jan brewer could use some serious clowning. as of today, dan brewer hasn't just stepped lightly off the circus train, she did a full fledged barrel roll off of it. jan brewer waged a war with her own party for months over implementing obama care in her state. jan brewer wanted the medicaid expansion that goes along with medicare and the federal dollars it brings. and jan brewer took absolutely no prisoners to get it. in the wee hours of the morning, jan brewer won. >> it was just tuesday governor brewer called a special session telling lawmakers, hey, make a deal. after six months of wrangling back and forth, expanding medicaid to hundreds of thousands of people in the state. >> brewer got her way by enforcing the incredibly right wing legislature of arizona into a box, winning over moderate republicans and creating a bipartisan coalition to push through the obama care medicaid expansion. the republican house speaker, andy tobin, and the republican senate president, andy biggs, were at risk of losing their jobs if they tried to

this jan brewer, who wagged her finger in the president's face, the jan brewer who signed into the law one of the country's most severe anti-immigrant bills. the woman who either scorpions for breakfast. the same jan brewer who signed a law giving the tea party flag the same protections as the american flag, is putting pressure on republicans in her state to pass obama-care's medicaid expansion. not in some half hearted way. she called a moratorium on all legislation by threatening to veto any bill that came across her desk until the arizona republican lawmakers passed medicaid expansion. this wasn't some idle threat. last week, the governor vetoed a hand full of bills, and in a letter explaining her actions wrote i warned i would not sign additional resolutions into law until we see two most facing issues facing us. adoption of a 2014 budget and plan for medicaid. last month, the house acknowledged defeat and took up the $8.8 billion budget that includes medicaid expansion and assigned it to a committee for hearing. jan brewer and seven other republican governors who supported the exp

jan brewer, being the only one that's done it so far.bc news "the wall street journal" poll. shows 49% of americans think the affordable care act is a bad idea. before the exchanges go online, must that go well to change public perception there as you saw in the poll numbers? >> we need to deconstruct the poll numbers, as presented they're not right. first of all, most of the polls over time have been consistent. people haven't really changed their view that much. the undecided going up more. second, buried in those that oppose the affordable care act are actually a good, big group of people that think it hasn't gone far enough, that we need to do more on reform. consistently in the polls, about a third of the american population sort of hesitant or against the reform, and more than 50% who think the reform is a good idea or think we should have gone further. >> are you saying you should go further to get the numbers better, is that what you're saying? >> no, that think that health care reform should have gone further and done more thing

josh, it sounds like she's leaving it open. >> it seems like jan brewer and everyone who works for janailable for re-election. one viewer said, no, she's eligible to run. she's been saying she's leaving the options open, that is partly not to be seen as a lame duck. i think her whole governorship has been like this. i live on this planet, i understand what's going on and she stands up to her party, when it's necessary because of that. for example, they passed a birther bill through the arizona legislature with unanimous support and she sent this message about how i never thought i'd be faced with a bill that might require candidates to the highest office in the world to present to the secretary of state of arizona. so, she vetoed this bill that had pass would the support of every republican in the state legislature there. one thing she did was push through a sales tax increase. governor norquest was out there saying she was a lousy governor and distract people from her billion dollar tax increase and got renominated and re-elected after doing that. fairly independent of her party all a

it was of course the right thing to do, jan brewer tweeted as much saying "right thing to do for #az proud to sign medicaid restoration into law this morning." i am glad for the people of arizona. 300,000 more poor arizona residents are getting coverage because of it. but this of course jan brewer, she of eating scorpions for breakfast and wagging her finger at the president. a small bit or a giant meteor size bit of iron descending on the state of arizona. >> she gets some golf claps. >> she pulled a christie. she basically put her state first. and florida's governor tried to dot same thing. and rick scott, his nickname is voldemort. his whole life was dedicated to destroying obama care. and he also said hospitals will go out of businesses. if you look at big hospitals in states with lots of retirees, lots of elderly people like florida the hospital system must have this money. it's free money. for the first five years it's free money. >> it is free money. >> and turning it down is insanity. and the idea of any governor doing the opposite of what she's doing is crazy. >> which is wh

