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>> these children have been forcibly displaced. >> allowing them to remain here will only encourage the next group of individuals. >> we need to process them according to the law. >> this points to the need for a more comprehensive approach. >> anyone that opposes the solution, shame on them. >> i'm not doing anything. >> we ort edge of the fourth of july. ♪ ♪ ♪ it is now the busiest region in the nation when it comes to illegal border crossings and today congressional lawmakers got a first hand look at the crisis facing the rio grande valley in texas. in the last year alone that area has seen a 178% increase in the number of children caught crossing into the u.s. it is a focal point of what president obama recently called an urgent humanitarian situation and after meeting with three little girls who braved crossing the rio grande in a raft, at

today's hearing house homeland security committee chair mike mccall agreed. >> the three little girls that i talked to with their grandmothers this morning on the river, on the raft, literally got turned over and fell into the water and almost drowned. these girls were traumatized. they were crying and they wanted to go back home to guatemala. >> that may be true, but it also fits conveniently with the republican response to the influx of those fleeing violence in central america. deport them. according to texas governor rick perry who testified at the hearing today, deportation is the humanitarian thing to do. >> some may think by, you know, allowing them to stay here that it's more humane option, and i assure you it's not. allowing them to remain here will only encourage the next group of individuals to undertake this very, very dangerous and life-threatening journey. >> in the meantime, the flood

continues, fueling vitriol from anti-immigrant activists. murrieta, california, a city that's become a flashpoint in the national border crisis could see more busses full of migrant women and children as soon as tomorrow after three busses were besieged by activists earlier this week and forced to turn her back. just last night, hundreds of angry residents descended on a town hall to denounce the undocumented. >> we can help you that we're not going to put up with this. >> please, use the word illegal aliens that came across here. illegally. >> one can only imagine the fireworks those folks have planned for the fourth of july. joining me now is the democratic representative for texas and his 28th district, congressman henry quayar. congressman, you've been to the region and spoken to some of these kids. is deportation the answer?

first of all, i do live on the border and i have talked to the kids just this morning, in just a few hours i finished doing that again. listen, we have to look the thea the lessons we've seen in the past. this is not the first time we've had a surge. in the 1980s we had people from el salvador coming in and ten years ago we had brazilians coming in. every surge is a little bit different, but again, i'm one of those strong believers that if you don't make a policy change they're going to continue coming because there's an incentive. so i'm one of those that feel that if you look at the past, what's work side you do a detention and you remove them and that will be a deterrent and again, of course, once they're here you have to treat them with respect and dignity. i agree on the humanitarian crisis, but i'm a big believer in the tension and the removal and it won't be the first time. let me just say this before anybody says something else. we are currently doing this with the mexicans right now. we are deporting, we're

detaining and deporting families, kids, adults, males, females with the mexicans under the human trafficking act of 2008, but we treat other folks very, very differently. >> let me ask you, congressman as a follow-up to that. the house security committee said that these people and these children, little girls he talked to wanted to go back to guatemala. is that the -- what the sense that you've been getting from speaking to these in many cases 8-year-olds, 10-year-olds, twefrl-year-olds that have made multihundred, tens of miles of track coming to the united states. do they want to go back? >> i have not talked to one of them that said that they want to go home. about 55% of them have a family member over here and there is an incentive for them to come here and it's a dangerous trek. when we were at lackland a couple of days ago, we were told that one-third of these young

little girls and i was looking at this girl, this room of young little girls and one-third of them get raped or abused coming up here and it is a very dangerous bus station where we're releasing 500 family units a day in laredo. about 250 of them. some of the mothers were very scared because they've been abused on the way up here. and they get abused once they get here. >> you just heard the congressman say that getting these folks back to their home countries should be a priority, at the same time, the trek has been very treacherous, going back and their futures are uncertain. when it which is to the political response to this, i think it is in some ways helps cement the republican thinking that this is all about securing the border and deportation, but when it comes to the broader

