It's International Women's Day, and Glenn is taking the day off, which is a shame because he has a lot of great stuff to talk about, including the American Health Care Act, the CIA spying on us, and the war on women.
00:16:36.920Conservatives aren't going to take it.
00:16:38.640Premiums and prices will continue to spiral out of control.
00:16:41.440They do nothing to help the consumer join associations to bring prices down.
00:16:45.720I like the president's statement that it's up for negotiation, and I think those have begun.
00:16:49.680I spoke with the president yesterday, and I think he's open-minded on this.
00:16:53.560He wants Obamacare repealed like all conservatives do, but he realizes that conservatives have a lot of objections.
00:16:59.900I mean, that's somewhat, he sounds somewhat hopeful there that, you know, maybe we can make it better through the negotiation instead of worse through the negotiation.
00:17:10.020But you usually don't start with really bad.
00:17:12.760Like, if you need to make $100,000 a year, you don't go to your employer and say, I demand $20,000.
00:17:36.840Yeah, it's interesting because, I mean, when I heard, because Trump, when he first tweeted his support for this bill, said it was a, he mentioned negotiation in there.
00:17:46.860My mind as a Republican president thought, he's thinking this is the point where I will negotiate, and hopefully, you know, there's going to be some negotiation with the left, right?
00:17:56.840But maybe he's thinking he's negotiating with the right.
00:17:59.320Maybe he's entering this and saying, hey, I'm going to negotiate with the Rand Pauls and Ted Cruz's, and it's going to move more conservative.
00:18:05.520I mean, he tweeted this morning, I have to be reporting on the Donald Trump tweets every day, but I feel sure that my friend at Rand Paul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster.
00:18:28.040As Rand said, it's not going to bring down costs, which we were promised.
00:18:31.400And ever since Obamacare came out and the prices went up, instead of saying, well, you're right, the prices didn't go down by $2,500 per family, what they say now is, well, they didn't go up as much as they would have.
00:18:45.540Well, that wasn't your promise in the beginning.
00:18:47.160And also, you don't know what they would have gone up.
00:18:47.860And you don't know what would have happened.
00:19:20.000You're just, you know, when you go through this line by line, you see way, way too much of Obamacare still in it.
00:19:28.760And, you know, the technical way they're doing this is they're repealing the whole thing and then just adding back all the parts of Obamacare that they like and calling it a full repeal.
00:19:37.280When you have the same things in there, they're repealing half of it and they're putting in some things that are good, some things that are not so good to replace it.
00:19:47.700And they're going to have all sorts of problems and then it's going to be their problem.
00:19:51.460It's going to be the Republicans' problem after this.
00:19:53.400And in some ways, I think the Democrats really like this because obviously they don't care about anyone's health care.
00:20:58.400I mean, you know, the old way that you would go to the Obamacare exchange and you'd get a subsidy and a $1,000 policy looks like it cost you $150.
00:21:07.800It's basically what would happen again.
00:21:09.100But they'd be dumping a bunch of tax credits and then, and it's not just tax credits.
00:21:14.300It's refunds in excess of what you pay in taxes.
00:21:17.760So if you pay $3,000 of taxes a year and the tax credit is for $10,000, they're going to give you a check for $7,000 to go buy health insurance.
00:21:42.460And all during Obama, everybody screamed about the fact that we're going to repeal this thing and we're going to put together a bill and we're going to pass it.
00:21:55.400But, I mean, look at what that reveals about Republicans.
00:21:58.960When they knew, when they knew there was no chance of getting it through, they passed a clean Obamacare repeal.
00:22:07.420When they knew the guy who has the name before care in Obamacare was president, they had no problem passing this because they knew it wouldn't do anything.
00:22:17.980Now, the second they have a chance, all they have to do is pass this and they have control of everything.
00:23:10.020And so maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest it in their own health care.
00:23:17.040They've got to make those decisions themselves.
00:23:19.280So in other words, for lower income Americans, you're saying that this is going to require some sacrifice on that.
00:23:23.640Well, we've got to be able to actually lower the cost of health care.
00:23:27.160See, to me, he seems to be saying that's why we're allowing the fine from the insurance companies or the extra 30 percent from the insurance companies if they don't choose the right thing that we want them to choose.
00:23:41.560It's a lot like what Obama was saying a few years ago.
00:23:45.780I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person's budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things that they're spending on, it may turn out that it's just they haven't prioritized health care because right now everybody's healthy.
00:24:48.160It was, you know, there was millions, millions and millions of people who made over 50,000, over $75,000 a year, over $100,000 a year who did not have health insurance under the old system.
00:24:58.280And because Obamacare was going to force people into it, those people theoretically would become covered.
00:25:20.760I think Chaffetz is saying people are spending money on phones instead of health care.
