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Donald Trump's assertion at the White House on Monday that "ObamaCare is finished, it's dead, it's gone...There is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore" is a blatant, cruel and malevolent lie. It is also, along with Trump's other efforts to undermine the federal law, an impeachable offense, in violation of his sworn oath to "protect and defend the Constitution", which includes the Article 2 requirement that the President must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Instead, Trump is sabotaging the law and putting millions of Americans at risk of losing access to affordable health care as provided by the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to Trump's announcement late last week that he will stop payments to help cover out-of-pocket expenses such as deductibles and co-pays for low-income citizens (as mandated by the ACA), insurance premiums have now skyrocketed in a number of states, like Pennsylvania, which, its insurance Commissioner announced on Monday, will see average increases of more than 30%. Similar increases are also slated for Florida, Arkansas, Oregon, Alaska and dozens of other states, thanks to Trump and the GOP's attempt to gut the Obama-era law that has helped some 30 million obtain and pay for health care, while improving health care insurance plans for hundreds of millions of Americans. Despite Trump's lie, ObamaCare still very much exists, and its Open Enrollment period begins November 1 at HealthCare.gov.\xa0 At the same time, Republicans continue to block substantive gun safety legislation, even after a gunman in Las Vegas murdered 58 and wounded more than 500 in a matter of minutes just over two weeks ago. But while such mass murders make momentary headlines--\xa0 and gun safety legislation continues to be mired at the state and federal level, thanks to the arms industry representatives of the terrorist-enabling National Rifle Association -- very successful efforts to curb gun violence in the areas that need it most go largely overlooked by both Democrats and Republicans alike across the country. We're joined today by PASTOR MICHAEL MCBRIDE of The Way Christian Center in West Berkeley, CA. He is National Director for the LiveFreeUSA.org campaign, led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the US committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration. He explains how, despite the organization's remarkable success rate in curbing gun violence in minority areas,\xa0 such programs are often overlooked or ignored by public officials. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report' with a remarkable amount of news on, among other things, the record hurricane that smashed into Ireland this week, the crisis in Puerto Rico, the historic wildfires in California (and elsewhere) and coal plants being shut down in both China and Texas...