romney opens his mouth, i have no... i think he's running against me. >> i don't think that romney was somebody who understood the angst of the american people. he didn't understand what... what especially the republicans throughout the united states were feeling, how-how disaffected they felt. >> mitt romney just further exacerbates the frustration among the republican base and the tea party wing of the party. how could it be that they end up with mitt romney as their nominee when there's so much anti-washington, anti-establishment energy out there? >> what does mitt romney believe? >> is he truly a conservative? >> not exactly a person of conviction. >> what type of values... >> narrator: romney knew he had to bolster his appeal among republicans and win over the tea party and insurgents. he named the author of the ryan budget his running mate. >> to announce my running mate and the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan! >> narrator: he took a tough stand on immigration. >> the answer is self-deportation.

that insurance mandate is something that not only mitt romney supported at other republicans. it was was somewhat of a conservative healthcare reform concept. you talk about that a little bit even though president obama had a conservative healthcare concept at the heart of his health care reform package he was still struggling to line up republican support. they give up the public option to get it to the finish line. of all the legislative pieces of business he had to tackle this was perhaps the most fascinating piece of business from a legislative standpoint. >> at the beginning obama favored the public option. so when republicans had to explain what they didn't like they said the public option. the rest of the bill is romney care weekend like that stuff with the public option that makes it unacceptable. they thought that that was going to always be part of the bill. so he says okay will cut that out and i think he needed to kiss you had a handful of democrats who post that. he needed every single democrat and some republicans. so then republicans republicans came up with oth

but to be the official under mitt romney in they believed they could import the of modeled nationwide but with of modern liberal position with the extreme right wing but the case you can make is it drove the progress to mitigate disaster that had not happened. >> q don't get a lot of credit. and then to be abandoned obama would have gotten no credit. they were just delaying the day to get less credit but to take on the thankless task they have been willing to take on but obamacare actions were in trouble. >> host: talking about foreign policy and as i saw covering on the campaign trail to say you want to bother the you know, what out of vice is spent a big part of the foreign policy legacy is getting american forces out of afghanistan with this data is forces agreement and the red lining in syria. this is a huge subject to tackle with the foreign policy legacy how will be all see that years from now? it is hard to square to go on this ambitious mission i draw a red line but then i do not enforce it. >> want people to wonder stand i tried to account for his mistakes and failures. it is

is that the -- the way, the treatment of people like mitt romney.tt romney very publicly, gets him to go out to dinner with him, takes a bunch of pictures, then doesn't give him the job that they were meeting for. >> yeah. >> seth: do you think that is a place that he's being vengeful for to the never-trump republicans. yeah, right, yeah. [ laughter ] >> yeah, i mean, the romney thing was never going to happen, right? like what's the one thing that romney said during his 2012 campaign that anybody remembers other than the 47%. it was when he said, "our number one geopolitical foe is --" trump's daddy, "is russia." >> seth: yeah. >> if you think that's our number-one geopolitical foe in the world, you're not going to be trump's secretary of state. trump will have us speaking russian. >> seth: yeah. >> this is not -- you're not going to pick romney. >> seth: do you think mitt romney's getting enough credit about calling that out? because that was sort of laughed off by president obama at the time. >> yeah, he was like, "it's not the '80s, it's not the

didn't happen, romney wouldn't do it.romney's book is literally, "no apology." i guess trump didn't read the front of it. oh, today, it was also reported that trump has approached sylvester stallone for a position in his administration. that's right, rocky himself, though i hear putin is still pushing for ivan drago. according to sources, sly's job would be chairman of the national endowment for the arts. it makes sense because stallone loves art so much that he literally sprints up the stairs when he is going to the philadelphia art museum. ( laughter ) now it is still-- it is still over a month until trump's inauguration, when he will take the oath of office with one hand raised and the other hand on a stack of his own head shots. the president-elect's team, evidently, is having trouble booking stars for the event, but a member of the inaugural committee said, "elton john is going to be doing our concert on the mall," to which sir elton's publicist said, "incorrect, he will not be performing, there is no truth in this a

