we re more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that s health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. from president obama here are today s top lines. what should we be doing to make sure our children are safe. we put the brakes on anything that takes away a person s second amendment right. members of congress i think are going to have to examine their own conscience. they re not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban. a pretty effective way of ginning up fear. the federal government is taking all your guns away. limiting your second amendment rights is priority one. wet dream plan. 1776 will commence again. one inch further i m going to start killing people. why would you ever want to take away this man s guns? a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. colin powell used to be a
speaker john boehner has sort of abandoned this idea to increase the debt ceiling and tie it to dollar to dollar spending cuts. so from their perspective that represents some movement. i have been talking to my republican sources who say they feel confident that this plan to increase the debt ceiling and then to also sort of force congress hand on the budget in three months is something that could get through both houses. we ll have to see. i expect that all of this debating will sort of be on pause on monday and then we ll see it ramp back up a little later on next week. it will either be on pause or there will be the side bar conversations in the green room. i need to talk to you. exactly. so speaking of monday, the united states has had 44 presidents but only 17 of those have gotten to give that second inaugural address. i have heard rumors that the from the white house that the speech is meant to be more soaring rhetoric, not necessarily the sort of specifics that you migh
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cues that you do not want to see it work as it was intended. can you explain? yeah. no, our job is to follow the law of the land. and we take that mission very, very seriously. and the role of the health and human services department is to improve the health, the safety and the well-being of the american people. and what we understand, what the american people understand is that their health and well-being is being harmed right now by the current law. and so our goal is to make is to put in place as well as the president s goal, is to put in place a law, a system that actually works for patients. you can t do that under the current structure. you can t do that just with regulation. it requires an act of congress. that s why the president has been so passionate about making certain that the congress of the united states repeals and replaces obamacare. but secretary price, i understand that. but it s clear the votes aren t there. so if they come up with a fix that helps essentially