picture here it is clear that the only real solution to this is immigration reform. and in the short term i'm of the mind that prospects it works for talking points for the gop, but in the long term the republican stance it could be detrimental to the party's long-term survival. >> i think what you said is trou. they're fond of blaming the entire problem on the deferred plan that president obama announced a couple of years ago. that's not exactly true, but it's inconsistent with the other view which is the response to this problem should be to secure the border now and then possibly amnesty and years down the line. that creates the same sort of magnate that they're claiming, that the deferred action created and all this comes down to is that the the republican party, republicans in congress can't get to a position where they're willing to deal with immigrants who are in the country already and as long as they can't do that then they have the political problem that you talked about. >> congressman, let me ask you in terms of the white house

response. rick per did not mince words in the last 24 hours calling on the president to come visit the border. do you think the white house has done enough? >> well, my personal opinion for what i've seen and i've been working on this for a while, we asked them to respond on this some time ago and again, thir moving in the right direction, but i think they're one step behind with all due respect to the white house, number one. number two, this thing, this particular crisis just didn't appear from one day to the other. it's been building up and my question has been in talking to the men and women i just met with the border patrol union last night, they had a lot of things to say and i have to say that this has -- this has just been building up. my question is why did we not respond to this a lot faster and the other thing is why are we trying to invent the wheel and i understand every surge is different, but this is not the first time that this has happened and we have to look at that, and plus, i agree with the

gentleman. i am for immigration reform and if we had a guest worker plan where people would come in, go back, some of them wouldn't be put in situations where they're in the united states and they have to put their kids in a very dangerous situation. we know that desperation, we probable e none of us here will probably see that, but some of those people are put in that economic situation. >> brian, would it not be a republican response if there wasn't a lawsuit and we know this afternoon that the texas attorney general greg abbott is going to potentially sue the federal government. i will will read the actual statement from his office which says the state of texas is exploring any and all options including litigation to address the the crisis our federal government has created by not living up to their constitutional responsibility. if the federal government is unwilling to secure the border the state of texas will be resort to recruit the costs incurred by this crisis. it's totally ironic that the

president has requested $2 billion to deal with the border crisis and it is republicans in congress who may be holding that up. >> i think the entire situation surrounding immigration reform with obama acting on his own and with the situation at the border. we're going to get past this sort of 1 1/2-year truce where we've ignored the fact the xeen on phonetic impulses and we're behind the difficulty of getting this process going. >> yes. >> now that the immigration reform process has come apart and we have this border crisis and we're seeing the element seeping out on their own on the right and i think we'll see a greater effort on the part of democrat, liberals and whatever to highlight that that is the main impediment to do something about the border security situation and the 11 million undocumented in the country. >> we are talking about a year almost to the day since the senate reform bill basically

died in the house under john boehner's watch. >> right. >> it is amazing that it is -- that the forces are converging as they are. the murrieta protests and the visuals saying go home. months before mid-term election and a few years before the presidential election, it is hard to imagine that the gop is able to sort of rally all corners of the party to get anything done in the near future and by near future i mean like five years. >> right. >> i mean, they would like the public to believe that the reason immigration reform didn't happen is because they know couldn't trust president obama to ebb force the law and they would pass immigration reform and they would implement the parts that they like and the border parts and it's still not deport anybody and we're seeing just in the nature and response of both republican politicians and also just conservative activists and anti-immigration

activists and that's not what was motivating at all. it was not a credible excuse to begin with and now that immigration reform is dead and they have an excuse for why it failed on the public, and this element of their party is not letting them do that. >> i don't want see anyone out there in murrieta with a sign that says president obama stop executive overreach. i see signs that say go home, illegals. thank you both for your time. >> thank you, alex. after the break from the airports to department stores to church. lawmakers across the country have made it easier for more people to carry guns everywhere. that's next on "now." you can get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. so why are we so obsessed with turbo? because there's nothing more exhilarating than a powerful ride. and you can get that in places you might not expect. like the passat. and also in the fun-to-drive jetta. in fact, volkswagen has sold more turbos than any other brand over the last ten years.

