SAYING IT, DON’T THINK IT’LL
HAPPEN, BUT IT’S A POSSIBILITY.
>> SO LET’S GET TO THE BIG NEWS
OVERNIGHT CAME ANOTHER MOVE BY
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, TO
YOUR POINT, JOE, TO STRIKE DOWN
OBAMACARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A
PANDEMIC.
AMID THE SURGING CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMIC AND RECORD
UNEMPLOYMENT, THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT BRIEF LATE LAST NIGHT
ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO
OVERTURN THE AFFORDABLE CARE
ACT.
THE MOVE CAME ON THE SAME DAY
THE GOVERNMENT REPORTED NEARLY
HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WHO LOST
HEALTH INSURANCE DURING THE
CORONAVIRUS SHUTDOWN ENROLLED IN
COVERAGE THROUGH HEALTH.GOV, A
46% INCREASE FROM THE SAME TIME
LAST YEAR.
THE LEGAL BRIEF MAKES NO MENTION
OF THE VIRUS.
BACK IN 2017, CONGRESS
ELIMINATED THE PENALTIES THAT
ENFORCED THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE,
THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY A LAWSUIT
FROM A COALITION OF PUBLIC
ATTORNEYS GENERAL ARGUING THAT
THE ENTIRE LAW MUST BE STRUCK
DOWN, INCLUDING POPULAR
PROTECTIONS FOR PREEXISTING
CONDITIONS.
JOE BIDEN HAD THIS TO SAY AT AN
EVENT IN PENNSYLVANIA YESTERDAY.
>> PERHAPS MOST CRUELLY OF ALL,
IF DONALD TRUMP HAS HIS WAY,
THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLICATIONS
FROM COVID-19 COULD BECOME THE
NEW PREEXISTING CONDITIONS.
SO SURVIVORS WILL EXPERIENCE
LASTING HEALTH IMPACTS LIKE LUNG
SCARRING AND HEART DAMAGE.
AND IF DONALD TRUMP PREVAILS IN
COURT, INSURERS WOULD BE ALLOWED
ONCE AGAIN TO STRIP AWAY
COVERAGE, JACK UP PREMIUMS,
SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE BATTLE
THEY SURVIVED FIGHTING
CORONAVIRUS.
MR. PRESIDENT, DROP THE LAWSUIT.
STOP TRYING TO GET RID OF THE
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
STOP TAKING AWAY PEOPLE’S HEALTH
CARE AND THEIR PEACE OF MIND.
NOW MORE THAN EVER STOP TRYING
TO STEAL THEIR PEACE OF MIND.
I CANNOT COMPREHEND THE CRUELTY
THAT’S DRIVING HIM TO INFLICT
THIS PAIN ON THE VERY PEOPLE
HE’S SUPPOSED TO SERVE.
>> AND THERE WE GO.
GENE ROBINSON, THERE WE GO.
GONNA GET TO JONATHAN IN A
SECOND TO GET THE REPORTING ON
THIS, BUT YOU TELL ME, GENE,
WHAT --
>> YAEAH.
>> -- MAN OR WOMAN WHO WANTS TO
BE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES DECIDES WHEN
EVERYTHING IS GOING BAD FOR HIM
AND HIS POLL NUMBERS ARE
COLLAPSING, THAT HE’S GOING TO
CHOOSE THIS TIME, IN THE MIDDLE
OF A PANDEMIC, THAT’S KILLED
125,000 AMERICANS, LIKELY KILL
150 OR MORE BY THE TIME OF THE
ELECTION, TO ACTUALLY CUT WORK,
TO TRY TO TAKE AWAY HEALTH CARE
FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN A
PROGRAM THAT IS ACTUALLY VERY
POPULAR NOW.
AND AT THE SAME TIME WORK TO
DEFUND TESTING FOR STATES LIKE
TEXAS, ARIZONA, AND FLORIDA, AND
EVEN GET TED CRUZ AND JOHN
CORNYN WRITING LETTERS SAYING,
MR. PRESIDENT, NOW IS NOT THE
TIME TO DEFUND TESTING.
