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Summary
Bill Maher has become Christianity s unlikely defender, Uma Avedine is working hard on her marriage after being burned by him 4 times, Steve Bannon thought he could bully the Republicans on health care, but now what happens? Donald Trump said it was the Freedom Caucus that stopped it, but only 15 Republicans voted against it.
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Bill Maher has become Christianity's unlikely defender.
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I don't know if you heard what he said this weekend.
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She's working hard on her marriage after being burned by him four separate times,
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because apparently when things get troublesome, he moves back in with his mom.
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You're also 10 human body modifications you can begin to expect in the next decade.
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Also, another story that kind of relates to it.
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Silicon Valley would rather cure death than make life worth living.
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The people who are diehard trying to eliminate all death in Silicon Valley.
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When it comes to politics, Steve Bannon thought he could bully the Republicans on health care.
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Donald Trump said it was the Freedom Caucus that stopped it,
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but the Freedom Caucus only had 15 members vote against it.
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The Republicans had 18 members vote against it.
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And the president is now saying that he's going to be moving left towards the Democrats.
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We have to shore up our principles and know where we stand on things.
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And I want to talk to you a little bit about that today.
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I want to go over something with Ted Koppel because he's blaming,
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well, as Hannity will point out, he's blaming Hannity for culture.
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But Ted Koppel is also blaming something else for what's happening in our world.
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And we have to decide what our principles are because our principles are under attack.
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You heard an interview with Ted Poe today saying again that it was the conservatives that blew Obamacare, right?
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Ted Poe is a congressman from Houston and has always been very conservative.
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And up until today, a member of the Freedom Caucus.
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But he has withdrawn his membership because he's upset that people said no.
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But they had a right to vote the other way in the Freedom Caucus.
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The Freedom Caucus said, we understand if you need to go the other direction, go the other direction.
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And again, and obviously there was not actually a vote held, but Poe was going to vote yes on the bill.
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And, you know, he said that we just can't be a party of no.
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We can't be a party who just disagrees just because we disagree.
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Here is what I really believe we have to state over and over again for anyone who wants to blame the Freedom Caucus or anybody else.
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Why did they not use the bill that went through the House 60 times?
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Because they would have taken the bill that they had passed 60 times while they were asking for your vote and support.
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And they would have reintroduced that bill and passed it again.
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Because I don't need to say this again, but may I?
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The only reason they passed it is because they were lying to you about what they really believed.
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They pass it when they know it won't go to the president for his signature.
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Because they're all too afraid to reverse free stuff that Obama gave them.
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And then the other thing we're right about is now,
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Donald Trump looks to the left and looks to the Democrats for support.
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he's disgusted by the conservatives in the House.
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Well, what are you going to get if you are now bringing the Democrats on board
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So, imagine if they had gone about this in a different way.
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They come out day one and pass the same bill they passed 60 times.
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There are some procedural hurdles that could have been difficult.
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Maybe the president vetoes it because, you know,
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the president ran on a lot of big promises on keeping everybody's health care
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and pre-existing conditions and a lot of things that would have gone away with a full repeal.
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However, at that point, you probably can come back to conservatives and say,
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However, let's look for something that is better than what we have.
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And I think a lot of conservatives would have been open to that.
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And you can't control everybody's vote in Congress, as we've seen.
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Instead, they started with a terrible bill that I would be really uncomfortable going with
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Then they gave a couple of concessions to conservatives very late in the process
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And then Trump, I mean, look, Trump comes out with this tweet about the Freedom Caucus
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Do you have the quote in front of you, Jeffy, by any chance?
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The Trump Planned Parenthood tweet basically says, oh, well, I guess the Freedom Caucus likes
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I don't know if Donald Trump doesn't know the bill because every report this weekend said
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he was in meetings with these people who care about the details of this bill
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and says, don't sweat the small, he didn't say stuff.
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Don't worry about the, don't tell me about the small stuff.
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In fact, it does seem that he had absolutely no awareness
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that the Planned Parenthood funding was only going away for one year.
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This bill that was supposed to be this wonderful thing that Planned Parenthood was taking away,
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was going to lose their funding one year, and a simple restructuring of their organization
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even gets rid of the one year of the lack of funding.
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If you're waiting for a perfect bill, you're going to wait a long time.
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This is why we gave them the House, the Senate, and the White House.
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You don't get a perfect, we'll never get a perfect bill.
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But we don't need to be eating turd burgers all the time.
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They're preparing us these turds and putting them between two pieces of bread
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Give me some peanut butter and jelly or salt, a ham.
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It's so ridiculous what they're trying to jam down our throats here.
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But we're just seeing that it's Republicans too.
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Yeah, this is why, this is why, I mean, this week I'm repointing the cornerstones of the blaze
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I don't want to hear the, I want to be about the principles and the actual facts.
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Can we get anybody to join us on that as a people?
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I mean, I tweeted on Friday, I had a tweet storm about this movie, The Promise.
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And I asked to see the movie and get a screening of The Promise.
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The Armenian genocide is near and dear to my heart because Turkey continues to deny it.
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It is the reason why we have the word genocide.
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Hitler said early on, I can get away with anything.
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Look, the Christian world didn't care about the Christians in Armenia.
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They think they're going to care about the Jews?
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Because the Turks continue to deny the reality that Turkey slaughtered 1.5 million people,
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Clark Gable was supposed to be in a movie made by MGM back in the 1940s.
