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Goal and striving to achieve it. >> that is a burning question. did the administrations top technology guys, convince law makers that they will have the website fixed in two weeks or not? we have a congressman mi ca h who was at todays hearing. >> thank you. >> what did you learn today? >> we learned that the implosion of obama care that we see was predictable and that in fact, the people at cm s, and also the white house knew there were flaws in the system. in fact. they caused a delay in issue...

Now its 39, 39. >> thats what i was saying, this pendulum has been swinging back and forth. the problem that the democrats have is that the shutdown is over, which gave them the advantage, but the implementation of obama care is not over. and the fallout from obama care is not over. generically people dont trust republicans as much to deal with their personal issues and their income and all the rest, but this does give them somewhat of an advantage. >> i feel sorry for the people that get asked ...

Martha: we are back and we are watching the live hearing thats underway of the overtight committee. well be hearing congressman john connors. as we do that we want to bring in our panel, alan colmes and katie pacolich. well hear from todd park. well hear from henry cho. one of the questions on my minds, at any points were you pressures to roll this out october 1 for political reasons? >> they should not have rolled it out if it was not ready. they should have point in wasnt ready to go and they ...

Was -- adviser to the president on economic affairs back in 2010 from your colleague david cutler. do you know david cutler. >> yeah. >> hes a smart guy. he wrote a memo suggesting ill read it a line to you from that memo, may 11th, 2010, i do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the presidents vision or have the capability to carry it out. he told larry summers in effect, you got to come up with a better way of implementing obama care, otherwise this is going to be ...

Can do. he now has bush numbers post-katrina. i think we all came to the conclusion, thinking that historically, what does the president do? you make what may be considered as a broken vow. now people dont trust him. the poll numbers are dragging right now. historically, where does he look for guidance? >> he would have to act knowledge, beginning with him would be a humble recognition of error. he would have to realize that perhaps he or his administration overreached or in this case underreach...

Now we are at november 13th. we have 44 days in and 44 days we should delay the mandates implementation. the insurance companies are screaming bloody murder. they dont want any delay and need those premiums coming into cover their expanded coverage of people with pre-existing conditions. they are the counter weight to the increasing number of people on it. the president has to swallow his pride and go back to congress >> wow, that would be luge. >> i dont see any other way to handle it. >> i hea...

They fought implementation of obama care and now a shift from the gop. house republicans set to vote on a bill to allow americans to keep their health care plans. that vote is scheduled for friday and house republicans proposing legislation to delay the individual man date just as the president delayed it for employers. >> the senate are calling for government watch dogs to launch an investigation on dumdum wear. a democrat up for reelection in north carolina next year and a race that many peopl...

Sick. what is going on in oklahoma? what is this risk? >> well, we are very worried about those people because they are the ones who are the sickest. the ones that need health insurance coverage the most. the ones who might have cancer, leukemia, diabetes and heart problems. they are the run ones in the risk pools as they are in many other states. as we know the health insurance exchanges havent worked the way they were supposed to work. at the end of this year, december 31st, we have over 850 o...

And let them keep what theyve got." just to the give you context, the president just didnt start this interview and fire off at the president. he talked about the various things going on with the implementation of obama care, why its not going so well. he talked about the fact that the website has been down, thats gotten in the way of a lot of people signing up for coverage. he compared that to the roll out of medicare part d, the prescription drug bill signed by president bush. that program had...

What is this risk? >> we are worried about those people because they are theey a ones who are the sickest, the s ones who need health insurance coverage the most and the ones who may have cancer, leukemia, diabetes, heart problems and they are in our risk pool as they are in many other states, but as we know the health exchanges havent they aree way supposed to work. so at the end of this year, december 31st, we have over 850 oklahoma ans in that risk pool. they are at risk of losing their insur...