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American politics. this bill was passed in the senate on christmas eve. we were promised a free and fair debate on health care in front of c-span cameras and it got 60 votes on a party line vote and i want to start over with a blank sheet of paper. there are things in the bill i do like, but i want for the senate to start over with a new process that from day one is bipartisan. senator barrassos position i think he has some good ideas. what happened in passing this bill is the worst of washingto...

Apparently. in an interview with c-span the former president says hes sworn off politics for good. >> define that. >> i wont go out and campaign for candidates. i dont want to be viewed as the perpetual money rai racer. i dont want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, seconds guessing the current president. i tell people one of the interesting, you know, sacrifice, i think its -- i dont think ysacrifice to run fr president, to the extent you do, you lose your anonymity. i like the idea o...

Achieved that. >> i dont think we have achieved. i think what we just-- what our origin tent, and we moved forward on this, was to have reasonable debates things on hot buttton issues, taxes, health care and wars in iraq and we would present our argument in a rational debate kind of forum and treating everybody respectfully and others points of view and disagreeing at the same time. >> kelly: congressman? >> we actually did that, weve had two debates on the floor, doing whats called special orde...

>> congressman cohen joins us tonight here on "the ed show." did you go too far? >> apparently so. a lot of people hold a strict liability rule on mentioning the holocaust or anything. im jewish and i passed a holocaust commission on my state and worked on it 20 years. ive learned that lesson, i guess. everything i said was true. i think everybody agreed that it was true. theres been a message. its been given over and over and over and its a lie. i regret its taken away from the health care issu...

The jews and the people believed it and you had the holocaust. >> congressman cohen joins us tonight here on adequate the "t" did you go too far? >> apparently so. a lot of people hold a strict liability rule on mentioning the holocaust or anything. im jewish and i passed a holocaust commission on my state and worked on it 20 years. ive learned that lesson, i guess. everything i said was true. i think everybody agreed that it was true. theres been a message. its been given over and over and over...

>> what about the substance? >> wouldnt we be better as a nation -- >> i didnt get an answer to my policy question. is there a federal agency in this law that has the power to deny someone care who is ill? is there such an agency? >> rob, my reading of the bill is you actually expand the entitlement -- >> thats nice. >> that its a completely unlimited entitlement. we spend dollars we dont have. >> for further debate watch c-span. theres more of it going on the floor right now. >> its a long way ...

Rationed. >> they will come around and tell you youre going to die -- >> is there a federal agency? >> this is a real easy one. >> congressman theres a larger question here. dont ask members of the republican party to question the wisdom of sarah palin. >> its not that -- why cant we talk about policies instead of all the silly labels. >> shes running for president. >> how much time did we spend debating the name of this bill? >> you called it a job-killing bill. >> what about the substance? >> ...

>> that its a completely unlimited entitlement. we spend dollars we dont have. >> for further debate watch c-span. >> its a long way of saying no. >> thanks, guys. a lively debate. up next ron reagan has written a new book about his father president reagan who would be 100 years old this year. its making a lot of noise. this is hardball only on msnbc. . shown to restore visibly healthier lips in just 3 days. neosporin® lip health™. rethink your lip care. executor of efficiency. you can spot a...

Live, the facebook event. it was carried on c-span. i cant wait to see the numbers. by our estimate this is about the sixth largest all-time largest crowd at the mall. that is tied with the inauguration of ronald reagan. so the media can diminish the crowd size all they want, but the images speak for themselves. gee, who thought we should have many, many photographers and cameras? and who happened to have a ticket at 10:00 at the top of the washington monument and a photographer there so we coul...

Live, the facebook event. it was carried on c-span. i cant wait to see the numbers. by our estimate this is about the sixth largest all-time largest crowd at the mall. that is tied with the inauguration of ronald reagan. so the media can diminish the crowd size all they want, but the images speak for themselves. gee, who thought we should have many, many photographers and cameras? and who happened to have a ticket at 10:00 at the top of the washington monument and a photographer there so we coul...