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Soon afterwards if there was a tax, the only person whos implemented a tax so far is mitt romney. >> now, ryan, if you look at the fact that mr. romney in 2006 and 2008 really dealt with this issue himself in terms of being a penalty tax. let me show you what he said. >> for those that have higher incomes, we expect them to have health insurance. if they dont, well withhold their tax refund or put in place other penalties. if people can afford to buy it, either buy the insurance or pay your own ...

Is providing them a lot of money to cover this population. more than they get now for the current population. theyre going to get a 90% chance. what these republican governors would be saying is because of my f ideology, im willing to make the people of my state suffer. theyre not going to get health insurance because of my ideology. i think they will come in a few days to recognize how that is a strange strategy. their surrounding states will get health care and they wont take it. and i hope pe...

Into the fall here? >> i think it does. in a couple of ways. on one hand the presidents campaign is certainly going to be targeting key voters. they think this appeals to women. there will be ads start willing tomorrow from conservative groups sort of hitting the president on this. but were looking into next week, the president is going on the road to ohio and pennsylvania, key swing states. the economic numbers will come out. it will be back to the economy. but this health care thing will be an...

Inoculates the criticism a little bit on the president and makes it difficult for romney to go along with many of the other republicans attacking this as a tax. because of the fact that the romney health care law in massachusetts in governor was a template for this thing. i think the white house is pleased with that. yesterday david plouffe put out a memo to capitol hill, go on offense on this, democrats. show why this will save people money and most people wont have to pay this penalty or tax, ...

The davids adviser send a personal e-mail talking about how his own daughter fought epilepsy and almost bankrupted them. >> personalizing it. >> yes. this is a way to appeal to people on a personal level. >> ryan, how high should the democrats hold this flag? president obama on thursday when he spoke very careful to outline those items which were positive really regardless of which aisle youre on. but when you look at the individual mandate that might be one of the elements of the affordable car...

Support hes ers in wolfboro, ne hampshire. white house reporter for "the washington post" david nauk maura and ryan grim from the huffington post. david, well start with you. the obama administration has had a few days to digest the supreme court ruling on health care. how does the white house plan to pivot on this? what will we see tomorrow on the sunday talk show as jacob lieu will be seen on many of them. >> i think the graphic you just showed shows that the white house still has a lot of wor...

The sausage get made for that long. so knew the supreme court has ruled, democrats are hoping it has a sort of finality where people will say, you know, i dont love this bill but john roberts says its okay so we need to just make it better, we need to move forward, start talking about the economy, jobs. so every time republicans talk about repealing this thing, even though they alwaysç add "repla it," democrats will say, they just wont give up. its over yet they keep fighting. one democratic a...

Dont support it for my kid and so they didnt go for it. >> the money, though. this is where -- this is where legislators are going to get on board with this. tying tax money to the legalization of marijuana. what do you think a world would be like where that actually exists, and legislators see that there is a benefit for the economy with a legalization of marijuana nationally? >> well, you could save 20 or $30 billion in costs of just waging the war on pot. and then if you taxed it, you could r...

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Secret history of getting high in america. ryan, great to have you here. obviously, this is something that is taking effect or looking at from coast to coast. people trying to get things to take effect. rhode island poised to become the 15th state to decriminalize marijuana possession. polls showing more people becoming increasingly tolerant of the proposals to legalize this drug. how long do you think this is going to be, you know, in the state conversation before this has to go national? >> yo...