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Affordable care act as it plays out over the course of the next year. one is that, basically, spin, attacks on the program from the right-wing media or even the mainstream press, dont matter in the end. what matters is the thing works, more people benefit from it than dont benefit from it. and you know, when youre a week out from election day, basically, the policy itself at the core of it is functioning. and thats all that matters. and theres another way that says, no, actually, spin and percep...

Americans. so adjustments in time of implementation as a result of the bad website, yes, i think that makes sense. thats only fair. but secondly, on the policies, weve got to hold the insurance companies responsible to give real coverage. sometimes people thought they had a policy but it covers a band-aid but not the surgery. so theres got to be some real insurance that is protected here so people have coverage. so just having a policy that is a bogus policy doesnt provide you with real coverage...

The waiver for the unions, businesses that fit into that t t category. >> i want to get one more question in. he sits down with nbc news in a relatively friendly interview. does he not have to address directly the millions of people who are losing plans and perhaps have a presidential press conference where he can take questions from more than one person? >> thats a great question. they have to start all over again explaining what they were trying to do in the individual market. there are 40 to ...

He was running in the primaries and caucuses. i think jeremy is right, kathleen sebelius is safe. the white house is not interested in ceremonial firings. they need to get through the website fix, come back and reassess later. kathleen sebelius was in charge, but was there a ceo of health care? thats part of the question. there is nobody whose been accountable from start to finish for overseeing the implementation of this. >> there was a part of the interview where it was kind of clear he felt h...

>> of the 16, how many are up for reelection in 2013? >> a number of them. mark bab, dg workers like to go back to his constituents in alaska saying im taking on the president here. thats going to help him. if you look at washington conventional wisdom on the potential impact of obamacare, we have seen these problems. there is no doubt it contributed to the close margin in virginia. i think you are potentially talking about a huge shift in the 2014 politics if the law continues to collapse as i ...

You how duck dynasty emerged again. >> of course. what better place to be. that was fun last night. were a little tired but im going to watch again with the kids tonight. >> we go back to capitol hill. no laughs there. kathleen sebelius once again was in the hot seat. max baucus who heads up the senate finance committee where she sat down at the witness table yesterday, remember he helped write the law. the last time she was there, he referred to the affordable care act implementation as a poten...

Christie. won a big election. hes been critical of ted cruz, rand paul, tea party conservatives. i have never heard governor christie call out the president for lying about the health care issue. does it bother you? >> it bothers me any time we have people criticizing fellow republicans, especially fellow republicans who are just standing behind the principles they believe in. while refraining from criticizing the president. the it is the president who shut down the government. the president ref...

Senators introducing a bill that would delay the implementation of the obama care individual mandate. joe manchin of west virginia, and mark kirk of illinois, they want to postpone the mandate for one year, one year, until january 1st, 2015. another important story were following right now. a bribery and prostitution scandal in the u.s. military. its growing wider and more sordid with the arrest of another high-ranking officer. barbara starr has been following the story. >> reporter: wolf, this ...

For democrat i can senators. bill: ed henry reports some democrats want to play the implementation of the law for a year which goes a lot further than a few weeks ago when some of the democrats asked for the individual mandate to be delayed. that shows serious concerns. >> if you talk to people in conversations with the white house, what you are finding is the white house is trying to make this work as they have had it scheduled for the centralout all along. but pretty much everybody else is loo...

President obama says there is no state that need obamacare more than the state of texas. a crowd of volunteers were helping with the implementation. he called on the governor rick perry to support the expansion of medicaid in texas. >> in today will 133,000 stand to benefit. across the state you have 1 million people. 1 million people, citizens who dont have health insurance that could get health insurance right away if the state of texas decide to take swrang of it. bill: what does texas think ...