my father would be on his feet, applauding the president and the way that the president stuck his neck out, it was my dad s signature cause. he promised my dad that he was going to make this issue a priority for his administration and he did. a lot of his advisors said wait, it s too complicated, too many vested interests you re going to get bogged down, but the president it s an example of how the president s leadership he was willing to do this, take this on. there s so many special interests, chuck, who don t want change. pause there s a lot of money flowing around the health care system. and i think that my father, he believed, you know, he worked or rich hatch to expand medicaid for chip, worked with president bush trying to expand part d medicare drug benefit and one of his proudest moments was working with governor mitt romney to create the model in the picture. the model of health care we now have in the united states. congressman, your dad always seemed to find a rep
incidents of wrong doing. the catholic church comes to mind. watching the catholic church scandal unfold, and i talked to a lot of people that were affected by it, is the idea is how could people who saw this and receive the kind of judgment that comes with whistle blowers, that to me is a big part of the story is, if you do stick your neck out, you often are not rewarded. we saw that with some of the guys in the bush administration were treated. we have whistle blower prosecutions now. that s almost a that s a legal version of what is a universal experience, institutions tend to not take it very kindly when people inside say this is not rite. what we know about were cases like mine, i sounded the alarm
obama, who was hammered by his opponents for saying he would take out terrorists with or without that country s permission. if we have axble intelligence about how value terrorist targets, and they will not act, we will. we will risk the confused lip of an inexcused candidate that suggested bombing our alley, pakistan. last summer he basically threatened to bomb pakistan, which i don t think was a particularly wise position to take. brian, so he stuck his neck out, determined it would not be a drone strike to get bin laden, it would be a direct action by the seals. let me ask you when you look at the world right now, who has the capability to help america here in america. who can hit us. who can do real harm to this
out, basically determined it would not be a drone strike, it would be a direct action by the seals but the certainty of having got our man. when you look at the world right now, who has the capability to hurt america here in america. who can do real harm to this country right now, anybody? right now, when you look at the al qaeda affiliates in places like yemen and somali is a concern. al-libi was a number two, and taking him out was essential. we took him out in a part of pakistan where under the bush administration and in those clipped in 2008 that you just showed, we essentially had a situation that those areas were
opponents for saying he would take out terrorists with or without that country s permission. if we have axble intelligence about how value terrorist targets, and they will not act, we will. we will risk the confused lip of an inexcused candidate that suggested bombing our alley, pakistan. last summer he basically threatened to bomb pakistan, which i don t think was a particularly wise position to take. brian, so he stuck his neck out, determined it would not be a drone strike to get bin laden, it would be a direct action by the seals. let me ask you when you look at the world right now, who has the capability to help america here in america. who can hit us. who can do real harm to this country right now?