we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. last summer after house republicans voted overwhelmingly to repeal obamacare, the matter went to the senate where it was narrowly and memorably defeated. one of the votes came from democratic senator hirono. only three republican senators voted against that bill and now the president and other republicans up and down the ticket across the country claim to be the party helping people with preexisting health conditions. senator mazie hirono joins me from hawaii. you came back from the midst of cancer treatment to cast that vote. and what must it be like for you to watch republicans attempt to tell people that they re the party that will protect people
my word? i was a little ahead of that, i hated him the entire time. and i grew up in new york city. yes. i grew up in queens. as did i. i ve been following trump his whole life. i didn t think he was good as a reality show host, let alone the president of the united states. and so i never really liked him that much. he always seemed like a fraud to me, and a bit of a conartist and a performance artist, which is fine when you re performing, but not when you re the president. when he won, i did i was enraged. i m part of the lgbt community also and i fear for my fellow lgbt people and i fear for all of us as americans. and that s what got me involved. you know, we see this all the time, how do you get young people to vote, this rubik s cube everyone is trying to solve, what s your theory? i try to level with young people. we were all young once. once upon a time. i looked up your age today on
poll showed that 40% of 18 to 29-year-olds will definitely vote on election day, up 14 points from the last midterm election. and one effort to get those young people to the polls is being spearheaded by actor and comedian billy eichner and the folks at funny or die. glam up the midterms is a campaign tour traveling around the country trying to mode vate teem to register and vote. billy eichner is so dedicated to the cause he won t stop talking about it even when he s hounded by paparazzi in new york. everyone needs to vote for democrats. i know. you were upset a about a certain news story the president is redefining gender potentially. you can t redefine it it s a fact of life. [ bleep ]. evil piece of [ bleep ] the whole administration is awful. everyone needs to vote. you can vote now in many states. you can vote early. to you predict a blue wave is happening? are people that mad, or are they
thought. if you re habituated to it, if you haven t done it before, it feels like it s harder to do and there s more obstacles than it is. i set out to do with glam up the midterms, i come out and say look, there were elections in my 20s, i didn t vote during. you have to admit it. that s true for all of us. maybe not you because you re chris hasyes and you work at msnbc. most people don t vote in college, embrace the fact and admit that s not the way to be. we re now with the consequences of not enough people voting or people not voting because they re not in love with the candidate. it s a crazy fact about america that we have a functional in which senior citizens like punch above their weight to the ratio of two to one. they control state legislatures because they come out at midterms. i know. there have been a lot of voting campaigns called vote or die. i m like, call it vote and die
is. i set out to do with glam up the midterms, i come out and say look, there were elections in my 20s, i didn t vote during. you have to admit it. that s true for all of us. maybe not you because you re chris hayes and you work at msnbc. most people don t vote in college, embrace the fact and admit that s not the way to be. we re now with the consequences of not enough people voting or people not voting because they re not in love with the candidate. it s a crazy fact about america that we have a functional in which senior citizens like punch above their weight to the ratio of two to one. they control state legislatures because they come out at midterms. i know. there have been a lot of voting campaigns called vote or die. i m like, call it vote and die because all the people voting are like a thousand years old. which, by the way, we love seniors. of course we do.