When the house gavels back in, watch live coverage here on cspan. Back now to the white house summit on Mental Health. What i would like to do for a few minutes. Lets start with you. In terms of the imd exclusion that they express concerns if we live the imd exclusion we open the door to institutionalization of thousands of people. Do you have comments about that . It will not open the Door Community treatment will always be cheaper and government will always will be a cheaper option if it is effective. But then go back to snakepit conditions of the past of one flew over the cuckoos nest but it is the lack of money for hospitals that created substandard conditions allowing them more money that is truly therapeutic. And to have the panelist speak about the continuum of services that are needed to support the seriously mental ill. What do you see as a continuum of care what happens if you dont have those kinds of services . But these fights over scraps so now we are worried about inpatie
Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but exacerbated by serious Mental Illness. Todays historic conversation draws broadly on the expertise of people from many disciplines and experiences and perspectives our goal is to put on the table a robust set of reforms how we go about delivering treatment to persons with serious Mental Illness. The Trump Administration has already begun the process of rebuilding our treatment system this very week the president will sign fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that makes important in the improvem
Tuck forget tax relief if you are well to do it reinstates 3. 8 surtax on investment income. Number three, medicaid funding gets tweaked. Probably not as much as liberals want. But this an additional 45 billion for opioid treatment. Welcome all. So today we heard mcconnell say its time for the senate to rise to the occasion and hes chiding republicans to get in line and support this bill. They are voting next week. My question, can he even get it to the floor . Hes got sack strong argument. Get it to the floor then vote it down. His margin of error for getting it to the floor is zero. Rand paul and Susan Collins said they are not going to vote for that. Gerri we have been through two iterations of this bill. More are promised. We even have Lindsey Graham with his own new idea. The bills are a dime a dozen. Thats right. We had seven years to figure this one out. There was a failure of leadership that there wasnt a sitdown meeting right after the election to say here is our timeline, let
Facebook. John boehner was at Stanford University and there were no cameras in the room. There was audio taken. Heres a little bit of what he had to say. [indiscernible] lucifer in the flesh. [applause] i get along with almost everybody. I have never worked with a more mineral dust miserable son a more miserable son of a bitch in my life. Host john maynard talks election time john boehner talks election time in office. Quote, you can call me anything, boner, beaner, anything. , factory David Kennedy director and history Professor Emeritus in a talk hosted by stanford and government and the stanford speakers bureau. This joking yet blunt attitude set the tone for the night as kennedy and the former speaker discussed topics ranging from banners of bringing in ohio to the future of the Republican Party or the second half of the program, kennedy opened up the floor to students questions. Ton boehner notnly refer ted cruz as lucifer in the flesh, he called him a miserable. And talked about
Say they want answers about the National Security agency and its surveillance programs and they are rabbit to get those answers. At this hour, the nsa chief set to testify before the house intelligence committee. Randall pinkston joins us live, just yesterday, european delegates said that the trust that is between the nations has to be rebuild, their words and they say that steps must be taken so what are those steps to rebuild the trust . One of the major steps is to allow those officials to have communications with key intelligent officials to calm nerves and ease concerns about the reports that the u. S. Has been spying on its top allies including the leaders of some of those nations like Angela Merkel for example. I cant show it to you because the Camera Position cant change, but awaiting the arrival of general alexandar who will be testifying about 1 30, about 30 minutes from now before the house select committee. There will be a proposed legislative change. The author of the patr