the affordable care act are the expansion of the medi-cal program and the private marketplace or the exchanges also known and covered california the expansion of medi-cal is a huge, well, if we take a step babylonia, the affordable -- back, the affordable care act is for people who didn't previously have health coverage on inadequate or unaffordable insurance. the marketplace is supposed to fill that void. the expansion of medi-cal it truly is expanding the medi-cal practice. how it's doing that is it's expanding the coverage from adults to ages 64. where medi-cal eligibility used to be 128 percent of the federal poverty level. the expanded population of income eligibility is 80 percent. it's about a person bho -- who has $14,000 income versus someone who has 16,000 over expanded medi-cal. another way is there is no asset or resource limit which is a huge change. under traditional medi-cal you can only $16,000 over expanded medi-cal. another way is there is no asset or resource limit which is a huge change. under traditional medi-cal you can only have a $2,000 asset or resource limit

that as he goes back, he qualifies for medicaid, so we retroactively put him in the medicaid expansion program, now he is covered, he is healthy and he understands the significance of health care for a young person. >> those are the kind of stories that you would think would be out front for democrats. let's quickly talk about some of the polling, because what strategists are saying that republicans are in trouble despite the -- right now, in terms of what people want done, among republicans, 26% of republicans in the latest kaiser family foundation survey say keep but fix the health care law. 27% say repeal and replace, 31% say repeal and not replace. are these people who just have health care and aren't concerned about expansion? >> they're listening to a narrative that's put out by fox and others that hear -- any right minded person, any person that cares about his fellow man are going to want to be sure that their neighbors and their family and their friends have health care. those are people who really don't understand what it is, secondly, it's people that don't want it to succeed, other

seems to be trying to distract people from the fact that the medicaid program, the medicaid expansion program that republican governors like john kasich know it is not a progressive. those republican governors have accepted these funds, would he say that those governors have a problem with people with disabilities? i don't think so, what we're seeing here is that bobby jindal and his administration seem to be distracting attention from the issue here, which is that low income people in louisiana don't have access to health care. he could change his mind and immediately change their situations. and instead of doing that and working on the problem of how to extend health care coverage in the state of louisiana he is coming after us. it makes no sense. >> all right, you say you will stand up and fight. do democrats need to do the same? is this a tea leaf of the battles on the horizon? it just seems that jindal is jumping out in front of the parade. he wants more attention than others who might be dealing with subpoenas and everything else. >> what you see here, the best i can figure, what he is

a senior manager at the agency compares the expansive program to a time machine. that ties into the top story in this morning's political playbook. joining us now for political, mike allen. i guess you've got news on this. rand paul headed to u.c. berkeley about the nsa and privacy concerns. a preview? >> that's right. berkeley could be a tough crowd for rand paul but he's taking a smart subject. he's taking on the nsa. but we have an exclusive. he's going beyond that. he's going to attack for the first time the u.s. intelligence more broadly, specifically he's going to name the cia, he's going to say that senators have a fear of an intelligence community that rand wall will say is drunk with power, unrepent eant and uninclined to relinquish power. he will say he's worried and not sure who is in charge of this government. so much he's making very strong and wide charges about the strength of the intelligence community. something that might ple well in berkeley. >> we'll hear more what he has to say. i want to update louisiana, that state does allow its convicted f

although this program has been in existence for a number of years, but because of the expansion of it because of cms funding we have been able to extend our program. something that we are starting to do this month on going which is a really big deal in my world is we are piloting rather than doing the in takes in house at dos, we are slowly rolling out our intake services for hospitals directly. the reason why we do transitional care service in takes is because most, ihss meals when those are in place, that helps to prevent rehospitalization. so in partnership with discharge planners we can be at their bedside really doing a full assessment for the services that people need. again starting with this medicare population, but doing realtime, the ihss referral and meal referral and other services, i feel is a big gap in the hospitals is discharge planners have very little time to spend with their patients and sometimes make referrals without having seeing the patients. this is a time to be at a place where people are most vulnerable in the hospital. our hope is to be in all the hospitals

