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Lowincome people together to stitch neighborhoods together clergy and lay people and the work was hard and there were times where there was disparity. There were plenty of setbacks. There were times i felt like quitting. Where i wondered if the path i had chosen was too hard. But despite these challenges i saw how kindness and compassion and faith can change the arc of peoples lives. And i saw the power of faith, a shared belief that every human being made in the image of god deserves to live in dignity and that all children no matter who they are or where they come from or how much money they were born in to ought to have the opportunity to achieve their godgiven potential. That we were that we are all called, in the words of his holiness pope francis, to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness, and respect for every human being. And at the time when i just moved to chicago the cardinal there was cardinal berninging, an extraordinary man, and he ups stood that part of that commitment, part of that commitment to the dignity of every human being also meant that we had to care about the health of every human being. And he articulated that and the church articulated that as we moved at the state level and the Illinois Legislature once i was elect thread later on in life to advance the proposition that health care is not a privilege, it is a right. And that belief is at the heart of the Catholic Health associations mission. For decades your member hospitals have been on the front lines often serving the marginized and the verne rabble and the sick and the uninsured and that belief is at the heart of why we came together more than five years ago to reform our Health Care System to guarantee that every american has access to quality Affordable Care so im here today to say thank you for your tireless efforts to make Health Reform a reality. Without your commitment to Compassionate Care without your morals for, we would not have succeeded. We wouldnt have we would not have succeeded had it not been for you and the foundation you had laid. In pursuing Health Care Reform wasnt about making good on a Campaign Promise for me. It was remember in the wake of an economic crisis with a very human toll. And it was integral to restoring the basic promise of america, the notion that in this country if you work hard and you take responsibility you can get ahead. You can make it if you try. Everything weve done in these past 6 1 2 years to rebuild our economy on a new foundation, from rescuing and retooling our industries, to reforming our schools, to rethinking the way we produce and use energy to reducing our deficits all of that has been in pursuit of that one goal creating opportunity for all people. And Health Care Reform was a critical part of that effort. For decades a major barrier to Economic Opportunity was our broken Health Care System. It exposed working families to the insecurities of the changing economy. It saddled our businesses with skyrocketing costs that made it hard to hire or pay a good wage. It threatened our entire nations longterm prosperity was the primary driver of our deficits. And for hospitals like yours, the fact that so many people didnt have basic care meant you were scrambling and scratching every single day to try to figure out how do we keep our doors open. Leaders from Teddy Roosevelt to Teddy Kennedy wanted a reform. For as long as there were americans who couldnt afford Decent Health care as long as there were people who had to choose between paying for medicine or paying the rent, as long as there were parents who had to figure out whether they could sell or borrow to pay for a childs treatment, just a few months more and beg for gods mercy to make it work in time as long as those things were happening america was not living up to our highest ideals. And thats why providers and faith leaders like you called for expanding access to Affordable Care. Every day you saw the very personal suffering of those who go without it. And it seemed like an insurmountable challenge. Every time there was enough political will to alleviate that suffering and to reform the Health Care System whether it was under democratic president or republican president s you had special interests, keeping the status quo in place. And each year the past without reform, the stakes kept getting higher. By the time i took Office Thousands of americans were losing their Health Insurance every single day. Many people died each year because they didnt have Health Insurance. Many families who thought they had coverage was driven into bankruptcy by out of pocket costs. Tens of millions of our fellow is it septembers had no coverage at all in this the wealthiest most powerful nation on earth. And despite being the only advance to the World Without universal health care our Health Care Costs grew to be the most expensive in the world with no slowing in sight. And that trend strained the budgetses of families and businesses and our government. And so we determined that we could not keep kicking that can down the road any longer. We could not leave that problem for another generation to solve or oots generation after that. And, remember this was not easy. There were those who thought Health Care Reform was too messy and too complicated and too politically risky. I had pollsters showing me stuff and 85 of folks at any given time had health care so they werent necessarily incentivized to support it and you could scare the heck out of them about even if they werent entirely satisfied with existing system that somehow it would be terrible to change it. All kinds of warning signs about how tough this was, bad politics. But for every politician and pundit who said we should wait why