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Conspiracy land podcast. great to see you. lets get to this article in "the atlantic" in which peter biner says if donald trump and his supporters werent so fond of conspiracy theories, the ukraine scandal would never have unfolded as it did. do you agree with that? >> yeah, probably. look, you go back to the transcripts of the phone call, and it starts with this word salad from the president, after he says i want you to do me a favor, though, about crowd strike, the ukrainian -- the dnc server ...

President trump says a bill to replace obamacare is getting very close but senate republicans put off a vote until after the july fourth recess. lets discuss now. scott jennings is here a former special assistant to president george w. bush. doug high and peter biner. good to see all of you. president trump blaming democrats for todays stall health care vote. heres what he tweeted. and a failed expensive and dangerous obamacare, the republican senators are working hard. is he forgetting its repu...

Appreciate that. >> im not saying who. >> and they do go to the gym in the morning, i here. >> absolutely. >> chaffetz says this is going to cost taxpayers less because then he wouldnt fly to utah as often. does he have a point, peter? >> if the governments priorities were not so out of whack in so many other ways, if we didnt have a congress that was trying to hurt the weakest of americans in order to create, you know, huge tax breaks for the very rich, then i think you could have a conversatio...

Back now with my panel. peter biner, i so rudely interrupted you. you wanted to respond to something scott was saying. >> yeah. i was going to say that one of the really key things to notice with senator heller and senator portman in ohio has been the role of republican governors who have taken this medicaid money. i think theyre some of the heroes of this story. they have put ideology aside and recognize that the medicaid money is proving really vital to their people, especially states like ohi...

To do it. >> im sure, doug, they dont appreciate that. and i hear they go to the gym in the morning. >> absolutely. >> chaffetz says this is going to cost taxpayers less because then he wouldnt fly to utah as often. does he have a point, peter? >> if the governments priorities were not so out of wack in so many other ways. if we didnt have a congress that was trying to hurt the weakest of americans in order to create huge tax breaks for the very rich, then i think you could have a conversation a...

You dont whknow what his motivations are and thats beyond the pale. >> peter, hold on. i understand, but there are other people on the panel. quickly, go ahead. >> the peace process makes it much harder for the palestinians to come back and negotiate when they think they can get a stay through the u.n. >> first of all, with all due respect, youre both wrong. this is not unprecedented. the bush administration, at the very end of george w. bushs term, abstained from a u.n. resolution on benghazi. ...

Perhaps, barring muslims that would help their recruitment. and, you know, in germany just, what, two months ago, you had an incident where the german authorities were desperately searching for a terrorist, and it was other syrian refugees who found that person, called the police, the police couldnt understand their broken german, so they took a picture -- they tied him up and took a picture and walked him down to the police station and showed him who they had in their apartment. so the risks ar...

Declare big governments war on poverty a failure? >> michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. its high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these ki...

Declare big governments war on poverty a failure? >> michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. its high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these ki...

We need much better medical care. you know, we gave the elderly as peter said social security and medicare. but were still struggling to help the working class get good health care. so, yes, the economy has changed. and we need a stronger social safety net. >> very quickly, peter, you wrote recently about john edwards, interestingly, being ahead of his time on this issue. who picks up that mantle going forward in your estimation? >> well, bill de blasio has picked it up in new york, proposing un...