kavita p atel of the brookings institution a and michael weinberg from the san francisco bay customers. in those states where there has been open hostilities towards the affordable care act versus those states who have worked to get enrolled. >> the data collected prior to the opening of the marketplace, i can't say what happened since that time, but prior to that time most of the differences we saw had to do with individual characteristics like their income, their education levels and gender. >> is it fair to say that people who are hardest to reach with healthcare messages with public service announcements, with the kind of messaging that tries to urge people the risk. >> the people who lest informed by the policy are similar to the group of people who is least informed about health insurance in general and they have the least amount of information about a wide variety of other topics, yes, they're the hardest to reach with better information. >> and probably also a group that is likely to suffer from high rates of uninsurance and under insurance, and have the least leeway when it co

number one he felt that weinberg was coaching the members of congress. this was a hoot.einberg and he said they caught him on tape doing this, would tell the members as he was bringing in the members of congress, he would be coaching them on how to -- what was going to happen in there. hey, he's looking for some help. i just want you to be prepared and he's going to go into places that you may not -- almost trying to coach the congressmen to say something incriminating on the videotape. the u.s. attorney was so concerned about this coaching issue that he actually complained to the justice department and then the justice department decided to try to intervene with the fbi and got a young eric holder, by the way at the time, who was in the office of public integrity, he was there to try to get him to back off of this. but you cannot look at this and say that the fbi and the justice department acted totally clean here. obviously the members of congress were dirty because they were willing to accept it. >> i just know every time you get on the phone there's a recording that

his name is mel weinberg. rooting for bail to win an os r oscar. that's you? >> yeah that's the way my hair combed over. >> reporter: weinberg's biggest complaint is the casting of his wife played by jennifer lawrence who he says seemed hotter than his miss rouse played by amy adams. >> it should have been the other way around. it should be always your wife. >> reporter: but weinberg says he is perfectly happy as he is portrayed as the great american hustler. still hoping something is in it for him now. >> maybe i'll see some money from it. >> reporter: from a true con man, that's always the bottom line. florida. >>> the real man behind the movie. our thanks to brian and much younger brian. >>> lifestyles of the niche and notorious. the escape routes revealed. the bottom of the bathtub. after that drug lord wanted in america is captured. >>> and to this country's most expensive hz stayed yuls $60 million suddenly shut down. is that money well spent when we come back? your hepatitis c.forget it's slow moving, you tell urself. i have time. after all there may be

senator weinberg, i got to get back to you about the role of government. it seems to me that these people, whether it was bill stepien who was in on this thing and wildstein obviously at the heart of it and of course bridget kelly, they all were doing the bidding of somebody. they were all working as agents of the governor. that's why they were able to say "time for some bridge problems -- or traffic problems at fort lee." now he is able toe say oh, no they weren't my agents. they were doing something on their own that to me is institutionally indefensible. were they in fact employees of the governor? where they detailed by him to work politically. were they all doing this for him? and for him to say oh, they were out rock gas stations or doing something on their own, the whole heart of this was political. what they were doing was political in his interests. and that's what i find is amazing. they skate away from this and say they weren't working for me. >> you kind of touched on this, chris, for instance, he describes lane closures as lane realignments. >

a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies dr weinberg thank you very much for taking time to talk to us thank you for having me now the organisation you work for after nine eleven to quote promote pluralism defend democratic values and five the ideologies that drive terrorism is there any country that is more antithetic to all those objectives than saudi arabia sure syria iran lots of countries but certainly there's a big gap between the values of the united states and the values of the saudis it's a relationship that's been strained by the conflicting values of the two sides but my question was whether saudi arabia really takes the cake for essentially lacking all the three elements that mentioned in the purposes of the organization that you work for again there is not much in the way of pluralism they don't value do. see at all and when it comes to ideology a spouse by saudi arabia not only. condones terrorism it actually is supportive yeah i mean look dictatorship is not a contest but if it were the saudis would be doing great the organisation has actually been qui

now joining me is for the other side of this is loretta weinberg. senator, you're obviously part of this investigation. at what point are you going to step -- what's it going for you to take to accept governor christie's side of the sorry? >> i'm willing to accept his side of the story all the way along as soon as we get all of the information, as soon as we get a chance to question all the people we would like to question and as soon as we get all the documents. you know, i'm glad. >> what are you missing? tell me what you're missing >> first of all we're missing the list of 70 people that were interviewed in this so-called report. we're missing all the transcripts. not only of this interview with the governor but his interview with all 70 of the so-called witnesses. and i'd like to know for a report, first of all, i'm glad to hear mr. giuliani said it wasn't conclusive. it's the governor who is saying it's conclusive. and for a report that was supposed to be so conclusive, footnoted, et cetera, how did they know who broke up a personal relationshi

