a lot of them said they were americans who receive their health care through medicaid, and they said they want to be heard from before the republican congress makes these drastic cuts to medicaid. now, michael phillips could not protest outside of senator mcconnell s office, but he did send out this tweet that got a lot of notice, saying, hi, my name is michael phillips. i live at home because of a medicaid waiver. don t cut medicaid. don t take away my home. joining us now on the last word is mike phillips who is living with his spinal muscular atrophy and stands to lose medicaid benefits under the potential discussion bill. we re also joined by his mom, karen clay, who is his full-time caregiver. thank you both, karen and mike, for being here. starting with you, karen, how do you see this issue and why was it important for both of you to speak out? thank you. when my son was diagnosed over