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the free market. any retreat of god from the public scare proves to those who use the bible the heathen nature of liberals and the repressed nature of their side and you get high outrage. beware, progressives, religious liberty as attempted blockade against anything sets up a win/win for the other side. that's it for us, now is "now." the numbers say 6 million and counting. then again, if you're in the party of repeal, why believe in numbers? monday, march 31st, and this "now." >> today is the deadline. >> your last chance to sign up for private health insurance. >> open enrollment closes at midnight. >> midnight. >> midnight. >> by midnight tonight. >> deadline day. >> sort of. >> it's only kind of the deadline. >> anybody who is in line now, they are able to even, at the
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deadline closes, to stay in line. >> obama's going to open up a large loophole on that. >> for a little while, the finish line looked like the starting line. >> surge in demand caused the healthcare.gov website to go down again. >> republicans are pushing back on numbers. >> january 2017 at earliest before republicans have a serious capability to do anything major to the law. >> lhealth care law is here to stay. >> we expect the law to be covering 30-some million people. >> i can't understand why individuals don't want all americans to have health care. >> certain states didn't want the civil rights laws but that's the law of the land. 6 million and counting, that is the number of people who signed up for health insurance through state and federal exchanges, and it is a number that could climb as high as million by the open enrollment deadline tonight when the clock strikes midnight. critics will of course point out
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that it's really only a kind of, sort of deadline. last week the white house announced it would give an extension to people still involved in the sign-up process by march 31st and not that anyone's counting but the "wall street journal" notes that this is 38th such delay. in what might best be termed a one-two punch, administration officials counter that the delay is both sensible and it's necessary. that ensuring access to exchanges is like another thing that certain republicans seem to have a problem with. insuring access to the voting booth. >> approaching it the same way an election, you've seen long lines on election day, we let everybody vote who tries to vote. if we take a step back, think what we're trying to do, we try have people do the responsible thing, get health insurance. >> the metaphor seems apt, over this weekend, 2.9 million americans logged on to healthcare.gov, as visual proof of the demand, white house released photos showing long
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lines of people looking to sign up las vegas and el paso. along with and the lines and the data set, the public is seeing faces of those benefiting from the law. people like alfred chavez, a part-time mcdonald's worker pursuing a college degree. his policy with a federal subsidy will cost just $1 a month. new analysis from "the l.a. times" and the rand corporation finds that 9.5 million, 9.5 million, previously uninsured people, now have coverage thanks to the patient protection and affordable care act. all of this has inspired for what seems like the first time in a very long time, some chest thumping over at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> there has been a remarkable story since the dark days of october and november, which has resulted in a situation where here on the last day of enrollment we're looking at a number substantially largerer than 6 million.
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>> but what are numbers, photographs or reports and headlines when you're a member of the grand old party of repeal? >> i don't think it means anything, chris. the -- i think they're cooking the books on this. >> people don't trust the administration to be honest about obamacare. >> that's swirling. let me ask you, you say they don't trust the administration. >> they'll lie to you. >> your colleague says that the white house is fixing the books. >> totally they are. >> white house press secretary jay carney took on the latest salvo merrily. >> my favorite the accusation books are cooked you know we're doing well when we get back to polls being wrong, as we saw in late 2012. i tell you they're real and people are signing up. >> joining me now, former senior adviser to president obama and director at university of chicago institute of politics, david axelrod, and vice provost at university of pennsylvania and author of "reinterventing american health care," dr. zeke
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emmanuel. thank you for joining me today on this momentum day, deadline day. zeeshg o zeke one of the architects of the law, i've got to ask you, this number 9.5 million uninsured are covered. if you break that down, 2 million covered through enrolling on the exchanges, 4.5 million covered through medicaid and 3 million young adults who have coverage through their parents' plans. which of those numbers surprises you the most and satisfies you the most? >> oh, i think actually the -- all of them together. it's really, you know, round about 10 million people who didn't have insurance now have insurance. we estimate excluding the undocumented, about 38 million, 40 million people. so the first year, we've got a quarter of the people who are uninsured before to get coverage and we know that coverage is a first step, it's not the end of
