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Someone will see me eating salad and you know that is my message, i want people to eat more salad. >> talk about finding a silver lining. any lessons for the future? >> i am not going to be a suspicious person i probably will vet people and not go to secret lunches. >> anyone wants to take marriage hemingway to -- mariel hemingway to lunch you have been warned. >> thank you. >> james okeefe has toldme james okeefe said he would use himself as a journalism but my problem is he uses deception that...

The u.s. doesnt do government single payer like europe. and the u.s. doesnt use a model where the only way to get care is if youre rich enough to buy it, like the ayn rand fan fiction and some of the bills coming out of the house. no, we do a convoluted mix of private and public, federal and local. and when you add that to a hybrid system, you end up adding to each layer so people have coverage options from door number one and two and three. and thus, its not surprising that sometimes the simpli...

Else, touting the benefits of the law. they did this leading up to the launch of the law. we know what happened. is this going to work? what are they going to accomplish? >> this is the obama care advent calendar. this morning, someone mailed one to burman and its good. well stick with it. one of the fascinating facts about the signature law, its been terribly explained from the get-go. its been a communications failure and a lot of folks have fixated on the negative, essentially the republicans...

That theres a lot of republicans that feel the way rand paul does, which is you know what? they have a shot at winning some of the spin war or at least they think theyre winning the spin war now because i think theyre just watching and listening to their supporters tell them, hey, youre winning. great job, great argument. i this i theyre in a bubble a little bit right now. well see. next week is a whole different story. next week is when the next round of paychecks that are skipped, the first bi...

Issues. it really still is about the ç money. >> reporter: that is the argument were hearing clearly from speaker boehner who says they have not gone far enough in cuts to be acceptable to the republican side. now this is really in many ways a spin war. none of us are in the room. and knowing exactly what the negotiations are doing at this moment. but what they can do, all the members and the leadership, publicly, can try to position themselves. so we have been seeing that. we saw the argument...

The president. 45% do not. thats pretty close right there. what do you make of that? does he need to put more focus on middle america? i know theres a push by the white house to get him out there. does he need to continue with that if not step it up? >> i think its explainable because we here in washington score these things on if a president gets something done, its sort of, you know, a score on a scoreboard. its a win for him. we put these in political terms. i dont think many people in columb...

I think there are two reasons. one, because the republicans clearly won the spin war on stimulus at the very beginning. they polluted the american peoples minds about a bill thats been tremendously beneficial. you cited a statistic earlier that pennsylvania is one of three states that had significant job gains, almost 20,000 new jobs created in the last six weeks? well, stimulus has been responsible for 15,200 of the jobs in this first quarter. so were not getting the credit for what was a very ...

Every bit of that and then some. but it hasnt seemed to be reflected in polls across the nation and in pennsylvania as well. i think there are two reasons. one, because the republicans clearly won the spin war on stimulus at the very beginning. they polluted the american peoples minds about a bill thats been tremendously beneficial. you cited a statistic earlier that pennsylvania is one of three states that had significant job gains, almost 20,000 new jobs created in the last six weeks? well, st...

Or not reconciliation. the idea of passing some measures by a simple majority, they are going to move forward on this. this is going to be a defining moment, i think, when we look back in november. well see if this was the right thing to do or was it the wrong thing? most americans do not support the health care bill and do not think it will make their coverage better. the white house, if they get this thing passed, is going to have to win the spin war between now and november to save a lot of t...

After to restore, recover, and rebuild. a somewhat different message to puerto rico. now the relationship between united states and puerto rico dates back to at least 1898 when the united states invaded the island. puerto rico has been u.s. citizens since 1917. more than a lot of puerto ricos have served in the u.s. military, but we and they see an acute difference of president trump towards them. simultaneously, we are also seeing a brigade, being ordered to charge on tour tv screens to win thi...