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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 193 - Kathleen Sebelius

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Former HHS Secretary and two term Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebelius discusses her family's legacy in politics, sexual harassment in America, and the future of Obamacare under the Trump administration.

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And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles with your

0:12.6

host, David Axelrod.

0:16.4

First let me say a very happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

0:19.9

I hope you're enjoying the incomparable blessings of family and friends.

0:24.9

First Americans remember Kathleen Sibelius as the HHS secretary who helped shepherd the

0:33.0

Affordable Care Act debate and then administered the law.

0:37.2

But she also was a two-term governor of Kansas, the daughter of Jack Gilligan, the late governor

0:44.6

of Ohio, remains the only father and daughter governors in the history of the Republic.

0:51.8

She was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this fall and we sat down the other day to

0:56.7

talk about her life and career.

0:58.6

The health care law she helped inaugurate and the evolving rash of revelations about sexual

1:04.6

harassment.

1:08.4

Kathleen Sibelius, it's great to see you and great to have you at the Institute of Politics.

1:13.4

You've been a wonderful presence around here.

1:16.1

Well it's been an amazing experience.

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I didn't know what to expect and it has exceeded all my expectations.

1:21.8

I told you that was to be there.

1:25.4

It's been a lot of fun.

1:26.4

So no one probably around here has as deep a relationship with politics as you did.

1:37.0

You grew up with it all around you.

1:39.5

I did.

1:40.8

Tell me about your folks.

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