00:00Mr. President, Representative Massey says he's concerned that the Epstein probe you are calling for
00:04could be a smokescreen to lock the relief of more vials. Is that the case?
00:10Well, I don't want to talk about it because fake news like you, you're a terrible reporter,
00:15and fake news like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect from the tremendous success
00:20of the Trump administration. So a guy like Massey, his poll numbers are showing,
00:24he's at 6% approval rating right now. And we call him Rand Paul Jr. because he never,
00:31he never votes for the Republican Party. So they're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection
00:37from the tremendous success that we're having as a party.
00:41Mr. President, on Venezuela, you said they want to talk. You said Venezuela wants to talk.
00:45What does that mean?
00:46Venezuela would like to talk. Why does it mean you tell me? I don't know.
00:50Do you want to talk to them?
00:51I would talk. I'd talk to anybody. I'd talk to you. Right? I'd talk to anybody. We'll see what happens.
00:57Senator Green said her life could be in danger because of the rhetoric.
01:01Her life is in danger? Who's that?
01:04Marjorie Trader Green, she said.
01:06Marjorie Trader Green. I don't think her life is in danger. I don't think,
01:11frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her. Okay, what about?
01:15What about the affordability of health care? Are you negotiating? Are you negotiating with lawmakers on health care ahead of a vote?
01:22I am. We're negotiating with lawmakers. And I've had personal talks with some Democrats. I can't tell you who they are.
01:29I just don't want to do that. It's not fair to them about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people.
01:37You know, this was my idea. It came up during that. You know, oftentimes in time, under times of stress, like the shutdown,
01:47you come up with great ideas that you wouldn't have thought of before.
01:50The insurance companies are making a fortune. Their stock is up over a thousand percent over a short period of time.
01:57They are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars.
02:00And they're not really putting it back, certainly not like they should.
02:04So when I see this and when I've seen this over the last pretty short period of time, I said,
02:10why do we why do we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?
02:19And, you know, I made that statement and I made it a little bit cavalierly, but it sounded good.
02:24And everybody is picked up, including Democrats. And I am talking to some Democrats right now about doing that.
02:31People love it. We're going to take the money. Well, if it gets approved, we're going to take the money.
02:37We're going to pay it back to the people of our country to go out and buy health insurance.
02:42Now, they could put it in a health account. We could do it a lot of different ways, but they'd buy their own health insurance.
02:48They could negotiate price and it's going to be locked. So they can't go out and buy a Cadillac.
02:55They could go out and buy health insurance.
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