russ, how many of the senators knew what you were talking about when you mentioned expedia? they all knew what we were talking about. this was 2009. russ sullivan, ezra klein, thank you both for joining us tonight. thank you. coming up, what is the worst possible threat facing the middle east in the long-term? it might not be what you re thinking. and jon stewart has one idea that he really wants people to steal. now, comedians are very, very protective of their ideas. but not this time. eat loud, live loud, super poligrip. super poligrip holds your dentures tightly in place so you never have to hold back. laugh loud, live loud, super poligrip.
than a reasonable interpretation of what happened in this bill. and, russ, the only support for that that anyone has been able to find is jonathan gruber speaking to saying, oh, yeah, this was absolutely deliberate. it was to make an incentive for the states to create their own exchanges. he has since said he was wrong about that. but in all of the people who really know are you and the staff people who really wrote this bill, republicans and democrats and in robert paire s report in the new york times the other day, interviewing all of you, he couldn t find anyone on the republican side, on any side, who said there was ever a moment where we contemplated the possibility of not giving subsidies to people who got their insurance in the federal exchange. and that is right. and the reason is because it did not happen. i mean, i was there for virtually all of the discussions
leading up to the senate passage. many of them, with republicans in the room, most of those discussions not public and so are not on the record. there was a lot of discussion about how these tax credits were going to work, who was going to benefit, what income levels, how big the tax credit would be and what kinds of insurance product, be it high deductible plans, catastrophic plans or more basic plans would be eligible under the exchange. but everyone assumed and knew that these tax credits were going to be available for all americans. and, russ, you were in a lot of closed door private conversations in which republican senators would easily comfortably have said to you, what s going to happen in my state if my republican governor dekleins to create an exchange? what s going to happen to those subsidies? if there was ever a whiff of the possibility that this kind of interpretation was available.
we have too many emcees and not enough mikes. you ve got so many republicans dividing up the money. elections are bought and sold now by billionaires. they stay, enough of the folks in washington republicans, democrats, it s all green in the dark. you know what i m talking about. has made it all but impossible to get any kind of change. we will gladly finance them longer. it s dirty, dirty money. of all the long shot candidacies of presidency this year, none so far is a longer shot than former new york governor george pataki who is a fading memory in new york and a virtual unknown to the receipt of the country. he made his announcement today in new hampshire. this is normally the spot where we would show you the candidate s announcement, but this segment isn t about george pataki. we will probably never do a segment on george pataki as he languishes on the bottom of every poll. but what if george pataki can convince some new york billionaire he knows to ba
we ve seen in the past al qaeda in yemen planning an attack on a u.s.s. sullivan, major american warship on the night of power back in 2000. in the year 2000 fell on january 3rd. we also when bin laden was thinking he was going to die at the battle at tora bora in 2001 he actually signed his will on the night of power. if you sort of buy into the al qaeda ideology it s a particularly auspicious day to do an attack. i don t think it s a coincidence that all these embassies and facilities are being closed on that day. i think another point here is i can t recall a time when you ve had embassies and consulates closed in 18 countries. it s unprecedented. yes, there may be indications of al qaeda in yemen. as you indicated, there are also perhaps worries in other countries. don t forget in two of the countries where embassies and facilities are being closed,