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Delay because they dont want to face the people that are being affected by the law because they want to win their election. That should tell you everything you need to know about whats going on here and how people are perceiving it. The president s numbers are in the tank. Joining me is kentucky congressman john yarmuth. As a member of the energy and Commerce Committee and he was there for wednesdays hearing. Sir, great to have you with me. Politico has in print whats been pretty obvious all along, talking about gop sabotage. Quoting from the article saying the opposition was strategic from the start. Derail president Barack Obamas biggest am sbition and derail obama himself. The evidence, the bread crumbs of this trail is all there and a major part of that sabotage has taken place at the state level. Only 17 states are running their own exchanges and 26 have turned down medicaid expansion. Is state level obstruction the biggest obstacle to the aca being a success . I dont think theres any question about it. All you have to do is look at my state and california and new york and some of the states that have done their own exchanges and the sheerexperience has bee incredibly successful. We have 35,000 kentuckians enrolled in the first month. People who could not afford or did not have access to insurance before. We have another 25,000 or 30,000 in the application process. We have 400 businesses that have are trying to get insurance for their employees through the exchange. So in those states where the administration embraced the program, its been very, very successful and people understand very well the benefits of the Affordable Care act. Sir, as we get these numbers out, and obviously these numbers that are out today are nothing to shout from the rooftops as we get the health care websites first two days, these numbers are anemic. Honestly, theyre anemic. As we look, though, at massachusetts, an example from 0 s 06. Enrollment was slow there too, people procrastinating, signing up at the last minute. We fast forward to now and your home state of kentucky. It has emerged as a poster child for the south. We have more than 345,000 website visits, nearly 60,000 applications started and some 32,000 have enrolled. Why is kentucky working so well . Well, i think the governor made a decision very early on that we were going to do our own exchange, took advantage of the federal Grant Program to build the exchange, brought in very, very good people and made some very critical decisions early on that i think helped. One of them which the federal exchange didnt make was to allow people to browse the site and browse the plans without going through the application process. So to a certain extent we were lucky, but it was basically the commitment of the administration to make sure that it worked. When youre only dealing with one state and one set of providers and one set of insurance rules and one set of Insurance Companies, its a lot easier to make it go well than it is with 36, as the federal change is trying to do. There are a lot of articles trying to capture of the anxiety that democrats have. Were at the onemonth birthday today since the website launched. If these problems arent fixed by november 30th as promised, it seems the damage will be compound compounded. Are democrats starting to experience some serious anxiety about this new drop date . Well, i think some are. Some are always going to be anxious and paranoid. But and obviously there is a Political Risk here. If the site is not fixed, if people dont have access to the information and the exchange, the federal exchange, there is a Political Risk for many people. But im confident that these problems are going to get mixed and, you know, if they dont get fixed by november 30th, i think thats a real problem and we might have to look at extending the period for enrollment and maybe the penalties period. But i think over 30 days well see a marked improvement in the site. So this date denotes the onemonth birthday of the aca rollout and also 5 billion in nationwide food stamps cut goes into effect. What do you tell constituents that are worried about these cuts and know what this means, because they have been using this as part of their social safety net . Well, i tell them that is a tragedy and i tell them that the bigger threat right now is republicans efforts to cut 40 billion from the program over the next ten years. In my state, interestingly enough, theres six congressional districts. My state has the only significant minority population. We have the lowest utilization in my district of any of the six. The other five of all represented by republicans, and they all voted for that cut of 40 billion, even though their districts in hal rogers district in appalachia, one in four of his citizens are on food stamps. This is an incredible impact on the economy. For every 5 spent on food stamps theres 9 in the economy. So this is a very important social safety net for working families, seniors, disabled and poor children. So thats what i think we ought to be mainly concerned about is this plan to cut 40 billion over the next ten years because then the problem becomes very, very structural and long term. Sir, thanks for making time for me. I appreciate it. Joining me is former dnc chair howard dean. Sir, its good to have you with me now. You may have heard me talking with the congressman about the gop sabotage politico was talking about. Thats hardly a secret. Part of that campaign has been one of misinformation, being intellectually dishonest about