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About the affordable care act, a caleb ahmed care, it does seem a bit hyper in over the top. but it was real at the time. it was remarkable thing to cover in the moment. in the fact remains that that huge pushback, in 2009. the first time lawmakers had a long break at home, in august 2009. the first time they had a long break at home after obama was elected president, that huge pushback. that roiling opposition, in their home districts. that set the tone for the opposition. the in transience opposition, that obamacare -- well, that was 2009. that was the first august recess. when obama was pre...

Halls and protests all around the country by anti-obama republicans, by the new tea party republican movement all screaming bloody murder about how obamacare was going to destroy the country and they were willing to start a civil war over it. in the end, obamacare, of course, passed into law and it's now just -- now it's the affordable care act quietly providing health insurance to tens of millions of americans without much fuss, right, and without hell mouths opening anywhere that i can see, at least. and looking back at 2009 and the freakout on the right about the affordable care act, aka ob...

0 that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week witho...

Sadly. these risks seem to be comparable with other vaccines, such as the flu vaccine. and the other thing i want to say, really, in this context, is that, if you develop covid—19, the risks of the same outcomes, from our data, arejust so much higher. this pandemic is still continuing to wreak havoc around the globe. 68,000 people died of covid last week worldwide, and the vast majority of those lives would have been saved if they had been vaccinated. naomi grimley, bbc news. earlier this morning, paralympic gb cyclist jaco van gass won bronze in his second event of the games in tokyo. yeste...

Said he met with the highway patrol officers who led the investigation. >> i asked one patrol officer if he had ever been wrong? and there was a small part of me that wish he was correct, because or not he was going to ruin a lot of people's lives. and he told me straight-up, i've never been wrong. >> never been wrong? >> never been wrong. >> was this investigator, dan nash? >> it was. >> brand posted 1 million dollar bond and it was a lot to remain free until his trial. brad stuttering knee said the state had no case. >> every time that i spoke with him he said that it couldn't go to trial, h...