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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Sunday shows - NFL player protests, ObamaCare repeal grab headlines

 
 
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Mnuchin: NFL players ‘can do free speech on their own time’
BY JULIA MANCHESTER
 
"I think what the president is saying is that the owners should have a rule that players should have to stand in respect for the national anthem," the Treasury secretary said on ABC’s "This Week."
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White House legislative chief says Trump's NFL criticism not racially motivated
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
 
“I don’t think he’s reopening racial wounds, Chris,” Marc Short told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” when asked if Trump is resurrecting the racial tensions that followed the August attack in Charlottesville, Va. “The president is not looking at this through a racial lens."
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Pelosi: I hope Trump will stop feeding 'red meat to his base'
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
 
“It’s unfortunate. I think he was ill-advised, if advised at all, to go down this path,” Pelosi said, referencing Trump’s Friday criticism at an Alabama rally about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.
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Collins: 'Very difficult' to imagine voting for ObamaCare repeal bill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY
 
"It’s very difficult for me to envision a scenario where I would end up voting for this bill," she told CNN's "State of the Union."
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Graham: Budget resolution must keep ObamaCare repeal debate alive
BY JORDAIN CARNEY AND JULIA MANCHESTER
 
"We're not going to vote for a budget resolution that doesn't allow the health care debate to continue," Graham, who sits on the Senate Budget Committee, said on ABC's "This Week."
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Graham pushes back on working with Democrats on health care reform
BY JULIA MANCHESTER
 
“I’ve come to conclude that ObamaCare is a placeholder for BernieCare in the democratic world," Graham said on ABC's "This Week," adding that there is no bipartisan process at this point for health care.
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Paul: Block grants can 'set up a perpetual food fight'
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
 
“Well I’ve always been a yes for repeal. But the bill, unfortunately the Graham-Cassidy, basically keeps most of the ObamaCare spending,” Paul told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think what it sets up is a perpetual food fight over the formula.”
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Key Trump aide: ObamaCare repeal 'not dead'
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
 
“Here we are, just days away from a final vote and we’ve trying to win over the support of the last couple senators to get there,” Marc Short said.
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White House legislative director: 'Pre-existing conditions continue to be covered' under ObamaCare repeal bill
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY
 
"The ObamaCare legislation required coverage of preexisting conditions. This legislation does not change that," Marc Short said on CBS's "Face The Nation.” "So pre-existing conditions continue to be covered."
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GOP senator: Repealing ObamaCare 'has nothing to do with politics'
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY
 
"It has everything to do with the people of this country who are suffering each and every day under a health care bill that is failing to meet their needs, that's bankrupting them,” Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said.
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Mnuchin: Trump doesn’t want to be in a nuclear war
BY JULIA MANCHESTER
 
“The president doesn’t want to be in a nuclear war and we’ll do everything we can to make sure that doesn’t occur," Mnuchin said on ABC's "This Week."
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Former top CIA official: US 'running out of options' on North Korea
BY JULIA MANCHESTER
 
Former chief of operations for the CIA counterintelligence center, Lon Augustenborg, warned on Sunday that the U.S. is quickly running out of options on North Korea as the war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong Un escalates.
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State Department spokesperson: Diplomats aren't used to Trump's 'blunt talk'
BY JOHN BOWDEN
 
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says that foreign diplomats have been "surprised" by President Trump's often blunt talk in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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Mnuchin: No absolute tax cut for upper class 'was never a pledge'
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY
 
"It was never a promise. It was never a pledge...It was what the president's objective was," Mnuchin said.
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Bharara: Mueller will look at everything including obstruction of justice
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY
 
"I think everything you see from our armchair seats suggests that Robert Mueller is going to chase down everything that might suggest a crime has been committed by any associated, colleague, relative of the president," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
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Bill Gates hopes talk with Trump on vaccine programs was ‘enlightening’
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE
 
“You know, we talked about vaccines and how they’re miraculous,” Gates told “Fox News Sunday” about his two meetings with Trump. “We talked about these different programs and so I’m hopeful that was enlightening to him.”
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