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Lose their health insurance. premiums are going to soar. theyre going to defund planned parenthood, deny over 2 million women the right to choose the health care that they need. theyre going to decimate medicaid. >> very clear here, jess, hes taing about ho this proposed bill will affect women. hes talking about planned parenthood. whats your thought on what hes saying? >> there is a reason every time republicans go after planned parenthood it backfires spectacularly. its considerably more popul...

Not just politically, but messing with health care is messing with peoples lives. so this is sort of become the new third rail. we used to talk about social security as a third rail of american politics. i think obamacare is the new third rail in republican politics right now. >> and robert, while were burning the rule book of past behavior, presidents used to go out -- we touched on this in the first segment and sell big initiative. sell big ideas. especially early on and especially after eithe...

And speaker ryan says hes not giving up. he did in a breakfast with reporters make a distinction between long-term entitlement reform so what happens to people who are not at or near retirement age as opposed to those who are close to retirement age. that is a distinction that has almost always been made in this policy fight. nobody has ever said i want to grab that third rail of medicare reform and tackke a bunch of people already relying on medicare and change their benefits. weve always been ...

Bedrock of freedom and liberty, is now controversial. and i thought to myself just because prior administrations, for a long time -- and its transcended political parties -- werent enforcing our borders, werent protecting our borders, werent enforcing the immigration statutes on the books, now all of a sudden president trump comes along, and he told us what he was going to do with existing law. he didnt make any new law, and now all of a sudden that becomes controversial. just because it wasnt i...

And keep in mind, it took obama and the democrats a year and a half to get obamacare in place. its very hard to repeal those things and change those things. and as were just starting this process, to think that were going to get to a magic finish line very quickly is difficult. theres a reason that we call social security and medicare third rail issues that youre not even allowed to touch or talk about. >> its fearmongering terrified. >> sure, theres fearmongering going on. >> ben, please unders...

Pick said thanks, but no thanks, to a job thats a bit of a third rail. ben chang joins us now. >> good to see you, thanks for having me on. leland: does it make sense to you that these two top generals who served their countries and obviously different circumstances with david petraeus, but mr. hayward, a longstanding million the man who turn down the job when the president says i need you to serve your country? >> its a demanding job and frankly misunderstood whether its here in washington or o...

America and then to st. louis to start anheuser-busch. is there a risk for companies when even inadvertently you begin touching on political third rails? >> there is always a risk of alienating a consumer. consumer. you have over 100 million people watching the super bowl. theres are is a risk if you make any pinnacle statement that youre going to alienate some of your consumers. i think budweiser was interesting because they wanted to go out with a story of the american dream and working hard t...

Obamacare, fine. where wha are you going to replace it with and who are you going to care about? are you going to care about people who are on medicaid? do you want to block grant medicaid or not? and so there -- you know, theyre establishing a storyline here with all of the nominees theyre going through. and its something thats going to continue as you go through the legislative process, particularly as it applies to obamacare because the democrats believe, and i was saying this before, that th...

>> upchuck, am i right? >> youre right. the communication styles are so radically different. for 16 months, 18 months, people were -- even if they didnt want to vote for him they were entertained by donald trump who doesnt have to speak from a teleprompter. i think more democrats focus on him using twitter and urge them to stop it, hes going to keep doing it because its his most effective tool. why would you do away with their most effective tool? i think if the democrats want to beat him, they ...

>> concern for my children. >> i am worried about everyone. >> the majority of americans did not vote for racism, sexism, xenophobia. >> we demand that you vigorously oppose him. >> we demand -- we want you to know we are with you. >> oh, i want to throw up. that is humanity for progress. seems as legit as good people for peace. typical, the demonizing left, humanity for progress suggests anyone who disagrees must be inhuman or against progress. they are worried. can you blame them? donald trump...