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dr. murphy is unfortunate as well. you have a really qualified candidate.eally the policy issues are confused here, right? i mean the surgeon general is not going to write policy about gun krole. they're trying to curtail any possibility with respect to a public health conversation. they're doing it very, very successfully. >> i don't know if these kinds of tactics can work when we're not in the run-up to a midterm election and where there are not democra democra democrat vulnerable in states like louisiana and arkansas. that may not happen in an off election moment. >> that's an excellent point. i spoke to some senate staff. they said look, after november he might get through. he also lost the vote of senators up in cycle. let me read to you what rand paul said about this. mark? >> yes. >> let me read to you what rand paul said. quote in his efforts to curtail second amendment rights, dr. murphy has continually referred to guns as a public health issue on par with heart disease and thus diminishes the role of mental health in gun violence. new ber one aren

dr. murphy is the president and co-founder of "doctors for america." a group that used to be called "doctors for obama" which campaigned for the president and advocates for strict gun care laws. including the opposition that would allow the doctors to document whether their patients are gun owners. the group's website describes gun violence as a quote, public health crisis, all of which has some questioning whether dr. murphy's nomination is turning what has always been the job of america's doctor to a hyper-partisan position. mark teesen is a columnist for "the washington post." first of all, he has only been an attending physician for eight years, which is not long at all. but he does have a long history of supports president obama politically. >> yes, that is exactly right. he is too inexperienced and too radical. if you say he was 36 years old, which might be okay if he was exceptionally qualified. but he is not. the past surgeon generals have been ceos of hospitals, chief medical hospitals. they have run county health systems. not only has he not

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dr. murphy's floor vote. we expect him to be confirmed and be one of the nation's most powerful messengers on health and wellness. to answer your question -- no. >> at the time, there were reports that senate democrats would not vote for him because of the opposition of the nra. if the president talking to democrats? >> we are recalibrating our strategy in light of the vote i just mentioned. after murphy emerged from committee with -- dr. murphy emerged from committee with a bipartisan vote of support. >> recalibrate does not mean different nominee? >> correct. >> i want to clarify. you said you were not going to rule out any individual sanctions moving or word. -- forward. putinnctions on vladimir -- is that something under consideration? not verify where possibilities of live right now, --ept to say we have possibilities live right now, except to say we have an active effort underway. you have seen today the actions we have taken, the individuals we have identified. you have seen the executive order. you wi

dr. murphy said about gun control and he favors more gun control and that's got the national rifle associationing his nomination and we have senators, the senator from alaska is on record opposing it and up to ten septemberors on the democratic side is opposing the nomination. >> the nra stepped in and said we don't like the guy. ten democrats are pulling the senate. is the nomination dead already, michael? >> i can't predict for certain but it doesn't look good. there are reasons for that. look at the doctor, 36 and he would be the youngest surgeon general. he department pass his residency until 2006 because he is young and inexperienced and it is more the political side of things. not only do the announcements on gun control make him problematic but there is not much else going for him. he is a political nominee than medical expertise. >> and it shoes you the strain on the democrats in the red states for the re- election year. it shoes you how, how te little their hold on power. >> the nomination for the civil rights and the department of justice failed. and that was because the democrats de

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dr. murphy tweets dated october 2012 reads as follows: tired of politicians playing politics with guns putting lives at risk because they are scared at nra. guns are a healthcare issue. joining us senator and doctor. >> thanks for having me. >> are you going to vote for him? >> not a chance. surgeon general is the nation's doctor. you want somebody who has a long history of experience in taking care of patients and this nominee seems much more committed to politics than to patients. his claim-to-fame is farming organization to help promote the healthcare law and to go after second amendment rights. >> what he said at this hearing what he saw as the number one problem as obesity as a health problem and he said he wouldn't be doing gun control as part of his job. you don't buy it. >> i don't buy it look at the history of the organization he has co-founded and the tweets he continues to send out. the surgeon general of the united states ought to be focused on the major health i of our country, heart disease, cancer, stroke, those are the killers. but you know harry reid changed the rules of the s

