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Had zero votes on a replacement. my question is why do you think its so good to deny seniors on part d to make more, about $4,000 more for medicine and people with pre-existing conditions, deny insurance, have 26-year-olds having a harder time getting insurance because they cant get on their parents. why do you think those are good ideas? >> i dont, and let me tell you, i think one of the most unfortunate things that my party did the last three years was not offer an alternative to health care. ...

Demographic, 28 to 34-year-olds, and let me bring in our company from the ryan national journ journalist and our contributor to the "huffington post" ryan grim. elahe, the question, is will the democrats be running away from the health care? >> well, they wont be running away from it, but they wont dwell on it either. what he said in the press conference is what many democrats have been echoing in the legislative midterm agenda which is an election year strategy, they are saying that we should n...

Was going to happen all along. when you were all worried about the website, these were distractions. we delivered on the numbers we said. now watch this working. theyre not able to say that. if they have 8 million people, this is the way we scripted it. history will look at the results and the outcomes. >> thats the argument they will make. the question is whether theres enough -- look. the trend line continues to show improvement. they get better and better, right? if thats true, the question i...

Mood. we certainly saw it in his conversati conversation not about something that was positive, but in the conversation about voting rights. we see a president who in the last midterm in his presidency. never facing another election himself. as e.j. was pointing out about the republican governors who are keeping millions of their own constituents from having that medicaid coverage, because it is expansion of medicaid that covers that gap between these folks who are kind of available for the aca ...

The actions of the irs that tries to cod foy their behavior whether they are targeting left or right or any group. their job is to assess. nkirsten, you called for more transparency. you think the republicans are just continuing to beat up the president because of a midterm? >> i dont think. look, it doesnt matter if i think there is something damaging in there or not. the government should be transparent separate from the fact that the president promised he would be the most transparent governm...

Already posted one really cool pic in his sunglasses. >> thats probably, i think. >> im looking forward to seeing what comes out of that. dana, isnt part of the strategy here, too, that theyve had this rocky health care rollout. now theyve had good news in the enrollment numbers. things seem to be going more smoothly. the political terrain is shifting quite a lot now that there are real people who are benefiting from the law. isnt part of the strategy now to sort of refocus on the economic issue...

Alarm. hes saying what the people are thinking. i know, ive been around the country, too. people are angry about their vote being disenfranchised. did you see that story that we had on this program last week? in hamilton county, ohio, they have rigged it so people who have to depend on public transportation have to travel an hour so they can vote. oh, its the new republican plan. maybe thats the voice that mike huckabee wants to have heard across america. 44,000 homes in hamilton county depend o...

Obstructing, go obstruct the voices in the heartland. the democrats need to challenge the republicans out in front of the public now before the midterm. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. tonights question, would you like to see the candidates debate the issues right now? face to face? what are we waiting for? text a for yes, b for now. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i mean, we could sell tickets. for more, i want to bring in senator bernie sanders of vermon...

Cbs news poll, are you excited about voting in november? 70% of republicans said theyre excited. 58% of democrats said they were excited. independents, 47%. >> first, on that poll, the two most important words were in november. its not november. were the democratic national campaign committee, not the climate committee. we dont worry about the climate. theres an issue of voter drop-off, were accelerating our investments in the field, putting people on the ground, 33 districts covered with staff ...

To be, but were running against a republican congress whose job approval is a fraction of that. theres a new history being written in this midterm, the least popular republican congress in history. >> which takes it right off of my statistics and to you, congressman walden. that is, the republican brand is certainly at one of its lowest points ever, if not the lowest point. you have interparty warfare going on. >> our job is to elect republicans to office and make sure theres a check and balance...