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Hes got to basically reargue this whole thing over again. thats something hes good at. >> well said. the president reserved his strongest language for those who have made it their sole mission to kill this law. lets listen to this. >> when i see sometimes folks up on capitol hill and republicans in particular who have been suggesting, you know, repeal, repeal, lets get rid of this thing, i keep asking what is it you want to do? are you suggesting the status quo was working? because it wasnt. it ...

Hes got to basically reargue this whole thing over again. thats something hes good at. >> well said. the president reserved his strongest language for those who have made it their sole mission to kill this law. lets listen to this. >> when i see sometimes folks up on capitol hill and republicans in particular who have been suggesting, you know, repeal, repeal, lets get rid of this thing, i keep asking what is it you want to do? are you suggesting the status quo was working? because it wasnt. it ...

National level, see? massachusetts is the blueprint for the affordable care act. the policies are almost identical. whats different is the politics. the one thing that massachusetts did not have that we do have nationally is one-half of the political spectrum openly rooting for failure, rooting for people to not get health insurance. people scouring every detail of the laws initial implementation, looking the for every glitch, every difficulty, every bump as an occasion to insist that this law o...

Mandate. thats the first time we should even pay attention. i was reflecting last night that the 123 number -- i was on the board in massachusetts and followed implementation of health care as closely as anyone. i didnt even know that number until we looked it up last month. we were just calmer and more patient about it. >> there was not that much coverage over the initial numbers as people were agt wait to see how it would take. anne, we have something on msnbc.com calling it a tweak and while ...

Problem of his own creation that he couldnt solve and is now handing it to others. but many believe he waited too long to call for help. chris. >> jim, thank you. one of the questions folks are asking is what gives president obama or any president the authority to decide on his own which parts of the law congress has passed that he will enforce. heres chief washington correspondent james rosen on whether the fix president obama has proposed is legal. >> the secretarys authority can be used in ...

Done. mo mitt romneys chosen successor got beat by more than 20 points. but you know what, nobody was trying to kill health reform. nobody was trying to make a political point about the terribleness of this new law and how awful it was going to be and how it had to be stopped and how any early sign of trouble in the implementation proved that there was no way that it was going to work. so there were no stories, no news stories about, at least no news stories that we can find now about how bad th...

From this law by democrats which have been roundly and repeatedly predicted this week. >> a lot of these democrats are making a political calculation and using this as an opportunity to distance themself as the president. they have an eye on 2015. >> those would only be five more. you have 34 give or take as a trend line that are on record against the entire policy and only a handful who in response to everything weve heard, some of which has been concerning, only a handful saying they are going...

And a half left. so 30 seconds each. start with you, steve, winners and losers of the week. >> so my winner is obviously this bad kid in the make-a-wish foundation. what happened in san francisco today was so fantastic to be able to follow n realtime this 5-year-old miles who had leukemia and in remission and back in today with the contributions of the entire city. if that didnt warm your heart, you dont really have much of a heart. the loser i think is probably barack obama. it should be barack...

No, no, you have to do it this way now. we cant fix it because theyre making more money this way. >> theyre going to have so many new customers over the next few years and their stocks are doing fine. >> the only honest reaction has been from the states so far, the one toss say, this doesnt fit with our exchange, we wont be able to allow this. >> we were tagging along, everything was going fine, even states real supporters of obama care and implementation are saying, wait a minute, dont throw yo...

Is what the president did potentially the beginning of the end of obama care? david cutler is the former senior health care adviser to barack obamas 2008 campaign. a harvard economics professor. hes been an influential figure in shaping the law and somebody who sounded the alarm about its implementation in 2010. professor, good to see you again. >> thank you for having me. >> when you were on last week i asked if they dont get enough people in the exchanges then what happens. you said then the p...