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Tone in the coverage of president obama. it started with the botched obamacare rollout and the coverage turned very aggressive. the clip you just played has become this presidents read my lips, no new taxes in that, obviously, its more complicated, but you cant just keep your plan because many of these are deemed substandard under obamacare. but i would say its even broader than health care, martha. when "the wall street journal" reported the other day that the nsa conducting surveillance of all...

Polls, struggling with his health care plan and appearing not to know the details, fairly or unfairly, press is now piling on. this has not been a good stretch for the way this presidents covered, and its kind of hard to see in the short term how he turns it around with all these problems with the health care law. martha: yeah. its interesting for us to see so many of these media organizations talking about some of these issues as if theyre huge revelations and, you know, many of us have been co...

Need maternity as well. martha: so you dont want that package. basically, you have no alternative, and the government is telling you that you dont have the option to keep that youve got. so what are you going to do? >> correct. well, thats just it, marta that, i feel like ive been put into a sofies choice kind of position, you know? do i insure one member of my family? two members? can i afford to do two members or none of us? i have a feeling that at the end of this year, we will be without hea...

So-called substandard plans if you got them before the law was passed, that you would be able to keep that plan. but it looks like in the law its very easy to become ungrandfatherred because the plans seem to sort of change a little bit all the time, right? >> exactly. and even, you know, having private health insurance they increase the premiums every so often, and so we would have to either increase our deductible or whatever, and i have a feeling thats what happened to us. we had to increase ...

Executives that work for them. bill: one final question. when will you get the answer to the subpoenas youre after here? >> we expect to have compliance within just a few days. weve made it clear to the administration that this is a priority. we cant wait until after november 30th to see whether this works or not because americans are being disenfranchised every day. health care is getting worse. bill: sir, thank you for your time. >> thank you, bill. bill: darrell issa from the hill, well speak...

Pre-2010, the people who got these plans between 2010 and now. thats not something the white house wants to do, but republicans like ron johnson say its the right thing to do for americans. take a listen. >> it was totally false advertising, so were actually going to put in a true grandfather plan that if you have a health care plan today and you like it, you can actually keep that plan. brian, unfortunately, we cant save those plans for every american short of repealing the law, but we sure can...

Hotter moments yesterday. marcia blackburn challenging sebelius on who should decide which insurance plans are best for you whether or not you should keep the plan youre on auto everybody was told they have the option. she is vice-chair of the house energy and commerce committee. ing congresswoman is in nashville for halloween and seeing grandkids. good to have you with us. >> thank you. martha: let me ask you this, were you, when you asked those questions, you know, who is responsible and, we h...

Team as washington. what do you think? bill hemmer? bill: i think there is growing support and pressure to change the name. martha: i think thats very true. bill: and i think, you know, whether youre a redskins fan or not, its just a question of time whether you own the team or its the commissioner, roger goodell, who forces your hand. you know how this stuff works. martha: i sure do. bill: the more attention it gets, eventually the pressures too high -- martha: i had a redskins pin that had the...

In the public sector. >> thats right. >> what about the issue what they knew and when? we really didnt get to the bottom of this. at what point did kathleen sebelius understand, although they were saying october 1, were ready to go even though that wasnt the case. why didnt she delay and why didnt she go to the president to say, we need more time? >> this is one of the points we were trying to get from her. we heard from the contractors that they told the infamous whomever at hhs, health and hum...

Up for obamacare? >> reporter: a lot of people arguing that the president should live under it, the chief justice should live under it, and there are those who are trying to recruit the secretary of health and human services to join. >> youre the architect of the whole program, and you wont go it -- into it with the -- >> i did not say that, sir, i think its illegal -- [inaudible conversations] >> come on in, the waters fine. >> reporter: a lot ofize -- of eyes are on the democratic leadership s...