start from the standpoint i think we need a single ploe provider system. i have to go, congressman. i had two people suffering from cancer last night and cancer didn t matter if they were republicans or democrats. one started out very opposed to obamacare and is a staunch republican but now supports it. thank you, congressman. always appreciate your time. my pleasure. thank you. coming up, secretary ben carson, secretary ben carson, doctor ben carson, and representative jason chaffetz getting slammed this week for controversial statements. did president obama get a pass when he made similar comments? we ll discuss that.
together, we re building a better california. is there a double standard when it comes to criticism of the trump administration and republicans? well, let s break it all down now. the host of cnn s united shades of america. why didn t you spell it differently? that might have been the second season title. i know what shows we shot. that s a pretty good title. let s get to business.
companies, the hospitals, the doctors, a lot of liberals didn t like it but they basically had deals with a lot of these people. they had to knock heads and say, i m sorry, you can t have single pair payer, you can t have medicare nor all. they finally got a bill that could hold democrats together. what has the white house, paul ryan, for me it s a real mystery here. he knows what he s doing. he s been there a long time. he knows to pass huge legislation like this, you need to let people have get buy in and get the groups on board. they pop a bill monday night that s different from the draft they had ten days ago, markup wednesday, we want it through next week? your point is it took awhile for obamacare or the affordable care act to go through, a year. the president spent a lot of political capital. right. how much political capital do you think this president is going to spend? he invited the critical conservative house freedom caucus to go bowling at the white house. i don t
there is a controversy about two things said by republicans this week only to find president barack obama said very similar things. so let s start by the remark by ben carson. that s what america is about. a land of dreams and opportunity. there were other immigrant who s came here in the bottle of slei slave ships, who worked even harder for less. they too had a dream. that one day theirs son, grand daughters, great grandsons, great grand daughters might pursue prosperity. and happiness in this land. life in america was not always easy. it wasn t always easy for new immigrants. certainly wasn t easy for those of african heritage who had not
this hour, in the next couple of hours on cnn. i want to begin with cnn s chief political reporter, gloria borger. the weekly standard political commentator michael singleton, republican political consultant. gloria, i want to get this right. the president is fighting on two fronts here. still no one is answering questions about the supposed, you know, tweet. sean spicer said he s not under investigation so far as he knows. we ll discuss it. also on obamacare, i have information from jim accosta and others. this meeting tonight with the tea party group, president told skeptical republicans, if repeal and replace fail, he s going to letto bama care expire and democrats will own it. are they giving up less than 24 hours after it was announced? from a president, you have to ask if you think obamacare is such a disaster, is it a good policy for the american people? if the health and welfare of the