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An unfortunate story. >> alisyn: the rest of the headlines, what else is happening. a man to strap a bomb to blow himself in the new york city subways doing rush hour learns his fate. he's spending the rest of his life behind bars. during his sentences he spent several minutes singing the verses from the koran, and says he's innocent. he's an american citizen. and many losing their jobs over obamacare, striker makes replacement knees likes this one, laying off 1170 workers, making the cuts, you know, though the founders grandson is one of the president's biggest supporters. he donated more tha...

Talking about it. i think it's a little late in the game to be honest because i've said over a year ago, this should have been a lead-off discussion for the party. but we're here, so let's see what happens. >> heather, the poverty never came up in any of the presidential debates. we have 48% -- according to the census bureau 48% of this country is on -- is in poverty or on the verge of poverty. poverty is considered to be $23,000 for a family of four, which is a very, very low bar, and with $11,170 for a single person and yet the national discussion has been largely silent on -- in terms of th...

Which is low. the poverty line is $11,170 a year. so you could be a single person making $3,000 a year and you're not poor enough to qualify for medicaid. that's part of the reason texas has the highest uninsured rate in the entire nation. in massachusetts, by contrast, they cover working adults up to 133% of the poverty level. this is partly due to a bill signed bay former governor whose name rhymed with smitt sromney. everyone making up to 133% of the poverty line, they get medicaid automatically. right now, the federal government pays 57% of medicaid's costs. states pick up the rest. that's...

It took arizona 20 years after the original medicaid program was set up to join in. and some gop governors have already said they're going to try to sit this one out, too. >> every governor has two critical decisions to make, one is do we set up the exchanges and secondly, do we expand medicaid. in louisiana, we're not doing either. >> that's bobby jindal saying his state is going to pass up on a sweet, sweet deal. worth spending a moment on this because it's important to understand why. there's something weird in the design of the affordable care act. something you wouldn't expect from the po...

Good for the gander. her bill says that men wanting viagra should be seen by a sex therapist. i'm joined by the host of "now by alex wagner". good morning to you both. alex, 1,170 bills potentially by year's end. what do you make of this? >> it's staggering, chris, because i think we have gone from the debate over abortion which as you know has been incredibly heated to an argument over a real -- i use the word war because i think if you look at what's happening in the state houses across the country a war on women's health. we are talking about defunding not just planned parenthood, but org...