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To realize a very basic premise here. you cant win the hearts and minds of the american people by taking away their health care. and that doesnt mean -- its true. and it doesnt mean as republicans we have to embrace obamacare. listen, i believe in center right principles. but what it does mean is every republican plan is going to be measured against the breadth of coverage that obamacare established. so what republicans need to recognize is embrace the safety net that at times only government ca...

Angel? i know you guys have been doing a lot of organizing. its been really interesting to watch there has been folks from adapt, the disability rights group who have camped out for hours, sit-ins and sleep-ins in cory gardners office from colorado. indivisible folks outside tom cottons office. that the central core of the issue here on substantive grounds? >> no, i think thats exactly right. at the end of the day, what we know for a fact is that millions of people are going to lose their health...

Screening of electronic devices, more thorough passenger vetting, and new measures designed to mitigate the potential threat of insider attacks. we will also lay out a clear path to encourage airlines and airports to adapt or, crep correction, to adopt more sophisticated screening approaches, including better use of explosion detecting canines. additionally, we will encourage more airports to become pre-clearance locations. this not only enhances security, it also increases convenience by allowi...

Give to the senator. outside senator pat toomeys office in downtown pittsburgh about 100 people is chanting and protesting today. members of the local chapter of adapt refusing to leave. adapt is the legendary disability group found in colorado and they do not mess around. >> the video of the senators phone ringing off the hook while they were there. signing a pledge not to cut medicaid. >> protesters made inside the arkansas senator, right behind the supreme court of tp centehe. >> by the after...

Indivisible group posted this for their two states unmarried senators. theyre going to kick 22 million people off of health insurance? quick, everybody marry a senator! that will work! protests happened all over the country today, not just in south carolina. this is the office of tom tillis in north carolina today. they represented what would happen if people got kicked off their insurance. senator pat toomeys office in downtown pittsburgh, about 100 people stood on the sidewalk chanting "aca ha...

In the day in colorado who did this radical stuff back starting in the 70s and who ended up changing everything about disability rights in this country. and one of the things that adapt and other disability rights groups fought for and chained themselves to police cars for and snarled traffic for and door stopped their senators for, over all of these years, one of the things that they have fought and fought for was for the right to not be locked up. not to be confined for their whole lives to nu...

Senator mcconnells office. it was over early this afternoon. the group that organized this protest today was adapt. that same group founded way back in the day in colorado who did this radical stuff back starting in the 70s and who ended up changing everything about disability rights in this country. and one of the things that adapt and other disability rights groups fought for and chained themselves to police cars for and snarled traffic for and door stopped their senators for, over all of thes...

Credit based on age and income, insurance company of canned increase premiums based on pre-existing conditions, funding for medicaid expansion would fade out slowly, and they would grow more slowly than under the house version. lets sort that out for you. peter doocy can do it. people are really fired up about this. what kind of activity did you see there today? >> peter: outside of senator mitch mcconnells office, most of those that were arrested were loudly screaming about medicaid, and most o...

Extraordinary images of the head -- the most powerful man on the hill arguably, ways and means chairman dan rostenkowski getting hit with protesters banging on his -- the roof of his car in illinois, in chicago, with canes back in 1989. and they ended up repealing a bill that had been passed, had taken two years to pass it. they repealed that bill. the power of these kinds of images is not to be discounted in this kind of debate. >> i think that my friends and colleagues from adapt, which are cl...

A social media perspective and media coverage perspective and weve seen it and heard theresa may talk about this. terrorism begetting terrorism. its the demonstration effect of all of these attacks. nice looks like berlin, christmas market looks like westminster bridge and london. these actors, be they individual small groups or even organized organizations like isis or al qaeda, learn from each other. they see how we react and constantly trying to both copycat and adapt. i think thats really da...