AS HOUSTON’S TOP HEALTH CARE
OFFICIAL SAID, THIS WOULD BE
CATASTROPHIC.
AND YET, DONALD TRUMP IS DOING
IT.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?
MAYBE YOU CAN EXPLAIN IT BETTER
THAN ME.
>> WELL, IT’S -- IT’S BAFFLING.
IT’S INCO-MPREHENSIBLE.
AND IF HE DOES WANT TO BE
RE-ELECTED, IT’S THE STUPIDEST
POSSIBLE WAY TO TRY TO GO ABOUT
IT.
LOOK WHAT HE’S DOING.
HE’S NOT ONLY DOING THIS TO
HIMSELF, HE’S PUTTING THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY, YOU KNOW, ON
THE SIDE OF TAKING AWAY HEALTH
CARE FROM MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC. HE’S PUTTING THE REPUBLICAN
HE’S PUTTING THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY FIRMLY ON THE SIDE OF
STRUCTURAL RACISM AND SPECIFIC
RACISM AND THE TERM KUNG FLU AND
THE IDEA THAT ALL THE PROTESTERS
PROTESTING POLICE VIOLENCE ARE
THUGS.
HE’S PUTTING THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY NOT JUST ON THE WRONG SIDE
OF HISTORY IN ISSUE AFTER ISSUE
AFTER ISSUE BUT ON THE WRONG
SIDE OF THIS ELECTION.
YOU SEE IT IN EVERY POLL.
AND WHAT YOU’VE SEEN, YOU KNOW,
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE AN
INDIVIDUAL POLL, TAKE THE SUITE
OF POLLS WE’VE SEEN OVER THE
LAST MONTH, ESPECIALLY THE
ACCELERATING DECLINE OVER THE
LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
HE’S TRYING TO DRAG HIS BRAND
DOWN TO A HISTORIC DEFEAT WHERE
IT LOSES NOT JUST THE WHITE
HOUSE BUT LOSES THE SENATE,
LOSES LEGISLATIVE SEATS.
LOSES THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX, IT
IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
AND REPUBLICANS ARE GOING ALONG
WITH IT.
THEY’RE WRITING LITTLE LETTERS,
PLEASE MR. PRESIDENT, DON’T TAKE
AWAY OUR TESTING FOR COVID.
BUT THEY BETTER START SPEAKING
OUT AND THEY BETTER DO SOMETHING
BECAUSE IF THEY DON’T, I MEAN,
THIS IS -- THIS IS -- WE’RE
GETTING INTO GOING OFF THE CLIFF
AT THIS POINT.
>> OFF THE CLIFF.
AND ACTUALLY "THE WASHINGTON
JOURNAL" EDITORIAL PAGE THIS
MORNING, THANKS JOHN HEILEMAN
FOR POINTING THIS OUT, JOHN
TEXTED ME AND TALKED ABOUT HOW
"THE WASHINGTON JOURNAL"
EDITORIAL PAGE, OF ALL PAGES,
TAKING DONALD TRUMP TO TASK
SAYING MR. TRUMP’S BASE OF 35%
WILL NEVER LEAVE BUT THE SWING
VOTERS WHO STOOD BY HIM FOR
THREE AND A HALF YEARS HAS
FALLEN AWAY IN THE LAST FEW
MONTHS.
THIS INCLUDES THOSE WHO TOOK A
RISKE ON HIM IN 2016 AS AN
OUTSIDER WHO SHOULD SHAKE THINGS
UP.
NOW MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE
CLOSE TO DECIDING THAT FOUR MORE
YEARS ARE MORE RISK THAN THEY
CAN STAND.
AS OF NOW, MR. TRUMP HAS NO
SECOND TERM AGENDA OR EVEN A
MESSAGE BEYOND FOUR MORE YEARS
OF HIMSELF.
HIS RECENT EVENTS WERE DOMINATED
BY PERSONAL GRIEVANCES.
AND THEY GO ON TO SAY, PERHAPS
MR. TRUMP LACKS THE