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Robert gibbs is former press secretary to president obama. eugene robinson is a columnist and analyst and host to the reid report in the afternoon, maria is from voter latino. its a team here. i want to start with you. getting ready for one of the press conferences, this is a lot of potential targets for the press. does he have a plan of what he wants the headline to be? >> as kelly said, thats why you do that opening statement. you want to put points on the board before. >> what was your battin...

And says there are huge problems to obamacare that are not going away any time soon. here is john goodman. 6.5 million signed up. is it a success? >> i dont think so. if we ask how many people who were previously uninsured are now insured, its probably only 1 or 2 million out of 50 million of insured. not a good batting average. >> you pointed out good examples. an impossible mandate. why? because the government is paying less into a health care system that is demanding more? >> well, health car...

Million, down from an original prediction of 7 million sign-ups the first year. and paying will be an ongoing issue. >> its not the success story that ive got somebody joining the plan. its continuing to stay in the plan and begging those monthly premiums from then on thats going to be the real challenge. >> another issue, officials insist they dont know how many signing up were previously uninsured even though covering the uninsured was the purpose of the law. >> if we ask how many people were ...

Plus, you could save hundreds when you switch, up to $423. call... today. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. whats your policy? no one expected us to come back from the brink or to surpassed the cbo projection that 6 million consumers would sign up in year one, but we have. >> we ask how many people who were previously uninsured are now insured, its probably only 1 million or 2 million out of 50 million uninsured. its not a very good batting average. >> the insurance companies face ve...

26-year-old kids that can go on their parents plan. i wonder, how low is that number they dont want to be transparent about? >> of the maybe 5 or 6 million who signed up, they say only one million had never had insurance before. remember, we were going after the 30 million who didnt have insurance. to only get one out of 30 million, thats not a very good batting average. >> thats fuzzy math, too. you cant buy a burger at a restaurant and say, well, i ordered it. im going to eat it. no, you need ...

Been taking care of their employees over the past couple of years and the things theyve been doing for health benefits and other things. now the companys ceo is going to make all paychecks public. >> right. >> john mackie, whole foods ceo, said this -- >> been on here before. >> yeah. hes a friend of the show. hell make the paychecks public. he says it encourages competition. its good for the work force. so you would know what every one of your co-workers is making. >> apparently hes been doing ...

Shes going to go hard at her in the retrial. theyre going to retry her and she might be facing 60 years. what is wrr sense of what angela corey is up to here? >> its interesting to me that angela corey and this county is the county we had the jordan davis case that failed to get a conviction or an acquittal. didnt get any decision on the first count. she did get that against marissa alexand alexander. she was a special prosecutor that went to sanford on the george zimmerman case. one has to wond...

Than curious about how miss corey seems to have a perfect batting average of zero on these cases. >> reverend al sharpton, thank you so much. catch the reverends show at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. coming up, ill talk to a member of the florida state legislature who supports this controversial law. busters been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use t uh... scott: thats a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that holds water...

The county we had the jordan davis case that failed to get a conviction or an acquittal. didnt get any decision on the first count. she did get that against marissa alexander. she was a special prosecutor that went to sanford on the george zimmerman case. one has to wonder when youre looking at a scorecard like this whether angela corey is really, really aggressive and competent, or is there something else going on here, as lisa bloom raises in her book? im more concerned about changing the legi...

Its a really big night in hollywood. >> its the 85th annual academy awards tonight. what can we expect when the curtain goes up? and who will walk away with the big prize? and of course who will go home disappointed? tara kaun has an incredible batting average. hes our oscar expert. >> youre never disappointed. youre an oscarologist. >> oscar-ologist? >> absolutely. you and i talk about this all year long. we see the movies. we have opinion being it. i walked out of "gravity". >> and you hated i...