care got stalled. if you recall, when he was overseas in july, and he had the g-8 in italy and went to moscow, there was all this hand wringing by democrats on capitol hill. president needs to engage more on health care. he came back, spent, i think, 11 straight days in some form or another talking about health care. of course, they didn t make the august recess deadline. here we are again. hand wringing again by democrats. pushing to get the president to come out once again and take control of the health care message. so we ll see. when you start looking at the to-do list for september, when i say september, obviously we re in it now. but this is after labor day. a lot of stuff going on in september. on the issue of health care, i think it s definitely going to dominate the first 10 to 15 days. after that, what the president can get done in those first 10 or 15 days is going to tell us how quickly actually something can get done. because a lot of other issues are going to st
intear gators, cheney says it s pure politics. it s a political act that will do great damage long term to be able to have people take on difficult jobs and make difficult decisions about having to worry about what the next administration is going to have to say. cheney defended tactics. he defended the waterboarding and threats with guns and the mock executions. and ron christy is a former aide to vice president cheney and george w. bush. let me ask you, when he is defending these guys who not only followed the legal guidelines set forth by the administration and justice department, and they went outside of it, there are accusations that they are acting outside of the legal guidelines, how does anybody, especially a former vice president defend that? good morning, contessa. if you look at what the vice president said yesterday, he was defending the action of the cia individuals that interrogated the individuals. they looked into the cases of alleged misconduct. it was
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what is a rake? no. lisa? thanks, wolf. tonight, thousands of people line up to remember the lion of the senate as the body of ted kennedy lies in repose. and the public option, and the fate of president obama s health care overhaul. and with a record-breaking deficit, will the president be forced to break his promise and raise taxes on the middle class? but, first, the nation remembers senator ted kennedy, one of the country s most polarizing, but yet at the same time, one of his most respected leaders two days after his death. kennedy s body remains in repose tonight in a library in boston where mourners will pay their respects tomorrow. earlier his body was taken from massachusetts and the motorcades lined its way to boston. our own john king joins us from the kennedy presidential library. john, describe the scene. what is it like there tonight? it s a fascinating mix, lisa. inside you can see the senator s wife, the widow, still in there grieving. most are fro
coverage. she could not get insurance because she possibly might have m.s. so from the time she was in her 20s on, she was denied any insurance until she qualified for medicaid and was totally disabled. now, that is not right. our country is better than that. em. could i just quickly respond and then continue? i agree with you. i hold no for much of the practices of the insurance companies in america. don t get me wrong. we have to fix the pre-existing condition situation and we don t shout at my town hall meetings. i agree with you. we have to address the issue of people with pre-existing conditions, people who are unable to attain health care insurance and we should do it through risk pools and it is going to cost money. go ahead. and the other thing is, mayo clinic that you talked about having good practices is one of the ones that president obama has cited as being the type of medical facility that we should pattern our health care reform on. they just don t agree