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Obamacare deadline. the key demographic is not signing up. the presidents latest sales pitch to convince people to sign up. good morning elizabeth. >> good morning. you are right. theres not much time left in a month for people to enroll in healthcare on-line. the "washington post" is reporting one in 10 folks qualify for private health plans in the marketplace signed up and about half have even looked on-line. as the march 31st deadline approaches it is still a little foggy as far as the exact ...

A question yesterday about whether, you know, about how many people have gotten insurance didnt have it before. he didnt quite have the answer. take a listen. >> do you have a sense of how men a people are previously uninsured that are signing up? >> so, you know, weve heard some studies are being done to report, to try to get that information. again, thats not a data point that were really collecting in any sort of systematic way. >> so theyre not really sure how many people who have signed up ...

Putting -- a chill on free speech. and it is about non-partisan activities, too, by non-profits for voter education. wow. if you force them to disclose donors make the president disclose all of the internet donors and all of the donors that he will not disclose who donate massive amount tv his campaigns. the irs is engaging and is being forced to engage in political favoritism and it is wrong. it is fatally naive to think that we can sit here with an irs as a tax collector being drag flood publi...

Minorities. it should be both. and i think the message if they focus on job creation on, values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, they should be natural republican voters. >> lets say we get another data point to look at, dan. for example, in 2004 republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012, it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> yeah. they sure a...

Raising the specter of the baggage and raising money. >> no question republicans can use these issues to riley their base. they arent going to vote for hillary clinton anyway. did we learn anything fundamentally new, get great new quotes and color but anything more about the character of the person and heres one of them. this is interesting. the first lady asked a close friend and confidant on advice how best to preserve her general memories of the administration and in health care in particular...

It should be both. the message, if they focus on job creation and values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, entrepreneurial should be natural republican voters. >> weve got another data point to look at. for example in 2004, republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012 it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> they are. probably the hispanic vote is th...

When they were growing up. that is unfair and wrong. >> reporter: but hr companies are intrigued by online game testing and they are asking the best sales person to take the test so they can hire people as similar as possible. >> what these tests do is they run those people through the games and come up with a profile and you run everyone else through the profile. they are trying to figure out what is statistically different between the people who were best practice and the rest of the group. >>...

Gary, you may be wondering why you are here. >> what am i doing here? >> youre here as an expert on the human condition. i want you to take a look at one data point. if you look back at this december we just finished, it was the second hottest in 30 years. yet, when you look inside the brain, we see a lot of people who cant process that and are processing the idea if it is cold, the earth cant getting hotter. >> i have a long haired dachshund. he is not having a fun time being alive on this eart...

Thing. lets do whats right. all it takes is a little action from congress. as though maybe he really doesnt have a role to play here. what do you think? >> i think theres something to that. i mean, this was, you know, a purely political sort of soft demagoguic appeal. one of the things i found striking about it is this is a guy whos always said hes on the side of sound science, of pragmatism, of following the data and the reality-based community, and he makes it sound like the overwhelming conse...

Direction. what it can be is illustrative of the future -- >> exactly. >> its illustrative of the future we are headed into which is why, when there are wildfires in colorado, when theres a heat wave in australia, when theres massively destructive storms hitting us, we talk about those weather events as windows into what an extreme future will look like. they are not evidence -- they are not a data point that says the world is warming. what they are is a window into the future we are heading int...