She needs to sort her priorities. Teach a man how to fish. He can feed himself for a life. Dont simply feed fish. She sleeps with the fishes. How do you know about him . Elementary, my dear watson. What is our heart and what is our soul as a country is what the next generation is going to have to answer. Well, is america going to figure this whole thing out when it comes to jobs, the economy, health care, paying the bills, interesting questions from the folks at oxford. As one brit said to me, it appears that the gentleman from texas seems to be causing quite a bit of difficulty as of late. I couldnt disagree with that at all. I just got back from across the pond. First time ive ever been to london. I was afforded the opportunity to speak at Oxford University at the oxford debating society. I got a real insight into the way the world actually views america in troubled times, at least in london. Had a lot of conversation with folks on the street. Of course, i was a tourist. You know how it is. My wife and i toured around london, visited big ben. Had to do that. Saw the queens boat. It wasnt up for rental or i would have taken it out. Visited the thames river and saw the tower bridge. Also with a very serious attitude went to see the world war ii Airfield Museum at ducksford. Being an aviation buff i have always been enamored are the sacrifice of world war ii and what we did as a country. This was the home of the eighth air force that lost 6,346 american aircraft, most of them were b17s. It was the home of the memphis bell, the movie produced there in ducksford back in 1992. This is just outside the Ducksford Air memorial, and the numbers of americans that the number of lives that were lost and the sacrifice that was given. When you go around london, you see monument after monument of sacrifice of people that just were called on to save the world. And i coupled the sacrifice of that generation in my talk at action ford as to what is our sacrifice today, as not only a country, but as a world . Is it going to be a world war like we saw back then . Probably not. But the sacrifice changes, but the heart and the emotion and the soul of what we have to do as a people pretty much stays the same. You cant go over there to see this huge machinery that we developed as a country at the time it reminded me of a time in america where we actually built things, where we were going from automobiles and going from refrigerators and we were actually manufacturing things now into a war machine to save the world. Because of that we kept an extremist from ruling the world. Back then the world had a very positive view of america. We could do whatever was put in front of us. Today in the news, of course, were all upset about a web page thats not working and theres no way its going to get fixed. It just frustrates me. Todays Americas International reputation i believe has been damaged because of our politics. Are we reliable . Will we pay our bills . Are we ever going to stop bickering and realize the absolutes of what the American People want . Its because of guys right here, the selfish politicians that only think of themselves. They took us to the verge of a Global Economy falling apart. We were the hostage in an attempt to deny 30 Million People in this Country Health care. They have lost, i believe, a great deal of global credibility. The conversation is so much different today. Talk from republicans like this i believe had the entire world on the edge. I would do anything, and i will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care. Are you saying if he continues to refuse to negotiate, the country is going to default . Thats the path were on. There is no such thing as a debt ceiling in this country because its never been not increased. If you dont raise the debt ceiling, what that means is youd have a balanced budget. It doesnt mean you wouldnt pay your bills. I think all the talk about a default has been a lot of demagoguery, a lot of false demagoguery. Should we be proud of the fact that were the only industrialized country in the world that has a conversation like that . Republicans brought the Global Economy to the brink of financial unknown, and the world for that matter, took notice. I spoke about this with the students at Oxford University. The fact that we dont realize because of our selfishness that we could bring the entire world Financial System to the verge of collapse because we have decided we dont want to pay our bills. What we have committed to is a legislative body, and the president cannot spend a dime. What the legislative body has decided to commit to all of a sudden because of not being able to get their political way, has even entered the discussion that we would burden your country or others who have thought america was a good investment. And weve had the discussion, well, maybe we wont pay this bill because, number one, we dont like the president , we do not believe in his agenda for health care in america, so we will obstruct him and stop him at all costs. That is simply not the america that the brits new of yesteryear. One brit told me many london, as americas economy goes, so does great britains. Republicans need to realize when they play games with default, their actions affect the entire world. The people i spoke to in london also call republicans extremist. They couldnt believe