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Little known outside his home state for anything other than having beautiful hair and for threatening to secede from the union back in april, texas governor rick perry is now threatening that texas will also secede from health care. i told you it was incoherent. speaking with a conservative talk show host yesterday on wbap in arlington, texas, governor perry had this to say about what he wants to secede from next. >> it really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the tenth ame...

Having beautiful hair and for threatening to secede from the union back in april, texas governor rick perry is now threatening that texas will also secede from health care. i told you it was incoherent. speaking with a conservative talk show host yesterday on wbap in arlington, texas, governor perry had this to say about what he wants to secede from next. >> it really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the tenth amendment and for letting states find solutions to their proble...

Senators say if obama care is not defunded, they will shut down the entire federal government. a dozen republican senators, a dozen, signed that letter today. all over the country, republican governors have refused the federal governments offer to pick up the bill for expanding their medicaid program. no, no, we dont want your free money to help our uninsured people. we just want to kill your law. and theyve refused to set up health exchanges in their states and so the federal government has to ...

>>. >> theory it was set up by public relations people, stage car crashes so they can save you? >> it is an elaborate staging. you have to get the car to turn over. last question, eric. one thing we didnt talk about, benghazi. you have former head of u.s. forces in africa saying everybody knew it was a terrorist attack. however, thats kind of news, but nobody is reporting it. >> whats it going to take, is there a capitol hill testimony that we can come back to and start talking about it again or...

>>. >> theory it was set up by public relations people, stage car crashes so they can save you? >> it is an elaborate staging. you have to get the car to turn over. last question, eric. one thing we didnt talk about, benghazi. you have former head of u.s. forces in africa saying everybody knew it was a terrorist attack. however, thats kind of news, but nobody is reporting it. >> whats it going to take, is there a capitol hill testimony that we can come back to and start talking about it again or...

Special prosecute are himself did not participate in trying the case, to the composition of the jury, to the way in which the case was tried all the way to the verdict strikes people as just mountains of evidence -- >> let me ask this. professor, the attorney general is looking at this as a potential civil rights violation against george zimmerman. i heard the president, to me, sort of lower expectations. >> exactly. >> on what basis? >> the reality is that this is not a federal issue. its a sta...

They frame how we think about things, and attitudes are part of the solution as well. you know, i think leadership is the most important thing he has to offer. leadership has been lacking on this issue. i, frankly did not see everything the president said as sufficient. i want to know, for example, why mypresident didnt speak out how the three young women enslaved in a basement in chains be in ohio for ten years, why didnt he think that was a civil rights issue to speak out? why didnt he say tho...

Debbie? >> i dont think so. i think that what he was doing -- im very proud of him. i think he went in and spoke as a human being to the country about an issue we immediate to be talking about. i think that this case has put us front and center and said expect -- set expectation this has been a state issue. we cant not talk about this. the same we this happened we filed for bankruptcy. im a detroit girl. the city of detroit filed for bankruptcy. some of the discussions that needed to happen have...

Shot and killed the person because of his race. and all of this political talk not withstanding, that has the reality and why the attorney general first said career prosecutors will decide this. that was a way to pass it off on them. and then, b, the president, you have to look at that carefully, said this is a state issue. that telegraphs- >> often it is, he said. >> all right. fair enough. hes going to want it to be a state issue in this case. >> as they tykeake a look at th case, given the pr...

We need. >> well, but i think the laws came out of -- -- >> go ahead, jay. >> thats not the standard, actually. because in the stand your ground, it doesnt mean you can at will kill. you can stand your ground and defend yourself. it is a burden shifting issue. i think its an overstatement but again the attorney general wants to address it, address it but its a state law decision. this is a state law discussion. >> as long as we do agree, historic moment when jay and i agree. there is not a big d...