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Results across the country because you'll have children who are born who are not going to be cared for, who are not going to be -- medicaid cuts will not be able to serve them. you need to make sure women have access to this care including referrals for cancer screening. >> which -- >> governor granholm, amanda carpenter, i appreciate it. thanks very much. up next, another concern with the health care bill, the estimated $7 jn 72 billion in cuts to medicaid, money that currently helps people battle opioid addiction get treatment. cnn's gary tuchman has their stories when we come back. at joh...

Issue like health care. >> do you agree? >> i think infrastructure will be something we can join together in, i can see why she's saying that, i thought yesterday the president was very engaged in, because i think he realized how different the factions are within our conference. and i think what we decided was if we put more money into the program to help people at the lower end of the spectrum. >> your republican colleagues don't want to put more money. they want to save money. >> he promised repeatedly during the campaign, there would be no cuts to social security, no cuts to medicaid, didn'...

Republicans want to to eliminate them, they should do so with broader reform and changes in the tax code, anything but medicaid cuts for the poor. paying for a massive tax cut for the wealthy with cuts to health care for the most vulnerable americans is morally reprehensible. again, i'm not quoting paul krugman here. i'm quoting former speech writer for george w. bush. what do you say to that critique? >> that could have been a quote from members within our own conference, me included. it's one of the areas that we've discussed making changes on. i do give the leadership a lot of credit becaus...

Want an easier phaseout or fewer cuts or reductions in spending in the program. $772 billion would be removed over the course of ten years through this bill on medicaid. on the other side of the spectrum, you have conservatives who want to significantly ratchet back the regulations that are included in the affordable care act. kate, what that means is they want to go after the regulations that in some cases protect pre-existing conditions or protect the price protections for pre-existing conditions. you have two groups of senators on the opposite sides of the spectrum with ideas and plans and ...

Medicare cuts choose between five days of school or four days of school. you have a child special needs you have to worry what you're going to do with that child because of medicaid cuts. you have to worry about hey do i get the castro pullout cuts for grandpa coming home from the nursing home, and that's state after state after state. >> i go with the convertible. >> better than the castro? >> but we're quibbling over details here. >> i have one in my rooms. >> very nice. kasie hunt, how this could be pulled together for republicans or maybe it can't. you tell us. dean heller, susan collins a...