Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) & Alex Seitz-Wald (1.5.17)
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network. |
| 0:11.9 | On the showdown for it with Obamacare yesterday, in fact, it was high drama with President himself a rare visit to Capitol Hill and an even more rare meeting with |
| 0:21.9 | both House and Senate Democrats. |
| 0:24.3 | And, of course, Donald Trump, who's not going to be bothered with governing? |
| 0:28.5 | I mean, he's got more important things. |
| 0:30.2 | Come on, give him a break. |
| 0:32.6 | He's got hotels to build all over the world. |
| 0:35.6 | Got casinos to run and golf courses to play on and make sure they're not being flooded by |
| 0:42.1 | climate change. |
| 0:43.2 | He's a busy businessman. |
| 0:45.7 | He can't be bothered with being president of the United States. |
| 0:49.5 | So he sends Mike Pence up to do his dirty work on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:54.6 | But I think the interesting stuff out of this yesterday came with President Obama's message |
| 0:59.7 | to Democrats. |
| 1:01.1 | It was not a public meeting, of course, but enough Democrats have talked about it. |
| 1:04.8 | Well, we know the president told them was, and I was at the press briefing yesterday, |
| 1:08.0 | and Josh Ernest told us reporters. |
| 1:10.2 | The president's message was |
| 1:11.6 | Obamacare has is a great program. And we've talked enough about it. You know my reservations about |
| 1:19.1 | it. The president's saying, look, Obamacare is a great program. It has helped millions and millions and |
| 1:24.3 | millions of Americans. It is, it can be made better, but it's got a lot of good parts to it. |
| 1:32.1 | And it's up to us now to defend it. |
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