time and a $3,000 fine. for the chins, vincent died again. but then a surprise. marches in the streets for asian-american civil rights, a first for modern america. sheffield s father, a community leader, helped the detroit asian-american community during the marches. vincent chin and what happened to him was a galvanizing moment in the history of that community, and almost a martyrdom, quite frankly. a martyr, an attorney who represented the chin family would agree with sheffield. he helped start a civil rights group and is one of the leaders today. what s interesting is they were exposed to the movement. they saw those things, and they had within their dna a sense of justice and fighting for something other than themselves. i m encouraged when i see those legacies continue and the fight go on. roland wong s family fights on. on their dinner table, mac and
stole our homes, they stole our future and we said we would never do that again. so there s no way we re going to open up the door to big banks so they can do that once again. i think that the spirit inside the democratic caucus is strong and it s tight. and on this one, the white house may be between a rock and a hard place, but we don t have to go there with them. this is a couple weeks before christmas. it s exactly two weeks before christmas tonight. what do you do if you lose the big bill? what s next? how does this fight go on? well, you know what, the fact is that if republicans put a bill on the floor that took out these provisions to bail out wall street banks, and took out the provisions to give $300,000 contributions to political parties, we would have a bill today that democrats, even though we might have to hold our noses and vote for it, that we could support to continue to fund the government. republicans know what they need to do to get a bill passed out of this con
about an extension of government funding for the next, what, 2 1/2 months and looking for a delay to a major essential part of obama care for a year. so, they don t really feel, one, that it s apples to apples and they don t really feel like they would be they would be giving up so much and not really getting a lot when we would see this fight go on again before the end of the year. brianna keilar reporting live from the white house. this is all over obama care. but guess what, obama care is up and running. health care coverage available right now, at least for the last hour. the obama care portal, healthcare.gov up and running, allowing uninsured americans to get health coverage. how does it work? cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta live in south carolina where 20%, just 20% of that state actually 20% of that state is uninsured. that s what i meant today. sanjay, explain this to us.
together 2,000 state republican legislators and said our goal is to reduce the progress i have vote be 10% in 20112. so they go after early voting, they go after mail voting, they go after student voting, after seniors, making it difficult for all progressive people to be able to vote. when they say this is about voter fraud, you say point out to us one example of voter fraud. they could. it s all about suppressing the progressive vote. so it is a concerted activity. now they re being more overt and open about it. richard trumka, thank you for joining us happy mayday to you. may the fight go on. thanks for your time. thanks for having us on. we will have more after the break, coming up next. okay. this, won t take long will it?
outfront story one, breaking news. mitt romney winning the indiana, north carolina and west virginia primaries. now, this was widely expected. more on that in a moment, but also indiana, richard lugar loses his job. after serving in the senate unchallenged for 35 years, he lost in today s primary. the tea party backed richard mourdock. the key to mourdock s success, linking lugar to moderates and the president. i have worked with republican senator dick lugar to pass a law. what i did was reach out to senator dick lugar. if i m interested in figuring out my foreign policy i associate myself with my running mate, joe biden or with dick lugar, the republican. that did not help. the other big reason is out of state money. they poured in more than $4 million. the national anti-tax group spent millions of dollars in an attack ad against lugar. he said that s why he s lost. it s not just happening in indiana, but centrist republicans facing tough challenges from more cons