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Rather than policy. that's happened a thousand times over the last number of months. >> joining me now is journalist, author and analyst steven bril. it's great to have you here. as the congressman points out there, the president definitely uses twitter. it turns into a distraction. he also conveys policy through twitter. one of the biggest being how he's saying if the senate can't get to work and pass the current bill as it stands right now during health care. just go ahead and repeal it. we'll replace it later. isn't twitter a way to get his message across? >> i can't resist noting we have c...

Volumes of what is lacking in his moral core, which is a huge amount of decency or it shows he will say anything or not say anything to remain in political office. you know, i find that i have to say, so hypercritical and quite frankly, un-american and enraging that many of the elected officials who make statements like these are also the ones who promote their quote, unquote, christian values. you know whose babies these are? they are god's children. this congressman points out immigrant children and defame them in this way, he should be ashamed of himself and the religious values he touts. t...

In this shut down. >> right. >> as the congressman points out these are cousins, brothers, sisters and neighbors of people. the effects will be felt around the country fairly immediately. unlike the sequester. >> they will be. as you are pointing out, we have seen the president. the president has a lot of credibility here. he has gone to the republicans and negotiated in the past. he has, at times when myself and other democrats have said you should draw the line here. we can't keep going back to the well. finally he said, this is it. let's keep in mind, we are talking about a six-week cr. six...

Texas is uninsured, compared to 17% of whites. this is coming at a time when rick perry is polls at 26%, which is to say 26% of texans would vote for him if he ran against in 2014. politically this doesn't seem to make much sense for him. >> he turned down race to the top money in education. 550 million of unemployment money, when we were in the middle of the economic crisis. he has a track record of doing this, but on this particular issue, people from all over the political spectrum, from the chambers of congress on the right, to the hospital association, doctors' groups, groups not especial...

Live under then we can go forth and make legislation given those rules. that's not the case. a perfect example is obama care. obama care is not constitutional. the individual mandate. >> where to begin? of course there's the obvious note that if the supreme court rules something constitutional, it is under the american system. it is constitutional. the congressman points out the democrats have stacked the courts in their favor. of the nine supreme court justices, five of the nine were appointed by republican presidents. simple math. by the way, let's go out to utah. the legislature passed, cas...