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The draft health care bill has a provision meant to increase the availability of inpatient psychiatric care. But overall cuts to Medicaid could actually lead to even fewer psychiatric beds nationwide.

President Trump's tweets have been a constant source of controversy. NPR's Scott Simon talks with columnist and professor Victor Davis Hanson, who's written a defense of the tweets.

New poll numbers suggest Donald Trump will take office with historically low approval ratings. His transition team has said "unity" is the theme of the inaugural, but the president-elect's tweets these past few weeks have done little to foster that idea.

Steve Inskeep talks to Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Wehner says the president failed on his promise to end the politics of division, which paved the way for Trump's election.

This weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed fraying relations between Europe and the U.S., saying Europe may no longer be able to count on others. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Anne Applebaum for analysis.

It's been a whirlwind week in Washington. Since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last week, we've learned that the president shared classified intelligence with the Russians, Comey wrote a memo detailing the president's request for an end to the Michael Flynn investigation and the deputy attorney general appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

Three men were stabbed, two fatally, after they confronted a train passenger hurling abuse at two teenage girls. The survivor, hailed as a hero, was worried that the young women were being forgotten.

A rules change lets insurers and brokers sell health coverage on the federal exchange directly. That should be easier, but also raises questions about whether customers get unbiased information.

Roughly 300 health care systems around the country have set up medical-legal collaborations to help patients solve legal problems that can affect their health — at little or no cost to the patients.

In the #AskCokie segment, commentator Cokie Roberts talks with Steve Inskeep about the history of the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO has been in the news for its analysis of the GOP health plan.