rush barely a day went by where i didnt hear from hardworking americans who didnt have a moment left to lose. These were men and women from all background, all walks of life, all race all faiths in big city small town red states, blue states middle class families with coverage that turned out not to be there for them when they needed it. Moms an dads spes desperately seeking care for a child with a chronic illness only to be told no again and again or fearful as their child got older what was their future going to be because they werent going to believe able to get insurance once they left the house. Small Business Owners forced to choose between insuring their employees and keeping the open sign hanging in the window. And every one of these stories tugged at me in a personal way because i spoke about the seeing my mom worry about how she was going to deal with her finances when she got very sick and i was reminded of the fear that michelle and i felt when sasha was a few months old and we had to race to the hospital in the emergency room learn that she had meningitis that we caught only because we had a wonderful pediatrician and regular care. Never felt so scared or helpless in my life. We were fortunate enough to have good Health Insurance. I remember looking around in that emergency room and thinking what about the parents that arent that lucky, what about the parents that get hit with a bill of 10,000 and have no way to pay for it what about the parents with connick kids with asthma and keep going back to the emergency room because they dont have a regular doctor and the bills never stop coming . Who is going to stand up for them . Behind every single story was a simple question what kind of country do we want to be . Are we a country thats defined by values that say access to health care is a commodity awarded to only the highest bidders or by the values that say health care is a fundamental right. Do we believe that where you start should determine how far you go or do we believe that in the greatest nation on earth everybody deserves the opportunity to make it . To make of their lives what they will. The rugged individualism that defines america has always been bound by a shared set of values an enduring sense that were in this together that america is not a place where we simply turn away from the sick or turn our backs on the tired, the poor the huddled masses. It is a place sustained by the idea i am my brothers keeper i am my sisters keeper that we have an obligation to put ourselves in our neighbors shoes and see each others common humanity. And so after a century of talk after decades of trying after a year of sustained debate we finally made Health Care Reform a reality here in america. And despite the constant doom and gloom predictions, the unending little warnings that somehow making Health Insurance fair and easier to buy would lend to the end of freedom, the end of the american way of life lo and behold it did not happen, none of this came to pass. In fact, in a lot of ways the Affordable Care act worked out better than some of us anticipated. Nearly one in three uninsured americans have already been covered. More than 16 Million People driving our uninsured rate to its lowest level ever. Ever. On top of that tens of millions more enjoy new protections with the coverage that theyve already got. That 85 who had Health Insurance they may not know theyve got a better deal now than they did but they do. Americans can no longer be denied coverage because of preexisting conditions from you having had cancer to you having had a baby. Women cant be charged more just for being a woman. And they get Free Preventive Services like mammogram ss and there are no more annual or lifetime caps on the care patients receive. Medicare has been strengthened and protected. Weve added 13 years to its actuarary of life. The Business Owners trying to invest and grow and families trying to save and spend, thats real, too. Health care prices have rizsen at the lowest rate in 50 years. Employer premiums are rising at the rate tied for the lowest record. The average family premium is 1800 lower today than it would have been had trends over the decade before the aca passed continued. In the years to come countless americans who can now buy plans that are portable and affordable in a competitive marketplace will be free to chase their own ideas, unleash new Enterprises Across the country, knowing they will be able to buy Health Insurance. And heres the thing. That security wont just be there for us it will be there for our kids as they go through life. When they graduate from college, theyre looking for that first job, they can stay on our plans until theyre 26. When they start a family pregnancy will no longer count against them as a preexisting condition. When they change jobs or lose a job or strike out on their own to start a business they will still be able to get good coverage. They will have that peace of mind all of the way until they retire into a medicare that now has cheaper prescription drugs and wellness visits to make sure they stay healthy. And while we were told again and again that obamacare would be a job killer amazingly enough some critics still pedal this notion, it turns out in reality america has experienced 63 straight months of private sector job growth a streak that started the month we passed the Affordable Care act. The longest streak of private job growth on record that adds up to 12. 