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Portman from ohio, both from states that expanded medicaid under obama care, along with susan collins of maine, a state that will vote later this year on expansion, have expressed concerns about the roll-back. portman and capito have been looking for a fund to treat and prevent opioid addiction, which was in the draft circulated yesterday. then there are complaints about the process. in fact, senator ron johnson said that in addition to reading the bill, "i'll also want to get full input from constituencies in wisconsin." adding, "i find it hard to believe that we'll have enough time to pass t...

But second of all, every time he sends one of these tweets, right when we perhaps could be working on infrastructure, actually changes to the affordable care act, that would make sense to the people of this country, we could be doing something on workforce training, he's been doing a bit of work in these areas, but every time he sends one of these tweets, four of them on friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., he squanders another opportunity to govern. >> i want to ask you aboutcuba. i know you'v been to cuba a number of times, you know the officials there, you have dug deep into this policy, wha...

Policy change president obama initiated towards cuba. what's your reaction to that? >> well, this made no sense to me. 73% of the american people believe we should continue to open relations with cuba. here you have a policy that he announced today that while is not a full rollback, which is no surprise, it's a setback, not a roll back, and it basically chills tourism. it makes it harder for people to visit. there are talks of auditing them within the next five years. you don't know if you'll be asked, why did you go to cuba? you're supposed to show the treasury department your records. i don'...

Of callers that i received in my personal interactions by people who say he's right, it is noise. so there's such a division in the country on this. >> on cuba, i know you, sir, have been in cuba and you have dined with fidel castro. he's trying to roll back the obama policy with cuba but it's a bit of a roll back. it's not the full-throated roll back. still, you totally disagree with what he's doing? >> i totally do. he's throwing a bone to the base in miami that was supportive of him. the older cubans, because there's a divide on this issue, i find fidel castro's behavior abhorrent. how do y...

Talking about anything they want to do -- >> are they doing this behind the scenes and we're just not paying attention to it? >> they are. a lot of hearings are closed, a lot of briefings are closed. they'll go into the end of summer, into the fall next year without any legislative accomplishments. this investigation into russia has a lot to do with it. >> are they behind the scenes worried about this investigation into russia? are they worried about this administration and how no on administration and how no oonch lantly he is handling this, saying things like a three-year-old can do this. ar...