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Medicaid. raise your hand. >> someone we know or love, absolutely. >> nearly every hand in that room went up. 50% of the people in the county are on medicaid. many people who depend on medicaid who in some cases would literally die without it are trump voters, people like philip lucian, a coal miner who only recently found a job in the mines. >> ive been underground for ten years and then got laid off, had to take a secondary job that doesnt pay, doesnt have hospitalization or nothing. now i hav...

Which we could find savings by scaling sort of things up, looking at pharmaceuticals. lets do that rather than just saying were going to take literally hundreds of thousands of people off of health care coverage. leland: as you know, governor, as a former small business owner, manager of a group hub, theres no such thing as a free lunch. health care is one of the most expensive parts of the american economy. the cost of health care keeps going up. and every time you get in the situation where re...

That the reason people like obamacare is that it provides them access to care that they didnt have previously. if youre going to talk about reforming health care, lets be clear. even barack obama himself said that obamacare, the affordable care act is not perfect and its going to be retooled and tweaked over time. no legislation is perfect when it comes out the door. what we have right now is on health care bill, its a tax bill at the end of the day. once again, as most tax bills due under conse...

What happens is if its a bad bill, whether its on our side of the aisle or the democrats side of the aisle, im going to stand with the american people. donald trump and i are not at odds. we want to make sure that we repeal the affordable care act and replace it with something that drives down health care costs and insurance premiums, and this doesnt do it, jake. and, so, when you put those slides up, that doesnt do anything to compel people to look at this. these are principled decisions. we ha...

Said this would permanently fix the problem of the working poor. is it madness or brilliance? professor paul joins us tonight from raleigh, north carolina. take you for coming on. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >> tucker: im not here to attack you. there is a huge problem as we transition out of an industrial economy for what people do for a living. the first thing that bothers me aboutt your idea, though, it dos seem like giving up. it feels like admitting that people will not be integrate...

Wants one, this would permanently fix the problem of the working poor. is this madness or brilliance, may be both? professor paul joins us from raleigh north carolina, thanks for coming on. im not here to attack you, i think there is a huge problem as we transition out of an industrial economy with what people do for a living, the first things that bothers me about your idea does seem like giving up. it feels like admitting that some people are never going to be integrated into whatever the new ...

Won the electoral college, and he will be sworn it as our president, but he made certain promises on that campaign trail. he said he promised to protect social security and medicare. he promised to help the working poor and the working class in this country, and there are millions of people who are depending on him to do just that. he can get it done. he must resist not doing those things, and if he does not do what he promised he has to be held accountable, but i am holding out some hope that h...

Democratic solidifiation. i think it does -- people are always looking for change and improvement over what they just experienced because no single leader and no party is able to fix all of the ills that they are experiencing, and theres a lot of impatience that is understandable out there. >> j.d., your family in the rest but, the poor, the working poor, or working class at best, how are they feeling today? are they hopeful we turned a page? are they jaded? what is their feeling as we approach ...

Blue-collar advocate in chief. >> how is that different from being the green advocate in chief that barack obama was? >> in the case of gm and ford, they are making a decision to produce here in the united states or produce off the shores of united states. the president-elect or president obama was making a decision about the environment. in this case, its focused on american workers, megyn, and working cost of wages. >> megyn: so the priority is not the philosophy, its the priority. >> what we ...

States of moral revival and one thing we found is that people recognize that we need a moral reset in this country. something that says that more moral issues than homosexuality and the prayer in schools. we talk about putting people out of the country than welcoming them in, rolling back health care, rather than providing health care and more than giving wages to the working poor and more about voter suppression policies than fixing those and nuclear weapons than peace, we have a moral crisis, ...