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That exempts alaska and montana from medicaid funding block grants that are likely to affect most of their states. the provision is seen as a way to win over alaska senior republican senator, lisa murkowski. now spokespersons for the legislation sponsors, lindsey graham and bill cassidy have denied that there would be more carveouts for alaska and less than three months ago senate graham said this about special deals for the states. >> i worry about cornhusker kickbacks and louisiana purchasers and if they start doing that crap they're going to lose me. i'll vote to proceed. if you take the mo...

I've been on with mika and joe. they're tough, they're professional colleagues, it's a tough knockabout show. but presidents can't get into that when they're winning. he had many a message one and now it's backwards. >> let's talk about health care. i feel like everything got frozen in place. by the way, susan collins sounds like, you're not buying me off with opioid money, right? and hugh, you and i had this conversation. you weren't going to be bought off with opioid money, either. >> i would like to see a block grant to rural hospitals and opioid treatment that is an endowment to the states...

Supersize accounts. they would get a chunk of chang change. senators from medicaid expansion states want to see more money towards drug addiction, it's not like this has not happened before, neil. republicans criticize democrats back when obamacare originally passed. hammering the bill in secret, and then giving goodies to wavering democratic voters. remember the cornhusker kickback? senator lindsey graham sure doe does. >> i worry about cornhusker kickbacks, and they start doing that, they will lose me. when you take the money and buy offloads, that is exactly what got us obamacare. i would g...

Alternative plan to put hump ty dumpy back together. we will have another track at it when it comes back. if that argument doesn't work i don't think they get it passed. the biggest danger so many are on the record saying this is not a conservative bill i'm against it. that's a hard thing to flip because the people have to go back to their members and watch for side deals. that is the one other thing they have is basically cornhusker kickbacks. >> mark, i can tell you that doesn't work with people in the freedom caucus. the one thing that newt gingrich and tom delay always thought they could b...

The swamp and we did. we have sweeping ethics reform in the congress and personal respect in this section. having these people makes us sad about the course of events but we have to unhold the highest standard and none of our personalities is more important than that. bill: juxtapose that are rangel and now waters and what comes of this, karl? >> the problem for the democrats is that it's not just these two individuals with their ethics problems. the standing of congress and public opinion is very low as is the standing of both speaker pelosi and harry reid and that's because they've done two ...