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James Lankford: “Minnesota. We now know there's billions of dollars in fraud…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Joins Mornings with Maria

Published | Video Starts at 05:47

How come fraud is so significant within Medicaid? And what do you want to say about this in Minnesota specifically? Yeah, Minnesota. We now know there's billions of dollars in fraud that has been committed. And the state of Minnesota just looked the other direction thinking these are federal tax dollars coming in. So I don't care as long as the money is coming into the state. (05:47–05:52)

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