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the game, because people have to get health care but certainly relieves people of the financial worries and that is a very important element of having insurance that you can actually, if disaster struck, you get hit by a bus or aden sights or cancer you get cover without going bankrupt. it's not the end, as i said. it's a very important first step. >> david axelrod, as one of the architects of the presidency, did you imagine we would be here? i mean, i say that hindsight is always 20/20, but you remember the month of rolling glitches which seemed to extend forever? it looks like according to signup.net, projections 6.9 to 7 million americans enrolled as of this evening what happen do you have to say on this day? >> well, you know what i think about is if not for the glitches and more than the glitches, all of the sniping and all of the
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attempts to bedevil this process, i wonder what the number could be. what it speaks to is the real demand for health coverage, for the reasons that zeke suggested. and so it's very, very heartening. alex, i've said before, maybe not on this show but elsewhere, i have a child with a preexisting condition, started when she was 7 months old. i went through the dreadful period of time in my life where i thought we were going to go broke because we didn't have health coverage that could handle her health care. and so, i think of all of those folks who aren't going to have to go through that kind of agony. and it's very, very satisfying. >> you know, david, when you look at the projections of enrollment, now, 7 million seems like a big number today, but if you look at the year 2017, which is theoretically the first time a republican-controlled white house if that does happen, and a republican-controlled congress could do anything to repeal or take this law down in a real
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actual kind of way, there are -- projecting on the exchanges, 24 million people enrolled, and in terms of medicaid, 12 million people enrolled. the aca, by that year, will be covering 36 million people. now, we -- you and i have discussed this, republicans are not good with demographic data and numbers in general. on this piece, the fact they're entire party rests on repeal, look at those numbers, it does not seem like a great strategy. >> first, i'm not sure they believe they're going to repeal the law. i i this is a turnout mechanism for them in the fall election. and let's be clear. this is a great story of people uninsured getting coverage. but the affordable care act is larger than that, you have 105 million people who can't get thrown off insurance if they get seriously ill because there are no more caps. you have people with preexisting conditions who can't be barred
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from coverage. you've got a range. rebates, if your insurance company spends more than 20% of its -- your premiums on something other than health care. there's so many things in this law that republicans simply could not repeal, and they can't just cherry pick, which is why there has to be a comprehensive law. so i don't believe they're going to repeal this law. i think they'll tell people they want to repeal the law, because they think it's going to help them with turnout in the fall election. >> can i add to that? >> yes. >> one important thing, the entire health care system, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, device companies, all of them, are now building their strategic plans, how they're going to approach the next 20, 30 years, around the law. they don't want it repealed because they want actually to know the rules of the road and compete. >> wait. this is the certainty that the private sector's always demanding, right. >> exactly. they need to know what the actual rules of the road are, so
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that they can actually structure their business plans. i was on the phone with the american health insurance plans and they were talking about, you know, they'd like this enrollment situation and the website to be fixed so that they can get on to, you know, 834s working that can enroll people, know what their demographics are so they can predict the cost for next year and therefore the premiums. everyone is operating within the framework of the aca. you've got big businesses now that don't want it repealed. i think david's right. this is more a political ploy, a political rhetoric, than anyone thinks it's reality. >> but politics still -- let me follow up on that, zeke, because politics and policy sometimes dovetail here. there is a reality that insurance premiums may go up. we do not know who is enrolled in these exchanges. we do not know the sort of demographic breakdowns and data of how sick they are, whether they are young invincibles or not and if premiums rise, from
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your perspective, a policy perspective, what is a bridge too far in terms of premium increases? >> i do think that the idea of double digit increases would be extreme, especially given the fact that health care inflation is pretty low, and you have millions of people, and as david said there does seem to be extreme amount of demand, and next year we'll get more people enro enrolled. i think what we should be seeing is probably about 5% increases, and remember, a lot of these insurance companies had built-in risk already because this was the first year. they had no idea how well it was going to work or how well it wasn't going to work. i think the double digit is scare tactics to prepare anyone in case it looks disastrous for them but i don't think it's going to be that high. i -- and again, i also think, remember, the insurance companies don't want this to go away. this is the new platform for them, and they do see this as the wave of the future.
