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Republicans Take Aim At Men Paying For Prenatal Care

... of congressional committees. “What about men having to purchase prenatal care?” Shimkus said. At that point, one could hear the room start to stir. “I’m just … is that not correct?” Shimkus said. “And should they?”. Apparently, the point of this preoccupation with the issue is the Republican belief that the ACA isn’t fair to men because it forces them to pay for a benefit they’ll never, physiologically, be able to use. Scrapping the guarantee, the argument goes, will make coverage cheaper. As we discussed  the last time this came up, it’s worth appreciating the fact that the Affordable Care Act’s architects set up the system deliberately so that women wouldn’t be penalized for being women, and they wouldn’t be forced to pay more for the coverage as men. This is a feature not a bug. The New Republic’s Brian Beutler had a good ...

Sean Hannity Blasts Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper As 'worst Examples' Of 'propaganda Press' Video

... night, with 1.39 million viewers tuning into the second run of “Factor.”. 12. “The Rachel Maddow Show”. Maddow is the most-watched show that isn’t on Fox News Channel, averaging 1.43 million viewers. 2016 was Maddow’s most-watched year in the show’s history. 11. “Happening Now”. Jon Scott and Jenna Lee anchor the midday newscast that averaged 1.44 million viewers. 8. “Your World with Neil Cavuto”. Cavuto emerged as a huge fan favorite when viewers realized how much they missed him during an extended absence to recover from heart surgery. He finished the year averaging 1.6 million viewers. 7. “America’s Newsroom”. Martha Mac Callum and Bill Hemmer’s program beat all primetime shows on CNN and MSNBC despite airing from 9-11 a.m. ET. 6. “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. The 7 p.m. ET hour averaged 2.15 million viewers, with “On the Record” and Carlson’s new show combining for the sixth most-watched timeslot of 2016. 5. “Hannity”. Sean Hannity’s right-leaning opinion program emerged as must-see TV for Donald Trump supporters and averaged 2.25 million viewers per night. 4. “The Five”. The ensemble cast featuring Eric Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Greg ...

Rachel Maddow Calls Bs On Pence Claim He Never Knew About Flynn’s Turkish Contract

... say that it was the first time he’d heard about it. “That cannot be true,” Maddow said bluntly. “It is impossible this is the first Mike Pence has heard of it. Mike Pence was the head of the [Trump] transition, while all of those news stories of Mike Flynn being on the Turkish government’s payroll were breaking. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn was being vetted for the National Security Advisor job. He was the head of the transition when Congress formally notified the head of the transition that Mike Flynn appears to be on a foreign government’s payroll. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn’s personal lawyers came and told the transition that Mike Flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent.”. However, Pence now claims that he’s only now hearing about the information. Maddow called it absolute bunk. “It’s something to pick someone manifestly unfit for the job of National Security Advisor to be National Security Advisor, that’s one thing,” she continued. “It is another thing when you bring somebody on board to a top national security position ...

Monday's Campaign Round-up, 3.13.17

... Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Virginia Gov. Terry Mc Auliffe have begun raising money for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. * Despite chatter last week about Republican recruiting former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to run for the Senate, the actor-turned-politician-turned-reality-show-host suggested over the weekend he’s not interested, at least not now. * In a bit of a surprise, the Washington Post reported over the weekend that “state prosecutors in Miami have an active investigation” into Steve Bannon’s voter registration in Florida. * In Massachusetts, Jay Gonzalez (D), a veteran of former Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D) administration, is kicking off a gubernatorial campaign today, hoping to take on incumbent Gov. Charlie Baker (R) next year. * And commenting on the Republican health care plan, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the freshman chairman of the DSCC, said over the weekend, “Regardless of whether it gets a vote, we’ll make sure there is no rock Republican ...