00:25:26.460And they need to prioritize what they're doing there.
00:25:29.560We're not going to force them to make that choice.
00:25:31.840But maybe if they didn't choose expensive electronics all the time, they'd have money for the health care that they say they don't have money for.
00:25:38.340But I get the impression that he is they're trying to backdoor force them.
00:25:43.720That they're that's this is how he's justifying allowing the fine or the extra payment from the insurance companies if you don't have health care insurance.
00:25:53.520Yeah. And this goes back to that weird clause.
00:25:56.520And it is a weird clause in the Republican replacement.
00:25:59.480And the way it works is if let's say you have health care from January to March and then you get fired, OK, you lose your health care, you're you have no health care.
00:26:09.560April, May, June, you come back in July and pick up the health care again.
00:26:13.580The this the GOP plan allows a 30 percent fine or surcharge, whatever you want to call it from the insurance companies onto you as you get reinsured.
00:26:23.780And the reason for that and you lost, by the way, you lost your insurance through no fault of your own.
00:26:28.760Well, I mean, I don't know how you got fired, but the fact is, once you're unemployed, have maintaining insurance through that period is almost impossible for most people.
00:26:41.140So the issue here is you have a couple of months off and you come back on your insurance.
00:26:46.020You get an extra 30 percent on top of your your current fees.
00:26:50.880And the idea is, well, you know, we want to keeping having people keep consistent coverage throughout the year is important for insurance companies.
00:26:58.680To be able to figure out how much everything costs.
00:27:00.580So if you go off the insurance, you come back on, they're going to give you a fine.
00:27:03.760This is works in a similar way as the individual mandate does.
00:27:08.420If you don't have insurance, they will find you.
00:27:11.940And it's and so, I mean, you know, you could see how that would be similar.
00:27:15.680Sean Spicer was asked about this yesterday and he denied that it was a backdoor mandate.
00:27:19.240But, I mean, you can pretty clearly say it is oddly, though, if you have insurance for a couple of months, lose it and come back on, you get fined.
00:27:27.120If you don't have it at all for any months, you don't get fined.
00:27:57.520I mean, I guess I mean, so if you get sick and you need the insurance and it's a desperate situation, you got to pay a 30 percent surcharge.
00:28:05.640Is that really a huge is that going to dissuade you really from your decision?
00:28:11.180I think for me, I'm going to say I'm just going to keep right.
00:28:45.460And I would really resent somebody trying to tell me, well, you should have spread the money not on that cell phone in that nice apartment.
00:28:51.820You get a health insurance like we try to make you do.
00:29:04.320I mean, look, you would you could make a legitimate argument that no person in the United States who does not have health insurance should have cable, cell phones.
00:29:21.900Like you should probably prioritize health insurance over all of those things.
00:29:27.440Now, if you have health insurance and you get those things, too, that's great.
00:29:29.700But if you don't have health insurance and your reason is because I don't have enough money to pay for it, you probably should get health insurance before you pay for those things.
00:29:38.260Now, no one wants to hear that in our society.
00:29:40.900Although although although I hearken back to the words of one Barack Obama back in 2000, early 2008, when he said that the mandate makes no sense, because if if that's what we were going to do, we should make cure homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house.
00:30:09.740And so if they want to make a choice where they prioritize electronics over health care, they should be able to make that choice.
00:30:15.560However, they also should live with those consequences.
00:30:17.760And Chaffetz tried to walk it back a little bit later yesterday, too, because he said maybe I didn't say it as smoothly as possibly that I should have.
00:30:26.100But people need to make a conscious choice.
00:30:28.680And I believe in self-reliance and they're going to have to make those decisions.
00:30:37.560But apparently a lot of people took it the way they sure did.
00:30:40.280And what's what's amazing about that is that shouldn't be particularly controversial.
00:30:45.080And you want a way for people to never learn to to to prioritize health care over electronics is if you enforce it by law that they have to have insurance.
00:32:25.580Insurance companies wouldn't operate if they were on the wrong side of this bet.
00:32:30.040So every 22-year-old making the decision to not be on health care is statistically making the right choice.
00:32:36.580The problem is that when a bad thing happens to that individual, it winds up burning them and can create huge problems and drains on the health care system.
00:32:46.080But, I mean, you know, we have to be honest about this.
00:35:02.860But all these big Hollywood celebrities are tweeting out and bragging about the fact that they're shopping at Nordstrom more than ever and spending thousands of dollars on shoes and whatever.
00:35:13.180It's so pathetic because Ivanka Trump thinks just like they do.
00:35:18.760What are they trying to make a point against Ivanka Trump for?
00:35:29.480Secondly, I mean, and you think on the day without women, you wouldn't make a point to hold the daughter responsible for what you think the father believes.
