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Texas, rick perry's texas is fighting this law and in florida the republican governor is fighting his fellow republicans about whether he should be embracing the law and it just raises the question to me, if a year from now we're talking about 18 to 34 year olds not signing up the numbers we need them to sign up in, what happens then? >> i think that is a good chance that would be the case because i've been going around the country talking to young people about employment and the economy and an awful lot of young people are just flat broke. even college kids with the college loans that they ha...

Idea of the individual mandate. with the individual mandate, the young, healthy people go back into the system and we see the prices come down. >> that is the hope, that is the theory. again, in massachusetts, that hasn't necessarily been what happened. we still have the highest premiums in the entire country. the problem is in the million dollar question is can you get young, healthy people to decide to purchase insurance that they seen as unaffordable. the obama campaign and the administration has been running focus groups in "washington post" and they presented, $210 a month is affordable i...

Disarmingly personal in many ways. i thought it was a very thoughtful reflection that he gave us on difficult issue and the thoughtless side, of course, is the ranting by some that you already described. i mean, this president could say good morning to some people and they would object to it. that's how it's how the politics is sorted out in recent years. but, no, i was proud of the president. i think this was a very interesting and i think useful reflection that he has given on this issue. >> all right, senator dorgan, we'll keep you around for a few more segments and we're going to switch ge...

To bridge communities and try to bring people together even in this polarized atmosphere that we have politically and around this issue, i think that remains constant. >> i want to get in in a little bit we have some time to get into the reaction that we see. carrie, in general said, let me have you speak for all the conservative heres. molly raises an interesting point and i have to say, maybe i was very naive on this but in the beginning i was surprised at the beginning of obama's presidency how frequently race was used and how overtly race was used by many a, not all, but a number of vocal ...

Looks like two president obama's appointees will be confirmed and a third confirmed next year and a third of a majority on that board. are either of those developments, are those going to make a difference in the next few years? >> they probably will boeing in south carolina, you'll see more cases like that. be a partisan issue with a big, strong divide. states like california where unions are strong and a number of members are going up and the percentage of numbers is going up. you also have an issue where i think you're going to see with labor being so weak, i think you're going to see more ...