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Threat of gun violence to our safety and our rights to life, then shame on us. the good news is, this election, the voters did speak. legislators, and we hired legislators that are committed to it. >> let's talk about this. at least 17 leaning left democrats. and more than 2,000 gun rights proponents, they lost their feet. what is it going to mean now that those people are in office? >> so as far as i'm concerned and as i travel the country, i made it clear this needs to be a mandate issue, a top priority. which means in january i expect them to start acting on it. i expect hearings. i expect ...

They already lost a couple times. it's a fight over health care, over obamacare, the idea of attacking this repeal of the individual mandate the polling on that, few isolate the mandate the mandate is unpopular so their retically, you put that in there, it's a popular thing to do. the problem is it becomes a broader fight of obamacare. we already had. we saw the republicans had trouble corralling in the senate. it becomes an issue, with that mandate issue, mccain, do you loads him? do you lose murkowski? you lost johnson, few pull a mandate out to keep those guys on board, do you lose the rand...

>> there are going to be ads regardless on the other side of this town. if it's not obamacare, it's tax reform or something else. you can't think like that. that's all politics. today is the day to stand-up and move something. it's not perfect. >> then what you are saying is, it's all politics, not policy. >> this bill has most of the provisions that have been in various republican bills in the past. this isn't new. refundable tax credits aren't new. the mandate issue isn't new. they are familiar. it's why obamacare failed. >> what are you talking about, they are doing deals for 1/6 of the eco...

Obviously we screwed it up. i'm going to be making appropriate adjustments once we get through this year, and we've gotten through the initial surge of people who have been signing up. >> what makes you think 2014 looks better on health care? >> well, i think they have no choice but it get it right. i've said this all along, that the most important thing in the second term was implementing health care reform the right way. 2013 was a forgettable year in that sense. they've got to do all they can to make the implementation of and the sign-up period as it goes and extends until the end of march,...

That sense. they've got to do all they can to make the implementation of and the sign-up period as it goes and extends until the end of march, they've got to make that work. >> listen, there are two issues here. there's first the competency issue. that's by far the most important issue. the most important issue is the mandate issue. basically when you have a government program, you build the system and you say to people, you have to work within the system and sometimes we have to limit your choice. we're going to mandate things. the american people don't like mandates any more. we're a much mo...