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The president is using the vast, immense power of the federal government to hurt the american people. why? in order to win a political argument. what happens then when we turn over some of the most private, intimate, decisions in our lives, our health care system, to the government? when will that be used as a tool against us? we must stop it. we must defund it. we can not accept it. [applause] martha: rousing applause there. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in d.c. carl, what ...

Martha: exactly. all right, well, she is at the center of targeting of conservatives at the irs, and now her new job is to head up the obamacare management of the irs. you know those things are going to be very closely linked. so why was sarah hall ingram at the white house 155 times? well ask dr. ben carson coming up next. >> heres a lady for the last three years has been head of the office for implementing the affordable care act, and todays the first time she comes in front of the committee? ...

Leaders are meeting at the white house today. we will have the news as it happens. plus, the political fallout from this mess in d.c. no winners on capitol hill with record low approval ratings. is that helping drive the deal? and has the messy rollout of obamacare gotten a free pass because of the shutdown coverage? judy miller and kirsten powers are here on that. and the schizophrenic behavior of iran. talk about negotiation, while bragging about missile launches. its all coming up, "happe...

Them, that is usually a pretty good idea they are close to a very red area that they dont want to get into. and again recall the problems with the hobby lobby but the catholic church, remember, objecting to having to give out that kind of information under obamacare. they got into a huge battle with hhs over that, and hhs could have negotiated with the catholic church. instead they push the back because they were getting in the way of implementing obamacare. engen, this is what i mean by intense...

The senate, mark, before i get to you to answer that question. on the 29th, the house sent to the senate a proposal to fund the government and repeal the medical device tax as well as delay most elements of the affordable care act, obamacare, until january 1 of 2015. that died in the senate on basically a party line vote, 54-46. and the house then sent an amendment to the senate that would fund the government and delay the individual mandate in obamacare that would require the president and the ...

Republicans opposition to obamacare. obamacare rolls out on the same day and the stories about its problems, its hiccups, glitches are being drowned out by the government shutdown. >> thats correct and i would add to that that the republicans dont seem to have an escape hatch open for themselves at this point. i dont know what it is that they can settle for that would allow them to save face. youve got the two issues now of government shutdown and the debt limit running together and thats perhap...

Sympathy for the union but i guess, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. jon: the unions have been petitioning president obama to get relief from some of the applications of obamacare they phoned more onerous. >> certain hotel uses are a particular kind of health plan thats disfavored under the rules of obamacare and theyve been trying to get sort of a subsidy to make up for that and the whose has said no on the very sound basis that its not contemplated in the law and that it would cos...

Hour and a half to enroll in a plan. other states, oregon, nevada, alaska, colorado, maryland all had similar problems. the federal website, which is serving people in the 34 states without exchanges was also knocked off line due to high traffic but interestingly, the walkup enrolling at the health clinics was slow. >> just been how we operate as a society is that we seek the health care needs when we feel that we need them. were not very proactive. >> and remember, everyone agrees that for this...

Program will continue until somebody uses force against it. it wont be the obama administration. it may or may not be israel. if the current curse continues and certainly if we get locked into the process of a negotiation as iranians clearly wish i think it is only a question of when and how many nuclear weapons iran will announce to the world that they have been able to fabricate. jenna: ambassador bolton, great to have you on the program as always. thank you. jon: a quick look what is coming...

Today would have been only about the glitches of obamacare, possibly additionally about union opposition to obamacare and they could have attempted, as my column suggested, to exploit provisions within the democratic camp. jon: thank you. jenna: big headline from the literary world and beyond today. best selling author tom clancy is dead. we just learned about that a few hours ago. well talk about the legacy he leaves behind next. plus a man calls 911 to report a terrifying emergency but the rea...