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00:00:07.000According to the newly defanged former Democratic leader, she takes quote, absolute personal responsibility for her loss, but she adds that quote, I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28th and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off.
00:00:21.000If the election had been on October 27th, I would be your president.
00:00:24.000But aside from that, she takes responsibility.
00:00:27.000She also added that places that didn't vote for her couldn't get, quote, cell coverage for a mile.
00:01:12.000What's to stop her from running again?
00:01:14.000Herein lies the problem for the Democrats.
00:01:15.000All of their top names are old fogies with no youth appeal, other than the geriatrics nutso socialist who isn't technically a Democrat.
00:01:21.000Their youth movement, however, has no exact target.
00:01:24.000It's just a lot of people angry about a lot of different things, complaining about the evils of patriarchal, heterosexist, cis-normative society.
00:01:49.000I want to talk at length about Jimmy Kimmel's pitch for Obamacare last night on his program and what it meant to me, because I think I have some personal experience in this area that is relevant.
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00:03:10.000Okay, so the talk of the town yesterday was Jimmy Kimmel late night and he was telling a story about his son.
00:03:17.000He has a newborn son who tragically has a heart condition and he was brought to Children's Hospital.
00:03:23.000He had to have emergency heart surgery.
00:03:24.000I guess he was born maybe at Children's Hospital or at least they transferred him over there.
00:03:27.000And Jimmy Kimmel tells this story and then he turns it into a pitch for Obamacare.
00:03:30.000And I want to talk about this because I have some personal thoughts on the matter.
00:03:34.000A little over a week ago on Friday, April 21st, my wife, Molly, gave birth to a boy, a baby boy, and he appeared to be a normal, healthy baby until about three hours after he was born, when a very attentive nurse at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, her name is Ninoosh, was checking him out and heard a murmur in his heart, which is common with newborn babies, but she also noticed he was a bit purple.
00:04:00.000They did an x-ray, and his lungs were fine, which meant his heart wasn't.
00:04:04.000So now more doctors and nurses and equipment come in and it's a terrifying thing.
00:04:13.000You know, my wife is back in the recovery room.
00:04:18.000And I'm standing in the middle of a lot of very worried-looking people, kind of like right now, who are trying to figure out what the problem is.
00:04:26.000It's Friday night, and so they call a pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Eben Zahn.
00:04:31.000They did an echocardiogram, which is a sonogram of the heart, and found that Billy was born with a heart disease.
00:04:44.000Something called Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia.
00:04:49.000Basically, the pulmonary valve was completely blocked, and he has a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart.
00:04:58.000And then they brought my wife in, and they wheeled her in, and Dr. Zahn told her what was going on and what our options were, and we decided to take him to Children's Hospital, where there's a world-renowned cardiac surgeon who is by
00:05:48.000President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institute of Health.
00:05:54.000And thank God our congressman made a deal last night to not go along with that.
00:05:58.000They actually increased funding by $2 billion.
00:06:01.000The people who have been affected by those cuts in the National Institute of Health are children, and it would have a major impact on a lot of great places, including Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, which is so unbelievably sad to me.
00:06:13.000We were brought up to believe that we live in the greatest country in the world, but until a few years ago, millions and millions of us had no access to health insurance at all.
00:06:23.000You know, before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition.
00:06:32.000You were born with a pre-existing condition.
00:06:35.000If your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition.
00:06:42.000If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to,
00:06:45.000It shouldn't matter how much money you make.
00:06:48.000I think that's something that, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right?
00:06:55.000Okay, so, I have some experiences here and I want to talk about them.
00:06:58.000And I don't really talk about this a lot because I don't like to make my family life
00:07:01.000An issue on the show and in politics generally.
00:07:33.000And one of the tests they do is they run an EKG on her.
00:07:36.000And they say the EKG looks basically normal, but we just want to have some follow-ups and send us to a cardiologist.
00:07:41.000And the cardiologist takes a second look and does an ultrasound and then tells us that
00:07:46.000She has a heart murmur, not just a heart murmur, it's actually such a large hole in her heart, she had an atrial septal defection, ASD, and she had a heart murmur that was so, you couldn't even hear it because the hole in her heart was so large that you couldn't actually, normally the heart murmur comes from, you hear the blood flowing the wrong way through the heart, you couldn't hear it because the hole was so large in her heart.
00:08:06.000So, in August of last year, she had to, or August of 2015 rather, she had to have open heart surgery.
00:08:13.000The surgeon was Dr. Vaughn Starnes, exactly the same surgeon who worked on Jimmy Kimmel's kid.
00:08:17.000It was at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
00:08:19.000Could not be more grateful to Children's Hospital LA, or Dr. Starnes, who is indeed the master of his craft.
00:08:25.000There's a reason he's the best in the world, and we were lucky enough to be able to work with him, and he obviously did the work, and saved our daughter's life.
00:08:33.000I mean, she wouldn't have died immediately.
00:08:34.000It wasn't like an emergency situation quite as much as Jimmy Kimmel's kid, it sounds like.
00:08:39.000But she would have had failure to thrive as she got older.
00:08:40.000She would have had to have open heart surgery.
00:08:43.000If they hadn't detected it, it would have shortened her lifespan to, you know, 30 or 40.
00:08:49.000Thank God everything is fine and she's great.
00:08:52.000The reason that I tell this story is because when Jimmy Kimmel starts talking about the National Institutes for Health and federal funding and health insurance and all the rest of this, the reason that I was able to get great coverage for my kid is because I was employed and also because my wife and I had health insurance long before we had a kid.
