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But it's 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. that's not socialism, that's what america should be. >> stacey abrams says she's for medicare for all as a starting point. single payer, medicare for all, is a starting point. if that's not socialism. you have kamala harris saying -- >> her name is kamala.

>> sorry. kamala saying we'll eliminate whole segments of the health care system. >> she pulled back from that. >> but, chris, people will run back from that. listen, it's not like -- >> is social security socialism? >> we're talking about something completely different. don't 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. >> i'm not talking about social security. stay on the topic. stay down the middle here. it's n...

Point. >> here we are. that's what kamala harris and that town hall -- let's just eliminate it, let's move on. we'll go to single-payer. that's 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 down even further. democrats are going to want to figure out what they have to go for and explaine...

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. let's stop talking about medicare for all, let's 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 to the time when obamacare was being put up for a boat. i interviewed president obama at the time,...

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, she's wanting to increase the marginal tax rate to 70%. the majority of americans support that. look at sing a pair, the marjorie of americans support that. the only up is when you get into the details, like kaiser pointed out. when you get...