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Poor when what we ought to be doing is fixing the things that needed fixing with obamacare, but dont throw the baby out with the bath water. >> aby, lets talk about the politics of this. it looks like there are a lot of hurdles. the conservative block, you heard rand paul earlier in the show very opposed to this. they think these refundable tax credits are republican welfare, theyre calling it. it looks as though a lot of democrats, if not all democrats in the senate at the very least are going ...

Giving him a pass, others in the conservative block are blasting congressman ryan for being too close to the partys establishment. theyre criticizing paul ryans past support for giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship what the right whining inaccurately calls am in the -- amnesty. now those in the freedom caucus are getting slammed. one said theyre not going to volt for anyone to matter who it is. we have to end this. we look absolutely crazy. and as much as all this is political theater...

Through a state referendum if they want to. the court ruled that michigan voters were simply exercising their privilege to enact laws themselves when they passed a 2006 proposition against affirmative action. the decision was 6-2 with democratic appointee steven briar joining the conservative block of -- it doesnt change the status quo on affirmative action. it certainly strengthens the hand of conservatives who want to take the case against affirmative action directly to the voters. lets spin. ...

That were seeing spring up all over the country. we saw it recently when a man waved a confederate flag outside the white house. and remember the mississippi senate candidate who reportedly attended two events put on by a neo-nazi confederate group? well, today the biggest tea party group will support him. and today in colorado, voters in ten counties will vote to secede from the state. a conservative block of colorado to looking to break free. they want to form their own state. northern colorad...

What seems to you poor economic circumstances isnt. the law has a high standard higher than normal to take a kid away. >> they didnt look at the best interests of the child. baby veronica was taken away even if it was in her best interest to stay with the couple. >> the supreme court ultimately stepped-in, 5-4, not along straight ideological lines. justice briar joined with justice alito. >> justice briar abandoned the liberal block and scalia the conservative block. it was 5-4, most conservativ...

>> theyre not stupid. theyre going to buy insurance later. theyre young and need the money now. >> here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way. >> there you had justice kennedy seeming very skeptical and that could be very important because liberals are hoping they...

Party. here as nationally, and then you have the other part of the party, tea party activists, evangelical christian side, dubious but not able to settle lastingly on one alternative to him. and the real volatility that half of the party, dubious of romney, cycling through alternatives from huckabee and palin who didnt run. and cain, gingrich and santorum. his advantage, rising very late, clear momentum. i dont any anybody would be surprised if he gets to the top here and almost too late for a c...

Rather than, looking for a candidate to set a direction for the party. some amorphous blend of -- the party knows where it wants to go. thats why so much of the debate has been about who is an authentic conservative? all of the candidates have risen and fallen among that morphed conservative block. inevitably whats happened, one or two things in their record comes up, clashing the group and the whole edifice comes down. a very difficult, being a republican, so far, at the presidential level, to ...

well look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. were going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the "starting point" this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between president...

will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesnt want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, hes superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. >> did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now hes talking about it from his hospital bed on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday,...