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I think with the american people. you know, theres going to be a real reckoning because there are people who have been born -- children have been born with real severe illnesses, parents would have hit a life-time limit a long time ago with those severe illnesses. those kids are alive today because they have coverage. there are people with other very severe illnesses who have medication coverage and are under care and alive because of this health care law. the idea that you could move millions o...

Person is no longer with us. this will have a real concrete effect. people will show up at those town halls. people will show up to vote. this is not a good situation for them. >> thank you so much. well be right back. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose.

They were under judicial scrutiny, but this is different. and the judge made a couple key points. i think the point he made that the government hadnt shown a real concrete effect, that the programs really had thwarted a terrorist attack was a tough point for the government. one theyre going to have to do a better job of in their future pleadings. >> jamele, you guys have been working at the aclu on these cases for years. your thoughts today. >> well, i think its a really big deal. its a carefull...

And had no advice to offer that was worth a damn. >> do you feel like when youre looking right now at the debates about syria, about iran, and how were going to deal with them, do you feel like there is a real concrete effect of propagating a white washed history of what we went through with the iraq war? does that affect the debates were having now on issues lake iran and syria? >> oh, i think so. i think as yogi berra once said, its like deja vu all over again. i see us walking down the same r...

The least honed instrument in our arsenal, and the reason for that is longstanding. it starts with dick nixon and others who derided the state department is the home of pink communist dogs. thats the way the state department was looked at by the bush administration also. they tolerated colin powell, because colin powell had poll ratings like mother teresa. they couldnt very well not tolerate colin powell, but the state department, the state department was looked on as a filthy, dirty place where...

Because colin powell had poll ratings like mother teresa. they couldnt very well not tolerate colin powell, but the state department, the state department was looked on as a filthy, dirty place where people worked to -- were not competent and had no advice to offer that was worth a damn. >> do you feel like when youre looking right now at the debates about syria, about iran, and how were going to deal with them, do you feel like there is a real concrete effect of propagating a white washed histo...

Colonel gadhafi to step down immediately. weve learned, a short time ago, the united states military is moving assets closer to that country. yet, gadhafi has just told a bbc reporter that the people of libya love me. nbcs stephanie gosk is inside libya, and, stephanie, u.s. military assets moving closer to the nation, is this a sign of escalation? >> well, martin, certainly a sign of escalating pressure on the government here. the moving of the ships doesnt necessarily mean there are troops on ...