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Background checks and that they don't think they work. which is obviously based on a completely unscientific sir vain and it's a completely false set of facts which we've seen time and again from the nra. but i'm wondering if you'd seen that ad and if you had any reaction to it. >> yeah, i've seen the ad. i've seen the analysis of it. it's what's called an opt-in poll. you had to choose to go on the website and basically it's a poll of people who already agree with you. by the way, i don't think they check i.d.s on the poll. the second thing is the following. as i said moments ago, there are 1...

Earlier this morning meeting with the nation's governors to discuss the impact of the looming sequester cuts at the state level. the governors are also grappling with another issue. whether to expand medicaid coverage in their states under the new health care law. under the press's plan medicaid, the federal program that provides health care to low income americans, is said to bring in millions of darnl americans who have been thus far unable to afford health insurance. there is a catch. under the law the states can decide whether to opt in or opt out of the expansion. the federal government w...

Pit norm rather than exceptional thing to do. >> yes, we think it should be opt-in but done easily and electronically and you will get many more people on the rolls and fewer problems causing the lines on the election day. so that was point one. the second thing that we could have and should have is minimum national standards for early voting. it varies widely across the country. and of course, we see how massively popular it s. it has inkre increased five times in volume over the last ten year, and imagine if apple said, oh, my goonsd, too many people are buying the ipad and we should cut bac...

Underlying way we run elections, but there are solutions to generally modernize the way we run elections. the first is to modernize voter registration first, and a lot of the problems are ram shackled voter registration system of p paper, that leaves tens of millions of voters off of the rolls and has errors and dead people's names and so forth, and every election two to three million people cannot vote because of voter registration problems f. we had the voter registration modernization that changed the paradigm that the government took responsibility to make sure that everybody who is eligib...

They were only having them sing christian songs. >> that's not true. they sang the dreidel song and other uber religious hanukkah songs. >> i think the parents' case is silly then. if the kids don't want to sing they can opt out. if they want to sing, opt in. you can't say you want to opt out, but don't want to feel left out. at some point you have to realize life is not always full of comfortable decisions. make the call. if you don't feel you should sing the song stand by what you believe and don't sing it. >> we are talking kids here. >> everybody tries to make the world a pretty picture an...