yes, i've met mitt romney. yes, i'm at the end. i give credit to donald trumpai for being able to listen to people who are very much against him, but also to mitt romney for being able to go and meet. that's why i'm saying, i felt adrift at the end of october, i'm willing to wait for second because perhaps this tent is bigger than we thought. >> host: next call comes from zachary in long beach california. go ahead. bea. listening >> caller: two quick questions. you said a moment ago that you felt the next two or three or a few years would be good for the republican party, but what about the masses as a whole, and second, someone in your position, an acre, when they take a political stand take a political stand you said it makes it difficult to come out,, to think that's industrywide. [inaudible] as white house press secretary, i felt, believe it or not, that most, that most of the reporters in that room tried their utmostr to be fair and i really appreciated all of the work they did. i knew they had a job to do a matte relationship

this is the romney family.rnor romney's knee is his adopted grandson. who an african-american child, kieren romney, he captioned for this one. -- captions for this one. >> one of these things is not like the other, that baby front and center. liz: children of politicians cannot defend themselves is it every okay it make a child part of a political punch line. >> this takes me back to something that mohammad ali said that hating people because of their color is wrong, we, as african-americans, have to think about the sensitivities of other groups, of different you know whites, and whom ever else, a lot of times people that long different comments, and they think just because we belonging to's marginalize community one that lived a long time with jim crow slavely that gives us right to make different comes about other groups in a joking way, that is not okay, one thing that comes do mind something that president obama said last night, that is you know, white middle class worker, the men he has a point just as you

the insurance mandate is something that not only mitt romney support in the past but it was somewhat of a conservative healthcare reform concept. you talk about in the book a little bit even the president obama had essentially a conservative healthcare concept at the heart of his health care reform package, he was still struggling to line up republican support and so they give up the public option to sort of get it to the finish line. of all the legislative pieces of business he had to tackle during his administration, this was perhaps the most fascinating piece of business to watch for me legislative standpoint. >> guest: at the beginning like you say, obama favored the public option. when republicans had to explain what they didn't like in the bill they said the public option. the rest of the bill is romneycare, we kind of like that stuff. it's this public option that makes it unacceptable. they thought i was going to always be a part of the bill. so the obama says all right, we will cut that out. i think he needed to because you had a handful of democrats who also opposed that and

>> i voted for mitt romney. gary jaungsen.he other two options are just atrocious. >> republican or democrat? >> registered republican but i'm not sure. >> hillary clinton i know for a fact because i was just at her campaign office, they really want to win over republicans in areas like this. does she have a shot? >> no, she doesn't. >> who are you guys voting for? >> our dog. >> you might win over a couple of voters. high five. as it turned out, donald trump won slightly more white women than hillary clinton did and that was the final variable that give him ohio. up next, the voters who didn't. the final variable. >> you'll vote for weed but not presidency. >>> we're from ohio. >> so the country has you to thank or blame. >> true, true. >> did you vote for donald trump? >> i didn't vote. no. they both sucked. >> i did not vote. >> you didn't vote? >> not for president. local politics are more important for me. >> you voted on election day, just not for president? >> yekttop. >> and this was critical to barack obama's vote and

, you know, the '80s are calling, they want their foreign policy back because of what mitt romney had said about putin. i think it was a general sense in russia that we were not only withdrawing from that part of the world, but generally our foreign policy was retrenching. i would just say that far be it -- i mean, i don't to want ascribe a world view to what trump is doing on russia. i think that's a dangerous place to be. >> yeah. >> but i will say there is -- i think a growing and worrisome strand not just at trump tower, but in the conservative movement that does believe that everything should be subordinated to the threat of radical or fight against radical jihadism. and in that fight, the point about isis, putin is an ally. i don't belief herself an ally. some republicans are challenging that notion, but there is that sense that if the fundamental threat is there, question work with putin, our enemy is his enemy. >> and it's complicated, very quickly the president would say that putin is not helping them fight isis. >> all right. we have to go to break or i'll never be asked to