a small group of radical republicans could have that much power and possibly inflict that much damage on the world. I want to point out there is nothing extreme about Social Security. Theres nothing extreme about medicare and medicaid, and theres nothing extreme about providing every american with health care. We are way behind the curve. I believe this and so do the folks across the pond. I tweeted out, man on the street conversation in the uk. Why does your media Want Health Care to fail . Now, this was several days ago in london when i tweeted this out. They dont have these conversations. Theyve gone beyond that. Their media doesnt attack universal health care the way we do. Is there view of humanism different . Are we that far behind the curve . Do we really believe that we must have political gain and put peoples lives aside . You know, you go overseas and you talk to folks and you get a different view about what america is all about. Were having fights over things that have been decided years ago in other countries. And the sacrifice, what is our next sacrifice going to be . Ill tell you its going to be financial. We have income inequality in this country that is unbelievable. We have the vulcher chart as it continues to separate. We have the middle class being charged a hell of a lot more and not being able to move forward. Weve got the top 2 who are controlling it all and the corporate interests running our elections, and these folks are okay with it. How are we going to overcome that . The challenge for the Progressive Movement is to talk about sacrifice. The wealthiest americans to keep our financial house in order are going to have to pay more, and i believe progressives and liberals in this country are going to have to not be timid about saying that during budget negotiations. We have corporations that dont pay any tax. We have money parked offshore, dodging the tax code, or should we say should we change the tax code to ensure theres more fairness in the system . Thats the sacrifice, the next sacrifice. If we think we can play with disaster every 60 days in this country and have it not affect our reputation in the world, were mistaken in a big, big way. Are we reliable . I hope so. The people speak in every poll out there and every election so far, we dont want medicaid, medicare and Social Security butchered the way republicans want to do it. And we want more fairness when it comes to taxation when it comes to wealthiest americans. I want to know what you think. Have republicans policies ruined our standing in the world . Text a for yes, b for now to 67622. You go to our blog at ed. Msnbc. Com. For more on this, let me bring in congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of ill now. Good to be with you. Have we learned any lessons, has washington learned any lessons . Have the republicans gotten out of this deep, dark cave and realizing people are kind of watching what were doing . Its not just the rest of the world. I think most americans, as you pointed out, ed, in the polls most people want to have health care, they want obama care, they dont want it to be repealed, they want it to be fixed. Most people are against cuts in medicare and Social Security and the s. N. A. P. Program, the old food stamp program. I think that republicans really i hope learned at least in part a lesson in the final vote that opened the government and made us allowed us to pay our bills, that this was a losing battle. They lost big on that. More importantly, i think come the next election, if we do just what you said, make sure people are really looking at the major problem in our country which is income inequality. Thats whats really hurting our economy. Hopefully they will create new jobs and build a better better class, then i think the democrats will prevail and well be able to really move forward. Looking at the history of england and the coordination between the americans and the brits, there was an attitude, and its very clear in reading all the history that there was never any question about whether we were going to be able to succeed. In todays media right now, were having a big discussion about whether a website can work so people can get health care, and thats our big problem. Its almost as if we blow up problems to the point like we cant achieve much in this country anymore at all. Its almost depressing, and i hate to use that word on television. But we as americans follow this political fight that is going on in washington. Is it damaging the country to the point where we dont believe we can get anything done anymore, including fixing a website . Of course its sory doik laos, because the real issue is that were going to finally provide health care or make it available to all americans, millions of people who have preexisting conditions or have never had Health Insurance as all. As the president said, this is far more than a website and of course its going to be fixed. In fact, in 2006 when Medicare Part d was rolling out, the secretary of health and human services, leavitt, on the 53rd day after the rollout was saying, well, you know, when you roll out something this big, of course, theres going to be problems, but were making progress. So weve been there before. But the republicans act as if this is a new thing, that we should repeal it because the website doesnt work. Its crazy. They will take any more sell of information to be negative because they want to change the law. