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I think thats really what were talking about here. to this point, the trump presidency has been a lot more existential. there hasnt been a lot thats affected people on a very human, personal level, and now were talking about peoples health care and there will actually be consequences if this bill is passed and if the repeal obamacare is actually signed into law by president trump. then a year and a half from now, when people are going to be voting again en masse, there will be real consequences ...

Necessarily, could be able to make hay out of that. this doesnt feel like smart politics but its much crueller public policy. >> its real hi completely intellectually dishonest. remember the premise when we started way back? it was that the obamacare exchanges were not doing well enough, that they were dying, they were in a death spiral. put off to the side thats whats going on around the countrys not true for just a moment. what does cutting medicaid and giving money to the very rich have to do...

Republicans are adaptable, learn about the politics piece. governing part, eh, the politics part theyre good at. donald trump has picked up the ball. michael, give him credit, he started this idea. you tag her, shes the leader, boss of the democratic party, shes the face. heres donald trump picking up the ball, taunting democrats with it in a way of talking to republicans. >> i hope she doesnt step down. i think it would be a sad day for republicans if she steps down. i would be very, very disap...

Were not going to hurt people, we wont have coverage. if you look at states that took the deal, took the expansion, thats theoretically where the trump base lives. so you have states like arizona, arkansas, colorado, indiana, iowa, where he keeps going, kentucky which actually expanded and the new governor kind of pulled it back. louisiana, montana, ohio, where rob portman has to make a decision, go back to that list of republicans if we could from the expansion states. so, curt, those republica...

Means sometimes we have to take into account the demographic composition of districts, voting patterns in districts. thats fine and required by federal law. whats not perfemissible is whe you lock one party into power, doesnt matter how many votes one party gets, they always get a majority of seats. >> the other thing happening at the same time you have gerrymandering, locking republicans into power for decades, a decade, how long since this span is, you also have a new wave of voter suppression...

Hoeg, director of aclu voting rights project. thank you, dale, for being here. explain the case before the supreme court. >> this is a case challenging the redistricting maps in wisconsin. you mention disparity between national vote and representation in congress. wisconsin is a very extreme case. in wisconsin, republicans got about 49% of votes for the state legislature in 2012, got 60% of the seats. a massive disparity. get this. in 2014, a few years later, republicans actually got a majority ...

But its not yet clear if it has enough support to pass. so far five gop senators have come out against the bill as it is now, four because it doesnt go far enough in rolling back obamacare and one because it goes too far. now, just so that youre prepared, know that washington and the media are going to spend much of the next week obsessing over process, wloefr these five senators will come around to help give donald trump his first major legislative win. so its important that while this is going...

Answer whether or not hed vote for the bill. do you happen to know if he will? >> i obviously dont speak for him. our relationship is good. we fundamentally disagree on rollback of medicaid. im with governor kasich on this, a republican governor in ohio, who expanded under the affordable care act we gave him the opportunity to expand medicaid, he did, to 700,000 people. the key number in ohio and it shows the heartbreak in how sad this is and what a public health challenge it is, 200,000 people ...

Some of the more honest republicans are actually kind of admitting it. at the same time that this bill slashes funding for medicaid, a program that covers 1 in 5 americans, including 3 in 5 disabled children, it cuts a trillion dollars in taxes with two-fifths going to the wealthiest 1%. 2 out of every 5 dollars. republicans know that. its their bill. and presumably the white house knows it too. including the fact that americans hate this bill. which may be why this week we were treated to an in...

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