revenue sources and those are directed to the board of supervisors to advocate for potential expansion of the program if they're interested in that and revenue sources to follow. that's the conclusion >> thank you. i see we've been joined by supervisor campos. >> good afternoon supervisor (clapping.) thank you very much mr. vice president and commissioners director reiskin i want to thank the budget analysis for the amazing report. i'm here to note a couple of points i'm sure you're aware of the mta particular just received a generous gift from google that will fund the exiting fro fro metropolitan for low income youth for muni for two years. besides the act it's generous and the largest gift that the city has received in it's history i think the fact that all the things that a company like google could have focused on is a testament to the success of this initiative. if anything i think it pertains to the need for us to have a much long term discussion about how we make this program preempt permanent and how we expand this program. so the influx of nope e money from google provides a benefit to have

caller: i just wanted to say a little bit about the medicaid expansion program. i do not know whether people realize, but there is nothing like the medicaid program. medicaid extension, it is more like a loan program. if you go in the hospital and incur medical bills, and when willass away, your heirs end up losing out. they will come in and take what assets you have. he spent 30 years paying off. -- perhaps a house you spent 30 years paying off. the government will say you owe x amount of dollars and we will whatever proceeds from the sale of the house you have and not get anyll inheritance from you because the government is going to take any put themu have and towards your medical bills. guest: there are different rules with medicaid and medicare, if you owe debt for what the government can do to retrieve dead. that is another concern we heard from house republicans recently especially as it is expanded over the law and several states have agreed to do the expansion. it has also increased under the law. we talk about people enrolling in the marketplaces and stay

as a society to scale back those programs relative to what was promised under current law or to raise tax revenue to above its historical average to pay for the expansion of those programs or to cut back on all other spending even more sharply than we already are, even more sharply than the lowest point of gdp. we haven't decided as a society how we are going to -- what we are going to do but some combination of those three choices will be needed and that we continue to do work. we presented to the congress to fix volume of options for using budget deficits last fall. there are a lot of possible ways to perceive that they tend to be unpleasant in one way or another and we have not as a society decided how much that unpleasantness to inflict on him. >> i think part of the problem is everyone on the hill is very exhausted by the budget wars. the american public is exhausted by the budget wars and also the deficit, the annual deficit this year really dropped so when do you think that -- when do people really need to start worrying about these questions that government spending is part of? >> we have been saying for five years at the cbo that deficits woul

with its expansion program . in ukraine want to join the e.u. a recent poll shows a fifty two percent of french workers want to leave the euro and then only thirty four percent of them think he is a good thing only one of these two groups is right either being member is horrible or it's a good thing the fact that we don't know is a market failure so we get a lead free participants in the market give us a price signal that we don't know the value of membership. we. welcome back to what you are to international the u.k. government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of the prime minister who's being investigated in a child pornography case part of the officials job was working on internet filters that will prevent children from accessing inappropriate content arches or smith brings us more. his name is patrick rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative party advisor david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's been called cameron spics and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a

reporting on how one palestinian family is standing its ground while israel plans ahead with its expansion program. we'll call it on the road side to the car skidded at breakneck speed and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out of the car she was like a broken down it wasn't a single piece left i thought if i lived and had a chance to start my life from scratch i would start making do to help children it . could go on right after he was born the baby was all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the ortho says it too small so we have to order new ones. has raised money for us she helps us to get the leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in a car crash i gave birth to my little niece and i think she's my reward for helping all those children who are selling the dollars to buy life for the children. welcome back you're watching aren't international the u.k. government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of a prime minister who's being investigated in a child pornography case part of the officials job was working on internet filters that would

we support the expansion of this program anden currently encourage you to support this as well. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i just want to address some of the questions. colleagues, from my perspective, as we all know the amount of homelessness we all deal with in or neighborhoods, the numbers are undenial. i think from when i learned that our homeless outreach team only enables two or four people to be on the street at any given time, is we have to change that. this is discussing one time the homes less operation in city hall and what we are doing as a city to address it. i appreciate supervisor avalos comments around that. this is one part of it. this doesn't negate a report for anyone around san francisco. but it's a start right now and something we believe that we could get implemented right away. you don't have a bigger support than me and continue to support those increase in capability if we are interested and serious about this. this is my perspective again when we talk to citywide no one disagrees that this is under

