center in new york. he joins us on the show. good to be here. the numbers went up a little bit. they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you it didn t go down or this is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health care reform legislation becomes intact, when people will be able to get insurance who don t have it today. sanj sanjay, think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people, which is lower than expected, think of 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health insurance last year. the unemployment rate between 2009 to 2010 was already pretty bad, so it didn t grow as much. if you have a job and you have cobra, it lasts for 18 months afterwards. you find another job, you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem. most employer health insurance is substance d is subsidized by the employer. if you re unemployed, you l
they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you this doesn t go down or it is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health legislation is where it s at. it didn t surprise me so much but sanjay think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people a lot lower than people expected, think of it like 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health care last year. the numbers are still that big, they didn t grow that much because the unemployment rate between 2009 through 2010 was already pretty bad. and because if you have a job, if you have cobra it lasted for 18 months afterwards, if you find another job you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem because you know most employer health insurance is subsidized by the employer and when you lose your job and go on cobra you lose that subsidy and in the stimulus act a few years ago there
the most pressing issue there is greece. reporter: yeah. that s right, ali. what i should also mention, though is that the markets have certainly learned over the last two years this euro in crisis has gone from bad to worse. what they wish for and, then, again, what politicians deliver. what they would ultimately like to see, these leaders agreen on a bold action on a statement promising bold action like raising the euro s bailout fund to cope with countries like greece that they re still having trouble paying bills and might also like a discussion about moo mooch mutualizing. germany, of course, is still very, very reluctant to fit the bill on that, ali. different finance abilities. so that mutualization or further union mayen very far apart. the international monetary fund christine lagarde has stern warnings about the prospects for recovery in europe. what did she have to say? reporter: yeah. not mincing worlds and in an interesting position, because this time last
these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co
pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just haven t telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that they re concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that they flipped, as well, back in 2008. and then there s the two big states, kyra. there s ohio and there is florida, as well. these are all states that he needs to win in 2012 in order to win a second term. you know, kyra, a lot of people don t think the president has the fire in the belly any more. i was talking to a democratic strategist this morning and what he said to me was very simply, instead of when you re selling the whole idea of the jobs bill, don t say pass the bill, say, yes we can. w