Done and by opening up more competition, we will save taxpayers money in the process. Launched anly easier and upgraded health care. Gov. Priceans will be able to comparison and shop side by side. Just like you go online and compare the best deal on cars or computers. Because you will finally be part of a new pool with millions of other americans, insurance insurers will be competing for your business. We have worked really hard to make these marketplaces user friendly. When the prototype of an application came in at 21 pages, we rejected it. It is now three pages long. That is a lot shorter than the application you have to fill out for private insurance. Year i asked congress for the authority to reorganize and consolidate the federal bureaucracy. Were doing a lot of the work administratively, but unfortunately there are a bunch of roles. That haslegislation poorly designed some of the agencies and forced folks to hoope in the bureaucratic jumping instead of focusing on mission and de
Wolfson, editor of the new republic frankly for, Politico White House reporter Carrie Rudolph brown making her debut, and our old hand Bloomberg White house correspondent hans nichol. There isnt much overlap between critics of george w. Bush and barack obama unless you are talking counterterrorism. Members of code pink, a group founded during the Bush Administration to protest the policies of waterboard and detention made their voices heard at yesterdays confirmation hearing for john brennan as cia director. They wont even Tell Congress what country we are killing children in. Please senator feinstein. If you could please expedite the removal. More important than the children of pakistan and yemen . Are they more important . Do your job the hearing serve as a public discussion of the most controversial counterterrorism policies that began under president george w. Bush and, in part, have continued and expanded under president obama. Brennans defense of the secrecy surrounding the admin
Tonight we have exclusive reporting on the contents of that white paper. Joining us now is nbc News National investigative correspondent michael isikoff. We start on a day where up to three feet of snow and winds nearing hurricane strength are expected to batter the northeast, and well have much more on that throughout the broadcast. But we begin in washington where we are awaiting the president to speak at a farewell tribute to defense secretary leon panetta in washington. Its a ceremony marked by a 19gun salute, an inspection of troops, and all accompanied by the United States pershing zone army band. General Martin Dempsey spoke first and he will soon be followed by the president. All to honor the man whom on thursday senator barbara mackowski said was the one person as cia director who never jerked her around. This comes a day after john brennan, the man who hopes to be the next cia director, walked into a volatile confirmation hearing room full of protests and pointed questions ov
Newtown, from sandy point elementary school. And she and her mother will be coming as my guest on tuesday. My guest is a woman by the name of carol pryce who lost her son to gun violence, many years ago. And, tomorrow, Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of hidaya pendleton, the 15yearold honor student who was shot and killed last month in chicago. Change is hatching. Its real. Today, former president clinton urged democrats to act. Its important to take some action now that it is posz sibl on the issue of gun violence. I see this whole gun issue as an opportunity, not a toxic land mine. And now, in the senate, two democrats and two republicans are joining forces nearing a deal on background checks that could be the blueprint for a new law. Next tuesday, all eyes will be on the president in his state of the yuchbon. But our hearts will be with those victims of gun violence in the hall and around the country. Joining me now, Msnbcs Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris perry. Melissa, you e
The partys fringes. Tea partiers, look out. He may not be able to beat democrats but hes got big, bad you in his sights. So the fight has begun. While steve king, matt kibby, joe walsh, Rush Limbaugh, all the inhas been nants of the cuckoo nest are cscrambling because karl rove is drawing lines in the sand. Want republicans to win . Cut out the crazies he hes . Want the democrats, stop giving them easy targets, rape candidates and witches. Stop making the democrats look smart and reasonable by running stupid and crazy candidates. The joy is, i have to say this, and its really quite funny, each of the right wing factions thinks that they are the same ones, they are the ones who have to protect the party from the others. Well, tonight the duel to the death drives deeper. Its do or die, fight to the death. The winners get to run against Hillary Clinton. The losers get to say its not their fault they lost. Wait a minute. That doesnt make any sense. And neither does this fight on the right