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Measure and if the white house does not announce fixes by friday a senior democratic source tells cnn house democrats may start defecting and backing the gop plan. joining me is the house majority leader cantor. let me get your reaction to these enrollment numbers? >> pretty stunning. just another day in a series of mess ups in obama care. you really cant even tell whats going on here. they say 25,000 names and people who have apparently gone to the healthcare.gov website but dont know whether t...

You have this sort of spiraling problem of, you know, with the security problems. if people think its not a safe place to put their personal information, theyre not going to go on which is going to create fewer customers, which fewer customers mean you go into the actuarial death spiral. and in washington when you have, you know, mess-ups of this magnitude, youre going to get a lot of people saying who knew what and when and a lot of bureaucrats saying i didnt see this hem mow, its not my fault ...

Should be severely criticized for this and, frankly, resent it. i worked hard for this health care bill. i had some initial doubts about the political staging. i think we finally got it right. and i regret very much that theyre giving the right wing this kind of ammunition. having said that, i should note that one of the things they did do, which people should give them credit for, was to start this months before it takes effect. the fact is that this will not have any negative effect on anybody...

Party. it is time for them to let them make a deal, the republicans would be having a very good week right now, and the government was working and all we were talking about was the mess-ups in the obama care launch. >> and there is no solution here, kicking the can down the road, all obama did is would not negotiate, now well kick the can down the road to january and february. that means, thank god it didnt go over my christmas vacation, i didnt really want to argue this like last christmas with...

Party. it is time for them to let them make a deal, the republicans would be having a very good week right now, and the government was working and all we were talking about was the mess-ups in the obama care launch. >> and there is no solution here, kicking the can down the road, all obama did is would not negotiate, now well kick the can down the road to january and february. that means, thank god it didnt go over my christmas vacation, i didnt really want to argue this like last christmas with...

That they would. here we are -- i mean, over a week out and its botched. i dont understand why they werent ready for the biggest bureaucratic launch in a generation. >> yeah, i dont think theres probably any real good answer to that. one upside is that theres another story that everybody is focused on and thats the shutdown and the pending debt ceiling debacle again. so thats been a distraction from these mess-ups. but look, heading into this, they said there are going to be glitches that this i...

Erosion in the poll numbers as president obamas approval rating at 50% and there will still be more time and right now there doesnt seem to be any type of damage to his standing at least from these polls so far. >> you and the first team bring up is this a scandal or bureaucratic incompetency and right now jay carney made the comment in the daily briefing that says that no one in the white house intervened in the then ongoing investigation into irs targeting of conservative groups. i just got a ...

This really looks bad. what is he going to do? only two options, yank everybody out, make it look like theyre bailing out of iraq just like we did in vietnam. send a rash of new troops there. neither one of them is going to work, hell take them out. >> do you have any concern at all for the 16,000 americans that are there now? >> yes, some of them are working outside the green zone. we have a 102-acre compound inside the green zone, but some of the contractors are working in other areas, particu...

Gallup polls where before all the serial mess ups, he was down by about 15 points. what explains for the 15-point swing? >> nothing to do with the republican candidates running for president. what this has to do with is the fact that this president slid out of town, slid out of the contr count rye while they blue themselves up with the super committee. >> thats not -- i think its the -- >> sherry, that is not -- that is not a plausible response, but in a conversation about mitt romney today in s...

And he says it isnt. oops! >> yeah, last week when they announced that secretary gates and secretary clinton would be appearing together on a couple of the sunday shows, i thought that was very smart. it would ensure the two of them are on the same page. i didnt think their problem would be that one wouldnt be on the same page as president obama. and so i think -- i know where secretary gates was coming from. because i know him a little bit better than i know president obama having worked with h...