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Tour calling out the media over lack of opioid coverage. >> i challenge the press to devote as much time to live lost and lives that could be saved by dedicating the same amount of coverage you do to tribal stories. heather: other news stories other than one's about donald trump and that is what the first lady was talking about. finally a first lady bringing attention to real issues and another instagram post says she's right, let's get priorities straight in this country. heather: not getting a lot of coverage, glad we are doing something like that, the opioid crisis, cyber bullying, very imp...

The full recovery span of john mccain's situation was out. they still were expressing confidence that there could be a vote to pass this but acknowledging that it would be a razor thin. best case scenario is razor thin. this poll out today, the abc news/washington post poll is really revelatory. it shows almost a 2-1 preference for obamacare over the republican plan. that's just not a good place to be if you're trying to pass this legislation. throwing in the opioid coverage is a tip of the hat to a lot of trump country, a lot of these sort of -- >> mid western states. ohio. >> where this is a...

These massive cuts to medicaid. they doesn't just pay for people when they have a cough. they pay for opioid coverage, for veterans' coverage. they can't just cut medicaid and say that they helped tax reform. >> this is where the republican governors play an interesting role. especially in the midwest. >> yes, and medicaid in rural america is huge. medicaid subsidizes the employers. you have a lot of small employers, you have a lot of people paid fair lily low wages rural america. medicaid subsidizes those employers with insurance basically. >> you're say they go can pay low wages and be thank...

Input from my constituents that in the end i believe this is improvement with the craziest system in the world as president clinton was talking about. >> because it's the craziest system in the world, don't you think in terms of due diligence that you, you are allowed, you should have received the opportunity to study it and have comments on it all the way through the process rather than have a clock now put on the vote that you're going to cast? >> well, i don't agree with the clock. we'll see how the process unfields under this point. but i will not vote yes until i'm satisfied this puts us ...

Problem. it seems like that's the last step here. i don't think that's a good process. i'm going to demand the information before i make my decision. >> senator, there are people like governor john kasich who said they can't afford the lose the medicaid roll back. do you believe if it passes with the rollback all the people covered now will somehow get coverage inbetween, the people including people in your family who require opioid coverage? >> well, willie, i come from the private sector. i've been here six years. i have yet to see a problem where we have a hearing and a solution from a gove...