00:09:10.000He's missing a couple of key points here and I wanted to establish sort of the bonafides here.
00:09:15.000So when I'm speaking about this, I'm not speaking from the perspective of someone who hasn't experienced nearly identically what Jimmy Kimmel has experienced here.
00:09:24.000I mean, you go and you meet with the doctor and the doctor tells you your kid, you know, even if the doctor says it's a surgery that's done regularly, it's still frightening as all hell because they're cracking open your kid's chest and cutting her open and, you know, it was
00:09:37.000I don't like the process, as a general rule, I don't like the process of using personal stories like this to push for legislation or to push for public policy because it doesn't necessarily follow.
00:10:01.000And what I mean by this is, again, Dr. Starnes, great doctor.
00:10:05.000Most of the people, when we were in Children's Hospital during the recovery, when we were in the ICU for about a week, when we were in Children's Hospital, most of the people who were in Children's Hospital, and I know this because my wife rotated through Children's Hospital because she's a doctor in the LA area,
00:10:17.000A huge number of the kids in Children's Hospital are not kids who have great insurance.
00:10:22.000Many of them don't have any insurance.
00:10:23.000The fact is that in the United States of America, if you have an emergency situation like Jimmy Kimmel had, let's just assume this happened at Cedars-Sinai, again, where my wife gave birth.
00:10:31.000Let's assume that the exact same situation happened, but there was no insurance.
00:10:34.000And the doctor spotted that there was this emergency surgery that had to happen in order to prolong the child's life.
00:10:53.000We've given charity to Children's Hospital.
00:10:55.000People, there's a whole wall, an entire wall in Children's Hospital that is just names of celebrities who have given money to Children's Hospital to help support Children's Hospital.
00:11:04.000People are generous with their giving.
00:11:05.000People want to save people who are in need.
00:11:31.000That's why costs are passed on very often through a backdoor method via the hospital to people who do have insurance.
00:11:37.000But it does say that it is a mistake as a society to simply say to people that there is no moral responsibility to get health insurance while you're healthy and while you don't have health problems.
00:11:47.000Because if you don't do that, if you just say whenever you get sick you can immediately take advantage of the system,
00:11:52.000People will wait to get sick to take advantage of the system and you'll end up bankrupting the system.
00:11:57.000The reason the Children's is so great is because children get paid lots of money.
00:12:00.000They get paid lots and lots and lots of money to do these sorts of things.
00:12:03.000Dr. Starnes, I'm sure, earns millions of dollars a year and he deserves every penny that he makes and he's able to do that because there are people paying voluntarily
00:12:47.000But to use a personal situation that is really difficult and heartbreaking in order to promulgate a public policy that actually doesn't achieve what you're seeking to achieve.
00:13:00.000Children's Hospital could not be what Children's Hospital is if it existed as a public sector hospital unless you were willing to tax people up the wazoo and that sort of taxation scheme bankrupts countries and doesn't provide the same care anyway.
00:13:12.000Look at the National Health Service in Britain or the Nationalized Healthcare Service in Canada.
00:13:17.000This is... I have nothing but sympathy for Jimmy Kimmel because I've been through, as I say, exactly the same thing.
00:13:25.000And that heartbreak should not be used as a political tool in order to push a political agenda.
00:13:30.000And I'm sure that Jimmy Kimmel believes every word that he's saying.
00:13:33.000But funding for the National Institutes of Health has nothing to do with what happened here.
00:13:37.000Again, the American people are insanely generous.
00:13:39.000The amount of research that goes into the sorts of techniques that Dr. Sarnes used is tremendous, and it's not from the public sector in the most part.
00:13:47.000It's actually from the private sector.
00:13:48.000Okay, so I wanted to get that out of the way.
00:13:50.000Before I go on here, I want to talk about May Day and what the left is showing of itself, and then I want to talk about the Trump budget.
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00:15:16.000Okay, so, yesterday was, of course, May Day.
00:15:19.000The winning internet meme of the day goes, of course, to Justin Timberlake, who immediately tweeted out, hey guys, it's May.
00:15:25.000Which is amazing for people who don't remember the days of NSYNC and it's May, then you've missed out.
00:15:33.000In any case, the communists on May Day decided that it was a perfect time to go out and rampage and loot things, demonstrating, of course, that tolerance is the greatest attribute of the people on the left.
00:15:43.000Here's what it looked like at the protest in Portland.
00:15:46.000Breaking news, May Day protests going on right now in several cities including Los Angeles and Washington State.
00:15:51.000Things have started getting violent in Portland.
00:15:53.000We're seeing pictures of several disturbances just in the last several minutes.
00:15:57.000We should tell you, the official protest there, May Day protest, was actually cancelled by police because, police say, of the presence and the behavior of what they described as anarchists.
00:16:10.000We've been watching now over the last several minutes a group of anywhere from a hundred or more
00:16:16.000People, many of them dressed in black.
00:16:23.000So the May Day folks, all the communists really demonstrating what kind of society they would like to build if they had the opportunity or the society they would like to destroy if they had the opportunity.
00:16:31.000Every year in Seattle they have May Day violence and people throw things through windows and they protest against capitalism.
00:16:37.000May Day I think is a good time for us to remember
00:16:40.000Let's say the hundred million people who died due to communism over the course of the 20th century.
00:16:44.000I thought that the most amazing picture was from Venezuela on May Day.
00:16:47.000There was some woman holding a May Day bag while waiting in line for a loaf of bread, which pretty much sums up the entire May Day thing.
00:16:54.000The left keeps paying tribute to May Day.
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