There are now more than 30 million american citizens who cannot get coverage. President obama has made health care the signature issue of his presidency. And sometimes the daytoday battles in washington make it hard to see through the fog, but his fight is literally changing history. Gallup has tracked the rate of uninsured americans since 2008. Last month 13. 4 of dulls didnt have health insurance. Thats down from 18 in september. Meaning the number of people without insurance has steadily fallen since the Health Care Law went into effect. In fact, the polls showed we currently have the lowest rate of uninsured americans since january 2008. Thats when gallup began asking this question. Its a major turnaround. But republicans refuse to admit it. Just check out this brandnew ad from an iowa senate candidate. Tony will take aims at wasteful spending and once she sets her eyes on obamacare, joanie is going to unload. Oh, one more thing. Joanie doesnt miss much. Yes, she wants to shoot up the law thats helping millions of people get covered. And that wasnt even the most extreme attack we saw about the Health Care Law today. A Tennessee State senator compared it to the holocaust writing, quote, democrats bragging about the number of mandatory signups for obama care is like germans bragging about the number of mandatory signups for train rides for jews in the 40s. An elected official says Getting Health Care is like being sent to a concentration camp . Its incredibly offensive. And it should be unbelievable. But since the day the president signed this law, hes been politically targeted. The opponents of this law came out in force, using ugly language and making all kinds of noise. But if you cleared that away, you will see our country is changing and you see that today, were still in the early stages. But this law is creating a fundamental transformation in this country. Do republicans really want to run against this . Theyre happy to let seniors pay more for prescriptions, happy to kick young people off their Parents Health plans, happy to take away protections for people with preexisting conditions . So im happy to tell them on a day where you can see all the progress weve made, this law is here to stay. Joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, also a former u. S. Navy psychiatrist, and the washington posts jonathan capehart. Thank you for being here. It really is an historic date. The lowest rate of uninsured americans since theyve been keeping track. Whats your reaction today . I cant tell you how pleased i am that we have some figures to prove what all of us knew was happening. We knew that when the people got an opportunity, they would take it. And they have taken it gradually. Theyre picking it up naster and faster. And its going to spread across the country, rev. It has only started at this point. We have some states that are still resisting it. They wont sign people up in medicaid. They dont have an exchange in their state. Theyre trying to blame everything on anything bad that happens, they blame it on obamacare. But the truth is, its working. And its driving the republicans crazy. Because they cant figure out theyve got themselves stuck to this tar baby of trying to take it down, and theyre going to go into the election with their arms wrapped around the very same thing they said they didnt want. Republicans are still on the mission to smear this law. Just last week, a House Committee put out a press release saying that they surveyed Insurance Companies and found only 67 of health care enrollees had paid their first months premium. But paul krudman wrote, quote, the survey was rigged. It asked insurers how many enrollees had paid their first people yu premium. It ignored the fact that the first premium wasnt reeven due. And the fact that its so transparentally rigged is a smoking gun, proving the attacks on obamacare arent just bogus, theyre deliberately bogus. Deliberately bogus he said is that the best a gop can do in your opinion . It seems like it is. They are so invested in failure. From the very beginning. And its rooted in denying the president denying this president , president obama, any kind of success. When the tea party blew up in 2010 with the protests at the capitol, people against the Affordable Care act, those town hall meeting where is you saw members of congress being pelted with questions from an anxious public because they didnt know what congress was talking about, and unfortunately, congress was sent out during recess with no bill, with no actual legislation to quell and calm the fears. Well, here we are and having to do all kinds of double talks and triple takes and all of that. But heres whats happening now. Between the Gallup Survey and the hard and fast numbers of 8 Million People signing up. These are hard and fast numbers that democrats for sure can go back to their districts and say this is working. 24st not a failure. Dont be fooled by these people still trying to say that this isnt working. Quite frankly, i think were going to see maybe more than a few republicans who will go back in their district during reelection to try to take credit for some of the things that the Affordable Care act does. When the level of americans without insurance was falling to the lowest level, one republican congressman said more people were uninsured. Thereon this. Its hard to get accurate numbers, its hard to get accurate numbers on anything. But the numbers we see today, as i understand them, and we believe that there are more people uninsured today in kansas than there were before the president S Health Care went into effect. I thoukt tght the goal was to b more people into insurance. The fact checker gave them four pinnochios and said it was the most popular fact check of the month. How much longer can they get away with this kind of stuff . They are going to keep going right to the election. Because they are running a Propaganda Campaign to terrorize people and make people believe that what the president has done is they are not going to give that up. Because if they do give it up and admit that the president has done a good thing, that the democrats have done a good thing, they will lose