On in my absence. Clever. Very, very clever. That cost me a lot of money. Those graphics dont come cheap. What do you make of this now whether that was the plan all along. I know the plan is, i think, by the way, no secret. The plan is single payer. Thats what they would love to do. The most watered down version. Thats their whole goal and this is the only way they could actually get to it this plan they went through. The Obama Administration bragging and the only one in 100 years that can do it. We all know the goal. As far as the individual sites, though, failing, i think its an embarrassment because you think of all the pressure that the white house has put on republican governors for not, you know, not playing along and not participating and setting up these sites, a big failure for a lot of these folks and going to a National Site that doesnt work. What do you think, dave . One of the boston papers is calling it the big dig two. A lot called it the death of romney care. If you rea
And institutions accountable and exposing injustice. I feel we are not doing that enough we are too driven by social media which is important but it has come to dominate a lot of decisions about coverage when we ought to spend more time digging and providing new information to the viewers. Why did you leave the business . It had been more than 30 years and i think change is a good thing. It was really a matter of i either change now if i were going to make a change or continue probably through the next election. I decided i wanted to take a pause and spend a little time playing golf, making a few speeches and then decide what i want to do next. Have you come to any conclusion of what you might want to do next . No. I was in the process of moving and ending 33 years at nbc, and i want to take time when i really am not under any pressure and particular out what might be out there. My decisions about projects will be determined by the principles i mentioned earlier. I care about Holding P
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Diverse group of people. I think certainly we see enough Central Americans so we are aware of the country conditions which are as these two other speakers have described them it is extremely difficult and especially for the young people that are fleeing the Gang Violence and unfortunately the law is not on their side in terms of asylum but there are other venues and avenue of relief that would be available to them. It is important for us to recognize its not just about mexico, central america, south america and the caribbean. Its the broken immigration affects people from throughout the entire world. I remember having a conversation with senator kennedy about the number of irish men and women who are here in this country without documents so that is not just a latino or third world issue there are people all over the globe who come here on say a student visa and overstay. You have people from the developed world who are here in the United States illegally so when you look at this issue