President obama was and governor perry apostate speaking in dallas talking about governor perrys state in dallas talking about the obamacare law. Tonightsreview of speech and some comments on the appearance yesterday. President obama was fundraising in dallas yesterday. Rick fundraising and i with this evening. Washington bureau chief for Dallas Morning News joins us by phone. Texas is one of the chief sources of resistance to the healthcare law. What did the president accomplish in his visit yesterday . The primary goal seemed to be fundraising and he raised a large sum and we dont know the exact amount for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee which will go to states other than taxes because Texas Democrats are not very competitive. Up for reelection but the democrats dont seem to be making a run at him. I was clearly a top goal. Far as pitching obamacare, it does make sense for him in a lot of ways to go to a place like are a high there number of uninsured americans, a High Percentage of texans, roughly one in four who lack health care coverage. Why do you go to banks . That is where the money is. It politically makes sense for him to go and take on governor rick perry directly. S resistance to expanding medicaid is one of the reasons because its a major obstacle to clearing the road for uninsured americans. Need itid no state may more than taxes. How does that play with governor rick perry . He was unsurprisingly not impressed. He argues that the Affordable Care act is the wrong way to go and in particular the kind of Medicaid Expansion that president obama would like is not the right way to go for the state of texas. He and other republicans do not trust about the formula will stay intact. They say whatever the promise is coming out of washington right now that its going to end up much more costly and could potentially bankrupt the state over time as the states share of the medicaid cost go up. Its a question of the state federal combined program. , thee earlier years republicans and taxes do not trusted in the point to all of the problems with the rollout of theacare and things like fact that people are losing their insurance when the president had promised countless times that they would not. That is evidence that you cannot trust what comes out of washington. Back to the politics and potentially 2016. What is he hoping to accomplish in iowa . Is probably hoping to accomplish an outpouring of support and an uprising that says, rick perry, we want you to run again. He was fifth in the caucus in 2012 and it was devastating. At one point he was just a shooting star because he eventually faded in a fairly embarrassing way at the end. Im sure he would love to run for president. He is testing the waters, as many of the candidates are. Hes hoping to make some connections with people to see how it goes. He is the second prominent texan to be in iowa. You covered ted cruz here are a few weeks ago. How was he received the . He has been in iowa a few times in the past several months. They were very friendly audiences, christian conservatives. It mostly attracted Tea Party Activists and solid social conservatives, those who obviously want to come out and see a guy like ted cruz. They love him. They think the world of him. They do not hold him to blame for the government shut down unlike democrats and more moderate republicans. Aews will certainly be contender within a certain sub sect of the iowa electorate and its interesting to see both of becauseng after that they played to a lot of the same people, fighting for the same portion of the iowa caucus voters. To the healthcare politics, any indication that rick perry will address the comments president obama made in dallas . I would not be surprised. He is certainly very proud of the fact that texas has been a bastion of resistance and is one of the states who follow the law in court. He has refused to expand, as we discussed, unlike some republican governors who consider it to be a lot more squishy and not as pure as it ought to be on this issue. Surprised if he addresses it. He is no fan of the president or obamacare. Washington bureau chief of Dallas Morning News. You can follow him on twitter. Thanks for joining us. Back live to des moines, iowa, where were going to hear from Texas Governor rick perry and just a bit. A fundraiser for the republican littleetting underway a bit later than expected. Governor perry set to start at 8 40 p. M. Eastern. Rick perry in the state as part of a twoday swing. On the first oped a two day visit, summing it up like this. Its fun to be back in iowa again. Other republicans are here as well. Our own pete daniels is there in the field. Perry live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and photos of the ben carson bumper stickers. Carson, 16. We will hear him talk about the president talking yesterday and its possible that governor perry will have something to say about that tonight. Heres a look at what the president said yesterday specifically about taxes. About texas. Ly good afternoon. Good evening. My name is edna. I bring you greetings from oak cliff, texas. And i also bring you greetings from my pastor from concorde baptist church. Honor the distinguished to present to you our commander in chief. On january 12, 2012, i was diagnosed with cancer. Hospital knowing i had everything right. I did not do the paperwork right. I was denied service. God bless me. I am healed through the prayers and i decided i would going year to make sure that everybody is affordable healthcare so that no one also be denied service because they did not do the proper work right like i did. Ladies and gentlemen, i know youve been waiting so why not go through all the stuff im supposed to stay. Going to introduce to you our president , barack obama. Thank you. [applause] you, edna. Give edna a big round of