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, thanks for joining us. Now lets bring in msnbc director richard wolffe. Good to have you with us tonight. Interesting country. I thoroughly enjoy it. You know what i noticed about people in london cafes, they are consumed with reading newspapers. In america were all on our machine, on our iphone and blackberry, everything else. But it is a huge northbound town which tells me they go beyond the headline. They actually want the devil in the detail. How do you think were viewed based on what weve gone through as a country, the shutdown, almost didnt pay our bills and here we go again in 60 days . A couple things. In the uk they look at europe, countries like greece and say here is a bunch of countries on the brink of default because they cannot afford to pay their bills. How come america, the worlds richest country, the biggest economy in the world is willingly, intentionally putting itself in the same position of greece or portugal or spain or italy . It makes no sense at all. What that does is it reinforces really ugly cliches that america doesnt know how to run itself, what is going on . Theres a lot of great good will to the president , still very popular overseas, especially in europe. But they do not understand remember theres a conservative Prime Minister in the uk. Theyre all about we are for fiscal responsibility. They would never flirt with default just like the conservatives here. So this has taken america into New Territory in the eyes of the world, almost to the point were unpredictable. You have to say the conservatives here, especially the tea party, have weakened americas standing in the world. No question about it. When it was democrats who were questioning whether there should be a war on terror, they were told they were unpatriotic. I dont see that same language going at republicans. There has been just as much damage to the world, maybe much more damage to americas standing in the world by saying were ready to default compared to democrats saying should we invade iraq, for instance. Theyre having the same conversations in the uk as were having here when it comes to pensions, when it comes to workers rights, unions, health care and the expenses and how to control it. Theres a huge austerity push there as well. What we do in our congress, does it affect their mindset over there . The World Economic councils when they get together, International Monetary fund and they all meet globally, they all talk, oh, gosh, we cant pay these bills. Weve got a democratic president here, the growth there without that extreme austerity. Theres been spending cuts here but nothing like what its been over there. Growth here they can only dream about over there. Austerity hasnt worked for them. Talk about Second World War, the socialized medicine they have came out of the Second World War, kcame out of a shared sens of responsibility. Rich and poor, its immoral to think that someone who is wealthy deserves or should have a right to a Better Health system. You faced the same bombs, faced the same bullets. You should have the same health care. They did that after the Second World War when the country was on its needs. They could barely afford it. It remains popular with a conservative Prime Minister. They look at this debate and say, okay, you want people to not go bankrupt. What about getting the same kind of level about health care, the same care and attention . Richard wolffe, thanks so much. Remember to answer tonights question, share your responses on twitter and facebook. We always want to know what you think. Talk about inflation, john stossel has inflated ideas about the federal reserve. Ted cruz may lead the crusade against obama care, but wait till you hear where he gets his health coverage. Stay with us. Nothing says, youre my 1 copilot, like a milkbone biscuit. Say it with milkbone. Help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. 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I will do anything and i will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care. While he fights against obama care, tez cruises on his wifes Health Insurance. Now will the senator answer my question, whether his family is protected by the government administered federal Employee Health benefit program . Im hell jibl for it, not currently covered under sglit most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. See, america, you dont need health care. If you have a medical emergency, go to home depot. Joining me, e. J. Dion an msnbc contributor, columnist from the washington post. E. J. , great to have you with us. Great to be with you. What kind of reaction should america have to a man such as ted cruz having a cadillac insurance policy while he works to take insurance away from millions of americans who need it . Well, i think they should be upset. When i heard what we were talking about, i went back and looked up one of my favorite quotations which says the law in its majestic equality forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. And the rich and the poor alike are equally free to buy Health Insurance, except a whole lot of people among the working poor cant afford Health Insurance. Too many people in the senate, in the house