tillis: thank you, madam president. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that i be able to speak for -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: -- a period of five minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: thank you, madam president. madam president, and maybe for those who were watching the opening prayer, that was pastor andrew brunson from north carolina. pastor brunson this month marks a year since he was released from a turkish prison. and he and his wife were swept up and his wife far reen is in the -- norine is in the gallery as well. they were swept up in what i consider to be an overreaction by president erdogan and the turkish regime in imprisoning thousands of people after the coup attempt in turkey. i found out about this case actually first -- pastor brunson was from north carolina and then slowly but steadily, diplomacy wasn't working. and he found himself in a turkish prison at one point really in what we would consider to be despicable circ

special warriors, a little bit different kind of war maybe but senator john cornyn, ted cruz and tom tillisyou very much .. a (applause) along with representative hudson for being here and another politicians fee cause we want to get on with this one and it's a very special thing. joining that for the ceremony is his wife kate, father michael, mother janet, brother cody and sister me. please stand up. thank you. great family. (applause) each of you have strengthened our nation to the love and support and we want to thank you and a very special family and we want to be in the presence of eight previous congressional matter all of honor winners and they are here and i thought maybe -- we should introduce them? i think so. come on, let's do that. william swanson. (applause) ronald sure. (applause) (applause) robert foley. (applause) thank you robert. (applause) fluorescent glow bergh (applause) >> david. (applause) i heard you might be running for office some day. boy, i'll tell you what he has my vote. a brave politician for a change. right? nice to see david. salvatore kim to. (applause) mat

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tom tillis is a perfect example. call your representative and ask them why they did not make complaints about this in 2015 or 2016 or 2017 or 2018. why is it only a year before the election he is bringing up this stuff about biden? it is not true. it is a distraction. call your representative and ask them why they let this alleged illegality go. host: have you had a chance to talk to your representative? caller: i have not. i have sent emails. tom tillis and richard burr were both there in 2015. if what biden was doing was so wrong, why were they silent for four years? host: did you get any responses? caller: i have not. i have written richard burr in the past, and it has taken him almost nine months to get back to me. i am not expecting an immediate reply. in carolinas polly beach. post stayrnie sanders in the hospital after a heart attack. the sanders campaign has sought to project a business as usual attitude as the senator takes time away from the schedule. the $1.3 million ad buy will start tuesday in iowa. camp

for more on the wildfires and what is ahead for the bankrate tillie, let's bring in claire boston.should start with the fact that california has declared orangecy in sonoma and county. was it in the midst of this they grab say when the latest happened? >> pg&e filed in january. when you are talking about a bankruptcy of this size, it takes a while. it was not like it was about to exit and we had a step back. this could make the bankruptcy last longer, and that is the fear you are seeing in the market. concern the equities could go to zero if there are more wildfire claims. bondholders are also concerned that restructuring will happen in a different way. amanda: i was interested to see some out year bonds, some long-term optimism, because at the end of the day there will be a state backstop. it is not behaving like a private company restructuring. this utility has to survive in some way or form. >> this is a unique scenario, not like a typical retailer. claims fromted to the previous fires in 2017, 2018. there is a state backstop. there is a lot of talk about whether there will be a

there are some other senators looking a little more vulnerable than her including gardner and tom tillis because collins has such a strong brand in her state. >> what about martha mcsally? remind our viewers about how she made her way to the senate. >> she actually lost her senate race in 2018 to kyrsten sinema in arizona. that was one of the democratic pickups we saw in the senate. she was appointed to fill out the rest of john mccain's term. she is now running in 2020 for a full term. she is facing a really tough opponent who has been raising a lot of money. she is running against mark kelly, a former astronaut. he outraised her for the third quarter in a row. over $5 million. that's a pretty remarkable number for a candidate, a challenger. senator mcsally has been known as a strong fundraiser. she is still raising a good amount yourself. she is getting outraised by mr. kelly. that will certainly be one race to watch. democrats see the changing demographics as moving in their favor, diversifying. you see trump's popularity dwindling of it. they see that as a top opportunity. >> what ab

