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Important for people to understand that this is not some abstraction. its not a political football. >> a favorite phrase for the fire storm surrounding the bergdahl trade but not the first time he turned to the political football defense in the face of controversy. take a look. >> it is important that our veterans dont become another political football. and the more the average american who already has health insurance sees it is not affecting them in an adverse way, then it becomes less of a po...

Ly getting well in had this. this reinforces the sense that they are one of the central participants in this story. >> so administration officials say they were hesitant to inform congress as the deal was coming together because the taliban had threatened to kill the american captive if news leaked out ahead of time. the white house insists that they were well aware of the framework of the ex change for quite some time. still, president obama is being forced to defend the deal and also how he pr...

Abstraction. war is real, with real consequences. >> and tomorrow night, the national mall will be packed with people honoring our war heroes at the annual memorial day concert. a lot of people come on motorcycles. a friend of the military gary sinise will co-host. sinise has been doing uso tours with the lieutenant dan band, which we all know from the very famous movie, hes been doing that for years since his oscar nominated role in "forrest gump." he started the foundation to bring even more s...

Medicaid expansion? you tout the medicaid expansion and talk about 500,000 people. its been blocked by the republicans. do you think theres traction there politically, or do people think thats a kind of abstraction for some other folks? >> im sorry, i cant tell what -- anyway. >> i think we appear to be having audio problems. can you hear me now? >> im sorry, i cant hear you exactly and someone has to fix that. im happy to talk about what were doing here and the fact that i make a very clear sta...

Politics are specifically on the medicaid expansion? you tout the medicaid expansion and talk about 500,000 people. its been blocked by the republicans. do you think theres traction there politically, or do people think thats a kind of abstraction for some other folks? >> im sorry, i cant tell what -- anyway. >> i think we appear to be having audio problems. can you hear me now? >> im sorry, i cant hear you exactly and someone has to fix that. im happy to talk about what were doing here and the ...

Think thats a kind of abstraction for some other folks? >> im sorry, i cant tell what -- anyway. >> i think we appear to be having audio problems. can you hear me now? >> im sorry, i cant hear you exactly and someone has to fix that. im happy to talk about what were doing here and the fact that i make a very clear statement and certainly one of the conversation im trying to have with voters is the fact that the affordable care act is making a difference in the lives of pennsylvanians. 8 million ...

Incredibly, the free world perceives this barbarity as an abstraction, only around the easter and christmas holidays do western powers utter the required sympathies. as syria implodes the remaining followers of christ walk a dangerous road in a civil war that is turning into one of the worst extinctions of a people since the end of the second world war. although assad has traditionally protected the christian minority, his enemies have made them sorry for it. churches burned, children starve, pr...

Plan, it doesnt include the 3 million people who benefited from expansions of medicaid. if my math is correct, thats 14 million right there. youve got another 5 million who signed up outside marketplaces but are in part of the same insurance pool. so weve got a sizable part of the u.s. population now that are in the first -- for the first time in many cases in a position to enjoy the financial security of health insurance and im meeting them as im on the road. saw a woman yesterday, a young woma...

Million people who benefited from expansions to medicaid. so if my math is correct, thats 14 million right there. you have another five million people who signed up outside of the marketplaces but are part of the same insurance pool. so, weve got a sizable part of the u.s. population now that are in the first -- for the first time in many cases in a position to enjoy the financial security of health insurance. and im meeting them as im on the road. saw a woman yesterday, young woman, maybe 34, w...

They can get treatment for their health conditions or that theyre, you know, insured against all the other exigencies of poverty. you cant run a political campaign saying youre going to take away those benefits from people. >> the war is churning here. i remember a bill clinton line from way back when they passed the affordable care act, and they said, eventually, this is going to be a big political winner for democrats, because the other side is going to be running against taking away peoples h...