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Fight for victory in november. we cant be complacent. what happens, historically, a tremendous o percentage of the time, you win the presidential election, you become complacent, youre happy. oh, we won, isnt it wonderful. then at another election comes up pretty quickly, two years, all of these congressmen can tell you, for senators, they like their term a little bit better. how about changingng some of thm to two years, too? i dont think is going to do. that will be a tough vote and assented, ...

Immediately repealingnd replacing the disaster known as obamacare. [ cheers and applause ] >> today rhetoric met reality for president trump and the republican party as a whole, a culmination of seven years worth of calls for repealing the affordable care act. joining me now, academy award winning documentary filmmaker and activist michael moore. michael, your reaction to what happened today. >> well, immediately the good news is that the millions of people who are beneficiaries of obamacare are...

>> well, immediately the good news is that the millions of people who are beneficiaries of obamacare are not going to be thrown out on the curb tonight or tomorrow night or any time soon so thats great news. everybody should feel good about that. but this is not the time for the democrats to gloat or throw some kind of party. theyre really good at throwing early parties like "yay, we won. wait a minute, we didnt?" this is the time we have to now double down because when -- please understand that...

Clinton was president what the right would be doing on this issue. this goes to the very core of our democracy. the second point, it gets back to this kellyanne conway nonsense. my boss likes to make the distinction between formal authority and moral authority. trump has formal authority. that stephen miller guy kept telling us, kellyanne conway keeps telling us, we won. get over it. trump has no moral authority. he has squandered his moral authority by repeatedly lying on issues of fact that we...

According to u.s. intelligence, the russians were involved in trying to influence this election, both through disinformation and also through those hacks, and giving information allegedly to wikileaks. so thats their posture. the trump campaign posture is, we won. so whatever you think of us, we won. and we beat back everybody. the media was its own pro-hillary clinton super pac. so -- and there really was no acknowledgement of any mistakes on either side. even though plenty of us in the audienc...

Americans find reprehensible and that sells baby parts and that was a major part of our -- >> thats been debunked. >> come on, steve. >> we won -- >> come on, steve. >> we won on that message. >> karen, set us straight, please. >> if i could get to what i think is the main point is that many times during the campaign it was unclear whether donald trump himself understood obamacare really worked. this is not the case with tom pris. he very much does understand it. he understands the mechanisms an...

Theyre recognized and that they have the dignity and integrity that they deserve. >> thats what its all about. its about the young people. they have to know who they are, they have to know who their families are, and cooper since hes started to understand things, never knew inequality. hundreds you mentioned earlier, even windsor, there have been hundreds who fought this fight long before we got involved. for us right now, were so proud of our son. were so proud that our son will have us both li...

Most of its tone. i didnt change vision and my strategy, but iwe had a positiv appealing notust to republicans but to democrats and independents and our sta ttisti show that. i mean, even in my own city romney lost by 100,000 votes but [we won. and i think that sets forth the and your fill oophy and your vision and your business philosophy in the right tone, i think that appeals to people across t board. >> governor-elect pat mccrory, again, congratulations. thanks f coming on this morning and ...

Passover about. >> i dont know that you want to put alex in that position. >> three sentences, they tried to kill us, we won, lets eat. >> so it begins again tonight, right? >> we celebrate freedom. snow you celebrate freedom? >> thats right. >> passover. >> lets get to the news, shall we? congress is turning its attention to the next potential faceoff in the budget fight. the debt ceiling vote. on the sunday shows, treasury secretary tim geithner warned lawmakers a failure to raise the debt lim...

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