immigration. how did that work out? let s get the inside scoop from ann gearen and sam stein, daily beast politics editor and msnbc contributor. contributor. well, stephen mill aer strikes again. he s trying to build for this. several several misstatements all around. jim acosta, his father game here when he was 11, did not speak english and green card holders do not have to speak english before they come. is miller trying to build support for this or did he emerge as someone who does well on the president s behalf, in
changes they need, even just to get the thing to the floor. thank you. with me, washington correspondent for bbc world news, ann gearen, and politics correspondent for the washington post. let s assume for a second we have no medicaid at all. and we have a lot of people who can t afford health insurance. what do they do between having strep throat to cancer to a stroke? because that s really the what have we been doing to take care of those who don t have insurance? you go back to the situation many decades ago. if you lived in a generous state, you might have some form of state assistance. you could throw yourself on the mercy of your local hospital. or your local doctor. or any number of charity organizations that can provide but out of luck otherwise? you re just going to suffer? move to a different state. this is supposed to be the
just released shows donald trump and ben carson are tied in iowa. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, nbc contributor and ann gearen, political correspondent for the washington post. welcome both. what do you make of this new monmouth poll, chris cillizza, shaping up to be quite a race. it jibes with the do min register bloomberg poll over the weekend. donald trump and ben carson at the moment are the class of the republican field in iowa and bad news for anyone who has held elected office before. we ve seen people like karcarly fiorina move up. anyone has ever been elected to anything before while we see scott walker who theoretically strength in this race is that he won three elections in four years. jeb bush, marco rubio trending downward. iowa republicans at least at the moment want to send a very clear message that the establishment
becomes more relevant. right now it s kind of celebrity, real tv. and chuck todd reached back to only in trump world which remains an unsolved mystery, and is, where president obama was born. let s listen to that. do you believe president obama is a citizen who is born in the united states? i don t like talking about it anymore. ann gearen, that was it. he doesn t like talking about it anymore. and one of the principles of trumpism is never back down. but i think on the big pillars of ideas that he s identified with, like the birth certificate, his rule is, i can never show any glimpse of reality about that. right, he s excellent at changing the subject. and that s actually what we re starting to see happen now on the trail as he, i mean, no one expected, i m sure least of all him, to be the kind of
everybody in the field not named donald trump and a nervousness about what that first debate is going to be like. and huckabee has now responded to president obama putting out statement saying what s ridiculous and sad is that the obama does not take the iran threats seriously. for decades, iranian leaders have pledged to destroy, annihilate, and wipe israel off the map with a big holocaust. never again will be the policy of my administration and i will stand with our ally israel to prevent the terrorists in tehran from achieving their own stated goal of another holocaust. ann gearen never again, of course is the cry after the real holocaust. and so that has resonance. is this trying to compete in the sheldon adelson primary for money from very conservative supporters, the big dollar supporters? yeah i think you re definite definitely on to something there. this is part of the jewish republican money primary. it also is as chris said, an