europe, but also funded the ability of the former soviet union, militarily, to carry out an expansion program. today you have the circumstance where president putin relies almost solely, 70% of the exports, 52% of the budget as i indicated, comes from a monopoly position on oil and gas. that is why i think it is very important that we understand what the polls and what the hungarians understood when they exported $2 billion cubic yards of gas last year to ukraine in order to try to keep the ability of russia from manipulating the situation into leading to the very chaos that was brought about. we need to understand when the u.s.-e.u. annual summit just occurred, and the e.u. asked us to be part of a program to ship gas into that market in order to offset this monopoly control and pricing by russia, that we should be part of this. this is part of this bill. but also part of the bill is the important consequence of communicating to the people in that region and offsetting the propaganda that russia right now is sending into the country. we address that issue as well in this legislation. as well

committee overwhelmingly approved that the committee conduct an expansive and full review of the c.i.a.'s detention and interrogation program. on march 5, 2009, the committee voted 14-1 to initiate a comprehensive review of the c.i.a. detention and interrogation program. immediately we sent a request for documents to all relevant

he resisted expansive government programs, dismantled regulations on major industries.ons considered him hostile to them. historians have called carter the most conservative democratic president since grover cleveland and conservatism created a deep and bitter split in his own party and gave rise to ted kennedy's primary challenge in 1980, rallying the traditional base against a sitting president they believe to be too far to the right. kennedy lost that challenge, but three decades after carter left office, there was still obvious animosity between him and kennedy. in 2010 at the height of the health care debate, carter was taking digs at kennedy telling cbs the fact is we should have had comprehensive health care had it not been for ted kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation u proposed. it was his fault. ted kennedy killed the bill. that was that a president, jimmy carter, who led a unified party or in lock step with its liberal wing. that carter was ever nominated by the democratic party in the first place, itself, was a credit to his savviness. long before

> the first thing that we are going to talk about today is the office of student voice expansion for the sac program, which i talked about last week and we are working again with matt haney on this and the goal is just to reorganize the sac to incorporate more time and resources in order to facilitate more project engagements for students at school sites. also i would like to remind you that the youth summit is on march 28th at fort mason. from ten a.m. to 3 p.m. and you are all encouraged to attend and you can register on-line at sfusd sac.org. and also been continuing its effort. and there is san francisco legislation that will go to the full board, on march 28th. and but, to sac members, and also, the sac coordinaters, lopez bar, testified in front of several city supervisors about the ecigarette legislation that is san francisco is considering and also, the sac is working on an ecigarette resolution that will apply to the school district. thank you. >> so it is that time of the year again where we have a new batch of student leaders for the sac and, currently, sfusd, sac.org has applications for

then you have a growing voice of the new right they see the movement moving too fast expansion of liberal programs. the political mood that will help to elect nixon two years later just like what elected reagan to the governorship of california at the same time. >> host: fascinating glimpses of the mindset of the conservative right to allow the backlash. we deal with that with illegal aliens or obamacare to help elected nationally off the back of the order was racially driven backlash. before we go to break what inspired you to write his break with all the episodes of post world war american history? >> kits grew out of teaching. i have written books before a of russell's of basketball player but not a civil-rights political history but at the university of memphis the graduate seminars to be the perspectives to broaden the understanding what it was other than and martin luther king or one demonstration. by this same token there was not a book that was the narrative history that captured all these ideas. so i saw it as a great opportunity to tell a much broader story. it is narrowed to follow a ma

