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But democrats, as it was passed, really did as legislators tried to fix the program, make sure it worked, communicate accurately to their constituents. do you think we will see that from republican lawmakers as we go forward? >> well, you know, i hope so, because in the final analysis, we have to make the law work. and that, obviously, is going to be the responsibility and the obligation of members of congress, as it is to conduct obviously this oversight, to get to the heart of the matter in te...

System that excludes them if they had preexisting medical conditions or if they cant afford their coverage. from voting more than 40 times to repeal the law from intimidating organizations that have tried to help the law succeed, republicans have encouraged their governorrer ins to obstruct implementation, deny medicaid coverage, even though 100% is being paid for by the federal government, and even by shutting down the government to repeal this law. republicans are not showing us they have trie...

And its based on the fact that the website was not set up properly. and one of the key things is that in your interview with secretary sebelius last night, one of the key questions you asked was, now is the administration open to delaying the fine? she said no thats not really the question its whether or not we can continue to make this thing work. the key is, this does not work. and the problems with the rollout are symptomatic of the overall illness of obama care. and the fact that now that af...

In the world that do the impossible and provide universal health care coverage totally free to those who cannot afford it and they provide health care for everyone else, and they do it without seizing the assets of anyone. they do it through perfectly reasonable systems of taxation similar to ours. you will notice that the united states of america is not included among the countries that do provide universal health care coverage because we never have and we still dont and we wont, even with the ...

Sick people that need it. exactly right. this poses an absolute mortal threat of adverse selection. >> more and more democrats in congress are now calling for a delay in the deadline, the enforcement and implementation of individual mandate. since you were sitting here 24 hours ago without calling it a delay, late yesterday the white house announced its extending the deadline six weeks to march 31st before people actually face a penalty. is this beginning to fall apart? is it just -- how serious...

Think of that as sort of a half measure, if you will. and then theres house majority leader cantor, still pushing for his version of a dream act, although he has been very quiet about that bills progress. right now, heres the problem for house republicans. its hard to see how any of these different bills that i just described can get 218, if democrats continue to stay fairly unified on supporting the senate immigration bill. so perhaps the best way to view todays obama event is to look at it thi...

>> this player got kicked off the team. well tell you the details and ask you is that fair? then well read his poem out loud. "fox & friends" starts now. >> the kid was following instructions. did what the teacher told him, and now he got canned. a crazy story. >> you know what else is crazy? whats going on with obamacare on both sides on the aisle people are wondering do we need this? how much is it going to cost? why cant we use it? we did a poll a short time ago and we want to reveal the resu...

Real human being. taking three hours and at the end having a $6,000 coupon, thats $33 a minute, better than geico. >> this is also paul ryan plan. paul ryan wanted this for the elder elder elderly. >> if this works, why not extend it. that seems like a better argument. >> the crummy part is weve never seen implementation of anything this big by the federal government in the twitter 24/7 cable era. we werent there when they were doing agriculture adjustment administration under roosevelt tweeting...

>> we have that everyday with group therapy with bob. >> it depends on your insurance. >> charles, we have 20 minutes left. >> my question is, when we were talking about the republicans looking at obama care and the website glitches, do you think theres too much focus on the actual website and not enough on the law or one in the same? >> no. i think there is not too much emphasis. republica republicans ought to jump on the roll out, the disaster. right now hit it hard. it isnt as if you have to ...

So i think they clearly had a sort of come to jesus moment and are turning the ship around. and i applaud them for that. but as you point out, theyve got five weeks. and there is a lot of time pressure. >> well, it seems to me theres two concepts at war here. one is the implementation and the concept itself. lincoln fought the war with bad generals until he found u.s. grant. if this were the civil war, theyd say oh, give up, let robert e. lee win this baby and let them secede. let me ask you. ar...