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, Andrew Wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. We have to have mueller fired. Yes, Robert Mueller, i hope youre watching. Oh Robert Mueller, are you awake tonight . Robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible . To be fair and impartial, its impossible because of his past role in this. He should resign immediately t
against him having the right to have an emergency action at the border. and he vetoes that which in many ways is saying i don t care what the legislators say, i m going to have my way. when you look being at hat his is talking about cutting into services like medicare, like snap and putting money in there for the wall. you and your colleagues have the last say on his budget. but doesn t the budget reflect this president s kind of insensitivity to some very needed social services and a social safety net for many americans across party and racial lines? that s correct. our economy is built on two foundations, one, a well regulated free market economy with rules and a cop on the beat to police bad corporate behavior
the population. you have over 2,000 people on medicaid. do you believe that these folks can be treated without funding? if you take the money away how will those people be treated? we re not taking the money away. you voted for a budget that cuts it. it s a very large budget and what the president did today would allow transferring more money. we have a $20 trillion debt in america. we have to tighten our belts. it s unfortunate, but there are other avenues to fight drug abuse. i m a big behavior in faith-based initiatives to help combat drug abuse. quickly, i know we re out of time but doesn t the budget that was just passed increase the debt? my understanding is the debt will go up because of this budget. this budget will lead to tax reform. how does that help the deficit? that increases the deficit. if you
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 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
faith-based initiatives to help combat drug abuse. quickly, i know we re out of time but doesn t the budget that was just passed increase the debt? my understanding is the debt will go up because of this budget. this budget will lead to tax reform. how does that help the deficit? that increases the deficit. if you it increases the deficit if you assume there s not going to be growth. i believe that there s going to be growth. i believe that we re going to allow every american to have more money, more businesses to have more money. in my district 80% of the people do not itemize on their tax returns. we are going to double the standard deduction in my poor district and i believe that s going to lead to more money in the economy, more growth, more jobs created. one of the issues with the drug epidemic is it s a direct correlation to poverty. most people that are on medicaid are poor and need medicaid funding and if you cut it