Speaking in Louisville on Monday night, President Trump slammed former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who made an enormous production out of kneeling for the national anthem last season. Trump recounted an article he'd read. He stated, quote, NFL owners don't want to pick him up because they don't want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump. I said, if I remember that one, I'm going to report it to the people of Kentucky because they like it when people actually stand for the American flag. This isn't good.

Actually, it's quite bad. if I remember that one, I'm going to report it to the people of Kentucky because they like it when people actually stand for the American flag.

This isn't good. Actually, it's quite bad. That's not because Kaepernick doesn't deserve criticism. This is a fellow who wore socks depicting police officers as pigs who thinks the same America that has made him rich and famous for being a one-shot talent is deeply racist and horrible. NFL teams are reticent to pick Kaepernick up, not just because he's a headache, but because he's flamed out as a football player.

But the president of the United States should not be in the business of bullying businesses

into firing particular employees or even being perceived to do so.

That's scary.

Imagine if President Obama had celebrated Mozilla Firefox firing former CEO Brendan Aish over his support for traditional marriage. Conservatives would have been outraged,

and rightly so. This isn't even Trump celebrating the predictable results of making deeply stupid

political stands. It's him celebrating his own impact on creating consequences for people

who aren't even in a political business. Yes, NFL owners are right

to Sean Kaepernick, but Trump certainly isn't right to involve himself in pressuring owners to do so

through his own Twitter feed. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Oh, so much to get to today. We're going to get to President Trump putting the screws to

House Republicans and Senate Republicans in order to get them to buy into his Trump care. We'll get to all of that. We'll also get to all of the fallout from yesterday on Trump, Russia. We'll get to the fallout on the leaks. We'll get to all of that. But first, we have to say thank you to our advertisers over at ziprecruiter.com. So if you're somebody who's looking to fill an employment position and you don't want to post on 200 odd job sites and then wait for all of the returns to roll in and sift through them, ZipRecruiter.com helps you out. You can post your job to all of those job sites with a single click, including Facebook and Twitter. You can find candidates in any city or industry nationwide. You post once. You watch your qualified candidates roll into ZipRecruiter's easy-to-use interface. You don't have to juggle emails or calls to your office. You can screen candidates. You can write them, and you can hire the right person incredibly quickly. That's why it's used by Fortune 100 companies. is why we here at the Dailyire are beginning to use it. Right now, my listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire. That's ziprecruiter.com slash daily wire. And make sure that you try it because that means that you can post for free. ZipRecruiter.com slash daily wire as somebody who has employed lots of people in the past and had to sift through tons and tons of resumes on a personal level and deal with incoming phone calls that jangle the phone off the hook when phones had hooks, it is much better to have a process like ZipRecruiter.com. They make it quick. They make it easy. They make it fast. And obviously it's cheap. Right now, if you go to ziprecruiter.com slash daily wire, you can post your job for free and fill that job. All righty. So here we are, and Donald Trump has gotten himself in trouble for yet another day. But I want to begin with a bigger story than everything that's happening with the wiretapping and the Russia connections and the leaks and all that. We'll get to all that in just a second. I want to talk about the latest developments on the Hill. The thing that I think is going to have more impact than any of those things on President Trump's presidency, and that is how this health care bill goes down. So right now, President Trump is on the Hill threatening people. According to M.J. Lee over at CNN,

the White House gave a message to senators yesterday. The legislation is done. There are not going to be

any more changes, according to Mike Lee. Mike Lee is a senator from Utah, stanch conservative,

somebody who really believes in the principles of the Constitution, really doesn't like

Trump care because he says it's Obamacare light. And now the White House is saying no more changes. First off, it is important to note that there are alternatives to what is being done here. Trump and Ryan are basically saying that there are no alternatives to what is being done here. There are two alternatives. One is just repeal Obamacare without a replacement and then replace it piecemeal. You can do that with a straight Republican vote. But Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He's already come out and he says, that's not a possibility. They're not the votes for it, which just shows you that Republicans were lying to you for years, lying to you for years. They weren't promising you that they were going to replace Obamacare with something that was Obamacare light. They weren't promising you. There weren't going to be any effects.

There were going to be no effects from repealing Obamacare. They promised you they were going to repeal Obamacare. And now Tom Price is telling you they don't have the votes. Paul Ryan says the same thing, to just repeal the damn thing. So instead of just repealing it, we have to go through this whole rigmarole where we put together an omnibus package bill, a 120-page bill,

with tons of regulations that are going to be attached to it, that is really a crappy bill. And it's a crappy bill for a number of reasons. The only good thing about the bill is the shifting away from need-based Medicaid aid from the feds to the states toward a block grant from the feds to the states, $10 billion a year for 10 years.

If you think, however, that Congress is going to hold to those strictures, you're out of your mind. Okay, Congress is going to have that block grant. It's going to apply for about five years. And then there's going to be a lot of complaints at the state level, and Congress is going to up the amount of the block ground. How do I know that's going to happen? because that's what's happened with every single federal program ever created for the benefit of states.

It always expands in size and scope.

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