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But it's also tremendously complex on the ground which is what you're getting to. when you're dealing with adjudicating it. one of the political issues that's now risen is that the house version of the bill in their own kind of way of slipping a poison pill into the bill, they're calling for mandatory minimums for some forms of domestic violence and this is a way of for them, kind of this threading the needle and they're responding to the idea that they're blocking the violence against women act but this is something that democrats won't vote for because we've seen mandatory minimums as having...

Pretty much done. >> it sure does, wolf. i remember so well about 16 years ago late one evening in the white house sitting with the clintons talking about health key reform and writing down in my note book, 10:30 p.m., health reform just died. today around 4:20, we can write in our notebooks, health reform just won. this is a moment that democrats have been dreaming of for some 60 years. it look a long time to get here, but i think we're now assured, yes, there's some more hurdles to cross, but they're very small hurdles compared to the big one here today in the house of representatives. polic...

One side won. the other side lost. the losing side has to face policy consequences. and the 46%, they're in charge. but what is unacceptable is government by distortion, by fear, by intimidation, making unfounded assertions about voter froud or need alsoly insulting the people of mexico, that's intolerable. left undeterred, that can only metastasize to more impactful issuesp there is an institution that should be playing a moderating role with regard to this divide. i speak of the congress. congress can limit the first use of nuclear weapons, halt the building of walls without authority and si...

This friday i flew to new york, like i do almost every week in order to host this show. what was remarkable was i flew on september 11, something i had gone out of my way to avoid for years after the attacks out of fear. the fears that we all felt had very real policy consequences, the continuing war on terror, the creation of the department of homeland security, the patriot act. good or bad, these policies and practices were a direct consequence of a very real sense of fear. that is why it's so important to see the 2016 presidential candidates believe we're afraid of. for the past two weeks o...

Anti-abortion activists link to online today. all the same thing the republican men have been saying for years that women don't get pregnant when they're raped. these guys in the anti-abortion movement and in the anti-abortion movement side of paolitics keep arguing, making this case in public because it has important policy consequences for them. if you can't get pregnant by being raped, anybody who is pregnant by definition was not raped. it cannot have been a rape no matter what you say, you must have wanted it if you ended up pregnant. if you wanted it, there's no reason to feel sorry for ...