mel weinberg doesn't care. >> i'm not a movie person, i lived the thing. why would i want to go to a movie. my whole life is one big movie. >> there is a character hollywood can play, but never invent. >> a lot of good movies. we are out of time, thank you for joining us. i'll see you in an hour for more news. >> i'm jonathan betz, live from new york city with al jazeera america. secretary of state john kerry will go to kiev on tuesday. the announcement comes as russian troops surrounded a ukrainian base. the ukrainian prime minister called it a declaration of war and is calling up army reservists. the head of ukraine's army has been fired for treesons. he swore allegiance to the russian backed leader of crimea. >> demonstrators clashed in st. petersburg over vladimir putin's request to use force. 40 were arrested. >> thailand's scaled-down protests continue. hundreds marched and camped in bangkok, vowing to topple yingluck shinawatra's government. >> egypt's president swore in a new government. with 20 ministers from the old government, including field ma

which do you mean well dr weinberg i'm i mean both because obviously there are some private sponsors of terror groups in syria and iraq and lebanon they used to sponsor insurgency and kitchenette as well but. official government structures in saudi arabia are not the most transparent so you can never be sure that official money is not being used for the same purpose but is that evidence of official money i don't think so while i think prince bandar of one is quiet and involved in sponsoring various rebel groups and syria and i guess we can argue about the definition of terrorism and freedom fighting but i think it is pretty clear that saudi arabia is supporting groups that use terror as a tactic in syria so that's would be a sort of evidence were i mean i think some of saudi arabia's identified clients in syria are extremely unappealing for instance the extremist group most most convincingly tied to saudi governmental assistance is called jaish al islam or the army of islam which is led by a man in a honolulu shoes father is a preacher in saudi arabia and who advocates ethnic cleansi

dr weinberg q just heard i turned it in in terms of love and hate and i'm not sure about the love but to see the examples of hatred all you need to do is to open the saudi school textbooks. to earlier that for decades have been spreading vitriol at everything rest in and as you as you mentioned here oh the very interesting report recently on how lenient the united states has been with the saudi arabia on this issue but i wonder what is the real reason for saudi procrastination in removing all those vitriolic passages from from their textbooks well first of all like to say that i don't think the united states has been uniquely lax when it comes to raising saudi textbooks in fact i think it's actually done more than any other government in its bilateral exchanges with the saudi authorities on this issue for instance i saw no indication that this was part of the congress. sation when prince on daryn bought amir putin met last year in moscow. so you know i think there are things other countries can do that having been said the united states has more leverage that it could potentially pote

automobiles we're going to be continually dependent upon the security in the gulf as if dr weinberg we have to take a very short break now but when we come back the united states has rediscover and its good old anime in russia what does this mean for the future of humans saudi relations that's coming up in a few moments on worlds apart. paying for the products with this label. guarantees better deals for the food we'll produce it. again if this was french usurious part of the business and by the workers on. the set and advocates better working conditions and high social standards we give them five euros a day. and it's not enough to satisfy us. yes all of the poor are at their wits a. rose a week when i ask the boss cribbage mall he refuses my salary is only no for my food and money for my family in haiti. fair trade behind the scenes almost see. right on the street. first street. and i think pictures. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. could be a month. on mom. the people of afghanistan head to the polls for the first time since the fall of the taliban. both the blame for the te

hasn't gotten much well dr weinberg i think this is a very noble and teleportation of both in a recent events in history because if it wasn't for the united states and saudi arabia those weapons were in be in syria in the first place so i don't see how we could credit the united states for health restraining saudi arabia well enough going back to ukraine and there have been reports that washington has already reached out to saudi arabia to provide some of the fifteen billion dollars promised to your crane and while saudi arabia doesn't have any intrinsic interest in ukraine what is it is interested in is seeing washington to toughen up on syria and i want to infrequency any sort of you know ukraine for serious swap here essentially you know the saudi arabia giving their money for ukraine. but washington in return doing what riyadh wanted to do in syria you know actually the most persuasive. for tat of this sort that i've seen has been a recent story in the washington post suggesting that the united states is finally considering doubling its training of vetted syrian rebels in exchange

