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Number and you can get through, operators are standing by to at the end, he makes this direct turn and goes after the republicans? no, because president obama when i was a white house correspondent when they were doing health care. he really did -- be there were many efforts on capitol hill. it passed as a partisan bill but there were many efforts on capitol hill for it not to be a partisan bill for republican ideas to be included and that was a big source of frustration. i know in the white hou...

In this early part, but if you talk to obama care supporters, they think this is perhaps a real possibility. even though the enrollment process goes through the end of march, that requirement to get insurance is actually mid-february so its quicker than the end of march. >> yeah. time flies, as they say. brianna, thanks very much. lets dig a little deeper right now. joining us, the democratic strategist, maria cardona, our cnn political commentators, ross douthat and our cnn money tech correspon...

To have to be another public education campaign, that president obama as we saw in the first week, he did a couple high profile events, there is going to have to be a reboot once the website is up and running and also, i think theres also this question of a penalty that goes into effect at the end of march. theres this six-month enrollment process. that penalty kicks in at the end of that. some are raising questions if perhaps that penalty time is going to be delayed because the real successful ...

Many, many people. how sharp is your criticism? because, i have heard the word chaos used. i have heard the word implosion used. i have heard the word collapse used. how far do we go? >> i think this law is going to be transformative for our country. changes not only the healthcare sector and health insurance industry but i think its going to have effects on our economy and have effects on our freedom. i think this law is definitely something that is as president obama promised it a fundamental ...

Problems which made it difficult for people to begin the enrollment process. two arrests in florida in a cyberbullying case that led to the suicide of a 12-year-old girl. the suspects, 14 and 12 years old themselves, both girls. they are now charged with felony aggravated stalking police say the 14-year-old suspect admitted online she harassed the victim, and didnt care that she had died. the girls lawyer says shes not behind the post. sedgwick climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant fi...

Getting a whole lot when they have to then have the argument all over again here in the coming months. >> and then if that werent a problem, im sure president obama had planned to spend today touting the first day of open season enrollment to obama care, all those exchanges supposed to be opening up online, ready for business and there werent just a few of us in this room in this building who got error messages. im sure the white house is aware that the site is crashing for a lot of people. >> r...

Part of the enrollment process will be ready for weeks and qualifying companies do have a one year extension and adding fuel to the conservative argument that the program is flawed and yet the president is showing no signs of altering the law. >> no one gets to hurt innocent people just because there is a couple of laws that you dont like. it is not going to do now. >> obama care is a night ma re and thats what they called. it >> you can see they are at odds. >> there are steps of millions of un...

Theyre not aware, of what this enrollment process is going to be like. i think the administration, as well as some individual states, are going to have to deal with consumers who simply dont have the information they may need to have or not know what they may be required or mandated to do under the new health care law and theres a huge information gap that needs to be filled. if it gets filled about stories with data breaches and folks who are concerned about their personal information, thats go...

I think it loops into the larger questions over how, just how messy this implementation process is going to be. and i think this is going to connect quite directly to public opinion on obama care because if we see more stories about potential data breaches, government employees or government databases not being as secure as they need to be, with folks information as this enrollment process continues, that has a direct negative political impact. and i think thats just one of the larger issues of ...

Use the word scandal. >> lets just be careful. >> okay, let me just reconnect the doctor. we do know eric schmidt is arguably president obamas best friend. we also know that this company not only helps the obama campaign of 2012, but you have to wonder how this works in retrospect. in addition they are moving towards campaign consultants and they are also helping people in obamacare is part of the enrollment process for people to be part of the obamacare health insurance effort. thats a lot of p...