proposal in the senate that acknowledges that, hey, the gas tax is a revenue source. in the house, what we re seeing is both sides are coming up with a grab bag of excuses. revenue sources that have no chance of getting passed and are not sustainable. in fact, the burden is on mr. boehner. his responsibility as the speaker where they control the floor is to put a bill on the floor that would have a sustainable revenue source. i ve indicated to the speaker and my republican colleagues, you put something up there on a revenue source and i ll support it. we have to get 218 votes. give the funds to the highway trust fund that are essential to the repair our roads and repair our bridges. yeah, i mean, congressman, you re speaking a little to the politics of it, how to get this done. used to be on the hill that bad things would lead to action, you know. enron led to campaign finance reform. 9/11 led to a patriot act law, whether you thought it was good or bad.
joe dibenedetto is a criminal defense attorney. dan schorr is a criminal prosecutor. first of all i will start with you, on this one, joe. this law in texas is a crazy law. it is disturbing. break down the law for me. you can kill someone or shoot someone if? you re allowed to use deadly physical force if there is a robbery at night. tly what happened here. i hate to say it, please don t hate me for saying it but the jury got this correct. if you are, a juror following the letter of the law, she stole $150 from this defendant. it doesn t matter whether she use ad gun or her high heels. she stole $150 and he was justified using deadly physical force. arthel: this is disturbing. do you know of any states that have such a law like this? i certainly never have seen it applied like this. this is extremely disturbing. this is not a theft. she contacted he
earth. we ve got to make sure that every single person that needs health care can get it, and we ve got to make sure that we do it in the most efficient way possible. one last point i m going to make on this, because there are a lot of people who currently get health insurance through their employers, the 85% who are already out there, and they may be saying, well, if this law s so great, why is it that my premiums still went up? well, part of what s happening across the country is in some cases, for example, employers may be shifting more costs through higher premiums or higher deductibles or higher co-pays, and so there may still be folks who are out there feeling increased costs not because of the affordable care act, but because those costs are being passed on to workers or insurance companies in some cases even with these laws in place are still jacking up prices unnecessarily.
but we do expect the president to address it. that s the betting, anyway. the only thing we have heard from the white house barring what the president may say about it came yesterday a gaggle on air force one yesterday when he said the scope of this surveillance program was entirely within the law. we also heard from a statement from the director of national intelligence, james clapper, who basically reiterated the same thing, that this was targeted to not americans living abroad. we ve heard support from it as well from the chairman of the intelligence committees on the hill, senator dianne feinstein says jon: let me interrupt you, the president has arrived and is taking to the podium there. let s listen in. are not sitting here. [laughter] you know, things on friday afternoon, things get a little, a little challenged. i m going to have a, i m going answer a question at the end of the remarks, but i want to make
consumers. i m not saying that everything s going to go perfectly right away. we re implementing a program this large, there will be some glitches, there are going to be some hiccups. but no matter what, every single consumer will be covered by the new benefits and protections under this law permanently. so the bottom line is, you know, you can listen to a bunch of political talk out there, negative ads and fear mongering geared towards the next election, or alternatively, you can look at what s happening in states like california right now. and the fact of the matter is through these exchanges not only are the 85% of people who already have insurance getting better protects and receiving rebates and being able to keep their kids on their insurance until they re 26 and getting free preventative care, but if you don t have insurance, and you re trying to get it through the market and it s too restrictive, we now have these