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>> david, for better or for worse -- and today it feels like better and sometimes other days it feels like worse -- democrats are shouldering the only us in of health care at this moment, and specifically this white house, but also in the midterms. i wonder, you know, when you talk about, health care, insurance companies frequently raise their premiums. frequently problems with insurance. >> yes. >> except now health insurance is tied to the democratic party. so all of the problems, all of the residual problems that existed before in the structure, to some degree going to be assigned to the affordable care act. >> this is -- this is -- this is, of course, alex, why seven presidents tried to do this, seven presidented failed over 65 years. it's a very, very difficult thing to do because you're right, anytime something happens in the health care system if a premium goes up, someone gets denied care in any way, people say because of the affordable care act. if you're intimidated by that
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prospe prospect, you should never have gone down this road. i think the reason why people, from the president to members of congress who voted this deserve such great credit, this isn't the easy, political thing to do. it's going to take time. i think we're going to look back in five, ten, 20 years and say that was an extraordinarily good decision. but the transitional period is fraught. and this is -- one of the things is -- one of the reasons it's fraught is because of what you raised. i want to make one point on what zeke said about the insurance industry. i suggest that all of the black helicopter crowd and people doubting numbers and all of that stuff should talk to the insurance industry because they seem to be bearing out the numbers that the government is reporting. so if -- >> if they don't believe the government, maybe they'll believe private industry. >> let me raise one thing that emphasizes what david -- what you said, alex, which is, remember, we got health care
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reform in february 2010, in no small measure, because wellpoint raised its rates 39%. >> yep. >> in one year. that is why health care reform has come, because it was unpredictable in the past, people got thrown off insurance plans. it's four years since passage. we forget how bad it was. people want certainty and the exchange provides them that certainty. god forbid something happens at their employment. god forbid their employer decides to cancel coverage. they have a way of getting health insurance at a reasonable price. that is very valuable to people. and i think going forward, it's also going to be valuable to the insurance industry because they know the rules of the game. >> all i have to say 48 million americans uninsured in 2012, that number has dropped by 9.5 million, something to talk about. thank you both for your time. >> thank you. >> great to be with you, alex. ahead, all right good night,
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no, really, do not call it a comeback. after a 48-hour whirlwind that
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saw a christie administration commissioned, tax-payer funded vindication, network interview, cable interview, and good old combative press conference the new jersey governor tried to get back to being the presumed republican front runner in 2016 race by heading to sin city to court billionaire casino magnate pro-israel activist and big-time republican pooh-bah, sheldon adelson. the event, republican coalition jewish spring meeting. how chris christie tried to win over. >> i took a helicopter from occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand the military risk that israel faces every day. >> #foreheadslap. note to governor christie, occupied territories is not how staunch israel advocates refer
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to areas like the west bank. sources tell nbc news that christie later apologized to addleson during a private meeting after the speech, but it was just another really awkward moment in a weekend full of really awkward moments. even this audience wanted to know more about bridgegate. >> for me, i think, it's about me being a lot more questioning, about things that are going on, not to just trust based upon longterm relationships or past performance, and it's about sending very clear signals that certain conducts and actions are certain are completely unacceptable. >> speaking of completely unacceptable, back in new jersey, that is pretty much how bridget kelly's attorney described his client's depiction in the bridgegate review, aka christie administration commission aka taxpayer funded vindication. the report amounted to a
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preemptive strike. kelly's attorney fired back late friday night against the characterization of his client and called it venomous, gratuitous and sexist. he added the report based on incomplete evidence and closed his statement, quote, only credible investigation into the lane closings is being conducted by the u.s. attorney's office. if miss kelly provided with the appropriate procedural safeguards she will be fully cooperative and provide truthful and complete answers of any questions asked by the appropriate law enforcement authorities. like i said, don't call it a comeback. joining me now, political writer for "salon," alex pareene. you and i see eye to eye on the weekend and how ridiculously bad it was for chris christie. you called it sieries of unforcd errors or one gigantic error. explain. >> i'm one of the people who asked me january or february if
