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Back to work. as president obama returns, he begins a fight with republicans over the economy, restoring jobless benefits, raising minimum wage. thats what well be talking about. the future of obamacare is another issue, the impact of the law of the quality and costs of health care around the country and the social issues in everyday life. where does marijuana use become legal? it is a growing public policy issue around the country and well get into that debate this morning. joining me this morn...

Blasio now the mayor of new york city. de blasio draws all eyes to new york city lab, populist ideas. whats going on in democratic politics? >> the idealogy of both parties is disappearing, i think, and now were seeing a move here where the democratic party is more united in what it stands for these days. it has moved to the left a little bit in the same way the republican party, which used to have idealogical adversity inside the party, liberal republicans, conserving republicans, were seeing o...

>> first of all, they have to modernize the payment system, modernize medical care, they have to find a way to bring technology across state borders. we have to fund the nih, and ultimately the nation has to have the coverage to step up to the looming solvency of medicare. >> does medicare have to become a different program? covers less, fewer benefits? >> one thing medicare has to do is incense people to take care of themselves. we have to deal with obesity which is now 10% of the health care c...

What gets it to keep coming down? what does it take for companies to go out there and get past their uncertainty and start hiring in 2014? >> i think thats the right question. we have economic momentum, as jim has said. what are we going to do with that momentum? i think theres three things. one, we have to provide more economic certainty. the era of threatening defaults has to be over, the era of shutdowns has to be over. secondly, its time for the republicans to work with the president on the ...

President obama pushing hard for congress to restore those emergency long-term unemployment benefits that have been cut off to 1.3 million americans. heres what he said in his weekly address saturday. >> we make this promise to one another because it makes a difference to a mother who needs help feeding her kids while she looks for work. it makes a difference to a father while learning skills to get a new and better job. and denying families that security is just plain cruel. were a better count...

I want to talk about whats happened on the program here today, and chuck todd, you were singled out by gene sperling on this broader question of obamacare. its similar to where we started the program. hes saying, we do want to talk about obamacare. were going to own it this year. do you think thats true? >> i think the administration is hoping they will get there, but they have senate democrats. gene sperling is not running for senate in louisiana, in montana, all these red states where the issu...

>> does medicare have to become a different program? covers less, fewer benefits? >> one thing medicare has to do is incent people to take care of themselves. we have to deal with obesity which is now 10% of the health care costs in the united states and going up, growing number of diabetes, et cetera. so we need to have incentives for individuals to take care of themselves, and thats not really as big a part of the new law as it should be. >> are republicans reaching out to either one or both o...

To go out there and get past their uncertainty and start hiring in 2014? >> i think thats the right question. we have economic momentum, as jim has said. what are we going to do with that momentum? i think theres three things. one, we have to provide more economic certainty. the era of threatening defaults has to be over, the era of shutdowns has to be over. secondly, its time for the republicans to work with the president on the bipartisan opportunities we have for job creation in housing finan...

Washington. president obama pushing hard for congress to restore those emergency long-term unemployment benefits thavt have been cut of to 1.3 million americans. heres what he said in his weekly address saturday. >> we make this promise to one another because it makes a difference to a mother who needs help feeding her kids while she looks for work. it makes a difference to a father while learning skills to get a new and better job. and denying families that security is just plain cruel. were a ...

The key battles this year. back to work. as president obama returns, he begins a fight with republicans over the economy, restoring jobless benefits, raising minimum wage. thats what well be talking about. the future of obamacare is another issue, the impact of the law of the quality and costs of health care around the country and the social issues in everyday life. where does marijuana use become legal? it is a growing public policy issue around the country and well get into that debate this mo...