6 million new jobs. So the critics stubbornly ignore reality. In reality theres a selfemployed single mom of three who couldnt afford Health Insurance until Health Reform passed and she qualifyford medicaid in her state and she was finally able to get a mammogram which detected Early Stage Breast Cancer and may have saved her life. Thats the reality. Not the mythology. In reality there are parents in texas whose autistic son couldnt speak. Even with Health Insurance they struggled to pay for his treatment. But Health Reform meant they could buy an affordable secondary plan that covered therapy for their son and today that little boy can tell his parents that he loves them. Thats the reality. In reality theres a selfemployed barber from tennessee who happens to be a republican who couldnt afford Health Insurance until our new marketplace opened up. Once he bought a plan he finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed with esogogeal cancer. Today he is now cancer free. So five years in what we are talking about is no longer just a law, its no longer just a theory, this isnt even just about the Affordable Care act or obamacare, this isnt about myths or rumors that folks try to sustain. There is a reality that people on the ground day to day are experiencing. Their lives are better. This is now part of the fabric of how we care for one another. This is health care in america, which is why once you get outside of washington and leave behind the beltway chatter and the politics americans support this new reality when you talk to people who actually are enrolled in a new marketplace plan, the vast majority of them like their coverage. The vast majority are satisfied with their choice of doctors and hospitals. And satisfied with their monthly premiums. They like their reality. That doesnt mean that we dont have more work to do. Sister carol and i were talking, we know weve got more work to do. Like any serious attempt to change, there were disruptions in the rollout, there are policies we can put in place to make Health Care Work even better. Secretary birdwell is talking about all of the things we have to do together around Delivery System reform. We have to protect the coverage that people have now and sign even more people up. We need more governors and state legislatures to expand medicaid which was a central part of the architecture of the overall plan. We have to continue to improve the quality of care and we know we can still bring down costs. And none of this is going to be easy. Nobody suggests that somehow our Health Care System is perfect as a consequence of the law being passed. But it is serving so many more people so much better. Were not going to go backwards. Theres something i have to say just deeply cynical about the ceaseless, endless, partisan attempts to roll back progress. I mean i understood folks being skeptical or worried before the law passed and there wasnt a reality there to examine. But once you see millions of people having health care once you see that all the bad things that were predicted didnt happen you think that it would be time to move on. Lets figure out how to make it better. It seems to cynical to want to take coverage away from millions of people, to take care away from the people who need it the most, to punish millions with higher costs of care and unravel now whats been woven into the fabric of america. And that kind of cynicism flies in the face of our history. Our history is one of each generation striving to do better and to be better than the last. Just as well never go back to a time when seniors were left to languish in poverty or not have any Health Insurance in their golden years. There was a generation that didnt have that guarantee of health care. Were not going to go back to a time when our citizens can be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. When tens of millions of people couldnt afford decent Affordable Care, that wasnt a better america. Thats not freedom. The freedom to languish in illness or to be bankrupt because somebody in your family gets sick. Thats not who we are. Its not what were about. Deborah lee orn of pennsylvania knows that. Deborah suffers from osteoarthritis that was so severe that it put her in a wheelchair. For years she couldnt stand or walk at all and was in constant pain. Through no fault of her own, just the twists and turns of life. And without Health Insurance to get treatment, it seemed as though she might never again live a life that was full. Today deborahs enrolled in Affordable Health coverage was able to have surgery replace her knees. Shes back on her feet. She walks her dog, shops at the grocery store, gets to her doctors appointments, shes cooking, exercising, regaining her health. Deborah couldnt be here today but she recently wrote to me and said i walk with my husband michael and hold hands. Its like a whole new world for me. Just walking and holding hands. Something that one of our fellow americans for years could not do. Every day miracles happen in your hospitals. But remaking deborahs world didnt require a miracle, it just require that deborah have access to something that she and every other american has a right to expect which is health care coverage. And while there are outcomes we can calculate and enumerate, the number of newly insured families, the number of lives saved, those numbers all add up to success in this reform effort but there are also outcomes that are harder to calculate calculate. In the tally of pain and tragedy and bankruptcies that have been averted, but also in the security of a parent who can afford to take her kid to the doctor or the dignity of a grandfather who can get the Preventive Care that he needs or a freedom of an entrepreneur who can start a new venture of the joy of a wife who thought she could never again take her husbands hand and go for a walk. In the end, thats why you do what you do. Isnt that what this is all about . Is there any greater measure of life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness than than those Simple Pleasures that are afforded because you