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The economy will boom. they tried to sell this -- this sandwich at zingermans, they would have to call it the stink about burger, or the meanwich. >> i mean, ryan, lets face facts. things could be a lot better if these guys would just get out of the way. the problem is not that the times are as bad as the obstructionists are determined and immovable. and theyve got to get out of the way. thats the problem, ryan. >> yes. and the irony is that the republicans are always saying get the government o...

Their parents plans, and if they would protect those with preexisting conditions. ryan said no, that those provisions are too costly. now, how will people react to that? >> i think theyll react to it by not voting for paul ryan when he runs for president in 2016. i think republicans are alienateling major, major swaths of the american people. you mentioned the 7 million people enrolled in the private exchanges and the 3 million through medicaid expansion. that doesnt take into consideration over...

S.n.a.p. $125 billion pell grants or low income college students. $250 billion school lunch, child nutrition, et cetera. but he adds, ryan, $483 billion in defense spending. now, all these cuts are actually worse than in prior years. the ryan budgets are actually getting worse, not better. >> there is a missing step in the ryan plan. he thinks that if you take benefits away from people, you take help away from people, that will kind of force them into the job market. but the step he is missing i...

Governors, republican state legislatures who have cut these jobs. they ran on kill obamacare. running on kill obamacare has allowed them to take over these government positions and then in those government positions, they have killed jobs. that is the only way in which obamacare is a job killer. >> thats true. but the private sector jobs have been going up. >> absolutely. >> every month, 49 straight months private sector jobs have grown. >> which is why the only reason we dont feel it, the only ...

Low-income americans. thats 69% of all the cuts in this entire budget. its immoral. its not who we are as a nation. president obama is growing the economy job by job, month by month. republicans think they can rebuild the economy by tearing down the poor. joining me now are melissa harris-perry and ryan grim. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you, reverend. >> absolutely. >> melissa, i want to bring back this chart. how can republicans claim the health care law is a job killer if we had jo...

The more you saw that number going up. and i think it also says to the critics something else that we have known all along, that the more people that learn about the affordable care act and whats in it and what it can do for them and their families, the more they like it. that doesnt mean there still doesnt need to be changes made here and there. but the point is fundamentally, i think its very clear americans want this to go through. >> ryan, lets go back to congressman cassidy a minute. he sai...

Political venom, and now it achieved this goal and still going up, because you have four days, ryan, it gives you the kind of climate, political climate that were dealing with. >> right. and its also deeply unoriginal. democrat joe manchin might sue him for plagiarism for that. he famously shot the climate change bill when he was running for senate. but thats west virginia. thats coal country. six million people, thats an awful lot of people who have coverage through the exchanges. and one of th...

Be five years. >> as of today, sue fraser will not have to go another year without it because she just found out -- >> im eligible for free health insurance. >> i havent had insurance before since i can remember. so this is really a godsend. >> maybe that will help educate republicans. this law is helping millions of real people, and its here to stay. joining me now are karen finney and ryan grim. thank you both for being here. >> hey, rev. >> thanks, reverend. >> karen, we know enrollment in th...

So its huge. it is a win for this president. it is a win for the administration. but the fight continues because you and i both know they are sitting in a room somewhere, those who oppose it, planning their next step. >> well, its also a big win for the american people, ryan. but as karen says planning their next step because they went into wild attacks this week, i mean, they went crazy. we had one candidate in alabama for congress put on this ad where he actually shoots a copy of the health ca...

Ukraine. what happens next here? what is the next step in this conflict economically? what is the president willing to do? how far is congress willing to go in order to help him? joining us now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post." thank you very much for being here. nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i know you were on capitol hill today when the senate voted on advancing that bill about ukraine. what struck you as significant about the vote or the way it we...