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To women and coverage. prior to the affordable care act, in eight states women could be discriminated against because they are victims of domestic violence. so when you have health care reform, there is a pitch there for women voters that this could be beneficial to them. and the republican party hasnt really addressed that when they go after the affordable care act. so all these things add up, but i would argue that its not just about messaging. i think its more about the substance and the poli...

One of the aspects health care reform was important for was ending discrimination on some of these regulations with respect to women and coverage. prior to the affordable care act, in eight states women could be discriminated against because they are victims of domestic violence. so when you have health care reform, there is a pitch there for women voters that this could be beneficial to them. and the republican party hasnt really addressed that when they go after the affordable care act. so all...

Administration that is particular thin-skinned, judy. by and large he has gotten pretty favorable press coverage but these two comments stood out in this report. ann compton of abc news said he is the least transparent of the seven presidents i have covered in terms of how he does his daily business, this from the administration that promised it would be the most transparent in history. and then from david sanger of "the new york times," your former paper, judy, sanger says this is the most, con...

This is a mass shooting in a highly secure complex. the nra has the argument of the only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with guns. plenty of good guys with guns in a d.c. navy yard. there needs to be an examination of what happened and what could be done and the policy implications of that by the people who are only three minutes away from where this terrible tragedy happened. if we all say it doesnt really matter, like 12 people, what happens when its our neighborhood, two min...

President overstated it during the campaign, thats obviously true, but this has real practical policy implications. how we deal with these things is not sort of theoretical. if you look at the people that are experts in this field and look at the arguments that they have been making, it is not just people like john bolton who is a consistent critic of the president, bruce reidel who oversaw president obamas afghanistan, pakistan strategy review at the beginning of the administration, worked in t...

Faces. does it matter if he introduces new policies at 1,2. 6 d -- 1,276 days remaining. >> i dont even know what legislation follows from this speech. about a year ago we sat here. obama had done more than an hour-long campaign speech about the economy, which was much more diffuse and not that effective. of course, he went on to win the election. you were certainly struck by it, and i was as well, you know, 1,276 days left in the presidency. thats longer than the entire kennedy administration. ...

Common sense. are we all diseased now? >> one thing to keep in mind, this isnt something thats come out of the blue. when i first got into newspapers in 1983, we wrote this editorial with the headline eat your way to civil rights because the federal government was trying to make it possible for some people who were considered obese to be protected from discrimination under the americans with disabilities act. thats actually 20 years ago this year that that happened. the fact that the most influe...

Has changed, and if the state is rejecting someone like him right now. >> flrp more asian immigrants to the country. the first time latinos werent number one. the asian-american population is growing at a faster rate now in the country. and, you know, abbys got a finally reported piece about texas. the thing about the new southern strategy, i dont know if you noticed it but you pointed out at rt start of the segment its not any more how to convert bubba back, its where do we take latinos, asians...

Reproductive rights or abortion thoroughly but this trial was ignored. >> kirsten powers was appalled and wrote a usa today piece saying so. >> you would have had to be following activist blogs on the retort left or the local philadelphia news if you wanted to know anything about this. are in the same way that there are serious policy implications when there is a mass shooting like what we saw in newtown there are serious implications about what this abortion clinic. >> bret: antiabortion leader...

Thoroughly. but generally the trial was ignored. >> columnist kirsten powers was appalled and wrote a usa today piece saying so. >> you would have been following activist rights and laws from the right or left or local philadelphia news if you wanted to know anything about this. >> dr. kermit gosnell -- >> in the same way theres policy implications like a mass shooting in newtown there are serious implications about what happened at this abortion clinic. i was quite shocked that i had not heard ...