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Like on our end to make it happen. >> can you explain from the president's point of view the value of projects and ten states who asked for it, those able-bodied who received medicaid? critics say even as a demonstration project it would fundamentally change medicaid's orientation to those who receive it, because they qualify. that's historically been the methods. if you qualify you receive. >> and cms, the new policy you're referring to? >> yes. >> they're announcing that to support states in an effort to strengthen the medicaid program and getting america engaged in getting back to work. the...

Coincidence? >> it's hard for me to say. i believe that our military doesn't like to do things for show. they like to do things to accomplish particular objectives. their purpose in the 59 tom ahawks was to deter future chemical weapons in syria and their purpose in dropping this particular device was to get at a target of tunnels and caves that isis was occupying in afghanistan. i would be surprised if what was driving the military here was a demonstration project for north korea. >> as you know, the u.s. military has seen increased russian activity inside afghanistan right now, so if putin a...

On march 8th of 2016 earlier last year cms announced a demonstration project to lower medicare reimbursements for part d drugs. that would have decreased incentives for physicians to prescribe expense i brand name medications and drug companies that were affected by this immediately organized a resistance campaign. two days later you announced europe zbligs for this demonstration project. one week later you invested as much as $90,000 in a total of six pharmaceutical companies. not five, not seven. six. all six, amazingly, made drugs that would have been impact by this demonstration project. t...

States congress in opposition to this demonstration project. you wrote a letter with 242 members of congress opposing that demo. aye read those letters. i know that's not easy. that takes a lot of work to get 242 people to sign on. >> that's good staff work, senator. >> and then, guess what, within two weeks of you taking the lead on opposition to that demonstration project, the stock prices for four of those six companies went up. you didn't have to buy those stocks knowing that you were going to take a leadership role in the effort to inflate their value. as the american public take a look a...

Became the leader in the united states congress in opposition to this demonstration project. you read a letter with 242 members of congress with that demo. i've lead those letters. that's not easy. that takes a lot of work to get 242 people to sign on. >> that's good staff work, senator. >> and within two weeks of you taking the lead on opposition to that demonstration project, the stock prices for four of those six companies went up. you didn't have to buy those stocks, knowing that you were going to take a leadership role in the effort to inflate their value. and so as the american public ta...