ruining our health care system. and the fact that republicans in the senate won t deal with this now is just absolutely embarrassing. there s a lot of democrats who will agree with what jason is saying. the republicans have been running on this for years and years and voted on this multiple times. and a lot of republicans agree with jason. having said that, and i think jason would admit this, if the skinny obamacare repeal and replace bill would actually pass the senate and somehow miraculously get through the house, you bet president trump would sign it, right, jason? well, again, let s assume they can get something through, because the conservatives in the house are saying it s a nonstarter on that end. but again, what we have to have here is something that s fundamentally going to go and change the way that obamacare is ruining the health care system. we have to do something about the medicaid expansion. we have to change the way the subsidies and get something if we re going
this politically, it was right then and there when all the television cameras, including cnn, were on him and in front of thousands. he could have done that. i honestly don t think this issue registers with most americans. good lord, i saw a poll during the campaign that said abortion didn t even register, and that used to be the hot button issue of all hot button issues. you don t believe this has anything to do with politics, that it just happens to come at a time when conservatives are critical of the president for his treatment of jeff sessions, when health care is in doubt, and the russia investigations t? i don t think this resonates. while we re on the you don t think transgender are the easiest people to pick on in this society [ overlapping speakers ] these are human beings, jeffrey. why does that cease to matter to
community, saying he would stand with the transgender community, to wake up this morning and say transgender americans are unfit to serve. they can t be in the united states military. so it s absolutely politics. it s to distract all of us from russia, to throw red meat to the conservatives. and that makes it even more un-american, to attack americans, to send a message to transgender children, who have one of the highest suicide rates, that they re not worthy. even if they re willing to die for this country, it s repugnant enough. but to do it for cheap votes makes it nothing short of un-american and disgusting. and before jeffrey lloyd raises it, it took barack obama way too long to do this. i was as opposed every year he didn t do this as i was against him and gay marriage. so i don t want to get some trump pivot that we were easier
russia, to throw red meat to the conservatives who are angry about jeff sessions. and that makes it even more unamerican. to attack americans, to send a message to transgender americans who have the highest suicide rates, that they re not willing, even if they re willing to die for this country is repugnant enough, but to do it for cheap votes makes it nothing short of unamerican and disgusting. and before jeffrey lloyd raises it, it took barack obama way too long to do this. i don t want to get trump pivot that us democrats and lgbt activists were easier on trump and clinton. because we were not. and that is only more disrespectful to the what he s done to transgender americans today. jeff, you now have thousands of transgender men and women who have come forward because they believe the u.s. had changed its policy. is it fair to them for the
the uniform of the united states military. if you re willing to serve this country in uniform and willing to lay down your life to protect it, you deserve to do that. and so many more americans, including our president, has never worn the uniform. i will stand up and fight for the transgender and all of our military men and women. senator, appreciate your time. thank you. joining me now is my panel. dana, is this just about politics, to try to either distract from the russia or jeff sessions or the health care news or feeding red meat to the base? it s almost impossible to imagine that it isn t. now, white house sources denied that today, but it does defy any sort of logic that there is any other reason. you know, there are some reporting that and some questions about whether it was conservatives in the house who were reaching out to the president to try to get him to do this himself, so that they