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to better outcomes when people have a vested interest in something, they take it more seriously. they are more involved with it. and so i think having individuals that are capable of working, working in exchange for the things they receive, infuses them with dignity. that's something that every human being ultimately desires. >> dana: i agree with you in terms of the dignity in work. even the pope said that last year. i understand that's important. how do you determine, or who will determine capability to work? who is able to work? that's something that i don't understand. that's a subjective decision, right? >> it is to a degree. bear in mind when medicade was created, it was designed for the medically frail. it was designed for the elderly, for children, for the blind. it was for folks that truly were infirmed. it has since been expanded to people like you and i, able bodied working age without dependents needing us to be home caring for them. it is for that latter group that we're talking. if you are not disabled, if you
>> dana: ethan epstein, thank you very much. the states where marijuana is legal are getting fired up after a warning that the feds will enforce drug loss. states worry sales from pot could go up in smoke. >> reporter: yeah, dana, we all know drugs can be addicted. so can the tax money derived from the sale of the drugs. look at what the states are taking insofar. washington state, $831 million. colorado right behind followed by oregon and california, which just got started, is expected to haul in $1 billion a year. that money is funding the most basic government programs. in washington state over half is going to medicade. it's softening the bug hit from obama care. colorado and oregon use it to build schools and pay for teachers and their pensions. oregon also pay force public safety by hiring state troopers with pot money. lawmakers, even ones who voted against legalization, admit
that, if any? >> not much. it's because the israel/palestinian issue is no longer much of a priority for anyone outside of israel and palestine. i mean, america's allies like saudi arabia, when we said jerusalem, we're recognizing it as the capital, it was just a pro-tpubgtry opposition to trump. here, the very sad thing the palestinians have just lost any ability to move towards some form of self-determination and not many people care about it. >> dana: all right. ian bremmer, around the world with you. thank you very much. hawaii going back to the drawing board after a false missile alert turns to chaos. so how are other states handling emergency warning systems? plus kentucky becoming the first state to require many recipients of medicade to work in order to receive coverage. could this be a model for the rest of the country? i'll talk to the governor of the blue grass state next. >> the respect and dignity given to the person to be able to do
big next year given that we just did the tax cuts? >> i'm reminded of that movie "show me the money." it's gone. you just gave the money to the top 1% of americans. 83%. that's a fact. 83% went to corporations. it's gone. whether it went there or anybody else, it is gone. so how do we fund infrastructure? big, big problem. we won't be able to do it. and at the same time, you've got the military, demands for the military. >> dana: and you have a congress that hasn't been able to tackle discretionary spending and the entitlements squeezed that out. >> that's precisely where the republicans will take us. mr. ryan has been very clear, he is going after social security, medicare and medicade. in fact, medicare is already lined up absent a clause in this continuing resolution which may or may not survive is a $25
conservatives like a paul ryan, who was always for spending cuts, economics hasn't really changed. politics has. they're trying to do the best they can within this environment. >> you raise a really important point. when we have a big debt, they said that's why we need to cut medicare and medicade and education. they wanted spending cuts because of the debt. turns out it wasn't because of the debt. now they're willing to finance tax cuts and increase the debt. >> dana: people could say oh wow democrats are now concerned ab the deficit. that can go back and forth. >> i have been concerned about the deficit for a long time. >> dana: i know you have. are you concerned about this news this morning from donna brazile about the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign, being involved, possibility of this exacerbating what is a democratic party civil war as republican civil war wages on
it's pretty much a nonstarter because he doesn't want the insurance subsidies to puff up the insurance companies more. i'm paraphrasing him there. in the mean time, they're all picking up some co-sponsors. just a quick thought on that and i want to talk to you ab russia uranium. >> remember, this president is committed to meaningful consequential healthcare reform. he promised it. it's a moral imperative. just because congress didn't put it on his desk doesn't mean he's not still fighting for it. just last week he signed a healthcare executive order here in the roosevelt room that would help people pull together to share the risk and share the cost if, unlike you and me, they don't receive employer sponsored benefits or government sponsored benefits through medicare, medicade, tri care, for example. that's going to help part of the 28 million who have been completely shut out by obamacare. lied to by the president that they can keep their plan, keep their doctor. that was a lie. these people, starting to get relief outside the legislative
is what the white house is saying and maybe trying to tease out some more specifics. what we have right now is a frame work. i think it's a frame work. i like the messaging. i think tax reform is essential. we're off to a good start. but there are some big policy questions that need to be answered, and some holes that need to be filled by congress. and maybe a question that i would ask is what type of direction the president would want to give the bill writers in the house and senate on questions like the size of the tax credit, the child tax credit is one example that jumps to mind. >> sandra: speaking of the hole in the deficit, nancy pelosi verbalized her criticism for the plan. she said this, after republican tax plan blows a multitrillion dollar hole in the deficit, they will sharpen their knives for social security, medicare, medicade. bernard, heavy criticism coming from nancy pelosi, chuck shumer.
expressed concerns about the opioid crisis. we caught up with two on the watch list. [ inaudible ] >> there are many concerns that i have about the graham-cassidy proposal. they include the fact that they make fundamental changes in the medicade program for the first time in more than 50 years. >> reporter: with kentucky's rand paul a firm no, gop leadership can only lose one more republican senator and pass this bill. harris? >> harris: mike, thanks for the update. russia's military generals are showing they are ready for war, putting on fire power for president putin. is this the real reason he skipped the united nations general assembly this week? the message he may be trying to send. and a live report on earthquake rescue efforts in mexico as we continue to watch the frantic movement to try to rescue children entering their third day trapped under the rubble 37
meaning everybody's premiums go up and the system gets turned over. that's the problem with graham-cassidy. >> harris: if that's the case, why were democrats against the risk pools? i hear you using almost the same terminology. guy? >> well, i would just respond -- first of all, hospital and er visits went up under obamacare. we were told they'd go down. the opposite was true. it's been another dishonest or inaccurate sales job of obamacare. where do you get the 70 million number? the number on the exchanges is way lower than anyone had anticipated in the obama administration. it's at 10 million. thaepb you have medicade expansion. that does not add up to 70 million. >> medicade expansion plus the exchange plus the individuals that coverage through whatever state coverage they got. states expanded medicare some how, some way. the reason chris christie is against graham-cassidy -- >> it's not 70 million. >> the reason chris christie is against graham-cassidy, not only does his state lose $4 billion, but for those individuals in new jersey who got healthcare coverage thanks to medicade
cuts to health care by 2027. it would cause millions to lose coverage. millions. it would radically restructure and deeply cut medicade. it would bring us back to the days when insurance companies could discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. would get rid of the consumer protections that gives americans access to maternity care, substance abuse of prescription drugs, and it would throw the individual markets into chaos, resulting in 15 million people losing coverage. if they let the cbo do its work, the cbo wasn't pressured to put out something that's just a few lines, this would all be told by cbo. how do we know? but a similar bills in the past have been scored by cbo with similar provision. they're afraid. they are afraid that the public