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Tuesday and thursday night, just to make ends meet. these are the working poor of america who are getting help. its a heart warming thing. >> "the ed show" will be broadcasting live from the free hartford clinic. thats at 6:00 p.m. eastern time only on msnbc. wed like to know what you think about this free clinic and where the health care debate stands now. let me know what you think, twitter.msnbc.com. well pick a tweet of the day a little later. a man accused of arranging the brutal rape of ...

Democratic strategist ladawn jones. lets first go to the congressman. i feel like the democrats are in a way where the republicans were kind of 2009 before the tea partyy really got going and theyre looking for fraction somewhere. now, its -- traction somewhere. now its abolish ice whereas ice was looking to deport people in large numbers whenhe obama was president. i didntea hear any of the fancy pants politicians talk about abolishing ice back then. how does it actually get traction now, congr...

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>> kimberly: that is what he is trying to do. >> juan: even the corporations a its not graded create jobs. it is absurd and crude and rude and unfair in the christmas season. let me say something to what dana was talking about. this is far shakier than anyone wants to pretend. all the republicans want to do is say we are leaving the station. its about to happen. its not only -- not only do have bob corker as a true conservative worried about blowing up the deficit but you have marco rubio now sa...

Hard-pressed to support, why not this one? >> they cant support this bill because it hurts all their people. the states theyre there are not very wealthy states. the people are middle class and working poor, for the most part. and this bill is robin hood in reverse. weve seen it before. ive been there before. ive seen this trickle-down garbage. the only thing that trickles down is misery. the deficits go way up. weve seen it so many times. and my colleagues, be they moderate or liberal or conser...

Room to play with on the corporate rate because the president wanted 15, agreed to 20. now its at 21. marco rubios point is going to 22% isnt that big of a deal. corporations are still going to be happy and we could do more to work -- do more to help the working poor. i dont know if that will be persuasive but it could be. >> kimberly: last-minute negotiations and dealmaking. >> jesse: hes using his leverage and hes probably going to be effective because the deadline is fast approaching. i think...

Sense on this, they would take the tremendous gift marco rubio is giving them. what hes asking for is not much. it would not make it progressive. not make it fair. not make it well written or a good bill but because hes managed to make this a point of controversy in washington if he got his way people would say, oh look, the republicans relented. the bill is better for the working poor and would be better for the working poor and maybe not so unpopular. the fact theyre not falling all over thems...

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Market into chaos, right? >> i dont think so. i think the markets would respond the way we expect a free market to respond. we know that free markets bring competition between firms when theyre competing for your business, theyre going to offer a better product at a lower price. part of the reasons premiums have gone up so high is because of obamacare. i expect premiums to get a lot cheaper if obamacare were to be repealed. i think what were seeing from the president with that tweet, with his st...

True, theres huge tax cuts for the medical industry too. thats why those drug company and insurance company and medical device lobbyists were in there writing the bill too. you start with that. i dont know how they justify doing this, a huge tax cut, a huge wealth transfer from middle class, working class, working poor to the wealthiest people in the country as if the chasm is not big enough in the united states of america anyway. >> well, i think its been difficult, you know, to get republicans...