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Teachers. >> we don't come here to be taken advantage of. that's all i have to say. >> i hold the board accountable forp lettifor letting this go a. >> you are an embarrassment to our area. >> i demand you step down because you do not represent us at all. >> angry words there. jose fernandez maze 653,000 dollars including an inflated benefit package. the california district is small just three high schools with 6500 students. at the meeting fernandez announced he would give in to demands to take a pay cut. he is refusing a 9 percent annual raise and on top of that will reject a 600 a month car...

>> i should be bringing you news tonight of a new $21 billion veteran benefit package signed today by the president. but i am not because that bill died in the senate yesterday when it failed to get the 60 votes it needed to overcome a filibuster. and you will never get which party killed it. i mean, we all know which party is on the side of veterans, right? they tell us all the time. remember when they all headed to the world war ii memorial during the government shutdown to complain that the other anti-vet party was shutting veterans out? >> i will go anywhere any time a veteran needs me and...

With cancer that don't have health care insurance. people with debilitating diseases and they don't have health care insurance. nancy pelosi, obama and rahm emanuel shoved this things through congress and now we're looking at the effects. whenever you put politics over policy, this is what happens. >> before we go, chris, when is it going the be fixed? employers sitting in the situation not knowing whether or not they can give benefits to different employees as part of their income and benefit package, they probably won't hire. that will affect jobs. wouldn't you say? >> well, i mean, let me a...

They are not all the way to no one expected them to be all the way to their goal just yet. they are trying to make this argument as you saw human mustily reflected in that first ad that something bad can happen to you just because you are young doesn't mean you are invincible. whether people buy it, we will will see. that's the pitch. >> one of the other thing about young people i read one statistics of course we are drowning in statistics now. young people 79% have to get subsidies that means who is going to pay those subsidies. it's not really dollar per dollar young people getting subsidies...

Have an exchange which is strong, that is which negotiates with plans and has standardized the benefit package to a certain extent. that's opposed the federal exchange. so the california exchange has really used its bargaining power. it also has a much better procurement process in california. the federal procurement process is a nightmare. california's not as bad, and then finally, california is well funded. i think it's important to hone in on this. take away the federal exchanges for a second and just look at the 20 states implementing it.