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>> no, i think he literally gave zero competent answers today. i think this was -- there is competition for this, as you know. >> yes. >> i think this was the worst performance that i have essential ly certainly seen to date in financial services and incredibly disappointing. there are people facing foreclosure, people facing homelessness, people on wait lists for low-income housing. i represent orange county, california. we have a real affordable housing crisis in coastal california and our hud...

Asylum-seekers and undocumented citizens, people who come to the state of maine. thats been going on for years. when i was governor, we had a litigation against the city of portland for that exact reason. when the economy started getting better, i removed all the wait lists. there was 4200 people on wait list. we budgeted for it totally, balanced budget paid for it. the democrats came in, took the money, and put the people back on a wait-list. they are still there now on a wait-list. people who ...

Asylum seeingers and undocumented citizens that come to -- people that come to the state of maine. thats been going on for years. when i was governor we had litigation against the city of portland for that exact reason. i -- when the economy started getting better i removed all the wait lists, there was 4200 people on the wait list, we budgeted for it, totally balanced budget, paid for it. the democrats i am ka in, took the money and put the people back on a wait list and theyre still there now ...

We taking away from fema, immigration, border control and come from somewhere. >> dr. sapphire if youre an american and no health care coverage and you dont have anything and youre looking dont care what price is but you want to be healthy. >> i agree everyone should have access to quality health care if i l firmly believe that. i think in a mixed private and public system we can did that. that is how we have thrived you have to reign in health care costs youre going to 80% of hospitals will bec...

>> at this point under the law, no. >> reporter: whats more, lewis says states split their medicaid dollars between the poor and people with disabilities. she says it all adds up to a system that cant take that much weight. >> i think that the programs are overstressed with the numbers. i mean its why we see wait lists. >> reporter: is that the bottom line, we just dont have the budgets? >> we have not addressed the need for long-term services and support in this country. >> reporter: and lewis ...

Plagued with any efficiency despite its budget having been doubled in the last we 10 years. robert wilkie served in the pentagon under donald rumsfeld, worked for condoleezza rice it had years of experience on capitol hill and now he may have his toughest assignment yet. >> daily walk to high school with the woman who is now his wife, he passed by the fayetteville va hospital which were the inscription the price of freedom is visible here, made a big impact. >> reporter: this assignment is perso...

Inefficiencies. he worked for condoleezza rice and has years of experience on capitol hill. now he may have his toughest assignment yet. >> on his daily walk to high school with the woman who is now his wife, he passed by the fayetteville va hospital which bore the insubscription "the price of freedom is visible here." it made a big impact. >> for wilke, this assignment is person. his father was severely wounded after multiple tours in veto in an. >> he came back to us weighing about half of wha...

Its a state decision. >> reporter: so the federal government cant say to florida, "youve gotta do the same thing." >> at this point under the law, no. >> reporter: whats more, lewis says states split their medicaid dollars between the poor and people with disabilities. she says it all adds up to a system that cant take that much weight. >> i think that the programs are overstressed with the numbers. i mean its why we see wait lists. >> reporter: is that the bottom line, we just dont have the bud...

Into some of the day programs to see for ourselves. we said we were looking for a program for someone with autism who was aging out. this is what we saw. at one a group of adults gathered in a room doing very little. at another people with special needs are working gluing strips of rubber to metal. a staff member tells us they spend most of their day in this room. >> and outside the facility theres barbed wire. the staff says its there for safety reasons. the thing is there are often huge wait l...

Say the va is broken, these long wait lists. its not functioning. give people access to protest care so they have choice and they can get seen immediately. whats wrong with that? >> first of all what, does bother me as the former chair of the va, i talk to a lot of veterans. i was just in the veterans medical center here in vermont today. i talk to veterans all of the time. you know what they say? they say, of course, the va has problems. so does every hospital in america. oh does our entire hea...