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♪ ♪ >> kimberly: now something very special for you. one for thing coming up right now. we have aretha franklin turning 70 years old. celebrated her birthday in new york city with friends like clive davis. she has shown it is never too late to keep making it happen. she has a new album that she is collaborating with her good friend clive davis. that she used to work with, back a long time ago. i know she is a nice lady. whitney houstons godmother and i was at her birthday party a couple year...

In 2011 the obama administration does away with the class act because it is fiscally unworkable which was a portion of one of the accounting gimmicks as the right called it, and in the numbers, there were projections and weird accounting gamics accounting for the lowering. >>nicole: they give us something and revise it. we were presented with one thing and they revise it. and now the true costs of obamacare, wiping out $70 billion of projected $143 billion of deficit reduction. >>dave: much of o...

Years. that sounds great. but in october of this past year, the president and his health care secretary did away with the class act which wiped out about $70 billion worth of the projected $143 billion savin savings. you say they knew going in the class act wasnt going to work and that was a gimmick to sell it. >> the budget chairman called the class act a scheme. they included $1100 million in exchanges that chips away at the deficit reduction. the real doozy in terms of that sleight of hand is...

The problem is all the mandates, you know, the administration is great in saying this is going to be free. now seniors have free preventative care. children up to the age of 26 get free coverage. nothing is free. you shift the cost on to somebody else and my concern, steve, is, you know, whats going to happen? and i think this is exactly the way this health care law was designed is that pretty soon everybody will be forcing the exchanges, were going to basically have a defacto single payer syste...

And there was reason some resistant to passing a statute to inform the members dont do this, this is wrong. >> all i can say, greta, is that i think we are overall at the end of the day im glad it was passed. its fine. but was it really necessary to tell members of congress that they shouldnt do insider trading? >> greta: the affordable care act yesterday you took to the floor talking about the class act. if the healthcare law is declared unconstitutional by the end of june by the united states ...

And there was reason some resistant to passing a statute to inform the members dont do this, this is wrong. >> all i can say, greta, is that i think we are overall at the end of the day im glad it was passed. its fine. but was it really necessary to tell members of congress that they shouldnt do insider trading? >> greta: the affordable care act yesterday you took to the floor talking about the class act. if the healthcare law is declared unconstitutional by the end of june by the united states ...

>> let me mention two things that resonate with the american people. one was the deal making. the cornhusker kickback. the louisiana purchase. bringing in the various elements of the healthcare industry and basically bludgeoning them around the pharmaceutical companies and hospital association and amj. bludgeoning them into submission to support it. and then the other thing that the american people really objected to was this whole idea of this class act. in other words, that was going take care...

I am -- when -- i watched mrs. flukes testimony live. our oldest daughter is exactly her age, just almost exactly she is in law school. we have three other young women, two daughters and a daughter-in-law, mother of our only grandchild all of reproductive age. he does not understand what he unleashed, he went after my girls. he went after the girls of mothers all across this country regardless of their politics. and that is what he has completely under estimated. as have the candidates, what is ...

Daughter-in-law, mother of our only grandchild all of reproductive age. he does not understand what he unleashed, he went after my girls. he went after the girls of mothers all across this country regardless of their politics. and that is what he has completely under estimated. as have the candidates, what is the down side to saying you dont ask women, young women to post video, he asked for video, rachel, of this young woman. he called her a slut because she wanted to be responsible about birth...

a fellow at the institute of politics at harvards kennedy school of government. and steve moore is with us for the first time. economics writer for the "wall street journal" editorial page. thank you for being with us. our "starting point" is super tuesday, of course. ten states will go to the polls today. there are 419 delegates up for grabs and potentially 2 presidential campaign on the line. if you look at the map of todays super tuesday, contest, newt gingrich says hes going to win...