they hinted at an expansion of this program by at least another place by october last year.there were hints in the budget documents that this capacity would be growing to other places as soon as the technical capacity was there. >> during his recent tedtalk, edward snowden referenced you by name and talked about your work on the cost of surveillance. an argument to be made that the powers of big brother have increased enormously. there was a recent legal article at yale that established something called the ashkan soltani principle, which is that our expectation of privacy is the capabilities of government surveillance have become cheaper by an order of magnitude, and each time that occurs, we need to revisit and rebalance. that has not happened since the government surveillance powers have increased by several magnitudes, and that is why we are in the problem we are in hope, but there is still because the power of individuals have also been increased by technology. i am living proof that an individual can go head-to-head against the most powerful adversaries and the most po

it will be an expansion of programs that is successful. host: next is scott in ohio on our republican line. caller: i just have a comment about what nancy has to say about obamacare affecting employment. a lot of businesses have said they have decreased because of obamacare. guest: i think it is a little bit too early to tell exactly what the affect the affordable care act will have on unemployment. there have been a lot of glitches. it seems to be sort of working now, but we will not have a great gauge about how it is affecting employment and consumer spending, all these economic issues, until it has been rolled out for longer. we have more data to assess it. host: around 8:30 a.m. eastern, we will be joined by our guest who will talk about before look at. nancy cook and economic correspondent for national journal. next up, ohio, where maria is on the line for democrats. caller: i want to say the reason why people cannot get jobs is because we have state and government workers, whatever, they are their wives and sons, cousins, and you hav

expansion of scope - existing local agency formation commission positions]1307102.sponsors: avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local agency formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the senior program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years through june 30, 2016; and utilizing the existing lafco budget to continue funding this position. city clerk: item 2: 130710: [terms of and expansion of scope - existing local agency formation commission positions]1307102.sponsors: avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local agency formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the senior program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years through june 30, 2016; and utilizing the existing lafco budget to continue funding city clerk: item 2: 130710: [terms of and expansion of scope - existing local agency formation commission positions]1307102.sponsors: avalos; campos and marresolution amending the terms of the existing local agency formation commission lafcoo positions by expanding the scope of services for the senior program officer; extending the term of employment additional three years t

expansion. when you think about the argument on the other side, it is really difficult to wrap your head around it. the argument is that georgia cannot afford a programmedicaid expansion in which the federal government will pay 100% of the cost until 2017 when it will drop then to 90%. so permanently, the federal government will cover at least 90% of the cost. it would mean about a 1% increase in georgia's total about $2.1 10 years, billion. and for that investment in our citizens, we would reap $14 billion in federal funding over five years. it's calculated it would generate about $65 billion in economic activity. 56,000 new jobs. that is an incredible investment or return for very small investment. the truth is, we cannot afford not to expand medicaid and the state of georgia, while our hospitals are closing and while our people are hurting. get the increase in revenue -- the increase in revenue would help cover this modest 1% increase in terms of our investment in this program. any idea the federal government is somehow lying, we cannot trust they will do what they say they will do. i mean, it shows you the level at which people are willing to go

extremist republicans in arkansas failed in their attempt to roll back the state's medicaid expansion, keeping alive a programy 94,000 people. this is a big step forward. it could be a sign of things to come. republican governors and lawmakers in 19 other states have rejected the medicaid expansion, leaving millions without health insurance. last month, president obama told those republican governors that it's time to help their constituents. >> states that don't expand medicaid are going to be leaving up to 5.4 million americans uninsured. and that doesn't have to happen. work with us to get this done. >> despite all that republican obstruction, americans are getting covered, and that's a good thing. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> keeping the cold war cold. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. i've never heard so many right wingers screeching for a new cold war. the same right wing hawks who hauled this country into iraq for no good reason are up to their old jingoism. brett stephens of "the wall stre

europe, but also funded the ability of the former soviet union, militarily, to carry out an expansion program. today you have the circumstance where president putin relies almost solely, 70% of the exports, 52% of the budget as i indicated, comes from a monopoly position on oil and gas. that is why i think it is very important that we understand what the polls and what the hungarians understood when they exported $2 billion cubic yards of gas last year to ukraine in order to try to keep the ability of russia from manipulating the situation into leading to the very chaos that was brought about. we need to understand when the u.s.-e.u. annual summit just occurred, and the e.u. asked us to be part of a program to ship gas into that market in order to offset this monopoly control and pricing by russia, that we should be part of this. this is part of this bill. but also part of the bill is the important consequence of communicating to the people in that region and offsetting the propaganda that russia right now is sending into the country. we address that issue as well in this legislation. as well