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christie can be a republican nominee for president, i would say yes. he's so good managing the press and connecting with elite republicans. at this point, i am no longer of that opinion. he really, in a very short amount of time, completely bungled his press response to the bridge scandal and then annoyed a bunch of really, really rich republicans. >> and accused of being a sexist by his own former deputy. >> exactly, yeah. >> what is shocking, a couple of things. one is, it reflects -- we're talking about this before the segment began -- a real sort of dismissive attitude towards not only his own party, but the american public, and the media. notion that he could run through with this what "the new york times" calls a whitewash and go out and assume that everybody was going to swallow this hook, line and sinker, he could trot back to vegas and resume his regularly scheduled prepresidential programming, and also no one would think less of
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him for writing the things that he did in the way that he did or lawyers did about bridget kelly, there wasn't any sort of hint of exactly the things that she discussed, misogyny, villainous attitude towards her as a woman. >> i -- i don't really understand it. not only does it reflect poorly on christie, but it makes her more likely to speak to the u.s. attorney. like he really made his own -- he basically could have created a witness against him who might not otherwise testify. >> he must be presuming that she has -- >> that she has -- >> if there is any strategy in this strategiry, bridget kelly's holding on to something and this was a preemptive strike. >> i don't think it's one that had the effect of making people less sympathetic to bridget kelly. >> yeah. other thing that strikes me, we played that sound he was asked by conservatives what he learned from bridgegate, and what's striking to me, through all of this, he has literally had three
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months to craft some kind of message about lessons learned to convey some sense of remorse. and basically his answer is, for me, it's about everybody else. >> yeah, yeah. i've learned, i can't trust people i'm hiring because everybody's lying, that's the story of bridge gate, everybody lied and it's not my fault. i thought a smarter way would have been, if the report that his own attorneys created said at least a little bit of responsibility to christie, enough to make it believable. >> smoke screen. >> exactly. he could have come out and been contrite. he tried apologizing on day one, but since then no contrition. easiest way to move past this, show some contrition, which he's unable to do. >> occupied territories, you have pointed this out, others have, the fact he did not realize that not the term of reference for an audience like that, betrays a lack of preparation and organization in his inner circle.
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the question is asked, what affect has bridgegate investigate had on him? concretely, seems like he's not staffed up correctly. talking about someone trying to run for president in 2016, this is woefully inadequate. >> i think that is a great example of how unprepared he is. in a way, that surprises me. christie, he traditionally has been something sometimes admirably stood up to extremism party on various things and this is an example of him, he's in las vegas, basically begging a billionaire to give him money. he couldn't temper like his normal attitudes about language he uses this that environment. it's an embarrassing environment to be in. but come prepared. >> right. that is kind of like the final insult. a man who stood up to muslim judges talked about sharia law nonsense and seemed like he would stand up to the radically conservative right wing elements in the republican party. here we have the vegas song and dance. >> exactly. >> alex pareene from salon,
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according to german officials, this afternoon, putin told german chancellor merkel he has ordered a partial withdrawal from troops from the border. the state department said the move would be a welcome, preliminary step. until this moment, russia refused to pull back more than 40,000 troops that the u.s. believes are massed near ukraine's board somewhere on the ukrainian peninsula of crimea which russia controls. today, secretary of state kerry
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and russian foreign minister lavrov spoke by phone to follow up on a four-hour discussion in paris sunday. the paris meeting hastily organized after putin called obama late friday to respond to america's proposal to resolve the crisis. but there was little headway. lavrov held his own press conference after their meeting, secretary kerry left little room for compromise. >> russia's actions over the past several weeks have placed it at odds with the rule of law and international community, and we still believe on the wrong side of history. >> both russia and the u.s. have publicly endorsed constitutional changes in ukraine that would protect its russian-speaking population but neither country has agreed on the form of those changes. in the meantime, even the appearance of movement may be an acceptable substitute for actual movement. according to "the new york times" for the americans, even a hint of progress might provide the time to search for a political solution. for the russians, the appearance of flexibility could aid their
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effort to stop the west from imposing tougher sanctions and discourage nato's interest in taking more resolute steps. america's diplomatic off-ramp may be russia's, too. after the break, the u.n. sends a clear and totally terrifying message in its new report on climate change. the worst is yet to come. shane smith joins me next on "now." and just give them the basics, you know. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. [female announcer] we grow big celebrations,o.
