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To turn out during the midterms to support our candidates. so now theyre trying to draw attention to womens wages. and yesterday jay carney really earned his spinmeiste douh. they said, wait, youre all about women making the same as men, but men make 12% more than women. women make 88 cents for every dollar a guy makes at the white house, jay carney. how do you respond to that? heres his answer? >> i think those studies look at the m aggregate of everyone on staff, and that includes from the mos...

Intertute found that women make the median 88 cents for every $1 that a male staffer makes. jay carney was on defense about why women here are making less. listen. >> everybody at every level here at the white house is paid the same for the same work, male or female. that is reflected at the most senior levels here where half or more than half of the department heads are women. >> bottom line is, jay carneys defense, youve got top-level staffers like susan rice, the national security advisor, wh...

Even vote for the bill and some of them who were there didnt vote for the bill. but thats the exception. democrats embrace the affordable care act. were very proud of it. anecdotally, if you hear this, that and the other thing, thats exactly what it is. the plural of anecdote is really not data. it is a few examples. but there are a couple hundred democrats in the house who are proceeding in a very positive way. >> let me ask you about the supreme court ruling this week on campaign finance. basi...

Yesterday in a 5-4 ruling, a ruling that broke along ideological lines like so many others do, heres what the court did. the court struck down the cap in the total amount that an individual can give within a two-year cycle. thats the so-called aggregate limitation. that was stricken. but the court left standing caps on donations that can be made to individual candidates. and i dont like the inconsistency of this. i dont like the inconsistency in saying, well, you can only give $2600 to a federal...

What i think this means is freedom of speech is being upheld. you all have the freedom to write what you want to write. donors ought to have the freedom to give what they want to give. im all for freedom. congratulations. >> yeah, congratulations. go, freedom. for an establishment republican like john boehner, yesterday was a very good day. the supreme court under chief justice john roberts continued its assault on laws designed to prevent big money interests from corrupting the democratic proce...

Using this corruption line but the same rational he used to get rid of the aggregate, it seems to me he didnt really get -- they could have easily gotten rid of the individual limit. >> roberts has always been more about evolution than revolution. >> very arbitrary. here is where the issue -- >> i think the aggregate limit is arbitrary here. its outrageous and roberts talked about it in the case. im hoping that the supreme court will follow it all the way down to individual limits because -- >> ...

Disincentivizes the billionaire. the billionaire player in this suddenly they have cut out the middle man. they have cut out the political party. they have basically set up their own -- >> i understand. >> so i dont think that their power goes away. >> so sheldon adelson, i keep bringing him up because everybody is talking about him. he is not playing on the field by himself if the national republican party has a lot of money, they can say, okay, you can change this person or that person. >> sur...

Off the individual limits. i still think its, personally, insane that the court didnt go far enough here, that they were just talking about the aggregate limit. >> just give them time. >> why? because its arbitrary? >> its arbitrary and i think if somebody wants to give $5 million to 500,000 candidates is their business. getting rid of the aggregate is one thing. what they want to do andive given a lot of speeches and mika and i have gone around talking to people and stand up and they agree with...

Will be reached by the end here pretty comfortably, and i think that shows its been a major -- theres some really pent-up demand. people really want insurance and they want affordable insurance. when offered that possibility, theyll come out of the woodwork. of course theyre going to delay until the end. were all procrastinators. thats big demand and that is the bottom line here. >> the 7 million number was never, as far as i understand it, correct me if im wrong, as far as i understand it it wa...

Fortunately the 7 million which was as you point out the original projection without the two months of screwed up website will be reached by the end here pretty comfortably, and i think that shows its been a major -- theres some really pent-up demand. people really want insurance and they want affordable insurance. when offered that possibility, theyll come out of the woodwork. of course theyre going to delay until the end. were all procrastinators. thats big demand and that is the bottom line h...