multiday event staged by the aarp. today s lineup included mayor pete buttigieg. new york city mayor bill de blasio dropping out to stay home in case there s a heat-related blackout there. connell: we had that this time last week. robert gray, thanks. several candidates have voiced their support for the mass protests against puerto rico s governor showing him insulting women and mocking victims of hurricane maria. meanwhile, the marches at this point show no signs of slowing down. we have bryan llenas reporting live from san juan. what s the latest there there, bryan? reporter:com, good evening. this is what they call [inaudible] this is what puerto ricans do when they protest on days like this, they bring out their pots and their a pans, and it sounds like a party, but it s not. they are angry. we are on the front lines right now [speaking spanish]
multiday event staged by the aarp. today s lineup included mayor pete buttigieg. new york city mayor bill de blasio dropping out to stay home in case there s a heat-related blackout there. connell: we had that this time last week. robert gray, thanks. several candidates have voiced their support for the mass protests against puerto rico s governor showing him insulting women and mocking victims of hurricane maria. meanwhile, the marches at this point show no signs of slowing down. we have bryan llenas reporting live from san juan. what s the latest there there, bryan? reporter:com, good evening. this is what they call [inaudible] this is what puerto ricans do when they protest on days like this, they bring out their pots and their a pans, and it sounds like a party, but it s not. they are angry. we are on the front lines right now
money. it s one of the fundamental things i hate about politics and hate about washington and hate about the political system driven more by self-interest money than ideology. now to be fair one of the problems that the democrats have is their meetings look more like a meeting of the advanced version of the aarp, than they do of a political party of the future. even saturday night live is doing a pairity the average age of leadership in the democratic party is somewhere just south of 80. that s hardly the party to say okay, kids, come along with us because we re hip, we re cool, we re with you. i mean they ve got a real problem in terms of attracting people for leadership because they frozen people out and i think donna brazile s book has a very important message to democrats. i don t think they re listening and frankly as a republican i hope they don t but the message is we got to get rid of some of these old guys and replace them with younger folks with new ideas. maria: we will se
access to affordable and adequate coverage. affordable means you can afford it. secondly, governors, most states have stronger protections in the federal government but governors are elected. those just assume that governors are scheming to take money away from folks elected to office. that typically does not occur. and people can afford policies on the individual exchange now. if you re not getting a subsidy, you re paying 30 to $40,000 a year and you re about to see a 15 to 20% increase depending on where you live. that s not affordable. we re trying to replace that with something that works. but you know, senator, and oou seen you ve seen it, a lot of these expert organizations are saying you re wrong. they re opposing your version of health care, for example, the american medical association, the aarp, the american heart association and a whole lot more. we have a whole bunch of other medical organizations up on the
concerns now about other facilities here in the state of florida. a industry group for long-term care facilities say 150 out of 700 in florida are not at full power at this point, ali. it s a scary situation for them. thanks very much. mya rodriguez. we re going to stay on top of that story and the condition in other nursing homes in residential facilities and assisted living facilities and retirement homes in florida. this is a serious matter we ll stay on top of for you here at msnbc. joining me now is jeff johnson, florida state director of the aarp. it is now calling the aarp is calling for a thorough review of procedures and laws in the wake of this tragedy. jeff, i mean, you knew about this we were talking about it last week. we knew that florida has a high proportion of retirees, nursing homes, things like that. and we wondered when some were going to be evaced because of this very matter. the thing you thought might