how people are losing their insurance plans. Weve got a couple of articles out today. The l. A. Times says back in march they placed these plans in a category called Junk Health Insurance. Some plans may be worse than having none at all. So these points also make that the expecting Insurance Companies to play fair with their customers is as pointless as expecting dogs not to drink from the toilet. Talking points memo has the bottom line, almost all of them are going to receive the same or much better coverage and many will receive financial help to purchase it. Isnt this what republicans said that they wanted . This is based on a republican plan. This is making all of us be personally responsible for ourselves. Frank lly at this point the republicans are just political and nothing else. I find it best to ignore them entirely. This program will rise and fall not on what the republicans say or do, because actually their ratings are far lower than the president s. Its going to rise and fall on whether we can get this running properly or not and we have to focus on that and not pay so much attention to these whack jobs in congress who have forgot they need to serve the american people. Now, to get to your question, yeah, we did this 20 years ago. Some Insurance Companies left. Those were the Insurance Companies that were taking 50 of your Health Care Dollars and not spending it on health care. Those were the Insurance Companies that when you were a 35yearold and you got something really bad, they got rid of your policy. And those are the kinds of people who are losing their Health Insurance. They dont know that theyre losing something thats bad because they havent been sick. When you get sick and you have one of these policies that doesnt cover this, doesnt cover that and can be cut off, all of a sudden you find that indeed this is Junk Health Insurance and theres a fair amount of it. Thats one of the great things about obama care, hes going to get rid of that. Its only in those emergency situations that you find out how unprotected you really are when you try to get the coverage that youve been paying into. We have this article from the national journal, one of several calling into question the president s credibility as a result of the promises that he made about people keeping their insurance. Nicole wallace laid into spokesman jay carney over it. I want to play a small portion. The public believes your boss, and you know as well as i do when the public stops believing your boss, he is rendered impotent. So how do you make the public believe your boss when the two things that were said to reassure people, that they could cope their health plans and they could keep their doctors, turn out to be not true . So, governor, ezra klein puts this in perspective for us, a fascinating blame game with the problems. You can see where the arrows are pointing. So is the test of the gop and the sabotage and blame game going to be born out for democrats come 2014 . Well, that depends. I think right now the odds are with the democrats. I think the republicans have essentially eliminated their brand as a serious contention in american politics. Not to say theyre going to go away, theyre not. But nobody believes anything they say. The problem is weve got to deliver this. It has entirely to do with democrats. The republicans are irrelevant to this debate. They can make noise, pretend their outraged. Weve got to fix this and make it work properly. And my hope is that this november 30 deadline for getting this thing fixed is kept. These are hard things. In vermont we have our own exchange that hasnt worked as well as we thought it would work. It hasnt worked as well as kentuckys or californias, so a lot of the problem is the general problem in the tech industry. These rollouts are big and messy. Theyre messy in the private sector and the public sector. When you try to do 36 states, they really get messy. So the president s credibility is on the line. Again, i think the republicans are irrelevant in their baying at the moon and theyre silly and we all know that they were happy to shut down the entire economy of the world to get their way. Why Pay Attention to them. Lets focus on what we have to do which is fix the website, fix the program. Were probably going to need some paper backups. Weve got to get folks signed up. I dont think its a good idea to delay. I understand senators are worried about their reelection. Lets worry about health care an stop worrying about politics. November 30th will be here before we know it. Great to have you on, thanks so much. Thank you. Its being called shop and frisk. Barneys has until today to hand over its racial profiling policies to new yorks attorney general, and so far no dice. And this as opponents of new yorks stop and Frisk Program face a major setback. Michael skolnick will join me next. Plus a new book double down revealing juicy details about the 2012 election saying president obama considered replacing joe biden with Hillary Clinton on the ticket. The agenda panel will be all over that one. That topic also leads our big question for you this friday. Should president obama have swapped out vp biden for Hillary Clinton in 2012 . Weigh in, join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Clay. Mom . Come in here. Come in where . Welcome to my mom cave. Wow. Sit down. You need some campbells chunky soup before todays big game, new chunky cheeseburger. 