rhetoric. the reason you have to have this essential kind of health benefits plan and the reason you have to have the mandate is because those are the only ways you can get rid of the preexisting disease exclusion from the individual market. >> dr. zeke emmanuel, good to have you with us on "the ed show" tonight. appreciate it so much. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. coming up, republicans in the house are hungry for what? impeachment? yeah. they're talking about outer space and impeachment. but they won't come out and say it. still ahead. you can call bill o'reilly the christmas crusader. he and the governor of rhode island land in tonight's pretenders. next, i'm taking your questions live. ask ed live, coming up next here on "the ed show" on msnbc. we're right back. [ tires screech ]