it is the single most important thing. the single lasting legacy, regardless of whether it goes positively or negatively. it will be what the president is judged on in 20 years. david, when i m saying this is what they do. here is the president yesterday campaigning for his signature plan. you had a state representative somewhere say that it s as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the fugitive slave act. how about that? affordable health care is worse than a law that lets slave owners get their runaway slaves back. i like this one. we have to, and i m quoting here, we have to repeal kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens.
molly, thanks very much. art? what do you think? you have the look on your face. i do. i will move on. let s stick to the script. president obama is arguing the bop is holding the gop is holding the government, his signature plan and the american people hostage to stick it to him. they want the death of the affordable health care act, listen. unfortunately right now the debate going on in congress is not meeting the test of health for middle class families. they are not focused on you. they are focused on politics. they are focused on trying to mess with me. if congress doesn t pass the debt ceiling in the next few weeks the united states will default on its obligations.
representing himself, he does have the opportunity to cross examine them. he hasn t done it with the witnesses so far as of yet. we ll have to wait and so what happens when they take the stand, jamie. i know you will be updating us all day, thank you. you like your doctor, ywill doctor, period. (applause) if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. no one will take it away. no matter what. no one will take it away no matter what. four years ago, president obama famously promised americans that health care reform would not affect those who were happy with the insurance plans, but now tens of thousands of people are experiencing just the opposite, for example people in california getting notices that their coverage will be dropped as a result of his signature plan. their providers pulling out of
cuba, accuses the president of poisoning the well, even last minute laws through an executive order issuing work permits and halting deportation just prior to the election. in a wide ranging interview in the wall street journal, rubio explains why the president must embrace immigration reform and outlines what he hopes to be his signature plan. quote, i don t think there s a lot of concern in this country that we ll now get overrun by ph.d. s and entrepreneurs. i think it s the rhetoric by a handful of voices in the minority, but loud none the less that have allowed the left to create an unfair perception to conservatives and republicans are anti-hispanic, and anti-immigration, and we do have to overcome that. there are nearly 12 million illegal workers right now in the country, but only 6.5% of those who came here, came here based on unique education or skills. the u.s. could not harvest its fruit crops without the large number of migrant workers who
just taxing millionaires and billionaires won t do enough to close the deficit. well, i agree. gregg: is that a ready made commercial for republicans in the fall. even the president admits his own sort of signature plan, buffet rule is a gimmick? i think the message they should put out. in the last three and a half years the president has been in office. gregg: i m so sorry. we have to go to colombia. the white house briefing. let s listen in. this is matter that is being looked in an appropriate manner by the secret service itself. it would not be appropriate for the president to be characterizing at this time.