dr. murphy. the nra has come out in opposition to this choice because of his advocacy on gun safety. do you think the nra will get their way here and block murphy from being confirmed? do you think he will make it through? >> well, i didn't think the nra would get their way when they decided to stand against back ground checks that were support bid 08% of the american public. i was wrong. why? because i underestimated the power that the nra has over this congress. so what we immediate the do is as a movement that supports safer streets and safer schools is to build a political movement that gets people out of congress and that supports the nra and not their constituents but that's going to take a long time. this murphy thing is outrageous and holds the same position the american medical association holds anding to suggest that there is not a correction between gun violence and the health of our communities spend a little time in place like bridgeport or new york or chicago and you will see that kids are being affected every single day. not just by gunfire but about by the trauma that

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dr. murphy's comments about guns? >> in your tweets of october 16, 2012, tired of politicians who are scared of the nra. those are some of the words. and i would hope you would know that americans have a first amendment right to advocate the second amendment. >> yes. americans have the first amendment right to advocate for the second amendment. and apparently you don't have a first amendment right to have a different opinion from that. everyone knows the first amendment only applies to saying positive things about the second amendment. that's all. but even he was anti-gun, he is the surgeon general. the worst he could do is put a warning label on bullets. that's not going to do anything. >>> up next, rand paul is getting lots of attention as the one republican who might just attract younger voters. but paul's position on social issues like same-sex marriage puts him well outside the hipster crowd. that's next. he is fascinating. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics.  >>> you may be a republican or a de

dr. murphy has come under criticism from the national rifle association for backing gun registration and an assault weapons ban. it apparently has prodded opposition from at least 10 senate democrats, several of whom are up for reelection. jay carney confirmed murthy won't face an immediate vote, saying the administration is recalibrating his strategy. the coalition of groups led by the american civil liberties union has filed suit against a new law in idaho that is the documentation of animal abuse and industrial farms. approved last month, the measure is part of a wave of so-called ag-gag loss a crackdown on those who secretly film or photograph harm to livestock. the suit claims the law is intended to "silence the undercover investigations and meaty covers i contribute a public debate about animal treatment and food safety." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. today in a democracy now! special, i'm joined by three guests. they were friends who set out on a hike in the summer of 2009 in iraq's kurdish

dr. murphy personally. you have been twisting arms on capitol hill to find out what is going on here.i get the story basically right? what is the latest going on on the hill? >> the latest going on on the hill in the wake of the vote for the department of justice nominee, there's not a broad appetite to take another difficult vote. those of us in the health community don't believe this should be a difficult vote. the american college of physicians, the american college of surgeons. the american college of emergency physicians have all public si said same and similar things that we did of doctors for america during those letter-writing campaigns. if you have been in the emergency room and you have seen a victim of a gunshot wound, if you have been in the intensive care unit and seen someone cling to life, you understand that gun violence is a serious problem. with that being said, and his senate health committee hearing, dr. murthy was clear. he wants to tackle the chunk of chronic diseases. the 75% of health care spending that goes into pretentable illness, obesity, heart disease, dia

dr. vivek murphy nominated by the obama administration to be surgeon general but now amid opposition fromwhite house telling "the new york times," it's "recalibrating our strategy around his floor vote. a recalibration that could allow allowing dr. fuhthy to withdraw." the excessive concern he developed as an emergency room doctor with the ravages of gun violence. >> my concerns with regard to issues like gun violence have to do with my experience as a physician, seeing patients in emergency rooms who have come in with acute injuries. >> murthy's unforgivable sin, last year he signed on to a public letter to congress saying "as health care professionals, we're unwavering in our belief that strong measures to reduce gun violence must be taken immediately." the letter advocated for such radical notions as a ban on military-style assault weapons, a proposal more than half americans agree with. doctors are not prohibited from talking to their patients about gun safety in the home. "one of our most important tasks as health care providers is to counsel our patients about how to take care of th

