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>> laura: we frequently give the seasonment media a hard time on the "angle" for good reason. kudos to the "washington post" fact checkers for calling out late night talk show host jimmy kimmel. took him to the wood shed for botching the emotional plea on the chip program. he brought his young son who suffers from a heart condition. chip is the childrens health insurance program. one kimmel used to push his anti-republican narrative. >> chip is on the back burner whale they work out new tax plan...

Take this election where the people of alabama said i want you to find common ground, i want you to talk, take this opportunity, in light of this election, and go ahead and fund that chip program before i get up there! [cheers and applause] put it aside and lets do it for those million kids and 150,000 here in birmingham, alabama. i am not going to talk too much longer. its been a long night. its been a long campaign. but let me just say -- i know i have forgotten so much, ivee forgotten so much...

Finish. take this election with the people i of alabama said i want you to find common ground, i want you to talk, take this opportunity, in light of this election, and go ahead and fund that chip program before i get up there! [cheers and applause] put it aside and lets do it for those million kids and 150,000 here in birmingham, alabama. i am not going to talk too much longer. its been a long night. its been a long campaign. but let me just say -- i know i have forgotten so much, ive forgotten...

Finish. take this election with the people i of alabama said i want you to find common ground, i want you to talk, take this opportunity, in light of this election, and go ahead and fund that chip program before i get up there! [cheers and applause] put it aside and lets do it for those million kids and 150,000 here in birmingham, alabama. i am not going to talk too much longer. its been a long night. its been a long campaign. but let me just say -- i know i have forgotten so much, ive forgotten...

[ cheers and applause ] let me finish. take this election -- take this election where the people of alabama said we want to get something done, we want you to find common ground, we want you to talk. take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that chip program before i get up there. put it aside and lets do it for those million kids and 150,000 here in birmingham, alabama. im not going to talk too much longer. its been a long night. its been a long campaign, but let me...

But theyre passing a tax cut that greatly increases the deficits. now they are saying because the deficits are big we have to cut back on programs for the poor. youre going to give tax cuts to the rich and cut programs to the poor? is that really what the republican party -- >> isnt that supposed to be part of it that it was supposed to reduce? >> it was supposed to be serving the middle class. the middle class, depends on where you define the middle class, but people under $75,000 were seeing t...

Because you know the weight of the united states is depending on you, and americans are depending on you. and when you understood mind it, youre doing a disservice to those people who are waiting for an fbi agent to show up somewhere across the country to get their life back in order. >> thanks, congressman, appreciate it. hes only four years old, but hes just one of the almost nine million children that might lose their safety net and access to life-saving health care. what is the congress doin...

Idea that we have failed to reauthorized spending of health care for children? >> its a sign of how broken congress really is. this republican majority has jammed through a multi-million-dollar tax break for the richest americans, and yet children all over this country are threatened with losing their health care. you know, when the law was passed in 97, i was still the insurance commissioner, ali, and to show how bipartisan this is, the governor of kansas reached out to me at the time and said,...

1950s era kind of talk. >> joining the talk, senator orn hatch discussed a program that congress allowed to expire. >> nobody believes more in the chip program than i. i invented it. i was the one who wrote it. chip is having trouble because we dont have any money anymore. i have a rough time wanting to spend billions and trillions of dollars to help people who wont help themselves. they wont lift a finger and expect the federal government to do everything. and unfortunately, the liberal philoso...

Manipulate the situation and get him on their side. >> i think the president felt burned from the last meeting they had. i think that is unfortunate. i think it was progress. what i think it says is you can never take this man at his word whether dreamers and wanting to find a solution for the dreamers or coming to chip or to really dig down deep and work in a bipartisan way. the president is rejecting that right now. i think what leader pelosi is suggesting is that they are going to work with t...