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And they were going to do the Armenian genocide, which is 1.5 million Christians.
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And Turkey raised their hand and said, if you do that, MGM, you will never have another movie from MGM ever in Turkey.
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And it has been under the thumb of Turkey the whole time.
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What, did like 80 cents come from Turkey in those days?
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So they didn't want to boycott from Turkey and Turkey gathering up a bunch of other people.
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The guy who bought MGM and died, I think, 2006, he bought MGM like four different times.
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Bought and sold, bought and sold, bought and sold.
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He took $100 million and he said, we're making this movie called The Promise.
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How can we possibly trust Turkey as an ally if they continue to lie about genocide that happened 102 years ago?
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If you're a Holocaust denier, it's the worst thing you can be called.
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It wouldn't be in NATO if they were denying the Holocaust.
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They do actually deny the Holocaust, but they are also denying their own Holocaust of genocide.
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So I tweeted out, you wouldn't believe the number of people that tried to make that somehow or another about Trump.
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You wouldn't believe the number of people that found a way to make that about.
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They're just obsessed with if I'm for it, then it must be nothing because I was against Trump, whatever.
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I really don't care if it comes from the left or the right, as long as it's true.
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Now, I don't see real truth coming from people who will deny gender.
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Have you seen that now the first driver's license has come out of gender neutral?
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If you're decapitated, I mean, your hands are cut off, so we don't have your fingerprints or anything else.
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They're walking through and jumping through hoops to tell you now that that's not a baby
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when all of science will tell you that's a baby.
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There is only one thing that grows in a woman's uterus.
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A tumor which doesn't have a heartbeat or a baby.
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Anything else, a denial that that is anything other than a tumor or a baby is a science denier.
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Let us have honest, intellectual, rigorous discussions.
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And if you don't want to be a part of that, then you should ask yourself first, why?
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I will recognize as president the Armenian genocide.
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So, in a report from Mike Allen, sources said that Steve Bannon's first words to the Republican
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members was that they had, quote, no choice but to vote for the health care bill of President
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You have no choice but to vote for this bill, end quote.
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You don't think an elected representative of the United States government is going to
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go in there and just, you know, bend over like a Breitbart editor for Steve Bannon?
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Now, Steve Bannon apparently has told the president to keep a crap list, I'm cleaning that up, of
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It's probably worth noting who held firm in this.
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There's some great people on that list of guys who just said, no, because this is not
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And by the way, it was not, again, as we pointed out, 15 conservatives, Freedom Caucus
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So it was actually more people who were not in the Freedom Caucus, even though that's what
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I mean, Dave Bratt, Jim Jordan, Justin Amash, Louie Gohmert, Mark Meadows.
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Mo Brooks, who still has my favorite interview moment of all time.
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That's the one where he says, they said, what are you, do you have a degree in economics?
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We have to remember, there are some holding the line, and that's good.
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And we need to support them, because they are now on a White House enemies list.
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Support those that stood up and had real backbone.
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We were looking at reverting into a depression at that point.
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Well, I disagree that we were going into a depression, but go ahead.
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Yeah, you don't ask questions unless you know the answer to the question there.
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All right, so we want to talk a little bit about health care and what happened on Friday
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and why, as conservatives, we should be fine with this.
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This was something that if Barack Obama would have landed on, because he actually negotiated
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And there was nothing in it that made this better.
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I don't want our fingerprints on something that's still going to explode.
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President Trump, Republican-led Congress, tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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They did not try to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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They did under Obama, but that's not what they tried to do here.
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And to say that Trump tried to repeal Obamacare is as much of a lie or a spin as saying it's
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Okay, so here's a couple of things that you need to know.
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Fight court, I mean, a fight in court cases on subsidies.
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House argued that the money for the subsidies is not properly authorized.
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It's not clear whether Donald Trump is going to fight or not.
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Without the subsidies, all of the insurers will lose some money and small insurance carriers
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This, I believe, was designed in the first place.
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Now, the New York Times is asking the question, hey, was this sabotage?
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Why would the Democrats not do it the right way so they know that it is going to blow up
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There's also the individual mandate, whether to recruit insurers to participate in markets where competition is thin.
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Yeah, this is where they're kind of talking about what Trump's next step is and does he actually help?
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Because the argument is he can go and try to fix the problems that even the left is now admitting exist in Obamacare.
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Let's put a little layer of paint on this thing and let it go.
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Or the other thing they're saying is he could just, for example, not fight this lawsuit,
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More would drop out and it would become even a bigger disaster.
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The whole point is when you have a Republican president and a Republican House and a Republican Senate,
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it's not supposed to lead to single-payer health care.
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But Bernie Sanders, being the only real honest broker on the left, just announced the plan.
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Now, as you indicated, of course, Obamacare has serious problems.
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The cost of health care is going up at a much faster rate than it should.
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But ideally, where we should be going is to join the rest of the industrialized world
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and guarantee health care to all people as a right.
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And that's why I'm going to introduce a Medicare for All single-payer program.
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That's what this, I mean, that is, I mean, do you have the Trojan Horse stuff from, I think
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it was Gruber that did the Trojan Horse, and we played this at Fox over and over and
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Someone once said to me, this is a Trojan Horse for a single-payer.
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And I said, well, it's not a Trojan Horse, right?
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I like that clip because it's the actual honest moment.
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But they're admitting that, yes, this is a Trojan Horse.
