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Were getting higher ratings on this press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping these? >> no we would do them in a different way through a piece of paper with a perfectly accurate beautiful answer. ill give you an example. they are asked 100 questions or 50 questions are 20 questions, it may get one out of 50 just a little bit off, fiber 20% off. the next day its the front page story in every newspaper. so, press conferences were not even covered for obama practically. there on c...

Were getting higher ratings on this press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping these? >> no we would do them in a different way through a piece of paper with a perfectly accurate beautiful answer. ill give you an example. they are asked 100 questions or 50 questions are 20 questions, it may get one out of 50 just a little bit off, fiber 20% off. the next day its the front page story in every newspaper. so, press conferences were not even covered for obama practically. there on c...

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A moderate like dan donovan who said i cant get behind this. the tax credit for people, help paying for -- helping pay for premiums. premiums is not there you also have a new york congressman who is not behind it. so you have a lot of people that just wont answer when theyre asked go to be -- asked how they are going to vote. too much a risk so they wont put it forward. which means they have got to make it changes if it is indeed possible to satisfy moderate republicans and conservative republic...

For them, not the plan forced on them by government. you all remember you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan, and i know greg, youve never heard of that, right? it was said many, many times and it turned out to be not true. this is the time were going to get it done. were working together. we have some great results. we have tremendous spirit, and i think its something thats going to happen very shortly, so thank you all very much. were going to get to work. >> thank you, press. >> mr....

And protected by the first amendment. >> when is the last time this happened, that the president decided not to come? >> my understanding is that the last time a president did not attend was the correspondents dinner was president reagan in the early 1980s after he was shot. >> thats obviously a very different situation. so youre highlighting that this is about scholarships. it certainly is but it has become this sort of huge spectacle to the point where people look forward to watching c-span fo...

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C-span junkies maybe tuning into this jeff sessions debate that goes on for hours and hours and days even in this case. but by shutting her down, theyve essentially given her a platform. you have to wonder the strategy, if there was one behind this for republicans, theyve certainly galvanized elizabeth warren and her politics. >> yeah, was that a tactical error by senator mitch mcconnell? >> well have to see, you got to wonder what was going on in his mind while doing that. especially since she ...

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Thats why the pool camera that we were all watching the hearing on, the pool camera went to that green screen because that camera lost power just as all the lights went out and the hearing went into chaos. have you ever been really, really deeply asleep but in a place where you maybe didnt expect to be asleep and then you get woken up and you have no idea that you had been asleep and you dont really know where you are and its kind of disorienting. this has happened to me like when ive fallen asl...