. >> july 2000, reporter brian schultz is dispatched to new providence, iowa, to cover the installationw water tower. >> that looks pretty good, don't it? >> it does. >> getting the water tower was a point of pride for new providence. something they'd been trying to get done for quite a while. so it was quite a big deal. >> new providence raises enough money to purchase its very first tower. the remote town of a little more than 200 people is all abuzz. >> anyone who was at home at the time, they were going to go out and see this happen. >> as local residents gather in the streets, a 150-foot crane rises and successfully lifts the four steel legs into position. >> there were some gentlemen on top of the tank that were attaching these straps to a central point that the crane would lift up. there were a few gentlemen on the ground that were kind of directing them. and there was a gentleman on top of the crane that was waiting for all this to happen. i remember even at the time i was pretty impressed with how cautious they were being. >> we're going for liftoff. >> with two workers poised

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brian schweitzer, great to have you with us on "the ed show." that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz.verend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. >>> thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, gop freak-out. millions of americans are getting ensured under the president's health care law and the right can't handle it. today house republicans voted for the 55th time to attack the affordable care act. that's right, 55 votes to undermine this law. and they trotted out some bizarre talking points to justify today's vote. >> obamacare itself, which is a fraud against the american people, calling the affordable care act the affordable care act is not true. george washington could not utter these wo

brian schweitzer, great to have you with us on "the ed show." that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. >>> thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, gop freak-out. millions of americans are getting ensured under the president's health care law and the right can't handle it. today house republicans voted for the 55th time to attack the affordable care act. that's right, 55 votes to undermine this law. and they trotted out some bizarre talking points to justify today's vote. >> obamacare itself, which is a fraud against the american people, calling the affordable care act the affordable care act is not true. george washington could not utter these words. >> it is obvious the president's broken health care promises, have made lives more difficult. >> this law, this so-called law is a complete and total assault on women. >> i will not move on. i will not quit talking about the complete failure of obamacare. >> we know these guys aren't moving on. but the health care law is working. this

schultz, and he said we are a mobile company. >>> all right. outside of the markets, the situation in ukraine taking another serious turn. let's go to eamon jabbers with the latest. >> yeah, brian, tough and increasingly heated rhetoric surrounding the ukraine as leaders are now threatening to blockade pro-russian forces that have inserted themselves into ukrainian cities. the president of the united states, meanwhile, is on travel in asia. he's in south korea today where we're told he convened a phone conference call with some of the key european leaders. no necessary agreements coming out of that phone call. we're told they've agreed to keep talking about increased sanctions on russia. a lot of speculation here in washington, brian, about whether or not we might see increased sanctions today. i can tell you from my sources, though, i'm not hearing any indication that any such sanctions are necessarily imminent today, but that's one of the next steps we could see coming out of washington in the days to come, brian. >> eamon jabbers, thank you very much. >>> guys, here's a question. the markets are down today. the nasdaq is down a lot more than the dow and s&p, which says to me