of representatives and in a lot of other parts of our society including those who work in the media, have never had the experience of putting off doctors visits over and over again for our kids, never had the experience of having to say, oh, gee, i need that prescription, but i dont have the money for it so i wont buy it or have had to get all of our health care through hospital emergency rooms. The notion that its somehow an outrage that the government which already and rightly provides Health Insurance, the rest of america that cant afford Health Insurance to get everybody covered, the notion that thats an awful and evil thing that threatens socialism, thats a terrible idea. Cruzs Spokesman Says being on his wifes plan means its no cost to taxpayers. But between the government subsidies for employersponsored insurance and Goldman Sachs getting 10 billion in t. A. R. P. Money, arent we still paying for cruzs insurance in a roundabout way . Anybody who has employer provided Health Insurance does benefit from a big tax break. Its true in our society that there are a lot of things that the government loses revenue on, which is essentially like spending, that gives benefits to we should acknowledge middle class people but also very rich people and gives no benefit at all to working poor people, and so, yeah, this raises the point that we currently have a Health Care Policy that keeps 40 Million People off insurance and thats what we want to change and thats why i really hope that for all these terrible problems that theyre having on the computers, on the websites, they need to fix them. But whole idea of obama care is right, youve got to get insurance to people who dont have it. Theres 20 Million People that have hit this website in a short period of time. The true story behind all this well touch on a little later in this broadcast which tom harkin told me later today on the radio, they never had the proper funding and infrastructure to get this thing done from the start because the conservatives made this their mantle to knock down president obama across the board. But the big picture in all of this about where its working, where its not working, is those states who have gone into the Medicaid Expansion. This is a big part of it as well. The states that have obstructed, thats where the problems are coming. Your thoughts . Exactly right. First of all, the States Running their own exchanges where the governors, mostly republicans, didnt take a powder and walk away, like kentucky, those exchanges are working pretty well. The Medicaid Expansion is working well. I believe that oregon has already signed up 60,000 people and there were five million americans, mostly in the south, a lot of them but by no means all of them members of racial minorities who are being cut off from the possibility of getting Health Insurance because of decisions by their states, enabled by a conservative Supreme Court decision to say were not going to give our People Health care. There should be a lot more outrage about this. All of these Human Interest stories are going to be outweighing and really outmuscling and winning the argument at the end of the day with all the antis out there trying to destroy the law, not the bill, the law. Its here. You cant turn anywhere without getting negative talk about obama care. Its all over the place. We have had generations in the past in this country that would take on any challenge except the challenge, america was great, we could get it done. Our air waves are permeated with negative talk and a hope for failure. Were talking about peoples lives here. I just dont im amazed by it. E. J. Dionne, always great to have you on the ed show. Great to be here. Thank you. The republicans think theyre rolling out experts, especially when it comes to the obama care launch. Plus a utah senator has daddy issues and hannity is there with open arms. Next im taking your questions live on ask ed live. Were right back on the ed show on msnbc. [ mixer whirring ] my turn daddy, my turn hold it steady now. I know daddy. [ dad ] oh boy, fasten your seatbelts everybody. [ mixer whirring ] bounty selectasize. Its the smaller powerful sheet, that acts like a big sheet. Look one selectasize sheet of bounty is 50 more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. [ humming ] [ dad ] use less with the small but powerful picker upper. Bounty selectasize. And try bounty napkins. Thto fight chronic. E. Osteoarthritis pain. To fight chronic low back pain. To take action. To take the next step. 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It probably has something to do with 20 Million People hitting the website. Wouldnt you know, suddenly everyone is an expert on rollouts. When you look at the problems with obama care, all the focus here lately has been on the website. Clearly theres problems with the website. But i would argue that the problems go much further than that. Just like katrina, when the big problem that president bush had was diminishing the significance of what was happening, way to go brown knee, you had the president yesterday talking about glitches and kinks. Katrina was a storm. Conan said the other night obama is urging americans having trouble with the website to call a 1800 number, 1800, we didnt think this through. The rollout of obama care is nothing short of a debacle. We all