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Elizabeth cohen, our senior medical correspondent. im guessing theres going to be a lot of tension in the room given the fact that the president quite frankly has not been very nice to these insurance executives. i imagine that theres going to be lots of tension because of the severe criticism. >> oh, rosa, i would love to be a fly in the wall at that meeting because i think it is going to be quite heated. i was actually speaking with an insurance executive who said theyre infuriated because thr...

Disagree on that point, it shouldnt stop reasonable democrats from working with us to keep the presidents promise and give the american people the opportunity to keep the plan they have and the plan they like. [ inaudible question ] >> i am highly skeptical that they can do this administratively. i just dont see within the law their ability to do that. thats why the house is going to move tomorrow. i would hope that the senate would move quickly as well. >> what is in there, the points that -- >...

Democrats from working witheep e and give the american people the opportunity keep the plan they have and the plan they like. >> [inaudible] >> i am highly skeptical that they can do this administratively. i just dont see, within the law, their ability to do that. that is why the house is going to move tomorrow. i would hope the senate would move quickly as well. >> [inaudible] >> well see what the president has to say here in a few minutes and then well have a better idea of exactly whether the...

Will be not up to snuff, not as good, as what is required in the obama care law. also on out for state insurance commissions. thats the gist of what weve been told the president will announce. very interesting, wolf, that house speaker used his regularly scheduled press conference, we took it live here to have a prebutle of what the president said. one of the things he noted was that american people, he said, dont trust -- they dont trust the white house anymore to make this administrative fix. ...

Is now the democratic minority leader, nancy pelosi, talked about what we might see just about an hour and a half ago. listen to this. >> stay tuned and just see what -- it could be an administrative fix, it could be a legislative fix. i would rather it be with done administratively because that can be done much more quickly without any accompanying agendas. >> reporter: and this is big because, remember, just yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours ago, we found out that under 27,000 people hav...

Day goes on. >> the presidents approval rating has dropped precipitously. its largely because americans perceive that he did not keep his promise, that everybody could keep their insurance plan if they like it. it was partly that. that, too, was the reason that the president was forced to do this. the people spoke. >> absolutely. theres no question about it. the president, it is his legacy on his signature issue. youre absolutely right. but hes not up for re-election again. its democrats in the ...

Morning, what the president needed to do is ensure more democrats did not revolt. it seems theyre running out of time. >> they are running out of time. thats the political question, stot the revolt. the way to stop the revolt is to prove youve dealt with the policy problems. the administration hasnt done that yet. you have proposals put forward by the republicans in the house. there are proposals in the senate to deal with what they believe are the biggest problems. the idea he said if you like ...

Confidently. he knew what he was doing. does that make the situation worse for president obama? >> he did know what he was doing. thats an important point. it makes the situation worse politically for the president. from a policy perspective, president clinton was speaking a self-evident truth in the sense that president obama had already gone on record as you know, erin, saying we need to fix this and i want to fix it but whats happening here? president clinton saying he needs to keep that prom...

Your health care plan. so theyre talking to the white house and saying, you folks dont seem to understand how bad this is. in our districts, and in our states. and we need to fix this. what the white house is saying up until recently, and well see what they say later today is, look, we would rather do this administratively because if we do it through legislation, we open a whole pandoras box. by the way, i was speaking to somebody in the insurance industry earlier today who pointed out to me if ...

Being more open in their criticism of the president. the president is trying to fix this administratively through some administrative executive action. but he has now a former president, a member of the senate leadership and 10 or 12 senate democrats on the ballot next year saying that congress needs to do something. once you open the door to changing the law, we dont know where thats going to take us. >> now john, jay carney also said today, sorry, i got a frog in my throat. he said the white h...