at cnn.com/"crossfire" as well as on facebook and twitter. >> thanks to both of our guests. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, a conservative u.s. congressman busted for cocaine. plus, george zimmerman free again despite new allegations. and the virginia state senator stabbed repeatedly in his own home. his son found dead at the scene. let's go "outfront." >> good evening. "outfront" we begin with the news, a congressman busted for cocaine. florida congressman trey radel arrested for, quote, unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally possessing cocaine. the freshman will appear in court tomorrow. he faces misdemeanor charges and

up to 180 days in prison. dana bash is "outfront" with the latest. and what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: well, the congressman himself release ad statement apologizing for letting his constituents and his family down and he also announce that had he is an alcoholic. i want to read part of his statement. he said i struggle with the disease of alcoholism and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice. as the father of a young son and a husband to a loving wife, i need to get help so i can be a better man for both of them. he said it is a blessing in disguise because this is forcing him to get treatment. should i note that he hasn't voted at all this week. not since friday. one of his colleagues, a fellow freshman told our producer earlier this week that he's been trying to catch radel to offer him support but cannot reach him. >> wow. i know that it is not a name probably familiar to a lot of people watching. loiks you know him but i understand as he colorful character. >> reporter: he certainly is. as you said, as he house

freshman. he is not somebody who people know. but he is sort of one of those in the newer mold of members of congress because he is 37. he is somebody who is trying to be different than the elder statesman. and he has been pushing the envelope for republicans as well. he did an interview. forgive me, not an interview. he wrote an online piece where he said, he is a hip hop conservative. and the way he describe it is that he said, there you see it. congressman trey radel, why i'm a hip hop conservative. he said the public enemy has some conservative messages. he said fight the power is something that he sees as a quite conservative message that will read that to get a sense of it. the other thing is that he may not be well known but he really gravitated toward those of houston covered him. especially those of us in tv news because he used to be a tv report he before he ran for congress. ? our second story is the good

news about obama care. you say, wait, did i hear you right? you said good news? i did say good news because i know that you've heard the bad news. we all know about the horrific very bad, very terrible website that is not functioning. we know about the poor sign-up numbers, we know about the kansas congratulations notices but there is another side. according to the "los angeles times," quote, a number states that use their own systems, meaning the online systems are on track to hit enrollment targets because of the sharp increase in november. according to state officials. so just moments ago, i spoke to the u.s. senator from kentucky, rand paul. a staunch obama care opponent and i asked about the report because it is near and dear to his heart. one of the states that is outpacing is kentucky, your state. and they say the kentucky demographics have shown 41% of the people who have sign up were under the age of 35. that's above the magic number. 40% means obama care can work in

terms of the young. and obviously kentucky seems to be exceeding that. that's pretty impressive. are you going to say kentucky is a success story for obama care? >> what i would say is that what is extraordinary about kentucky situation is that 40 times more people have been canceled than have signed up. 280,000 peoplee hadheir suranc cled und obama care and 7,000 have signed up. so the number being canceled dwarfs the number actually signing up. so no, if that's a success, i hesitate to see a failure. >> and look, i understand your point. someone might say, once the website is working, you'll get some of those people to sign up or the plans that will be offered are better. and i know those are fair conversations and discussions we can have. at least i have to get you on the record. if young people are signing up in kentucky, and you're getting that there, that open the door to obama care succeeding, right? you have to acknowledge that. >> maybe. the thing is if you have 280,000 people canceled, a lot of them

were young people. what will happen is the expense was less for people that are being canceled. their policies are being canceled because they're less expensive than obama care. so they're going to be asked to sign up for obama care. and i don't think they will because their premiums are going to rise. the most important statistic is, 40 times more people are being canceled in kentucky than are actually signing up. >> those people though, right? over time will have some sort of health care. some of them can pay the penalty. you're totally right. >> maybe, maybe. the thing is they'll to have choose something. they're being canceled because they have something less expensive and president obama wants them to buy one of his four plans which are more expensive. >> but will have better care. >> maybe. i mean if you're a 24-year-old guy, you really don't care if you have dental care for your kids if you don't have any kids or pregnancy coverage for a wife if you're not married or infertility coverage if you're not married. so it gets better but it is more