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And when it does, the answer will be single-payer health care.
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It is my feeling that Donald Trump, who is for single-payer health care, whether he knows
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that this was a Trojan Horse or not, I don't know.
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But he's going to be fine with letting it fail and letting it go into a bigger...
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But, I mean, you know, look, there's an argument to be made that...
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Spicer said over the weekend that Donald Trump should not be taken figuratively.
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Yeah, however, he did not say he wants to let it fail and go into a single-payer system.
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So, the theory being, because I think you could argue...
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No, what he said was back in September during the campaign.
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He said, September of 2015, he said he wants government to take care of everyone.
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Now, even if that cost him votes, he was willing to go for it.
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However, this plan that he just backed didn't do that.
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So, I mean, this is another defunct promise at this point.
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And the people who lost him, lost it for him, he believes, are now on an enemy's list.
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Yeah, and look, this happens with the Freedom Caucus as well.
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When they went down to the end of this negotiation, they tried to get the Freedom Caucus people on.
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One of the things they wanted was not to have to guarantee things like maternity care for old men who are not going to have any babies.
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They just said, we're going to leave it to the states.
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The reason they gave in on it is because Donald Trump doesn't care if it's in there or not.
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And obviously, it does not at all do the things that he said he wanted in the campaign.
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Because I want people to feel comfortable that the non-passage of this bill was the right thing to do.
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Now, what Donald Trump does now, he's going to the left and embracing Democrats.
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And I didn't go along with the rest of society over the cliff.
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But I want you to feel comfortable that you know this was not good.
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Yeah, I'll give you some of the similarities here.
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For example, and it's a great example of something we've talked about a million times, by the way.
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And the question to be asked is, is that something worth doing?
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For example, they take the subsidies that are currently going through Obamacare.
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And what they did is they changed them so that they are instead based on age.
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So that's obviously a move, a step in the right direction, obviously.
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Though I would argue, actually, the Obamacare approach is better.
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If you want to give away free money, it shouldn't be based on age.
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I mean, if you're a rich, older person, you shouldn't be getting these subsidies.
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I mean, Bill Gates should not get subsidies through GOP care.
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It should be based on income if you're going to give it away.
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You probably shouldn't be giving it away in the first place, except in very limited circumstances.
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First of all, they kept the Cadillac tax and they just delayed it.
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What was one of the biggest things we whined about with Obamacare was the Cadillac tax.
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Then they also put in another similar type of tax that would do roughly the same thing.
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The reason why they did that is because they knew it was so unpopular with so many powerful groups that in the end it would wind up being thrown out anyway.
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However, they'd get the wonderful benefit of getting a better CBO score when they actually released the bill.
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And the exact same approach Democrats took when they went through Obamacare.
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Now we call it maybe a different approach or the same approach.
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They were lying to try to make it look better than it was.
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The new plan for the GOP was either get insurance or pay a fine if you have a break in your insurance.
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So, you can never get insurance and not pay a fine.
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But, if you get insurance for a short time and it lapses, then you have to pay the fine.
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They will allow insurance companies to charge you a 30% premium.
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And if you're a true free market advocate, you might notice the problem with the government telling insurance companies they will allow them to charge a 30% premium.
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Is it the government's role to tell insurance companies what they will allow them to charge people?
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You know, the question shouldn't be who should we blame that that bill failed.
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It should be who should we praise that that bill failed.
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And the truth is, the fact that they're giving up shows you they were lying the entire time.
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Remember, they said they were going to go through a three-phase program here to get all the stuff you really wanted in there.
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Look, the first bill is not going to have everything in there.
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You're going to get all the things that you want.
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They didn't say, okay, look, we've got to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new.
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Is that someone who's actually dedicated to getting rid of Obamacare?
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There was no reason to have this fake deadline on Friday.
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The master negotiator could push this thing through by setting a false deadline and bully everyone into it.
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The one thing we were supposed to get out of this president was this incredible negotiator.
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If they instead had said, look, we're close on votes.
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We're going to take this off the table for a little bit.
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Work on something else and come back to it in a month and rework some of the stuff.
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It wouldn't have been the best news in the world.
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And now they're acting as if we're not going to get anything done.
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Why aren't you putting up the 2015 full repeal bill right now, today, this week, to pass it?
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Then you'll have an argument to come back to us and say, hey, you know what?
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Why they didn't start or come about today with the tax plan is beyond me.
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You take 39% income tax and bring it to 35, I'm not happy, but I'm still voting for it.
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Yeah, that's important, too, because they keep saying, well, tax reform is going to be even harder.
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Tax reform, as long as it's going down, it's going to get all the Republicans.
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There are very few people coming out here arguing for a 0% income tax.
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I love it, would love it, but no one's arguing for it.
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It wasn't that there was no one arguing for the repeal of Obamacare.
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They were the ones saying we could get no Obamacare.
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And then they came back and gave us 75% of Obamacare.
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Now, with a tax system, we will accept, I think, a lot more easy to accept a compromise.
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Mentioning that we, a couple of stories worth mentioning that we really need to get back to later in the show.
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Harvard economist Kenneth Raghav, it says that we have to now phase out $150 and $20 bills.
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Well, good thing is, Wisconsin is putting people in jail for, you know, for selling butter that hasn't been graded.
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You know, you want to get those butter smugglers right away.
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They just, out of 100 Navy women, 16 have now had to be reassigned from ships to shore duty because of pregnancy.
