health reasons. four years and seven days since president obama signed the affordable care act into law. there are 6 million more people with stories like those americans who have signed up for insurance through the affordable care act exchanges ahead of tomorrow night s deadline, proving we ve come a long way from glitches and snags in a very rocky website rollout. just this month, 70,000 people enrolled every day. and in a final weekend push, supporters held more than 500 grassroots events across the country. now, how did republicans mark this final month of sign-ups? you guessed it, with a 54th vote to dismantle the law, proving that the right strategy for the 2014 midterms will still consist of dismantling or repealing a law that s given millions of americans access to health care. with increasing numbers of voters sharing their stories of coverage, it s time for democrats to go on offense on the affordable care act. it s time to own it.
meanwhile here at home, we re marking the fourth anniversary of the affordable care act and the 54th vote against it in the house of representatives. can the gop come up with a vision for the country beyond repealing obamacare? or is paul ryan s forthcoming budget already dead on arrival? well, joining me now, steve clemens, editor at large for the atlantic and nia malika henderson, national political recorder for the washington post. i m going to start with you, steve. so the president s trip. he s now going to a g-7, no longer the g-8, meeting to talk about russia. what kind of sanctions do we think they re likely to be considering at this point? well, i think they re going to think about broadening them, but clearly what they ve done thus far has had absolutely no effect on vladimir putin s decision making. and i think that really, it s going to be beyond sanctions that the discussion really begins to take shape because as you just mentioned, this narrow