as tilly said, the defsh ivil the details on stuff like this. i strongly applaud, we strongly applaud what this represents on the increased commitment that you, the board of supervisors has to this project, something that this project has not really enjoyed over the years. we're also really glad to see the resumption of some of the works at the main street station and the 22 street station. the concerns that was over the report was released was the delay in the actual engineering work. i think what this translates into is concern that the delay that putting off the resumption of engineering represents may not be rofshl by the change in the strategy for delivering the project. i note that even the gateway project, if i read that correctly ended up using a conventional bid for construction, you know, with the -- a convention project delivery framework. so we're not certain where we will end up with this. we will work with you and look forward to moving this project is head expeditiously, and we'll comment further, and i appreciate your commitment

lead to tillis no no i mean we have always been in the middle in the heart of it. but we have been working underground inside libya and outside libya with many thousands of our leaders from all contexts and we have been leading the alternative for libya and we have been talking to our people our tribes our cities and we have been very successful only recently in the last year or 2 the political scene have changed positively namely the whole conspiracy against libya has been exposed and mentally from your perspective as we had of a british diplomat in japan he still had absolute faith in the un recognized government the shoulder called of course we have a lot of the susan this is generally what exactly this is for me is really where you position the green resistance movement sometimes when i listen to european diplomats and american i think ok maybe some of them are genuine people and they don't understand what is happening but sometimes you just have to say it out loud this is a. lack of more ality these people lack any decency when they say that how could you desc

. >> luke tilly join u to tal w more aboutt he thinks the fed will do.is theio s economistcond strategist as wilmington trust. fce to have you here. >> thank y having me. >> you think we have another cut from theyo fed. point to a slowdown in capital capital spending is that correct. >> that's correct. most likely in two weeks at the october meeting. as steve suggested ifot then then probably in december. so i think bill said it right when he set it up. saying maybe the tensions eased ber so slightly. it really hn slilit. the fed has been cutting rates and basically they id for two reasons. one because of the trade tensions. and second becae of the global slowdown in ecomic growth. so we have had a little bit of easing on the trade tenon was the ttative dealith the chinz from last we can. but we are stillng loot the other risks still present. we have the global slowdown. we know thatan ouracturing sector has slowed cocoiderably. it's really been hurt. s an wll are slated -- unless there is a solid trade thedor and sig we still have slated to get more tar

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thom tillis, rob portman, and jerry moran rejecting impeachment straight up. the other republicans.w how they are. they have something of a distaste by inquiry from the dimms. but they didn't resume it out. instead of standing for this president with principle. the rino reluctance to back the president comes as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is telling senate republicans to defend the president on the unfair process being used by the radical dimms in the house. mcconnell foregettinged the dimms' sole purpose is to overthrow this president. but at least senator lindsey graham is fighting back. he says he will introduce a resolution to condemn the house inquiry. the president fed up with rinos and never thumber d and never t. our president nailing it. joining us, former reagan white house political director a haven't himself, ed rollins. ed, human scum those rinos and never trumpers. >> rod portman was the director omp. and he knows it was perfectly legal what the president did. my sense is, you know, every member should be on this list. lou: i think what you are saying is i'm

senator cindy hyde-smith roger wicker thom tillis rob portman jim inhofe mike rounds and jerry mirandaxplicitly rejecting impeachment straight up together republicans you know how they are. they have something of a distaste for the inquiry by victims but they didn't rule it out because it wouldn't be politically smart of them. they think not to do so. instead of standing for this president with principle. the rino reluctance the fact that the president comes in senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is telling senate republicans to defend the president on the unfair process being used by those radical dems in the house. getting victims sole purpose for existence is dover through this -- overthrow the duly elected president using every resource to make that a reality beverly senator lindsey graham is fighting back against the party of hate. graham says he will introduce a radical solution to condemn the cusing for a move that's unlikely to shake the radical dems subversive efforts. the president fed up with rino to never trumper so get this today. the never trumper republicans though no

a senator, two senators that have a bill to allow the unending incarceration of my grandchildren, tillis and cruise and i believe that it was the bill that ha had 40 republican sponsors, essentially 40 republican sponsors giving a thumbs-up to reestablishing the system of internment camps in the united gate dates of americ. i couldn't believe that that so many would sign onto the vision. the policy was announced by jeff sessions, six months from the last election made immigration like the defining issue for the campaign. and if you think about it, i can characterize it this way. in general, republicans are trusted more on the national security issues than democrats. they voted for more defense spending and therefore they have a fear factor that will help them in the elections. they looked at the issues from two years earlier. evil i was no longer feasible because it wasn't scaring anyone anymore. it disappeared entirely reemerged in the remote section. isis have scared people but that's no longer was a factor because they were mostly out of the territory. the idea of crime didn't really