senator weinberg, you're mentioned in that text message.d it nonsense, but i want to focus on this phrase counternarrative. it sort of struck me as an odd phrase to say if it's not why if you're telling you would assume if you're telling the truth, you would say i'm telling the truth. >> well, counternarrative is a good euphamism for cover up. i know it was a cover up. because the moment that i heard the testimony, i knew that it was untrue. because it was all built around the idea that there are somehow private roads for ft. lee only residents that lead to the george washington bridge. that is completely untrue. there are no such lanes of traffic. no private roads only open to private residents and carry 25% of the traffic and they are 25% of the roadways that lead to the upper level of the george washington bridge. not only was there no traffic study, there are no private roads for the use of ft. lee residents only. so, that was a cover up. it was untrue and it was untrue from the moment somebody wrote it to the moment bill uttered it. >>

melvin weinberg, a flashy, bronx-born swindler turned paid fbi informant. how'd you become a confidence man? >> oh, it was easy. you want to make a buck? i seen what was going on back in them days, and everybody was charging people points to get a construction loan or a mortgage. >> reporter: first targeting white-collar crime, weinberg and the fbi set up abdul enterprises, representing two mystical arab sheikhs eager to invest money in the united states. the fbi had set up stings up and down the east coast, from miami to new york, philadelphia and new jersey, and of course, here in washington, d.c., where two congressmen, frank thompson and john murphy, were caught on tape taking bribes in this very house, a house that the fbi was renting from an unsuspecting "washington post" reporter. the tapes produced memorable moments, including congressman ozzie myers uttering these infamous words -- >> money talks in this business, and bull [ bleep ] talks. it's the same way in washington." >> reporter: to this day, myers says he and other lawmakers were entrapped b

a few years ago when he encouraged the new jersey press to, quote, take a bat out on loretta weinberg. she was a 76-year-old widowed state senator who dared to take a pension. why was she taking a pension? because she lost her life savings in the madoff scandal. that tells you everything you need to know about governor christie and his attitudes towards women. >> and bridget kelly is a single mom of four. >> right. >> governor, when you look at this, according to "the new york times," bridget kelly's lawyer is responding to the christie internal report. he calls it venomous and gratuitous with inappropriate sexist remarks. kelly's lawyer also says if misskelley were provided with the appropriate procedural safeguards, she will be fully cooperative. now, when he says will be fully cooperative, he doesn't say to who she would be cooperative. is he talking about the state or the feds? we don't know. but he really hit this report as sexist and inappropriate, and he put out there given the right safeguards, she'll be cooperative. >> there is no question in my mind, rev, what is going on he

state senator loretta weinberg. >> the best thing i can say about it is they issued a premature report based upon incomplete information without being able to interview some of the main folks in this. >> reporter: last night, christie responded on his radio show. >> you don't just come to conclusions from interviews. there's lots and lots of documents that involve all those people. >> reporter: the report did not say why kelly and wildstein did this but said there is evidence it is not linked to fortly's democratic mayor not endorsing the governor for reelection. wildstein resigned in december. kelley was fired. new jersey lawmakers and federal prosecutors are still investigating. sharyn. >> alfonsi: all right, thanks, jeff. there has been a dramatic increase in the number of americans signing up for private insurance under the president's health care law. today,let white house said enrollments topped 6 million, although that's still short of the original estimate of 7 million by march 31. james schlesinger, who served three presidents died today. he was secretary of defense under pres

wisniewski or senator weinberg who co-chair the investigative committee.as a point of clarification, i think what -- if you go back and look, baroni wanted to intimate that a traffic study was nunziato's idea, but i think what paul, the president of the union will tell you, is that he approached wildstein with some concerns about traffic, some concerns about whether or not you would improve the flow of the main approach to the bridge if you limited the local access to the bridge from ft. lee. i don't know if he would go so far as to say it was his idea to conduct a traffic study. >> well, now he says it wasn't his idea. >> right. >> and any intimations to the press was him using colorful language. it feels the cover story is dead, so now we should talk about what really happened. mr. nunziato's attorney said his client will have much more to say on this matter in coming days and he will not continue to advance the traffic study idea. is he somebody in a position to know more about what really happened? >> paul is in that position, as the head of the police

