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Suitorman, Senior Editor at reason magazine. Kasie, let me start with you. Weve already seen far right groups like Heritage Action criticize the plan, Club For Growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. You tweeted this a few hours ago. Here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest Gop Health Care bill is already on life support, if not Dead On Arrival. How can that be so early, kasie . Reporter well look, craig, this bill has run into extra...

To younger people and less generous to older people. there would be a cap so that really high income people wouldnt be able to get access to it at all, but really the question here is what are republicans trying to do with this bill, and im not sure they know, except to say we have a bill that has repealed and replaced obamacare, because its really not clear who the constituency is for this legislation, and the fact that so many major conservative groups have already come out in opposition. heri...

I am not going to stand by and let the supreme court take away the right to vote from us. you cannot stand by. you cannot sit down. you got to stand up, speak up, speak out and get in the way. >> that was congressman john lewis speaking yesterday. just as fiery as he was 50 years ago on the steps of the licncol memorial. same spot from where he addressed the crowd. the brain trust is back. esther, bob, peter, thanks for coming back. esther, let me start with you. this wednesday president obama w...

>> the people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. they want more police. if you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, dont you want somebody to stop and say, who are you, why are you here? >> mayor bloomberg proposing finger printing, more than 620,000 people. peter, is mayor bloomberg, is he disconnected, or indifferent? >> well, i think -- i mean, maybe hes both. with mayor bloomberg, you know, he really seems to think that the best solution to...

Frisk and he said, forget stop and frisk for a moment. what we have seen over the past 12 months has essentially been an attack on the fourth amendment in this country. time and time again, i would imagine, peter, that would be an assessment that you would agree with. no? >> certainly. and i think the reason were going to see a lot of talk about these new revelations is that they go to the heart of obamas defense of the nsa program which he said theres been no specific accusations of abuse and t...

Be shorter and more clever than that. >> okay. ill work on that for next week. thanks. heres my bulletproof vest. i need the vest. >> it sounds like you think the nsa scandal is not going to be something that we stop talking about a week from now or two weeks from now, which is typically the case with the washington scandals. >> snowden had given information to "the washington post" that came out last week. who knows what he has planned for the coming weeks between now and whenever he gets back....

Million people down there in d.c. is there any idea how large the crowd is going to be this week? >> i would assume tens and thousands. i wouldnt expect anything like a few years ago. >> we, of course, are planning a great deal of special coverage next week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. we encourage you, of course, to follow our coverage on the air and online. peter, big thanks to you. perry from the grio and christine from the street politics, thanks to you as wel...

Effective tactic for the president to get out of the white house, to get out of washington, d.c., to take his message on the road, so you will see a lot more of that in coming weeks. and on tuesday he heads to chattanooga, tennessee, where he will be calling for new investments in manufacturing. >> kristen welker from 1600 pennsylvania avenue for us on a sunday afternoon. kristen, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. anthony weiner, lets get to goldy taylor, msnbc contributor, managing editor of...

Anywhere. >> im sorry, go ahead. >> i would just point out there was real skepticism about whether boehner could deliver a deal with the debt ceiling fight. and his party did buck his leadership to some extent, but ultimately they came around. >> and looking ahead to 2016, and perry, you mentioned the gap in support with hispanics. and we saw the same thing with african-americans and with asian americans. so what do you think the republicans need to do to better position themselves for next elec...

Towards millionaires. >> peter, the last word on this. another possible 2016 candidate is hillary clinton. she is headed to capitol hill for benghazi hearing. is this the kind of attention she wants right now? >> i think -- hillary clinton is probably looking to avoid controversy at this point. but, you know, she is secretary of state. this is the job she has to do. personnel is policy. and with these folks, you know, you get to see what the administration has to offer. and its right now its hil...