the affordable care act passed and this child got his health care. and now as she says he is talking and heap is walki inhe e is shooting baskets. i saw that mom and the son on the lawrence o donnell show the other night. if you haven t seen it on msnbc you, ought to take a look at it. see that segment with jeannine and her son on facebook.com/thelastword. the rewrite is next. anthony hopkins will rewrite the history of acting and crown a new acting king. long live king cranston. [ male announcer ] it s simple physics.
0 agreement would get back on track. number one. number two he emfa sized again, what he has emphasized again, what he has all along. negotiate on budget issues. the republicans have the house budget. we have our democratic bumen ii. what he is not twiwilling to dod the republicans of the faith and credit of the government hostage. to extract the outrageous demands. i think the most important thing coming out of the discussions is we will have established that principle and precedent. now, not that, not that the tea party guys will have learned that lesson. but will have demonstrated in the period of time that the president was absolutely firm and committed to those principles. want to listen to something that nan secy pelosi said aftere meeting at the white house today. listen to this. in the end you are trusting john boehner, will in your mind dupt rig do the right thing and put something clean enough on the floor. i don t know what the se sequencing of it is, yes. congre
0 damage the perception of u.s. sovereign credit worthiness and the economy. in an interview with wabc in new york city, president obama described how he sees the problem. the problem we have got. for speaker boehner for example, him negotiating with me, isn t necessarily good for the extreme faction in his caucus. it weakens him. so there have been repeated situations where we have agreements. then he goes back and it turns out that, he can t control his caucus. the challenge here is can you deliver on agreements that are made. are you able to come up with sensible bipartisan compromises. and deliver on them. joining me now, congressman, chris van hall, democrat from maryland and ranking member of the budget committee. congressman, first of all, the state of play at this very minute as you understand it. number two he emma sized again, what he has emphasized again, what he has all along. negotiate on budget issues. the republicans have the house budget. we have our democrati
road. and it s, it s just alarming. and disturbing. mason, are you glad to be back at school? yeah. and, jeannine, i want to ask you one thing about you, you you got mason to that same rehab facility that gabby giffords went to. and nancy pelosi was visiting there one day. you got to meet her. i did. you write that you wished you had the presence of mind to thank her for the affordable care act. yes. i did later send a note when, reading from a piece that was published on salon.com a year, i think a year ago. i did send former speaker pelosi a note thanking her. because, you know, politics aside, i know many good republicans people who would like to see these protections who need these protections. and i just, i wanted to be out
tomorrow. if i could get john boehner and ted cruz on a conference call, i would explain this to them. i would tell them that while they were busy trying to derail the affordable care act over the last two years, mason has learned to walk, talk, eat, and shoot a three point basket. joining me is jeannine reid and her 16-year-old son, mason. jeannine, let s assume for the moment that you do have ted cruz s ear and john boehner s ear, what more do you think they need to know about what the affordable care act has done. they want to repeal all of it. not just the pieces that go into effect now with the subsidies and the new medicaid provisions. they want to repeal the portions of affordable care act that have benefited your family and allowed mays on to get his care. it s unbelievable that