bush later pardoned several officials involved, including his defense secretary caspar weinberger. anti-gay extremist fred phelps has died at the age of 84. he was the founder of the westboro baptist church, a kansas-based group known for holding anti-gay protests at the funerals of military veterans and aids victims. his daughter told a local most -- local news station there would be no funeral for fred phelps. the kansas equality coalition urged people not to publicly protest him saying -- those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan gonzalez. welcome to our listeners and viewers around the country and world. the latest disclosures from edward snowden show the national security agency is recording every single phone call made in an undisclosed foreign country. the surveillance system called mystic stores billions of phone conversations for up to 30 days you'd agents are able to rewind and review any conversation within the previous month using retro.called one senior manager compared it to a time machin

let's listen to new jersey senator loretta weinberg. >> the governor needed this report because he'so las vegas this weekend to meet with some national republican donors, and he wants something that says his attorney vetted him. well, i have a little bit of a disagreement with that and i would like some questions answered about that report. >> i mean, e.j., it would have been easy to eliminate those sound bites. you know, get this thing done a couple of weeks ago, or release it a couple of weeks from now. i mean, to do it literally on the eve of the vegas trip where he goes and begs for the blessings of the super rich. it's just so obvious. >> maybe they only work well under tight deadlines. i think there are two things about this report that are going to haunt christie. and you've alluded to both of them, really. it's bringing up this relationship between bridget kelly and bill stepian and suggesting somehow that her emotional state, or something like that, had anything to do with this. they have no predicate. they explain nothing about why. but for several moments they keep coming

"loretta and wiz meeting new jersey senator loretta weinberg and senator john wisniewski will keep upheir nonsense but at least we will have explained the counter narrative." the counter narrative. aka the cover story. so bill stepien who'd been chris christie's campaign manager tells bill baroni great job about his cover story, and bill baroni celebrates having sold the counter narrative. also disclosed today are e-mails that show bill stepien, then in the midst of running chris christie's re-election campaign being made aware of the infamous traffic problems in fort lee and fort lee's mayor being upset about it. the same week that the traffic problems were happening. contemporaneous to the lane closures bill stepien was in on it. chris christie's campaign manager was being made aware of the situation. these new texts are part of the latest court filings for a superior court judge in new jersey to consider whether or not bill stepien and bridget kelly have to comply with the committee's subpoena or whether they can still refuse to hand over documents to the legislature. a ruling is e

you, lieutenant weinberg? i have more responsibility than you can possibly fathom.ave the luxury of not knowing whether or not that -- you don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about it you want me on that wall. you need me on that wall. >> isn't that unbelievable? [ cheers and applause ] i have no idea how he memorized that whole scene. but we thought it would be fun to ask him to do it again. we asked sruly to learn matthew mcconaughey's part in "will & grace" "the wolf of wall street." his mom and dad taught him it. and ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to sruli. [ applause ] go ahead, sruli. action. >> okay. number one rule of wall street. and i don't care if you're jimmy buffett or warren buffett. up, down, sideways or in circles. you know what it means? it's -- whoo. it never landed. it's not on the elemental chart, it's not real. stay with me. we don't -- so the announcer's at 16 he's not happy. he wants to cash it. take his money and run home. you don't let him do that because -- you don't let him do that because that

and i remember it was, at one point, in max weinberg's dressing room. >> well, you know, jimmy?e pipes. [ light laughter ] i figure you're going to be around for a while. i think if you have muppet pipes, you're going to need something else. i brought you a little something back there. is there a box? >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's a little gift. it's kind of heavy. >> jimmy: okay. >> stand by. >> jimmy: it really is heavy. [ laughter ] >> yeah, it is. it is. jimmy, this is for you. i figure if you are going to be the keeper of the muppet pipes, well, you need one of these. >> jimmy: oh, my goodness! >> it is! >> jimmy: the muppet wrench. >> the muppet pipe wrench! [ laughter ] ♪ yes! yes! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is fantastic! >> that might come in handy for whatever. >> jimmy: this is fantastic! oh, my god, it's perfect! thank you so much, kermit. >> you're very welcome. >> jimmy: this is very, very nice. >> i couldn't have possibly lifted that. i had to have you do it. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. >> it weighs more than i do. >> jimmy: this is awesome. thank you, thank you s