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climate change. and apparently, apparently, the worst is yet to come. throughout the 21st century, the report says, climate change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth, make poverty reduction more difficult, further erode food security and prolong existing and create new poverty traps. the report's authors conclude that climate change and indirectly increase risks of violent conflicts in the form of civil war. this group of scientists, who incidentally won the 2007 nobel peace prize for their work, found with 95% certainly that humans have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since mid-20th century. while the nobel laureates sound their calls, deniers are burying their heads in the sand literally. in las vegas a group called heartland institute holding a climate change skeptics conference. all-star lineup of scientists and issue experts include a
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medical officer from a texas sheriff's office, a massage therapist with a b.a. in psychology, and fred singer, a man rolling stone nicknamed the grand daddy of fake science for his theories that the whole in the ozone layer was not a huge deal, and his conclusion that cigarette smoking was pretty safe. if you believe that civil war, mass starvation and species extinction are no biggie, why not waste time sitting in an air-conditioned room in the middle of the desert listening to what massage therapists have to say about carbon dioxide. the ceo and co-founder of vice media, shane smith. good to see you. >> great to see you. >> this is singularly the most terrifying vision of the future that i have read about in, i think, maybe my lifetime. of the things that are enumerated in the report, they say that by 2100, hundreds of millions of people could be affected by coastal flooding, poverty will be exacerbated, food systems could break down,
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many species, this is apocalyptic, will not be able to move fast enough during 21st century to track suitable climates and therefore go extinct. >> right. >> you have done great reporting on climate change and how evidenced it is in certain parts of the world. which of those things terrifies you the most? >> well i think the retreat, if you look at what's happening, when we just did our piece on green land, melting at astronomical rate if all of greenland melts it's 23 feet of sea level rise on its own, not including antarctica. if that happens 80% of the world's major cities at sea level and you have a global retreat. if you look at bangladesh, what's happening there. maybe in new york we can build seawalls, maybe shanghai can. but bangladesh is in deep trouble, holland is in deep trouble. so many countries in grave
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danger. when i was talking to scientists, gavin schmitt at nasa or jason boxx in greenland, the question isn't if, it's when greenland is going to melt because it is going to melt. the question is how fast. is it going to be 500 years, 100 years, 50 years? and that's what's terrifying. we're heading down the path and we cannot stop it. >> what is interesting in your greenland report, because of the warming climate, they're able to grow, i think strawberries in greenland. and so you have a whole host of, it will put the climate change skeptics in a box of their own, but you have economists and people who are not that the worried about climb change who say the economic boon, now strawberries in greenland, it is amazing to me that short-term bonus of having a greenland strawberry is not outweighed by the potential and the darn near certainty, i can't believe i said darn near, but the near certainty of civil war and
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famine and drought and species extension. >> dr. gavin schmitt at nasa said global warming and sea level rise is good for nobody. sea level rise is good for nobody. i'll say it again. you know, what's happening, not just in greenland but the arctic, you have the melting of the pack ice. there's a huge land grab to get minerals, oil, we did a piece, everybody's putting arms there, russia's putting arms there, en's putting arms up there because there's a big land grab up there. but the problem with that is, the bigger issue is, the ice is gone. >> yeah. >> sea levels are rising. we'll have famine. we'll have drought floods. we're going to have extreme weather. we should be getting together not saying who's going take out the oil which will exacerbate the problem. >> it's also exposing economic fault lines in terms of the poor countries, you mentioned bangladesh. cities and countries that will