expensive and it may not be what you want. it doesn't apply to you. it applies to somebody else. >> as a doctor, are not you concerned about the fact that a lot of people say, i'm going on buy what i want. and i want to buy bare bones. but then something happens to them that they don't expect and they expect the system paid for by other people who have insurance, by taxpayers, to come in and bail them out. right? via the emergency room or some other sort of care. and as a doctor, doesn't that frustrate you? isn't the whole point to make everybody pay in so you don't have people who think, i don't want this but then free load off the system when they need it? >> i'm for more freedom of choice and less coercion. obama care coerces you to buy certain products. i'm for letting people buy any product they want. and i will tell when you people could buy anything they wanted, that the problem, there are 15% of our public that was uninsured. a third of them were young, healthy people who made between $50,000 and $75,000 a year.

they were not buying it because it was expensive. so they had money. and now it is more expensive. so really, a third of our problem of the uninsured was due to the expense and we're now making it more expensive. so i think we've actually made the problem worse. so i really don't see a big upside to this. with all the cancellations, i see young people losing their insurance and being forced to buy something they don't want that is more expensive. that is coercion. that's not freedom. >> is there a way for someone like to you say, especially given your expertise, that you can try to make this better? you were an early supporter of the defun obama care effort obviously. you championed the government shutdown in order to do so. i want to play for what you the president said about that today. >> one of the problems we've had is one side of capitol hill is invested in failure. that makes, i think, the kind of process of fixing glitches as they come up and fine tuning the law more challenging.

>> he has a point there. the point you're raising about the young people is straight to it. couldn't you say one way to make them sign up would be the raise the penalty. if the penalties rise, it makes more send for them to sign up for the health care. then you're helping making this thing work instead of advocating for its failure. >> listen to your words, make people, mandate, coerce, i'm for more freedom of choice where individuals can buy what they want, what they can afford to buy. i'm not for mandates. i'm not for telling people what they can buy. this is about freedom of choice. the president wants to you pick only from his four choices. if you choose something else, he will call it a name like substandard. it is what you chose to buy because it is what could you afford and it is what you wanted. he wants to you buy something that you may be need or want. >> i see your point. i come back to this. people say they want freedom of

choice. i don't want to pay for it. when something happens, they speck to get the care paid for by somebody. that's part of why it is so high to begin with. >> people shouldn't expect to get something for free. when i was a physician and people could not pay, some paid on installments, some paid a little over time. some of them never paid me and that does happen. but i think physicians and hospitals have dealt with this since the beginning of time and it isn't perfect. i'm not saying the old system was perfect either. what i would have done was expand competition and make prices more elastic. let prices go up and down and have cheaper policies with higher deductibles. then competition would bring prices down. >> and of course deductibles are a big issue. a lot of these deductibles are very high on these plans being offered. when you talk about being for freedom and not liking words like force and mandate, it brings me to a question, what is

is a conservative? you're going up gulf of mexic, people talking about how they're really conservatives. some republicans say because i got 61% of the vote in new jersey, he must not be conservative. >> i'm a conservative. and i'm a practicing one. >> i'm a bragg one. that sounds like a religion. jeb bush is in favor of comprehensive reform. chris christie has said people should be able to marry whoever they want to marry. do they fit your definition of a conservative? >> you know, i don't think any one person gets on decide what is or is not conservative. on the case of the new jersey governor, i think embracing obama care, expanding medicaid in his state is very expensive and not fiscally conservative. many republican governors did resist expanding and accepting obama care in their state.

i would say that fact, i would say, would lead you toward making the conclusion that it is not a very conservative proposal. >> all right. our thanks to senator rand paul. we look forward to your feedback. a virginia lawmaker stab over and over again fighting for his life. a man who knew the victim and his alleged attacker is out front. plus a department of homeland security employee was found to be running a black supremacist website. this was only four months ago. why is uncle sam and you the taxpayer still paying him his salary? this is no joke. and another strange turn in the rob ford saga. a big move surrounding the toronto mayor. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions--

