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Majority of people on food stamps don't need it. i think the majority of able-bodied adults between 18 and 50 years old, they don't need it. i am all for work-fare. bill clinton and newt gingrich on the right track. the governor in maine on the right track. i don't think entitlements do any good. you can't have more than three months of food stamp assistance in three years. i think that's a good plan. >> bill: in maine. able-bodied adults. not children. >> you can't minimize the impact of drug abuse. maine has a terrible heroin epidemic. most of the young adults. >> bill: then you have to go t...

This is one of the reasons why. >> but there has been a lot of abuse, a lot of people taking advantage of these programs. that is a problem here. who are these people, joe? >> we're talking about 1% of snap program lost through fraud with the latest report. she's right. there is a lot of good happening from the program. the problem is when house republicans in 2014 proposed modest cuts, they got castigated by democratic colleagues in calling us heartless, saying we're kicking people to the and that sort of thing. what other program costs double and quadruple and we're not supposed to look at i...

People with disabilities and children. >> what changes would you make if any, to the snap program? what would you do to enhance it? >> i would increase coordination between snap and other federally funded programs. i would say every working poor family that's eligible for an earned income tax credit as you apply for that credit you automatically get snap benefits and i would dramatically reduce the bureaucracy. instead of putting that money into the tax credits for the rich, i would give that to more working families. >> tom, your thoughts on that? >> i agree. you know what i would love to see...

Million people plus that you mentioned, reverend away from health care and then not have any other supportive services for them when they don't have health care like having proper nutritional diet because the s.n.a.p. program has continued to be sliced apart, millions of americans, most of them elderly and children will continue to suffer. this is crazy. >> that's who benefits from these programs. i mean this is crazy, congressman. let's talk about the plan to gut food stamps. it would cut roughly $15 billion from food stamp program over ten years, or roughly 15% at current spending levels. in...

Who decide to participate in this primary runoff election, we weren't just talking a good game. we can deliver for you maybe on the voting rights act and maybe on something like the snap program. these are all parts of the record that cochran has wrapped up in the senate. it is something i think is reasonable to expect him to try to do again especially given the way the election just played out. >> part of the story the politics, a lot of republicans used to support it. to find the ones who will say that now is a different story. we'll take a look and see what happens. when we return when we f...