jan brewer will join us out of arizona. miss return to the home of nfl car aaron he hernandez taking away more evidence as they turn over every stone investigating the murder of another semi pro football player. it's all "happening now." jon: one of the most high profiled global manhunts in recent history showing no signs of slowing down. good monday morning to you. i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. an admitted nsa leaker edward snowden is on the run again this morning after hopscotching from hong kong to moscow apparently en route to cuba and ecuador where he's seeking asylum. snowden who claims to have leaked top secret documents about u.s. surveillance programs slipped under the radar again today after failing to board the havana-bound tphraoeupt he was expected tflight he was expected to be on. his seat was taken by another passenger as u.s. officials scramble to figure out where he is. >> i wondered if mr. snowden chose china and russia as assistance in his -- you know in his flight from justice because they are suc

governor jan brewer, great to see you.o much. >> thank you. >>> this is the future we must avert. this is the global threat of our time. for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. that is our job. that is our task. we have to get to work. >> president obama is rolling out his clean energy plan in a speech set for tuesday. that was his speech from last week. already this new speech will he will give is facing strong resistance. thisy say there needs to be a clean economy, but others say it could crush the economy. some say it is like west virginia, arkansas and alaska and could kill american jobs. not to mention the timing with all of the security issues facing our country right now. let's talk about it with our digital politics editor who is here live and he hales from west virginia. >> this is a true fact. west virginia's economy has been so devastated already by the restrictions on coal that this administration has put into pl

so, look, jan brewer is not a friend of the president's.een very up-front, very aggressive with him. and yet even she realizes. this is someone who could barely talk her way through the first two minutes of a tv debate. even she understands that this is completely the right thing and a logical thing, and a politically successful thing to do for her and her republicans there. >> nicole, take me through what are people's needs. what are the kinds of things we're going to see at the free clinic in new orleans july 3rd? >> the first thing we're going to see is many people haven't been to the doctor in more than five years. for many in new orleans that. >> haven't been to the doctor since we were there the last time with you all here at msnbc. we see people who just want to get access to health care. and they have nowhere to go but the emergency room. new orleans was hit hard after katrina. then we had an oil spill. then we had flooding. these people need help. they want help. and that's what we're going to be able to give them. >> richard, you

and in that way expand some of the coverage and jan brewer and other republican governors have said okay. and one of the reasons is that the federal government says we'll pick up the tab until 2020 of those that you add. right now it's split depending on a formula that goes state by state, but the federal government has said if you expand your medicaid to include more people in your state, we will pick up the tab for the extras until 2020. and then states start having to pick it up. so if you can include more people in your state under a health care plan. >> right. >> and the federal government's going to pay for it, it sounds pretty good to some of these republican governors. >> money talks. all right. candy, thank you. good to see you as always. we'll be tuning in on sunday. >>> paris jackson has been hospitalized as she waits to testify in her father's wrongful death trial. she talked about his loss a couple of years ago. watch this. >> we've adjusted over the past years. >> it is a tough, tough time. has she really adjusted? we've got a live report up ahead. she's still the one for y

so you can then jan jan brewer and then rick snyder originally saying medicaid dollars obama care no worry and then. they discover that there's a lot of poor people in their state who are just going to be just totally in deep deep trouble if they don't get the medicaid dollars jan brewer went to the point of vetoing every piece of legislation that her republican legislature passed or until they would schedule a vote on obamacare rick snyder just today came out in favor of this john casey has come out in favor of this it looks like medicare is starting to work in a coal do you see this as a as a as a serious crack in republican intransigence in transit are you going to try to say it will be i don't know if it's a serious crack but i think now you have republican governors who are starting to see the logic in understanding that their rule as governor is to protect the people of their state and they see the benefits that this will have for the people within their states they see the dollars that will come into their states to help the poor individuals within their states and their they'

