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15.7% in 2011. and for the first time in a decade, the percentage of people with private insurance did not drop. census officials cited two major factors driving down the uninsured rate. the number of young adults ages 18 to 25 dropped 2%, that is largely because health reform, the affordable care act, allowed kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents insurance, which has kept an estimated 3 million young adults insured. and the number of americans covered by government programs such as medicai...

Recently. i know you were in that region and followed it closely. what is your sense of where the arab spring is going at this point? both egypt and libya are countries that had very, very dramatic changes of regime. its not entirely clear how the political ground will settle. what does today say about where its going, or does it say really nothing about where its going, as of yet? >> well, todays events, you know, i think should and can only be considered a setback, but i would say the overall ...

Ten libyan security guards reportedly died defending the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi. thousands of libyans staged counterprotests today in a show of o support for the united states. many of them held signs thanking ambassador stevens for his service, and the libyan government was quick and forceful in its condemnation of the attacks. that, at least, is the situation in libya. in egypt, the conditions are much different. more protests against the offending anti-muslim film have been calle...

Ambassador chris stevens is not even buried yet. he has a grieving widow, a grieving family, and the other three persons who lost their lives, two been identified. one has. and to start making partisan play out of this tragedy, at this point, is insensitive. >> going forward, and as you say, it is a delicate moment, what needs to be done under either president in terms of outreach to the muslim world? i mean, its -- there is an understandable tension here in the foreign policy, where people look...

15.7% in 2011. and for the first time in a decade, the percentage of people with private insurance did not drop. census officials cited two major factors driving down the uninsured rate. the number of young adults ages 18 to 25 dropped 2%, that is largely because health reform, the affordable care act, allowed kids up to age 26 to stay on their parents insurance, which has kept an estimated 3 million young adults insured. and the number of americans covered by government programs such as medicai...

Has for basically the entire campaign. he received little to no bump from his convention and watched obama enjoy a significant polling bounce out of his. the economy just isnt proving sufficient to beat obama. that means that the romney campaign strategy isnt proving sufficient to beat obama, which means they need to change it on the fly. when campaigns are losing, they get a little desperate like that. and when they get desperate, they begin making riskier decision. and so tuesday night, the ro...

There is a saying in american politics. no campaign is ever as good as it looks when it is winning, nor as bad as it looks when it is losing. in mitt romneys comments on libya, you see part of the reason why campaigns end up looking so very bad when they are losing. a few months ago, the romney campaign had a clear theory of the race. to keep the focus on the economy. when other issues came up, they had a clear strategy for dealing with them. you acknowledge the issue, you put out some restraine...

United states. do we have a sense of what group carried it out, at all? i mean, there are clearly factions vying for this, and there was a protest, as hillary mentioned, we knew at least something about. do we know if it was even the folks who were protesting? >> we dont know specific organizations. none have taken responsibility yet. theres been a lot of speculation, but i think it would be ill of us to focus on things that we dont actually know. but something that really did come across from s...

Response to the attacks on u.s. diplomatic installations in egypt and libya, attacks that left four americans the dead. romney hastily released a statement late last night that read, "im outraged by the attacks on american diplomatic missions in america and egypt and the attack on a american consulate worker in benghazi. its disgraceful that obama administration first response was to condemn attacks on our diploma ikic missions, but to sympathize with the protesters." some republicans have been ...

It was under attack. >> you were mentioning a minute ago that you were in libya recently. i know you were in that region and followed it closely. what is your sense of where the arab spring is going at this point? both egypt and libya are countries that had very, very dramatic changes of regime. its not entirely clear how the political ground will settle. what does today say about where its going, or does it say really nothing about where its going, as of yet? >> well, todays events, you know, i...