Is Trump trying to sink both Obamacare and the Iran deal?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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President Trump is trying to make good this week on two campaign promises that upend the legacies of his predecessor. Jamil Smith guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.5 | Is Trump trying to sink both Obamacare and the Iran deal? |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Jamil Smith in for Warren Alley, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:18.9 | President Trump on Thursday took not one but two |
| 0:21.0 | dramatic actions to weaken the Affordable Care Act. First, an executive order to expand |
| 0:25.5 | cheap, less robust insurance. Then late last night, he declared the government will no longer |
| 0:30.3 | pay some $7 billion in subsidies that help people with lower incomes purchase health insurance. |
| 0:36.1 | What's it all mean for the future of Obamacare? |
| 0:38.8 | And on foreign policy, today Trump is announcing that he'll disavow the landmark nuclear deal |
| 0:43.4 | that the Obama administration helped strike with Iran, not scrapping it exactly, |
| 0:47.9 | but kicking the responsibility for what happens next to Congress. |
| 0:51.1 | Two campaign promises, two ways to erase the Obama legacy at home and abroad. |
| 0:55.5 | Stay with us. |
| 0:56.7 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:21.3 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Jemil Smith, in for Warren Alley, back with To the Point. |
| 1:33.7 | President Trump is trying to make good this week on two campaign promises that upend the legacies of his predecessor, Barack Obama. |
| 1:40.5 | Later in the show, we'll look at Trump's disavowal of the Iran nuclear deal today, kicking the matter to Congress. |
| 1:47.2 | Is it a real foreign policy reversal or more of a political compromise? |
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