militarized border since the fall of the berlin wall yeah and just a follow up on that arizona governor jan brewer who is considered to be one of the most anti immigrant politicians in the country is supporting these new military militarization efforts happening in the senate right now so it really goes to show how much this immigration reform has gone to the right since its inception now let me ask you both sides from the republicans and the democrats who are the biggest winners and losers in this from this for right immigration reform and more importantly this is this border broke up. sure well some of the same companies that we saw make a profit off of the wars in afghanistan and iraq are also set to make big money off of the contracts are done with homeland security and in order to secure the southern border we have country companies like general atomics here and california which already supplies ten drones to homeland security they're likely to get a contract for many more drones if this immigration reform does pass in fact they've already signed a sole source contract with homeland security

jan brewer the governor who used to call obamacare unconstitutional has in fact changed her mind.terday she signed her state's medicaid expansion into law. brewer's miraculous switch over makes 22 governors that have opted in to the expansion. 19 governors are still saying they will opt out including maine's governor. that decision will leave maine's poorest and most unhealthy without an option. bravo, governor. as the obamacare battles rage on at the state level, the only thing that is certain is uncertainty. in a recent poll the majority of americans say they don't understand how obamacare will affect them personally. so what can we expect in january? to help us understand, we are joined by megan mcardle in washington, d.c. she has done substantial reporting on obamacare. thanks for being with us in "the war room," megan. >> thank for having me. >> michael: why don't most americans understand how obamacare will help them? is that a problem with the message or the policy? >> it's a problem with a very large and complicated law. when you have something that is this complicated wit

that's why you see jan brewer and rick scott and others making such a big priority of this.re real dollars. they generate jobs. >> they're large retirement communities. they're voterses. when you look through that lens, of course they don't want to upset the base. other states are not retirement communities. >> so what am i to make now of this war between republican governors. some like mine, bobby jindal, we may be a poor state, we may have a lot of people who need this, no, hands off obama care. >> well, i think most republican governors will come around. and mainly for assisted living and long term care. >> is this the difference? the elderly, there's not that same sense of problematic taking of government dollars that we see when we talk about poor people, african-american communities, those dollars are politicized in a way for the elderly they are not. >> when they were doing these laws in florida, the republican party went actively to assisted living facilities to register them. they have already given back to the system. and who is their base? >> and talk to me about

republicans in arizona caved under the pressure from governor jan brewer to'cñr schedule a vn expandingand democrats are now planning to run on obama care in 2014. so while the gop is making noise, the president is actually working to make america better. joining me now is congressman keith ellison, democrat from minnesota. he's co-chairman of the progressive caucus and abby shannafield, a 22-year-old student who was born with the rare congenital and chronic disease. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks, rev. >> congressman, the president's approval is up and today we learned he will head to california on friday to tout obama care. what are you doing to get the word out? >> well, one of the things that we're doing is using social media. just this morning i tweeted out a question to my constituents and asked them, hey, guys, tell me about your direct experience with obama care. no pontificating what is your experience with the affordable care act. and i got back really dozens and dozens of responses but i didn't have to go far because abby here has within a friend of

jan brewer, maybe it will be brewer care in arizona.nications issue in a lot of ways. there was a lot of nonmessaging in the very beginning when it was implemented. now there's a huge ramp up, celebrities trying to get the nba involved. trying to get healthy, younger people signed up. when you graduate from college, you get a job without health insurance, it's something you want and you can stay on your parents' health insurance until 26 but when you're young you feel like you'll live forever. >> there are a lot of big challenges in implementing health care reform. getting enough people into the system to know that you are bringing down costs because there are more people paying into the system. the white house has a very good plan in place and they're building in the plan. they brought in one of the best communicators in washington, tara mcginnis, to communicate the plan. working through all of these elements. they will get the folks into the plan to make it work. the key is getting people into health care reform, but that's going to w

