think about the other six incumbent democrats that they have to fight for, places where republicans are forcing them to spend money, places like new hampshire, for example, with scott brown, there isn t capital in the bank left over for somebody like natalie tennant in a state like west virginia. willie, earlier you have senator bag gich from alaska promising to be a thorn in temperature s posterior. he used another word. now you have a democratic candidate says if barack obama came, he would have a lot of explaining to do. normally that s bad for the party in power. republicans in a lot of these states aren t able to use that for an advantage because their numbers are so low. they haven t created that separation yet, especially in west virginia where the margin should be bigger. ten nant was asked about obamacare. she s kind of danced around it. do i have that right? i spoke to her late bit on
he s got certain newspapers that have been obsessing on this. and what nicole is explaining to people out there that may be shocked and stunned and deeply saddened and getting the cheetos out. do not bring cheetos into this. i m doing it, sam stein! how she hates america, et cetera, et cetera. it s just a helpful explanation for those of you who live on mars about who actually has a better shot today of getting the republican nomination. steve rattner, there s a huge void in the republican party. that void is going to be filled by a republican establishment candidate. you know what? if this late date, and yes, it is a late date, that establishment candidate is probably going to be either jeb bush or chris christie. the money people are trying to figure out which way to go. a lot of those people that write checks are going to write them to chris christie the longer this goes and the longer the
were going to work out. they have spent all this mon money, $4.4 billion in grants to the states to stand up the websites. we re nearly a billion dollars on the cost of the federal website. it did not work. now the enrollees, what if we only have three million people that didn t have health insurance before that have enrolled? look what we ve done to eviscerate the u.s. health insurance industry for, maybe, a new 3 million people that, that previously didn t not have health insurance? this is just such a debacle and, it is time that we begin to unravel that. bill: what are you going to do about it? i think the thing to do about it, begin to take it apart, which is what we re doing and replace it with reforms, that are going to work, that put the patient at the center of the health care system and allow individuals to make their choices. there were some things that needed to be addressed and fixed, absolutely. but you don t want to do it with
spend it all in two months and the social worker is going to go on tv and say no social worker. somebody, the new york times reporter will go on and say you re going to let this woman s children starve? it s not their fault? and then we have a whole new program. here s what you re going to have, john. you re going to have somebody who smokes it up in the first two weeks. you have another two weeks before there s a new deposit in their monthly account and he says, gee, i don t have the mon money. he doesn t have the option of going to a social worker. he has to go to the people he lives around and say, i really need help. they are in a position to say, we re not going to let you die, but it s time to get your act together. we re introduce once again the kinds of human connections that are the only way to change human behavior. and some who don t find the connections will die on the street. the united states has never let people die on the street. what we will now have that
relay. russian torch bearers in bathing caps and speedos braved the icy waters. despite 23-degree temperatures, they were able to keep the torch and the flags above water. this is the longest torch relay ever. time for what s moving your mon money. by now you ve heard about the mysterious bit coin, virtual currency that has skyrocketed in value over the past month and is being hyped by the winkelvoss twins of facebook twin. now congress is looking into it holding a hearing and another one is on tap this afternoon. virtual currency known as bit coin has captured the imagination of some, struck fear among others and confused the heck out of the rest of us, including me. we re joined now by henry