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Kansas city. we have unitedhealth. aetna. anthem. all pulling out because they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars on this plan. obamacare is imploding. in terms of the budget, everybody knows the right and left -- these entitlement programs -- they are going broke. this is an effort the president has put forth in terms of slowing down the growth of medicaid. he takes social security medicare off the table -- >> sean: the rate of increase or real, a small cut? >> its a reduction in the gr...

All pulling out because they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars on this plan. obamacare is imploding. in terms of the budget, everybody knows the right and left -- these entitlement programs -- they are goinge broke. this is an effort the president has put forth in terms of slowing down the growth of medicaid. he takes social security medicare off the table -- >> sean: the rate of increase or real, a small cut? >> its a reduction in the growth of suspending a plan. >> sean: increased spe...

Spending and bring some of those policy choices and generate some savings. that said, i think there are a lot of problems starting with the fact that their savings come from such a small sliver of the budget like you were just saying, domestic discretionary investments and programs for kids and poor people and there was a huge amount of savings that has to be squeezed on that very small part of the budget because they take so much off of the table and they dont look at revenues and the biggest e...

Copied me. lets talk about those three promises. social security. any proposed cuts from the administration? >> no. he is saving social security or not touching social security. hes not touching medicare. mulvaney said that he brought trump a list of entitlement programs and trump said im not going to touch social security, im not going to touch medicare, thats what i promised. but when it comes to medicaid, that was not as strong a promise on the trail. he kind of stopped promising that later i...

Are very deep cuts, deep cuts to entitlement programs, programs the president promised he would not touch. the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, im glad shell miss when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise

Trying to balance the budget in the next decade. >> shepard: so some of the republicans like the ideas. what about democrats? >> theyre taking aim at it saying it would hurt lower income americans. democrats are noting that president trump when he was candidate trump talked about not touching entitlement programs and those critics are calling the president out. >> well, sadly this budget exposes all of that verbiage for what it was. just cheap and dishonest campaign rhetoric that was meant to ge...

Understand threats that we nas and al face and also for him to assess that. there is a lot more thread to pull and leads to chase and thats what we are charged with on this committee. >> what threads and what leads, congressman? >> sure. this is one aspect, what the cia observed in the reports that they passed over to e fbi. we also want to understand just who went over to russia during the time of the campaign, what communications did trump officials have with russians in the united states, and...

By paul ryan republicans. he was ushering in a new approach to domestic and foreign policy. now when we do pay attention to domestic policy, he is breaking promises and hurting the very people he promised to help. everything he does seems almost tailor-made to hurt his base. its not just an accident. its crazy. >> doirian, when i worked as a staffer in the senate, there was one rule every senator agreed upon, which is dont make me take a tough vote if its not going to matter. that, with regard t...

Billion to help fund the coverage expansion in obamacare. it is possible to gradually over time reduce spending on the big entitlement programs without harming peoples coverage. the devil again is in the details, theres certain things that you can do to reform the medicaid program and put it on a sustainable path. what you have to do for the people who newly got coverage through medicaid, you have to give them a more robust tax credit so they can afford the premiums. i want you to hear what mont...

Capacity to address that serious issue. >> congressman, thank you again. now, heidi, final thoughts? >> my final thoughts are that this was a great display of just the clashing ideology in congress. the thing that i was really struck by, mika, is that there was no attempt to look at how obamacare could be fixed. we know that just by virtue of congress taking away its spooking insurers, causing the very problem that republicans say is the whole justification for having to change the entire system...