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>> for people that voted for donald trump that live in rural areas, when you see numbers like that -- i certainly learned this through serving and talking to hospital administrators, that doesn't just help the poor in r. that hurts everybody. because the hospitals, the other health care facilities, the hospice centers, the critical care centers all take a disproportionate hit and they all have to close portions of their services off to people. >> exactly. in rural america, as we know, donald trump got 62% of the vote versus 35% in urban areas. here is a case where a policy will hurt his suppor...

Know, unilaterally disarm and not have any leverage with anything with the budget, the debt ceiling, which is a constitutional prerogative of congress. so whether it's an issue of trade or this or the executive amnesty, it seems like the congress has no problem whatsoever diminishing legislative authority, which i think going back to our previous conversation is what's driven so many people, so many conservatives a little bit crazy about mcconnell and boehner for all their strength. >> john mccain just coming out saying, it's the best deal we can get on this deal. we're hearing more and more j...

Know, unilaterally disarm and not have any leverage with anything with the budget, the debt ceiling, which is a constitutional prerogative of congress. so whether it's an issue of trade or this or the executive amnesty, it seems like the congress has no problem whatsoever diminishing legislative authority, which i think going back to our previous conversation is what's driven so many people, so many conservatives a little bit crazy about mcconnell and boehner for all their strength. >> john mccain just coming out saying, it's the best deal we can get on this deal. we're hearing more and more j...

In my mind that you don't replace them with people who don't have disabilities. >> reporter: the problem is sent serd in a little known federal program, ability one. along with its outsourced management group, source america, they manage and award about $2.3 billion in federal contracts every year. multiple sources say these two organizations are being investigated for an acute of such wide scale corruption among the worst case of financial fraud they have ever seen in a federal program. our sources say as many as half of the federal contracts under this disability program may be operating in ...

Of the federal contracts under this disability program may be operating in violation of the law. >> the majority of the individuals that were being hired were not severely disabled. >> reporter: even though you are supposed to have 75% or more of your work staff being disability abld. >> in my experience in the ability one contracts that i work on maybe 20% from disabled truly weren't capable of finding employment elsewhere. >> reporter: this manager who wants to remain anonymous says the federal contractor making ten was millions of dollars would hire just about anyone who walked through the ...