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Closing and other things are closing down that are having true effects on americans. what else is there? >> reporter: right. that's of course, we're seeing the picture of the monuments closed and veterans that couldn't get to the world war ii memorial yesterday. but there's also the impact of money going out. take for example head start. there are 1,600 head start programs across the country that help about a million children, low-income children with education, health issues and nutrition. they will close down as long as this keeps going. at first it will be a couple dozen, but the longer the...

Can never drop us or deny us coverage. and they're willing to damage the economy, deny children nutrition, keep kids home from head start programs. >> sure. >> hurt cancer patients. it's just -- it's stunning. it's irresponsible. >> and i want to hear from both of you on this. how determined are the democrats to hold the line? there's no more negotiation. i think that's what liberals in this country want to hear right now, that this is it. this is the firewall. senator? >> well, i can report to you that we are going to continue saying the following thing. we passed a health care law three-and-...

Implementation of obamacare, including whether or not people with preexisting conditions will be dropped or denied coverage by their insurance companies. what does that have to do with whether or not national parks stay opened or whether or not headstart programs, kids can go to headstart programs. my good friend, renee, i hope you go back to your colleague, encourage them when the bill comes back clean, let's pass it. as issues arise with the implementation of obamacare, we should sit down and work those out, i know we can do that. >> if that's your condition the bill has to be clean, you are...

Whether he qualifies for being natural born and the requirement is once you're in the oval office. so he can run for president. there could be no courts who end up looking at this. all it would take would be one lawsuit from somebody if ted cruz one day becomes president in 2017 or beyond. >> all right. thank you very much, mark. pleasure having you on. the head start program has just been hit with the worst cuts in its nearly 50-year history. this fall more than 57,000 low-income children will be denied a place in the program because of federal budget cuts. the cuts, a result of sequestrati...

It's no shame for us to make sure that that child has food on the table and to suggest that this is somehow a detriment to the black family is way off the mark and dead wrong. >> dr. dyson, this is red meat for the conservatives, isn't it? >> no doubt, even if you're on a diet, you can't resist that piece. the reality is it's interesting that e.w., what does that stand for? that jackson would argue that slavery was not as bad for the family as 1960s programs. well, first of all, he's absolutely historically famished and need to be fed a diet of insight. the family a was not even allowed to exi...