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Aside, look at the tone and tactics on the trail. that can sometimes tell you more than the polls can. what happened yesterday? chelsea clinton went on the trail and she attacked sanders outright in her first real appearance on behalf of her mother in 2016. >> senator sanders wants to dismantle obamacare, dismantle, the chip program, dismantle medicare, dismantle private insurance. now, the republicans in congress have voted against the affordable care act 55 times. right? not because they want ...

Sanders has dwindled. a "new york times"/cbs poll showing clinton leading 48% to 41%. clinton is now using the best weapon she has to fight back, sending daughter chelsea on the campaign trail today for the first time. >> i never thought we would be arguing about the affordable care act or obamacare in the democratic primary. senator sanders wants to dismantle obamacare, dismantle the chip program, dismantle medicare, dismantle private insurance. >> is the clinton campaign worried? >> secretary ...

Giving them immunity. he says, well, im from vermont. pat leahy the other senator from vermont voted against immunity for the gun lobby. so, no. thats not an explanation. >> senator sanders wants to dismantle obamacare, dismantle the chip program and medicare, private insurance. >> we see chelsea clinton making the abu on the trail. im joined by host, political correspondent steve kornacki. when we put the new polls in context with previous polling, what does it demonstrate? >> yeah. i mean, its...

Prize was a big beautiful mansion and he got to hang out with celebrities. and nobody seems to be bothered with the fact that he cant be bothered with the other stuff. so my point of view is this, that dog wont hunt. hes never going to do what we want him to do. put him in his room, give him beyonce videos, ligoes, house of cards. lock the door. i dont want him meddling anywhere where real armies could march any. >> and bob, we re-elected that dog that wont hunt. >> its a pretty damning series o...

Because it was supposed to help people without coverage. it turns out the opposite effect. 100,000 medicaid patients at least, maybe as many as a quarter million young patients, children may learn very soon that they dont have insurance. they thought they did. they signed up for the website but it apparently didnt go through for them. >> yeah. the obama administration admitting that theyre sending out in phone calls, flyers, all sorts of things getting on the phone tracking these individuals, it...

Medicaid or the chip program that werent on before. so were talking about nearly 5 million people who have been affected now. and i think those numbers are going to continue to roll. ed, think of this. two days from now, no american will be denied health care, because they have a preexisting condition. >> pretty amazing. >> there wont be any lifetime or annual caps. women wont be discriminated against in rates. there will be a cap on how much you have to pay out of pocket. so people wont go bank...

Healthy ones that are going to pay more in the system than they take out. they are the sick ones that are going to take more than they will put in. then you have this. look at the figure. 800,000 of the people signing up are going directly to medicaid or the chip program, the childrens health insurance program that comes right out of the taxpayer bill. the costs are going up. >> yeah. insurance terms its actuarial time bomb. the obama administration made a key mistake. key mill lennials supporte...

Have been effective at sort of going after the same talking points about what they think the negative impact will be and there was actually a funny line in a report that mpr did that said obama care has been through more life and death cliff hangers than a season finale of homeland. some back and forth is inevitable because this is still settling in. were starting to see what the real impact is but there will be some problems. the president said even before it passed there will be problems. >> s...

Tours. now were hearing all about flying. there have been some exceptions including samstein and the "huffington post" who has reported on what the big part of sequester does. the big parts to most people, public housing to the chip program. a lot of real problems for people living at the margins of this recession. instead we get all this talk that is for people who are more well off. the majority of american adults will not get on a plane this year. 138 million americans wont get on a plane. fl...

The c.h.i.p. program, providing government subsidies to purchase health insurance for some people. no one knows how much those subsidies are, not even the experts. no one knows what the fines are and the enforcement for the individual mandate. none of those things are known by american voters, none of them. but virtually every american voter is related to or knows someone on medicare. someone who can explain medicare to them at their own kitchen table. virtually all of us have someone in our own...