investigative journalist with mother jones magazine and associate editor of time dispatch and horace cooper a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen great to have you all with you just heard my conversation with congressman kasich what role brian what role do you think wall street should play in arcata. an important role but i agree with congressman kucinich that the thread needs to be it needs to have transparency the fed is trying to do too much when you have the federal reserve being the regulator the chief regulator of wall street in trying to look into these issues there's a problem with the fed there's a problem of the fed i think conservatives liberals agree that the fed is not serving a very good function for our society right now so i think there is bipartisan agreement before the fed and we had banks blowing up we never went more than fifteen years without a banking panic in history the united states until the mid thirty's and there are some who argue that the fed help soften that maybe not endear your thoughts but i

welcome back to the politics panel on our panel tonight horace cooper a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and richard followed progressive strategist and host of the richard foller show out of washington d.c. we had radio that is correct and way cool that is ok let's talk medicaid expansion ten red states have promised to opt out medicaid of course medicare is the program for people over sixty five medicaid is the program for people who make you know basically wal-mart wages who can afford to buy health insurance or you know live at after slightly above or below the poverty line if other red states ten states have said that they're not going to take federal money now to opt out of this expansion if other red states jump on board as many as nine million americans could end up without health insurance even though at the federal level we have all collectively through we the people our government said let's provide them with free health insurance sixteen democratic governors have said that they will join the program and we have t

journalism oh jones magazine which is not owned by rupert murdoch rupert murdoch and tom dispatch and horace cooper conservative commentators senior fellow at the national center for public policy research welcome back to all of the. obama democrats have proposed actually here let me to move on to the campaign trail president obama just released this new ad hammering mitt romney on his record of outsourcing jobs and offshoring bank accounts check it out. i'm barack obama and i approve this message beautiful for spacious. right. for. gosh. and. has become a big issue on the campaign trail and romney has been leveling criticism at the president for being the outsource or in chief. it is interesting that that when it comes to the outsourcing that this president has been outsourcing a good deal of. american jobs himself by putting money into energy companies solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the united states if there's an outsourcing or in chief is the president of the united states. romney is actually right although on some of those details not quite but most o

stories of this week it's time to turn things over to our political panel on panel tonight are horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and richard followed progressive strategist notion host of the richard followership thank you both for joining me tonight let's talk obamacare despite the supreme court ruling the right seems fully committed to repeal mcconnell has promised to use reconciliation to do it a new reuters report or poll shows that obamacare has jumped up in popularity five points here's what paul ryan had to say about repealing obamacare. we disagree with the notion that our rights come from governments that the government cannot grant us and to find our rights those are ours those come from nature and god according to the declaration of independence ok he's going to go to the declaration of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness i can have the right to life and not have health care or you know this is an amazing thing you walk through all of the different things that you accuse republicans of doing and yet thi

it's was there you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's lone liberal rumble or horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and laughlin mark a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation and great to see you both again some think you know romney spoke before the end of the convention today and he got booed when he talked about repealing obamacare here it is. but to that i'm going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find that includes obamacare and i'm going to work to reform and say. i went on for twenty seconds and then he basically said that he was going to do all the things that are in obamacare i find that amazing but undeterred republicans for the thirty first time voted to repeal obamacare today i thought this was settled issue both chambers of commerce voted on it it was signed by the president it was up held by the supreme court so isn't this really about trying to crash the economy horrors i thought the bush tax cuts were subtle issue than if that's the definition of it being passed by bot