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Hillary clinton and other democratic poll titicians prais him on twitter. it's interesting how much the goalpost isn't right -- the very idea of this -- of universal health care has become part of the discussion. it's now accepted even by republicans that this idea, this argument over pre-exist conditions. years ago, that wouldn't have been argued by many politicians in the u.s. >> the united states is really uniquely separate from the rest of the industrialize world in having a group of people, the republicans, who have this attitude about health care, which is that it should be left to the m...

Survivors. thousands of flights across the country grounded as a severe winter storm barreling across the country, closing schools, paving roads with ice. what you can expect today. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is 5:00 a.m. in the northeast. what day is it? >> friday. >> friday march 6th. this morning, ntsb investigators are on the scene where harrison ford's vintage world war ii plane crashed on a golf course in southern california. he was the pilot of that plane, landing it on that golf course. he was hurt as that plane went down. h...

Pragmatic. that's what we have to do at the local level and that's our message we're trying to share. >> off of that answer, can you talk a bit about the frustration you must feel as a mayor given the polarization in washington? you've got to worry about paving roads, about mowing little league fields, about bridges that need to be repaired. talk about the frustration you feel in your job when you think of washington. >> i think it's a great example. i mean, we're happy to work with washington and we want to, but we can't wait on washington. we as mayors, we are where the action happens. and w...

Biggest priority. i think anyone in that business realizes that shovel ready, it really doesn't apply to a lot of the projects they want to do. you have years of environmental statements permitting, so the only thing to get the money out the door on was stuff already approved and wasn't needed. for example, repaving roads. >> how about this, the $800 billion went to $2 trillion because of this, $783,000, a study on malt liquor and marijuana, that was done in my home, no. and $92,000 costumes for the army corps of engineers. that's part of america's infrastructure. along with the marijuana stud...

And have been for a few years now. and yet, today, in texas, another round has just begun of unpaving the roads. seriously. in four counties in south texas, and two counties in west texas, today is the day state started converting paved roads into gravel roads. texas state department of transportation made the announcement last month. "since paving roads is too expensive and there's not enough funding to repave them all, our only other option to make them safer is to turn them into gravel roads. to be clear, it's not like they're saying gravel roads are better. it's not like they figured out g...