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senators john cornyn, ted cruz and tom tillis. thank you very much, fellows. thank you.] along with representative richard hudson for being here. a few other great politicians. we won't bother. we want to get on with this one. a very special things. a great honor. joining matt for this special ceremony, his father, his wife, his brother, sister. please stand up. please. thank you. great family. [applause] each of you has strengthened our nation through your steadfast love and support. we want to thank you. very special family. we're also honored to be in the presence of eight previous congressional medal of honor winners, recipients are here and i thought maybe we should -- what do you think? we should introduce them. what do you think? let's do that. william swinson. thank you. [applause] ronald shera. thank you. [applause] thank you, ronald. walter marm. hi, walter. [applause] robert foley. thank you. [applause] brian thacker. [applause] thank you very much. florent broberg. thank you. [applause] david belavia. [applause] i heard you maybe were running for office. some

late for many republicans, especially those vulnerable senators like cory gardner or susan or thom tillis. some of these republicans though they know they are stuck with trump. so the theater as we have mentioned before as an analogy, the audience that they are performing for is donald trump. >> hold on, wajahat. this is president trump addressing the never-trump republicans calling them human scum. go on, finish your -- >> exactly. so you got two choices now. you made a faustian bargain with trump. but you know a large part of your base loves him. they are going to ride or die with him. i mean that literally. so you're going to be matt gaetz. if he is your leader, you know you are already stuck. but they are going to come out and do this theater. they are going to fundraise off it. they are going to try to please trump. because if they get in trump's crosshairs, he is going to call them scum. john mccain is now trashed by the republican party. some of them are stuck. they are going to go all in and they are going to sink. but the other ones who are vulnerable are either going to retire l

>>they tilly a brutal daughter shelby called her and thursday they finally met along with her brotherily getting to know each other nearly 6 decades later. >>you know very emotional for sure. >>i don't sharing photos exchanging gifts and glasgow. family say they're grateful to finally find one another. my history of just always the horn until a 10 year-old detective used an app and everything fell into place i feel like this like doctor. >>that day a huge hole my heart. honestly just really thankful to god. >>i got really used me to help me find. >>in omaha emily, 10 sir. >>following is just around the corner that means chocolates, candy and those orange pumpkins along the jordan of kids will load up on the sweet stuff some won't be able to that's why the teal pumpkin project is raising awareness of kids deal with food allergies. encouraging families to put a teal pumpkin on their doorstep and instead of giving out thossweets, new small torts the group says it joined forces with other food allergy groups to boost this year's effort. off with some baseball playoff of drama alcs game 6

gardner in colorado to martha mcsally in arizona to joni ernst in iowa, susan collins in maine, to tom tillis in north carolina. it's not just their own political future at stake but control of the senate, which republicans could lose with three or four seats, something mcconnell is well aware of. >> what i want to do is spend our time accomplishing things for the american people. >> reporter: several congressional republicans we talked to complained that they're getting very little guidance from the white house. they decided at the white house not to set up a war room, despite an initial flirtation with that. instead, the emails and tweets and ads are coming out of the campaign, but people on the hill we talk to say that that's all well and good but with something this dire, it needs to come from the white house. dana bash, cnn, washington. >> okay. let's bring in cnn's chief media correspondent and anchor of "reliable sources" here on cnn, brian stelter. sarah, cnn reached out to 85 republican lawmakers in the house and the senate to see if they had concerns not only with ukraine but also w

for folks like cory gardener and susan collins and martha mcsally of arizona and tom tillis, how are they thinking? >> they feel a bit like i felt when kennedy resigned. >> that's a great comparison, yes. >> they know that this vote and this debate is going to be brutal for them in their home states. and i would throw jody erntz in there, too and even cornyn of texas. i think there are states going to be at play here. and they are going to be really torn because some of these have primaries. martha mcsally is a good example. on the other hand, if they criticized this active military man in his dress blues who only came before congress today for one reason, he believes the national security of our country was at risk, it had nothing to do with donald trump, nothing to do with helping democrats. it had to do with his assessment about the danger to national security. and anybody when goes after this guy i think is in political trouble. >> you know, when i covered capitol hill as sort of full time reporter one thing i learned is no one wants to take votes they don't need to take. you wan

