Cenk Uygur, one of the leaders of the Justice Democrats, talks about a raucous town hall captured by TYT Politics reporter, Michael Tracey, with Senator Dianne Feinstein. The veteran senator was asked about her position on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for all bill to which she gave a tepid response calling it a “Takeover of all medicine.” Uygur disagrees with Feinstein’s explanation and uses the loud boos she received from the audience as an example that people are also resisting Democrats who continue to serve corporate donors instead of voters.



“She’s a senator from California...she doesn’t know what Medicare for all is, at all,” Uygur says about Feinstein’s comprehension of the bill, “How could you think that Medicare is ‘taking over all of medicine?’” He says that based on her answer, Democrats are unlikely to ever back a bill like Medicare for all and they don’t even have a more ‘pragmatic’ strategy in its place.



“‘We have to go inch by inch and every once in awhile, we have to lose an election to Donald Trump and then get set back miles and miles, and then start inching back until we get Medicare for all or single payer,’” Uygur says, mocking Democrats.



“They have no intention of ever getting to that conclusion.”



He agrees with Feinstein’s assessment that Obamacare is better than the Republican proposal but criticizes her ‘tweaks’ as having “...no intention of ever serving their voters.”



To the media, Uygur says, “The resistance is not just about resistance to Trump. Did you see that town hall? Those weren’t Republicans, those were Democrats booing your ‘beloved’ Dianne Feinstein.”



Common Dreams reported on the Feinstein event:



t's not only Republicans that are feeling the heat in their hometowns during this congressional recess. Democrats who aren't on board with increasingly popular progressive proposals are being held to account as well.



Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was a case-in-point on Monday, when she faced angry and vocal constituents at a midday town hall meeting in her hometown of San Francisco.



It was her stance on single-payer healthcare—an idea that's picking up momentum in the wake of last month's TrumpCare debacle, especially in California—that drew the most vociferous response.



When asked about her position on such a system, Feinstein responded: "If single-payer healthcare is going to mean the complete takeover by the government of all healthcare, I am not there."



Video from the town hall: