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You need to be. you are the working poor so we will give you an opportunity to take a pay raise and not bang you over to head to get ahead. if you have an autistic son or daughter, for most you can get insurance and we will work to make sure all of them have it. for the developmental disabled they are made in gods image and have a right to rise and be successful. [applause] >> and with all of this they said it could not be done and guess what? we proved them wrong again. and i am going to take w...

Msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt in columbus ohio where kasich got the party started today. what was the mood like in that room? >> reporter: well krystal, this is a roomful of supporters,al ma mater and said he could throw a stone and hit the dormitory where he started his career. this is as you said the two-term governor of one of the state that essentially has decided the last several presidential elections and, yet, he barely registered in the polls at this point. donald trump was ab...

Had to do something to help the working poor in a city that has some of the highest housing costs in the nation. on "morning joe" today eric garcetti answer kritdices who claim it will cost jobs. >> we studied this closely, we brought in the best economists reviewed three studies and they showed wed net gain jobs and certainly allow people working full time to have enough money to live off of. >> joining me live right now, dan cantor national director of the working families paerlt, found party,...

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Leaving uncovered and untreated. they used to pit welfare recipients against the working poor and they used to elevate the working poor. were talking about the working poor. were talking about people who are scraping by and who earn too much for the old medicaid rules. but they are covered under expansi expansion, theyre doing everything right but they cant get coverage. >> theyre going to find all kinds of people. a woman walked upon me and said i kept her from getting her health care. and its ...

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Than that. >> slamming free lunch programs. talking about empty souls. thats championing those that want to go into the middle class, cynthia? >> you know, this is the worst assault that i have heard on the working poor since reagan was in office. you remember ronald reagan infamously claimed that if people are poor, its their own fault and if government is doing anything to help them, it just makes it worse. paul ryan and other republican leaders have simply trotted out all of that old rhetoric...

Subsidies. since most republican governors wont establish those in their state, the challenge would kill the law. that seems fine with a d.c. judge, a george h.w. bush appointee who yesterday called the law stupid and hobbled together and described its launch as an unmitigated disaster. another judge, harry edwards pointed out what is really going on. what youre asking for is to destroy the individual mandate and gut the statute, he said. thats what this is about. right you are judge edwards, th...

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