00:35:37.020I mean, what a weird stance to take for liberals.
00:36:21.600So now you have a huge new audience that's brought into looking at these clothes who probably never was looking at them before.
00:36:27.520I mean, you know, the target of Ivanka Trump at Nordstrom clothing is probably not, you know, the average Republican, although some obviously buy it.
00:36:35.900But, I mean, this business was probably constructed as the registered Democrats, right?
00:36:40.600I mean, and they probably were targeting more, you know, high style fashion type people that, you know, maybe weren't all, you know, percentage wise Democrats or Republicans.
00:36:51.000And now Republicans are like, screw it.
00:50:32.840Real estate agents I trust is the place to go.
00:50:34.460You don't need extra stress in your life.
00:50:35.780But if you have the wrong real estate agent, and this has happened to, I think, all of us here, at some point in their lives, it can really screw up your plans.
00:50:46.320This is obviously one of the most, it's the most major financial transaction most people will ever actually go through with.
00:50:53.320And when someone's on your side but isn't really working for you, that's a huge problem.
00:51:00.060Real estate agents I trust will help you find a great real estate agent in your town.
00:51:04.060Being able to trust a real estate agent is invaluable.
00:51:06.560Over 1,000 agents all over America who are like you, they have the same values as you, these are screened people, and their word is their bond.
00:51:15.620The agents are fully vetted and handpicked for their knowledge, skill, and track record.
00:51:21.060Thousands of families have already put real estate agents I trust to the test, and the results have been remarkable.
00:52:50.600But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, so weird, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity.
00:53:10.760When they were stolen from their land, thrown in the bottom of a nasty slave ship, and sailed 3,000 miles across the sea against their will.
00:54:20.560Obama said this, unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, we are all descended from folks who came from someplace else, whether they arrived on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they came through the Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande.
00:54:38.440While addressing a crowd hosted by the DNC on April 28th, no matter where ancestors landed on Ellis Island or came here on a slave ship or crossed the Rio Grande, we are all connected to one another.
00:54:50.120We didn't raise the Statue of Liberty with its back to the world.
00:54:52.400We raised it with its light to the world.
00:54:54.020Whether your ancestors came here on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they signed in at Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande, we are one people.
00:55:10.000Whether your forebears landed at Ellis Island or they came here on a slave ship or they crossed the Rio Grande, it was nothing if not repetitive.
00:55:15.040And by the way, my forebears didn't land on Ellis Island.
00:55:39.340So, they typically had a commitment to hard work and a commitment to community and a commitment to family and a willingness to dream big dreams.
00:55:50.500That's close to what Carson said and a patriotism that was not rooted in ethnicity, but was rooted in a creed and a set of ideals and beliefs that in America, anything was possible.
00:56:01.120There's no way slaves were thinking that.
00:56:04.500I mean, maybe after they were freed, they believed that.
00:56:07.100Nobody loves this country more than I do.
00:56:09.460But there is no way, when you had slaves in a cotton field being whipped, their women being raped, being tortured and killed in some cases, sold to other people.
00:56:21.160I mean, there is no way they had patriotism for the country.
00:56:24.960If they did, wow, they were far, far, far better people than I am.
00:56:28.960And the other thing is, how do you dream big when that's your lot in life?
00:56:35.100I mean, you couldn't fathom such a thing in those days if you were a slave.
00:58:35.040They stopped the importation of slaves.
00:58:37.800But the ending of slavery itself had to wait for the right leader at the right time in order to see the country safely through to the other side.
00:58:48.380That is why the election of 1860 was so critically important.
00:58:52.280The two-party system at the time was just comprised of the Democrats and the Whigs.
00:58:56.360And the sitting Democratic president, James Buchanan, was so unpopular that he wasn't even brought up by his party to be nominated to run for re-election.
00:59:05.460They made the frontrunner Democratic Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
00:59:10.100John Breckinridge, the vice president from Kentucky.
00:59:13.160He was representing the Southern Democratic Party.
00:59:15.700John Bell from Tennessee was the constitutional Union Whig Party candidate.
00:59:19.860And then representing a new four-year-old Republican Party was an awkward, lanky Abraham Lincoln.
00:59:46.980Many Southern states were already threatening to secede in the lead-up to the election.
00:59:52.160And one of the things that was well-known in the South about Lincoln was that he hated slavery.
00:59:58.080And many in the South, especially the Deep South, hated him for it.
01:00:02.640At the time, Lincoln had no intention of going to war with the South if elected, which, in part, won him the Republican nomination.
01:00:10.620But those in the South, they didn't believe him.
01:00:12.180Lincoln had an interesting strategy for the campaign, which was very different from the plan that Douglass had.