have earned through the careers of steve king and tom tancredo and pat buchanan and joe arpaio and jan brewer. the anti-immigrant image of the party. try to change that by trying to get at least some of your party to support centrist immigration reform, like what happened today in the united states senate. that's one way to do it. try to make yourself more attractive to latino voters by doing something that latino voters like. or you can do what they do in texas. texas republicans are not so much trying to appeal to latinos. they are more just trying to make sure latinos can't vote. in 2011, texas republicans passed a bill that said you'd no longer be allowed to vote in texas unless you could provide documentation that you never had to show before, and that not everyone in the state has. governor rick perry signed that voter i.d. bill into law and then the federal government wrote the state of texas a nice note about it. "we've carefully considered the information you have provided about your new voter i.d. law. including the state's own estimate that as many as 800,000 registered texas voter

arizona governor jan brewer has come under fire from people in her own party for embracing the expansionobby jindal of louisiana has come under fire for rejecting it, putting hundreds of thousands without health insurance at risk. that's the backdrop against which nbc has announced we'll sponsor a one-day free health clinic in new orleans on july 3rd. it is the eighth clinic we've sponsored. executive director of the national associations of free clinics is the group organizing this health clinic. nico nicole, tell me how the lack of medicaid expansion will impact residents of louisiana? >> to be quite frank with you, people are just going to die. it is time we stop putting politics over people. for many of the underserved and uninsured, the only way for access to health care is through this medicaid expansion it. without it, they will just be lost. >> what is typically seen by patients that are coming in to the clinics there? what are the screenings, what's the health need that you're offering? >> one of the things that i think most people are surprised by is that 83% of the people who

plus, remember when arizona governor jan brewer was doing everything in her power to block obama-careizona? crazy thing, she is doing everything in her power to implement obama-care in arizona. that is a picture of the president in the white house situation room being briefed last week to the latest threat to our homeland. that threat is climate change. it's hurricane seasons, everybody. we begin tonight with this guy. this is u.s. district judge roger vincent, a senior federal judge for the northern district of florida appointed by ronald

plus, remember when arizona governor jan brewer was doing everything in her power to block obama-careng everything in her power to implement obama-care in arizona. that is a picture of the president in the white house

the governor, jan brewer, was an alec member too. >> steve farley: all of us here are very familiar with alec and the influence that alec has with many of the members here. >> bill moyers: alec's domination of arizona proved too much for state representative steve farley. >> steve farley: i just want to emphasize, it's fine for corporations to be involved in the process. corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly. they don't have the right to lobby people and not register as lobbyists. they don't have the right to take people away on trips, convince them of it, send them back here, and then nobody's seen what's really gone on and how that legislator's gotten that idea and where is it coming from. >> bill moyers: last year, farley introduced a bill to force legislators to disclose their alec ties - just as the law already requires them to do with any lobbyist. >> steve farley: all i'm asking in the alec accountability act is to make sure that all of those expenses are reported as if they are lobbying expenses and all those gifts

plus, remember when arizona governor jan brewer was doing everything in her power to block obama-cares doing everything in her power to implement obama-care in arizona. sometimes reality trumps ridiculousness. speaking of ridiculousness, that's

that includes florida, michigan, ohio, and arizona, where governor jan brewer signed a bill to do so today. we look at what's behind these changes in two of these states. mary k. reinhart is with the "arizona republic." and karen kasler is with ohio public radio. so, mary k. reinhart, what did governor brewer have to do and why did she did it now? >> well, she had to get a bipartisan coalition of her republican-led legislature to go along with what she's announced at the beginning ever the session in january that was a top priority. that was expanding medicaid. it was a surprise, stunned observers we were one states to sue to stop obamacare and the governor needed to get this coalition behind her, she put these folks together. when negotiations stalled the governor called a surprise special session, just 48 hours this bipartisan coalition in the house and senate pushed through medicaid expansion, got her to where she is today signing that bill. >> she still doesn't admit this is in support of obamacare. >> she admits that this tiny little piece she supports. it's the law of the land,

is where the rubber meets the road and you tend to have more moderate governors, governors like jan brewer who signed the medicaid expansion into law yesterday. then at the same time on women's issues, that sort of rule of thumb doesn't seem to apply. scott walker, who is not known as a particularly sane person, but is he set to sign into law three new antiabortion bills. plenty of governors otherwise seem like they are less inclined to be crazy than are putting -- that are putting this stuff into law. what's happening at the state level that allows for that. >> i think you see the same dynamic you see with congress. there is a faction of the party that is absolutely completely committed to ending roe, overturning women's access to birth control. i think they are doing things that are directly against their own self-interest but more importantly they're against the interests of the voters in their states. but it is discouraging to see particularly moderate states making very, very extreme law on women's health issues. >> may i just add, this is a women's issue insofar as as it pertains to