it will be an expansion of programs that is successful. >> next is scott in ohio on our republican linecommenti just have a about what nancy has to say about obamacare affecting employment. a lot of businesses have said they have decreased because of obamacare. guest: i think it is a little bit too early to tell exactly what the affect the affordable care act will have on unemployment. there have been a lot of glitches. it seems to be sort of working now, but we will not have a great gauge about how it is affecting employment and consumer spending, all these economic issues, until it has been rolled out for longer. we have more data to assess it. >> around 8:30 a.m. eastern, we our guest who by will talk about before look at. and economic correspondent for national journal. next up, ohio, where maria is on the line for democrats. say the reasonto why people cannot get jobs is because we have state and whatever, workers, they are their wives and sons, and you have the big , they retire and come back and get another job making more money than what they was making when they retire. that is

committed to work collaboratively with the states, as has been the case in all 12 extensions or expansions of this program since the great recession to do this. we have repeatedly extended this program, there have been periods of time where there has been a gap between extensions and they've had to look backwards, these state administrators and secretary perez is committed to do all he can and have all the efforts of the department so this can be implemented successfully. i'm confident it can and he is confident it can. but there are four basic assertions made that i want to address. first, the states indicated that while they're struggling with antiquated computer systems that make it hard to implement changes quickly. the states have received over the past five years, $345 million to modernize their unemployment insurance systems. that's federal money going to states so they can fix their computer systems. so this is not exactly an era we've neglected in terms of helping them modernize their computer systems. and program changes that we've made in the past, i was part of the effort in 2012, to extend un

i think that president is quite confident with the budget today that an expansion of spending on the programs will be political -- politically potent and important for democrats this fall, especially in red states. i think the argument is being that and the line is being drawn . republicans are not going as hard as welfare as they have in the past. this is a really interesting moment. it is the first time since 1996 when bipartisan reform was passed that you see republicans going at this, but they are doing it in a way that is cognizant of the political matters. they know that winning low and middle income voters is difficult or the. -- for them. host: hairy. you are on with robert costa. knowr: i would like to that this budget include paying back the bondholders to general motors? guest: i am not sure. i have read a lot of the proposals in memo form. i have not seen anything about that. bailout,oint about the just like the previous caller, bob, when i am out there on the campaign trail, talking to voters ahead of the midterms, bailoutsre --hear mentioned. this is something the president is g

program. state senator chuck hufstetler, thank you so much, sir. we'll follow the story. it certainly it seems to me that they're trying to limit any kind of future expansion of medicaid in georgia. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >>> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight from chicago. we have major news on the president's health care law. it's reached a big milestone so we will have news on that. but we begin tonight with breaking news on the chris christie bridge scandal. a report conducted by a lawyer hired by the christie administration has found the governor played no role in the bridge closures. >> we found that governor christie had no knowledge beforehand of this george

present, the congress has worked in a bipartisan fashion to enact 12 different expansions or extensions to the e.u.c. program. a number of extensions included changes to the program that were as or more complex than those included in the current bill. the department of labor has consistently worked with states to implement these extensions in an effective, collaborative and prompt fashion and will do so again." indeed, the states have implemented benefits retroactively several weeks after the program has expired previously. and i would like to add that my colleagues who have joined as cosponsors of this bill, out of an abundance of caution and a desire to allay these administrative concerns, have included clarifying language to ensure that administrative funding constraints relating to the prohibition on millionaires receiving emergency unemployment insurance could not be read in an overly broad fashion. so that will make this administratively easier to implement. i look forward to debating this bill later that week and i'm hopeful that with this strong, bipartisan showing, we can convince our colleagues on

