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Bloomberg is calling for more leadership from the white house. >> i think the mistake that was made here is we let congress write the health care bill so that it's just a collection of special interests. you got yours. he got his. and i voted for both of those because i got mine. and it doesn't make any sense. nobody's ever read the bill. it's just not going to work. the same thing is true with dodd/frank. congress shouldn't be writing specific laws. the president should send to congress the specific law that was created by people who are experts in the field and then sell it to them. they may...

In the union that doesn't charge oil companies for drilling on state lands. just making that change, by the way, they're the third biggest oil producer in the country. making that change would make billions of dollars of difference for the budgets in california. why are we -- >> i don't know if it would make up $400 billion in difference. my bigger question is these costs are exceeding a lot of states, municipalities, towns' ability to pay. you might want to get money from somewhere else, that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact this is a bigger part of states' budgets, cities' budgets and ...

Same with iowa, was not just about you, but it was about a large chunk of the republican party that's been disillusioned with republicanism. do you agree with that? >> boy, i think you're right, and i think that is very healthy. and i point this out, why do we allow the big government conservatives to dictate policy in the republican party? you know -- in favor of no child left behind and prescription drug programs. and once we get in charge, we acted like democrats. and there's a large segment of the republican party that think we ought to be conservatives. >> so what's your message going for...

body. why he's not so fat anymore. in washington, the supreme court will decide a challenge to the sweeping health care law that president obama signed last year. a lot of people have been paying attention to this. the main issue is that controversial requirement that everyone be covered by insurance. it's called the mandate. starting in 2014, if you don't have coverage through a job or medicare or medicaid, you have to buy it yourself. while this are subsidies for those who can't afford it, the specific part of the law requiring the mandate has been unpopular. according to a new c...

pound pounds. we begin with big news out of washington, the supreme court says they will decide a challenge to the sweeping health care law that president obama signed last year. a lot of people have been paying attention to this. the main issue is that everyone be required by insurance. starting by 2014 if you don't have insurance through a job or medicare or medicaid, you have to buy it yourself. while there are subsidies for those who can't afford it, this specific mandate has been unpopular. the majority of americans may now be in favor of it overall. joining me from new york i...