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yesterday, new jersey governor chris christie vetoed a gun safety bill that would have limited ammunition magazines in his state from 15 to 10 rounds. the veto came hours after parents of sandy hook victims delivered over 55,000 signatures urging him to sign the bill. they were refused a meeting with governor christie. upon. new jersey wasn't the only state to move backwards on gun safety this week and it wasn't the state that moved the farthest back. on tuesday a new law went into effect in georgia, one that allows residents to openly carry guns into bars, nightclubs and school classrooms, certain government buildings and air poshths churches, synagogues and mosques can also allow guns on their premises, but only if they first opt-in through a vote. georgia joins oklahoma, and tennessee and missouri as the state with america's most extreme gun laws. in missouri, for example, lawmakers passed the second amendment preservation act

earlier this year, a bill that declares all federal laws invalid if they, quote, infringe on people's rights to bear arms. it narrowly failed to override the veto of jay nixon. how long did it take for georgia's guns everywhere law to backfire? less than a day. on tuesday the same day that the law went into effect a man was arrested in valdosta, georgia, for disorderly conduct for pulling a weapon side of a convenience store. a man carrying a hol sterd firearm entered the store to make a purchase. another customer also with a holstered purchase demanded to see his identification and firearms license. the customer making the demands for i.d. then pulled his firearm from his holster. >> as brian childers said this is an example of my concern with the new gun law that people will take the law into their own hands which we will not tolerate. but the headaches for the good law enforcement personnel of

georgia are just beginning. because of georgia's guns everywhere laws, gun owners at the busiest airport in the world which is atlanta's hartsfield jackson airports on one of the busiest weekends of the year, they will not be arrested at security checkpoints if carrying a concealed weapon. special correspondent for the daily beast, michael tamaski. >> let us talk about the utter absurdity going on across the country. it is amazing to me that the quorum of business interests and law enforcement officials is not enough to convince the nra that, hey, maybe some of these laws edge over the line. >> in fact, it's not just that, there's actual conflict. you have the business lob ney some states on the opposite side from gun rights activists over carrying guns in businesses and can the employees bring their guns into the workplace. we've seen so many incidents of

air rage, we're about to go into the fourth of july weekend. what happens someone's southwest flight is overbooked and pulls out a gun? it's going to happen at some point. >> michael, 60 -- 82% of police chiefs favor a background check and yet in 2013 63 laws in 26 states need easier to carry guns in public. why do people want to carry guns in public so badly? >> you're asking the wrong guy that question, but, look, this is absurdity and it's the nra just flexing its muscles and just rubbing dirt in all of our faces and everybody else's faces and picking their spots and picking their states and saying this is what we're going to do and we'll do it just because we can and we don't care who is against it. we'll do it because we can and we'll show how strong we are and in georgia, this is largely a republican deal, but the democratic candidate for

governor, carter's grandson supports this law because he fear, fear, the operative word, obviously, that he can't run for governor and doesn't stand a prayer of beating the govern ordeal if he doesn't support things like that. once tempted to say wild west, but there were better laws in the wild west. >> and dodge city. you weren't allowed to carry firearms openly. >> there was an agreed-upon time and the open-carry activists took their rifles to a target store in dallas and took pictures in the baby aisle. look at that. >> corey watkins who is a texas open carry leader commented on target's policy change, nick. this is just to shut up the anti-gunners. going back to target with my gun today and tomorrow and whatever days i want. >> now you have starbucks, jack-in-the-box, chipotle, sonic, chili's all asking people to kindly not bring their firearms into the store and this

is where i feel like the debate is similar to the immigration debate, right? you have business interests who are saying this makes no sense. we understand some of the concerns here and the desire to preserve the second amendment, but this is -- i mean, there's liability issues. there is public safety issues here and these companies want no part of this and my question is why are those voices not more powerful than the nra given how much that represents. >> sometimes when i'm in the cookie aisle i often feel myself at risk and i wouldn't mind -- >> oreos can get really nasty. seriously, what they hate is the liability lawsuits. >> yes. >> is what they hate and that's what this is all about. >> time and time again, we've seen that the gun advocates win because of intensity and because they can change because they only care about this one issue and it's what they're organized around and businesses, even in the red states and where the

business lobby is very strong, they keep losing on these bills. >> what about moms shopping in the baby aisle and we talk about swing voters and, this is a suburban soccer mom issue. >> one would think this is a political contingent that would support saner gun safety laws in public. >> here in new york city if you walk into a department store or carrying a rifle, you can rob it or something, right? in a lot of states people hunt more often and they're in public view and it's not as rare and the difference would be here in new york, but i'm not sure that the constituency exists that is as powerful as the constituency that we're talking about here which is we believe we have the right to carry our arms wherever we go. >> let me ask you, michael because nick makes a point that there is a cultural divide and a geographical divide. what do we say to chris christie? that seems clearly a bid for conservative voters who are