applause. [applause] all ofonderful to see you. Let me just make some special mentions of people in addition to edna who are here. Outstanding, your mayor, Mike Rawlings is here. Outstanding county judge clay jenkins is here who doesnt great job on Affordable Care. Congresswoman johnson is here. And we want to thank rabbi david stern and asher knight for hosting us today. The main reason i am here is to thank all of you. Her story is one that is repeated all across the country. People that got sick and did not have Health Insurance. Folks that thought they had Health Insurance and turned out that because of the fine print or not filling something out right, they were short what they needed in terms of getting healed. When i ran for office, we were in the midst of the great recession. My number one priority was making sure we did not go into a great depression. We have seen the economy begin to recover even though washington has not been helpful with things like the shutdown. We have seen 7. 5 million jobs created and record exports. We have seen growth in places like dallas. People are starting to get their footing. We are starting to recover. But if we did not start tackling the Health Care System in a serious way, it would continue to undermine the economy, hurt families, and hurt business. There is a reason why it has never been done before. Making sure that everybody had affordable and Quality Health care. But through democratic and republican president s, we could not get it done. The reason is because it is hard. A lot of people, even if they dont like what is going on, they are nervous about change. But we were able to get it done in part because of grassroots folks like you that fought so hard to make sure that we are able to deliver on universal health care. That is what this is all about. Ultimately, the politics and the chatter leads out the fact that the system is not working for too many people. It is important for us, as difficult and challenging as it has been, to move forward and make sure that folks like at the edna know they are going to get good care and their families wont get bankrupt because somebody got sick. That is what we have been fighting for. Over the last three years, we have put a bunch of benefits in place. People dont know we have put them in place but they are already in place. If you have a child who is 25 and doesnt have Health Insurance and is on the parents plan, the reason is because of the Affordable Care act. Seniors are getting discounts on prescription drugs and saving hundreds of dollars because of the discount through the Affordable Care act. Insurance companies have to treat customers right because of the Affordable Care act. No more lifetime limits or dropping people when they get sick. But to finish the job, we have to sign up those folks that dont have insurance and improve the insurance for those that are underinsured. They have been subject to the whims of the insurance company. That is the challenge weve got over the next three months, six months, one year. When we get that done, we will have created a stable system in which there is no reason why people should not be Getting Health Care in this country. I am the first to say that the first part i am not happy with. You have heard about the website woes. Nothing drives me more crazy than the fact that right now, there is great insurance to be had out there, choice, competition, where people can save money for a better product. But too many folks have not been able to get through the website. This is like having a really good product in the store and the cash registers dont work and there arent enough parking spots. Nobody can get through the door. We are working overtime to get this fixed. The website is already better than it was at the beginning of october. By the end of this month, we anticipate it will be working the way it is supposed to. Folks are working 24 make sure that happens. 24 7 to make sure that happens. The insurance is already there. If they cant get through to the website, they can call the call center and people can take their application and be walked through the process. People can apply in person if there are folks out there helping people sign up. That is what all of you have been committed to doing. It is so important. The truth of the matter is that even if the website were working 100 , people would still need help to navigate through this stuff. A High Percentage of people might not have ready access to a computer or it might be confusing for them. They need people to help guide them through this process. That is true of any kind of insurance. It is a complicated process. The commitment to all of you, the congregations, the faith based groups are critically important and it is not going to stop even after the website is running perfectly. We will need all of you to be making these efforts. I want to make special mention of the mayor and the work to get people signed up because that is the kind of commitment we will need on the ground on a dayto day basis. My main job here today is to say thank you. Nothing is going to stop us from getting this done. We are on the right side of history. It is the right thing to do for our economy, businesses, and families. The last point i want to make. A lot of times, this task is especially challenging. In the great lone star state. I think all of you understand that there is no state that needs this more than texas. Think about it. We were just talking on the way over here. In addition to signing people up for the marketplaces where they could buy private insurance, part of the Affordable Care act was expanding the number of working families that would qualify for medicaid. Because of a Supreme Court ruling, it is voluntary. Which states decide to expand medicaid coverage and which dont. In just the dallas area, 133,000 people who dont