senator chris murphy just back from a trip to ukraine this weekend. and dr.iew brzezinski and dr. nancy sniderman is back from syria and she did incredibly moving reporting on the children suffering there. you don't want to miss what she has to share. town and country's jay fielden is here with the magazine's new issue. that is always fun. up next, mike allen has today's top stories in the political playbook. >>> first, dylan dryer, inside finally. >> what is up with the short draw you have been drawing? it's like the guys are making you outside in the snow. great to have you. >> nice to be here. we are still talking about more snow, believe it or not. a major snowstorm hitting d.c. right now. 7 to 9 inches already on the ground. this stretches down to florida we could see severe storms later on today. a closer look at the snow. the heaviest of it is moving through washington, d.c. right now. this is the fifth time this winter that federal offices have been shut down in d.c. because of weather. we are going to see some improvements over the next xuver hours a

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mike murphy is our bull. dr. j is the bear. 1:30 on the clock. murph? >> when you look at jcpenney you have to think a back, the stock had a nice rally off the recent lows but go back six months to a year the knock on jcpenney was two-fold. one, they weren't going to get customers they had lost back in the stores. two, they didn't have the cash to survive so the stock was going to 0 or $1 targets. now this recent report or the recent history, jcpenney number one is getting customers back. they have ullman in place and his plan is working. they're discounting but customers are coming back to the store. two, more importantly, by the end of this year they expect to have $2 billion in liquidity. again, i said it before. if you take the running out of money off the table, i think the stock can go higher. for a trade and momentum is with you. >> the momentum is with you, murph. easy for me to say. but i wouldn't touch this stock right here. >> that's it? >> i wouldn't touch this stock. ♪ i wouldn't touch you with a 39 1/2-inch pole ♪ see, murph, i brought --

dr. tim murphy, a psychiatrist who understands these issues; we have a special -- not only is he supportive of what we were doing, but we became supportive of what he was doing when he was advocating that for people who have behavioral illness, people who have a mental illness who were involved in a nonviolent crime, that dealing with their illness rather than incarcerating the individual is the better approach that should be available to law enforcement, to judges. that's an important part of what we're doing here. the excellence in mental health act was originally cosponsored by a bipartisan group of 25 senators. it's been supported by 50 mental health organizations, veterans' organizations, law enforcement organizations. it's a place where -- it creates a place where people's needs are met. the demonstration project would allow community mental health centers an opportunity to increase the kind of services they provide within and to their local communities by providing a similar rate under medicaid that federally qualified centers receive for primary care services. this is something we'v

senator murphy, did you want to make a brief opening remarks? let's go to dr. yeh, if i'm pronouncing your name -- forgive me if i'm not. dr. yeh is a professor at the school of public health in taiwan. and we very much appreciate your being with us today. just because into the microphone, tell us a little bit about what goes on in taiwan. >> chairman sanders, senator byrd and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify here. my name is ching chuan yeh, professor at the university, but i was the founder ceo of our national health insurance administration in 1995-1998. that was 19 years ago, and i was the administer of health in taiwan. anti-want established the universal national health insurance in 1995. currently, 99.6% of our population enrolled in this program. the other .4%, they have citizenship, but state abroad. they are not covered. taiwan's program is a single-payer system. and has a large single risk pool. before that we had 12 different social programs, strong and weak program, and we merged into one single pool. tha

murphy and senator casey. and senator franken. senator warren. >> thank you very much mr. chairman, ranking member alexander. welcome, dr. hamburg. so the cdc estimates that more than 2 million people develop antibiotic resistance infections in the united states every year. and there's increasing scientific evidence that the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is contributing to the rise of antibiotic resistance. the more we use an antibiotic, the less effective it becomes at fighting resistant infections. if we continue to use 30 million pounds as antibiotics in food animals every year, which is about four times as much as we using people, we are likely to have a lot more resistant infections and fewer antibiotics that work when we need them. so the fda's most recent guidance documents on the subject concluded that the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture for production purposes to promote growth in animals, i'll quote you, may contribute to animal testing antibiotic resistance. but the fda says that antibiotic use for disease prevention is all right, and you've asked pharmaceutical companies who sell antibiotics to