On the #AxeFiles , Freedom Caucus alum & former Rep. Ken Buck and I agreed on at least one point re Affordble Care Act: that the old insurance company practice of blackballing people w/preexisting conditions--which the ACA banned--was 'morally wrong.'
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Did a live #AxeFiles event w/⁦Nancy Pelosi⁩ at Arizona State University yesterday, at which she absolutely unloaded on
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Bill Bradley on #AxeFiles :
'It comes down to Biden versus Trump.
Trump? That would be weak; grievance versus competence & kindness. To me, competence & kindness are what'll move this country forward. Weakness & grievance will always get us into trouble.'
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Fmr Sen. Bill Bradley shares great story on #AxeFiles about Joe Biden & a meeting he led in the Kremlin w/then Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin. 'At one point, Biden looks across the green felt table top & says 'Come on, Alexei, don't shit a shitter!''
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On #AxeFiles , Fareed Zakaria notes historic (tho incomplete) global progress in women's rights--and the backlash it has caused.
'All the religious, reactionary movements of our time...want to return to very traditional roles for women.'
Full Pod here: link.chtbl.com/rzRbbrqO

On #AxeFiles , Nancy Pelosi talks about Trump (while refusing to use his name) & the knotty dilemma he's created for himself on abortion. 'He takes great pride that this Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade...Now he's afraid of the politics of it.'
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The debate over free expression on campus is raging. I asked @MichaelCrow, longtime president of Arizona State University, about it on the #AxeFiles .
'Say I'm a highly controversial speaker and you're interviewing me...We can't have people kicking the doors down and breaking into the…

On the #AxeFiles & his moving, one-man show, Rolling Along--now on Max--Bill Bradley talks about what he learned from his Black NEW YORK KNICKS teammates. 'I saw how far we have to go as a country before our racial reality matches our ideals.'
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Sister Simone Campbell (Sr. Simone Campbell) helped change history in '10 when she & a gutsy group of nuns stood up to the conservative bishops and worked to pass the Affordable Care Act. The Medal of Freedom winner describes the fateful battle on the #AxeFiles .
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On a new #AxeFiles , recorded this week at Arizona State University, Nancy Pelosi predicts the House will pass Ukraine funding but decries opposition from within the GOP ranks. 'There's a Putin caucus on the Republican side of the aisle...They LIKE Putin...It's scary.'
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Here's some political wisdom from Nancy Pelosi:
'People don't want to hear you tell them that you deserve to be reelected because you did this, this, this & this...That's a good calling card but you have to be talking about the future.'
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On #AxeFiles , Nancy Pelosi speaks about the politically-inspired attacker who in '22 nearly killed her husband, Paul, in their home. 'I feel terribly guilty because, obviously, he was there looking for me, and my dear husband became the victim.'
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After '16, analysts spoke of 'shy Trump voters,' who had refused to tell pollsters they were voting for him.
On #AxeFiles , Karl Rove suggests that the opposite may be true in '24. 'If he's found guilty on something, it could be very problematic.'
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.Reverend Raphael Warnock was elected to the U.S. Senate on 1/5/21. The next day 1/6--his first on the job--all hell broke loose at the Capital. On #AxeFiles , the Georgian talks about those days, and the ongoing contest in our politics between hope and fear.
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Only 10 states have failed to expand Medicaid under the ACA, denying health coverage to millions.
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock is fighting to change that in GA.
'The people in the gap that would be covered by Medicaid expansion? Largely the working poor.'
#AxeFiles : link.chtbl.com/ks5x_UX6

Fmr Rep. Stephanie Murphy is a Vietnamese refugee, whose family survived a perilous journey to reach our shores.
'My parents used to say...it was better for us to all die together in search of light and freedom than it was to live in darkness.'
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On #AxeFiles , The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו's stubborn opposition to a two-state solution is partly animated by his desperation to keep power & avoid prison.
'Trump and Netanyahu are brothers from different mothers,' he says.
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Through its continued bombardment of Gaza, 'Israel has made itself so radioactive' that it's difficult for the U.S. to marshal the support of allies to repel Houthi attacks against shipping lanes in the Red Sea, says Tom Friedman of The New York Times on #AxeFiles .
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What links the 10/7 Hamas massacre w/Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Both were calculated to block tectonic change--a new alliance between Israel & moderate Arab states; and Ukraine's entry into the European Union, says Tom Friedman of The New York Times.
On #AxeFiles !
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