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Garage. >> is it more important than my life, joe manchin and more important than your kids lives? >> security guards came to his rescue. back in september activists kayaked to house bill. that is more civilized than that behavior. >> bill: that happened yesterday morning as he was going to capitol hill. remember yesterday i told you about the interviews he did? so those happened around 8:30. one on msnbc and one on cnn. bret was the night before. i encourage everyone to find the interview on ms...

>> you mentioned that. >> and i got to ask my question so i say, mr. president, this is the second time i met you. did i ask the hardball question, drones, civil liberties? no, i did not. i guess im not at liberty to say what i asked about but it was soft. >> typical. thank you for the admission. michael hastings and the book is called "panic 2012" a great read. thank you so much for joining us and well be right back. weve all had those moments. when you lost the thing you cant believe you lost....

Welcome back to "politics nation." when the governor of a major state switches political parties, its very big news. now, weve got former florida governor charlie crist who anounszed hes leaving the party. in a tweet friday night, he wrote "proud and honored to join the democratic party in the home of president obama. it was accompanied by this picture of him taken at the white house with his voter registration form. im joined now by former florida republican governor, democrat, charlie crist. g...

Welcome back to "politics nation." when the governor of a major state switches plit kolitical parties, it s very big news. now, weve got former florida governor charlie crist who anounszed hes leaving the party. in a tweet friday night, he wrote "proud and honored to join the democratic party in the home of president obama. it was accompanied by this picture of him taken at the white house with his voter registration form. im joined now by former florida republican governor, democrat, charlie cr...

Perfectly. >> if somebody has asthma or diabetes or breast cancer can they get insurance in this country at the same price as someone without it can? can they do that? >> any erisa plan in the country. >> can you walk into. >> but you cant forget it. >> youre saying if theyre already insured. >> no, im saying that we have two kinds of regulators, state and federal i want to left the state regulatory questions to the state regulators, but if youre in a federally regulated plan. >> let me ask you ...

Youre in a federally regulated plan. >> let me ask you a hardball question mitt romney believes in an individual mandate. do you believe in an individual mandate at the state level? >> i believe -- >> no. do you believe they were right in massachusetts to require young people that are healthy to buy insurance to help cover the costs of -- >> i dont believe in any mandate at all but i respect the right of the states to make those decisions one by one. when the federal goismd government failed, we...

>> we have two kind of regulator, state and federal pinpoint to leave the state question to state regulators. if youre in a federally regulated plan. >> let me ask you a hardball question. myth r mitt romney believes in an individual mandate. do you believe they were right in massachusetts to require young people that are healthy to buy insurance because -- >> i dont believe in any mandate at all but i respect the right of the states to make those decisions one by one. >> i just want to ask my f...

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