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Help senators who are not going to vote for you on civil rights but they wont mess up the system. they wont block it. they wont support it, but they wont block it because their people benefit from government. what has happened in this country -- it started in the 80s. you have a group of americans who dont believe government can ever work. so how do you get compromise when you have people who are elected to washington whose job is to disrupt the federal government, not to make it more effective ...

Get back at reforming healthcare and get back at reforming entitlements and take on welfare reform. another big entitlement program. >> julie: speaker ryan promising entitlement reform in the new year. it might be easier said than done as it looks to run into stiff obstacles from members of his own party in the senate like majority leader mitch mcconnell. joining me now is congresswoman marsha blackburn. great to see you again two days in a row. what a treat. why is paul ryan so adamant about th...

Big entitlement program moving through, increasing increasing over the next 10 years, if you include state and local spending , the government total federal state and local will spend half of everything we produce. thats the problem. >> dean: id like to see those democrats stepping up and talking about cutting spending. >> well im glad to see democrat s who are concerned about deficits and concerned about the national debt. you know this shouldnt be a partisan issue and i hope that republicans w...

Because thats what we spend 70 to 80% of our tax dollars on. funding all of these entitlements. are you going to stick around, mr. speaker, to see that part of your promise through? >> yes, i am, number one. number two, just so you know, martha, the house has passed all of these bills. the house passed the biggest entitlement reform bill ever passed by a congress in may, our healthcare bill. unfortunately the senate fell basically a vote short from doing that what are we going to do in 2018? we ...

>> kimberly: some people think it is. >> jesse: they need to be able to spend money through taxes and supporting all these people that are heading retirement age but heaven forbid you cut spending. heaven forbid you reform the entitlement program or may be due testing or raise the debt limit. there is a lot of things you can do. trump doesnt want to touch that. doesnt want to touch that. those old people to vote for him and reelection. >> kimberly: jesse... >> juan: in other words, youre taking ...

Stamps anymore. they just can take their paycheck to the grocery store. but, in order to be eligible to do this, we want folks to take a drug screen u so there are about 67,000 people who would be eligible to take this drug screening and then after the drug screening, well identify those folks who may have to go for a drug test. someone who may actually have an addiction issue. after they are identified through the drug test as having tested positive, were going to help them. were going to get t...

Obamacare, that they somehow have health care is a complete and outer life. the insurance under obamacare doesnt necessarily provide you any health care. first of all, its too expensive and second of all, because theres not enough doctors now and the demand for health care has gone through the roof as a result. waiting times for health care have increased. rural hospitals are closed. this idea now that we are allowing people to get out of an entitlement program which is obamacare, of course its ...

Got drafted. >> kimberly: the nfl is an entitlement program. not everyone gets to be a starting qb. >> greg: we are going to squeeze a few more people at this table. barbara and jenna bush join us next. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "ill go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung fun...

Aisle. this political stalemate is not going to get us anywhere. supporting is murray alexander and that bill to improve the aca would be a good step. >> andy, you know a lot about medicare and medicaid. expansion was the part that really matters a lot. he supports converting medicaid from an entitlement program that goes to anyone who is eligible into block grants to states. youre really good at this. can you tell us what that means? >> well, sure. i think converting medicaid to a block grant i...

Office, he has promised the american people that there will be no change, no cuts to the entitlement program. social security, medicare, and medicaid. hes told that to republican members of the senate and the house. what are you saying? theyre still going to go ahead and disavow what the president is promising? >> the president promises a lot of things but he does the exact opposite. and note that i believe that he supported the republicans budget plan which calls for cuts in medicaid and medica...