Cancer patient: ‘I’m the model case for why Obamacare’ is needed
As soon as Dan Seco turned 26, he lost his health care, and as a freelance writer he didn't have the money to buy private health insurance. He was later diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. "I think I'm the model case for why Obamacare needs to pass and what it can do to help people in my situation, Full story
Boehner needs no obstruction primer from Heritage Action
Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-New York, joins Martin Bashir to discuss why Speaker John Boehner would need a primer on obstruction from 501(c)4 Heritage Action – when some call him a champion obstructer himself – and then both discuss her work to stop the rise of sexual assaults in the military.
GOP obstructionism: lather, rinse, repeal
Fresh off the heels of his 37th vote to repeal Obamacare, Speaker Boehner says repealing Obamacare is his key focus moving forward, and that means more time wasted.
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GOP strategy continues to be attack, attack, attack
Republican strategist John Feehery and the Center for American Progress’ Neera Tanden talk about the right-wing’s cry to Republican leaders to focus on the scandals for as long as possible in order to derail the president’s momentum in his second term.
Rewriting Washington on the I.R.S.
Speaker John Boehner wants to know who's going to jail over the "scandal" at the I.R.S., and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell called that the "stupidest thing" the Speaker's ever said. He has more in his latest Rewrite.
Conservative editors warn Republicans
The editors of the conservative National Review warn Republicans that scandal is not an agenda. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses Republican scandal politics with MSNBC's Joy Reid.
GOP deaf to positive signs for the economy?
Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities, and Time Magazine’s Michael Scherer discuss how Republicans conveniently neglect positive economic indicators they have sworn are their No. 1 priority.
All the legislation that got sidelined by scandal
The Cycle hosts spin on what Congress has been working on that got sidetracked by the week's scandals.
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