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Im for keeping them up. And what to make of the president s opioid announcement. If we can teach young people and people generally not to start, its really, really easy not to take them. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Tonight amid signs that Robert Muellers investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. Theres no way the American People can trust Robe...

Medicaid as a way that people in the grips treat themselves, you, sir, voted on a budget that the hill reports. theres a lot of unjust fewable provisions in this budget. on top of massive tax cuts for the rich, it cuts vital national investments, citing more than $4 trillion in mandatory spending cuts including almost $2 trillion in cuts to medicare and medicaid. how can you justify voting fo are a budget that cuts the very funds needed to treat the opioid addicted in your state? >> well, there ...

Addicted in your state? >> well, there are people that are addicted to opioids that arent on medicaid so this affects a large group of people. >> but the majority of those who are addicted utilize medicaid in their treatment. how can you justify cutting those funds? >> were still going to have medicaid. in kentucky we have a medicaid problem where we have too many people on medicaid but thats another story. with respect to this, i supported the 21st century cures act. came to congress last novem...

Providing abortion -- >> none of the federal money goes there. >> people keep going on with this myth that they somehow provide cancer screenings. you can look at the "washington post," it did a fact check. what they do do is very simple, breast exams anyone can do in their shower. if they find something, they can provide a referral. 3% of breast exams result in a referral planned parenthood does not provide. theyre an abortion provider. predominantly provide sexual disease screenings and servic...

Breast exams that anyone request -- requecan do in their shower. they are abortion provider. they predominantly provide sexual disease screenings and services. that is what the organization does. now, do they need to get $500 million in medicaid funding? we have a medicaid problem. im so glad we have attention on this now. because we need to define who this program should serve. should we be spending $500 million on an entity that provides abortions or does it need to go to needy children and di...

Bureaucratic that physicians just wont take medicaid patients so our concern is, that people on medicaid cant get a doctor and if you cant get a doctor, what good is your coverage? we think there are a lot of good medicaid reforms at the state level. indiana is one state, wisconsin we had done good reforms to make sure people of low income get good coverage but also get access to care, actually get doctors that will take that care. we want to see more of those state based solutions so that we ...

Your new day. number one, a psychiatric patient suspected of killing his parent was caught in tennen. this is one day after escaping from a south carolina hospital. in 2006, a court found jason mark charter not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of his father and stepmother. a judge said carter was not supervised when he escaped in violation of rules. number two, members of an honor guard were seriously hurt when a van hit a load of logs. police cited the vans driver for failure to yi...

>> this is not fair. this is really not fair. those headlines have to do with how republicans got in the way from it being implemented and per request of the republican governors. per that request it went to. it went to the states. >> okay, okay, go a head tony. >> i am glad you brought that up, tony. what obama care does to expand the medicaid problem and largest sign item. they are drawning in debt and bankruptcy because of medicare costs. the supreme court in the united states in ruling it un...

To keep this federal money. they wanted that money. then the state did two other things. they first covered everyone they could cover in their medicaid problem so they could get the most possible match from the federal government. right now federal medicaid from the federal government -- that is an incredible deal for people in massachusetts. theyre getting subsidized by the rest of the country. and then the third way romney paid for it is massachusetts had long before romney was governor, impos...

the housing meltdown took down with it countless homeowners. in fact im probably talk about many of you. today federal and state officials announced a $26 billion foreclosure settlement aimed at righting some of the wrong. the settlement was made with five of the nations largest home lenders. lets bring ali velshi. what will this mean for homeowners? >> citi group, bank of america, wells fargo and -- its $26 billion and its going to spread out the pot this way. first of all no more rob...