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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The GOP's final health care push

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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POLITICO reporters tackle the Graham-Cassidy health care bill in the works in the Senate, the Alabama special election and how much money the super PAC aligned with Mitch McConnell has spent so far, and President Donald Trump’s latest approval rating according to Real Clear Politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello listeners it is Thursday September 21st 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you are

0:06.6

listening to Politico's nerd case. Lots to talk about as usual this week. We are going to kick off though with

0:19.1

health care. We've done it a few times already this year. Once again, Republican efforts in Congress are

0:25.2

ramping up to pass an Obamacare replacement health care bill. This time it's in

0:29.7

the Senate, it's being led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy and they are operating on a tight deadline, but they think they might have the formula put together to get at least 50 Republican votes in the Senate, kick things over to the House, and

0:44.0

fulfill this long campaign promise that they've had to repeal Obamacare.

0:49.3

So we are going to talk about what's in that bill, what some of the political implications could be.

0:55.0

We're also going to check in with the Alabama Senate race.

0:57.3

That primary on the Republican side is coming up on Tuesday.

1:00.8

A big race with Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader

1:04.6

Mitch McConnell and a lot of others invested in that race.

1:08.0

We're going to talk about where the polling stands, the different personalities in play there, and what might happen on Tuesday.

1:15.2

And then at the end, we're going to take a quick check-in with President Donald Trump's

1:18.2

approval ratings.

1:19.5

It's doing something it hasn't done in a little while.

1:21.3

It's actually going up.

1:23.7

We're going to talk about why that might be, whether we can trust that as a long-term trend

1:28.8

or not, and other stuff going on in the White House right now.

1:33.2

Before we jump into all that, a few quick housekeeping notes.

1:36.0

Remember, if you have questions, please email us at nerdcast at politico.

1:41.0

We'd love to hear from you along the same lines.

1:44.0

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