have good health and you have some security . More than five years ago i said that while i was not the first president to take up this cause i was determined to be the last. And now its up to all of us the citizens in this room and across the country, to continue to help make the right to health care a reality for all americans. And if we keep faith with one another and keep working with each other to create opportunity for everybody who strives for it then in the words of senator ted kennedy, that dream will be fulfilled for this generation and preserved and enlarged for generations to come. It couldnt have happened without you. Thank you. God bless you all. Thank you so much. Joining me now is Peter Alexander and Huffington Post sam stein. Peter at the white house, the president now speaking, second day in a row, yesterday he took questions on this. Second day in a row he talked about health care selling it all over again in anticipation of Supreme Court decision that could basically take the heart out of health care with the subsidies that are at risk in this case which is pending in the next couple of weeks. Yeah andrea thats right. Yesterday when we heard from the president in germany he said among other things, quote, frankly it probably shouldnt have even been taken up by the court. Today his argument was a little bit more defensive to Health Care Law itself. He dismissed the ideas of these chicken little warnings that doom and gloom predictions saying all of them had proved untrue. He said a fact that the white house put out earlier today is part of a launch of a new website they are now touting which is that 16 million plus americans have now gained coverage as a result of this law. And his desire was to make this convincing case right now to americans, not much he can do about the courts take on it right now, but to americans that this law needs to exist as it is right now and that millions of americans would be impacted if this, as he described it reality is taken away from them. And thanks to Peter Alexander. Sam stein, we are awaiting a speech by jeb bush. The still unannounced official launch of a campaign expected on monday. And jeb bush with a Campaign Shakeup as hes about to speak in berlin today. Sxwl. Yeah, well, the new Campaign Manager has been appointed, diaz, longtime operative. Bit of a surprise and possibly a reflection of disappointment from the former governor over the fact that his financial juggernaut of a campaign to be hasnt manifested itself into a polling juggernaut of a campaign to be. The Foreign Policy trip seems like a high Risk Strategy on his part. Obvious his hes following the president in germany. Hes going to be criticizing the president s policiesy sies visavis ukraine. Theyve had slipups on the broad trips. With this coming so close to his Campaign Launch on monday you get the sense they cant afford anything to bleed into that launch and overshadow it. Sam stein and peter, thanks so much. We go now to upstate new york where state police are now fanning out into the woods in wills bor re. This is 50 miles southeast of the prison from which the two convicts made their daring escape. Police are questioning a person of interest in connection with that escape. A woman named Joyce Mitchell who works in the prisons tailor shop where the two convicts worked. Authorities say the woman h is not in custody checked herself into a local hospital supposedly be a case of nerves the day the convicted murderers got out of the prison. Richard matt and david sweat broke out initiating an international dragnet. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is where the police have been searching in that rural area. To you, Miguel John Ying is also outside the prison in new york about 50 miles away. Miguel, first to you about the search. What do they think they have in that area that wooded area . Andrea good afternoon. About an hour or so ago investigators here got a report of two suspicious males in this area so they immediately dispatched several teams. We saw search teams out here for the last hour or so in this area. This area is heavily wooded. Were right next to lake sam plain. Officers have sent their individual and search teams in the wooded areas behind me. It looks like the search in this immediate area is wrapping up but crews are moving down the road. They are following up on leads as we mentioned, theyve gotten over 300 leads over the last four days. Now this fourth day of searching continues. Investigators still fanning out in this area following up on every clue and every lead they get, andrea. Thanks to you. I know this is a very kinetic situation. John yang back where the prison is. Joyce mitchell, the person of interest, what do we know about her and about what connections we could possibly see about these two men . She worked in a tailor shop supervisor where the prisoners made uniforms for the metro north workers. The worker on the commuter train line outside new york. The two prisoners were also assigned to work in that shop. To conceivably the two would have been contact between the two and theyre asking her about that looking into the possible connection. All along investigators have suspected that the escapees had help at least inside the prison. This is part of that investigation as you say, shes being questioned by police they stress that she is not in custody and is not under arrest. They also tell us as you say, she had a case of nerves the day of the arrest the day of the escape rather and checked herself into the hospital. Local affiliate wpdx in new york reports that two Law Enforcement sources tell them that the ride that they the two escapees were expecting when they escaped never showed up either was early, late or just wasnt there. Thats why they think