Growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know On The Last Day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Danger threatens Donald Trumps presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the Op Ed Claiming to be part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration protecting the country from an unfit president. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter
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actually, josh hawley is the attorney general in the state of missouri who is personally handling that state s part in the federal lawsuit to kill obamacare, including its protections for preexisting conditions. but again, nice try. i support forcing insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions. actually, under florida governor rick scott, his state is suing to allow insurance companies specifically to no longer cover preexisting conditions, but nice try. i m fighting to protect preexisting conditions. here s the truth. kevin cramer voted for guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions. i m taking on both parties and fighting for those with preexisting conditions. everyone agrees we re going to protect preexisting conditions. i want the voters to know i m committed to protecting people with preexisting conditions. i m fighting for it. i fought for it, and i voted for it. nope.
element of obamacare, the affordable care act is this thing about preexisting conditions. this critical part of the deal that was struck to pass obamacare where it became a new rule for health insurance companies that they can no longer deny you coverage, and they can no longer charge you extra for your coverage just because you have a preexisting condition. that is a very popular provision of the law that gets rid of what was a huge and devastating and sometimes fatal flaw in what used to be the american health care system before obamacare reformed it and achieved this deal. that preexisting conditions thing is also infinitely relatable. everybody knows someone who has a preexisting condition of some kind, if you don t have one yourself. senator claire mccaskill up for reelection in missouri. when she does town halls in missouri, she asks people to stand follow-up they have a preexisting condition so, they understand what s at stake if the republicans finally follow through on what th
it s got a 75% approval rating. americans love that. well, the basic bill that house republicans voted on a gazillion times to kill obamacare, it explicitly states that the preexisting conditions guarantee would be ended if republicans got that passed. that lawsuit by 20 republican-led states that s pending in the courts right now to eliminate all of obamacare, it also explicitly and specifically seeks to remove protections for people with preexisting conditions. republicans are desperately trying both in congress and in the states and through the courts to kill coverage for preexisting conditions. that s what they re actively working on. don t listen to what they say. watch what they do. this is what they re doing. and they used to think this was great politics. it s clear that it s not great politics anymore. the electorate is now absolutely opposed to them on this and really cares about health care as an issue heading into this election. so now there is this weird thing happening, i
where republicans who have been inveighing against the evils of obamacare for years, who have been voting to kill obamacare for years, who have been supporting these efforts, actively supporting efforts now to get rid of preexisting coverage, preexisting conditions coverage specifically, all these republicans on the occasion of this election two weeks from tonight, all these republicans are now pretending, actually on this issue, i m kind of a democrat. all these republicans now trying to run on the democratic party s position on health care. they re all running against themselves. in wisconsin, preexisting conditions are covered. and as long as i m governor, they always will be. actually, under governor scott walker, wisconsin is the lead named plaintiff on the federal lawsuit that would eliminate obamacare, including specifically its protections for people with preexisting conditions. but nice try. i m josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all preexisting