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Moment today when the president came out of the briefing room that was a transparently desperate attempt to sort of wrench attention back from this day and capitol hill which i don't think worked. now the house tonight just in a few minutes is going to pass this bill to reopen the government. the white house has issued a veto threat. now this sort of standoff begins between pelosi and trump. where do you see it going? >> i think it's interesting that donald trump had his temper tantrum. mitch mcconnell declared that the senate has no role so i guess they can go home. >> yeah. he took himself o...

To wrench it back from this day on capitol hill, but now the house tonight a few minutes is going to pass this bill to reopen the government and the white house issued a veto threat and now the standoff begins between pelosi and trump. where do you see it going? >> it's interesting that trump had his temper tantrum and mitch mcconnell declared the senate has no role so they can go home. >> here took himself out of it. >> some of the greatest deliberative body in the world. what a farce that has become. the american people see a picture, a temper tantrum and a guy who is checked out and trying ...

Society, including disabled children, poor seniors. >> joining me now republican congressman from kansas. >> good evening. thanks for having me on tonight. >> absolutely. what's your response to the senator saying these bills, both versions have these cuts to medicaid that would hit the disabled and people in nursing homes? >> i certainly respect the senator. i think having worked with thousands of medicaid patients is that i would say medicaid is broken. one out of three physicians no longer accept medicaid. it's so broken throwing money at it is not going to fix it. >> what does this bill do...

Number one by helping get the economy stronger. moving people from welfare to work would be one simple solution so people would have good jobs and more access to health care. >> you're on record saying these cuts might save money but don't fix medicaid. you're sort of saying cut first, fix later. >> not at all. i'm saying throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. there's some inequities right now between the medicaid expansion states and those that are not on medicaid exsbangs throwing billions of dollars have not helped it. so throwing more dollars this country can't afford is n...

There's some inequities right now between the medicaid expansion states and those that are not on medicaid exsbangs throwing billions of dollars have not helped it. so throwing more dollars this country can't afford is not going to fix it. it'll break the country and nobody will have health care. >> let me read a new tweet here which is a statement that has political ramifications. this is jerry moran. he says that he and his colleague mike lee will not support this version. the motion to proceed -- as you know and our viewers know the process, they're not going to go forward to consider this ...