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And maybe there's a reason for not having men and women on the ship together.
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Also, the churches in England are starting to have a surge of new baptisms.
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Yesterday, I saw a thing on Ted Koppel and Sean Hannity having it out.
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And Sean has said, you know, look, he's edited 45 minutes of this.
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You know, CBS should release the 45 minutes so it's fair, etc., etc.
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I'm not going to let Ted Koppel and Sean Hannity handle that.
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I went back and I watched the full eight minutes on CBS Sunday morning.
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And there's some really good points and some really bad points on both sides of the argument.
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They talked to and talked about everybody in the media.
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And I thought it was really worth going over because both sides have it wrong here.
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The alt-left propaganda destroyed Trump media, continue to ignore facts, and what has clearly
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Sean Hannity's television program on Fox has a nightly audience of 2.9 million viewers.
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He has, from the first, promoted Donald Trump and a highly Protestant agenda.
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Honestly, I think liberalism has to be defeated.
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Socialism must be defeated in a political sense.
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You got the White House, you got the House, you got the Senate.
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And then we have angry snowflakes, and then we've got a Democratic establishment.
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I say the press in this country is out to destroy this president.
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Well, the president's real troubles, again today, were not with the media, but with the facts.
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He keeps repeating ridiculous throwaway lines that are not true at all.
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I think the president is somewhat indifferent to things that are true or false.
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I hate to agree with Fareed Zakaria, but this is true as well.
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Yeah, he definitely throws things out that he's hoping are going to stick to the wall.
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So, Fareed, and who is the other guy from Fox News?
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One is saying that there's facts that Trump just throws out that are just not true.
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And that's verifiable in a hundred different cases.
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What Rush is saying is there are two different worlds here.
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And the media does not understand the Trump world.
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Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with creating those two separate worlds.
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He couldn't have done it until 1987 when the Federal Communications Commission did away with the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
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The Fairness Doctrine basically said that people on radio and television, if they presented one political point of view, had to balance it with the opposite political point of view.
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Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, a program exclusively designed for rich conservatives and right-minded Republicans and those who want to be either or both.
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Do you notice that the media never brings up the Fairness Doctrine?
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Well, first of all, the Fairness Doctrine is a thing of the past and is completely a moot point because of the Internet.
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Everybody's opinion can be heard and could be found.
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And again, Ted Koppel makes some good points in here, too.
00:40:42.400
And he talked to me and he said, you know, how do we find people we trust?
00:40:48.780
Ted, no, we should not have a federal license for journalists.
00:40:56.940
We just have to learn how to be responsible with this new toy.
00:41:00.780
You can get another example of, because the left hasn't made, I think they've even given up on this argument at this point, the Fairness Doctrine.
00:41:06.820
But it was something they were taking pretty seriously in the early 2000s, even before the Internet really took off.
00:41:12.680
And it's like you realize now how silly these arguments are.
00:41:16.200
They're constantly trying to lock in with a license what the market will take care of anyway.
00:41:20.900
It's the same thing with all sorts of different technologies.
00:41:25.640
It's interesting, too, to note that Koppel only goes after the right.
00:41:30.560
He doesn't say anything about the MSNBCs of the world who are completely biased on the left.
00:41:38.860
What Keith Oberman did during the Bush administration couldn't have been done during the Fairness Doctrine time either.
00:41:47.380
And nobody ever says, what did Keith Oberman cause?
00:41:50.340
When I showed up on the scene, they never went to him and said, did you cause Glenn Beck, Keith Oberman?
00:41:57.420
You could have easily asked him that because in some ways, yes, I was a response to Keith Oberman.
00:42:04.500
And it's weird because the way the Fairness Doctrine was applied back when it was in force, you didn't have commentators saying both sides of the issue.
00:42:16.140
You just have like Rush Limbaugh on his show from 9 to noon or whatever it is.
00:42:28.760
And it made no sense from a radio station standpoint.
00:42:37.620
It's like talk radio didn't explode until after the Fairness Doctrine.
00:42:41.260
Because you had the right to be who you wanted to be.
00:42:48.620
Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio exploded into a political force of nature.
00:42:56.900
Yes, it exploded into a because people wanted to hear it now.
00:43:05.220
I mean, you have to put yourself back at this time.
00:43:13.420
So you couldn't stand up and and really make the case for Ronald Reagan until the time when Ronald Reagan's presidency was almost over.
00:43:26.340
So when when Rush came onto the scene, it was explosive because nobody had said these things before.
00:43:35.760
It's exactly the same reason and the same way that that Howard Stern came on as a force.
00:43:43.780
And I think Howard Stern had as much to do with the changing of the culture in the media as Rush Limbaugh or or anybody else.
00:43:55.580
The the this is the first Howard Stern presidency.
00:43:59.080
This is a guy, our president, who learned how to deal with the media from Howard Stern, listening and being a part of that radio show.
00:44:09.260
Howard Stern is the this president is our Howard Stern president.
00:44:21.240
But when Howard Stern came on, it was just like Rush Limbaugh.
00:44:37.880
OK, so they go on and he goes on to say that Sean Hannity is bad for America.
00:44:43.820
Now, he's not making that accusation against the Keith Olbermann's of the world.
00:44:51.180
They they are as partisan, if not more so on the left than any of us on the right are.
00:45:00.420
You don't hear you don't hear anybody saying this about Bill Maher.
