upper left hand corner. welcome back to our broadcast, by the way. obviously, mitch mcconnell talking in january of 2010. that was in an interview with chuck todd about the affordable care act, which became known as obamacare that he says was being cooked up behind closed doors. the problem is, he is currently being accused of doing that very same thing with the senate version of the health care bill by members of both parties. republican senate members are due to get their first look thursday as mcconnell s office pushes for a vote before they want to get out of dodge for the july 4th holiday recess. don t get between a member of congress and national airport during the july 4th recess. it is unclear from today s press briefing if the president even knows the contents of the bill. has the president seen a draft at the senate health care bill? i don t know that. that s i know there was chatter today. i know the president has been on
recalibrate how he wants to govern. if he wants to govern in the middle, i think we ll be happy to meet him there. the most critical piece of that video was the date in the upper left hand corner. welcome back to our broadcast, by the way. obviously, mitch mcconnell talking in january of 2010. that was in an interview with chuck todd about the affordable care act, which became known as obamacare that he says was being cooked up behind closed doors. the problem is, he is currently being accused of doing that very same thing with the senate version of the health care bill by members of both parties. republican senators are due to get their first look at the contents of the bill on thursday as mcconnell s office pushes for a vote before they want to get out of dodge for the july 4th holiday recess. don t get between a member of congress and national airport during the july 4th recess. it is unclear from today s press briefing if the president even knows the contents of the bill. has t
welcome back to our broadcast, by the way. obviously, mitch mcconnell talking in january of 2010. that was in an interview with chuck todd about the affordable care act, which became known as obamacare that he says was being cooked up behind closed doors. the problem is, he is currently being accused of doing that very same thing with the senate version of the health care bill by members of both parties. republican senate members are due to get their first look thursday as mcconnell s office pushes for a vote before they want to get out of dodge for the july 4th holiday recess. don t get between a member of congress and national airport during the july 4th recess. it is unclear from today s press briefing if the president even knows the contents of the bill. has the president seen a draft at the senate health care bill? i don t know that. that s i know there was chatter today. i know the president has been on the phone extensively with the leader and with key senators. i don t kn
bill? more than ten years? i think we ll have ample opportunity to read an amendment bill. i rest my case. there s been no public hearings. that drew complaints similar to this. it s wrong for legislation that will affect 100% of the american people to be negotiated behind closed doors. that statement was from now vice president mike pence tweeting in january of 2010 about the obamacare talks. according to hill senator republicans considering harsher cuts to medicaid. no final heen made. you can go down t list. here s 2009, ts bill is a mess. americans are outraged by the closed door sweet heart deals. that was senator mitch mcconnell speaking about the process back then. conducts himself in a similar way now. and it was open compared to
to reconsider that s fundamentally not true. in a much different way. i think sean now will probably have to anytime that it was admit that it was a curious political strategy by the republicans. elizabeth: sean, i wanted to talk about that later, but you brought up 2018 so, sean, i want to let you respond. yeah. i think it s not necessarily curious strategy. the strategy is to use reconciliation to take the first step in repealing obamacare. this isn t going to happen in reconciliation. they re then going to go to regular process to do other reforms that are necessary to completely root this thing out. but this is far from being an election issue at this point. remember, the democrats passed a bill in 2009, in october or november of 2009, and celebrated it. then the senate passed a bill on christmas eve, a draft bill really. and then after they lost the scott brown seat or the ted kennedy seat to scott brown in january of 2010, they went to reconciliation.