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In 1987 there was a cap placed on the funding of these slots. while institutions can fund additional slots through their own means, they are dependent on federal funding, which is capped. even if you bring in more medical students theres still this bottleneck at the level of training after medical school. >> it isnt as though they werent aware when they passed the health care bill. senators reid, schumer and bill nelson submit add amendment to add 15,000 new residence sees that was blown off, ev...

Military tribunals and we back off on that one and change the plan on that one, will you agree to help us get the money to facility, talks in illinois online. theyre trying to work it out, theyre not there yet. because of that, the administrations position is we want to close it but we cant say when and they cant give a definitive answer on when, where, and how the trials will take place. >> even senator chuck schumer who is a strong supporter of this administration basically said in a statement...

The way to solve the problem is to let the people who made the mistakes pay for them. we wont solve this problem until the biggest banks are allowed to fail. >> well, let them fail. >> very interesting, new york post article, mike barnicle, that talks about how a lot of new yorkers are upset at chuck schumer down on wall street, that schumers throwing new yorks largest industry, quote, to the wolves. tell us about the article and some of the grousing from the bankers there. >> mayor bloomberg of...

In 1987 there was a cap placed on the funding of these slots. while institutions can fund additional slots through their own means, they are dependent on federal funding, which is capped. even if you bring in more medical students theres still this bottleneck at the level of training after medical school. >> it isnt as though they werent aware when they passed the health care bill. senators reid, schumer and bill nelson submit add amendment to add 15,000 new residence sees that was blown off, ev...

The senate and the house like a hot knife through butter. you know, there are certain quality of life indignities we have to pay attention to and this is one of them. >> should the federal government get involved in this issue? >> well, sure, we regulate airlines. we regulate everything else? why cant we regulate something people want. >> you have to. >> i know you want to respond to a new york post article that went after you guns blazing. willie geist, while mike barnicle, willie, read the lin...

Stood next to senator reid there in las vegas that he is going to put this on the agenda. i know that both schumer and lindsey graham are working but we need this president more engaged. 250,000 people came to washington on that mall that day and they were inspired by a lack of inspiration of this president in his state of the union address when he barely touched the topic of immigration. thats what caused tens of thousands of people to jump in their cars and get in busses and airplanes and come...

This president can focus on making this a top priority. i just came back this saturday, john, from a big rally of thousands that were together in las vegas. senator reid, the majority leader, said there comprehensive immigration reform is a top priority for him, that hes going to put it on the senate agenda and said, moreover, we shouldnt let the senate process for the next justice be an excuse for not getting it done. that makes meese very optimistic. the president did embrace the tenets put to...

>> let me get senator graham in here. if you can hear us now, i promise schumer is not playing with the cables here. but you have the floor here. you know what some of the discussion has been. what is your view? >> i do. theres a reason no republican voted for this thing. its not that we dont care about people and we dont want to lower costs. this lost its focus. it was a noble effort started by the president, then it got to be i got to pass a bill because my presidency is at stake. this idea re...

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>> they want to have comprehensive immigration reform and they want basically for president obama to follow through with his promise as candidate obama did to a lot of voters. and it was interesting because last week, as we all know, schumer and lindsey graham met together with the president and after create add framework of what xre helpsive immigration reform would look like. its not perfect but it does allow for a couple of things. one it says we have to secure our borders, number one. number...