president has been harm in the way nothing else hurt him before and that does carry over into midterm elections. confidence in the president is an important factor in those elections and it is down now. i don t know that he can restore it. i wouldn t rule it out but it seems to me that is what needs to happen for them to start feeling better about obamacare and him, because it s, a serious problem for him. martha: major factor whether or not he is standing out there alone or with a few folks on his side on this, and whether or not people will want him to campaign in some difficult districts as well based on this issue. martha, thank you very much. martha: good to see you. bill: what happens to all those that lost their insurance? can they just call the company and say redo it? well, not exactly. a couple weeks ago we introduced you to one of the five million who lost their insurance, betsy tanner. i wake up at night sometimes just thinking about it. i m losing sleep over it. and yeah
people who are unhappy and i think that approach of the democrats has been to sort of say, well, that is just a small group of people. more people are going to be happy than unhappy but, you can t write off millions of people who are having an experience. bill: i tell you, how i heard it. i heard it like, hey, you should have known this. it was in the law. it was there. almost like it was obvious and the joke s on you if you didn t figure it out. that is kind of what i heard in that interview. to go back to the dishonest point, she is revising it. also in the interview she kept trying to say, well we were talking about plans pre2010. we were only referring to people who could keep their plans best law was passed. that wasn t the deal. so we ve gone from president obama saying you can keep your plan no matter what. democrats in the house saying that. democrats in the saying that. to, well there s a caveat if you had your plan best law was passed. now you have nancy pelosi also throwin
twitter @billhemmer, @marthamaccallum. we re fielding your pictures. a gentleman sent a shot from bloomington, indiana, the home of indiana university, a beautiful arcing rainbow through the sky after the storm. we ll show that a bit later. a long haul ahead of them. we wish them well. folks across a 12-state area faced a daunting task as they struggle to recover from all of this. coming up we re going to talk to someone who survived one of those tornadoes. martha: also political strategy on obamacare. president obama is reaching out to really the heart of this base today as health care rollout puts the brakes on a second term agenda. also this. watch here. open the door! [screaming] open the door! unbelievable. what on earth happened in this situation? a mom, in a minivan full of children, started out as a routine traffic stop, that got
received. bill: what did you then think of the so-called, fix of last week? not really a fix. it is just, you know, delaying the disaster for a year, for a few and really just creating an administrative nightmare for insurance companies. bill: what happens for those companies now? you ve got some experience in that. what happens with the insurance companies? bill: yeah. well, i m not sure. i would assume they re going to be raising our rates because of all of the extra work they re going to be having to do, cutting benefits possibly. that ask what we ve seen in my profession. bill: that is like an administrative nightmare then? absolutely. absolutely. and when you heard the president s words of last week, what did you think? well, just because the president says it is so doesn t make it so and i think we ve learned that lesson the hard way. you know, i, am just sort of sitting back to see how all of
brit hume, fox senior political analyst. and he joins meese right now. always great to have you with us. thank you, martha. martha: this is one step, i guess, one thing the president can do to shore up support on this but he is a in a world of hurt on this, is he not? he is and attempting to look at an effort to stir up the old obama machine which has been so effective in campaigns and say, well, you know, this is, this is a trying to find a political solution to a substantive problem of a failed website and possibly a failing policy and but, i remember, martha, during the last year, during the campaign, when i thought, you know, i doubted whether it was possible for him to campaign his way out of a problematic economy which i thought was sufficiently poor, that it would bring down almost any other president. well he did it. with a great campaign and perhaps an even greater turnout effort. so there is going to be no turn out effort here unless you re