01:00:19.740Photographs played a vital role in the election of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th U.S. president.
01:00:25.120In the final weeks of the campaign, instead of giving speeches, Lincoln took every available opportunity to pose for photographers and sculptors.
01:00:33.720Simultaneously, his old rival, Stephen Douglas, made the critical mistake of hitting the campaign trail.
01:00:39.540In the 1800s, a presidential nominee who actively campaigned was ridiculed for seeming so desperate.
01:00:46.760And this is exactly how the public reacted to the Douglas whirlwind tour.
01:00:51.160Lincoln was campaigning just as hard, but not by making visits and giving speeches.
01:00:56.160Instead, by having his photograph show up everywhere in his place.
01:01:00.120Actively campaigning was seen as desperate in the 1800s.
01:01:06.040Oh, if we could only get that desperate part of our country back.
01:01:10.640A lot of secession talk from the South.
01:01:13.020Rumors were swirling and scare tactic rhetoric was abundant that if Lincoln won, there'd be secession and war.
01:01:19.820But Lincoln and his team ignored that.
01:01:22.500He carried the North and did well enough elsewhere to win the presidency by a significant margin,
01:01:27.420taking the popular vote 39.8% to 29.5% for Douglas and the electoral vote 180 to 72 over Breckinridge.
01:01:38.560But by the time Lincoln was inaugurated, six states had already seceded from the Union.
01:01:44.360Nine more would follow, as well as the bloodiest war in American history.
01:01:48.780Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the man born to see America through its most perilous period.
01:01:55.140In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant, the two-term president of the United States,
01:01:59.660about to attempt to become America's first three-term president,
01:02:03.500ignoring the tradition set by George Washington to self-limit to two.
01:02:08.640Grant himself, despite the terrible economy, in fact,
01:02:11.980a three-year depression that had left three million Americans unemployed and being bogged down in corruption and scandals,
01:02:19.780Grant was ready to go for the presidency again, as were his advisers.
01:02:25.360But then, Congress passed a resolution by a vote of 233 to 18,
01:02:30.200stating that Washington started the two-term tradition to avoid a dictatorship.
01:02:34.620And apparently, that helped sway the American public as it turned the tide in the thinking and the plans of Ulysses S. Grant.
01:02:43.280In the end, he finally decided against running for a third term.
01:02:47.820That left the election to the eventual Republican nominee,
01:22:39.380However, that is just as ridiculous, let's be honest about it.
01:22:43.300You know, it's not to say, now, the way they're arguing that, you know, if you're not following their logic at all, which I would understand, is they'll say, look, if there's a huge drought caused by climate change,
01:22:56.200and so one group of people loses access to water, they will get desperate, and maybe a war will start.
01:23:05.160Like, that's how they sort of do these things.
01:23:07.100And they'll look for every environmental factor to retroactively blame war on climate change.
01:23:10.800Is there one single war that has begun that way, admittedly, on either side?
01:31:19.880I believe it has nothing to do with this.
01:31:22.360I believe it has nothing to do with this.
01:31:24.580I think the next thing they do is going to be some other, they've gone a different direction now.
01:31:30.400Now, we had a little discussion about this yesterday on the Pat and Sue show, which, by the way, airs on the blaze after the show every day.
01:31:36.140And during that show, I said something that I've said many times, which is, this is a great commercial for TSA PreCheck, in which you walk through the line basically with almost no delay when you go to the airport.
01:32:17.660They get me liquored up, and then they seal me up.
01:32:20.580So now what you're saying, though, is, hey, if you don't want to get felt up going through TSA and get on an airplane, which, you know, why not?
01:32:32.400But if you're Pat and don't want to do that, now you want to go to the TSA Pre and give them every bit of information about you, everything, forever, to the end of time, just so you can get on a plane quicker.
01:34:38.520Due to this change, TSA asked the field secretary directors to contact airport law enforcement and brief them on the procedures in case the police are called on them.
01:34:49.760So they're calling police departments and they're saying, okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.
01:34:52.940And they're talking to the airport security.
01:34:55.140Okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.
01:35:59.800And they're so convinced that it's going to be offensive to people, that they're alerting the authorities, that they're going to receive complaints from passengers.
01:37:00.400You're right, Stu, now that I think about it, because they used to be where they'd just pop up where they'd be like four or five of them together.
01:37:05.320And now they're branching out on their own when you walk places.
01:37:08.900All of a sudden, they're just one by itself.
01:37:13.240You go through a mall, and there's just a bunch of people with their heads down towards the ground getting back massages from these people in the middle of the aisles.
01:40:59.600It's an opportunity for you to go to Berkeley, sort of, for free.
01:41:04.280Now, you might not be able to get the degree, but you can actually go through a lot of the learning that you would go through if you actually attended.