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Poplar narrative of the day. despite this effort to reign her in there are no signs that victoria spartz is backing down. what a bizarre story. we know you will keep working on that. melanie zanona, thank you. record high inflation is not only hitting americans at the grocery store, it s also left millions in a bind concerning their own health care. cnn s gabe cohen is live in washington with more. john, if you look at the latest inflation statistics the price of health care has only risen about half as fast as overall inflation but it is going up and frankly it s been a problem for many americans for years. when you put all of those rising costs together, food, gas, rent, it is making it more difficult for americans to afford necessities and of course that includes medical care that they need day to day. reporter: these are the medicines angelina scott can t live without. this is a blood thinner. reporter: for high blood ....
That i think it would be going in the wrong direction to criticize that this bill doesn t fit the perfect standard of any one of us here on this program or watching. i think it is remarkable that finally we re seeing congress do the thing they were designed to do, which is negotiating and bargaining with each other to get something done to meet a critical need of the american people. so that s a win. i will take a win. i don t want to get ahead of ourselves because this is just a framework. but it s a real step. and i think it s a step in the positive direction. the other step, in addition that number one, never make the perfect the enemy of the good. the ten republicans here, six of them aren t running for re-election that s fine. five. john cornyn is taking a risk taking a leadership role in this, he deserves credit for that. even though these provisions are broadly poplar, they re attacked by the base. the assault weapons ban when it passed in 94 didn t get ....
What they re trying to do is exactly what they have accused liberals of doing for 50 years which is to impose their political preferences from the bench at a time when as ron points out, they are largely losing the popular fight in the country at large, that the trends of the country are moving away from this very conservative world view which is held primarily by people in rural areas and smaller states but those rural areas and smaller states essentially have a hammer lock on the senate, on the electoral college, and therefore on the supreme court, which is increasingly unrepresentative of the country at large and yet never the less, is acting in an increasingly radical and sweeping manner disregarding the lack of poplar support for their decisions and i think this is only exacerbating the crisis of legitimacy, and undermining the basis of our democracy which is ....
Argument by pointing out just how odd and extreme it is and then humanizing yourself and pointing out the families that will suffer from this. 5-year-olds i have a 4-year-old have she is asking, tommy has one dad. the grandma what s the deal? you know you can t ban discussion from a classroom. these kids are learning about the world. thinking about a kindergarten that feels scared to talk about two dads or two moms or divorced parents nobody wants that. that s not poplar. humanizing the people suffering from this and the extremism and how bizarre the efforts are can be a winning message to take on the fight directly. the other sort of gift of this speech i think is ....
Republicans and then turn it into a winner of that obviously a brilliant escort so tell us why you think this is a political opportunity for republicans. just like a century ago when teddy roosevelt said he had to choose between preservation and economic exploitation we have an opportunity to choose not between the great new deal and action but a path forward like teddy roosevelt did he chose conservation and poplar - popularized the term and then we can popularize our own agenda. that s the conservative way. we are and we want a balanced ....