. >> the challenge for joni ernst, cory gardner in colorado and tom tillis and carolina they are finishingst terms with shorter track records. but it isn't just republicans. alabama democrat doug jones on the ballot and pressuring to take a stand on impeachment. jones responded what i have seen so far, legitimate concern for national security and there appears to be evidence of abuse of power. democratic gary peters on the ballot in battleground michigan. >> they should be bipartisan. this is a very, very serious situation. >> its impact 2020 senate races could be minimal. >> when voters go to the pole in 2020, it is likely to be a referendum on the president and there is nothing an individual candidate can do about that. >> close to the purple, the impeachment is not the dominant topic of events back home. constituents need to stay focus on pocketbook issues at least for now, bret. >> bret: mike emanuel on the hill, thanks. a woman who worked with nbc at the social russia olympics claimed she was rape by matt lauer. he contends the encounter was consensual. a variety of reports bret nevel

tom tillis also 47%. remember, trump won arizona by about three points in 2016.orth carolina by a couple points in 2016. then you get to maine, susan collins, trump did not win maine and is sitting at 42% approval rating in maine right now. susan collins has survived some tough climates as a republican in maine before but a big question if the polarization has reached a level where the 42% drags her down in her re-election. cory gardner in colorado, the number even lower there. trump did not win colorado in 2016. gardner has to try to win re-election there. trump at 41%. these are four vulnerable republicans in states trump's approval is shaky or just not that good. one flip side to tell but quickly, keep in mind one democrat who is running for re-election in a state trump is popular, that's doug jones. he won that special election in alabama. that's why jones is considered probably the single most vulnerable out there. >> how important is the donald trump campaign getting onboard with those particular campaigns, those vulnerable senators? how much does the money

senate armed services committee member thom tillis with us now.thank you for taking the time. what do you think of these added sanctions senator graham wants? >> we are still starting the provisions of senator graham's bill. i spoke with him this morning. i spoke with the president and i'm convinced the president's prepared to go as far as he can with current executive authority to hold turkey accountable. >> neil: obviously lindsey graham, nancy pelosi and others for which this has bipartisan support felt the president didn't go far enough. do you think the president's move alone went far enough? >> i think it's a step in the right direction. we are concerned with some of the potential atrocities. we are concerned with the possible escalation. we have to keep in mind that turkey is a nato ally. i think the president is trying to strike a balance but i also think the president will move more with the authority he has. we have deceived the additional sanctions would be helpful. if they are, i'm prepared to support them. right now i also appreciate

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senator tillis has referred to me often as forrest gump because i tend to take every issue that i confront and refer back to the roman empire at least 19th century america. in fact, senator helms once confronted me and it was my first day of working for him and looked at my wake forest resume and said, son, that is a magnificent wake forest resume. politics and classics. you are qualified to be a tour guide in rome. [ laughter ] and have long conversations with 90-year-old priests, but let me go back to the 1890s. benjamin harrison was in the white house. nobody knows much about benjamin harris other than his claim to fame was that he served four years in between two non-successive terms of grover cleveland, but before he went back to indiana, he acknowledged something that began to bother him and he was a major general in the civil war. he'd noticed in the time between the end of the war and the time that he had been the governor of indiana and u.s. senator and then president that so many of the colleagues that he'd fought with were dying prematurely, not because of the diseases of the 19

it is to list -- it is tillis or one of the two georgia seats. democrats don't need a way to pick up two or three. but to get to four or five, they need a pretty good-sized wave. but what they need is a wave comparable to 2018. the thing is, what happened in 2018 is the suburbs were on fire. college-educated suburban voters , college-educated suburban women, they were on fire in 2018. and if they are on fire next november like they were last november, then suddenly the suburbs around charlotte, the research triangle, around atlanta, suddenly those become very winnable races. they need a wave to get a majority, but they don't need a wave to pick up a couple of seats. bill: to the chagrin of a lot of people in this room, you did not mention kentucky. [laughter] charlie: you know. watching amy mcgrath's race was a lot of fun. what was so fascinating about last year was it wasn't so much people that had worked their way up the political ladder that were doing well. it was people that were interesting, that had compelling personal narratives. it was o

