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Im for keeping them up. And what to make of the president s opioid announcement. If we can teach young people and people generally not to start, its really, really easy not to take them. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Tonight amid signs that Robert Muellers investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. Theres no way the American People can trust Robert Mueller to investigate anything russian related. What really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, ...

Medicaid as a way that people in the grips treat themselves, you, sir, voted on a budget that the hill reports. there's a lot of unjust fewable provisions in this budget. on top of massive tax cuts for the rich, it cuts vital national investments, citing more than $4 trillion in mandatory spending cuts including almost $2 trillion in cuts to medicare and medicaid. how can you justify voting fo are a budget that cuts the very funds needed to treat the opioid addicted in your state? >> well, there are people that are addicted to opioids that aren't on medicaid so this affects a large group of pe...

Addicted in your state? >> well, there are people that are addicted to opioids that aren't on medicaid so this affects a large group of people. >> but the majority of those who are addicted utilize medicaid in their treatment. how can you justify cutting those funds? >> we're still going to have medicaid. in kentucky we have a medicaid problem where we have too many people on medicaid but that's another story. with respect to this, i supported the 21st century cures act. came to congress last november during the lame duck session. that was the first major bill i voted for. that provided $1 bil...

Providing abortion -- >> none of the federal money goes there. >> people keep going on with this myth that they somehow provide cancer screenings. you can look at the "washington post," it did a fact check. what they do do is very simple, breast exams anyone can do in their shower. if they find something, they can provide a referral. 3% of breast exams result in a referral planned parenthood does not provide. they're an abortion provider. predominantly provide sexual disease screenings and services. that's what the organization does. do they need to get $5 million in medicaid funding? we have ...

Breast exams that anyone request -- requecan do in their shower. they are abortion provider. they predominantly provide sexual disease screenings and services. that is what the organization does. now, do they need to get $500 million in medicaid funding? we have a medicaid problem. i'm so glad we have attention on this now. because we need to define who this program should serve. should we be spending $500 million on an entity that provides abortions or does it need to go to needy children and disabled people who cannot provide for theireverals. illeg. it's so frustrating, anderson, because th...