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Washington are talking about the issues they want. their not talking about health care, access to child care. >> you have people who are watching who feel under assault, they feel this president, his rhetoric is triggering them, traumatizing them. you had to lead an organization thats literally under assault. you had to hold a team together under the roughest of the rough. what gets you through? >> ive been very privilege today boo ea social activist my whole life, and i think you have to focus ...

Go for his signature, he decided to do it right before he arrived here in florida. when he did arrive at palm beach international airport, there was a group of supporters who had been cleared to be there on what we call the rope line, where they could shake hands with the president. many had hands and were cheering him on so it was a well coordinated welcome home to florida for the president and by extension his family. >> tax, pomp and circumstance. thank you so much, kelly odonnell with us pre...

Weve heard it, just havent seen a lot of it laically. these features in this plan that you guys have been working on is the reaching across the aisle working and is there any indication that this could work? >> we think t can. the problem solvers caucus is about 44 member offense the house equally divided between democrats and republicans, and we of been meeting and working for many weeks now trying to talk about what could we come to an agreement on, what incremental changes in the aca, in obam...

Increases in premiums because people are sicker than expected, and notably, theyre concerned about the uncertainty in washington, particularly the individual mandate. this bill actually eliminates the individual mandate, which means healthy people dont have to sign up anymore, and that is really scaring insurers. >> tami, are you saying we could actually see premiums and deductibles go up more under the current plan proposed by the gop? >> remember, premiums go up every year. everything goes up ...

Patients. if youre talking about human health and at the end of the day, if youre talking about trying to control high health care costs, of course, weve got to regulate the price of drugs. every other major country on earth does it. we dont. that has got to end. >> there were a lot of reports when the affordable care act was being crafted about all the back channel communication between the white house, the bills sponsors in congress and big pharma. essentially finding ways to bring pharma to t...

Scot-free in obamacare and thats what were seeing now? >> what you described to the best of my knowledge is in fact what happened. but this goes way beyond the affordable care act. back in 1999, chris, i was the first member of the congress, i was in the house then, to take americans over the canadian border and they were women mostly who had breast cancer issues, suffering from breast cancer. they bout drugs they needed in canada for one tenth the price they had to pay in vermont and in america...

So we are now at the hundredth day for the gop-controlled congress, and when you first took control i think a lot of people had a lot of optimism that so much would get done. today, not so much. why havent you been able to get more done? >> well weve gotten an awful lot done here in the house, passing the keystone pipeline which passed the house in a couple hours. took the senate 323 days to do the keystone pipeline. the clay hunt suicide prevention bill passed the house, passed the senate, sign...

When we hear from him later. all right. >> i doubt it. jon: angry business owners taking on the i.r.s. a hearing today over the agencys role in obamacare and whether it is over stepping its bounds. plus researchers find new information about what energy drinks can do to your body. why some doctors are so concerned.

There have been dramatic stories of jealousy, bribery and worse and this is one of those. in january, the ballets artistic director was nearly blinded in an acid attack. one of his dancers was found guilty of orchestrating that attack. hes seen here in the defendants cage in court and today, he was sentenced to six years in prison. thats less than the nine requested by prosecutors. the man who carried out the attack, a former convict, got 10 years and the getaway driver will serve four. prior to...

Big picture, health care fight thats going on where religious institutions are being forced to cover people for things like contraception when it goes against their religious beliefs, right? >> yes. thats right. and so make no mistake that even though in this particular case with the town of greece, the obama administration appears to be on the side of religious freedom of course the larger picture is that in that case, in obamacare, youre talking about a massive infringement on the freedom of c...