theyre on foot still in the area. As you hear miguel telling you about that search just 50 miles southeast of here. Andrea . Thanks to john yang. Joining me now with more on the possible man hunt msnbc contributor, don. When youre looking for a need until a haystack two guys that could be anywhere we were told by state police they had a couple of 36 hours at least head start. What they think they could still be on foot in the woods around these parts in upstate new york . That would be a great break for the police if in fact they are on foot and the police are on the right trail. These guys you have to presume that theyre tired. This is day four of the manhunt. The police will be able to bring in, weather permitting, air support, tracking dogs sophisticated optic equipment, weapons and training. So if thats the case, you know the advantage goes to the police, but you dont want to put too many eggs in that basket. I mean ive been on manhunts before in the woods and its come up with dry holes. So you have to continual of the other avenues of investigation including looking at who might have given them access to these power tools and you could also would have to assume if they were able to get power tools they probably could get weapons, cellphones, communication equipment, and other things that would make this situation very dangerous and challenging for Law Enforcement. Just how dangerous could these two men be . Well, you know from their past theyre extremely dangerous, both capable of committing murder and if they have access to weapons now, this could be a very big threat to both Law Enforcement and the civilian population where these guys are at. Thanks so much. Obviously we continue on this story. And coming up eyewitnesses describe what happened at that pool party in texas before the police arrived. Youre watching Andrea Mitchell reports. One day a rider made a decision. The decision to ride on and save money. He decided to save money by switching his motorcycle insurance to geico. Theres no shame in saving money. Ride on, ride proud. Geico motorcycle great rates for great rides. If youre looking for a car that drives you. And takes the wheel right from your very hands. This isnt that car. The first and only car with direct adaptive steering. The 328 horsepower q50 from infiniti. Bennys the oldest dog in the shelter. He needed help all day so i adopted him. When my back pain flared up, i thought id have to give him away. I tried tylenol but it was 6 pills a day. With aleve its just 2 pills, all day. Now im back aleve. All day strong. Hundred of people protested in mckinney, texas, last night after last weekends Police Confrontation with local teens at a pool party caught on cellphone video. The video showed a white Police Officer wrestling a black teenage girl in a bathing suit to the ground pulling her by the hair sitting on her. That officer is now on administrative leave. More details are emerging though about the events that led up to that moment. Bakari was at the pool party and explained what happened when a group of unknown teens showed up. Later on during the party, a group of black men or young men were at the gate of the pool and theyre trying to get let in but we didnt know who they were and we werent with them at the party and everything. So we didnt let them in. We told no one to let them in. So they went to the side of the pool and then started hopping the fence and started complaining about it and after we told them we werent even with them we still continued to assume that we were. So thats like the women that were like the parents that were complaining, thats when they called the cops. Im joined now by president and director council of Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the naacp. Thank you so much. In trying to understand what happened here what this young woman and some of the others said is that first of all, the other kids who came or the young men who came were not with them and that in fact 2 people, the attendant at the pool only went after the africanamerican kids involved in some horseplay, not white kids who were doing the same thing. So there does seem to be an issue here even before the police arrived. Without question andrea. When you hear the young woman describe what happened if you have raised teenagers or if you have been a teenager this sounds like a fairly garden variety situation. Theres a pool party and some people try to join the pool party who were not invited that guys came who wanted to be part of the party. And they were not allowed to be in the party. So is that a crime . Not really. Then we hear about people jumping the fence. Okay. Thats a situation. But youre absolutely right that it sounded as though the attendant at the pool was already targeting the black children who were supposed to be at the pool party who were invited to the pool party asking them about how many children were on a pass asking them questions about horseplay. While not asking similar questions of the young white people who were there. At some point you have those who were trying to get into the party and some calls the police. The question then is what is supposed to happen . How are the police supposed to respond to a situation in which young men are trying to join a party they werent invited too . Pulling their guns . You see an officer running through this crowd so out of control control it looks like hes on a narcotic and he is essentially demanding a kind of control over every person he sees. He wants them to shut up, he wants them to sit down. These are not people that hes identified as having committed a crime, having been engaged in any infraction whatsoever. He doesnt, however, go after what the only kind of activity that ive heard that might be criminal from that afternoon