It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she had the credibility to say that President Trump actually does pose a grave threat to the First Amendment.
During the Johnson interview, Bash basically endorsed the Democratic position:
Okay, so the Democrats argue that it’s priorities, yes, that are maybe their policy priorities, but they also should be the priorities for people in your district and in Republican districts across the country. The biggest of which, they argue, is extending the subsidies for people who can't afford Obamacare to be able to afford Obamacare. I understand that they don't expire until the end of the calendar year. The argument that they make is that insurance companies start to make a plan, like, soon. And so by the time they make that plan, the subsidies will be — will expire. Isn't there something to that?
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