"loretta and wiz meeting new jersey senator loretta weinberg and senator john wisniewski will keep upt least we will have explained the counter narrative." the counter narrative. aka the cover story. so bill stepien who'd been chris christie's campaign manager tells bill baroni great job about his cover story, and bill baroni celebrates having sold the counter narrative. also disclosed today are e-mails that show bill stepien, then in the midst of running chris christie's re-election campaign being made aware of the infamous traffic problems in fort lee and fort lee's mayor being upset about it. the same week that the traffic problems were happening. a ruling is expected on that matter at the end of this month but almost daily new revelations in the story are expected to continue in the meantime. watch this space. we'll keep you posted. that does it for tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow night. now it's time for "the last word." >>> tonight, vice president biden heads to poland for talks about the continuing crisis in ukraine. obamacare passes an undeniable numerical milestone and

c-span: cap weinberger. >> guest: yes. right above him, and that's bush, president--well, at the time, he was the head of the cia, but unfortunately it was cropped off, and i didn't catch it until too late. in the exhibition you see his full face. and it looks quite strange to see the future president bush and the future president reagan while president nixon was delivering his inaugural address. c-span: and the man in the glasses there is john scali... >> guest: yeah. c-span: ...here at abc and then became... >> guest: yeah. c-span: ...un ambassador. where did you take this picture from? >> guest: there was a press stand set up in front of the inaugural stand. that's the way they did things. they don't--this is on the east side of the white house--they don't have the inaugurations there anymore. and so this was done from there, and i used telephoto and wide-angle lenses in order to get close up, or to get wide images. c-span: you said 'east side of the white house.' you meant east side of the capitol. >> guest: i--i'm sor

couldn't, you know, you couldn't go over the iron iron curtainment reagan's secretary of defense, cap weinberger, anytime they ever mentioned the iron curtain to an audience, he said this to me about a year before he died, you're going to be around longer than me. do me a favor, anytime you mention berlin wall, ask your audience this one question: in which direction did the east german guards who patrolled the wall, in which direction did they point their guns? right? east. on their own people. he said, you're talking to a former secretary of defense. walls are usually built to keep an enemy from invading. this was a wall to keep people who wanted to be free from leaving. it had barbed wire over the top of it. peter robinson, who wrote the tear down this wall speech said he flew other with the military when -- over with the military, and there was raked gravel. and the raked gravel was there so that if footprints were seen there the night before because one of the east german guards had a relative go over, the east german guard would be held responsible. so freedom has many manifestations. reaga

michael weinberg, senior policy advisor to the bay area council. that is a interesting thought.s didn't know that or maybe don't really know how to feel about that. why do you think it is controversial? >> i wrote about this today for "forbes." the impression you get from advocates of the affordable care act act, 50 million people are uninsured. the reason they're uninsured they're denied coverage by mean insurance companies due to preexisting condition. the truth of matter it is only several hundred thousand people who actually have the problem. the vast majority of people are people who don't want to buy insurance because they're it is too expensive or can't afford it or this population, people who are convicted criminals or been through the criminal justice system who haven't been able to reenter the workforce, low incomes, have not reentered society eligible for medicaid expansion. turns out more than a third of the people who the medicaid expansion affects under obamacare are convicted criminals or ex-conviction. jenna: on that, in certain places like chicago, at cook count

. >> michael weinberg, it's not too much of a stretch to figure that those are some of the people in this country who are least likely to vote. least likely to organize in any way that allows them to exert political pressures in states with very high rates of uninsurance you also had state governments that were not cooperating and probably aren't going to pay a political price. >> i think over time there will be a political price to pay particularly for those states that haven't expanded the medicaid program. this is something that the business community generally, the actual business community, not the ideological business community, has been pretty frustrated about. one, the hospitals need that money, two, the employers are paying more as a result of the under payment of public program. i think there could be a large political price to. >> i isn't that far down the road? the real effects some of the real effects that are projected for the affordable care act don't really kick in until you've got much higher levels of much lower levels of insurance. >> we've seen new enrollment in m

they didn't control this investigation, and they let weinberg run rampant on it. >> reporter: today,just another black mark on washington, now it's part of hollywood mythology. for "today," chuck todd, nbc hollywood mythology. for "today," chuck todd, nbc news, washington. and a twenty-megapixel sensor. it's got the brightest display, so i can see what i'm shooting -- even outdoors, and 4 mics that capture incredible sound. plus, it has apps like vine -- and free cloud storage. my new lumia icon is so great, even our wipeouts look amazing. ♪ honestly, i want to see you be brave ♪ ♪ i've been claritin clear for 6 amazdays. at the first sign of my allergies, my dtor recommended taking one claritin every day of my allergy season for continuous relief. 21 days of relief from itchy, watery eyes. 28 days of continuous relief from sned nny nose, since i've been taking claritin every day of my allergy season. get the #1 doctor recommended non-drowsy allergy brand. live claritin clear. every day. stock up with claritin bonus packs for spring! available at walmart for a low price, every day. w