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>> raise the health care law. i think it's very important to remember that law isn't fully operational, yet. there is -- yes, exactly. there's an enormous amount of work to do. there's a lot of resistance in the states. that's going to be a struggle. >> one piece of that is in 1997 we did a balanced budget deal. one thing that happened when that period of republicans and democrats came together was step back and as part of consolidating the budget, they shift resources. that was the deal. it was a deficit reduction deal. one thing it created was a children's health program. it's functioning to...

And how americans are looking at it. look at the education policy and insisting there's a racial component that should be obvious to everyone and it isn't. there were a lot of african-americans, including some elected officials who publicly stated without the president actually using explicit racial terminology, he wasn't addressing black folk the way he was addressing the lgbt community. they hold that up and say no, no, he talks to them using the words and does policies just for them. a lot of black folk were like we want policies just for african-american because of the high unemployment an...

Zillions of dreamers who are lgbt. >> do we have a graphic for that, zillions? >> we want to make sure there's a pathway for all immigrants. >> i wonder about that. by taking it to the immigration question, part of what you have done is remind us of the intersection. for a lot of folks, what is interesting in watching the first african-american also become, you know, not gay in terms of self-identity but the first gay president for the push at the federal level. those are the intersections that have been most difficult to build in terms of coalition. >> yeah. i think that's right and i think w...

But the department of defense and all the services have done little except a lot of lip service in terms of addressing this issue. >> is the second term a time we might see it? we have been hearing critique of the cabinet but weather the secretary of defense is a man or woman, as secretary of defense, we want that person addressing these questions. will we see a stronger motivation to address the questions of military sexual assault in the second term? >> i certainly hope so. we are having a hearing in congress this week where more than 41 young recruits, new trainees were sexually assaulted o...