know the website doesnt work. Its another day and a new glitch for the obama care rollout. Nothing works. Nothing at all. We have no solutions. Its terrible, the world is terrible. How many of these critics do you think have firsthand experience when it comes to rolling out a business . This is coming from the party that did everything in their power to sabotage this law from the getgo. Republicans refuse to authorize requests from the Obama Administration for additional funding to do it the right way. Republican governors across the country have chosen to opt out of Medicaid Expansion which will leave millions of poor americans uninsured. Republicans shut the government down and, of course, they brought us to the brink of default in attempt to defund the law that they hate. Were supposed to believe all of a sudden theyre the experts on rollout. Theyre the ones. And suddenly they really care about 48 million americans who were uninsured in 2012 which might explain the traffic the website is experiencing. You think . Instead of criticizing this rollout, we should be focusing on the signs of high demand. But republicans are doing their very best to prevent americans from seeing the benefits of this law because they know once americans experience the benefits, they wont care about website malfunctions. Some of the republican theater here is working. Even democrats, congressman rick nolan who is a friend of mine, but i take issue here, are calling for the president to get some swift action. I really believe he needs to man up, step up, and i feel that the people responsible for this did a terrible disservice to the Affordable Care act and to the president by allowing this thing to go forward when they knew it wasnt ready. The disservice has been the lack of cooperation by republicans who have fought this president and denied elections. No one is denying that the obvious issues are there with the Affordable Health care acts website. It is not the law. Its the glitches. All of this is going to get fixed. All the sabotaging, selfanointing rollout experts need to take a backstep for just a moment and say, you know what . Weve got smart people. If we fund this and resource it properly, we will get this fixed. Fixing is not what the Republican Party is all about. Joining me now are the two men that helped create both romney care and the Affordable Health care act, john mcdonagh, professor at Harvard School of Public Health and jonathan gruber, a professor of economics at m. I. T. Gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. Mr. Mcdonagh, what was it like rolling out the Health Care Plan in massachusetts and your thoughts on what we are seeing right now as this unfolds . It was very controversial. It had lots of people throwing political rocks at it from all directions. It didnt go quickly out of the gate. It took time to build up. People had to become familiar with it. People needed time to shop, to look, to understand their choices, and five to six years later, the law is working well. Were actually feeling a little lonely up here in massachusetts these days since for the five years after it passed, it seemed like the wall street journal and the conservative media had to have at least one big article a week telling everybody how bad it was and since the election a year ago, we feel a little bit like the maytag repairman now because its very clear in massachusetts the law is working well, and i think thats what the country can look forward to with the Affordable Care act once we get over this very difficult and complicated implementation process. Professor gruber, your thoughts on where we are now . I think john has it exactly right. The first month that individuals who pay premiums, 123 people signed up. By the end of the year it was 40,000. It takes time to set these things up. This is a difficult issue. Individuals are trying the sign up for something they wont even get until january 1st. So theres no need to panic. As John Mack Donna and my colleague wrote, we dont evaluate it minute by minute, week by week. We should take a slow look every month and it will be up and rolling by january 1. Senator tom harkin explained it this way on my radio today. For the last three years in my appropriations committee, ive tried to get the money in there that they needed to get these private contractors to set this system up. Ive been denied that money, so theyve had to skrim and try to figure it out. So what happened is that hhs and i believe cms, the center for medicaid services, decided, well, since they didnt have the money they thought they would have to go out and hire oracle and all these big places to do it and set it up and test it, well, theyre going to have to do it in house. Well, they didnt quite have all the expertise, but they didnt have the money they should have had to get the private sector to come in and set it up. Thats because of the republicans. They would not let us fund it. Professor mcdonough, your comment to that . This is an absolute. It takes money to buy whiskey. If youre going to do it on the cheap, theres going to be more problems. Fair enough . Absolutely. I think senator harkin is very on target. I worked on the Senate Health committee he chaired. During the process the conservative voices said we have to allow the states to set up their own exchanges. It has to be done that