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Check the power of this toppled tree. caused a water main break here as well. one of the other concerns going about, you can imagine if you had a live wire fall into this water that would be very dangerous to step in. those are the hazards among many. the cleanup is under way this morning. christine, they really had full force here, hurricane 1 -- category 1 status but it could have been a lot worse. >> all right. thank you. as irma batters florida with wind and rain, how much will the damage cost? well it's early, but the estimates here is a price tag of $172 billion making it one the costl...

Cuts, so they can see the benefits when they are running the midterms. we are focused on the short-term but they are focused on next year, the midterms. >> eric: some of the things they are talking about is attaching these agenda items to bills the other side can't vote no for. funding government, funding veterans affairs, they are catching some major -- attaching some major initiatives to these bills. legislation of -- legislative gymnastics. >> senator scott said last week that we are going to keep the tax increases in the health care plan, the ones i was mentioning for obamacare. we know ho...

Medicaid expansion reimburses able-bodied childless adults at a rate of 90% as opposed to 50% or 60% for those who the program was actually designed to deal with, the needy, poor kids, pregnant women and such. the most vulnerable of our population, i believe, to get in on a sustainable track, you do have to slow the growth of medicaid so we, in fact, can deal with the most needy of our population. >> so you don't think -- >> sorry, i can't hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> okay. >> it's like a verizon commercial. so you don't think that the reduction in growth is $772 billion reduction in m...

About the health care bill is really troubling. and it's not just about trying to pull one over on the american people, it's also about the example it sets for the world. folks just don't believe this administration, not just because of the trouble they're having with our allies, but because they watch these utter fabrications being represented to the american people from the higher levels of government. this is a big issue for the credibility of this administration and the credibility of this country, not just inside the health care debate but more globally as well. >> congressional budget of...

Get sicker and sicker. the republican admits they will dump billions of dollars in and say please charge less and try to counteract the death spiral, but the republicans that obamacare. chris: i understand. they will not fix the problem so that. here is why conservatives say it is still worth supporting. it is they contend the most significant medicaid reform after. it turns an open-ended entitlement into a lot grand for states compared to current law cuts medicaid spending $772 billion by 2026. are you willing, senator, to see all that go down the drain? >> some of the medicaid reform