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the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, including these four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old and swept away when strong flood waters ripped them from their parents. the governor says they will, quote, be finding bodies for we weeks. certainly the deadliest and most devastating of my lifetime. we can now confirm we have lost 30 kentuckians to this flooding and that is going to grow. we know about additional bodies beyond these 30 con ....
And risk, you know, campaigning for 2018 on votes over these bills where there s going to be audio of the president saying on fox news, yes, 0 bobama stole m term, this is mean. that s going to be used against people that vote for this. to that point, scott, i want to play what van mentioned about then-candidate s trump on the campaign trail about medicaid. let s play that. every republican wants to do a big number on social security, they want to do it on medicare, they want to do it on medicaid. and we can t do that. save medicare, medicaid and social security without cuts. i m not going to cut medicare or medicaid. going to end up with great health care for a fraction of the price. so, scott, is he breaking that promise? well, the bill says we re going to spend $500 billion on medicaid by 2027. today, i think we spent $389 ....
For the elderly and entitlement program for the young. entitlement program for the poor and then expand eligibility for three and that is what we have today. look at the numbers. there are 11 million people on medicaid since obamacare has been introduced. a 30 percent rise in terms of those on medicaid. if you look at the cost, last year the federal government spent $389 billion on medicaid. in the next 10 years of up to $650 billion. these numbers are staggering. it is perhaps unsustainable. you look at where the greatest pushback in terms of the senate bill is coming from. it is coming from republicans senators or governors up for reelection this year or next. because they know that they have hundreds of thousands of new medicaid voters on the role who are going to lose that coverage and they are very scared of that. that raises this question. let s assume for the sake that they have a bill along one ....
For the elderly and entitlement program for the young. entitlement program for the poor and then expand eligibility for three and that is what we have today. look at the numbers. there are 11 million people on medicaid since obamacare has been introduced. a 30 percent rise in terms of those on medicaid. if you look at the cost, last year the federal government spent $389 billion on medicaid. in the next 10 years of up to $650 billion. these numbers are staggering. it is perhaps unsustainable. you look at where the greatest pushback in terms of the senate bill is coming from. it is coming from republicans senators or governors up for reelection this year or next. because they know that they have hundreds of thousands of new medicaid voters on the role who are going to lose that coverage and they are very scared of that. that raises this question. let s assume for the sake that ....
For the elderly and entitlement program for the young. entitlement program for the poor and then expand eligibility for three and that is what we have today. look at the numbers. there are 11 million people on medicaid since obamacare has been introduced. a 30 percent rise in terms of those on medicaid. if you look at the cost, last year the federal government spent $389 billion on medicaid. in the next 10 years of up to $650 billion. these numbers are staggering. it is perhaps unsustainable. you look at where the greatest pushback in terms of the senate bill is coming from. it is coming from republicans senators or governors up for reelection this year or next. because they know that they have hundreds of thousands of new medicaid voters on the role who are going to lose that coverage and they are very scared of that. that raises this question. let s assume for the sake that they have a bill along one ....