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Than a lunatic fringe, as mike was talking about, this tea party fringe, if youre looking at poll after poll, they are not winning on this issue. and they have no way of out. in the -- famous words of willie wonka, you get nothing, sir. good day. you lose. they already lost. on this issue. how many times, ed? theyre going to lose again. >> jesse, how can the democrats screw this up? i mean, and -- you know, theyre going to have to hold their ground. what would be the ramifications if they didnt?...

Of addressing those lies. i want you to -- i know this is on your website. tell us what your website is. youve made it easy. this is popular obama care myths. >> absolutely. >> and fox -- fox has picked up on all of this stuff, and have just driven this home, saying that this is a government takeover. answer that. is this -- is this a government takeover? >> its no more of a government takeover than the regulation of car insurance or wall street. i mean, when things starting to awry due to the n...

Us. we have hundreds of millions of dollars behind us. and if you dare to support a continuing resolution, a clean cr, were going to primary you, and we have unbelievable sums of money to defeat you. so what you are looking at now is what citizens united is all about. and that is giving a handful of billionaires the koch brothers and others, incredible power to tell members of congress what they can and cannot do. very dangerous. >> senator, what did you think of that conversation caught on came...

Dollars. now hes getting a huge break. >> right. >> this week he signed up for an insurance plan through the healthcare.gov. he says the policies are more affordable, and comprehensive than the ones offered in the individual market. is this an anomaly or is this the way its going to be? >> i have two words for that, ed. imagine that. after all we have been saying, thats actually how its going to play out. and were going to have more and more of these stories so they can talk about all of the com...

I mean, if rand paul is talking to mitch mcconnell, saying, hey, its really a bad thing for the democrats to say they wont negotiate, we really got em now, arent they just winging it and havent they backed themselves into a corner? your thoughts. >> they dont have a plan, and the numbers are showing it. the problem is, ed, theyre appealing to a part of america that most of us dont have any kinship with. we cant even understand that this isnt about the national picture. this is about these -- the...

34-year-old woman with mental health problems, the exact same age as aaron alexis, the shooter at the navy yard just 17 days before. so mental health, should this be the case, one more time has played into a terrible tragedy right in our nations capital. >> and within an instant the security was all over it, were they not, michael? today things unfolded quickly in washington. >> right. and we reported earlier on some of those e-mails that went out from the capitol police to all capitol hill staf...

0 this occurred on constitution avenue, which veers off from pennsylvania avenue. it was on the senate side of the capitol complex, blaring past two of the venerable older offi offices, and the vehicle was moving toward the direction of the u.s. supreme court where it ultimately came to a stop at what is a very small sort of guard station on a little island within the intersection of a few roads here. it is right in the midst of the campus that is the capitol and certainly it was steps away from...

Clean funding resolution, then this thing could go on and on. and i urge the american people, whether youre democratic, republican, independent, whatever stripe you are, wherever you live, this is not the way to run the country of the greatest nation on earth. we cannot go from crisis to crisis. >> he says the american people are on his side. >> well, that is just -- made up. that is made up. >> absolutely. >> i want to tell you something. do you know, ed, yesterday we had 5 million hits on cove...

And you couldnt feed anybody because there were too many people that got in early, and you just couldnt handle the line, do you think the manager of the restaurant is going to go back and chew out the staff because the response was overwhelming? i think they would probably call that a good night at the office. but, of course, fox news and the republicans, they call that a glitch. joining me now is john feelingel sang, liberal commentator and comedian. we need some comedy right now. we need some ...

Here in new york city to see what people on the east coast actually know and understand. we asked, do you like obama care or the affordable care act? >> from what i heard, obama care. it gives everybody access to insurance. is what this whole thing is about. i dont know if that affordable care gives everybody the same chance that obama care does. >> theyre the same thing. affordable care act is the way it should be known. we absolutely should have -- everyone should have access to health insuran...