>> steve: almost. >> jimmy: if you take mitt romney -- >> steve: mitt romney!s two sips of beer. >> steve: two sips of beer! >> jimmy: it equals lit romney. [ laughter and applause ] whoa, whoa, whoa. [ applause ] >> steve: macarena? i understand the macarena. >> jimmy: if you take an office party -- >> steve: office party. >> jimmy: plus mistletoe. >> steve: okay. >> jimmy: it equals the hr department. [ laughter ] it's just a bad idea. just don't do it. it's a bad idea. no. here's another one. if you take ron weasley -- >> steve: ron weasley, yes. >> jimmy: plus a bakery. >> steve: ron weasley, bakery. >> jimmy: it equals a ginger bread man. [ laughter ] a gingerbread man. >> steve: that's making a a little more sense. the fog is lifting. >> jimmy: if you take kevin james >> steve: kevin james. >> jimmy: plus snoop dogg. >> steve: snoop dogg. >> jimmy: it equals james blunt. do you see what i'm saying? [ cheers ] do you get the idea of it, at least? >> steve: i at least get it's some sort of mathematics without numbers. >> jimmy: if you take neil armstrong --

mitt romney had something to say on obamacare —— something similar to obamacare.nce between what mitt romney did which was to reform an individual state's health system and what obama said —— obama did was institute are countrywide one. it drove up prices in places where it was affordable before. there isn't in either — or. obama tried to do it one way and it hasn't worked as well as hoped that 10 million fewer people are covered in obamacare that people are covered in obamacare that people were expecting to be covered. republican approaches can cover more people than obamaca re republican approaches can cover more people than obamacare at a lower cost and the way to do it is give consumers more control over their own health—care dollars. that's what most republican tried to do.“ own health—care dollars. that's what most republican tried to do. if they heed mr obama's call not to help pass the replacement, what impact will that have? it could leave a lot of people worse off, couldn't it? you'll absolutely. if democrats decide that it is either my way or the highwa

romney looks a lot more pressing on that issue than before. i think it is true that russia doesn't matter from a global economic sense, but what we have seen is that russia matters enormously from a geopolitical sense. they have the capacity to throw a wrench in the works in the ukraine and syria. and the nightmare that everybody worries about is them throwing a wrench at tbaltic countries. i hope the trump administration listens to governor romney back in those 2012 comments and just is very careful not to empower putin to take further steps that destabilize nato and the entire world. >> nice to have you on. thank you. >> good to be with you. >>> from saying that mexico will pay for the wall to proposing a 35% tariff on mexican goods sold in this country. president-elect trump has made serious threat s s to our south neighbor, but mexican officials now fighting back. wooem take you live to mexico city, next. >>> but first business correspondent christine romans has this week's before the bell. >> here comes the new phase of the trump economy.

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another part in the book you talk about how mitt romney went after the president saying i'm going to slow the rise of the oceans and so forth and you pointed out at one point he said in a speech i want to help you get a job or make your life better. so they are making hay out of this and going through the environmental legacy and making it more difficult for the president to achieve the goals. >> guest: looking after the long-term interest of the country. it is a thankless task and that is why politicians want people to be happy right now. so, if there is a trade-off between what we can do for our constituents right now are between now and the next election for 20, 30, 50, 200 years down the line they would usually change and get elected right now. forget about the oceans. i'm going to help you get a job right now. i do want to point out returning to the topic romney promised they would get rid of the regulations and taxes obama had going and they would get unemployment down to 6% by the end of the term. if i don't get there, you can fire me. but that is how successful my plan is goi

that was one of the errors on the romney campaign. they had outsourced big parts of that infrastructure to the rnc and super pacs, so it didn't have the ability to control and innovate in a disciplined way. for the most part, those innovations were mostly around taking big dollar donations, and there wasn't this other set of weaponized outside forces the way there was in 2016. there's the quasi-media sources, the fake media, the masadonian kids and robots and hackers. the actors going in trying to take down an organization through illegal activity. that is something we saw in the other races, but fought back and were able to repel. that became a much bigger operation this time. i think the other thing that's not mentioned enough about the digital campaign this time is that the weaponized outside forces, the hacks, breitbart, the fake media, but there's also just the mechanization of abuse online that i think had a toxic effect on the ability of the electorate to have a conversation with itself about the campaign. i think that is obvio

governor romney.ion would lead to "suicidal destruction of the republican party." so even if you're a republican with serious doubts about barry goldwater, you're in good company. >> buchanan: lyndon johnson was a washington insider, a wheeler-dealer, a riverboat gambler, a guy who cuts deals for programs -- the antithesis of barry goldwater, who would take a clear-cut stand on principle. but no one doubted that he was an extremely effective politician, johnson, especially as a congressional politician and a leader on the hill. >> sabato: understanding that he had gotten the presidency in the worst possible way, he knew that the only way out was to establish himself with a victory so large that no one could say he was simply filling the office of what would've been jack kennedy's second term. >> i think that he wanted a landslide because then he knew he'd get his legislation passed. roosevelt was his hero, and i think that johnson said to himself that, "i'm going to be as good as roosevelt -- maybe ev

