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People have health insurance and 85% were pretty happy with it. he said, still, this is a moral imperative, i want to do it. i think he exaggerated his ability to make it popular with his rhetorical powers, it certainly didnt work, but i think he said, ill do it, anyway. in fact, in 2012 and 2014, democrats suffered a huge wave of defeats. but at least obamacare was congruent with basic democratic beliefs and values about the redistributive nature of the federal government and its emeloriative p...

Said is an imperative. i dont think its asking too much to say give us the time to fairly and critically analyze these numbers. these numbers that were talking about, these are men and women. these are our families being impacted. lets please get it right. >> so where is this headed this week, and what are the implications if in fact a vote fails on friday? >> theyre going to be deciding soon whether theyre even going to proceed on debating the details of the health care bill. a lot of senators ...

Those are the types of issues we have to face to strengthen the system we have that helps those who need it the most, the aged and disabled. i would urge my colleagues, my democratic colleagues, come to the table with your solutions. dont just stand back and complain about a process you may or may not like. offer solutions. the solution of keeping the status quo where we have 20% of the population that are uninsured or cant afford to use their insurance. >> the prop is not democrats, its an intr...

Move this forward without major changes. threes a magic number. you only have 52 republican senators. if three are not willing to move this forward, you have a serious problem. that makes the behind-the-scenes all the more important. the real quick is as republicans try and get this done as soon as this week in the wake of such a bad score, will anybody come on board no matter what changes are made. listen to what alaska senator lisa murkowski, another key, moderate, outstanding senator told my ...

The further this moves left, the father ur those move right. -- the further those move right. >> you hear them saying i need more time to go over the cbo score and the legislation. case in point, senator murkowski. take a listen. >> today i dont have enough information, i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information. this is big stuff. so making sure that we get it right is something that i have said is an imp...

>> i dont have enough information. i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information. this is big stuff. and so making sure that we get it right is something that i have said is an imperative. i dont think its asking too much to say give us the time to fairly and critically analyze these numbers. these numbers that were talking about, these are men and women. these are our families that are being impacted. lets p...

To a point to offer amendments, i would support that. >> reporter: at this point in time -- you said you studied the bill this weekend. i know youre going to study the cbo report. if you have to vote today, how would you vote? >> today i dont have enough information. i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information i think that in fairness to alaskans, they deserve that information. this is big stuff. and so mak...

Court felt it went too far in its use of a religious test, based on what he talked about during the campaign, based on tweets we saw prior to him taking office, and what this ruling seems to suggest is that the balance is in the other direction. national security imperative was paramount to the way they roomed and we saw no mention of tweets or campaign speeches in the ruling. thats significant. it was a limited ruling, werther it will go forward or not reviewing the own tire case. no reference ...

The travel ban had not been implemented, based on this court decision will not be implemented until the court decides on it months from now. >> thats correct. and that is to be clear another loss for the trump administration. you look at these countries on the screen, these are countries the trump administration said through two consecutive executive orders they wanted to block travel for now. they described it as national security imperative, said the courts okay, even if there needs to be deci...

Thats unanimous. so, i think he is within his rights to call this a partial unanimous victory. >> exactly. its not the way he envisioned it, right, from the get-go, but the way the court is allowing it, i think hell take the >> just one final point, phil can speak to this as well. this is a decision about whether he has the legal authority to do these things. this says obviously nothing about whether its justified from a policy perspective. and i still personally dont think that the administrati...