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Texas, rick perrys texas is fighting this law and in florida the republican governor is fighting his fellow republicans about whether he should be embracing the law and it just raises the question to me, if a year from now were talking about 18 to 34 year olds not signing up the numbers we need them to sign up in, what happens then? >> i think that is a good chance that would be the case because ive been going around the country talking to young people about employment and the economy and an awf...

Idea of the individual mandate. with the individual mandate, the young, healthy people go back into the system and we see the prices come down. >> that is the hope, that is the theory. again, in massachusetts, that hasnt necessarily been what happened. we still have the highest premiums in the entire country. the problem is in the million dollar question is can you get young, healthy people to decide to purchase insurance that they seen as unaffordable. the obama campaign and the administration ...

Disarmingly personal in many ways. i thought it was a very thoughtful reflection that he gave us on difficult issue and the thoughtless side, of course, is the ranting by some that you already described. i mean, this president could say good morning to some people and they would object to it. thats how its how the politics is sorted out in recent years. but, no, i was proud of the president. i think this was a very interesting and i think useful reflection that he has given on this issue. >> all...

To bridge communities and try to bring people together even in this polarized atmosphere that we have politically and around this issue, i think that remains constant. >> i want to get in in a little bit we have some time to get into the reaction that we see. carrie, in general said, let me have you speak for all the conservative heres. molly raises an interesting point and i have to say, maybe i was very naive on this but in the beginning i was surprised at the beginning of obamas presidency ho...

Looks like two president obamas appointees will be confirmed and a third confirmed next year and a third of a majority on that board. are either of those developments, are those going to make a difference in the next few years? >> they probably will boeing in south carolina, youll see more cases like that. be a partisan issue with a big, strong divide. states like california where unions are strong and a number of members are going up and the percentage of numbers is going up. you also have an i...

Conquer that has been part of our scene for decades. that is what was going on with race issues when they were pitting poor and working class blacks against whites who were in the same boat or almost the same boat. and what i think is now when youre down to 6% of the private sector workforce, i just think that its time for labor to make a turn around and i used the term militancy in the program. there ought to be, even its a tough road, but they ought to be organizing every person in sight given...

Question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of losses. >> so, i mean, i guess i take this is as sort of no federal action on the table in terms of stand your ground laws, should states be adopting these in the future and states taking stand your ground laws off the books. some of the wording there was very almost equivocal. we might think about. as a president after five years understands the limits, too. >> right. you know, to the question of th...

Republican held. 13 republicans, 5 democrats in their congressional delegates. >> and we always know that is not the most accurate barometer of statewide opinion. but the point is taken. >> the political report said that pennsylvania could be the keystone in 2016 for the republicans. >> theres such a big difference between the gop primary in a state like pennsylvania and the general election. so, you know, no matter how much trouble he is in and how many republican leaders are unhappy with his t...

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