mitt romney! mitt romney was going to make you move to canada? wasn't going to be president, and give it to mitt romney to be president tomorrow, i would. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: the funny thing is as arrogant americans we assume canada will welcome us with open arms if we decide to move there because we don't like our leader. they're like, you're not coming here. >> they were going to welcome me, i checked. >> jimmy: do you have any real friends who are trump supporters? >> what do you mean by real friends? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm not just talking about acquaintances or people on the show every eight weeks or something like that, but friends. >> every eight weeks? >> jimmy: you know, the rotation. >> i'm here once a year. you have people every eight weeks? >> jimmy: no. [ laughter ] >> i want to get a list of people who are here every eight weeks! those people are never doing my show, i'll tell you something about that. every eight weeks. who's so good? give me a list of people who are so good they could be here every e

. >>> joining me now, sam seder, katie packer, former deputy campaign manager for mitt romney's 2012 presidential campaign. katie, i want to start with you. i remember mitt romney saying he was going to build keystone with his bare hands i believe was the line, if that's what it took. do you agree the first few days when you take away the behavior of the president of the united states, which we'll talk about in a bit, the thing he is putting pen to paper on are all things you could have imagined in another republican presidency? >> absolutely. i mean, there have been some moments that are cringe worthy no doubt but the official things that president trump has done in these last couple days are things that conservatives and republicans are very, very enthusiastic about and feel like have been a long time coming. so these are things that are only going to serve to energize and excite the republican base and conserve tifseratives across country and the folks that will vote for trump. >> this has been a thesis that you have had, sam. trump is aberrant and taking over the republican party

was down with he sat governor romney. for reasons primarily political, not select governor romney. he needed a secretary of state. robert gates to come to the trump tower. and the secretary went up to the trump tower and donald trump asked him, who do you think should be secretary of state? talk to rex tillerson. rex tillerson in, said this guy is real deal, i'll nominate him. shows great openness totalent and what donald trump does best, stand up executive teams. a friend of is mine, terrific administration. andy, secretary of labor, he is hiring wisely and hiring well makes think that is how he decisions, he listens a lot. as far as the f-35, that is one he didn't listen on. lockheed. he will see the production of reform18 continue and see to the f-35. i know a lot of people on both the debate, i am not an expert, i believe president trump is forcing competition boeing and lockheed, benefit the american taxpayer men and women who fly the fighters who are first line of defense in this country offer air force and e off of

mitt romney was the conservative. >> trevor: when you said millening toast i thought mitt romney.i thought, that's not cool, trevor. when you said it and i thought, oh, all right, carry on. >> she was wildly unprepared for the job but tapped into a deep-seated thing that donald trump just blew up. >> trevor: what i found interesting in your writing was talking about how you notice that people on the ground were liking sarah palin, which is something you almost forget these days, just liking, not policy, plans, but just likability. >> she had this clintonian quality -- bill clinton. >> trevor: i was about to say, i don't think you are familiar with -- yeah. >> that's important, whatever you think about her politics she would put her hand on your shoulder and say, howas it going? i'm sarah. good at making you comfortable. that the what the embeds are experiencing. >> trevor: this is a comedy show but it's one to have the scenes i -- it's one of the funny scenes from the episodes. >> i hear you have the best breakfast pizza of any gas station in iowa. ( laughter ) >> she's not changi

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he won 51 more than mitt romney won.e have two up in the northwest and one in south philadelphia, so we began increasing our presence in the african-american community. donald trump was in north philly meeting with african-american leaders, his daughter, daughter in law came here to philadelphia and mitt romney never stop foot here. john mccain never did. he understands the inner cities. he understands the city of philadelphia, he went to penn, he lived in new york. i think having an interest in urban areas can help us dig ourselves out of the mess we have been in the city in the last 50 odd years. >> in terms of talking about the president-elect's connection to philadelphia, he had some negative comments about the city when he was here. >> look, i went to school here. i know the city very well and to see how far it's gone down, the inner city and the neighborhood, i can't believe it. >> as you mentioned, joe, obviously the president-elect a graduate of the university of pennsylvania. he graduated from penn in the late '

