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Things heated up when burwell refused to answer a question about why the plan exceeded the spending cap by billions of bucks. listen to this. >> are you spending more than the law allows currently? >> senator, it makes a very big difference -- >> why cant you say yes or no to that? >> some answers are not -- >> youve had your explanation. im asking yes or no. are you paying more or less? >> this is not a yes or no question. >> youre refusing to answer it. the answer is that youre asking us to ra...

Data. you can argue with them. i said there are a lot of factors that go into the gap. >> the washington post fact checker is showiaying it is misleading. alan combs is here and melissa francis as well. the other interesting thing jay carney said the women at the white house make less than men and he said our numbers are more favorable to women than the national numbers >> so 88 cents is better? >> lets look at a couple tweets before we get into this that went back and forth yesterday. jennifer ...

Government, trying to determine and create a market. it inevitably fails as a model, therefore, it was never a good piece of legislation or a good idea. as for republicans, yes, running against obamacare because of its wide effects on the economy, on americans pocketbook, kitchen table issues. thats a good idea. however, they need to get engaged. not just the top-level messaging. that will drive the primaries, but the democrats are going to counter as somebody to run away from. they went after s...

Alan combs is a fox news contributor. david webb, also a fox news contributor and host of sirius xm radio. all right, what do you make of the fact that now hes saying, well, you can possibly have to go to a different plan with a different doctor. it may be more expensive, but that will be your personal choice. >> yeah. well, he should never have made a promise that he -- i dont think he lied but he maybe didnt know everything he wanted to be true would come about and now with a complicated bill ...

Business, get out of the education business, stop hammering industries. let the sleeping giant of american enterprise create prosperity again. my fellow conservatives, the future of this nation is upon you. it belongs to you. you have the power to change america. you have the power to speak to our newest hopes, in addition to our age old dreams. you are the path to the future, a light on a distant shore. and you represent the renewed hope that america can be great again. >> alan combs is the hos...

Look, im against the fairness doctrine. one o im one of the few liberals that thinks the fcc shouldnt be involved in content. even though they call it voluntary theres pressure to participate pit. theres no need for the fcc to go to news broadcast corporations. >> why did not one democrat apparently sign this letter that went to the fcc chair? why was it brought up by republicans? if you feel that way, isnt this a bipartisan issue? >> it should be. i dont speak for all democrats. im a liberal. i...

Because of a proposed study by the fcc. that agency wants to send researchers into newsrooms to study why journalists cover the stories that they end up doing that day, but in an apparent bow now to a big backlash, the fccs chairman now says some of the more controversial questions will be dropped from the survey. should the president weigh in on this issue? lets go to our political panel right now. we have alan combs and chris plante. chris, so it looks as if there was blowback from house repub...

Against each other. >> mike acknowledged thats -- >> thats whats going to happen. >> hillary, shes got to try to run from benghazi. that will be tough. >> benghazi, bring up benghazi every minute of every day. >> biden has to run from the fact he didnt want to go after osama bin laden that night. >> where does house speaker nancy pelosi get into all this. >> shes saying president obamas low approval ratings wont drag down democrats up for re-election. i thought we were going to hear her say it. ...

I truly believe that the day im inaugurated that the country looks at itself differently and the world looks at america differently. >> that was candidate obama on the campaign trail in 2007. today a poll suggests the country is looking at itself differently but perhaps not in the way he anticipated. it is reported that 53% say the u.s. is global ly less importan and less powerful than ten years ago. these are the worst numbers on this question in 40 years. when they asked in 2004 when president...

I cant think of -- the only precedent that i can think of in terms of the previous administration is where we have taken it steps to be more transparent. >> alan combs is the host of "the alan combs show" and mike gallagh gallagher. is this another promise broken by this administration? >> no, no, no. >> they claim they were going to be the most transparent administration in history. and now actually theyre not allowing photographers to come to some of the monumental moments. >> he had a great i...