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By and large it rests on the economy. theres a perception that lumberjacks a little bit of nuance but its there which is that the president led off the banks too easy and got to deficit reduction too quickly. in the wake of that you have an economy that doesnt work for the bottom running. i would be curious to see if the president or other democrats including elizabeth warren wing of the party take that unrest and try to do something with it. whether its push for a minimum wage hike or focus som...

They say the individual mandate is the heart of obamacare. without it the whole thing doesnt work. but what we saw is the obama administration made an exception for people who have had hair policies canceled and couldnt or didnt get another policy. i think almost everybody in the healthcare world think if they will make this one exception for people who have been burdened by obamacare, they will have to make other exceptions. where does that leave them on the individual mandate? its the most unp...

Be on the market. >> okay, so, heres -- let me argue against this unforced error idea. the biggest obstacle to any kind of universal health care perform is disruption, right? the idea that people are going to take away the thing you have. you have this problem which is the system as a whole doesnt work. the majority of people like what they have and you have to thread that needle. saying youre going to be able to keep your insurance, which was broadly true, if not in the 5 million particular cas...

And that is why i cant plan for 2014 right now and that is why you are seeing most businesses hire part-time people because we dont know what we are going to be faced with if the president wakes up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow or if something politically doesnt work for him properly. and these decisions are being made from politics, not from policy, not for what is best for the economy, but what is best for the white house. make no mistake about it. john pedesta was brought in for a rea...

What insurance my neighbors and friends have. oopsy. >> thats not good. i think more people are going to tell their neighbors, stay away there this thing. lets see if its going to work before you sign up for it. >> this is private business. >> its personal. >> i dont ask you, you dont ask me about health care. its not something you talk about over the water cooler. >> pat, finish your talk. >> this is desperate. this is amazing to ask people to talk to their neighbors. the problem is, this is te...

Roster. earlier in new york, i invited the ceo and co-founder to tell us all about it. take a listen. jim, thank you for joining us. you have been a journalist for decades. you co-founded politico and you moved to the business side and are now ceo. its an unusual thing for a journalist to do. why did you decide to make that move? >> to outers it seems unusual. to us it didnt seem all that exotic given that it was john and myself that spent the bulk of time building politico and in that i spent a...

Engaging from him and the majority leader from that standpoint and put differences aside, put politics aside. >> you mean mcconnell? >> yes. majority leader, senator mcconnell. and sometimes if that doesnt work, you follow through. if its not jelling, you have to question why and who and see if you can make amends and make it better. i always pray that harry tries to reach out. i think he will. and try to make amends and try to move forward for the sake of our country and the sake of the senate....

>> well, i think what it does, wayne, is it reflects how strongly we are feeling about our beliefs and how divisive things are. wayne, let me move on to obamacare. my mean, what do you think about it its affect on our economy and people and freedom. talk to us about that. >> well, i think the law itself is obviously imperfect. we all know that. its terrible. it is not -- and, you know, people justify it saying both houses of congress passed it, the supreme court sprinkled holy water on it theref...

More time is this by tomorrow we could see about 300,000 there in the state of california? >> yeah, they have reported more than 156,000 have signed up and then they have given these smaller snapshots. so for example over tree dahree more than 53,000 people signed up in just three days. to contrast, the whole month of october, they had 30,000. so youve seen a surge ahead of the deadline. people have been made aware that monday is the day. if you want january 1st coverage. and the past few days, ...

Going to find and support the people that wont play the game. here is what they can do, get involved. article five of the contusion has the last lever. they are genius. they built the trip wirers in the constitution. the last one that happened at the end of the constitutional convention. wait a minute, are you telling me that you think if a government goes corrupt, they will vote on an amendment to limit the power? that doesnt work. in case the government goes really wrong and wont limit the pow...