00:45:04.780
No, I mean, and the bottom line is when Republicans are in charge, they see that opposition as a vital part of our democracy, as they would use that term.
00:45:16.400
When a you know, when Barack Obama is in charge, they look at it as a speed bump.
00:45:19.700
Why are these people in the way of all this wonderful progress?
00:45:22.260
Now, they're not saying, you know, I don't even think that that's overt.
00:45:26.860
I think a lot of times I don't think that they're thinking to themselves, well, wait a minute.
00:45:30.440
No, no, they just that's just their their worldview.
00:45:34.040
So it's difficult for them, I think, to separate it.
00:45:36.720
Some journalists do are able to accomplish that.
00:45:39.660
But if you can't see the partisanship on the left, I mean, you're completely blind.
00:45:46.760
So, you know, he doesn't he doesn't like the genre of opinion shows, which is pretty extreme position to take in the United States, which has had the editorial page of newspapers going back to our founding.
00:46:00.400
The problem is, is the editorial page has taken over the front page.
00:46:06.860
Yeah, because news news has nobody wants to risk.
00:46:13.120
Nobody wants to do the right thing if it is a risk to themselves.
00:46:19.860
You're not going to see anybody at CNN stand up and say, wait a minute.
00:46:39.020
You're not going to see them do that because they're having record ratings because they're arguing and they've got flamethrowers on both sides.
00:46:50.820
They will get you ratings and then they will also burn your house down to the ground.
00:46:56.300
I'm I'm out of the burn your house down to the ground business.
00:47:04.040
Ted Koppel said, you know, people like you and he's referring to Hannity, but he's referring to people like us.
00:47:11.200
People like you have made ideology more important than facts.
00:47:17.180
Well, I think we saw that during the last election.
00:47:21.380
I think we're seeing that now, even with Obamacare.
00:47:24.900
The facts are that is not a conservative bill that was not repealing Obamacare.
00:47:32.500
No matter what anybody tells you, there was no repeal of Obamacare there.
00:47:36.360
There was prop Obamacare up and make it a little more palatable emphasis on a little more palatable for the right.
00:47:52.280
I want my team to control the government health care system.
00:47:57.200
It's so clear that's true, too, because the Democrats are saying, well, yes, there's problems with Obamacare, but we just need to fix those.
00:48:04.000
That's essentially what this bill did. And every single one of them voted against it, which shows you it's completely partisan.
00:48:10.500
They're just playing for their team. They don't care about reality in any way.
00:48:18.000
And repeal is great. And it would be great if this terrible bill were repealed.
00:48:21.760
However, that should not be the goal. The goal should not be to roll things back to 2008.
00:48:26.560
The goal should be to improve things as they were in 2008.
00:48:29.520
I mean, Paul Ryan, I mean, as bad as he was on this, there was a time that he was actually advancing real conservative ideas.
00:48:40.940
Yeah. Remember when he first came on the scene? Yeah.
00:48:42.960
We liked him a lot. I mean, he gets worse and worse every year.
00:48:49.900
They plot and they they plan how to get these guys.
00:48:54.780
You know, how do you capture them for the progressive big government?
00:48:59.920
It is why term limits are absolutely imperative.
00:49:03.820
Did you ever think we would see a time when we this vehemently disagreed with Ted Poe?
00:49:11.540
He's got to have like a 99 percent conservative rating with with Heritage and FreedomWorks.
00:49:26.400
They he he he said the reason they had the Freedom Caucus in the first place is because the Freedom Caucus people never got a seat at the table.
00:49:32.580
This time they let him have a seat at the table and they they they added a couple of things to this bill that were good.
00:49:41.660
Whether you've got a couple of good things in there or not is does not mean anything.
00:49:45.200
I mean, you know, the bill in and of itself was, I believe and some people disagree with us,
00:49:50.260
but I believe a slight improvement of Obamacare.
00:49:54.220
The taxes are lower that, you know, health savings counts are there.
00:49:58.520
There are some things in there that are positive.
00:50:02.240
I mean, by making it last a little longer and by making it a little more palatable because lower taxes,
00:50:13.560
I mean, I think that it's better in that, you know, it is costing us less money, which is important.
00:50:21.920
The individual mandate is probably the most offensive part of this.
00:50:24.720
And while it's still kind of in there, it's not in there as offensive as offensive.
00:50:28.300
But let me give you this stat, Glenn, when this when Obamacare was passing, they said,
00:50:33.640
if you don't do anything at the end of this term, I think it was 2019 or something.
00:50:37.980
It was 52 million people will be without insurance or 54 million people with the AHCA.
00:50:46.480
So you've passed a giant piece of entitlement and locked it in because the Republicans are the ones that have done it.
00:50:56.260
You've you've two million people that would be insured that wouldn't otherwise be insured a few years later.
00:51:03.300
I mean, that is you've you've spent the money and done nothing.
00:51:07.420
At least liberals will go in there and spend the money and say they got more people insured.
00:51:11.980
You haven't even insured more people and you're spending the money.
00:51:18.740
Why not go for something that's better than our old system?
00:51:24.820
We won't do it because people are not intellectually honest.
00:51:27.700
They're not honest with each other and they're all playing teams.
00:51:51.720
We've got a couple of things we really have to get to.
00:51:54.060
One is that the modifications to your body that they say are coming in the next 10 years.
00:52:08.740
And we better decide whether we want those things happening or not.
00:52:13.160
Because Silicon Valley is now looking to eliminate death.