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Still we have no word if they have officially received them. The New York Daily News reporting the two former security guards at barneys will meet as a part of this investigation. What do you think will be revealed, especially about the unsaid policies of how these stores may operate . I think its important for us to wait for the facts. The fact that barneys is saying they did not call the police, the point is somebody called the police. Whether it was a shopper, someone who works at the store, the police themselves, security guards, somebody called the police and racially profiled this young man and thought he was a thief. We have to get to the bottom of that. Where did that come from. Were seeing that across the city and a city policy of stop and frisk who is assuming that a young black person or latino person is already guilty before they commit a crime. I want to place this because reverend al sharpton met with barneys ceo this week. The rev says we should look at all players involved in these racial profiling allegations. I want to play a small part of what he had to say on morning joe. We must deal with the Police Department and these stores must deal with the Police Departments. If youre claiming its the cops, not us, then what are you saying to the cops . If the cops is saying its you, what are they saying to you . Were caught in the middle. Were caught in the middle here. How do you think that this is going to help elevate the conversation around how the Police Department responds to stop and frisk but also the problem of people being persecuted for shopping while black or people making some false assumption . Sure. Thomas, heres the thing. If we universally accept that what happened to that young man trayon stopped at barneys was wrong, i havent heard one person say what they did was the right thing to do. If we universally accept that, then whats happening to hundreds of thousands of young black and brown men across the city every year we should also accept as wrong. Theres no difference of walking out of barneys with a belt that you just purchased or walking down the street to buy a soda at the Convenience Store and being stopped by the police and aconsuming that youre a criminal. Stop and frisk is wrong, shop and frisk is wrong. Theyre both equally wrong. Jay z having highpriced lucks row items being utilized, the profits for a charity organization, how do you think hes handled waiting for the facts to come out, looking for the investigation to move forward because it seems as if he was pressured publicly to make a statement and enter into the dialogue taking place. How do you think he did . I think so many of our heros that have come from communities of struggle that have made it are expected to carry the weight of so much that we wear and carry ourselves as a society. Ive been very impressed by jay z. I think he did the right thing, i think he said the right thing. We should all wait for the facts but we need the facts. When the facts are presented on the table, then lets make some decisions. Michael skolnick, great to have you here. Again, prolific tweeter. Great to have you here. So we have an Appeals Court reinstating a controversial part of texas sweeping abortion bill. What will the next round bring in the lone star sized fight . Well take a look. Using keg stands to sell Health Insurance, have you seen this . Ill talk to the man behind colorados brosurance campaign. Thats coming up next. Stick around. In the nation, sometimes bad things happen. But add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance and we wont just give you the partial value of items that are stolen or destroyed. Well replace them with brandnew versions. So you wont feel robbed. Again. Just another way we put members first. Because we dont have shareholders. Join the nation. 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Its a College Student doing a keg stand. If the Colorado Exchange did that do you approve of this advertising . I dont see it. I dont know what it is. And i did not approve it. This is a statebased marketplace. Thats pretty big font. Thats a pretty big picture of a keg. That was republican congressman grilling Kathleen Sebelius this week. He was referring to an ad campaign. This features a College Student doing a keg stand captioned dont tap into that beer money to cover your medical bills. Joining me is adam fox, director of the Strategic Management for the Colorado Consumer Health initiative. Adam, its good to have you here. What was your reaction when that happened on capitol hill . When the congressman was trying to get Kathleen Sebelius to either give her approval or disapproval of this style of ad . Well, you know, i dont think it really doesnt have anything to do with the secretary, because it wasnt coming from colorados statebased marketplace much less the federal marketplace. So she really had no idea that this was going to be happening. This was really something that we were doing to try to raise Awareness Among young adults. All right. So connect for Health Colorado says 3,164 people enrolled as of october 29th. Explain to us the campaign and the minds behind this. Obviously you look like a young guy. Who came up with the thought of lets put these guys doing a keg stand . Im looking at that and thinking if you chip your tooth, youre going to need dental insurance. Thats all im thinking about. Well, i think that theres probably a lot that can go wrong in a keg stand, but i think i think what we were really trying to do is come up with a social Media Campaign that was going to have a bit of humor and be fun and really attract attention. I think weve definitely succeeded in doing that. You have definitely attracted