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But its not socialism. >> remember, politics about persuasion. labels matter. >> before we go there, let me be extremely clear. stacey abrams talked about taking care of individuals from the cradle to the career. thats not socialism, thats what america should be. >> stacey abrams says shes for medicare for all as a starting point. single payer, medicare for all, is a starting point. if thats not socialism. you have kamala harris saying -- >> her name is kamala.

>> sorry. kamala saying well eliminate whole segments of the health care system. >> she pulled back from that. >> but, chris, people will run back from that. listen, its not like -- >> is social security socialism? >> were talking about something completely different. dont get off the topic. single payer, medicare for all, is a socialism form of government. yes, it is. >> my question to you, david, as we move forward, a lot of these ideas are not new. the fact is, people pay into social security...

Point. >> here we are. thats what kamala harris and that town hall -- lets just eliminate it, lets move on. well go to single-payer. thats where the energy in the party is even broadly popular among some republicans but certainly among democrats, 70 plus percent are in favor of medicare for all or single-payer. if you call it single-payer, it goes down about ten points. medicare for all is a wonderfully packaged praise. if you ask people in polls how are you going to pay for it, and taxes go dow...

Affordable care act and we are way into this. the only person besides michael bloomberg that would be defending it would be joe biden would if he decides to get in. lets stop talking about medicare for all, lets talk about making the affordable care act better and this is a challenge. 51% of democrats say they wish, they want democrats to focus on fixing the affordable care act, 38% said they want democrats to focus on medicare for all. >> bret: i want to take everybody in the time machine back ...

Policies like single-payer. with terrifying about this to me is that the fact that these policies are popular with the majority of americans we look at polling. when you look at democrats, axios data poll the of a day showing recently that the majority of democrats embraced socialism. they have a viewpoint of socialism. you look at alexandria ocasio-cortez, shes wanting to increase the marginal tax rate to 70%. the majority of americans support that. look at sing a pair, the marjorie of american...

In the wrong areas. just give me some examples. >> i think in some ways when it comes to healthcare theres this notion of any framework moving more toward single-payer which is nationalized healthcare, we really have sisters who cruised on the private sector and freedom of choice and americans being able to choose what works for them, and when government gets involved in anything, it makes it wort worse. any compromise means more government and the president has to stand against that. hes the pr...

In the wrong areas. just give me some examples. >> i think in some ways when it comes to healthcare theres this notion of any framework moving more toward single-payer which is nationalized healthcare, we really have sisters who cruised on the private sector and freedom of choice and americans being able to choose what works for them, and when government gets involved in anything, it makes it wort worse. any compromise means more government and the president has to stand against that. hes the pr...

Political cowardice. >> donald trump is a job loser. >> the debate on health care is like death. i wanted -- i would love a single-payer, but we are not there. in terms of the bonus that corporate america receives, versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on, is so pathetic. so what? they are going to say, you give them bump stocks, it is going to be a slippery slope? i certainly hope so. the priorities of the american people, they are not what president bush -- excu...

Of political cowardice. >> donald trump is a job loser. >> the debate on health care like death. i wanted -- i would love a single-payer, but we are not there. in terms of the bonus that corporate america receives, versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on, is so pathetic. they are going to say, you give them stock, it is going to be a slippery slope? i certainly hope so. the priorities of the american people, they are not what president bush -- excuse me -- im so ...

Ridiculous comment about rape, closing weeks of election, skated through. all through the summer months. trying to be ahead in the polls, since september. complete reversal hawley. now the racial is essentially a dead-heat. this is example of a state, talking about republican closing arguments earlier. democrat closing arguments in places like health care. theyre trying to harp on the fact that democrats, republicans said they would repeal and replace obamacare. they have not done that. so she i...