00:52:17.160
And they define death differently than I think you define death.
00:52:50.520
Well, there was quite a big announcement on Friday that had nothing to do with Obamacare.
00:52:56.840
Had a little something to do with Hillary Clinton's campaign.
00:53:02.300
And that is that Pizzagate has finally been cleared up for all of those people that believed in Pizzagate.
00:53:09.580
Pizzagate, of course, was where Hillary Clinton was running this, essentially, a whorehouse out of a pizza restaurant.
00:53:19.980
And then there was a series of incredibly complex tunneling underneath.
00:53:26.420
And you'd see them go in but never come out because they went out through the tunnels.
00:53:29.760
And, of course, if you ordered, like, a, you know, Hawaiian with extra cheese.
00:53:39.200
A little Polynesian child with a little extra chunk to them or something.
00:53:49.000
And there's a big announcement from the guy who is, you know, one of the lead flag wavers for this.
00:53:58.500
In issuing this statement, we are not admitting that Mr. Alifonis or his restaurants have any legal claim.
00:54:06.060
But we are issuing this statement because we believe it's the right thing to do.
00:54:10.000
It will be no surprise to you that we will fight for children across America.
00:54:14.160
But the Pizzagate narrative, as least as concerning Mr. Alifonis at Comet Ping Pong.
00:54:24.220
I mean, the whole thing may be true outside of this one guy who's about to sue us into oblivion.
00:54:30.900
But he has nothing to do with this particular thing.
00:54:36.300
And this is obviously Alex Jones, the ridiculous conspiracy theorist.
00:54:40.060
But obviously, having a severe threat of a lawsuit.
00:54:45.520
As you can tell, he's reading this hostage statement.
00:54:48.860
And this is one of the dumbest conspiracy theories ever devised.
00:54:52.820
Well, he's never met a conspiracy that he doesn't like.
00:55:02.700
Yeah, he doesn't buy into Muslim terror at all.
00:55:09.000
We're blaming things on Muslims so we can go to war with them.
00:55:14.860
We have subsequently determined was based upon what we now believe was an incorrect narrative.
00:55:20.460
Despite the fact that we were far from the genesis of this story.
00:55:24.120
It is never easy to admit when your commentaries are based on an accurate information.
00:55:29.580
So the guy who showed up with a gun at the pizza parlor.
00:55:37.980
Alex has said, oops, I guess we were listening to the wrong person.
00:55:42.180
And to be clear, the guy with the gun figured it out before Alex because he left there realizing
00:55:50.280
And then he realized, I don't think there's a tunnel system underneath this.
00:55:57.200
We feel like we owe it to you, the listeners, viewers, and supporters to make that statement
00:56:02.180
and to give an apology to you and Mr. Oliphantus when we do.
00:56:06.040
We encourage you to hold us accountable because we improve when you do.
00:56:16.520
Now, I don't know how seriously he took it because he was wearing his shirt when he read
00:56:29.080
Usually when he really means something, he rips his shirt off.
00:56:32.800
He must not have had a steak the night before and wasn't feeling that testosterone.
00:56:45.000
It could be that or it just could be bipolar, roid rage, you know, it could be possible
00:56:52.060
that they sold so much male vitality formula that they had none left for him because, I
00:57:03.080
The fact that he I mean, this is a man who said, you know, Sandy Hook didn't happen.
00:57:12.180
And he denied saying that, but he's he's on record saying it.
00:57:20.460
The point is, he doesn't back down from these things.
00:57:22.280
And you might say, well, hey, it's a it's a good thing.
00:57:25.020
He's finally admitting one of these things is fake.
00:57:29.460
The he could he the reason he said anything is because he never had any any consequences
00:57:34.000
He's now been so mainstreamed by certain members of of Donald Trump.
00:57:40.640
That that he now is in the position where people care enough about what he says to get
00:57:49.040
This is him being mainstreamed and the result of it, which is really a terrible development
00:57:55.220
This is so I mean, you know, you want to talk about conspiracy theories.
00:58:06.980
And by the way, his people say that I know about Pizzagate and I've either been bought
00:58:15.480
So I wonder if maybe they'll back off that claim now.
00:58:19.200
I mean, doesn't that illegitimize everything else he said surrounding this Pizzagate?
00:58:24.520
No, because no, because he said, oh, at least as it applies to Mr. Kalanakis or whatever
00:58:36.760
He's what he's saying here is I still believe in Pizzagate.
00:59:07.000
Because they'll look at you like, why are you laughing?
00:59:11.420
And you'd be like, well, no, you know, I don't know about the pizza parlor.
00:59:16.920
You know, I don't know about all that, but I believe this stuff is happening.
00:59:27.920
But we know that Alex Jones feels deeply about these things and it pierces him to to the core.
00:59:51.820
We got to get good people to stand up against these people.
01:00:07.940
I probably shouldn't even have done this radio show today.
01:00:13.140
For how I just hate the globalists, but it's more than that.
01:00:18.660
But it's because deep down, folks, I can see what they're doing.
01:00:32.960
We just offer our children up to the system with the fluoride and the water and the GMO
01:00:39.760
And we let some perverts grab them at the airport to train them to the powerful government.
01:00:47.140
We just offer our kids up to the water with the fluoride.
01:00:50.520
I mean, just that in and of itself is like, what?
01:00:57.860
I don't know about anybody else, but I'm glad there's fluoride in the water.