seats. There are people in california who are telling their family in alabama and tennessee and some of these places where they refuse to do anything, hey, weve got a good thing going out here. And pretty soon, that information is going to change the way people vote in some of these state where is their representatives have been against it from the very first and are not ever hampered by the facts. They will say anything to destroy this president. And they will go to great lengths. I nemean, i showed the ad, jonathan, of the woman shooting the bill. The state candidate, comparing it to the holocaust. This extremism has got to backfire on them at some point . Well, it wont backfire on them now because theyre running in primaries. Theyre trying to get the votes of the party faithful. These kinds of messages, shooting at a bill that, the candidate in iowa has no power whatsoever to dismantle. That plays well with the Republican Party primary voter. Once they get into the general election is where the problem will come in. And reality should set in. No one person, as weve seen, over more than 50 votes, no one this law is here. Its not going anywhere. And even if they could get the votes in both the house and the senate to abolish the Affordable Care act, theres a president in the oval office who will refuse to sign it. And congressman, what i ask, and i almost know its a rhetorical question, but i have to ask you, where are the adult republicans that would stand up and denounce this kind of extremism in light of this historic number that has come out now and the fact that millions of people are being helped. Thats biggest problem we have is that the modern republicans are hiding. They are afraid to come out for fear the tea party will come after them in this election. Theyre absolutely petrified that they will alienate them and not win the nomination, and then be defeated in the general because people wont believe in them. Its ive never seen such a sad sight as a moderate republican. Sad. Very sad. Congressman jim mcder rmott and jonathan capehart. Coming up, how desperate are they getting . The benghazi obsession goes to a select committee. But are democrats ready to boyco boycott . Its being called a, quote, waste of time. 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Theyve held 13 congressional hearings, the administration has shared over 25,000 pages of documents. The pentagon estimated the cost of the investigations is already in the millions of dollars. More than 1,100 fox news crams has mentioned benghazi in the past year and the rhetoric on the right has only gotten uglier. Were paying the price for the incompetence and quite frankly, the criminal negligence of this administration. This is the biggest coverup since watergate. This dereliction of duty as commanderinchief demands your impeachment. How is this different than wat watergate . Lets talk about this. Lets see four americans werent abandoned to be murdered in watergate. Both covered up the same way. Watergate leads to the president resigning. White house staffers in jail. Whats different in benghazi . The gop is lost. Theyre out of ideas on jobs, health care, immigration. And all theyve got left are phony scandals. Joining me now is the leading Ranking Member on the committee. Do you think democrats will end up boycotting this new Benghazi Committee . That would be my recommendation. I mean, obviously its a Leadership Call obviously. The military said they did everything they could in this instance to save the lives of americans. After all this investigation, theres nothing to be found. Its still a bit of a mystery what the scandal is here exactly. There is not a shred of evidence. Your recommendation would be that democrats should boycott this new committee . Yes. Theyve already done, as youve listed them, like seven different committees. So. Now congressman, leading this new committee is trey gaudi. Hes often accused the president and the attorney general of refusing to follow the law. Listen to this 3. Hes on the eve of being held for contempt of Congress Since hes refusing to follow the law. Since were a nation of law, it would be nice to have a chief executive and an ag whoing to that responsibility seriously. Mr. President , you want to run roughshod over the constitution, we have the power of the purse, were not going to fund your pet projects. This is the guy thats going to lead the new committee and investigate, congressmen . He seems a little extreme himself. I think oversight is the responsibility of congress. They had a responsibility to look into it, figure out what happened and how to prevent it in the future. Unfortunately, the republicans did not take that oversight responsibility seriously. Instead, they took it as a political opportunity. Which undermines the credibility of the institution of congress. They didnt exercise their oversight responsibly. They did it as a complete partisan act, attack dog exercise. It is shameful. Now congressman, you talked about the partisan hostility. But republican senator Lindsay Graham has been leading the charge on benghazi. But listen very careful to what he said this weekend. Anybody who plays politics with benghazi will get burned. Are those words going to come back to haunt him . It reflects evolving al qaeda ideology. What bush did was aggressively go after al qaeda leadership. That ultimately led up to the killing of bin laden but more importantly, to the dismantling of that Central Organization that attacked us on 9 11 and also the embassies in africa and the u. S. S. Cole in yemen. The president rightly said, theyve been very aggressive about disrupting that organization. The entire republican argument is that benghazi goes against that and thats why they didnt want to admit it. But number one, the president admitted it was a terrorist attack. Number two, this really points up what has grown up out of al qaeda, which a whole bunch of like minded groups. We need to face this the way we i did the al qaeda in pakistan, yemen, somalia, thiss what the president said he was successful at and he was. Now we have this other threat to figure out how to confront. 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