attention. There are more, as i understand it, ads to this campaign. However, you only have two that target young women. Why is that . Well, it really comes down to because this is a shoe string budget project, it was who we could get to volunteer to come into the studio when. And so it was really a matter of what photographs we had ready to go when we wanted to launch the campaign. So theres a lot more to come. A lot more to come. We had on morning joe today, White House Press secretary joe carney said its young invincibles that do want the health care and is confident theyll sign up for it. Take a listen to what he had to say. If theres a Silver Lining here, when it comes to young people, an young people are important to this working, it was always the case, no matter how good the website was going to be, that Young Americans were going to be the last group to sign up. I dont know about you and college, but everything i did when i was young was last minute. All right. So talking there in reference to the procrastination factor that a lot of people suffer from, no matter where you are, what stage in your life, but the ads that you say are going to roll out, are they trying to take that similar tone where you want them to go viral and you want them to be on the cliff, the edge, so they get that kind of traction . I definitely think that that helps. Were really just trying to come up with images that are going to stick out at people as theyre scrolling through their social media feeds and get their attention so that they can really start thinking about, yeah, there are some new Health Insurance options available and i should probably start looking into them. Adam fox from the Colorado Consumer Health initiative. Thanks so much. We look forward to seeing what you and the others come up with next there in colorado. You certainly got our attention here. 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Not for a moment was there a serious discussion or a belief that joe biden should be replaced, period. That doesnt mean issues were not looked at. Lots of issues in 2011 were looked at. So David Plouffe tweeted never today any, any consideration of vp hrc switch. Not even considered by the person who most mattered. Back to halloween. It seemed as if daly were talking about maybe strategic thoughts put into considerations but nothing definitive. Well, dalys job as chief of staff was not to think outside the box about the came papaign, was to be the chief of staff. He was never really tight with obama. I would not say the inner circle was cancelling this. He was brought in after Congress Took the house in 2010 because of his business ties in the hope that he would facilitate bipartisanship. He was a bust. If he was wasting his time running ideas up the flag pole, you can see why he didnt stick around very long. Mitt romney, who is going to be on meet the press had code names for his vp candidates. Chris christie was puffer fish. Tim paw lenty lake fish, rob portman was fillet of fish. We have senator marco rubio as piscado. Mitt romney scratched Chris Christie off the list for a variety of reasons including his medical history. He kak elled verbally to his aides while watching a christie video. How much emphasis do you think the book can put on those claims about christies vetting and wherewithal being a serious contender to be the running mate . Well, i think you have to understand what these books are. After every president ial campaign, and i worked on a president ial campaign, theres a lot of score settling. Peoples egos bruised, their feelings are hurt, and Mark Halperin and his coauthor have figured out a way to exploit this for fun and profit and win another bok ok to follow up to game change. I think at the end of the campaign we saw Chris Christie saying nice things about barack obama an his response to hurricane sandy. Clearly some people are upset about that. Now youve got all sorts of mostly sort of vague innuendo and scandal around Chris Christie. And i think its really because theres someone out there who wants to damage him and damage his future prospects. And it seems like also theres some people in the obama side who are not so happy with joe biden, trying to make him seem a little goofy and kind of full of sort of crazy ideas and also this idea that they were ready to swap him out. So i think what you have here is some score settling. Im not sure how much it really adds up to, as far as is there real substance behind these charges. I think people can connect the dots, certainly, about how things went down. Hindsight of course is 20 20 but this book also claims that president obama, who would go golfing with former president bill clinton in 2011 didnt finish all 18 holes with him. That he likes the former president but, in quote, doses. Do you think the president is going to crack down now on the leaks here . Because these are digestible little nuggets that have now made up this new book. I think it was also reported that he started to have smaller strategy meetings because there was starting to be leaks. President obama famously runs a tight ship. He doesnt like these kinds of leaks. I think probably a difference between him and bill clinton is bill clinton has an enormous personality. He likes to socialize, he famously likes to talk at length. So politicians are people. Sometimes people dont get along. Its clear at first there was some friction or some not warmth between bill clinton and barack obama, but as time went on, its clear that that relationship got much closer. I mean the president is quoted as saying get me bill