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go under water that are at sea level, sure, there are amsterdams and new yorks at sea level but a huge part of the developing world is going to have to, and bears the brunt of climate change, and the question is, and the real tension here, is who's going to pay for this? the estimate is that these developing countries need $100 billion a year to combat the effects of climb change. that's a line in that u.n. report that was taken out by the wealthy countries. >> sure. >> there's a huge debate, especially that china's a big emitter of carbon. who should pay the price? >> also, if you look at arab spring, how arab spring started, it started as a revolution because of food. >> yeah. >> food prices were increasing because of drought, et, et cetera. if you extrapolate the ipcc's latest number, food is getting more and more expensive, water is getting more and more expensive, who suffers? the poor. look at arab spring and the dramatic upheaval, still going
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on in syria, still going on in egypt, in many countries, imagine when that hits southeast asia, south america. you're looking at a total geopolitical shift in the world in the next 20 to 30 years which, it's 20, 30 years away, okay. >> talking 2016 presidential election. >> what you're seeing in california, what you're seeing now in texas, with the drought, with extreme weather, hurricanes like sandy in new york, like fukushima, you're having all of these extreme weather conditions causing all of these problems, that's only going to get worse. >> anecdotally i was discussing with friends the moment we're in, which i think has humans we think the most desire and disastrous with global conflict and economic uncertainty. but in fact, when you read the projections in the report, this may be the period of harmony and state sis in the grand scheme of things which makes behavior of people, the heartland institute having their ninth international conference on climate change
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featuring architects and massage therapists, and the reports they issue as laughable as the data may be or the conclusions may be, actually gain a foothold in some corners -- >> that's the most insidious part. because you have the fossil fuel industry, you have the car industry, they know the science is right. >> and they fund these reports. >> 98% of the scientific community is saying, yes, you know, ipcc's report just came out. we're saying yes, it's here. there's no more questioning, no more fighting, arguing this is what's happening but you still have the koch brothers, groups saying let's get out there, say no it's not happening, it's not happening. there's a forum where you can put four eggive in comments any article and see it. >> this is on vice. >> on vice or any other -- you can go and look. if you do a climate change piece, the first four comments will be negative. because they pay them. they pay them to go out and spread. and that's what i find
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insidious, because they know the scientists are correct. yet to mike money in short term, they're play paying for climate change denial. >> getting any amount of bandwidth, given conclusions of hundreds of nobel laureates, devastating not just thought and reason, but for the plan net. shane smith from vice. vice media, awesome i guess we'll call it episode. it is an episode. but you have been doing great work on covering climate change. check out vicenews.com and of course catch new episodes of vice's fancy and fabulous hbo series on fridays at 11:00 p.m. eastern. demonstrators clash with police in albuquerque, new mexico over the police department's disturbing record of brutality and deadly shootings. the latest on those protests and stit's so-called bounty system ahead. starts with back pain...
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opposed to all right good night which government officials previously said was the final radio communication. the new information is just the latest example of confusion and mixed messaging that has surrounded the search. there is a race against time to locate any kind of wreckage from the plane in the indian ocean. the black box expected to run out of battery power in less than a week. tonight an australian ship left perth with a device that can depict black box pings. the u.s. navy cautions this will effective in a smaller search area. tony abbott said there is no time limit on the search and added if the mystery's solvable, we will solve it? after the break, what's when a city police department institutes a bounty police system? very bad things. that's next. this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up.
