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We gave the ten hardest hit states with high unemployment, we gave them a significant amount of resources to help insent pilot programs to help address those problems. well keep working to reach more people. one more thing. its very important to recognize that were not goings to be able to help and it would not be help to ask the american people to help people speculating on real estate or who are irresponsible in financial decisions. well reach more people. this program has been very effective ...

States with high unemployment, we gave them a significant amount of resources to help insent pilot programs to help address those problems. well keep working to reach more people. one more thing. its very important to recognize that were not goings to be able to help and it would not be help to ask the american people to help people speculating on real estate or who are irresponsible in financial decisions. well reach more people. this program has been very effective in bringing a measure of sta...

>> but youre trying to now get lenders to reduce the principal for people because you have, and this was always the warning about a mortgage remodification, that people redefault and end up getting foreclosed on. >> youre right to say the changes we made recently are to help the unemployed, help people under water refinance, help for more relief in terms of principal reduction. we also gave the ten hardest hit states at the epicenter of the crisis with high unemployment, we gave them a significa...

Property crimes. >> non-violent. >> non-violent. one woman i met was there because she stole somebodys license plate off their car. theyre really grateful for the opportunity to be there and be able to bond with their children and raise their children and theyll have resources they wouldnt get outside of prison like free daycare 24/7, parenting classes, all of those things. theyre very grateful. i think thats part of the reason that they stay on the right path once they get out, because they rec...

There are pilot programs for medical malpractice reform, and there is insurance industry reform which you all are for, having to do with caps on lifetime benefits and that kind of thing, and tax credits for small businesses. why isnt that enough? >> we could come to an agreement on probably eight or ten common sense steps that you have outlined to make our health care system better. but we cant come to an agreement on eight or ten things and throw them in a 2,700-page bill and ask my colleagues ...

Incorporates the best from democrats and republicans, best ideas. >> somewhere in the middle? he may have taken a couple of republican ideas, and then put them into his 2733-page bill, but this bill is nowhere close to the middle. >> they did take the idea of undercover agents to check into medicare fraud. there is no public option, which republicans and many democrats hated. there are pilot programs for medical malpractice reform, and there is insurance industry reform which you all are for, ha...

Reconciliation, which is essentially we are going to do it one party. party line vote. thats what they are going for. but they wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. thats why you had the charade of the summit last week. seven hours of discussion when it was all pre-cooked that that wouldnt change anything. thats why you had yesterday, the release of the changes that obama was heralding as leaning over towards republicans, for example, tort reform which are ...

Who have insurance actually looked over the bill and said, what was this item? why did that cost so much? the assumption here that the insurance is going to take care of it, without ever questioning is one of the things we do in the bill is require a lot of transparency on these issues so people can know what theyre actually getting or not getting. >> do you think the democrats, if youre going to have to come up with the 50-plus votes even to do the reconciliation piece of this bill, do you thin...

Reconciliation, which is essentially we are going to do it one party. party line vote. thats what they are going for. but they wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. thats why you had the charade of the summit last week. seven hours of discussion when it was all pre-cooked that that wouldnt change anything. thats why you had yesterday, the release of the changes that obama was heralding as leaning over towards republicans, for example, tort reform which are ...

Welcome back to "hardball." in a letter today to congressional leaders, president obama outlined four republican ideas from thursdays summit that he says hes exploring. they are senator coburn suggestion to curb medicare fraud by having undercover investigators disguised as patients. the suggestion by several republicans to expand medical malpractice reform pilot programs. senator grassley suggested to increase payment to doctors who treat medicaid patients. and senator barrassos suggestion of e...