on the phone. He has needed bill clinton as an explainer when it comes to the Affordable Care act and im sure well see more, especially if Hillary Clinton runs for president. Their chemistry has definitely changed. Real quickly we need to get in this story about whats going on in texas because the federal Appeals Court ruled last night that some of the states abortion restrictions could go into immediate effect while being challenged. Just in the last hour Sheila Jackson lee of texas did not curb her outrage with my colleague, chris jansing, take a look. Im hoping that this can have an emergency hearing before the fifth circuit and ask for a rehearing. And im asking that it gets immediately to the court. But while were saying that, chris, peoples lives are in jeopardy. Womens lives are in jeopardy. Shame on this court. Shame on the republicans. Shame on this governor of the state of texas and we will continue to fight against this dastardly law. Irin, what is the next step for abortion rights advocates, those who want women to have all the reproductive choices that they deserve . This is an enormously damaging decision. This is a regulation that was set up specifically with the intent for clinics to shut down. The admitting privileges, it has no bearing on medical evidence. It was created to shut clinics and that is what it is expected to do. So the next step is that the federal Appeals Court set a trial for january, 2014. They can also ask for a full hearing of all of the judges. Its clear, though, that they are the state of texas is very, very serious about denying women access to safe abortions. Unfortunately, we are going to see lives in jeopardy as women become desperate and seek other options that may not be as safe. Bill, for people that got to know state senator wendy davis, this pretty much makes her filibuster all for naught, other than raising her profile. It shows that wendy davis wasnt able to stop this at the state level. Theres still hope at the u. S. Supreme court. This is a mockery of Supreme Court precedent. The court as it stands, including justice kennedy, has said before that you cant put undue burden on a woman. This blows a hole right through that. If the Supreme Court is consistent, they will strike this down once it eventually gets there. Wendy davis is not going to do it in austin, but theres still hope in washington, i think. We will continue to watch this. Thanks to the panel today, judd, irin and bill. As always, you can find more on our website, join our agenda centers, just log on to msnbc. Com thomasroberts. Gang, thanks again. So his son has been all over the headlines and now ted cruzs dad is getting in the game and he has a message for president obama. 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There have been rallies, demonstrations, People Holding up signs saying andy lopez did not have to die. Also jail all racist killer cops. Very Strong Language here. Explain what we know about the facts of all this and how this case has now galvanized the community. Good morning, thomas. Thanks for doing this segment. This is something thats actually quite personal because i grew up in santa rosa in the community. Sadly this is the third incident in less than eight years by a shooting of a teen victim by a police officer. And what were seeing right now is the fact that you have young people, middle schoolers and High Schoolers galvanizing, protesting in the streets, organizing. Not your usual suspects, not the Community Leaders and Church Leaders but young people saying we need to have a better relationship with Police Officers because right now theres incredible tension in santa rosa. While we dont know all the facts, i think whats happening is that youre seeing that a community is basically saying, look, we need to have a conversation about race in this community. We need to make sure that we have better relationships with the cops because we dont want to be victims. If anything, we want to Work Together with them. When you think about this, a 13yearold. I mean these are babies. These are just little kids basically that are now organizing and having to grow up way too fast to take on very adult issues. We have the officer in this, a man 48 years old, who says that he feared for his life when he saw lopez point what he says looked like an ak47 at deputies. Now, hes reported to be pretty shaken up about this whole incident. If you compare the gun that lopez was carrying to an ak47, they do look similar. Yes. Do you think that the officers claim here, that he was in fear for his life, is viable and accurate or is there a problem, as you point out, the instances over the eight years, that theres a racist element . Well, i think that again, we werent there and i cant say what was going through the incident. The two weapons do look similar, the toy gun versus the actual one. But i think what more thats happening here, the fact that you have middle schoolers and High Schoolers organizing and having their parents come with them shows theres a stronger tension within the community that has to be addressed. The fact that the pictures that you just demonstrated, these were High Schoolers marching in the street and they had s. W. A. T. Folks on top of roof tops. They told Government Employees to leave because they were fearful that race riots were going to pull out. That doesnt help. That doesnt send the message were trying to fix problem. It says were the authority and youre the Latino Community and you have to sort yourself out and fall in line. When we look at what happened in oakland, the shooting death of oscar