data point we re collecting in in sort of systemic way. i have no idea. the white house may not be anxious to talk about this but katy is. she joins us now. what do you make of this? this was the whole reason we did this. if the white house isn t keeping track of how many uninsured americans were getting into the obamacare exchanges, what was the point of obamacare? the second point, why aren t uninsured americans signing up for obamacare? the fact is if you look at polling from november of 2013, the majority of americans uninsured had no intention of signing up for obamacare in the first place, and if you go back fur thor 2010 when it was sign into law, 80% of americans were satisfied with their healthcare plans, so of course they re not signing up for the plans anyway. the argument you hear is, give them time, people don t know how to go about this. a cumbersome process, and steny how hoyer saying we ll be singing a different tune in six months. this all comes down to
day reporting. we are going live to the democratic issues conference. president obama taking the stage to address the democratic conference live. let s listen in. thank you, everybody have a seat. thank you so much. thank you. thank you, everybody. everybody, sit down, sit down. it is good to see you. joe, thank you for the wonderful introduction. let me be the first to say, happy valentine s day to our fearless leader nancy pelosi. paul will hopefully give you more than just a thank you. to steny, to jim, javier, steve israel, who is doing an extraordinary job under very difficult circumstances, debbie wasserman schultz, who s putting in more miles than just about anybody i know.
was no evidence, nobody could find anything. the trial lasted just two hours. the jury took only ten minutes to convict and steny was sentenced to die. during the trial here, steny was represented by a court appointed lawyer, who never put on his own case. never attacked a state s case and never filed an appeal, which would have delayed the execution by a year. just 83 days after his arrest, steny, weighing only 95 pounds was strapped in the electric chair and put to death. george sten why did not do it. but now a south carolina law firm has filed a motion seeking a new trial, which if granted could clear steny s name. it would have been difficult if not implausible for george steny jr. to have done what the government said he did. the motion claims there is no physical evidence, no written record of the confession and no witnesses and no trial transcript. steny s brother and sister both
denied so 70 years later, it won t bring steny back and an apology is not going to bring him back or change the fact he died in this way, but it might bring a sense of closure not just for the family but the state of south carolina, like other southern states, racially divided, jim crow was the law of the land. this was a step. just a step in a way to kind of not only clear the case from the state record but to have some type of closure for this entire situation. but his family i know you ve talked with them. what are they saying? i spoke to his brother, charles, who lives in brooklyn. and he is still very much affected by the loss of george. someone whom he was very close with and whom he shared all of the times growing up with your brothers together, you play, you laugh and he misses those days. and even though he provided a
to be some glitches along the way. every law has hiccups when it s first starting off. people forget, by the way, medicare part d passed by my predecessor, george bush, passed by a republican house of representatives, the prescription drug bill passed into law ten years ago was even more unpopular than the affordable care act before it took effect. everybody was saying what a disaster it was going to be. the difference was democrats worked with republicans to make it work even better. steny remembers this. even though democrats weren t happy that the law wasn t paid for, and was going to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit, and we weren t negotiating a better deal with the drug companies, everybody worked once it was the law to try to make it work and today, about 90% of seniors like their prescription drug coverage.