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Fatal. i love being solicitor general which is why i left judging. >> im glad youre not a judge anymore. you be one of a thousand and we never hear from you. its very important that youre here to give commentary on whats taking place in washington. ive studied this, youve lived this as an independent counsel which was quite different. you had all these rules you had to follow as a matter of federal law and congress came to its senses and said we dont like this and they let it lapse. lets talk ab...

About these folks? if so, maybe they will start to work with trump. >> a republican strategist has been a critic believes that letting it lapse is the wrong thing to do. >> it will have negative economic consequences for a lot of employers and a lot of people who benefit from having dreamers in the economy in terms of being taxpayers and consumers. >> in the election, canada trump railed against daca insisting for president obama to arbitrarily carve out an exception was unconstitutional. >> we ...

Senate -- was to make a non- popular bill more popular. >> well, look, this is what i would say to answer your question. with respect to preexisting condition, as you know, most people with preexisting condition were already covered, one by federal law that if you were in a group plan you couldnt be eliminated and mostly by state laws that did what obamacare did. obamacare covered very few on that provision, number one. number two, you are right, obamacare dramatically expanded medicaid. i can t...

Who are poorer, people who are older, and people who are sicker. think about the opposite of that, people who are young and healthy and have enough money, they are not as worried about this particular issue and they are also not ones who are accessing the health care system as much. but there are some 117 million people in this country who have chronic disease, chronic illness, and they are the ones who are probably paying the closest attention to whats happening right now. with regard to pre-ex...

>> thats up to cbo. >> we are looking at continuous coverage, this is not a novel concept, by the way. you can still find a similar version of this to cover pre-existing conditions and medical part b, medicare part d and in the employer market. we modeled it after that. one of the issues we found is that some people were gaming the system with guaranteed issue. it is not they had a pre-existing condition necessarily, its that they paid for nine months of insurance, get 12, the other automaticall...

November. >> a new vandalism attack on a jewish cemetery, this time in rochester, new york, this is the third incident of its kind in the last two weeks. governor andrew cuomo ordering a hate crime task force to investigate the spike in crimes targeting jewish organizations across new york state. the antidefamation league is offering a $5,000 reward for information about the case. according to the adl, more than 120 jewish community centers across the country have been hit with bomb threats and ...

Magazine? >> you shouldnt have let it lapse. >> i did. i moved around a lot and -- >> well -- >> listen, we were kind of talking about this in the break. we were definitely talking about this in the break and i think "ebo "ebony" magazine put themself back and i say bravo and applaud them for this cover and starting this conversation because this is a conversation that number one black america needs to have with itself and that we need to have and im not saying that i agree with the cover, that ...

Real video and this is a real threat and this is a multi-front war. not a good time to have our surveillance laws expire. >> with the patriot act. your reaction to this video, bob bear? >> wolf i served two years in tajikistan. and this country in any way succombing to the islamic state, i dont know if this is a true sign of it is very very dangerous. because if you have the islamic state moving up into central asia thats another front and there are not enough russian troops there to deal with i...

Other threats from terror to the united states. the white house said today, letting surveillance legislation lapse in congress would pose a risk to national security. rand paul told cnn today about the patriot act, which the nsa, which you used to run, uses to authorize the collection of data. heres senator paul. >> i plan on doing everything humanly possible to try to stop the patriot act. >> of course youve endorsed jeb bush for president. if he runs so i want to be clear on that. but i would ...

Will succeed. the smaller we get, the more motivated you have to be to turn out, again, the harder it is to pass. as we do our strategy going forward, take both of those -- >> another thing we mentioned is you have the assault weapons ban passed in 1994, they let it lapse in 2004. to just get the assault weapons back -- ban back would be going back in history 20, 10 years and at the outset of the legislative debate we had this year, the futile legislative debate, one thing taken off the table is...