lexi, it s such a powerful statement, and the little girl, the little girl who survived by bathing herself in the blood of her best friend who had been shot already to survive. garrett haake, what are your thoughts? reporter: i mean, calling it gut-wrenching doesn t do it justice. miah, the girl who survived, participating remotely from texas having made the decision not to travel here to testify, to me it s the little details of each of those witnesses that kind of caught in my throat, whether it s miah talking about hiding behind the backpacks in the classroom, as though that would do anything, and the doctor talking about treating a girl in a lilo & stitch shirt covered in blood. and lexi won the good citizenship award on the morning she was shot in her classroom. for many people it s too easy to think about these issues in these very broad ways. hearing parents talk about those kinds of specific details, the doctor talking in those specific details, i think that s what
lexi, it s such a powerful statement, and the little girl, the little girl who survived by bathing herself in the blood of her best friend who had been shot already to survive. garrett haake, what are your thoughts? reporter: i mean, calling it gut-wrenching doesn t do it justice. miah, the girl who survived, participating remotely from texas having made the decision not to travel here to testify, to me it s the little details of each of those witnesses that kind of caught in my throat, whether it s miah talking about hiding behind the backpacks in the classroom, as though that would do anything, and the doctor talking about treating a girl in a lilo & stitch shirt covered in blood.
kentucky or just 1sits back and nothing. with the exception of tom coburn where he says he doesn t think the government has that big a role to play, i think to rand paul s credit, he was probably goaded into that by the question. it wasn t as if he just decided to jump in with the christie criticism. i think you re right, at this moment in time, republicans would be wise to basically just get out of the way. what we re witnessing now is probably the lowest point politically for president obama, a continuous stream of bad news. and steve hit the nail on the head which is that even though there are these legislative suggestions for how to fix this law, they are exceptionally short term political fixes that would cause policy disruption five, ten years down the road. ed it gut the exchanges. it would created a verse selection in the exchanges and could potentially derail health care. so president obama has to figure out what he can get done legislatively in a divided congress that would
product, if it gut gets out is procedurally protective. it can there s a general consensus the supercommittee wants their product to move fast, not linger out there during a year. we think we re having a lobbying battle with the supercommittee. if it hangs out there for a while, the lobbying is going to intensify. keep in mind, it s not entirely certain that it would pass the senate if it didn t have revenue increases. i know democrats are prone to capitulation in that chamber. however, harry reid has insisted that revenue has to be part of the component and he does still have more than 50 votes. so that is another consideration they have to take. sam stein of the huffington post. thank you very much for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. coming up, it took less than a week for massachusetts voters to get to know senate candidate elizabeth warren. she is now ahead of scott brown in a new poll. a look at that race is coming up. also, a last word exclusive.
you say the veto threat was actually targeted at the supercommittee? yes. keep many mind there was two days before speaker boehner gave his speech where he insisted revenues couldn t be on the table. this was a direct response to that and said to the supercommittee members, listen, there s two people in the dance. you can listen to the house speaker, but if you send me something that doesn t have these, i ll send it back. this isn t just a congressional exercise. this is an executive branch exercise as well. it also raises the possibility of would the supercommittee be willing to put out a plan that would be in essence steering toward a veto, basically challenging the president, you know, will you actually veto this? the supercommittee s work product, if it gut gets out is procedurally protective. it can there s a general consensus the supercommittee wants their product to move fast, not linger out there during a year. we think we re having a lobbying battle with the supercom