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Lovett or Leave It
Lovett or Leave It
4.7 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado joins Jon to talk about the health care fight and a positive vision for Democrats, and to quiz the audience on a special mile-high topic. Plus comedian and writer Travon Free and Atlantic reporter Julia Ioffe help break down the week's news. Recorded live at the Belly Up comedy club in Aspen, Colorado.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you guys for coming out. |
| 0:05.0 | We have an awesome panel for you today. |
| 0:07.0 | She is a staff writer at the Atlantic where she covers politics and world affairs. |
| 0:15.0 | Julia Yaffee, friend of the pod. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:21.0 | He is an Emmy and P-body winning writer for the Daily Show and a writer for Full Frontial with Samantha Bee. |
| 0:26.0 | My friend Trayvon Freight. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's get into it guys. |
| 0:35.0 | What a week. |
| 0:37.0 | This week saw an incredible display on the healthcare front. |
| 0:42.0 | I think we went into this week believing that there was a solid chance that the Republicans would pass through the Senate, |
| 0:48.0 | a healthcare bill that was largely written in secrets that wasn't fully appreciated by the American people |
| 0:53.0 | that never went through any committee process and that it would sail over to the house and immediately be passed. |
| 0:57.0 | There was this open question as to what would happen. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, what happened was there was an incredible outpouring of activism. |
| 1:02.0 | The bill was panned by experts by the critics. |
| 1:07.0 | Definitely didn't get a terrible rotten tomato score. |
| 1:10.0 | The Senate healthcare bill. |
| 1:12.0 | And then on Monday the CBO released a score that's a 22 million would lose insurance by 2026. |
| 1:17.0 | By Tuesday, too many Republicans had walked away. |
| 1:24.0 | Not just conservatives who said the bill didn't go far enough to be able to bomb the care but several of the more moderate members of the caucus who said they couldn't support it. |
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