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protests against police brutality in albuquerque, new mexico, turned violent last night after officers in riot gear clashed with hundreds of protesters. according to the albuquerque journal, police threw more than two dozen canisters of tear gas and arrested six protesters. the website was breached on sunday, days after a youtube video featuring logo of hacking group anonymous warned of a cyberattack. the protests prompted by the deadly police shooting of a mentally ill homeless man this month. march 16th, six police officers in the foothills fired beanbags, stun guns and six live rounds of ammunition, killing 38-year-old james boyd. the shooting followed a three-hour stand-off during which boyd threatened officers with a knife. but the video the encounter showed boyd gathering his things and agreeing to descend to meet officers right before the officers fired on him. it was not an isolated event.
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since 2010, albuquerque police have taken part in 37 shootings, 23 of them deadly. according to a "new york times" report from 2012, the city's police officers receive payments of up to 1,000 each per shooting as part of an officially sanctioned bounty system. since 2012, the department of justice has been investigating the police department over complaints of civil rights violations and allegations of excessive use of force. on friday, the fbi opened its own investigation into this month's fatal shooting. joining me now, reporter for the associated press, russell contreraras. tell us how it started out peacefully and escalated into violence. >> the protest started peacefully, around downtown albuquerque. and moved towards university of new mexico. it kept going back and forth. it's a two-mile march. while protesters and demonstrators were heading towards either location, they
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would snarl traffic, create backups with motorists and overall peaceful. toward the end of the evening, protesters started climbing poles and tried to take down sign. it escalated at the end at university of new mexico with tear gas blasted and later downtown in front of the albuquerque police headquarters. >> do you remember the thing that set that off, the firing of the tear gas canisters? i believe you tweet at 3:19 that evening, my eyes are still burning from the tear gas. remember what set that off? >> yeah, what happened was the protesters were at footsteps of the albuquerque headquarters. after police in riot gear surrounded them, gave them a number of warnings, this is an unlawful assembly, we need to disband, they gave a final warning. at that time, people with officers with the county sheriff's and albuquerque police fired canisters.
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one canister went past the police where some of us reporters were hanging out and dispersed april number of us took off running. at that time the demonstration was broken up. this is after 10:30 our time here in albuquerque, at which time there were three dozen more protesters in the area and they vowed to continue to protest either today or tomorrow. >> i think it's shocking to a lot of us in the last three years and change, albuquerque police have taken part in 37 shootings, 23 of them deadly. there is a bounty system in place in the police department. can you tell us more about how that works? >> well, a couple of years ago a number of media outlets reported that the union was given payments to certain officers who were involved in some shootings. what this -- what the union argued is that these payments were allowing officers to either get away, while they were on administrative leave. after that story broke, the -- unit officials left the police
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union here in albuquerque, and a number of reforms have been instituted among them the police department requiring more college credit for incoming cadets a cadets and officers to wear lapel cameras. this is what we saw in the foothills, it was caught on a helmet camera. we didn't have that in the beginning when these shootings started in 2010. but now we do. i think that is what's driving the anger and criticism toward the police department. >> really quick, the gun death rate in new mexico is 40% higher than the national average. the crime rate is 53% higher than the national average. what is that all about? really quick. >> well, we're one of the more poorer states in the country, dealing with a number of issues here, our economy has been struggling since the recession. so it's totality of all of this that is catching up to us, as we struggle with crime. and also the fact that we are
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the largest city in new mexico. >> it is a disturbing series of events over the weekend, russell. thanks for the reporting. stay safe. russell contreras, thanks for your team. we'll be back here tomorrow 4:00 p.m. watch me when i fill in for chris hayes at 8:00 p.m. eastern. "the ed show" is next. good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> it's going to be hard to sign up. >> since today is the deadline. >> deadline for open enrollment under the affordable care act. >> people packed sign-up centers. >> the website flooded. >> i don't think it means anything. >> more than 6 million people enrolled. >> cooking the books. >> people are looking for affordable health