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Bay Area political events: Compassion for poor people, Obama book club Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: SUNDAY Compassion for poor: A virtual gathering to reflect on the need for compassion and activism for poor and homeless people. Hosted by the National Union of the Homeless and the Freedom Church of the Poor at the Kairos Center. 3:30 p.m. More information is here. WEDNESDAY Obama book club...

Which democratic turn out is higher than anything you saw in 2012 or 2008. thats organization. >> reporter: what are you worried about? >> i worry about everything. i have to. >> reporter: more specifically? >> im not going to share specifically what i worry about. >> lets talk quickly in the last 30 seconds about ohio. talk to the democratic and republican party chair. they say it is dead even. what are you watching here? >> early vote. where its coming from. how does it compare to past cycles ...

Jansing who is getting exclusive behind-the-scenes access here n including a rare interview with white house political director david simas. >> reporter: he really seems -- i dont want to say confident. hes the first person to tell you hes always nervous and looking at what can go wrong. hes the guy who was with the president before he came out on stage who is going back to washington with him on air force one. hes the one who does the deep dive into this. he sees the value of what we heard toda...

Particularly the things hes said about women. so i asked david simas about this. i have learned that the president actually watched the first ladys speech while riding in his limousine known as the beast. heres what he told me. what was his reaction to the speech which is blowing up on social media? >> complete pride. what you heard the first lady talk about yesterday wasnt politics. >> reporter: i heard he was fist pumping. >> those are state secrets. i cant get into that. >> reporter: what you...

What we have seen a little bit of and you know because you follow this closely. we saw it last night in manchester. we saw it with the president today. as we are following his speech and i was talking to david simas. he really starts riffing when he starts talking about donald trump. for them this is about something bigger. in the start it was about getting hillary clinton elected, preserving the legacy against an onslaught of republicans. now they feel there is something else at stake here. you...

About a law, this is not about the affordable care act as legislation or obamacare as a political football. this is health care in america. >> ill joined now by david simas. david, lets talk about this in big picture terms here about the legacy of this president of this administration of this era of american history. i mean this is a president who ran for office in 2008 promising to do big things, who has been stymied by congress for so much of his presidency. but he did in year two manage to ge...

hearing the ruling. and a few moments later, he spoke in the rose garden. >> today after more than 50 votes in congress to repeal or weaken this law, after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing this law, after multiple challenges to this law before the supreme court, the affordable care act is here to stay. >> the court rejected the argument brought by opponents of the law that the language in the bill dealing with subsidies to low income americans was meant ...

A million visitors. >> so, jake, first of all, im not going to confirm how many enrollments there were yesterday. well release those numbers later on in the month. but heres what i think we learned in the massachusetts experience in 2007. john kingsdale who ran that speaks to this eloquently. when people go on to a website to look at insurance products, they two back eight, nine, ten times. they spend 20 minutes or 30 minutes looking at their different options because this isnt an impulse purcha...

Salesman over the next three weeks, there are a lot of big questions about the implementation of his law. joining me now from the white house, david, senior deputy adviser to the president. david, thanks so much for joining us. i appreciate it. i want to start by asking you about some obama administration e-mails cnn obtained from before the healthcare.gov launch. it suggests the e-mails that theyre individuals in the government and with one of the contractors concerned about some fundamental pr...

Why not just put all the information out there? the american people are grown-ups. >> so, jake, in terms of releasing numbers, this is like medicare, its like medicaid. its like the monthly release of jobs numbers. we said from the beginning that once a month, so we can do quality control to make sure that weve got the numbers in from the different states. we will release the numbers and do that again in december for the month of november. we are working night and day to make sure, and weve cros...