grant by transit officers there, a movie was based on that situation and we have this going on in northern california. What can be done to enhance the dialogue necessary to prevent these types of shootings in the future . I think that we have to have more conversations with the police and Community Leaders and make sure that its a twoway street. One of the things that i applaud is that city council folks have come forth and are protesting with the students, recognizing theres a problem. When you start listening to the young people talking about it, theyre not only talking about the student that was killed, aengd lopez, but the disparity between their educational system. Between the east side of santa rosa and the west side. All of a sudden a lot of the grievances were seeing within this community is starting to boil up and saying this is deeper than just the tragic death of one person. If anything, if we can use that tragic death to better relationships an ensure that doesnt happen again, thats where we start healing the community. Thanks for your time. Heres a look at some of the other stories topping news. A Russian News Agency says Edward Snowden will start working a tech support job at a Large Russian website this month. Meanwhile its also being reported that germany may invite the former nsa contractor to testify into their probe into the nsa spying scandal. A u. S. Attorney opened an investigation into the bizarre death of kendrick johnson. Hes the georgia teen whose body was found rolled up in a gym mat at his high school earlier this year. Federal prosecutors are calling on anyone with information to contact the office of the prosecutor. 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If its friday, its time to go and do, the spotlight on lives trying to improve others, at risk girls in New Hampshire and new england, just how strong they are. For more than a decade girls at work has been putting power tools in their hand and teaching them woodworking skills. Elaine, great to have you here. Youre a general contractor by trade. Explain how you got this idea to pass down a skill set like this to young girls. I think it sort of originated, i had taken a neighbor in many years ago. I needed to sign her up for summer camp. At the time as a struggling contractor, i couldnt afford the fee. So an exchange ended up i was offered a chance to teach working in a summer camp. It was over 25 years ago and sort of set the course for my life. The girls that you work with are considered to be at risk. Because of suffering from neglect or abuse in their young lives. You say some of them enter your program with technically a chip on their shoulder and understandably so because of hard knocks they have faced. How do you get you how do you get them, with your involvement and volunteers involvement to shift that, to lighten their load . I think its important for these girls to understand we work with all girls. Theres no across the board theres every time we work with. Its important to understand if the people that brought you in this world have failed you, that doesnt define you as a file youre, nor does your academic ability because theres so much potential in all these girls. Every girl. Weve worked with thousands of girls. They manage to put aside that definition of failure they have struggled with for so many years. We show them potential. A power tool goes against everything. So important to say to people. If people have failed you, doesnt mean youre a failure or share that going forth. I know you have a busy day. Tomorrow, a talk in New Hampshire, tomorrow night . Correct. Holding panel fundraiser musicfest. Yes. What kind of support from local companies. Are they behind you . We do get pretty good support. Individual support. People have stepped in from just so many reasons. Its unbelievable. We know the work were doing is important. They understand kids need a break from failing. They need the potential. Its an experience that leaves them powerful and strong and really even smart. When do they get a break from this failing grade or bullying . All these things continue to reinforce they are not good, they are not smart. What we do with them goes against everything. They are just they are a force to be reckoned with. You are a force to be reckoned with. Thanks for all you do. Girls at work. Well let you back. As we said, youre really busy. But if you have somebody you know with the go and do spirit elaine has, tweet us with the go and do and well feature them in an upcoming event. Real quickly, can we take a shot in the control room we have to say goodbye to one of our favorite person, gina. Wave quitter pants. Shes decided to move to d. C. With her awesome husband jason and new baby. Shes saying she loves me, im the greatest, reading your lips, best person ive ever worked with. I know. Youre in trouble. Im going to be in big trouble. Gina, we love you. Good luck to you and jason. Wrap things up for me. Back at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. Now with alex wagner coming up next. Hi, alex. Hi, thomas. Republicans are once again resorting to f word filibustering two key president ial nominees and democrats are threatening to go nuclear. Well discuss the myth of Court Packing in the gops judicial blockade. Plus a look at the human face of the u. S. Drone program. My conversation with a pakistani family torn apart by a deadly strike. Dr. Sacks joins us in the latest fight against the debate and why the Supreme Court could decide it. All that when now starts after this. 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