skeptical of him who are primary voters in states like iowa or new hampshire. >> that's obviously what it is. christie is running for president. this is a good sign or thinks he's running for president depending on what the u.s. attorney has to say about that question, but, you know, he has taken some steps in the past as governor that the nra looked scant at. well, he's not going to be doing that anymore and it's really sated and unbelievable to me as you pointed out and as i read the other day, parents of kids who are killed at sandy hook show up with 55,000 names on petitions. 55,000 names, the parents of these children and he won't even talk to them. it's tragic. >> a closed door sign to the parents of sandy hook victims. thank you both for your time. >> thanks a lot. coming up, will hurricane arthur wipe out the fourth of july? not going to wipe out nick confessore's fourth of july. the latest coming up next.

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area. at 6:00 tonight is when hurricane arthur will make the grand appearance here in wrightsville beach, north carolina. the sea continues to get angrier and angrier and the lifeguards are not in their stands and they're in their cars patrolling up and down the the ocean front here just making sure the people stay out of that ocean. basically, what's happening right now you have this strong winds and you've got the heavy rain and you've got an amazingly rip current. in the distance, those dangerous ocean waves and all of that combined not a good recipe for anybody to go and cool off in the ocean. there is a public safety message for this sound to bakley stay out of the ocean. what about the the roads? yes, was there flooding and a lot of the roads are passable which is a good thing and at 6:00 tonight this is when hurricane arthur is making his appearance on wrightsville beach, north carolina. >> back to you. >> who has more power in the big house? wardens or convicts?

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on the basis of race. >> it's grouped mostly by gang affiliation so you can see, that's the only safe way to house people together. >> you're racially segregating. no, we're segregating by gang because if you put two opposing gang members in the same cell. >> they're going to stab each other. >> the correctional officers aren't the only ones asking for paperwork. >> i'm a white boy from santa cruz, 45 minutes away. like, what do i do when i show up my first day in prison? >> you have to do paperwork. >> the gang leadership will ask to see my paperwork when i show up the first day? okay. so that first day i walk out on to the yard, like, where do i sit? >> you're back from santa cruz, right? they'll clear your paperwork and then you'll see the table and the area that the whites control

in the yard. >> it's way more formalized than i ever imagined. >> that's crazy. >> joining me now is the los angeles bureau chief for vice news kaj. i was stunned at how formalized the process is for both the correctional officers and gang leaders and i guess given the two power structures in prison, which one is more powerful? >> it actually really is incredible, alex and you sort of alluded to it at the top, but we've created this system, you know, america is one of the most incarcerous. and it's been to lock and feed and one of the side effects and the ramifications of that policy has been that there is an incredible gang presence and power in prison and we saw that first hand. when you're an inmate, yes, you are subject to the rules of the

correctional institution and the correctional officers, but you're probably much more petrified of the gang leadership whether it's aryan brotherhood or mexican mafia because they control your day to day life and in many cases they control your life. >> prisoners will join these gangs or are assigned to these gangs because the gang offers some sort of protection, but the gang also demands that prisoners commit acts in violence and in some cases deadly acts of violence. given that, i wonder how much you've got a sense of prisoners pushing back on the gang hierarchy and saying i don't want a part of this. is that even really possible in any sort of measurable way? >> no. there is essentially no safe, effective way to do that. it's a very violent and dangerous place. the facility we visited salinas state prison is a level four correctional facility. this year, violence is down. they've reported only 700

violent incidents in this particular year and that's a good number. they've been able to reduce violence to just about two a day. we saw a stabbing on the yard when we were there. all of that is gang driven and the result of what the prisoners call politics. it's absolutely impossible if you want to survive to not go along, to get along with the rules of the gang. >> we are just showing footage of the homemade shiv, you're talking about the violence. at the same time, this prison system is pioneering in so far as they have the new rehabilitation programs including meditation programs, victim awareness, insight and mindfulness counseling. you think about the sort of juxtaposition of these guys who are the shooting each other in the back and doing mindfulness classes and there's a cursory response saying there's no way that's going to work. what did you find? is it effective at all?

