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The Bill Press Pod

Igor Volsky Guest Hosts (1.13.17)

The Bill Press Pod

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press is out so Igor Volsky (Center for American Progress Action Fund) is filling in. He welcomes Joe Marks, Adam Smith, & Matt Fuller to discuss Paul Ryan's awkward Obamacare moment at last night's CNN town hall, the state of America's cybersecurity in light of the Russia hacks, Jason Chaffetz's newest target, & the Republicans' lack of a health care replacement plan - all the big highlights from this Friday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network.

0:11.4

Last night at the CNN Town Hall, it was a no-holds bar discussion between Jake Tapper,

0:17.3

CNN's Jake Tapper, and Paul Ryan, about Obamacare, the president elects,

0:25.6

tweeting the priorities of the new Congress. But the strongest and most poignant moment

0:32.6

happened really at the very beginning. Speaker Ryan comes out, says, hello, hello, answers one question from Jake Tapper about

0:41.5

the state of Obamacare repeal.

0:43.2

That, of course, is the congressional effort to repeal and replace Obamacare at some point.

0:50.6

Now they say they promise, they pledge that they'll repeal and replace Obamacare with the snap of a finger simultaneously somewhere in the first hundred days.

1:00.5

The speaker said, and then the first question came from a man by the name of Jeff Jones.

1:08.4

Jamie, what did Jeff Jones ask the speaker?

1:12.7

When it was passed, I told my wife, we would close our business before I complied with this law.

1:19.7

Then, at 49, I was given six weeks to live with a very curable type of cancer.

1:31.0

We offered three times the cost of my treatments, which was rejected. They required an insurance card. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act,

1:39.4

I'm standing here today alive. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Speaker, who you just pledged to repeal.

1:47.0

I'm standing here alive.

1:49.0

A story shared by thousands of people across the country.

1:52.0

There are so many people with that story.

1:54.0

By the way, down to the fact that there are Republicans who hated the Affordable Care Act until they needed it, and then it saved their lives.

2:02.7

We should mention also that Jeff Jones, who was a lifelong Republican, who worked for Reagan and Bush.

2:08.5

Yes.

2:10.1

Like, you hear that story one time, and if you have any semblance of a conscience, you say, okay, you know what? We're

2:21.7

going to do right by this guy. We're going to do right by the other folks out there that

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