way. Thats how the law was written, to give the states the right to step up and do it. We thought all the conservative states would jump up and do it, and then all the conservative states decided to hold back and say, no, were going to let the federal government do it and were not going to give the federal government the resources to do the job as well as it could be done. Theres a lot of irony and more than a little bit of hypocrisy in some of their complaints right now. Professor gruber, this was never framed osh organized or put together with the mindset that there would be such rejection that weve seen . Whats ironic here is the republicans are rejecting the part of this law which is using private Health Insurance markets to expand Health Insurance coverage. This is an idea promoted by the Heritage Foundation to use these exchanges to promote the organized purchase of private Health Insurance. Republicans, by denying the funding to make exchanges work well, or denying the functioning of the private Health Insurance market, we need to let this work. States need to expand their medicaid programs. You mentioned this earlier, and we need the state to do whats possible to make the law work. Both of you confident that this, too, shall pass, professor gruber . Absolutely. Remember, the key date is not january 1st, march 31st. Thats when the mandate kicks in. By that date it will be fine. Mr. Mcdonough, your thoughts . January 1st is a key date. After january 1st no american can be denied coverage for a preexisting condition. The sushs difficults kick in. The Medicaid Expansions go into effect in states that are doing it. Its a fundamental change and a very important date coming forward. Well get there and get beyond this. In the meantime, political opposition has all the ammunition in the world to make the case to the American People that this will not be successful. You be the experts on romney care and also the Affordable Care act bring us to a level of wisdom that their political fodder just doesnt work, the good stories and what this is going to bring to america is what we need to focus on. Great to have you with us, gentlemen. Coming up, the war for fair wages from walmart kicks into high gear. Stay with us. I love this show. [ male announcer ] so good theyll think its homemade. Try campbells homestyle soup. Mm mm good. Im on expert on softball. And tea parties. 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Walmart stores gave a presentation at the Goldman Sachs retail conference. One of the slides in his presentation said that over 475,000 of walmarts u. S. Employees earned more than 25,000 last year. Meaning the majority of walmart, 1. 23 million member workforce, is paid less than 25,000 a year. Now, that statistic was listed under the heading great job opportunities. Id say its hardly something to brag about. The 2013 poverty guideline for a family of four is 23,550. Meaning a fulltime working at walmart gets a family of four barely above the poverty line. Our walmart. It says its rare for workers to be scheduled for a fulltime 40hour week. Dozens of walmart workers walked off the job in protest of management demanding they be given fulltime work. Lets bring in Robert Greenwald who directed walmart the high cost of low price. Good to have you with us tonight. I find it interesting that the head of walmart of the American Stores would come forward and say make the case that 25,000 a year is a really good living and people ought to be really excited about that. Yes. Well, thats from a company, ed, that made 17 billion last year in profit. And pays the average worker 8. 81 an hour. So walmarts argument is that everyone has the opportunity to build the kind of career they want. And Many Associates advance to salaries much higher than 25,000. So why do organizations like our walmart even exist . Well, the reason that the organizations exist in making change at walmart exists is because theyre fundamentally not paying people for their work. One of the biggest subsidies that you and every taxpayer is paying for is the number of things walmart need because company wont pay them. Food stamps and home savings and all kinds of things. So the notion that we are paying so that the Walton Family worth over 144 billion can have more profit is really an obscenity. What do you say when they say its the free market. People are willing to work for these wages. Theyre willing to work for these wages because walmart is the single Business Force in driving down wages, in not paying people what theyre worth, and taking advantage of an economy which is in deep, deep trouble. And the job of all of us and those great organizations and the people at walmart is to insist, pay me a fair wage. Im willing to work hard. Give me what is my due. What impact is this video around the country and these kinds of demonstrations, whats your anticipation on what kind of impact this is going to have on walmart . As we saw when we made the film about walmart, remember theyre not a political party. They are selling you goods. Theyre concerned about the brand. Theyre concerned about tarnishing the brand. And theyre concerned about the fact that walmart has one of the most negative associations of any brand across the country. That turns shoppers off and that begins to hurt their bottom line. Do you think theyll change . I hope