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an employee who called for mass murder of white people, yeah. that's true. it turns out he still has a job. he still has a job at the dhs. the employee admits that he ran the site you're looking at. war on the horizon, calling for a racial war. why on earth is he still checking a paycheck paid for by our tax dollars in tom forman is "outfront." >> reporter: as he calls himself, the irritated genius is

still at it. still on the internet condemning whites, gays, jews, asians, anyone who doesn't measure up to his black nationalist views. >> that's how we going to put a foot -- >> reporter: and he is still an employee of the department of homeland security three months after the agency publicly acknowledged his website, calling for widespread racial violence. he declined our request for an interview. youtube even he seemed surprised he was not let go as soon as his employers found out. >> i always remind myself, they know who you are, they know what you're doing. don't forget that. >> reporter: he is not the only one wondering how he has kept his $115,000 a year job. >> this is a guy who runs a website that call for mass murder of whites and for war on the horizon. >> reporter: he has accused him of hate speech. he has been on administrative leave since august but that just means he has collected nearly

$38,000 for doing nothing. >> the fact of the matter is that his views are the kind that the department of homeland security should be tracking. they should not be employing him or paying him. >> reporter: the department says little about the matter saying only that he remain an employee of immigration or custom enforcement or i.c.e. and noting that they do not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence. accusations of misconduct are investigated thoroughly and if substantiated, appropriate action is taken. he said he works for the devil but oddly adding -- >> like a fun job. i am not just putting your paper. i'm having a sitdown. okay, how do i help these people that need to be help? >> reporter: he called it a fun job. some watch dog groups saying federal employee is complicated and it takes time. he said maybe he is still employed because maybe the feds

want to keep an eye on him. considering how routinely he sabotages people, taking everyone from trayvon martin's parents to obama, it is hard to imagine how homeland security could not be keeping an eye on him. >> on all points, it is impossible to disagree with you and pretty outrageous to imagine, it is worth keeping you $116,000 aier so we can keep an eye on you. thank you to tom foreman. despite new allegations of gun violence, george zimmerman was released. a special report. did president obama snub abraham lincoln? the man that he invoked so often when he was running for office. why was he a no show at gettysburg today? and the faa making a change. some pilots forced to undergo extra screening. at you wear to d is your business. so, if you're sleeping in your contact lenses, ask about the air optix® contacts so breathable they're approved for up to 30 nights of continuous wear.

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george zimmerman free on bond. the form he neighborhood watchman arraigned on domestic violence charges four months after being acquitted in the murder of trayvon martin. he was charged with aggravated assault and criminal mischief. the judge agreed to release him on a $9,000 bond with a number of restrictions. david mattingly is in sanford, florida. he was there in that room with george zimmerman and he is "outfront" with the story. >> reporter: new accusations against george zimmerman suggest this is not the first time his girlfriend feared for her safety. a state prosecutor told the court, samantha says zimmerman choke her during an argument a week and a half ago. that zimmerman talked about

suicide. not reported to police, it caught his public defenders off guard. >> that was the first i heard about it too. i was surprised. >> reporter: samantha's mother says my daughter is doing good and she's in a safe place. >> he just broke my glass table. you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the [ bleep ] out. this is not your house. >> reporter: investigators say zimmerman had been living with her since august. his mother said the two had known each other 11 years. a judge now says he has to stay away from her. >> not by person, not by phone, not by mail, fax, blog, tweet, through facebook, no contact at all. >> reporter: zimmerman is not even allowed to go back to his girlfriend's house to collect his belongings. someone will have to do that for him. his attorney said deputies took away multiple guns belonging to zimmerman. he is not allowed to have a gun or leave the state while out on bond. he will wear a tracking device

again just like did he before he was acquitted of murdering trayvon martin. declared indigent, he claim to be $2.5 million in debt, homeless, unemployed with only $144 to his name. >> he is upset. he is calm but he's upset. >> reporter: never arrested on domestic charges, he traded restraining orders with a girlfriend in 2005. in september he was detained after his soon to be ex-wife accused him of smashing her ipad after a fight. no charges were filed. this time, zimmerman blames everything on his girlfriend. and made sure his story was recorded in his own call to 911. >> he just started smashing stuff. taking stuff that belonged to me. throwing it outside. throwing it out of her room. throwing it all over the house. he broke a glass table because she threw something on it. >> reporter: shortly before