. >> just watch out for those four republican senators, mcsally, tillis, collins, and gardener. for bringing your reporting to us. we appreciate it. >>> there are new details of allegations against matt lauer that have come out in a new book by ronan farrow. nbc news has not obtained a copy of "catch & kill" but the hollywood reporter has. the former nbc news employee shares troubling details about encounters she had with lauer in 2013. brooke nevils alleged lauer raped her and the details she describe are graphic. she told farrow it was nonconsensual in the sense that i was too drunk to consent. nevils worked for meredith vieira. she told her what happened and was urged to go to the human resources department. lauer was terminated a day later. lauer released an open letter today in which he denies the allegations. he writes in part there was nothing aggressive about that encounter. brooke did not do or say anything to object. she certainly did not cry. she was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. at no time did she behave in a way that made it appear that she was incapable

i am also on a bill that covers pre-existing conditions with tom tillis as well. there's a number of other bills that exist out there. point wheret to a the aca is repealed, it is going through the judicial system right now. happen, weuld never need to have our plans in place and ready to go and be ready for a full state again. i still think that invisible high risk pool is a way to do it, to make sure everyone is covered regardless if they are a diabetic, if they have autism, if they have fibromyalgia. you would be covered. i think that that is really important. i do support people with pre-existing conditions. i certainly wouldn't want to do that to my family members. i want to have a plan. i think my plan would work. >> [inaudible] we have, what, a year? everything sits. what will happen? >> they anticipate that next year, there would be a ruling on this. what we have already voted on, of course. .e also have our own task force we have a couple doctors in our republican caucus. all of the input that we have , from various doctors, hospital associations, and so

you look at people like tom tillis who has the worst numbers in the country right now maybe as bad as mitch mcconnell's even. you look at somebody like the senator from arizona who was appointed into john mccain's job in a state that's trendsing our direction. those people have very tough votes. he wants to get this out of the way. this impeachment vote will be touch. if it's a partisan vote in the house mitch mcconnell will try to make it partisan vote in the senate. but i'm hopeful that there will be republicans in the house that will do the right thing, and i'm hopeful there'll be enough in the senate that will look at this as a constitutional obligation and not a political exercise. >> i depot back to the old disney argument. it's what you do with what you got. and if all the democrats can do is impeach him, they should do it. josh, your thoughts. how far was bill taylor's brilliant testimony today, it was so dramatic. how far will this push the democrats to get the impeoplement aimpeachment articles before the floor? >> backed up by notes from the time this was happening and real

tillis, certainly a close state. to worry about general election implications here depending on how the politics play out. the flip side for them, though, they also have to worry potentially about primary challenges if they break with trump. so how do they balance that? but obviously these four come to mind. and then there's this group. paul kaine at "the washington post" wrote about this. you might think of these are sort of more elder statesmen types within the senate who don't have the worry about facing the voters again because lamar alexander not running for re-election next year, johnny izicson retiring at the end of this year. richard burr he's up in the year 2022 but he said that's it, i'm out in 2022. they're more institutionallist generally and there's this wild card group here. romney has been the most outspoken. being in utah insulates him because utah very rare among republican states. republican voters in utah very cool towards president trump. you don't see that in basically any other state but you do

cory gardner in colorado to martha sally in arizona, susan collins in maine, to thom tillis in north carolina. it's not just their own political future at state but control of the senate which republicans could lose with three or four seats. something mcconnell is well aware of. >> what i want to do is spend our time accomplishing things of the american people. >> okay. dana, great reporting. stay with us. we want to bring in cnn political analyst david gregory as well. dana, are you saying from your reporting, your conversations behind the scenes with republicans, that they are most upset about his lack of discipline in terms of the message and his profane reaction to some things? or the substance of what they read in the transcript of that phone call? >> look, all of the above. that's the truth. and it's also fea they just don't know what else the house democrats are going to uncover. so there's all of that. there's also the frustration that they're not getting enough information from the white house just about strategy. the white house made a decision even though they had a flirta