obamacare, i suggested, isn't really very different from mitt romney's approach.need to understand is there isn't an either or in terms of expanding coverage to the uninsured. obamacare try to do it one way, it didn't work as well as hoped, but 10 million fewer are covered under 0bamacare than were expected to be covered and republican approaches can cover more people than 0bamaca re republican approaches can cover more people than 0bamacare at a lower cost and the way to do is give consumers more control over their own dollars, that's what most republican plans try to do. if they don't help pass a replacement, what impact could that have, lots of people could be worse off? absolutely. if democrats decide it's either my way or the highway and they want to be stubborn and oppose anything they don't like then yes they could make health insurance worse for lots of people. but here's the thing, if republicans oppose a credible plan that would cover as many people as the affordable care act or 0bamacare as we call it but do so with lower costs and more choice than 0bam

were all in romney care. i've always given romney credit for the idea of the individual mandate, but apparently that was wrong. it was in senator chafee's legislation as well. so when governor romney took the handoff, if you will, from john chafee and introduced -- they called it romney-care in massachusetts in 2006. when it was first introduced, they had real good success in getting people covered. it was successful in terms of getting people covered. where they were not so successful initially was affordability. and they had to work on affordability. part of the problem there was it took a while for the healthier younger people who didn't really think they needed health care coverage because they were young an invincible, took a while for them to -- the fine keeps going up year after year after year. maybe i could get coverage and not pay the fine. er ultimately the romney-care did a much better job on affordability. well, if you take these one, two, three, four, five key provisions, the individual mandate,

i think about years ago when mitt romney was running. it was a neck in neck. and there were some people saying he could win. the polls showed it tight but not him ahead. then election night obama wins easily. the l.a. times poll was and unusual experiment. all of them were showing that trump was going to lose. so what responsibility did the media have to con t contextuali polls or question the polls in their reporting? >> i think we should have questioned the poll repeatedly. but the polls fit the stereotypes in the head of the national media. when howie said there's a bunch of yahoo racists out there, the media is characterizing, the people in wisconsin where i came from, that's how they voted. no other explanation. the mistake was made that we did not go out into america and get to know who those people were. we relied on somebody in new york or washington or wherever giving us poll data telling us what they were in a statistical profile instead of really d k-fashioned leg .. the way, we can do better than going to a diner and talking about how much pancakes

>> it's not about mitt romney, donald trump, or any particular person. political economic system. not one particular person. politicians can appeal to racial arguments. some democrats have done and times. it's a very palpable device, it works a large part of the time to propel people into political positions of power. >> tucker: so we have had -- here's a main problem with your theory, for the last 50 years, the country has been totally transformed by immigration. we have admitted about 60 million immigrants into this country legally in 50 years. that is an awful lot in a country of 325 million. that is a lot of people. totally changed the demographic balance. why would a country based on and committed to perpetuation of white supremacy left in 60 million people, only 4% of whom are from europe? >> not weird at all. your point make sense if you don't think about it. what instead is happening today is what is forced immigration from slavery. we brought in lots of slaves to the united states that outpaced a lot of european immigrants underweight the promis

in the case of john mccain and mitt romney, it is beyond ridiculous. this isn't principle.al commentary. >> bill: absolutely. all right, bernie. we appreciate it. go to bernardgoldberg.com. read his column. watters on deck. he is running around d.c. and he has a very interesting interviews for us. watters is next. ♪ at all, smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels, and signs reminding everyone to think balance before choosing their beverages. we know you care about reducing the sugar in your family's diet, and we're working to support your efforts. more beverage choices. smaller portions. less sugar. balanceus.org. and they're absolutely right. they say that it's hot... when really, it's scorching. and while some may say the desert is desolate... we prefer secluded. what is the desert? it's absolutely what you need right now. absolutely scottsdale. ♪ >> bill: "back of the book segment" tonight, "watters' world." there are many, many, many things going on this evening in washington. some of them have to do with hatred, angst. we send watters down to catch some of the flav

they instituted what i call and others call romney care. they were doing a pretty good job on covering people but not such a good job on affordability. what happened is you foup out they had insurance pools where a lot of the people were not youj, they were not very healthy and they were older and needed more health care. as a result, the insurance companies in order to stay in business had to raise the premiums. i don't know if a of this sound familiar to you but it su sounds familiar to what we've seen in the last six years or so with the affordable care act. do the ideas of senator chafee and the ideas of governor romney, we've added some things. we have made -- encouraged states to increase the number of people they cover under medicaid by raising to about 135% the poverty level under which people can receive health care. we've encouraged a focus on prevention and wellness. not just treating people when they're sick but also trying to make sure that people stay healthy in the first place. we provide funding for contraception, we provide

