how can a politician refuse to take federal money to expand medicaid? it s happening now. governors are literally turning away money. why? president obama knows why. this does frustrate me. states that have chosen not to expand medicaid for no other reason than political spite. you ve got 5 million people who could be on health insurance right now at no cost to these states. zero costs to these state, other than ideological reasons, they have chosen not to provide health insurance for their citizens. that s wrong. it s wrong. and this week they re fighting back. govr nor jindh a l said there s
conversation with bridget kelly since the e-mail came out. so she was not given the opportunity to explain to me why she lied. because it was so obvious that she had. a and i m quite frankly not interested in the explanation at the moment. well, everyone else is interested in that explanation. and chris christie should be interested in that explanation now. chris christie showed absolutely no curiosity about what anyone involved in the scandal knew until after that press conference. and now chris christie has hired his criminal lawyer, who has his criminal lawyer, asking new jersey officials including the mayors of hoboken and ft. lee to cooperate with what is now the govr office investigation. team christie s investigation seems so far to be aimed at people such as the mayors who have said things that are problems for the christie administration. today mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee rejected team
she lied. because it was so obvious that she had. and i m quite frankly not interested in the explanation at the moment. well, everyone else is interested in that explanation. and chris christie should be interested in that explanation now. chris christie showed absolutely no curiosity about what anyone involved in the scandal knew until after that press conference. and now chris christie has hired his criminal lawyer, who has his criminal lawyer, asking new jersey officials including the mayors of hoboken and ft. lee to cooperate with what is now the govr office investigation. team christie s investigation seems so far to be aimed at people such as the mayors who have said things that are problems for the christie administration. today mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee rejected team christie s request for an interview. the letter by mayor sokolich s lawyer says while the mayor has gone out of his way to be fair to all parties in this matter,
will happen next. we have a map. you can put that up. the blue states it s legal. california now has flipped. a few other states in recent months have flipped like minnesota, rhode island. green is what i want to focus on right now. you see a couple green. these are states that have civil unions, domestic partnerships, rights of marriage without calling it marriage. in new jersey, particularly interesting one there because the question is, the legislature, the democratic legislature in virginia excuse me, in new jersey, you have votes there for gay marriage. you have a republican govr governor, chris christie, who has vetoed it. the question, a, will the legislature now override chris christie? the second question in new jersey is the state supreme court a few years ago ruled you can t distinguish you can have civil unions, call them civil unions as long as you get everything you get in a marriage. with doma now being that s clearly not right. you have federal benefits for
i think they have a ways to go until we re back. the next thing is the debt ceiling fight. basically, they re going to have a repeat of 2011 when they held the country hostage to get their way. when they were willing to put their own political objectives over the well being and health and economy of the country and really the world as a whole. they re going in that direction again. so, as bad as their favorability ratings are right now, as bad as things look for them right now, i think they are only going to get worse because the country is going to continue to see how dysfunctional and how they ve been driven by the extremes. but i will say this. i think we may have seen the merchants of the new coalition that s going to allow us to get through these fights who did vote for the fiscal cliff deal along with the democrats. hopefully, we can see that partnership again that is actually interested in moving the country forward in govr nans. look at governor chris