cory gardner, thom tillis.are also watching people like pat toomey of washington, someone who needs to be if he wants to keep winning in pennsylvania he is the kind of quiet senator along with rob portman of ohio who could be a problem for the white house if they feel like they cannot stick with this president. mcconnell's interesting. he gave a powerpoint presentation to a senator. he is taking the process seriously. you talk to house republicans on the phone, they say this is going to be a sham trial, it's fake news. then you talk to senate republicans and they say we have to be ready. >> it's so interesting to me that the sort of conventional wisdom and it's always wrong, has been that you'd never get 20. but i think what bob costa's reporting shows that it's a dynamic process. you don't know what you don't know because they don't know what they don't know. >> the white house hasn't given them any defense yet. >> but might that be because there isn't one? >> of course there is not. but the difference between

republicans, particularly those running for re-election like cory gardner, susan collins and tom tillis, get afraid and start to distance themselves from him. that's what doomed nixon, republicans who feared for their own political future. david lean hart, heidi przybilla, greg bower, thank you so much. >>> take a look at the stage in vegas. nine candidates taking part in a forum hosted by msnbc, march for our lives and the giffords organization. we'll head there live to craig melvin next. formula gets to work faster, making easy work of tough messes. dawn is a go-to grease-cleaner throughout the kitchen, too. keep a bottle in the laundry room to pre-treat greasy stains. and keep dawn in the garage to lift grease off car rims. it's even gentle enough to clean wildlife affected by oil. dawn's grease cleaning power takes care of tough grease wherever it shows up. scrub less, save more...with dawn liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, hmm. exactly. so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay fo

north carolina republican senator thom tillis. >> the charges that we've seen to me are specious, and i think we've got to continue to support the family. >> schifrin: new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen pushed erdogan for brunson's release. on october 12, 2018, he was released almost two years to the day after his arrest. last week i sat down with brunson and sheheen together in washington. >> we were arrested to be deported, and somebody decided to hold us, and i think that was to intimidate other missionaries so they would self-deport. at some point i became obviously a use for leverage to try to gain concessions from the u.s. >> schifrin: there is a human story and the god story. >> i was a hostaging but when god had completed what he wanted to through my imprisonment, then he caused my release. >> schifrin: the first night you describe being locked up behind a big metal door if a foreign country, hearing the keys turn and the bolt slam for the first time is sobering. it's a sudden loss of control and plunge into uncertainty. can you describe what that felt like? >> a

particular, i'm thinking people like susan collins of maine, and corey gardner of colorado, and tom tillis martha mcsally of arizona, four senators all running for re-election in 2020, all of which are states that are battleground states where impeachment is something where as we've seen in those recent national polls, impeachment support has in fact grown of late. and so they would all be in a really difficult position where they would have to sort of weigh support among the trump base, and against support among swing voters who may want to see them take a stronger stance on impeachment. it puts the squeeze on all of those senate republicans as they head into a very key battleground year. and in fact, even senate democrats of late, my colleagues have been reporting on the hill that senate democrats are giddy at the possibility that this gives them an opening to potentially flip the senate given that they only knee toledo seats to do so. >> we like to think that republicans or politicians and democrats in general may not necessarily be paying attention to polls or try to dismiss polls but

another area where senator thom tillis needs to win these suburban swing voters. favorable to republicans as they were in 2018. there are a lot more moderate states, a lot more states that are competitive at the national level. >> all right. something to watch. josh krausharr, thank you very much. you think, senate, judges, there's a whole host of powers that the senate has even when dysfunction rules in washington. >> that was fascinating. >>> we have this just into cnn. a last-minute settlement has been reached by some of the biggest makers of opioids in the country. this means a big case in ohio may be put on hold. we'll get you those details right after this. is just like our original sandwiches...only littler...so we bought a little ad...on lil jon. little johns, yeah! $3, what?! are you paying too much and getting too little with your current medicare plan? as a person with medicare, you have an important choice to make. you can purchase a separate drug plan for an additional cost, or you can choose a humana medicare advantage prescription drug plan. an affo

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