01:01:13.140
Actually, Crest and Colgate probably don't want fluoride in the water because then you'd
01:01:19.560
Well, I'm only pro-fluoride because it makes the frogs gay.
01:01:25.300
You put Prozac in and frogs just start to off themselves.
01:01:35.940
And offer themselves up to the sheagles who just eat them.
01:01:54.480
Where are the, they've all been killed by toothpaste.
01:02:10.780
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01:02:22.060
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01:02:29.000
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01:02:46.940
So, much to my chagrin, because I just didn't believe this was true, what Stu was saying, that this was a, this apology on the sonic ping pong pizza gate thing from Alex Jones was perhaps due to some litigation.
01:03:03.980
It was the same day, the guy who went in with the gun to Comet Ping Pong, which by the way, I will say, I went to the website, looks like they have pretty damn good pizza.
01:03:12.320
I will say, it actually does look, it looks good.
01:03:15.280
However, so, this guy, his name is Welch, last name is Welch, he went to Comet Ping Pong.
01:03:28.540
Shot it a couple times, did not kill anyone, went to investigate it, and to his, I guess, credit, when he realized that it was a total BS conspiracy theory, walked out of there and said, wow, I was wrong, basically, and surrendered.
01:03:39.700
I strangely feel bad for him, because he wasn't crazy, he just bought into this stuff.
01:03:48.500
That's what he said, he said, I believed it, and what, I'm not supposed to go rescue these children?
01:03:53.900
It really is a weird, sad story, and again, people are now trying to say, because Alex Jones apparently told his listeners to go investigate this, and so people are trying to say it's his fault.
01:04:05.320
Now, look, he's a commentator, he's, as much as I don't want to defend Alex Jones in any way, he's not responsible for what one person of his audience goes and does.
01:04:15.260
That being said, this apology from Alex Jones about Pizzagate, saying there was nothing to it at Comet Ping Pong, was on the same day this guy pled guilty, the guy who went in there with a gun.
01:04:27.220
Now, he, I love this part of the story, so he, he, the guy who went in there with a gun, is an Alex Jones listener.
01:04:37.020
And this is what he told the New York Times, Alex Jones touches on some issues that are viable, but sometimes Jones goes off the deep end.
01:04:47.000
So the guy with the gun, who went to a pizza place to investigate, he thinks, even he thinks Alex Jones is nuts.
01:04:58.840
But, I mean, this is a pretty big moment, where you have Alex Jones apologizing for something.
01:05:05.280
But, interestingly, not saying that Pizzagate is fake.
01:05:10.220
No, he's, I think he's going to still try to keep it on people like Hillary Clinton, because the thing is, the government, and no, no, she's not in the government right now,
01:05:17.500
but when you're alleging the government is involved in these things, the government's not going to come sue Alex Jones over his 9-11 conspiracy theory.
01:05:26.580
And, you know, I would be surprised if there's not a lawsuit against him.
01:05:34.760
You listen to the text that was obviously written for him by a lawyer as he reads it and says,
01:05:43.800
We were operating on third parties' information.
01:05:48.280
And that can happen to a legitimate news source at times.
01:05:50.940
It just, you know, here is obviously a bizarre case.
01:05:59.420
You know, I mean, obviously, no one with any credibility believed this Pizzagate thing for a second.
01:06:07.640
I've met two or three people that believe that.
01:06:10.900
And one of them said, basically, they got to you, huh?
01:06:22.420
Well, what about that $104,000 you got from Hillary?
01:06:30.280
That wasn't a lie as much as it was a prank by someone who wanted to fool people who believe conspiracy theories.
01:06:39.340
I mean, it sucks that you were the victim of it.
01:06:40.780
But it was something I would love to do to, you know, liberal people who believe all this stuff all the time.
01:06:45.700
It would be hilarious to post fake content and watch them believe it.
01:06:48.460
And that's what someone on the left did to fool people who, you know, think that you're the devil, Glenn.
01:06:57.060
He was from the left and he was going after Donald Trump supporters.
01:07:00.280
And trying to prove how gullible Donald Trump supporters were.
01:07:04.620
And so he made this ridiculous price list up of what she was paying all these people.
01:07:12.700
And I think one of them was even dead or something.
01:07:15.460
One of them was ACORN, which is a defunct organization.
01:07:19.580
And it's not unusual for the Democrats to pay dead people to do stuff.
01:07:39.360
And they probably still will after the Jones apology.
01:07:43.620
Because they'll think, well, they made him do that.
01:07:46.900
Legally, he had to do that so he won't get sued.
01:07:51.440
And by the way, they pulled all their Pizzagate stuff down from the website.
01:07:58.080
We can't sell enough male vitality pills to pay for this lawsuit.
01:08:11.160
They just threatened and said, pull your stuff down, which they did.
01:08:42.500
Can we talk about science for a minute and have a real conversation about being scientific?
01:08:56.940
We are living in a world that is denying science like I've never seen before.
01:09:04.940
The only time the left wants to talk about science is when it comes to global warming.
01:09:10.460
Other than that, get the hell out of the science business.
01:09:14.600
It's amazing how disconnected so much of America is to not just the facts, but science itself.
01:09:23.400
We talk about that with Melissa Harris Perry beginning right now.
01:09:59.160
Melissa Harris Perry that she said on MSNBC over the weekend.
01:10:06.980
Part of that was because it went a step too far, right?
