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Basically is trying to replace the entire insurance system, creating state exchanges, building a washington-based model, creating a federal system. i believe all of us, and this is going to be a big debate -- i believe all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. i think the idea that -- >> you agree with mitt romney on this point? >> well, i agree that all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. and i think there are ways to do it that make most libertarians rel...

the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor ji...

>> but that is the individual mandate, is it not? >> its a variation on it. >> so you wont use that issue against mitt romney? >> no, but its a system that allows people to have a range of choices designed by the economy, but i think setting the precedent -- there are an amazing number of people who think they ought to be given health care, so a large number of the uninsured or earn under $75,000 a year dont buy any health insurance because they want to buy a second house or a better car or go o...

We were trying do some things but it didnt work out here is my new plan. that is why the other one didnt work. he didnt do that. we dont want a debate over minor details why your plan is different than the president. we want a debate about a leader that is going to say here is what our philosophical principles are and he didnt do that. that is why they are looking to daniels and are interested in them. i disagree, in terms of all the candidates that are out there, he probably has fewer or less o...

1993. >> in the first place, obama basically is trying to replace the entire insurance system, creating state exchanges, building a washington-based followed, creating a federal system. i believe all of us, and this is going to be a big debate, i believe all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. i think the idea that -- >> you agree with mitt romney on this point? >> well, i agree that all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. and i think there are ways to d...

Mandate, is it not? >> its a variation on it. >> so you wont use that issue against mitt romney? >> no. >> here with me now, former press secretary for hillary clinton and msnbc political strategist karyn finney. ron christie also, the former assistant to president george w. bush and the founder and ceo of christie strategies. good morning to the two of you. >> good morning, alex. >> ron, do you think republicans are going to be able to control the health care debate during the election? i mean,...

Some call it sneaker net. you dont go online. you type up your message. so he had a computer that wasnt hooked up to the internet. he would type up his e-mails, his long messages and save it to a thumb drive. he would give it to a courier to head off to an internet cafe to e-mail from the yahoo address, whatever. he would e-mail it to somebody else and down load the incoming necessary imaginmessages on his drive. >> some thought he was hiding out in caves somewhere in pakistan, ask this a surpri...

Foot stamp costs went over from 10 billion and 20 years later, it is at 68 billion. thats a huge increase. >> it makes sense. more americans are on foot stamps. it is going to cost more. i argue that it has plateaued . i think that it is going to furthers improve because the economy is seeming to be improving as well. job numbers came out showing 244,000 jobs added in the month of april and they will continue to be added in the summer now. >> from yourr lip to gods ears. lets hope that happens. ...

Class of powerful people and powerful rich companies who have benefited so much from the way we spent money after 9/11 that theyll now be this great interest group thats able to stop any shift away from the spending priorities? >> oh, you bet. you bet we have. you talked about that expansion. you noted that four of the five richest counties are right here in the washington area. youre going to have not just those companies but elected representatives from around here, a lobbying -- i think, prob...

Military industrial complex. i think this is a variation of that only bigger. >> what do you think is going to happen to the debate about the afghanistan war after bin ladens death? obviously were due for another round of debate about the war anyway. not only because its getting dislocate from the traditional left/right access. were having more and more republicans coming out and saying its time for the war to be wound down. also july is supposed to be when the extra surge troops that president ...