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0 biting his nails, because he was nervous about everything. but you knew what he wanted. he wanted the sick tree. the number one story in america over the past few weeks has been problems with obama care. you know, its interesting. of all the voters in virginia last night, only 24% of them said that obama care was their number-one issue. you know what the number-one issue was? putting jobs first. terry minneso terry mcauliffe knows the narrative, what is striking at the heart of the middle clas...

0 be, who wants to get rid of abortion, even in the case of rape or incest. rejected. 20% of virginia voters said abortion was their most important issue. and of those, nearly 60% voted for mcauliffe. but the republican party hasnt figured that out. heres the partys de facto leader today. >> look at what theyre doing to women with their policies. theyre demeaning them. theyre turning them into nothing but abortion machines. >> abortion machines? this kind of extremism doesnt play any more. in al...

Businesses, and getting into business, because now theyll have health care and health care coverage for the workers, which they couldnt have before. >> senator tom harken, great to have you with us tonight. thank you, sir. appreciate your time. >> thanks, ed. remember to answer tonights question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter at ed show and on facebook. and i think im going to have to tweet out, senator mcconnell, can you comment on the 400 businesses...

That we all have. i would say that common sense is going to prevail. >> okay. >> and that all of these ballot measures are going to fail. >> well, if -- all of the ballot measures are going to fail, because youve got one of them to raise almost $1 billion for public education by taxing the wealthiest residents of colorado. how is that going to play out? because income inequality, of course, has been a big subject nationwide. >> right. well, i would say all of the secession ballot measures are go...

Conditions and over the 33,000 people who were going to get health care and more so of the 640,000 that dont have it, is he saying they dont deserve it, because theyre not some kind of special american that doesnt qualify, the wealthy? their pushback, senator, i guess my question is, are they running out of material? . >> they are running out. and now it has become, they want -- i liked what was said this morning by senator warren. in our hearing with ms. tavenner. she said, really, what were ta...

You say its being improved, i mean, we have something to go on there. this is testimony in a senate committee. if you could go back, if you could have crafted this differently to avoid all this obstruction, would we be so much further along that it wouldnt even be a political issue? >> well, ed, you said it earlier. we need a public option out there. we needed a public option in this program. i fought hard for it. but we didnt get it. and probably from the very beginning, we should have just set...

That they cant be taken away, no matter what preexisting conditions you have. and you can get preventive services up front, so you dont have to wait to go to the emergency room. thats the new value system. and im telling you, the american people want this new value system in health care. >> senator, you come from iowa, middle of the country, a rural state. farming is kind of a big deal in your backyard. i mean, theres a lot of small farmers out there that are going to be able to get some tax cre...

Blog at ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment there, especially about virginia. and, of course, well bring results later on in the show. for more on this, i want to bring in the senator from iowa, tom harken, who was on the ground floor of the affordable care act. he quarterbacked this thing through committee. senator, good to have you with us tonight. >> always good to be with you, ed, thanks. >> were you expecting this level of pushback from the red states? i mean, when obama care -- the affordable...

Randy, bob, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> thank you, ed. still ahead, a staggering new numbers on income in america, and the fight for the middle class. senator bernie sanders joins us for the punchout. stay with us. ♪ i said hey ♪ baby i got your money customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online

Median family income has gone down by $5,000 since 1999. ed, today we have more people in this country living in poverty than at any time in the history of america. and the gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing. >> that is almost an unbelievable statement. we have more poverty now than weve ever had in americas history. and we sit there and watch our politicians not even talk about it or do anything about it. a select few such as yourself. >> but its not only the politici...