i have this dream that jesus comes back and jan brewer ships him off to san juan. when we see so many christians being so furious about their fellow christians crossing the border, in your theology, do you think god -- if he or she exists, really cares all that much about the invisible lines we draw on the ground to separate our tribes? >> well, i think you raise a really good point john. when we were in winter garden, florida, we were greeted by young people carrying flags of monarch butterfly. what they pointed out was that the monarch butterfly nests in the state -- flies up to the united states and flies back. and it has no papers. so they were saying that life is generated in this whole planet without these lines. but the fact is we do have these lines. the economy is different. and so we have to have modern 21st century laws that can address these issues. it is not a simple thing. i think what we have to do is be responsible as a nation and fix it. we believe we're creative and historically, we have used the energy of immigrants -- as i like to say immigratio

they're kind of retracting their previous attempts to repeal and lot of all you have folks like jan brewer and rick scott completely changing direction i think because they're anticipating this change in public opinion and they'd like to see themselves reelected so they kind of soften their approach to obamacare i think adapting to the political winds and we might see some change from house and senate republicans as well do you expect as we head into the mid the midterm elections here that there that they're going to continue to publicly soften or do you think that they're going to have to get harder right just before the primaries we just have about ten seconds left. over see the house democrats promising to defend the law probably basically for the first time the midterm elections next year at least the teacher says she will see a segment so well so. we'll see leaf on thanks to again for your great investigative reporting for going on a program. where you talk to tom thank you coming up sensible security for an american dystopia which sounds better to you if we really want national secur

. >> reporter: arizona governor jan brewer called the immigration plan a victory for her state.l: some republicans still oppose this. they are going to put up a fight. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell says the border plan still isn't strong enough. they accuse harry reid of rushing to a vote. read wants to wrap up the senate vote to give the house time to act before the august recess. ted cruz calls the border security requirement a figure leaf. >> this bill is not designed to fix the problem. if this bill got passed into law. i guarantee in 10, 20 years we would be back here but instead of 11 million prime minister here illegally we would have 20 million or 30 million. that's not a humane system. >> crews believe the bill gives the homeland security secretary too much discretion over certifying homeland security improvement. martha: congressman paul ryan weighed in on the immigration debate. he says the stronger advancement of border security provisions makes it likely immigration reform will pass in the house as well. >> i think making sure we are emphasizing the border will be se

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he jan brewer's -- >> your side -- >> what i am saying, there are a lot of things we can except ndy trade-off. >> you want to see this get done. >> the democrats have already allowed there to be triggers and when -- then was a much bigger issue than anyone understood. it's meant our side was really trying to accommodate what we believe are unreasonable and almost ridiculous border objectives by the republicans. all, wethat, first of are going to get a lot out of it that is important to us. we have to stay focused on that because some of these other things we can compromise on. the second thing i will say, and i will make her happy by saying this, i do think the low skilled visa program is imperfect. if there were ways to make it at her, i think democrats should be open to that. tohink the whole theory reiterate what she said is we just do not want illegal workers in our country. it is bad for everybody. businesses are excited about the idea they will not have to worry about if someone they are hiring is illegal. they just do not know. if they could get resolved, they will put up with it. it's

>> hal: look at jan brewer on medicaid expansion and obamacare.tarts showing up and this is something that the federal government will spend money on and we don't have to take it out of our state coffers, they hand it over in a heartbeat. >> my rule is make them take the check physically and a photo op with barack obama. >> hal: a big giant one like they've won the lottery. that might limit how many bills we would get through. we'll be back right after this. i'm hal sparks filling in for mama and the mooks while they're away on vacation, if that's what they call it. current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. (cenk) it's go time! it's go time! it's go time! go time. you know what time it