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You can show this ad on your show and put christie's words right after it. and so i'm very curious where this goes. i hope it's not confined to sheheen in fighting back against this sort of thing. >> let's listen to what president obama said last week about this. >> you've got republican governors here. i won't name them in front of the press because i don't want to get you all in trouble. who've chosen to cover more people through new options under medicaid and as a result millions of people are going to get help. states that don't expand medicaid are going to be leaving up to 3. -- 5.4 ameri...

It's a reality. and with that reality comes one's own response. and with that comes empathy. with that comes understanding. i mean, i can't count how many times i've heard or -- i mean, okay. i'll come back to what i want to say. i mean, for example, a friend of mine, a producer, was in a cinema in toronto when we first showed the film in the toronto film festival. and he's a white guy from britain. he was sitting down. and this middle-aged african-american woman sat down next to him. they started talking before the movie. towards the end of the movie he said he felt a hand slip over his hand ...

And if you look at in south carolina specifically, about 500,000 uninsured adults would be covered under a medicaid expansion if governor nikki haley decided to do that. but she has said quite pointedly it's something she would never, ever do. and sheheen has said we're leaving this money on the table. and there's a study from the university of carolina that said if we expanded medicaid it would mean revenues of something like $11 billion into the states' coffer into 2020 and also about 40,000 jobs. this will be an interesting race. governor hailey, for instance, has also said she would welcom...

Letter calling christie's bluff. how many jobs has new jersey lost as a result of your decision to accept your medicaid dollars, he asked. how many businesses have been harmed by your choice, and so on. it was really a great way to call his bluff. there used to be a time in our country when you could say one thing in one part of the country and a different thing elsewhere. right before the civil war they printed up different campaign biographies for the north and the south. you can't get away with that anymore. you can show this ad on your show and put christie's words right after it. and so i...

Medicaid and as a result millions of people are going to get help. states that don't expand medicaid are going to be leaving up to 3. -- 5.4 americans -- million americans uninsured. and that doesn't have to happen. work with us to get this done. >> nia, big laugh when he says he doesn't want to get republican governors in trouble for extending this benefit to so many hundreds of thousands of people. >> well, that's right. and if you look at in south carolina specifically, about 500,000 uninsured adults would be covered under a medicaid expansion if governor nicki hailey decided to do that. bu...