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Policies create jobs. >> to be a recipient, you have to be looking for work. >> it makes them less likely to look for jobs. >> this ought to be a no-brainer. >> the republicans have a 28-point disadvantage when it comes to which party is more compassionate. >> i have incredible amounts of compassion. >> these are your neighbors, your friends, your family members. >> there are a lot of uncertainties left here. >> this is not an abstraction. these are not statistics. >> it remains to be seen if it...

Evelyn wrote to me and said, i wanted nothing more than to find a new full-time job and i dedicated every day to that mission. im asking you to advocate for me and millions like me who need our extended unemployment benefits to make ends meet. so, i just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction. these are not statistics. these are your neighbors, your friend, your family members. it could at some point be any of us. thats why we set up a system of unemployment insurance. the no...

House correspondent brianna keilar. brianna? we feel wolf, the white house and congressional democrats think they have a winning here, and today president obama used the bully pulpit to make his case. 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 w...

In the woods who havent heard about anything. but that it was repealed, i think is, a pretty farfetched. >> do you think that obamacare is a story will continue into the new year into 2014, will we continue to talk about this because of all the new developments? >> and the reason it will, and the answer is absolutely yes. because its not an abstraction. its not an ideological issue. its a real thing and healthcare is about the only issue there is that effects everyone right now. you talk about s...

So here we have all this news. hows the republican party going to go on this though? theyre going to attack the website. the website is beginning to work effectively. what are they going to attack next? >> i think theyre going to keep attacking the idea of obama care. theyre going to keep saying it doesnt work. theyd rather deal with this as an abstraction. as an ideological pinata they can keep swinging at because they know 30% of the public will be with them. theyre going to have a hard time a...

October 1 president obama said using it would be as easy as buying an airline ticket on kayak.com or buying a television on amazon. this is an insult to amazon and kayak. on the day of the launch, president obama should have known the harsh wisdom we have all learned since that time. that was, they werent ready. they werent close to ready. this wasnt a small mistake. this wasnt a scaling mistake. this was a monumental mistake to go live and effectively he can mowed on the launch pad. for america...

Childhood to love their team. will all of these repeated hits actually hurt them in theened end? >> there are nuisances, problems and crises. and i think this comes down to collectively a problem. you keep hearing about the vague concept about changing the culture. which is kind of an abstraction. you change a culture by changing and addressing very specific problems. on the concussions issues, i actually have to say, of all of the industries that i have observed over the years, the type of acti...

There false. thats the part that was left off, not acknowledged and never has been acknowledged in the days and weeks since we learned all these now millions of americans have been getting cancelled. >> he talked about it in thousands, not millions, by the way. but neither did he acknowledge the fact that it was a volitional, ideological choice about what he and his team thought americans ought to have for insurance. what he and his team thought americans ought to have to purchase for insurance ...

Zeke emanuel suggesting they need to be very transparent about how its going on with the website. >> should they? maybe they should. do they need to? no, they dont need to. i think one thing i think ive been as hard on them as anybody. i think this rollout has been completely botched. i think the website has been in bad shape. although it is, and this is really important to say, it is actually betting better. i just did by daily try and got right through account signup no problem. the front end ...

Never known them to be wrong. they did analysis of the big three, nbc, abc, cbs, and their news coverage of the government shutdown. all right? and they came to the conclusion, the mrc, that in 41 times the republicans or conservatives were blamed for the shutdown. 17 times both sides were blamed. no times, zero, nothing were the democrats blamed. i mean, you know, we all know that the fix is in. but, this blatant? >> looks like an anomaly, doesnt it? blaming democrats. and, of course, it reinfo...