currently have Health Insurance would immediately get Health Insurance without even having to go through the website if the state of texas decided to do it. There are over 500 million just for this county that would come in to help families get Health Insurance. Nothing to do with the website. If the state of texas made this decision. Your neighboring states have made that decision because they look at it and say this is a no brainer. Why would we not want to take advantage of this . The state of arkansas has already reduced its number of uninsured by 14 . Already, just in the first month, by signing people up for expanded medicaid. Oregon has a 10 reduction in the number of uninsured already in the first month. Just because the governor and the legislature made the right decision. There is no reason why this state cant do the same. In the dallas area, 133 thousand people and across the state, one Million People. It is a big state. One Million People. Citizens that dont have Health Insurance that could get it right away if the state of texas decided to take advantage of this. One thing that gets me a little frustrated although i understand because i am in politics, folks who are complaining about how the website is not working. Why isnt obama fixing this . They are leaving one Million People right now without Health Insurance that they could immediately fix. There is not a lot of logic to that. But thats ok. We have gone through barriers before. We have gone through struggles before. If you stick to doing the right thing, we will get it done. I want all of you to remember that as challenging as this may seem sometimes, as frustrating as healthcare. Gov may be sometimes, we will get this done. When we do, not if, when we do, we will have families across this great state of texas that will have the security and the wellbeing of high quality affordable Health Insurance. And that is going to be good for business. It means that all the providers around here instead of taking folks to the emergency room, they have customers who have insurance. Those of you that already have Health Insurance, your premiums will not be subsidizing folks that dont have Health Insurance. People will get Preventive Care which means that people are likely to be healthier. That is within our power. That is within our grasp. A pretty motivated group. It looks like a group that is ready to go. I am here to tell you that i will be right there with you the entire way until we get this done. Everybody in texas and across the country will have the Affordable Care that they need. God bless you, god bless america, god bless the state of texas. Collect them was president obama in dallas yesterday. Lost her to new jersey. Gloria returned with her husband tom, in the audience. She has a daughter who is here grandchildrenr who led us in the pledge of allegiance tonight. Before heading to new jersey, gloria spent 23 years at the naturalartment of resources coordinating camps and frequently she toured the state encouraging the love of outdoors fornting, education children. She handles volunteers are deftly as she handled a gun. Dont worry. Im getting off the stage soon. Ofria has had a life activism and she came of age in president ial election. She never worked in a political venue on till the affordable known as obamacare became a National Issue and the iowa romney campaign, she was so motivated that she walked in and said, put me to work right now. An unpaid volunteer putting in 80 hours per week while also working a real job. Tonight, we are proud to honor gloria who volunteered over 800 rs for mitt romney [applause] and averaged over 60 hours of volunteer for the Republican Party of pull county. Its been a very busy week for gloria. The saturday she takes on the duties as the new president of the pope county republican womens federated. In deference to our keynote speaker tonight emma they say dont mess with texas. Dontre to say tonight, mess with the gloria. Join me with Republican Party of whole county and our 2013 volunteer of the year, gloria. [applause] minute toake a recognize some of our republican officeholders, our state auditor. Mary, stand up. Council,moines city wes. Mike harper, urbandale. Right over there. The board of supervisors. Chad, Dallas County auditor. Steve shepler. National committeewoman. Member of the state central committee. And my old friend darrell. Youve all gotten many calls from him. Weve been working together for 46 years. Where are you . Nobody knows more about iowa politics and how to raise money. Committee,nt of the right over here. We were duckhunting and we were not getting any. We were all wet. He looked at me and he said, maybe are not throwing the dog high enough. These are the good people keeping this government into nana working well. Iowa and taxes are both working very well. Lets have jack come up and give us a legislative report from the iowa senate. [applause] thank you for being here tonight and thank you for your support. It would not be possible without all of your support. Its very much appreciated. Giving a brief report and i would like to introduce my colleagues in attendance tonight. The first from urbandale, brad. From south the last iowa, state senator joni ernst. And finally our newest senator, charles from west des moines. Since republicans took control of the capital three years ago weve done a lot of great things. Weve been able to turn the budget completely around to where we now have a surplus and we are in good financial shape. We were able to pass the reforms we been working on for major years and in the case of property tax, several decades. He could be even better free had a majority in the senate. Focus, taking the majority on the election really starts for us in 12 days because we have a special election down in madison county. We have a great candidate who is current