Tax Story Puts Spotlight On Msnbc’s Rachel Maddow

... March 14, 2017 at 9:04 pm. NEW YORK — For a brief, breathless moment Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was at the center of the political media universe. Related Articles. Hundreds of tech workers protest Trump on Pi Day. With a single tweet, she set in motion a social media storm, compelled the White House to undercut her by releasing some of President Donald Trump’s tax return information, was accused of breaking the law, was attacked by Fox News Channel and likely drew one of her biggest audiences. Less than 90 minutes before her show on Tuesday, Maddow, a Castro Valley native and Stanford University alum, tweeted that “we’ve got Trump’s tax returns … (Seriously),” advertising her program. That teaser spread like wildfire, and within the hour, MSNBC was running a countdown clock on its screen counting down the minutes to a “Trump Taxes Exclusive.”. It was actually another reporter’s exclusive, and more limited than the tweet made it sound. David Cay Johnston, founder of the web site __link__ and a longtime investigative reporter and author of the critical book, “The Making of Donald Trump,” had received a copy of two pages from Trump’s 2005 federal tax ...

Mike Pence's Falsehoods Start Catching Up With Him

...  as the greatest percentage improvement in the nation. Pence pointed to increases in premiums, but (a) premium hikes were common before “Obamacare” became law; (b) the vast majority of consumers aren’t seeing sharp spikes; and (c) the Republican plan Pence was in Kentucky to promote will very likely push premiums even higher. All of which suggests Pence was trying to deceive his audience with rhetoric he should’ve recognized as false. Have you noticed how common this is becoming with the vice president. Usually, when we think about the Trump White House and dishonesty, we immediately think of Donald Trump, who lies with such unnerving frequency that some have questioned his mental stability. By comparison, Mike Pence may look like a Boy Scout. But looking past the Trump comparison, Pence’s recent departures from the truth are starting to pile up. Pence’s claims about when he learned about Michael Flynn’s work as a foreign agent, for example, clearly aren’t true. This followed related claims from Pence about Flynn’s communications with Russia that have already proven to be false. (The vice ...

Rachel Maddow Explains What Galloping Gertie, Bechtel And Trump Have In Common

... Seattle and Tacoma on her Monday night show. (Courtesy of MSNBC). Monday's "The Rachel Maddow Show" opened with Maddow showing a map of Seattle and Tacoma. Share story. Christine Clarridge. Seattle Times staff reporter. It’s kind of a long story that begins with the tale of the ill-fated Galloping Gertie — the first bridge to span the Tacoma Narrows — and ends with Rachel Maddow explaining why President Donald Trump’s involvement in an Azerbaijan hotel ought to be investigated. The segment which aired Monday on MSNBC starts with Maddow showing a map of Seattle and Tacoma. She then goes on to explain how the first bridge between Tacoma and the Kitsap peninsula was opened in J uly 1940 and how, four months later, it collapsed. (Her story about how construction workers were warning there was ...

Trump Sparks New Controversy With U.s. Attorney Dismissals

... for all 46 of the U. S. Attorneys who were told to clean out their offices on Friday, the White House has nominated a grand total of zero prosecutors to fill these new vacancies. At this point, there’s no evidence to suggest we’re looking at a new “purge” scandal, 10 years after the first one. As longtime readers may recall, I obsessively covered the original U. S. Attorney controversy in 2007, after the Bush/Cheney White House fired several of its own prosecutors after they resisted pressure to bring politically motivated cases during the 2006 midterm elections. Friday’s developments, at least for now, appear different. But that doesn’t make the story benign. Why was Bahara told he could stay, only to be fired without explanation? And why in the world did the president want to speak directly to Bahara late Thursday. Did any of these prosecutors’ dismissals relate to ongoing cases ...

Rachel Maddow Exclusive Debunks Extreme Vetting Propaganda Of Muslim Ban

... of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. Loading the player reg. RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Now tonight, we have got this, this is another leaked report. I'm not going to tell you how we got it, but the Department of Homeland Security has tonight confirmed to us that this is authentic, that this is real. You can see at the top of it here, I think we've got it on screen, yeah - it's labelled "Unclassified, for official use only," it's dated yesterday, March 1, 2017. This is a report that's from the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Again, that's the U. S. intelligence agency that's based inside Homeland Security, and interestingly, it says it was prepared by that intelligence office, but look at that small print there. "Prepared by the Office of Intelligence Analysis" that's the Homeland ...