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Against previous problems theyve had and getting their children covered. thats going to be hard, but the wage issue really -- i think it ought to be a two-pronged approach, really. health care and the money for peoples pockets. without both of those theyll be healthier and they wont have money to spend and i think thats really why you have to do boeing. >> congressman jim mcdermott of washington state, thanks so much for joining me and happy new year to you and yours. >> absence makes the heart ...

There. the thing thats more onerous about this regulation is its pretty expensive. theyre talking about $24 million as you said in the first year alone and the problem here is that a lot of vending machine operators are small business owners. 3/4 of them have fewer than three employees that operate these businesses. its not a terribly onerous regulation, right? everyone likes the idea of having information, but at the same time were talking about reducing obesity rates or calories by a couple of...

Popular vote total in 270 electoral vote states ends up getting everything. so i think you can devise a way that this can work fine, but the california initiative is sort of designed to be unfair to particular demographics that vote for democrats. >> ron, you first, best guess as to what happens. this thing get voted down? >> yeah, i think so. >> jamelle? >> yeah, this is totally going to lose. i cant imagine anyone voting for it. >> great minds think alike. >> all right, fellas, its good to agr...

Care about anything, but their profit. wise guy shares this. the minimum wage issue is a band-aid on a bleeding economy and from izy, i can appreciate low-wage workers wanting a better wage to live on, but $15 an hour for a low-impact job is not feasible. so sunny steals the show. its time for the poly side bar. the newest pup sunny took down a toddler yesterday at the white house. a 2-year-old girl was visiting for the unveiling of the holiday decoration. the little girl was just fine. the two ...

Never knew you wanted to know about the presidential turkey pardon? it is time for the poli side bar. the first tales of spared turkeys began in the lincoln administration. lincolns son asked him to write out a presidential pardon for the bird meant for the dinner. george h.w. bush was the first president to hold an official turkey pardon ceremony but sent that lucky bird to an unfortunately new home, the fro frying pan park, seriously, in virginia. his son, george w. bush granted the first repr...

Progress that youre seeing from catholics on this, especially given the direction that were seeing with the new progressive attitude thats coming out of vatican city and pope francis? >> yeah, weve heard from catholics on the ground there in albuquerque. they are not happy that the knights of columbus, that their local catholic hierarchy have been pushing this ban. they dont want to hear about these kinds of issues in the homily during mass, at their ministries. they want to be able to vote thei...

Years and 90% thereafter and they looked at it both as a fiscal and political issue. i think a lot of it came from historic opposition to expanding medicaid. these are the states that have had some of the lowest eligibility levels for adults, especially for parents, and have never covered adults without dependent children. so it really was a decision to not expand their medicaid programs, not build on their medicaid programs that leaves millions of very low income adults without coverage options...

During this mornings senate finance hearing with kathleen sebelius. sebelius being grilled about the rollout and implementation of the obama care rollout. we continue to monitor it for you. that brings us to our question of the day. we asked, you answered. do you think republicans will learn from new jersey governor chris christies example? eric says, no, they are under threat of the tea party. mike writing, you mean, pretending something something youre really not in order to get re-elected? th...

Filibuster all for naught, other than raising her profile. >> it shows that wendy davis wasnt able to stop this at the state level. theres still hope at the u.s. supreme court. this is a mockery of supreme court precedent. the court as it stands, including justice kennedy, has said before that you cant put undue burden on a woman. this blows a hole right through that. if the supreme court is consistent, they will strike this down once it eventually gets there. wendy davis is not going to do it i...

Features a pool, theater, seven bedrooms. the home is in a small wilderness town. $850,000. it looks -- id love to move in. bieber family, if youre looking for someone, im happy to come in and join you. it is a sweet gesture he made for his parents. >> good for justin bieber, buying a home for the folks. good for him. ashton and demi getting a divorce. >> i thought they had already been divorced. >> no, just been contentious. apparently they are in the home stretch. they have agreed to settle ...