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So it becomes a losing political proposition, as more and more people, you know, discover that 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 wi...

Press conferences and actually, you know, need to come up with something better than what theyve come up with so far, that you might see an effort on the part of republicans to sort of define obamacare down. like, back before there were these benefits, repealing obamacare was an abstraction and kind of meant getting rid of this thing that we told you was so bad. but as time goes on, i kind of wonder if you might start see republicans saying, we dont consider the medicaid expansion to be exactly ...

Wages by the farmers they worked for those children were taught, he would later say, the end of life was in this beet row, spinach field or cotton patch. deprivation and discrimination, these were not abstraction to lyndon baines johnson. he knew poverty and opportunity are as inseparable as opportunity and justice are joined. so that was in him. from an early age. now, like any of us, he was not a perfect man. his experiences in rural texas may have stretched his moral imagination but he was am...

And the consequences that would arise from complacency are not abstractions. the impact that they have on the lives of real people, men and women just like us, have to enter into our imaginations. just look at the young people of ukraine who are determined to take back their future taken from government, rotted by corruption, the portraits of the fallen shot by snipers. the visitors who pay their respects at the maydon. the university student wrapped in the ukrainian flag, expressing her hope th...

Unlikely to give respectful attention to the debunkers who may be agents or duped by those responsible for the conspiracy in the first place." what is the best way to shatter a theory that has no basis in reality? >> one is if you can appeal in a way that affirms the basic beliefs or commitments of the people who believe in the conspiracy so at a level of abstraction they may believe something that everyone believes, like wrong doing should be punished. that can work. also, if you can get people...

Caucus meeting, because hes got a lot of explaining to do. >> angela, your reaction to that as well as another disturbing comment this week. an arizona congressional candidate wrote on his facebook, basically, this is a quote. basically, slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves. it is my sincere belief that entitlements are a means of enslaving the people of robbing opportunity while taking care of basic needs. now comparing entitlements to slavery, and he is not the first republican w...

A final word on this. the question ultimately is does it matter if roe v. wade is on the books if its not practically an option for people in so many of these communities anymore? >> right. ari, thats a great question. what you have is something thats legal on paper but in reality its a complete abstraction. i mean, it almost doesnt matter for people. if its out of reach, if its inaccessible, the legalty is on paper. abortion is still legal. >> right. that really is the issue. were going to cont...

On the coast and are in favor of an abstraction. its the environmental left and it includes those who believe rather remarkably that any unilateral mark on action is going to make a difference on climate in any case. they are not found in the states which the democrats have to hold on to win the senate. and thats why i simply cant understand why its become a thrust of theirs. perhaps because they cant run on the economy, on jobs and employment, and they cant run on obamacare. so they really dont...

>> look, abortion is unlike all the other social issues which appear to be headed left, gay rights, for example, gay marriage, marijuana, other intoxicants, where there has been kind of a reversal. it has not gone in the same way. it is clearly as a result of the technology. when you can visualize a fetus it has a different impact on you as when you are speaking of it as a kind of abstraction. and i do think on the issue of late-term abortion that is really where you could get a national consens...

Brianna keilar is at the white house for you. >> reporter:. president obama pressured congress to extend long-term unemployment benefits for 1.3 million americans. >> this is not an abstraction, these are not statistics. these are your neighbors, your friends, your family members. it could at some point be any of us. >> reporter: from the east room of the white house with the background of unemployed americans, obama rejected the republican argument that unemployment benefits take away motivatio...