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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Polls show Americans aren't buying Trump team's ignorance ploy

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki shares examples of Republicans, from Donald Trump to House Speaker Mike Johnson to members of Trump's Cabinet avoiding questions and claiming not to be familiar with major national news stories and other data directly related to their areas of responsibility. And while the ignorance tactic may help them avoid answering questions, new polls show Americans already understand what's really going on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanted to start tonight by showing you these incredible images again of members of the disability community protesting House Republican cuts to Medicaid,

0:09.0

with at least 26 of them getting arrested in the process.

0:13.0

Now, we talked about this yesterday. It's important to keep talking about, but what we didn't show you is what you're seeing here.

0:19.0

And that's Senator Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers who went over to the House,

0:24.3

joined them, and thanked those protesters.

0:27.2

He also told them to keep fighting and to stay strong.

0:30.0

A very important message because this is a long battle when you are trying to prevent bad policy from happening.

0:36.3

Now, Senator Booker is going to join me here live to talk about all of that and more in

0:40.7

just a few minutes.

0:41.8

Now, today, more protesters were back on Capitol Hill.

0:45.8

This time, right outside Speaker Mike Johnson's office.

0:49.3

And they had some of the same message, no cuts to Medicaid.

0:53.3

And we should tell you that these protests are also

0:55.2

not limited to Washington, D.C. There were protests all across the country. There were health care

1:00.6

workers in Oakland, California yesterday, rallying around that same message. You can see it there

1:06.1

with this message on their signs. Hands off Medicaid. Hands off Medicaid. A lot of their signs are

1:10.7

saying. In Bakersfield

1:12.6

and Folsom, California, more health care workers turned out to protest these cuts. In the small town

1:18.6

of Dunkirk, New York, you can see them right there. Healthcare workers at Brooks Memorial Hospital

1:23.7

called on their Republican representative to vote no on these cuts. Again, hands off Medicaid,

1:29.3

handmade signs there too. And while ordinary people and health care workers on the front lines were

1:34.4

out in force protesting these big cuts to life-saving care, can you guess where the president

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