eric holder and how that differs from having an attorney general? well, thank you very much, joy, for the invitation. it s an honor to be here with each and every one of you. i will say right now we re confronted a ed ed a dichotomy democracy. it s something unique in our history and it appears the most overt opponent to our state of the state appears to be the incoming head of state and this is the president-elect, donald j. trump. given the campaign rhetoric, one of the most bruising and controversial polemic and polarizing campaigns in modern political history, we actually thought perhaps this is just campaign rhetoric but it s very clear that our worst fears were being confirmed. after he s appointed individuals to head up hhs that want to dismantle, vision race the affordable care act. when the chief architect of senate bill 1050 of arizona is one of his close political
stand. we need to emulate what the republicans did in 2016. ed that that had nothing do with obamacare, i just want to giveou a chance to hear him say that. thank you, karen bass. thanks for having me o joining us now is jess mcintosh and anton gun, a health care strategist extraordinaire. i m going to come to you first on this, jess. here s the thing. republicans have been saying for so long that they re going to repeal and replace, repeal and replace. it s a catch phrase but they never had a risk of having to do it because they always had barack obama to save them from themselves. right. now that they have to do it, do you think they will go forward? i don t. i think republicans really like to govern by catch phrase because they don t like the govern. the reason why the president spent so much political capital putting the affordable care act in place and remember how long and awful it was to be a democrat working on the hill at that moment, that was really intense. he d