50 million american users, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. former president trump s legal panel is about to get more worse. one of his attorneys, evan corcoran, is about to do appear before an attorney is backing the classified documents, case as early as tomorrow. but corcoran is also involved in the other federal investigation involving trump. today, he appeared in federal court in d.c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of t
great at the moment. but we had tried 400 years to pass this kind of legislation, and this isn t just about winning and maintaining power. we need to do something with that power. help as many people as you can for as long as you have the power. so the politics didn t look good. it heard us in 2010. by 2012 obama s reelection, the affordable care act was a positive. i think it has remained that way, because republicans remain obsessed. we don t yet know what the economy is going to look like a year or 18 months for now as people are casting votes in a presidential election. but there s a lot of uncertainty around the economy. voters concerned about health care really increased. but at times of economic uncertainty particularly. health care security becomes important. you have one party who still seems like the most animating mission other than destroying democracy is removing health care from people and families. that s an argument democrats have always been able to. when i think the b
be able to win it again in 24. so we know republicans are bad on health care. we know obamacare was a historic move, as you pointed out the first time in 100 years that that happened. but it didn t go far enough. left tens of millions of americans underinsured or uninsured. in 2018, former president obama himself called medicare for all a good idea for democrats. do you think that s the direction that party needs to go as an aspiration? universal health care? yeah, and listen, i think back in affordable care act to 2010, he passed everything he could, anti nancy pelosi passed everything she could, and they got all they could with the votes they got. so yeah, they re still on vote expansion of no question about that, but also cost control innovation, and things that, because, again, when we are talking about peoples lives, obviously we want higher wages, and we want
affordable care act into law. in case you forgot, here s a reminder from then vice president joe biden. barack obama. [applause] the. awe, joe, joe, joe. you might also remember the during don trump s presidency, trump said he would repeal and replace what became known as obamacare, the aca. he went on fox news, or fox, as i prefer to call, it and he said he would reveal his full and complete health care plan in two weeks. that was 139 weeks ago. we re still waiting on a plan, as trump runs for the white house for a third time. here s what president biden said earlier about republicans as he marked today s anniversary. even now, maga republican congressman are intent on repealing the affordable care act when it is clear it would have a devastating impact on the american people. we still have the house republican, we still haven t
seen the house republican budget. they want to negotiate. i say i lay down my budget, you lay down, yours let s negotiate. i don t know where their budget is. with us for more, david plouffe, former obama campaign manager and senior adviser to the president. david, thanks for coming back on the show. where would we be right now if not for the aca? and where do you think republicans are hoping to take this country when it comes to health care? 11 years ago you said republicans would live tour grant calling it obamacare? well, yeah, let s remember, there s a lesson here, which is, democrats had 16 votes in the senate, hard to believe that was the case, and i was in washington there were a lot of democrats who basically wanted to give up on health care. past a very very reduce bill. remember, mehdi, the economy was still in terrible shape. we were covering from the financial crisis. the politics of this were not