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Is to make certain that we have leader who is respect the choice. >> you are running a group and stayed very involved in georgia politics. there was news about your campaign, your 2018 campaign handing over documents to the state ethics office, the office in response to essentially a soup investigation. what is that investigation and what is going on? >> they had two pieces of news last week? we received a response from a federal judge on the motion to dismiss, the republicans' motion to dismiss that eliminate our challenge to the voting system in the state of georgia. an 85 state decision and...

Things dolled out? i don't want to be crass about it. state dinners in the united states at the white house, does it depend on the leader, the timing of the leader? what? >> it does depend on the leader. especially for the foreign leader coming to the white house, it's up to the president how much pomp and circumstance to put out. we can't compare to the british in how much pomp and circumstance they put out. on the receiving ends, i don't know what would make a monarch do this or that. it's their individual call. they make that decision as a state decision, not a governmental decision. the st...

This case. clarence thomas says why didn't we take this case. it's a big deal about whether medicaid patients get to sue over who their health care providers are. that really should be a state decision. he says i think the reason we didn't take it is because planned parenthood is involved here and that's no reason not to take this case just because it's politically fraught. it leaves the victory for planned parenthood in tact. >> very interesting. pete williams outside the court. thank you. up next, james comey is stepping back into the spotlight quite literally on stage in new york. telling...

>> we always say, if there's a way that he can remain there then you are, you know, you're really trading in a lot for nothing. we have nice weather. that is about the level of service that we have here. we always tell people, "don't move here." >> reporter: we later asked florida state officials for comment. they say over the past two years, the state has approved more funding to help get people off the waitlist. how is it possible that things are so different from one state to another? >> the funding source is medicaid. and medicaid is a state-federal partnership. >> reporter: sharon lewis i...

It's a state decision. >> reporter: so the federal government can't say to florida, "you've gotta do the same thing." >> at this point under the law, no. >> reporter: what's more, lewis says states split their medicaid dollars between the poor and people with disabilities. she says it all adds up to a system that can't take that much weight. >> i think that the programs are overstressed with the numbers. i mean it's why we see wait lists. >> reporter: is that the bottom line, we just don't have the budgets? >> we have not addressed the need for long-term services and support in this country. >...