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Single-payer health care, high speed rail boondoggles. >> while not paying for their own infrastructure. >> look at what happened in vermont. single-payer ran into a brick wall because there was no way to pay part. its aspirational, not realistic. >> its a cartoon state right now pule will see how it ends. no federal bailouts please. >> bret: margaret thatchers that its always easy to spend someone elses money. panel, thank you. after a short break, a brand-new hour. we will have the latest from...

That have lined up right behind bernie sanders, i think that is the progressive litmus test. bernie sanders has pulled the party toward him. it is not hillary clintons party. you know it is not bill clintons party. this is a very different democratic party. it is much more progressive and i think they all think we all need street credibility if they want to play in 2020. and pushing for you notwithstanding the record that this thing happens. i mean we have the vermont experiments, we have the co...

That have lined up right behind bernie sanders, i think that is the progressive litmus test. bernie sanders has pulled the party toward him. it is not hillary clintons party. you know it is not bill clintons party. this is a very different democratic party. it is much more progressive and i think they all think we all need street credibility if they want to play in 2020. and pushing for you notwithstanding the record that this thing happens. i mean we have the vermont experiments, we have the co...

Will the school have the guts to stand up for free speech? alan dershowitz after the break. senator bernie sanders pushing health care for all, single-payer, including for illegal immigrants. well talk to one of his former staffers after that coming up. when itrust the brandtburn, doctors trust. nexium 24hr is the number one choice of doctors and pharmacists for their own frequent heartburn. and all day, all night protection. when it comes to heartburn, trust nexium 24hr. hi..and i know that we ...

Sing were not going to do this. or bernie sanders for instance with single-payer and then you have democrat leadership walking in back and saying maybe we shouldnt go there. there are some pretty deep divisions within democrat party. >> sandra: theres not a lot to lose here. theyve gone so far as resist, resist, resist, thats not working. >> juan: lets not lose focus on the dreamers, thats who this is about. its not about the politicians. i think feelings got hurt, but the reality is president t...

In that direction. to the degree certainly the base of the party has which is why president obama was cautious. >> sanders has offered single-payer legislation before. and as previously, the budget math inclined toward vagueness. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, the democratic leaders in the house and senate respectively, declined to endorse the standards measure with pelosi telling "the washington post" it wont be a litmus test for democrats in 2018. republicans were eager to portray it as such....

Democrats. >> we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. >> one-third of the senate democratic caucus has already signed onto the single-payer health care bill senator bernie sanders unveiled wednesday including most of the parties potential presidential aspirants. >> health care is a basic human right and we fight for basic human rights. >> this is the fight for our nation to live up to our ideals. >> its a better return on the investment for the american taxpayer. >> what a difference from...

Out basically accepting obamacare saying they want to fix it by sending much of it to the states. thats what we saw in the gram- gram-cassidy news conference today. then you see a lot of the democratic party coming out in favor of what hillary clinton rejected, single-payer, including elizabeth warren, kamala harris, cory booker, a number of the party starts and possible 2020 candidates. >> bret: a lot of republicans are weighing in and molly, here is senator cory gardner saying this is interest...

Grief. >> democrats believe that health care is a right for all and there are many different bills out there. there are many good ones. >> bret: single-payer is one of them. senator bernie sanders introducing. quinnipiac of replacing the current health care system with single bear. that idea, 38%. back a little ways, a question saying as the federal government responsible to say all americans have health care coverage and that was overwhelming. now you have democrats signing on, 16 of them suppo...

United front behind single-payer. they never have. if this idea came back during the obamacare debate, it didnt happen. if the democrats went in another direction. theres a sense of popularity around this idea if you frame it is medicare because medicare is a very popular program and people like that program more on it. i wont speak for everybody but most people who like the programmer on it. if you take a kernel of that idea, expanding medicare for people who are 60, 65, i think maybe thats an ...