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Craft alive, they look ahead. >> i welcome the future. i have to. if you dont, the countrys going to go backwards but dont forget your past. >> reporter: for "meet the press," kevin tibbles. >> interesting. were back with our roundtable now. kathleen parker, what are we learning as we listen on the ground there and get out of the washington part of the debate? what are we learning when we hear from the communities involved? >> clearly people want the economy to grow, jobs 0 come through. i think...

Stone building, keeping their craft alive, they look ahead. >> i welcome the future. i have to. if you dont, the countrys going to go backwards but dont forget your past. >> reporter: for "meet the press," kevin tibbles. >> interesting. were back with our roundtable now. kathleen parker, what are we learning as we listen on the ground there and get out of the washington part of the debate? what are we learning when we hear from the communities involved? >> clearly people want the economy to grow...

Choose and theyre all equal and all cast one vote. so the suggestion i think you are getting at in the last segment that money is decisive is not only wrong as steve points out, its probably going to be more wrong over time. its how you reach them. tuck reach them more economically. >> my question was more about if shaun mccutcheon believes that the individual is is king, my question, kathleen, is whether thats really the case. is the individual or the individual campaign as strong as a consorti...

>> the government could help defray that. do premiums go up? perhaps they will. perhaps the government pays some of that bill. >> what harold was talking about wasnt subsidy, it was cost. the overall cost of the system. when premiums are going up double digit, youre not achieving >> which is why steves point is so important. >> i love the idea that entrepreneurs will come in and rescue this whole situation. >> exactly. >> we could have solved the mobility problem with one act of legislation with...

Money? $2 trillion. >> but steve case, it sounds like a republican argument to try to deal with the reality that people who didnt have insurance are getting insurance or their kids are now being allowed to stay on their policies or if you had pre-existing conditions those are covered now. republicans are trying it seems their best to say this thing isnt going to work. this is a pretty good sign its here to stay this week be dont you think. >> it will need to be modified and tweaked over time. bu...

Money? $2 trillion. >> but steve case, it sounds like a republican argument to try to deal with the reality that people who didnt have insurance are getting insurance or their kids are now being allowed to stay on their policies or if you had pre-existing conditions those are covered now. republicans are trying it seems their best to say this thing isnt going to work. this is a pretty good sign its here to stay this week be dont you think. >> it will need to be modified and tweaked over time. bu...

Double digit increases. >> the government could help defray that. do premiums go up? perhaps they will. perhaps the government pays some of that bill. >> what harold was talking about wasnt subsidy, it was cost. the overall cost of the system. when premiums are going up double digit, youre not achieving >> which is why steves point is so important. >> i love the idea that entrepreneurs will come in and rescue this whole situation. >> exactly. >> we could have solved the mobility problem with one...

Steve case, and say youre a pan of means. wed like you to give an unlimited amount of money to the campaign. how do you not raise the specter of corruption at some point down the line? >> i focus less on politics, frankly and more on policy. but i actually think were fighting last years battle. all this effort is around raising money to fund television ads. i hate to break this to you, but people are watching less television. the campaigns of the future are not going to be fought based on ads on...

>> wellpoint just announced double digit increases, the biggest provider in california, double digit increases. >> the government could help defray that. do premiums go up? perhaps they will. perhaps the government pays some of that bill. >> what harold was talking about wasnt subsidy, it was cost. the overall cost of the system. when premiums are going up double digit, youre not achieving that goal. >> which is why steves point is so important. >> i love the idea that entrepreneurs will come in...

Blossom like a desert flower. wouldnt that be fun? >> it is interesting, steve, that, you know, theres different sides to this argument. there in steele city where theres not a lot of people. they certainly depend on this. theres an economic upside. a lot of the farmers in that area see an economic downside if they dont get a good enough deal to have the pipeline come through, and theres environmental piece, as well that through the area where the pipeline would cross and the national resources ...