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Done for the country and make sure our government is funded. but funded in a way thats consistent with what i think the american people said in the november election, that is they want congress more involved in these issues and not have the president overreaching as he has in the past with executive power. >> let me bring in you senator corker. youre going to be the chair. we have to say that youre likely to be because the committee has to actually vote to this week. but youll be the chair of th...

Cant be on fox and actively explore and one of the big issues for him is always money. hell spend the next few months trying to explore whether or not he has the financial support to actually run. we asked you for questions for the panel. we got this from steve on twitter pep write twitter. he writes, who will pick the nominee? the media/gop establishment or the base? how do you answer steve? what are the chances for an insurgent, more conservative candidate knocking off the punitive front-runne...

Indiana. i think swrekd a big surprise this election. mike huck abeeshgs i covered him in arkansas along with bill clinton. interesting guy, a lot of attributes but he also has a lot of baggage from arkansas, like the clintons did. his decision to release wayne dumont, who went on to kill after that. and a wedding registry, which was a very unethical thing to do although the clintons did it later in 2000. its interesting. i wouldnt rule anybody out right now. >> laura, big picture, how do you ha...

Powerful and adept at politics. >> having covered her since the mid-1980s, hillary has never gotten answer easy right ride from the media and she wont this time. the problem is shes establishment. politics as usual. the 19d 90s. this is an election where people crave change, transformational change. unless she can show she can run a campaign completely differently -- >> but if its bush versus hillary -- >> doesnt take it away. >> i disagree. >> thats the one knock -- theres a bunch of knocks you...

Cant be on fox and actively explore and one of the big issues for him is always money. hell spend the next few months trying to explore whether or not he has the financial support to actually run. we asked you for questions for the panel. we got this from steve on twitter pep write twitter. he writes, who will pick the nominee? the media/gop establishment or the base? how do you answer steve? what are the chances for an insurgent, more conservative candidate knocking off the punitive front-runne...

>> things are going great in kentucky, chris. we have 600,000 uninsured kentuckians. we have the worst health care statistics in the nation. weve had them since they started keeping statistics. and it was going to take some kind of transformational change for us to dig ourselves out of that ditch. and the affordable care act gives ne that opportunity. i have seized the opportunity. were the only southern state to both expand medicaid and set up our own exchange. and im determined to change the c...

Score so poorly on the average health indices. but when you hear these individuals talk, they say the affordable care act is a waste of time, a train wreck, going to destroy jobs and so on. but they have no plan whatsoever to address the needs of people that youre trying to help, basically. >> thats exactly right. you know, weve got some of the worst health statistics in the country. its been that way ever since they started keeping statistics. and, yes, weve made some improvements. but we need ...

Launched hasnt ended. what we are trying to do right now is create space for many social struggles in existence right now in different groups that are better situated to make the demands. we stand in solidarity and develop analysis. the idea that a year in right now, we are coming up with this analysis and rolling it up for people. we should be mindful that, how do you deal with mofia capitalism. a time our government is incapable of dealing with the grip of global capital. >> i add to that. we ...

Houses and obama signed the bill. >> i sense from republicans in the house more frustration in the sense that transformational change would not be something that would be a disqualifying perspective to hold going into a new congress with a republican president. frankly, if the election is about big, big directional questions in this country and its framed up around essentially a structural reform conservatism verses a liberal approach, i believe thats a pathway for romney to be elected, for repu...

>> some breaking news now. longtime penn state football coach joe paterno has died at the age of 85. for more on the story, we want to turn to our national correspondent susan candiotti and cnn contributor sarah ganum. both of them have covered the penn state scandal for us for months. joining us from state college in pennsylvania, let me start with you first, susan. just for the reaction on campus. >> reporter: its been a devastating day. a tragic day here on the penn state campus bec...