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Hillary Clinton and NFL protests

After tweeting Monday morning that he was recently asked if he thought Hillary Clinton would run for president again in 2020 and saying, \"I hope so,\" Trump repeated the position when a reporter mentioned her in relation to the NFL national anthem protests.

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\"I hope Hillary runs. Hillary, please run again,\" he said.

Clinton has said that football players have the right to kneel during the national anthem in protest of racial injustice and that the action is \"not against our anthem or our flag.\" Trump has repeatedly called attention to the protests and has said that the NFL should institute a rule requiring players to stand.

\"I think she's wrong,\" Trump said. \"It's that thinking — that is the reason she lost the election. When you go down and take a knee or any other way, you're sitting, essentially, for our great national anthem. You're disrespecting our flag and disrespecting our country.\"

\"If Hillary Clinton actually made the statement that ... sitting down during the playing of our great national anthem is not disrespectful, then I fully understand why she didn't win,\" he continued. \"There are a lot of reasons she didn't win, including the fact that she was not good at what she did.\"

Taking on health care and the pharmaceutical industry

Last week Trump made two major moves regarding the Affordable Care Act: He announced that he plans to discontinue making cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments, which help insurance companies pay for subsidies that benefit the poor, and he signed an executive order that will expand expand the availability of association health plans and limited-duration plans.

\"Obamacare is a wreck. It's a mess and destroying lives,\" he said. \"I want to get health care that's much more affordable and much better health care, and that's what we're doing.\"

Still, he said he and McConnell are working on a complete repeal and replacement of the ACA.

\"We will come up in the early to mid-part of next year, and we will have a vote. We feel confident we have the votes, and we know what the plan is. I believe Republicans and Democrats are working together very hard right now to do an intermediate short-term plan because Obamacare is a disaster,\" said Trump.

He said he next plans to take on the pharmaceutical industry.

\"We're going to get the costs way down,\" Trump said. \"We are going to get drug prices and prescription drug crisis way down because the world is taking advantage of us. The world is taking advantage of us when this happens, so that will be very important.\"

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