zimmerman was released from jail, another twist. he was served with divorce papers. >> served with divorce pams. what about the girlfriend? just looking at her there. zimmerman said he has known her a long time, samantha, but what more do we know about her and the room pore that i've heard that she was pregnant with his child? >> reporter: well, not just a roorm. we heard george zimmerman say it in his 911 call that she was pregnant. then we heard from deputies that she told them that she was not. we tried to get to the bottom of it today. her mother didn't respond to the questions when we contacted her. george zimmerman himself didn't respond to the questions when he walked out of jail. >> wow. i heard you talk about he has $144 to his name. you've seen him in both cases. we all remember how heavy he got during the trayvon martin case. how did he look today? >> reporter: well, he's lost weight noticeably. he has of course got a lot more facial hair now. his demeanor was relatively the same that we observed while he was in the courtroom.

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront." at least 16 people are dead after a sigh loan ravaged the italian island of sardinia, playground for millionaires. the am of rain the island usually gets in six months came down in 12 hours. the bridge that you're looking at right there was as a policeman was driving through. people have not seen rain like this on the italian island for centuries. think about this for one second. 17 inches of rain in 90 minutes.

stunning! that's what new york gets in five months. the fax has announced it is giving extra attention to overweight pilots and controllers before it is willing to certify them. according to the top medical doctor, obstructed sleep apnea is almost universal in obese people. the faa doesn't want that on the job. a neck circumference of 17 inches or more will be evaluated by a special sleep therapist. and u.s. authorities have just busted what they believe what they believe is, wait for this, a north korean meth ring. five men have been arrested in thailand in connection to the ring. they're being extradited to the united states. investigators say they were tracking methamphetamine and other drugs from north korea and are part of a broader investigation involving former soldiers including joseph hunter, a former u.s. earl sniper nicknamed rambo who allegedly had a murder for hire

scheme in the works. and gay rights supporters outraged after chick-fil-a ceo was given an award for being a champion of justice and equality. this after he said last year he was supportive of the biblical definition of the family unit. it prompted boycotts. in a statement the urban league of greater atlanta says the award recognized chick-fil-a's significant financial contributions but still supports equal rights for all. and the tv show was canceled tonight, the day after it debuted. the network behind the program didn't cite ford's recent indiscretions as the reason but said the show required too much time and production on the air. don't worry. the last couple weeks is any indication, the real life rob ford was much better than the stayed rob ford you saw on the video. now a horrible story out of virginia. a state senator dead in his

home. his son dead from suicide. creigh deeds was found with multiple stab wounds to his head and torso. investigators believe his son austin, who is called gus, stabbed him and then turned a gun on himself. "outfront," we begin with the story and chris lawrence. >> reporter: police found a chilling scene after an early morning 911 call. >> deeds was stabbed multiple times about the head and upper torso. deeds was able to leave the scene on foot. as he was coming down the hill of his residents toward route 42, he encountered a cousin who lives nearby. >> reporter: he was air lifted to the hospital where they say he was able to speak with them. inside the rural virginia home, deputies found the senator's 24-year-old son gus suffering from a gunshot wound. he died at the scene. police say there was an altercation. >> based on the evidence we have, we are looking into there

as an attempted murder and suicide. this is not an absolute determination because it is still very much of an active investigation will. >> reporter: his son gus was often seen at his side on the campaign trail. he was a music major at the college of william and mary. official say in the last month, he left the school. the richmond times dispatch is reporting that gus deeds was sent for a mental health evaluation under an emergency custody order. the paper cites a source saying he was released monday because no bed was available. creigh deeds is well known in virginia politics in his unsuccessful bid to be governor in 2009ering garnered a presidential endorsement. >> when i look at the way he conducts himself and his campaign, speaking truth to power but always doing it in a way that reminds us that we have to bring people together instead of driving them apart. >> reporter: one bright spot in all of this. creigh deeds has been upgraded

to fair condition from critical. the facility where gus deeds was released from yesterday said they will not confirm that he was brought there under an emergency custody order. but they do say even if someone is brought there, they cannot be held there any longer than six hours. cnn reach out to virginia officials to get a better explanation and they tell us that the availability of beds for these emergency consultations is, quote, tight. but in normal circumstances, because they are calling hospitals all across the area, normally it is possible and likely that someone does get a bed. >> chris lawrence, thank you very much. sobering. "outfront" as virginia state senator chat peeredson has known creigh deeds for more than 15 years. thank you for taking the time tonight. let me ask you this. you've known creigh for more than 15 years. how concerned was he about gus? >> well, erin, first of all

