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Year. >> bumping up medicaid eligibility from 100% of poverty line to 103% of poverty line so working poor people can get health insurance, whats the objection to that? >> i have a real problem when you talk about raising the poverty level. thats people making $94,000 a year. theyre not poor. thats taking resources from the poor. the expansion of medicaid is a moral issue, not an economic one. >> thats a math train wreck. thats not the medicaid expansion. >> excuse me? >> its not the medicaid ex...

Its just what was said over the airwaves. so its not to be confused with a cockpit voice recorder which would give you the ambient sound, tell you what the pilot and co-pilot are saying to each other. this is only what theyre reporting back. were just getting the formal stuff. it is quite spare and appears for from my mind very normal. >> right. >> it doesnt tell you, in other words, if it was the cockpit voice recorder tell you if there was some scuffle in the cockpit. you wouldnt hear it on th...

Served on the new jersey israeli commission. still the contexts dont correctly connect the government himself. "the washington post" points out a recent town hall meetings with the governor not one person has brought up the lane closures. id say those texts are bad. >> what the texts show is the governor, even if the governor is a mile away from this scandal when its all all over, he is going to have to explain why he put such people around him. >> because they were doing it. its proved now this...

Dont know. whats interesting, though, is that conversation is at least taking place in the republican party. some of the interest about this weekend is which of the republican governors will make a point. i dont see the same conversation going on the democratic side. that seems question is hilary get in and if she is or isnt, its all waiting. theres not that same sort of cataloging of who are the interesting governors, who are the interesting senators. >> theres a lack of ideas i would say one t...

If somebody wants to talk with us outside these legal contexts, that tells us that they dont want to have an agreement. when in comes to nuclear technology, the iranian people are very sensitive. it is a part of our national pride. and nuclear technology has become indigenous. and recently we have managed to secure very considerable prowess with regards to the fabrication of centrifuges. so in the context of r&d and peaceful nuclear technology, we will not accept any limitations. and in accordan...

The "financial times" iran will absolutely remain its enrichment. do you believe it will be possible to bridge this gap by allowing iran to have a small enrichment capacity but for the most part to forgo enrichment? >> translator: iran will not accept this. and the peaceful nuclear technology including enrichment is part and parcel of the inalienable rights of states. we are only willing to move forward within legal context. if somebody wants to talk with us outside these legal contexts, that te...

Dropped out of the blogosphere rather than deal with hateful internet feedback? wanted to continue this discussion on air. so lets bring in the aforementioned amanda hess, whos in hartford, connecticut today, and amy wallace, who wrote a column for the "new york times" on the same subject last weekend. thank you both for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> amanda, your headlines pretty stark about this being the next civil rights issue. why do you think local and federal authorities and somet...

Insurance? its a big open question mark. the white house has been pushing on it. but they could very well lapse. well have to see. >> you know, to that point, we have some of the numbers on income inequality. to sams point, i think its 1.3 million as of december 28th will be in need of additional unemployment insurance. 95% of income gains went to the top 1%, but somehow barack obama is still a socialist. incomes of top 1% grew 31.4%. incomes of bottom 99% grew 0.4. to what you were saying befor...

>> well, i mean, look, thats not a crazy notion. i mean, it is true that the insurers will want more time and have asked for more time in other contexts to be able to appropriately rice their plans based on what theyve -- price their plans based on what theyve seen from this past year. however, if you look at the kind of chaos that were seeing inside this superstructure of obamacare right now, the idea that this one-month delay is actually going to provide the fix with the time that insurance co...

About morale? every time i was serving, if youre serving under a petraeus or allen, somebody who knows a hard chargeer, going to take out the enemy and take no b.s., that motivates us. those are guys you want to run through a brick wall for. when you know youve got a general a little more political minded, does he have my back, that hurts morale. >> you know what hurts too is the rules of engagement. it is up to the commander, the general to get in there, get their hands dirty, hands on the grou...