Replace at a later date. A few things about that. Republicans will, one, likely need 60 votes to wholesale repeal the aca. Thats ten more votes than the 50 votes they havent been able to get for their proposed bill. Two, just repealing the aca would leave 33 million million more people uninsured than under the current law. Thats even worse than the Senate Version of trumpcare, which would leave 22 million more uninsured. Three, re pealing obamacare without having a replacement ready would likely further destabilize the Insurance Markets and lead to even more insurers pulling out of the exchanges. And four, who actually believes republicans would ever get around to the replace part . Joining me now republican strategist christopher metzler, Jonathan Cone of the huffington post, and tommy binion, director of congressional relations for the heritage foundation. Im going to start with you, tommy, and dispense with this idea of just repealing altogether obamacare because that would send the
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health care disaster bill was not slammed down our throat. so the person people won the the american people won the opportunity to have more reasoned discussion. isn t it interesting that everyone sort of fumes about donald trump s erratic whacky tweeting but in a way he s sort of saving the republic. because he s preventing his party from doing anything. let s go to charlie pierson that note. i m not going there. you have to earn a living. charlie pierce, you don t have to earn a living. you re a writing. that is true. i m independently wealthy and i like the anticipation of an al bum and i could [ inaudible ]. you know who won the week. congresswoman barbara lee won the week because she managed to get the repeal for the authorization of military force voted on in 2001 through the house appropriations committee which means we ll have a debate in the congress about whether or not we want to be at war for the
surprise. i actually tried to punch it out on a calculator but it was too many zeros, zero, zero, zero.zero percent from syria. why do you think he makes a claim like that when it s so easily disproven and hard to take him seriously? this is a great question, ari, and i m answering it also as an arab-american. someone whose family emigrated from syria after the first world war that s because it s perfectly acceptable for republicans to hate latinos and arabs. that s why this has any traction. to be taking pot shots at refugee population who, like, you know, my ancestors did, are trying to escape really terrible, terrifying warfare and somehow impugn them all as terrorists there is no conspiracy theory needed for that. it s connect the dots of republican legislation and politics. they constantly fear monger about latinos and arab-americans and muslims in the same way. you know, charlie pierson of
in dangerous neighborhoods. police will face a battle until gun laws change. gang, drug, violence problem that still persists in chicago. and we wouldn t accept it in iraq, we shouldn t accept it in chicago. this thing is in danger of spiraling out of control. lately many conservative lawmakers have been focused almost exclusively on danger abroad. in this case i think that our secretary of state, secretary kerry, could go to the region and try to maybe do a little shuttle diplomacy. this thing is in danger of spiraling out of control. when the united states leaves a vacuum, others will go in, others will fill it, bad actors will show up and we re seeing that right now. and my greatest concern is for what he intends to do and i think they have the capability and the intent to attack the united states. attacks on the u.s. are certainly a major issue, but after a terribly violent independence day weekend in chicago, we also need to focus on a attacks here in the