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Time, energy and expense to figure out that you have a $5,000 deductible, you have a $10,000 deductible. the goal simply is to say that every person in this country through a single payer system is entitled to a comprehensive health care approach and that will save substantial sums of money in lower prescription costs, profiteering of the drug companies. by the way, the five top drug companies in 2015 made $50 billion in profit. the ceos in the health care industry make enormous salaries. we sho...

Republicans out of touch, both rhetorically and on policy when it comes to some key womens issues, so its part of the larger national push, but in this particular case, the davis campaign in particular, every day they have been looking for an opening on this to try to make abbott own these sort of gender problems. >> and they got one would wthat very unfortunate answer and they will probably get more because, you know, we have been talking a lot about the republican party having a lot of opportu...

>> why didnt you just go with it? >> i dont know. am i going to the next story or am i not? i cant because it is not in the prompter. >> make the camera nod. >> the next story, a blogger is going to quit the internet for a year because he is burnt out. david roberts who writes for the environmental news site says he spends too much time for all things on-line. quote, i think in tweets now my hands start twitching if i am away from my phone for more than 30 seconds. i cant take a pee without gett...

>> why didnt you just go with it? >> i dont know. am i going to the next story or am i not? i cant because it is not in the prompter. >> make the camera nod. >> the next story, a blogger is going to quit the internet for a year because he is burnt out. david roberts who writes for the environmental news site says he spends too much time for all things on-line. quote, i think in tweets now my hands start twitching if i am away from my phone for more than 30 seconds. i cant take a pee without gett...

If you were advising christie, couldnt this be further reasons why christian conservatives might be alienated by him? >> sure. i think you saw in that sound bite you played, his conflict. the statement speaks for itself. is sounds like someone walking down a perp walk saying no comment. if you signed it, you should be proud about it and talk about why you signed it. he does have to walk this line and its very, very hard to see how someone in the center of the republican party now is going to app...

See his face. theres benefit there. and also, it has rebounded. a lot of political benefit in both of them as well as for the jersey shore. >> when it comes to christie, couldnt this come back to haunt him if he runs for president in 2016? you dont really want the republican nominee being that close to his predecessor, would you? >> the comeback to that is at that point i was the governor of new jersey and i was doing anything and everything needed for the people of new jersey. when im president...

Know that it would cause the ripples but, instead, we are saying, well, if this could be the outcome in michigan, why couldnt this be the outcome in my native pennsylvania? why couldnt this be the outcome in ohio? it speaks to a fragile position unions find themselves in in all parts of the country. >> louis, does it put the democratic party in a fragile position? many say that the whole reason democrats are behind unions to curry favor and time to vote that you have this huge bloc of people to ...

Under the spectrum of mormon phobia. what about a buddhist or atheist or muslim for that matter? >> thats a fair point. the constitution does not put a litmus test on our candidates. what voters should look for is what policies the candidates espouse and how that lines up with their values. the motivations of the policies i dont think should be a driving factor. there many reasons why i dont plan to support mitt romney for president, but his religious faith is not one of them. >> thank you. we a...

>> we simply believe that the prospects are better. we think that the political process will outperform s&p expectations. the president is committed, as he made clear in his speech on wednesday, to moving forward in a bipartisan way to reach common ground on this important issue of fiscal reform. >> this is a huge dent in the re-election campaign of president obama. they did not expect this rating to come out yesterday. its going to totally hurt his ou have this the debt. you cannot continue to ...

It is scripted, and youre right. the youngest actor is 15. i guess, though, a lot of people might say, couldnt this be a good tool for parents to sit with their children and either maybe watch it separately and then come together and discuss it or maybe watch it together if the teenager is willing do that? couldnt there be something positive to come out of this? >> this is no after-school special. there is nothing -- from what ive seen of it, nothing remotely redeeming about this show. it is a d...