, that may mean some intervention by the bank of japan in the form of the further expansion of the asset purchase program. we kouncould see that in the se half of this year. elsewhere, i want to talk about the kospi broadly flat. we had geopolitical tensions with firing from pyongyang and there was some from the south as well, but the markets seem to be taking this in stride, 1,985. a lot of risk events for these markets to take into consideration both scheduled and unscheduled as well, ross, back to you now. >> we have other news out as well. china sees nearly $15 billion worth of assets from the family associates of zu yongkang. what are the implications of this? >> i think the implications are quite positive. it shows the world and it shows the broader chinese population that the central government, beijing is getting tough on corruption. and it's not just saying this. it's putting its words into actions. this is a big scout for the chinese who have taken this to the inner circle. it calls into question whether the leadership are really purging some of those closest to it and what it means for future

the american people look at this program and say there's way too much wrought, i do not want to support an expansione do not spend our money wisely in any program of the people are not going to support expansion for any cause. host: infinite caller from florida. -- independent caller from florida. caller: my head is spinning. the tax code is so convoluted. one of the nonresident alien forms, what in the world? thanitc is nothing more wealth transfer. program.elfare the bottom line is a lot of illegal aliens are giving this credits, and have been getting it for many years. i work for the postal service, i have cash those checks. we stopped bashing treasury checks about four years ago, but now we're doing it again. in any event, most of these checks were going to people who could not sign their name or speak english. they would have a mexican consular card, or a honduras consular card. , do not mind paying my taxes and all of these convoluted methods of the government uses to steal from one person and give to another has to stop. another large number of illegal aliens in this country. we have 10 milli

program. the first is mta should set goals for the bike system and expansion is the primary effort but there are other goals to shape the policy and funding decisions we need to make in the future so we want to increase the bicycle sharing and those are goals that should be specifically met. secondly, we think the mta should condition to work with the district as well as other local jurisdictions and stakeholder to agree on the standards. what is the bare minimum that the standards should be so to make sure we have the system prasht ability. so the mta should develop the system in the long-term. basically to continue to have the funding and the business plan that kind of idea but same thing maintain the recreational definition it might be more down the line the goals will make sense for synergy purposes. we recommend the region has a hybrid model to spin-off a nonprofit that's strongly supported by a public entity; right like with the 501 program and for jurisdictions that don't want to to do their own presumed to be innocent and programs that meet the programs that want to go ahead and make eff

that includes some specific expansions of public preschool programs.previous state of the union addresses he backs more early education for young children and programs targeting the achievement gap in all schools. national leadership matters but most education funding and choices happen at the local level. the battle over prek and charter schools was a huge political fight. from washington to new york and back again. mayor bill de blasio is pushing forward with a plan to tax wealthy new yorkers with new pre-k and after school programs. he would block three charter schools from using free space inside new york city school buildings. two of the preschools were pushed by a group of charter schools that has been backed by mike bloomberg and some democrats and republicans from wall street. while de blasio aides emphasize, a majority went untouched for the charters, the move proved controversial. last week on the cover of ""the new york post"" they pick up a critical post where eric cantor singled out bill de blasio over these charter schools and andrew cuom

fairs actually, their gone it starts with the expansion to 18 years old regardless of their income status and soon if possible to everyone. a cheaper program that example in the country it's social security every time that the congress and the president tries to go after social security their stopped because everyone is in social security when they're in 65-year-old and as soon as they're in they'll fight to defend muni and social security and to get to a car free city we're talking about expand the program don't slink it and rise rate >> thank you (clapping.) (calling names). >> okay. good afternoon >> hello. i'm leo, we are youth from chinatown cd ccii c. i'm glad for the 16 months pilot program that was adapted after i turned 17 i started to worry about my future i have no job and no no objection. after i reach 18 i need to pay for the youth fair. it's the a financier burden on my parents shoulder. a half an hour ago awhile waiting to get into the room a student asked me for $2 for a bus fair. $2 is not that much but i would like to say every month it's a huge number. over 2 thousand youth b will benefit from that >> when i turned 18 i