>> it'sa an understandable reaction and that's exactly why we went there because in the big picture, one of the things that we're trying to do at vice news is go places that are difficult to do and tell stories that haven't been told that much and one of the stories that hasn't been told about the prison system is exactly what you're talking about is that prison populations are declining and that means that effectively people like some of the 900 murderers that we met in salinas valley state prison are actually going to be getting let out on to the streets. so in order to have a chance for those people to assimilate effectively back into society you have to try something and these pilot program, these inspirational models that they're creating there, they are seeming to have some small trickle effect throughout the institution. the ultimate efficacy of those is still to be determined. it will be judged by recidivism rates and crime rates on the streets, but you definitely get the sense within the institution that we're on the precipice of a

sea change of some sort. >> how much do the gangs fight the rehabilitation programs? >> i wouldn't say that they're fighting it head-on, but anything that undermines their power is a threat to the gang leadership and structure and one of the fascinating things that we saw and discussed when we were inside the prison is how much of the gang politics are driven by drugs and money inside the prison. the rehabilitation programs, anything that forces people of mixed races to talk to each other is an inherent and existential threat to that gang structure and so they are, in a way, fighting these programs and that's why many of them are being piloted with inmates who have debriefed or dropped out of the gangs. >> kaj, it is incredibly compelling footage that you guys shot in there. men in handcuffs doing the namaste. one never thought they would see that, one meaning me upon.

the report is "murder, mayhem and meditation." inside one of america's most violent prisons and you can see it now on vice.com. kaj, thanks for your time. >> thank you. coming up, he got himself a new set of eyewear and he has given up the cowboy boots. the packaging may be different, but unfortunately on the inside, governor rick r perry still has governor rick perry's brain. details on that straight ahead. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum.

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possibly okay, but the conference did not stop there, unfortunately. like so many men's rights forum, there's more than one, the gathering in st. clair shores turned into an angry forum where any injustice against men had nothing to do with policy or law, but every single one was a t fault of women and in particular, feminists. women were privileged and narcissistic and this photo of miley cyrus posing for a selfie was shown with a caption, quit object phiing me. you're being rapey. >> it was get out of guilt free card for women. a message not unlike this poster featured on the conference's website said just because you regret your life choices doesn't mean it's rape. and at the bottom, guilty feelings do not equal sexual

assault. don't be that girl. one of the women at the the event and yes, there were a handful of them called feminism the evil empire and proclaim that we need to go after feminists. so much for the conference that was supposed to be dedicated to concerns about fatherhood and paternity. there is a kernel of something in this tiny peripheral, i would add scary, movement that might speak to questions that monica hesse from the washington post, regarding how to truly measure equality, but that kernel gets buried in paranoia and anger. joining me is co-creator of the daily show and here to explain all of the mensplaining on this topic that gets both of us fired up than many other topics. what is crazy to me is the laudable series of topics like gender role, parenthood,

masculinity and it totally evolves into a vitriolic free for all where people are slut-shaming women and using the word rapey which is not actually a word, but so beyond offensive someone was able to concoct it as a word and then throw it around. >> and put it on a poster. >> and put it it on a poster. why is this happening? >> i mean, i think part of it is happening -- it seems like the larger narrative is everything is being taken away from a power structure that is furious that people are actually asking for a seat at the table, but asking for a seat at the table, a, doesn't mean we all have a seat at the table. >> or that we own the table. >> or that we own the table. you're trying to destroy religion. churches aren't closing down. men aren't exactly falling from the rafters and not being in charge anymore. it's not as if we live in this amazing native-american society

where women are the matriarchs and that would be nice if we can split the difference, but because we're asking for it we're taking something from them and they're freaked out that women said we're not going take it anymore and i don't know what we stopped them from doing. >> what i think is really disturbing is the proliferation of the word rape or the use of rape as some kind of injustice perpetrated against men, right? all men are rapists, rape culture, men can stop rape, don't be that guy. have you had enough of this stuff yet? why the obsession with rape which is a crime. that was a very far cry from sort of paternity and masculinity, right? there's an article on the website -- i can't remember it, but the people who threw this event if you just google this event there is a website and there is an article that says

