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Holidays. and others are singing christmas carols and they dont know if theyre going to have the unemployment. they dont know if their food stamps are going to be cut. this is heartless, e.j. >> i think maybe we should have every member of congress have to watch "its a wonderful life" and have to read the dickens story. and sort of try to find a heart on this. >> yeah. >> its really taken and takes you by surprise that unemployment insurance is not some wacky new program. unemployment insurance ...

Obama care that will remain a problem for the president for months to come as various deadlines are hit in the law. >> youre right, but this media narrative that obama care is failing misses bay long shot. the actual nuanced situation that we have, the myth of obama care is quote/unquote failure is a product of the republican noise machine thats working to undermine this reform since day one. people are signing up in and the states that are participating they are meeting or exceeding their expec...

Enrollment is actually going much faster than it did in massachusetts. in both cases, the first month numbers were really low, but in terms of the percentage of the total number of people that they enrolled in their first year or that are expected to enroll in the first year nationally, the national enrollment pace is five times what it was in massachusetts at this point. and who knows if that will prove to be significant? i mean, massachusetts is a helpful example in that it is a statewide pilo...

Will see that its working. all of this will be forgotten. now, with fellow democrats, you know, there have been communications problems back and forth. but were all a part of the same family, and so were going to see that this succeeds, and were going to support the president for that. >> all right, senator bill nelson of florida, we appreciate you joining us and your expertise as a former insurance commissioner. >> coming up in the philippines, the devastation from super typhoon haiyan is just ...

Cable right here. put the monkey in the cell, put him out in the cage, let him get some air. >> although yard privileges have been restrictioned, the inmates agree that the cages have been effective in combating the inmate assaults that were so common in the past. >> it seems to me that this is just one more step towards administrations divide and conquer tactics. and its working. works well. ill give them that. they know what theyre doing. >> next on "lockup" -- >> i want you to take the curtai...

Therapist and elder in his church, hes extremely grateful for this gift of a spiritual journey to the holy land. >> its a once in a lifetime thing. i believe my steps were led by the lord to go this direction. >> im looking for something thats going to dramatically change my point of view, my way of life. >> keith, an iraq war veteran, also suffering from ptsd. he threw his name in the hat for the heroes to heroes trip, hoping for help with his stress and anxiety and tells us its working. >> i s...

This many times, youve run over somebody, and now youre in prison. this doesnt look like its working, to me. >> im just a country boy. i go to work, come home and drink a six-pack. thats basically about it. >> its denial in the classic sense, that they are not giving you the truth. these guys have used those lines so many times, they now believe those lines. >> what kind of drugs have you had experience with? >> just like painkillers. >> okay. hydrocodone? >> yeah, and morphine. >> morphine. hav...

Republicans recognized they would have taken a big hit on that. to a message that outilizes the debt ceiling which more people dont fully understand. theyve gone from defund to delay. it still has that feeling of desperation that, you know, once we hit october 1st and the program really comes online, the more people in the system, the more its working, the more president obama gets credit and it feels like that is the one thing the republicans feel like they cannot have happen. we unfortunately ...

Feels great. it feels great because it means that millions of people out there are not going to get cheated the way theyve been cheated in the last several years. ill just give you a couple of examples. >> great. >> yeah. this agency has been under way for about two years now, and already it has returned nearly half a billion dollars to consumers that credit card companies cheated them out of. it has already set up a complaint hotline so that if you think you got cheated on your checking account...

Thats consumer financial protection bureau. cfpb.gov. theres a whole complaint process there. and its working. its working for tens of thousands of people. they got money back for military families. >> so senator, my question for you, if its working, then why have your republican colleagues been so committed to killing the thing to the extent they were willing to write a letter and sign it and say, we wont just not confirm richard cordray, we wont confirm anyone. why would they hate this thing t...