thank you for having me on this evening. and i know that as a father, he had a lot of concerns about his son. just issues involving dropping out of school and things of that nature. i know that it was a topic of great concern to him. >> and i know that obviously gus deeds had recently dropped out of william and mary, the college there. did creigh ever talk to you about that? >> yeah, i think again, we were lucky that we were friends and we had a friendship outside the state senate. i know he had been concerned about his son's situation. that was something on his mind. >> did he feel he had solutions? when we hear these stories, i have to be honest with you. sometime it is so shocking. according to reports, gus was released after a mental health evaluation on monday because there were no psychiatric beds that could be found. it sounds like creigh had tried

to help his son and sort of run up against wall after wall after wall. did you get that impression in i'm trying to get help for a child with mental health problems but i'm not able to do it. >> yeah. i don't know the details about the psychiatric bed. i know creigh was living on the very far western part of the state. and i know he was living with his son. the two of them were living together and that was a conscious decision to help hill get some stability in his life and i know that creigh had made a commitment to his son in that way. and again, i hadn't talk to him specifically about it in the last few months. i know it weighed on him as a father. and the pieces come into place now that we know more about the

history. >> was creigh close to gus? as a father he wanted to live with him, to help him because there weren't other options. were they close as father/son? >> yeah. one of the memories have i of creigh and gus was them traveling the tate together. i think back to creigh's run for attorney general in 2005 and that's with we became friends. we had been friends but we knew each other even better. i was campaigning that same year. gus was his driver. they traveled together. they traveled together. he was a teenage

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. suicide bombers killed 23, injuring nearly 150 people. i asked why the embassy was the target. >> reporter: i'm standing just down the road from where those two blasts detonated about 9:00 this morning outside the iranian embassy. we're now hearing from the lebanese army. there were two suicide bombers. some suggesting guards opened fire at them as they proexd the gate. i'm standing in a hezbollah stronghold of the lebanese group. hezbollah and the group that claimed responsibility, the abdullah brigade, quite clear in that they are targeting the iranian embassy and trying to get hezbollah fighting alongside the syrian regime to stop that assistance in the syrian conflict. many concerns, the tactic, a suicide bomber they haven't seen

for decades. and this is another sign the violence is spilling over into lebanon. >> i want to go to tokyo where thousands lined the streets. what would they do that for? because caroline kennedy, the new u.s. ambassador to japan, went through in a horse drawn carriage. it was part of an elaborate procession marking the official start of her duties. kyung lah is there and i asked her about the pomp and circumstance. >> reporter: what you are seeing here, all these people who are lining this street here in tokyo, this is highly unusual. they are here just to catch a glimpse of caroline kennedy become the u.s. ambassador in the eyes of japan. caroline kennedy arrived here at the imperial palace, pull in a horse drawn carriage, traveling through streets of tokyo. she arrived at the imperial palace for a formal ceremony where she presented her credentials to the emperor of japan. she made a short statement after

the formalities. >> eager to begin work as ambassador. so it was a wonderful ceremony. and i'm honored to represent my country. >> the japanese, the ones who have shown up here, appear to be relatively unconcerned about kennedy's lack of diplomatic experience despite pressing issues in this region like north korea, china, as well as the global economy. they say what has brought them out here and what they are most impressed with with their new ambassador is her star power. erin in. >> star power counts for something. thank you. let's check in with wolf who is filling in for anderson on ac 360. a star himself. thank you. >> we're keeping them honest ahead on 360. an investigation that has literally life and death. manager's veterans are dying needlessly because of long waits. what's worse, the v.a. knows all about the problems and has done almost nothing. drew griffin is keeping them

