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The debt ceiling hostage situation, americans faith and trust in government was already at near record lows, according to gallup. all three branches of government near record lows with the legislative branch unsurprisingly being at the lowest. i mean, doesnt such a botched rollout as this website just further undermine americans trust that the federal government can do anything well? >> unquestionably. i think thats one of the real great losses here and why you hear a lot of liberals as upset as...

It what provoked that? >> well, my friend i really do like the guy jared pullits we disagree on just about everything. weighs quoted in an article whats going on in colorado. he is now asking for a delay, an exception for his county. is he quoted in there in saying that the affordable, you know, the affordable care act is actually not going to save anybody money. it doesnt work. and to date they have had zero in summit county colorado, they havent had a single person sign up because its so expen...

Hand there. >> thats okay. >> wait til you hear about that in just a moment. in the meantime, weve been talking here on this program about obamacare and famously, the web site has really stunk up the place. it doesnt work. the government wont tell us how many people have actually signed on. blue cross-blue shield in north dakota was asked by the federal government, dont share your statistics. but a spokesperson did. so far in north dakota, a total of 14 people have signed up for blue cross-blue ...

Republican-led shutdown so its not surprising that theyre trying to change the conversation and get control of the narrative in washington, d.c. the house republican conference released a video highlighting the actual excerpts from an online chat between a potential customer and a customer service representative for healthcare.gov. i just want to show a small clip. >> dont lose your sanity over this website. try it. if it doesnt work, walk away. try it tomorrow. >> what you sent me seems like a ...

Now the democrats are playing into the republicans hands. this is a real disaster. it doesnt mean -- i mean its a technological disaster. it doesnt mean that obama care is a failure. but it makes the administration look incompetent. if you remember with the george w. bush administration, it wasnt iraq that ultimately caused his downfall in terms of the public, the way the public viewed him, it was the catastrophe in katrina where the administration and the president looked incompetent. so this c...

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If you are 27, 50, see how much your premium is going up. on average men are seeing a 99% increase. women, 62% according to forbes magazine. joining me marcia blackburn, congresswoman, how are you? >> im well. >> i called the number twice today on my radio show. we got through on the number the president gave us today. we got through. two nice operators probably will be fired for talking to me. they said, go back to the website. so the toll free number is president gave to help you directs you t...

They have gone up. he said if you like it you can keep it. not true. especially for those of us with health savings accounts. a site that should have cost a half million to build, not a half billion dollars to build. and nobody can make heads or tails of it. they dont want to come and just admit they made a mistake. it doesnt work. theyve got a program thats too expensive to afford and the system they are using to show case it has been a failure. so we are looking for answers. >> i had a harvard...

And insurance in this country. insurance is where people will see the impact first. >> jay carney refused to rule out delaying the individual mandate today. which is all the republicans in the houser with asking for for the whole shutdown. is that a possibility at this late hour? >> i dont see how you can have the irs taxing americans for failing to purchase a product off a government-run website that doesnt work. its just not fair. we could have done this september 30th. we never would have had...

Process. the reality is this is an absolute failure. you dont spend $400 million on a web site that people, no matter how many are trying to log on, you should be able to log on. we have hundreds of thousands of experts in sill silicon valley and across the nation who spend their time doing web sites. we ought to hire experts to build web sites. this is another example of how challenging it really is when you turn something over to the government that could be better done in the private sector. ...