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Voting rights act renewal to the floor regardless of how people want to vote, get a vote on that, and unemployment insurance as well? >> there are going to be so many issues that are going to come up. but ive got to tell you the number one issue that people are telling us they want us to deal with is the jobs, the economy, the growth of government, the fact that we have this tremendous debt. >> should he hold a vote on the two i mentioned? should he hold a vote? >> everywhere we go. >> should he...

His promise to repair the health care .gov website, the thanksgiving holiday was welcome. the big push to have a lot ofg u people try to enroll the first week of december has been put on hold. it is the first wick to -- the first week to get the campaign going. >> they say they can handle 50,000in users concurrently which is far less than we anticipated and which may orhi may not be accurate. >> they announced the one-year delay in the ability of smallofs businesses to enroll their workers in th...

>> good morning, doug. >> good morning. the timing of this announcement raised some eyebrows because the administration dropped this obamacare bombshell the day before thanksgiving when it was less likely to create attention. it is causing more problems for small businesses many are struggling to comply. they will not be able to access the governments web care site as they promised. instead they have to rely on brokers or insurance companies. small businesses continue to be low on the priority l...

>> reporter: with time running out on his promise to repair the healthcare.gov website and with problems persisting, the thanksgiving holiday was welcomed. aides say the big push to have a lot of people try to enroll the first week of december has been put on hold. one official said, quote, we want to see how traffic is the first week before we suggest people do campaign efforts to drive traffic. critics saw another failure. >> the website theyre saying can handle 50,000 users concurrently, whic...

Drive people to the site. the goal is to make sure it doesnt crash. administration officials expect as many and possibly more visitors than when the exchanges launched october 1st. they say the system will not work perfectly starting sunday. it will operate it will operate this time around. wendell goler at the white house. the goal is not perfection yet we learn of another delay in getting and its getting swift reaction on the hill. the hill is following the lead of national independent busines...

Peoples priority list. but i think one thing to keep in mind about sort of the politics of this if you look at the coalition that elected and reelected obama in the role that young voters played. recent college graduates, people who are now saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt who are not making a lot of money. how am i going to pay this off? people who have -- who are living the reality of student loan debt every day. i think this message maybe reaches them even if it doesnt become...

City of detroit. do you foresee any troubles ahead for new york city if it doesnt keep its act together, get its act together and straighten out the priority list of what the citizens want and, of course, minimum wage is all part of that. your thoughts on whats unfolding in detroit and how it might mean for new york city. >> were in no danger. there are cautionary tales with what happened with detroit that we have to deal with in the long run. the central problem in new york right now is inequal...

>> michael eric dyson, there is a conversation on the democratic side to increase the benefits of social security to increase the minimum wage, to reinvest and go home actually, during all. and talk about public education. the democrats pole stores have been instructed to do this, this is going up on the priority list with the american people. how can the democrats with those issues on their side, not come into the majority, in the mid terms? how could this not be a good year for the democrats? ...

Welcome back. were coming to you live from the essence festival here in new orleans, louisiana. we have talked a lot on this show about jobs, infrastructure, investment, tight credit, access to capital, helping small businesses, all of the things that will help the little folk of america do better in our economy, but with all of this obstruction and all of this focus trying to make sure that president obama is a failure, the question comes up, whats the plan? now, we had a stimulus package. ther...

With china make it such were not going to get them on our side. where do we go next? >> the obama white house needs to decide what it cares about most in the world. what is highest on its strategic priority list. is that iran and getting iran off its nuclear weapons course? if thats the case, then it needs to pay a price to china and a price to russia to get its support. those will be back doors that will enable iran to ease up on a lot of the pressure. is the highest priority syria? in that cas...