honest. also, anderson's candid interview with magic johnson. the basketball ledge end opening up about learning he was hiv positive and more recently, loving support for his gay son. it is all at the top of the hour. >> we're looking forward to that in a few moments. now our sixth story "outfront." did president obama snub abraham lincoln? thousands gathering today to celebrate the 150th anniversary of lincoln's iconic 272 word address. there was one very notable no show. the president of the united states, barack obama. the white house blamed a scheduling issue. when reporters pressed asking what's more important than the gettysburg anniversary in american history, the senior adviser responded on twitter saying, quote, oh, i don't know. there is this whole website thing that someone suggested might destroy the dem party. howard dean and shawn spicer, i'm excited about this conversation. governor dean, let me start with you. something happened a few moments

ago that i don't know if you know about. i want to ask but this tweet. the president is not writing the code for the webb. pennsylvania is close. why that snarky response from the white house? >> i have no idea why the response to the white house, but you don't have enough to do if this is the lead story or important story on cnn. for heaven's sakes, the president idolizes abraham lincoln. to have a discussion about why he did not go on this particular day, i think we should let the president be in charge of his schedule rather than television reporters. >> let me ask this to you. he obviously is feeling the pressure from this conversation. if he were not, he wouldn't have done what he just did which is put out a handwritten letter saying after michelle and the kids to go sleep, he goes down to a room where abe lincoln used to hang out and he thinks about, pontiff indicates about abraham lincoln and other things like. that he writes, and i'll quote to you. i ling order these few words that have helped define our american experiment. a new nation conceived in

liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal will we wanted to talk about it. why not go there today? politically would not it have been smart? switch the conversation, put yourself in the shad over abe lincoln. get rid of this whole obama care thing. president has a job and it is to be president of the united states. who are we to question what his choices are in his schedule? he does have a few things distracting him. i will stay webb is something he is worried about. i agree he doesn't write the code. but the day of a president is pretty full and there may have been a great many things. what about the nsa which appears to be out of control? lots and lots of problems. >> it would be great if he talked some of them publicly a little more than he has. >> i think the issue is that he's had time for ten fund-raisers. he was golfing last weekend and i'm not begrudging hill. the notion that all these things take paramount to going in and celebrating this day seem a little silly.

if the white house is going to make light of it, they cannot make light of it. put the statement out and have time for fundraisers and golf and everything else and then claim we're busy with everything else. it doesn't add up and i think that they've got to get their stories straight. they've gone from having the president not in the loop on all these various issues, the a.p. reporting, the darrel of justice monitoring some of these reporters. the nsa and then the website. he doesn't either know what's going on or the staff isn't informing him and then fiver making light of the fact that there are so many things to be doing. as the governor pointed out, this president has embraced lincoln from announcing, choosing where he will announce his presidency to the route he took on washington to the bible. so to suddenly act like today is another day on the calendar is a little ridiculous as well. >> we don't know. for all we know he was discussing a serious national security issue. maybe he was putting the finishing touches on either blowing up or signing the iran

detail. the president does a lot of really important thing and i think abraham lincoln is an iconic figure in american history and it is something else was distracting the president and i think we ought to give him some leeway on that. >> one thing we know the president did was attend the wall street ceo summit will that's what he did. and he talked about the obama care problem and here is what he said. >> i think that we probably underestimated the complexities of building out a website that needed to work the way it should. to procure for i.t. all i have to say is this. he has come out and apologized again and again. you have to give the guy credit for that. why use the word probably?

the problem is -- >> well, the problem is this is certainly an i.t. rollout that is very, very public. that's the problem. >> with all due respect, the problem isn't the website. and i know the default keeps going back to the rollout. the fact of the matter is, frankly republicans are right. we warned about this. when you go to take over 1/6 of the american economy and say we're taking over the health care system, you're going to have a major problem. it is not just rolling out a webb that you try to build on godaddy. wolf was just teased. he talks about all the problems and the

any om moz. this is not -- too much in government and. >> the part of the president sounds like

it would have been nice if the republicans had been responsible with their own people to make this work. it can work and it worked in massachusetts in 98% of the citizens have health insurance. this is the same system. >> thanks very much to both of you. we appreciate it. we look forward to your feedback. now bad news for tesl motors. it's the target of an investigation. this is an investigation why two of the models caught fire this year. according to reports it started a fire when the battery case cracked up. tesla once a company that could do no wrong. last week actor george clooney told "ed square" i was one of the first cats with a tesla but i'm telling you i've been on the side of the road for awhile with that and guys, why am i always stuck on the side of the f-ing

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