studies show that many women enjoy rape. women are also mad scientists who doctor paternity tests to force men into having their children. women are terminating their children against their will and women will bilk you for the divorce and it's this really ugly thing and like you said, everything about this men's rights thing has to do with what women are doing to them. >> yes. and if women want equal pay and that's something being done to men then these men are the ones that are narcissists and not the women that they're talking about upon. because if you're not the guy raping we're not talking about you, but if you are the guy who would like to ignore the fact that women are raped at alarming rates and that's not something that you want to jump in on because there are laws are being violent. >> your mom, sister or maybe

your girlfriend, that's crazy, but if you don't want to have responsibility in your own sex life and you don't want to listen to your partner because something happened when she said maybe not this. you showed up here and took your clothes off and anything is for the taking because all of those posters say to me, you showed up here. >> right. >> therefore now you're my property. >> what is interesting to me is we speak of this sort of looking at men as the primary spokespeople for this movement, but we were talking about before the segment begins, five of the 15 speakers and i will quote, the female men's rights advocate which is is a strange place to be which is the person, dr. tara palmtia diagnosed some women with what she call, this is just are for you, liz, golden uterus syndrome which she explains is what happens when a mother will

take assets that she doesn't deserve, force a man into accidental preg nances. golden uterus syndrome. from a woman. >> yeah. >> to an audience of presumably mostly men. what's up with that? >> i don't really understand why it would serve any woman in her interest to be pushing the agenda of women are takers because you're a woman. >> a totally misogynistic line of thinking. >> it's sort of like, you know, the thing that i'm a different kind of woman. you know what, honey? at the end of the day you're part of the club. >> is it so that dr. tara palmterry. >> i'm the one you want to hang out with. why don't you just be and be a lovely person and people -- sometimes i wonder is it that this person or these women have never successfully been smart,

interesting, charming and fun and then had people say i'd like to be around you and so instead it's that getting attention by negativity or getting attention by not disagreeing with the already existing power structure? because the bottom line is if you're perpetuating that line, then you are -- then that line exists and that means that those people are still in charge, hence deleting every single thing they say that's happening. >> let me ask you something. this is incredibly poisonous rhetoric coming out of this. feminist protesters are saying that men's rights groups should be classified and designated as race groups. >> and they should be designated as men's rights groups. >> that's enough! >> and i think by exposing this i think we all get to see when women are angry about just trying to have their basic dignity, this is real, we're not

fighting and, men's rights groups actually make the case for women. >> always good to see you. after the break. >> rick perry's new choices are upsetting some of the texas faithful. >> you about don't worry, because behind those glasses he is still the same old governor. that's next. you know that dream... on my count. ...the one where you step up and save the day? make it happen. (crowd) oh no... with verizon xlte. hey guys, i got it right here! we've doubled our 4g lte bandwidth in cities coast to coast. so take on more. with xlte. on the largest, most reliable 4g lte network.

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announced it is the official state boot of texas. >> they made his back problems worse, the men and women of texas were not happy. yesterday texas land commissioner jer paterson said the governor could now pass for a west coast metrosexual and has embarrassed us all with the sartorrial change. a west coast metrosexual, and for his new foot a wear. leather loafers. rick perry appeared to give up the boots for a very good reason. the man has serious back problems. back problems that were serious enough to warrant surgery. back problems that were serious enough to warrant pain medication. so to the people of texas outraged at governor perry's outfit change would you rather your governor metrosexual loafers or go through another season like this? >> today has been awesome, girl! >> gold is good. if they print any more money

over there in washington, the gold will be good. this is pure maple syrup from the state of new hampshire. >> this is such a cool state. come on, live free or die. i mean, you've got to love that, right? >> we're kind of into those slowingance, man. live free or die, victory or death. brilliant! >> that's all for now. "the ed show" is coming up next. good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" live from minnesota. i'm ready to go! let's get to work! ♪ ♪ >> fundamentals of our economy are strong. >> tell you what, 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? >> we're in the midst of a serious financial crisis. >> what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is