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avoid the fiscal cliff. i think we re all aware that we have some urgent business to do. i think all of us agree on this and this is action. we ll have congressman chris van hollen here to expose the problem. governor scott walker joins rick perry in opposition to health care. john nick els joins us with the latest. secessionists are coming out of the woodwork. wait until you hear their reasons. good to have you with us. thanks for watching president the right wing afelt to gin up a scandal is falling apart. republicans have declared the president is covering up information about benghazi. republicans gave us a pregame of accusations, involving ambassador susan rice. some house members say this is worse than watergate. this is not simply a coverup of a third-rate burglary. we have four of our diplomatic personnel dead and it has not a mccarthy era tactic to demand that the american people ares no misinformed about it to the point that they don t know what th ....
food and nutrition, counseling to pregnant women and the mothers of infants and children up to age 5. wi skrshgs food for babies, food that includes baby formula, an expense that can run up to $2,000 for the first year of life. let s be clear. kids and babies who could go hungry if we don t open for business soon. the government shutdown is serious. and the political reeyal ti of letting little ones go hungry may be sinking in for house republicans. friday, they voted to, quote, refund wic, but only after there was a major outcry in the media about it, and still without an offer to fund the rest of the government. something that advocates for wic called a cynical ploy to use low-income, nutritionally at-risk mothers and young children as political pawns for political ends. that could not take the place of actual long-term funding. so instead of producing serious alternatives, washington just keeps on giving us nuggets of absurdity. we here in nerdland are big fans of ....
things such as smoking, obesity and other health conditions can force even those with employer-provided insurance to pay more. i run about five miles a day. i don t drink. i don t smoke. and by the kaiser wellness program that a number of employees who we represent are covered by i m two pound from being overweight. kaiser said in the statement their program is voluntary and charges no penalty for individuals who don t reach the program s goals. the rules for such a program put out in a regulation say quote, the program must be reasonably designed to promote health or prevent disease. there is such a lack of precision in what is going on @ut there that, it is kind of troubling that this was so heavily incorporated into the affordable care act in the way that it was. wellness is very, very popular in the corporate world. companies are just beginning to post some pretty severe penaltys. in workers don t participate they can be charged up to 20% of their health p ....
enrollment figures. young people particularly shied away from obamacare accounting for less than 25% of enrollees. still health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius tried to put a positive spin on the subject earlier today. i m thrilled that we re going to have millions of people for the first time that have health security and it should be a great new year for lots of families across america. adam: so what can we expect from obamacare in the new year and will the financial burden fall onioning people? joining us now, are, susan ochs, former treasury department advisor under president obama, and georgia tech undergrad john labute. thanks for joining us. john, i will start with you, the affordable care act, obamacare, is dependent on people your age buying health insurance. are people your age doing that. sure, well-being age 20 i have a nice little grace period until i turn 26 where i can stay on my parents s plan. it will be mandatory but definitely going ....
leaving. joining me now is democratic senator of virginia who s also the vice president of the senate intelligence committee. thanks for being here this morning. thank you. let me get your reaction to the resignation a few days ago. what do you make of that. well, it is a consistent pattern we see of bill barr not acting as attorney general, protecting our whole country. he s acting for the most part simply as an agent for donald trump and this investigation i feel like has added an odor to it the whole time. i don t know what durham will find or not but i would point out that you know, i wonder if he s going to then investigate the bipartisan intelligence committee because we came out 14-1 with a document in much more detail than mueller aligns the connections between russia and trump. i know it s deep in the weeds and complicated but for the american people, in two sentences what are the conclusions of that report? well, we leave it to the reader to draw the ....