and i think the nfl is really at a moment where they could use some leadership. i would guess, steve, if you went around the room for all the crisis communicators surrounding the commissioner, not one voted for donald trump. i think they are missing the peril that the nfl is in on top of their brain issues that are coming up that i disagree with the president about as well. but everyone should just step back here and try and make sunday the day that people and monday night and thursday night, the day that people em joy professionals like brian, doing what they do best, which is playing a game americans love. all right. hugh hewitt and brian mitchell. thank you both for your time. appreciate it. thanks. thanks. and turning to the other major political story, the latest effort to end obamacare once and for all. republicans are trying to rush the bill known at gram cassadhay by september 30th. a deadline to get the bill passed with just 50 votes.
they added in extra money for states like alaska, an attempt to win over lease kaw murkowski and loosens insurance and changes language on pre-existing conditions. joining me now, mazy arhonea of hawaii who testified today. health care battles of harry own since diagnosed with kidney cancer. senator thank you for joining us. we mentioned your own personal held story. you talked about it today in your testimony. people are wondering how are you doing right now? feeling fine. not out of the woods, but, you know, it very much is an issue that affects all of us. when they say we are one diagnosis away from a serious illness, i certainly learned that, in my own experience, but the point here is that yet again the republicans are trying to ram through a bill that impacts 1/6 of our economy, millions of people in our country with one
hearing, i think it s just such a huge disservice i can t begin to tell you all the damage this bill will do to the people of our country. let me ask you as a political matter, democrats last week started sounding the alarm saying republicans are taking another pass at it. when john mccain said he was a no end of last week, looked like that might be it. now provisions in place. as a political matter, watching, trying to see if they can get enough republicans onboard to pass this. these changes they ve made, has that brought them closer, do you think, to getting the republicans they need to pass this? well, they apparently think they are, but i hope not. i hope susan collins and lisa murkowski will stand firm. what this bill will do, change medicaid as we know it into bloc grants and that s going to hurt people in alaska and maine. no question. the last time i talked about this, as i said, the issue for the republican party, twist arms all they can, but just buying
and there are a lot of us who believe health care is a right not a privilege reserved only for those who can afford it. health care is a right and the richest country in the world, people should be able to in a time of need, health care prices, should be able to rely on health insurance being there for them, and this bill would take that away. it s unconscionable and lacks passion. what i came to s in my testimony today. all people showed me compassion when i told them i had kidney cancer and many members at the hearing today, a show of compassion to the rest of the people in our country. that s what we should we should show as leaders. that we ll be making decisions that impacts every single person in our country. let me ask you about this. the longer term goal of single payer, again, signing on with that plan. 17 democrats onboard with bernie sanders on single payer. in his president s campaign last
off, if i can use that term, alaska, doesn t mean that the rest of the country isn t going to be shoved under the bus and i am not going to stand still to that happening in millions in our country. we were one of 17 democrats, two weeks ago, who signed on to that bernie sanders plan for single payer health care. you heard the comment of lindsey graham today basically saying, hey, we have to do this, because the democrats want s single payer. saying, hey, this last pass at repeal and replace of obamacare by republicans is a response to that move you and your colleagues made two weeks ago lining up behind single payer. do you look at that and say maybe we should have waited until this passed? not at all. i don t think this is response to the fact some of us signed ton to a single payer bill because republicans in both the house and senate have been dying to literally pass repealing of obamacare, long before the single payer bill got through,