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Start to take up the carpet and sheet rock. >> attempting to ease words, congress is expected to vote wednesday on trumps request for nearly $8 billion in aid, an amount texas governor reg abbett warned will not meet the needs. >> this will cost well over $120 billion. >> a similar tone heard from fema administrator brock long on funding from his agencies. >> its not going to be enough to make anyone hold. >> other forms of help arriving in texas. >> sending packages, gift cards, kids close. i h...

Start to take up the carpet and sheet rock. >> attempting to ease words, congress is expected to vote wednesday on trumps request for nearly $8 billion in aid, an amount texas governor reg abbett warned will not meet the needs. >> this will cost well over $120 billion. >> a similar tone heard from fema administrator brock long on funding from his agencies. >> its not going to be enough to make anyone hold. >> other forms of help arriving in texas. >> sending packages, gift cards, kids close. i h...

See from someone like rick perry? beyond the sort of policy conversation which goes a certain way and we have all the fancy words people use, he recently kind of just got himself in a lot of people by saying, well, gay people are like alcoholics. >> right, he called us diseased, he called it a disease. but ive been in texas as long as hes been governor. hes never been in pro-gay in any of his policies. and that man wants to run for president and i want to expose him as the anti-people man that h...

The hardware story, who come up and say how grateful they are to have health insurance, at least for their kids. i still run into people all over the country who grew up in that generation, a whole generation now of kids in vermont have universal health care. you know, business people are not crazy. they are not these right-wing lunatics. they get smart economics. and smart economics, as senator van de putte has said, is getting jobs into your state. i find it ironic governor perry is running ar...

In the first year wiand it goes down in a time span, but does that argument have traction, or is this something that greg abbett is saying, not even in the realm of the possible? >> if you keep hearing the rhetoric and the vilification of the affordable care act, you might say in a state like texas, no, people are going to think obamacare is bad. but its not. it was a bad decision not to expand medicaid. it was a bad decision to say no to that many jobs. and if any other comments that im getting...

Governor 20 years ago. we expanded medicaid, up to 300% of poverty, made it a middle class entitlement program. i still run into people today in the hardware story, who come up and say how grateful they are to have health insurance, at least for their kids. i still run into people all over the country who grew up in that generation, a whole generation now of kids in vermont have universal health care. you know, business people are not crazy. they are not these right-wing lunatics. they get smart...