01:10:08.900
So on our uterus model, Nancy, you know, they have a little fertilized.
01:10:17.840
But the very idea that this would constitute a person, right?
01:10:22.060
And that some set of constitutional rights should come to this.
01:10:26.980
Look, I get that that is a particular kind of faith claim.
01:10:31.620
OK, she gets that a fetus being human is some sort of particular faith based claim, but nothing to do with science that that's a human being.
01:10:43.260
But the reality is that that if this turns into a person right there, if it turns into it could be a Volkswagen.
01:10:52.580
And congratulations if you do, because that's going to save you a lot of money in the long run.
01:10:56.860
The cost to raise a child, $10,000 a year, up to $20,000 a year.
01:11:01.620
When you're talking about what it actually costs to have this thing turn into a human being.
01:11:12.700
You have to hear what she's saying about that, too.
01:11:14.700
So we'll go back to the beginning and play this.
01:11:16.060
Part of that was because it went a step too far, right?
01:11:17.940
So on our uterus model, Nancy, you know, they have a little fertilized.
01:11:23.720
I seem to have popped open the fertilized egg and that's, we'll put that back together.
01:11:27.880
But the very idea that this would constitute a person, right?
01:11:31.160
And that some set of constitutional rights should come to this.
01:11:36.020
Look, I get that that is a particular kind of faith claim.
01:11:49.560
Because I, you know, I'm practically a hoarder.
01:11:58.460
You do hoard newspapers as well, but you also hoard stuff.
01:12:00.700
Yeah, but those are in other places that nobody ever sees.
01:12:08.440
And by the way, the newspapers aren't just any newspapers.
01:12:12.320
No, you also went through a phase where you were putting every news story that you did that you thought was important into a box for your children.
01:12:36.500
And I walk into this antique store and they had a bunch of these and they were missing a few pieces.
01:12:45.540
And my wife said to me, what the hell are you going to do with that?
01:12:54.320
And she said, again, what are you going to do with them?
01:12:57.380
And I said, I don't know, but someday they'll become.
01:13:06.380
This is the day your ridiculous purchase was justified.
01:13:08.320
Yes, today is the day that I can say to my wife, remember that?
01:13:12.920
Came out and it was this was the greatest ever I could make.
01:13:27.380
And what they used to, they used to make these in the in the 20s through the 50s.
01:13:32.180
And what they are, are these little things that show the scientific patterns of life.
01:13:40.140
OK, it's the progression of the of the humans I got.
01:13:44.440
OK, so this is I don't have the number one and I'm missing, I think, like number 10.
01:13:57.840
I mean, I said to them, I said, you don't have number one and number 11.
01:14:00.760
What am I going to do with number one without one number one or number 11?
01:14:03.400
Anyway, so this is this is the egg, as you can see, has been fertilized.
01:14:10.860
OK, so this is the human egg as it has been fertilized.
01:14:20.860
The cell starts to separate and then it separates again and again and again and again.
01:14:26.100
Here we can see the inside of the fertilized egg.
01:14:31.380
Then it really starts to break up into multiple cells.
01:14:58.600
Now, I can give her the benefit of the doubt when she says if this turns into a human because
01:15:06.300
you have to hear the way she puts that, that if this turns into a person, right, there are
01:15:12.780
The cost to raise a child, $10,000 a year up to 20.
01:15:16.400
There's two things that she cannot get away with if this turns into a child.
01:15:22.300
And she goes on to say if this thing turns into a human.
01:15:27.560
$10,000 a year when you're talking about what it actually costs to have this thing turn into
01:15:33.360
And why not allow women to make the best choices that we can?
01:15:40.860
If it's going to cost $10,000 a year, why not allow the life to end?
01:15:48.880
Because what she's doing is she's mixing science and economics.
01:15:56.180
This thing, this fertilized egg, may not turn into this.
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Because a woman may flush it out of her system naturally.
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So, I'm saying she may not say this, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt of if this
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Now, I'm not willing to say at what point this thing is not human.
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But that's a fertilized egg, which is different.
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If I had number one, I would be able to make that case.
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I was hoping that maybe you would give me the break that I was using number two instead
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He's very much like your wife, Tanya, who is not going to believe your explanation of
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This is the first time I've used a chance to use it.
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And they'll be like, what the hell was this guy all about?
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I just want you to know that this is a science.
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This is a scientific study of how a human is made.
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We know that because this is called the human zygote.
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If you now want to talk about economics, well, that's fine.
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But understand, you are now going down the path of the German eugenics society that talk about how many potatoes can a person produce.
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And if they can't produce enough potatoes, then they should be killed.
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Understand, the science part says this thing is a human.
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You're now entering into German studies of economics and the value of a human.
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But this is why we cannot have straw men arguments.
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But we have to break things down into the basics.
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do you think I could hold a newborn baby in my hands and get $10,000?
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But could I get $10,000 and sell children on the air for $10,000 to loving couples?
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I don't think I'm qualified to put a value on human life.
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but I think I could make this just as a decent human being as well.
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I think that's beyond our grasp to say what a life is worth.
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is vastly different than what my life is worth today,
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except in the eyes of people who look beyond what you do,
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Is the president's life worth more than a citizen's life?
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Is a baby's life worth more than an old person's life?
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Science recognizes what I believe God has made.
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So you're going to have the discussion of economics,
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And then you're also going to have the discussion
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is at the same time a man has a right to choose.