and that is the adults who were fighting with young children. In fact, if youve looked at the video youve seen an older white woman who appears to slap a young person i havent heard any word yet about the arrest of any of these individuals who have engaged in assault. Instead you see this officer running through this crowd of teenagers out of control, demanding silence and assaulting every teen that he sees. In fact, Brandon Brooks the young man who actually shot the video points out that he is white and that nobody went after him when the police arrived. He said he felt like he was invisible invisible. Hes taking the film and hes there on the scene and yet the cops are saying absolutely nothing to him. This is not just about the firing of this officer. This officer is a veteran, a senior officer who trains junior officers. How did he get this far in the Police Department, in this town if this is the behavior he exhibits to the point that when he begins to pull his gun on these young teenage boys his own officers come and begin to restrain him. He is out of control and yet he is a senior officer on that squad. So this is not just about having him terminated and certainly he should be. This is about now examining closely the Police Department in this town from top to bottom who are they recruiting to be Police Officers in this town . What kind of training and supervision are these officers getting . What kind of messages are being sent to the Police Officers in this racially divided town in which all white people for the most part live on the west side and black people live on the east side. A deeply racially segregated town. What happens when they walk into this situation and a housing complex that i understand it is largely mixed race and begin targeting all of the black children. This is in many ways reflective of the moment that were. It is the deep well of segregation that exists in this country and plays out in policing practices in towns and cities all over the country. Thanks so much cheryl. I want to point out this Police Officer actually is a trainer. Hes not only a veteran, he is part of the Police Training mission. Thank you very much. Obviously were going to keep following this. We have breaking news now from capitol hill. A Capital Police Capital Police cleared a Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs Committee Oversight meeting on the tsa. They report u. S. Capitol Police Reported a phone call with a suspicion package in the office building. Several floors of the dirk son building has been evacuated as a precaution while Police Continue to investigate. Public Health Officials are urgently trying to contact hundreds of people who may have come into contact with a woman diagnosed with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis. She flew from india to chicago in april before spending time in missouri and tennessee. She was diagnosed seven weeks after arriving in the u. S. Is now being treated in isolation at the National Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland. Joining me now from nih, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. What do we know about this woman, the case of tb and how others may have been in contact with her . How infectious was she along the way . She has intensively drug resistant tuberculosis. The issue is that it is a relatively difficult form of tuberculosis to treat. It is not any more or less contagious than the garden variety tuberculosis. The issue is that if you contract this its much more difficult to clear and cure than the standard type of tuberculosis which is prevalent throughout the world. The issue with this woman is that she traveled to different places and was in a hospital in illinois and went from one state to another by plane and so what the cdc and the state and local Health Authorities are doing is whats appropriate, theyre doing the kind of Contact Tracing to notify people if they have been exposed to this person. Now, having said that andrea it is a lowrisk of trans misibility. Even though its a serious disease, tuberculosis is not easily transmitted. Certainly there have been instances of transmission on long flights where people have been exposed for a long period of time. But even if that context the risk is relatively low. Would she have been already con take use on that long flight from india . Well, she could have been certainly because she has form of the disease that i mentioned thats resistant to therapy and she has active disease. So potentially theoretically and perhaps practically she certainly could have infected someone but, again, you need to put it into context that this is a relatively low risk of ility transmisibility, certainly not zero. And whats being done is the appropriate thing, trying to trace any Contact People who have may have been in contact with her. And what about the Health Care Workers in the hospital in illinois . They took the appropriate precautions we heard from them. They were the ones that referred the patient to us and from the time that she was there to the time she came here all appropriate precautions were taken. And obviously as we all do myself included when you take care of people who have tuberculosis you intermittently test yourself to make sure that you have not contracted tuberculosis even though it might be be in a latent form. When youre a Health Care Worker who knows youre dealing with tuberculosis, a, you take the appropriate precautions, but you also test yourself to make sure you havent gotten infected. Thank you so much very much for taking time to explain all of this to us today. We appreciate it. Youre very welcome. Up next the white house strategy on health care and trade. From president obamas Communications Director right here. Unbelievable toenail fungus . Seriously . Smash it with Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. 