Dana we miss having colin allred on, congressman from texas 32. Well have him on again. But we had Breaking News with the Attorney General resigning from his position at shepard continuing coverage as the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has resigned. A replacement is at the ready. The ramifications are many. Reporting begins now from capitol hill. Justice, the wise house and beyond. First to the man that broke the story, john roberts live on the north lawn. John . Only by virtual of our terrific producer at the Department Of Justice, jake gibson who said he had information. We got it confirmed. So the president this morning asked for the resignation of Jeff Sessions. This was before he went in to that sometimes crazy Press Conference that was scheduled for 11 30 a. M. He knew that there was going to be a Resignation Letter that was coming over from Jeff Sessions
at the Department Of Justice at any moment. We have confirmed with sources that Matt Whitaker and the president has tweeted a
it s not like obamacare which was pretty clear at this point failure unfairly. it did not succeed in convincing the country. it became a big problem. true with clinton with his health care plan. i don t biden doesn t do anything like. that one assumes that he will turn the corner on the virus, despite the delta variant. one assumes that the economy will be. okay i think biden is in decent shape to at least five to a draw and that will be just trench warfare for the house in the senate in 2022 which again goes back to the question we were talking about in the first segment, can you get some of those moderate voters who did vote for biden to stick with the democrats in 2022 which goes to the question of, how worried are they about the republican party? do they think it s a republican party? even their own congressman, it seems like they think, you are putting in
we ve seen that a few times, haven t we, in the last few days, both in conservative talk show hosts on fox and elsewhere and from republican politicians politicians. the racial bigotry mask has come off a little more than it used to, i m afraid. just one point about joe biden. i thought a lot about this. everyone gets too high and too low in some sense on these administrations. the good news of the biden administration is they don t have some terrible albatross around their neck that is now going to drag them down for the next year, it doesn t feel to me. it s not like obamacare which was pretty clear at this point in 2009. fairly or unfairly, he was convincing the country was well thought out and there is big problems as we went into 2010, clinton in 93 and 94 with his health care plan. biden wants to assume we ll turn the corner on the delta variant,
when he pushed through obamacare which was a mixed bill at the time. it is far more popular today than it was when it passed. republicans are luearning that the hard way. don t overshoot the runway. we have things in the packages like free college, free community college which is essential for working class people. that gives them a step up on the ladder. these are ideas that make sense because they improve the lives of people in america. universal pre-k for children. wit we know that has an impact on children. i like your jibe at beginning, but i never lived in washington, d.c. my strength has been i come from outside. i come from a working class community in kwqueens. a burough in new york city.
less than private insurance and a lot of questions about even with some adjustments she talks about, whether hospitals can survive at that level of reimbursement. if you raise the level of reimbursement you raise the cost and the tax that you have to then summon. by the way, even $20.5 trillion is nearly as much as the personal income tax, the total personal income tax is projected to raise over the next decade. and on the politics it s worth noting that support for this idea is does exist in the democratic caucus, but it s stalled out at about half of house democrats. only about half of house democrats are supporting the legislation to do this. and i was in a group of columnists that interviewed nancy pelosi earlier this week. and she said maybe medicare for all is a destination but it s not a place to start. so the prospects of this, even with a democratic president, would remain very, you know, uncertain. listen, a little more than a year ago, less than a year, the whole governm