor, i have to turn away people all the time and say that i m sorry the
will mean. it will allow treatment and prescriptions through what s called telemedicine. that means if you re in a rural area, you can do a video conference with your doctor who can prescribe medication over the phone. that is significant. it will speed up hhs, the hiring process there. it s also going to let states temporarily shift some federal grant money to their funds. it s going to make dislocated worker grants available. and it s also going to open up the public health emergency fund. right now that fund only has $57,000. you re also going to see a robust push to get congress to add more money to the coffers of that fund. of course, president trump has talked about this not only as a candidate but once he has taken office. this is a bug issig issue for h constituents. the crisis has claimed more than 100 lives per day, craig. take a listen to some of the comments that president trump has had to say about this. we re going to be doing a very, very important meeting