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You can show this ad on your show and put christies words right after it. and so im very curious where this goes. i hope its not confined to sheheen in fighting back against this sort of thing. >> lets listen to what president obama said last week about this. >> youve got republican governors here. i wont name them in front of the press because i dont want to get you all in trouble. whove chosen to cover more people through new options under medicaid and as a result millions of people are going ...

Its a reality. and with that reality comes ones own response. and with that comes empathy. with that comes understanding. i mean, i cant count how many times ive heard or -- i mean, okay. ill come back to what i want to say. i mean, for example, a friend of mine, a producer, was in a cinema in toronto when we first showed the film in the toronto film festival. and hes a white guy from britain. he was sitting down. and this middle-aged african-american woman sat down next to him. they started tal...

And if you look at in south carolina specifically, about 500,000 uninsured adults would be covered under a medicaid expansion if governor nikki haley decided to do that. but she has said quite pointedly its something she would never, ever do. and sheheen has said were leaving this money on the table. and theres a study from the university of carolina that said if we expanded medicaid it would mean revenues of something like $11 billion into the states coffer into 2020 and also about 40,000 jobs....

Letter calling christies bluff. how many jobs has new jersey lost as a result of your decision to accept your medicaid dollars, he asked. how many businesses have been harmed by your choice, and so on. it was really a great way to call his bluff. there used to be a time in our country when you could say one thing in one part of the country and a different thing elsewhere. right before the civil war they printed up different campaign biographies for the north and the south. you cant get away with...

Medicaid and as a result millions of people are going to get help. states that dont expand medicaid are going to be leaving up to 3. -- 5.4 americans -- million americans uninsured. and that doesnt have to happen. work with us to get this done. >> nia, big laugh when he says he doesnt want to get republican governors in trouble for extending this benefit to so many hundreds of thousands of people. >> well, thats right. and if you look at in south carolina specifically, about 500,000 uninsured ad...

That chris christie would actually support the medicaid expansion in his state and then would use republican governors association money to try to hit candidates who have done the same thing. >> this is the exact same playbook from 2010, its the exact same playbook were seeing all over the country when it comes to obamacare. on the one hand you have democratic senate candidates as well as gubernatorial candidates either trying to run away from obama, not have him campaign in the state, but then ...

Tie obama to these democratic candidates. what you havent seen a lot of, however, is a real full-throated defense of obamacare, and in some ways you have to hand it to sheheen for writing to chris christie and calling hmm out on essentially what is a bit of hypocrisy there by funding this ad that criticizes sheheen for doing exactly what chris christie and a number of other republican governors have done. >> e.j., if youre going for any form of consistency here, the republican governors associat...