. >> martha: when romney lost, they said, we messed up.re out why we are not connecting with the american people. we need to have two have a "come to jesus" moment. don't democrats need to say, some of the policies that have been instituted are so many reasons that people migrated to voting for donald trump. >> democrats definitely should look at what happened in the selection. i absolutely agree with that. the difference between mitt romney and hillary clinton is that hillary clinton won 2.8 million more votes than donald trump. mitt romney lost millions more than obama. >> martha: you are okay that they -- you don't have a problem with the people in the country that they are with you. speak of no, no. what i am saying, we should absolutely figure out why we lost voters who went from obama to donald trump. absolutely. >> martha: for those people who did that, neera, when they hear this resist, resist movement, they will say, i voted for barack obama twice and now, i want something different. if you want to win me back, you have to. >> is

romney was going to be throwing blacks into the street. now we have this boycott of donald trump.ve what is lewis' motive? >> i think he believes, and i am pretty sure his supporters believe, that john lewis is a man of principle who acts almost exclusively on principle. so his motives would be, it is a principled response to what he considers the illegitimacy of donald trump. he also considered george bushha illegitimate. as you just mentioned, he compared john mccain, when he was running for president, to george wallace. he said mitt romney would take us back -- or at least suggested he would take us back to the bad old days of segregation. and i think he believes all of these things are based on principle. but john lewis is also something besides an icon, besides a civil rights icon. he is also a hyper-partisan liberal democrat. and he doesn't always deal with principle. when you try to delegitimize so many different kinds of republicans, that is political. and when john lewis goes into the political arena, he can be criticized in a pol

bush and the former ohio state director for mitt romney's presidential campaign.hank you both for being here. scott, i want to start with you because republicans have talked about voting to repeal obamacare without having a replacement ready to go. is that a wise decision? >> this is going to be a multistep process. they have to get the budget bodes going to set up the process to repeal obamacare. i think what is important to understand here is there can be a stable period. it could be a long period so nobody who currently has health insurance loses it immediately. they are going to have to do a series of complicated things to repeal it then replace it with a series of policies that republicans have been pushing for many years, so i think it is a little bit of a false choice to say that we have to do it all in one day or not do it at all. i think the process can get started, then they can get going through the machinations of installing the policy that will do what obamacare promised to begin with, increase access and lower prices. it has done neither, not affordi

oh lot said about those candidates during the election now have the change of heart even mitt romney said the toughest things and now he is considered for secretary of state but gates said some pretty tough things but he was unfit to be commander in chief. edward did a very strong letter against trump danforth his opponent but he was asked if you have changed your mind since november 8? he answer the question have you seen a change in the president-elect since elected to where you are more comfortable than you were in july? >> i worried about some of his comments about the purple heart with young marines dying in my arms that bothered me tremendously about john mccain that worried me but i will tell you the judgment whether someone is fit to serve as commander in chief is made by the american people. and in the military we are sworn to uphold the constitution so it is a job for everybody in this room to help him be the most successful. i have the confidence in the american people they cover from all parts of the country and circumstances and to the best they can so the american peopl

to the ideas of senator schchaf and governor romney, we've added some things. we've encouraged states to increase the number of people they cover under medicare by raising to about 135% the poverty level to which people can receive health care. we've encouraged a focus on prevention and wellness, not just treating people when they're sick, but trying to make sure people stay healthy in the first place. we provide funding for contraception, for problems that are intended to reduce obesity. we have programs to reduce smoking, the use of tobacco. this is not a yes or no question. what was wrong with that approach? what is wrong with that approach? and the last thing i say, before you answer, the health insurance companies found it difficult to stay in business and the state group exchange across the country, one of the reasons why they were unable to is because i think we didn't raise or have the incentive high enough to get young, healthy people, like my sons, into the exchanges across the country. s&p, i'm told, has just put out about a month ago, an update look