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The evidence. whether its hot or cold on a given day is not evidence in a 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 worl...

Facing new allegations about the so-called navigators, the folks who try to help people enroll and sign up on healthcare.gov, there are allegations by darrell issa yesterday that some of these folks are getting weak background checks. jay carney pushed back on all that and said this is just partisanship. take a listen. >> one of our concerns is that documents we now have show some serious areas that may still be wide open to hackers or even wide open to accidental discovery. some of these flaws ...

Suspects. tragic. obamacare navigators prove to be inept and unqualified. but the white house has a whole different theory. >> this is just one more data point in the republican obsession with sabotaging obamacare. >> of course it is. thats right. what obamacare fails, its got to be the republicans fault. laura ingraham will react to that in two minutes. >> if there is anything you would need a script for, it would be blaming republicans. but he was reading it from his notes. remember this vid...

Months ago before the obama administration believed that the fall would be all about it not working, they thought it would be about a massive outreach effort they were going to launch usingmayors, using governors, trying to get their mothers involved to get folks to sign up, by getting trusted valuable dar -- validaters to talk about it. >> in california the website is working and up, and there the portion of kids signing up is a portion of the population. so it does look like we are going to ha...

Administration believed that the fall would be all about it not working, they thought it would be about a massive outreach effort they were going to launch usingmayors, using governors, trying to get their mothers involved to get folks to sign up, by getting trusted valuable dar -- validaters to talk about it. >> in california the website is working and up, and there the portion of kids signing up is a portion of the population. so it does look like we are going to have enough if you have that d...

You guys were talking about this a couple moments ago, but at the end of this year, youre going to be paying a percentage of your income if you dont sign up for health insurance. that gets them in the market, too. the other thing that hasnt launched yet, but a couple months ago before the obama administration believed that the fault would be all about it not working, they thought it would be about a massive outreach effort they were going to launch using mayors, using governors, trying to get th...

Just a data point? i would argue that angela merkels cell phone is a little more than a data point. did the president ask the right questions or did he not know that those questions even needed to be asked. why wasnt the nsa more forthcoming to the president of the united states? >> and dianne feinstein has just confirmed publicly that this spying on angela merkels telephones goes back to 2002. its my understanding president obama, she says, was not aware of chancellor merkels communications wer...

Benghazi. but whats being challenged today is whether it was truly independent, whether there were conflicts of interest and why the investigation was allegedly designed to affix blame at the lowest possible level at the state department. a key data point as the congressional investigations focus in on senior leadership at the state department is the testimony of ambassador stevens deputy. you see him there, greg hicks, that it was mrs. clintons personal goal to establish a permanent diplomatic ...

For many weeks, we heard from russia and from others, wait for the u.n. report. those are the outside experts. thats a quote. that is the independent gold standard. thats a quote. well, despite the efforts of some to suggest otherwise, thanks to this weeks long-awaited u.n. report, the facts in syria only grew clearer and the case only grew more compelling. the findings in the report were as cat gorical as they were convincing. every single data point, the types of munitions and launchers that w...

Russia and from others, wait for the u.n. report. those are the outside experts. thats a quote. that is the independent gold standard. thats a quote. well, despite the efforts of some to suggest otherwise, thanks to this weeks long-awaited u.n. report, the facts in syria only grew clearer and the case only grew more compelling. the finings in the report was as categorical as they were convincing. every single data point, the types of munitions and launchers used, their origins, trajectories, mar...