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Letter saying you're no longer covered. they sent him that letter to him and nearly 100 others who had been waiting for organs. several have since died. by january, he was losing hope. what have you been told about what will happen without a transplant? how urgent is the transplant for you? >> it's urgent for me, anderson. i'll die. my condition is getting worse each day. >> doug's story and others touching off an outcry and across the country. here's where things got stranger. medicaid officials are now saying they will pay for doug's heart transplant and made the decision known last november...

And to women everywhere. there's no excuse for what i did. i've ruined an eight-year record of taking risks in defense of justice in my own career and people. >> nir rosen, thank you for being on the program. you can decide what to make on his apology. i want to bring in joan walsh and ashleigh banfield. joan, when you first heard what nir nosen had said, what did you make of it? >> well, i thought it was horrible, anderson, and i assumed that he was making light of a sexual assault since i had read the cbs short story as well, and it was pretty clear what happened. so i'm not going to call hi...

Protesters still in that square at this hour? >> reporter: they've been there about three days. they had set up a camp. there were tents. i was in there just before the police moved in. there were families. there were women. there were children. there were people camping out on the grass having picnics, smoking pipes. it was a very relaxed atmosphere. they had food, they were clearly staying there a long time. they told me this was their tahrir square, their liberation square like cairo. they were well organized. they had a place for people to charge their mobile phones. they even had a media ...

Until i knew the whole story. i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, we're using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which we're referring. so i'm simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he's going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. >> joan, this wasn't just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was mult...

Just slips through the cracks." you say that no one in your family ever received a phone call or letter, right? >> not at all, anderson. as a matter of fact, the dire straits that my family was in at that moment in time purely out of fear and desperate measure. i turned to the national transplant assistant fund to try to raise funds for douglas to reach out to the community and do it privately, because we were under the impression that you know what? there was no coverage. he was cut just like everybody else. we have not received any communication whatsoever stating, okay, that douglas was rei...