U.S. Senator John Kennedy says a new federal health care law should require abled bodied adults without children to work in order to receive Medicaid. That’s one of several amendments Kennedy filed as the debate continues over an effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He says he doesn’t want to take Medicaid away from those who need it. He just wants fewer people to need it…:
Cut 30 (07) “a job”

The State Department of Education announces more than 6500 high school students earned college credit qualifying scores on AP exams in 2017, which is up 10 percent from last year. Superintendent of Education John White:
Cut 13 (09) “five years”
East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is not pleased with community activist Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed who said at the metro council meeting that the deadly ambush on law enforcement officers last July was justice for the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling. Reed went on to say Baton Rouge police officers are racist….
cut 11 (09) “….to kill”
Broome called the comments hateful and offensive and she removed Reed as a street counselor for the Brave crime fighting program. Mayor Pro-tem Scott Wilson says yesterday’s meeting was a chance for members of the community to vent and express their frustrations, but it got out of hand…
cut 12 (08) “…that disrespectful”
Those are the names of the three officers killed last year by a gunman.