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>> are all going to give. >> similar programs. >> freely healthcare to illegal aliens. >> if they qualify. if they don't make enough money. >> most of them. >> most of them will qualify, i'm sure. now, as far as obamacare is concerned, because it's got tears -- tiers and you can buy insurance at different levels. >> they cannot get that. they can buy state funded health care. california version of obamacare but not federal. they can't get welfare. they can't get food stamps. they can't get any of those federal benefits so the president was correct in saying that. but it's different. >> when yo...

Medicaid. >> expand medicaid! expand medicaid! >> this this is really a small price to pay given the fact that there are a lot of people who are handcuffed to poverty and unable to get basic health care in the richest country in the world. and it isn't just the south. the faith-based protests have found voice further north in new york this month as part of moral march. see what they did there? on thursday 59 demonstrators were arrested for protesting legislation including tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to state programs. an organizer for the moral monday movement in georgia told the "new ...

The crop may be good this year but may be bad next year. we want to make sure there's some kind of safety net for these farmers and robust engines of american growth. i guess why are this two different attitudes in your mind towards farmers and working class? >> there isn't. both programs as you mentioned, safe net for farmers and unemployed workers, they both started in the 1930s and been part of the social fabric of america ever since. >> so you would agree that it's important to have unemployment assistance? >> yes. without a doubt. but understand that what we're talking about at the federa...

Into the insurance system. is that happening? >> well, from the beginning, we have known that no matter how many people sign up for obama care, a substantial number have to be as you say, young and healthy. they have to put more money into the insurance pool than they take out, and the data we have so far suggests that part of the equation is not particularly going very well. we only have detailed information from five states right now but let's take a look. california, which has seen a big surge this week in the number of people establishing accounts, about 10,000 a day, is nonetheless only s...

Frisked 12, 13, 14 times in a five-year period, young men who are in high school, young men who are in college doing nothing wrong, they and their families later come to distrust the police. they're the same people who are going to sit on our juries. they're the same people who we need to call the police to give information about real crime happening in their communities. and they become distrustful. it sets up a barrier between law enforcement and the communities, and that harms african-americans as well as the rest of the residents of the city. >> let's talk briefly about the sentencing case...