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Hes got his new attorney thomas green, wellknown washington lawyer. Yes. Thats right andrea. Were on the 14th floor of the federal building. Reporters are lining up here getting ready to go into the courtroom. It will be a packed courtroom. A lot of interest in this for his arraignment. He is expected to formally hear the charges against him and, you know, plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. This morning as you mentioned he left his home in plano, illinois, he is now as we understand it the office of his attorney nearby. We expect them to march into federal court, the hearing ked scheduled for 3 00 eastern time. This as you know andrea one of the most powerful politicians at one point and he had not for 12 days since this indictment he has remained absolutely silent. Were expecting to see him in court and see if his attorney his new attorney high profile attorney, might have any comment as well. And the man accompanying him as he walked to that car was, in fact, i just noticed, tom green. Thank you, gabe. Well have a lot more on this of course, through the afternoon and tonight. With you on nightly news. President obama early this hour invoked the memory of senator ted kennedy as he defended his Health Care Law. A legacy that could be in jeopardy depending on what the Supreme Court does in the coming weeks. White house Communications Director jen osaki joins me now. Good to see you. Thank you very much. The president , the second day in a row hes talking about health care and this speech today a very detailed defense of the Health Care Law. Is it your analysis now as some are saying that republican members of Congress Even are concerned that the Supreme Court will invalidate the subsidies and they will then have to deal with a very popular part of the Health Care Law. They now depend on the subsidy subsidies. One in three uninsured americans are uncovered. The fact is people across the country are experiencing the benefits of this Health Care Law. It becomes more challenge willing when people in your state are saying well, wait a second, we now are not getting charged for preexisting conditions. Because im a woman im not going to be charged more. I can make sure that my child or my mother has health care coverage. That makes it more challenging. We dont have any insight into went when or how the Supreme Court will rule. As the president talked about today, h came into office feeling he had a moral obligation, we all have a moral obligation to make sure people have access to affordable heart care and were hopeful that will be able to be continued. Jen, the other big issue face you from congress this week is the trade legislation. Uhhuh. It has not hit the house floor yet. Reportedly they dont have the votes. You have allies youre depending on democratic leader pelosi but youre depending really on the speaker and the republicans to bail you out on this. How many democratic votes do you need . I dont have any vote count for you here today, andrea. I will say that we know that the process of making a legislation or making law can be messy, it can be messy, sausage making. That was the case in the senate. We fully expect that to be the case in the house. But ultimately the American People support giving the president trade pro moigs authority. They support trade as a way for bringing jobs to the United States. You may not think that when you see the debates that happen in washington. This is something were going to keep fighting for and were certainly going to do everything we can to get it across the finish line. There is a new survey monday difficult Online Survey which where people were asked what is more important. 66 said that protecting u. S. Industries and jobs by limiting i imports from other countries. Only 31 said allowing free trade for products at low prices. It depends on the poll you look at. I will say one of the benefit of tpa and trade promotion authority, is that we would be raising labor and environmental standards. Something that we didnt have in place with nafta. And the fact is the economy is changing, the world is changing. We want to have opportunities and be able to have access to goods and have our goods have access to other markets. This is something you wouldnt have a president that saved us from the economy six years ago pushing for something that wasnt going to help american workers. Thats why hes pushing for this so hard now. Would it be helpful at this point to have a little more support from the democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton who has been straddling the fence on the tpa . Well, i think you know andrea, that obviously everybody has different views and certainly the fact that nafta is something that left a bad taste in peoples mouth is something that people remember but were working to change the rules, make them different, make them better. Lock in place better labor and environmental standards. Secretary clinton said she wants to wait and see what the details are and, as you know, shes been out there. She was out there for a great deal of time when she was secretary of state talking about the benefits of tpp. This is our effort to get there, to have a vote on tpp and were confident when the American People have a chance to look at this they will feel good about what it contains. Pleasure to see you there. Thank you. And speaking of trade, jeb bush in berlin just was taking questions and this is what he had to say basically supporting president obama on trade. The administration has prioritized the asia agreement, both of which are really important. 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