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President 38%. a queen pack poll has them around 45%. the "wall street journal"s a them at 33%. i will tell you the most discerning number is the same football that just you know george w. bush and you guys couldnt stand and thats the question of trustworthiness when only, you know, 37, 38% of americans believe that you are actually trustworthy and that your word is good. thats just devastating. not just for a president but for any politician from top to bottom. its got to really stink. >> thats...

Agenda that he outlined in the campaign, i think youll see americans siding with him. theyre certainly not siding with republican leaders in congress. >> when we talk about the aca and this is very interesting. obviously this is a huge lift to our social contract with one another in this country. these poll numbers show that 50% of the people think the aca is a bad idea. but they say its still on track they wanted for the enrollment of this. if we look at this, and we do reach that goal, chip, a...

Running as independents and saying im not a democrat or a republican, i will be for the people. 100 years before ross perot with william jennings brian. the populous movement was all about lets have a federal income tax and regulate the banks and elect senator directly and not have them be appointed bite aristocrats. >> that has been my thesis of what the mid-terms will be about. that may end up status quo because of that. i wonder why there not third party candidates. >> its a good question and...

Im actually of two minds about the electoral prospects on this. look the reality is the president took on a big idea pep got it passed with democrats only. and now hes got to execute. so republicans can be blamed and i agree with joe that like 1994 be very effective for republicans to go out there and say look this is how government can work properly, this is how government can take on a big societal problem like the lack of health insurance and exploding health care costs more effectively. i th...

Months and months into early next year, i think it makes things like immigration less likely. >> is it a matter of as some suggested that the president needs to pivot and have distractions, if you will, to get people talking about something other than healthcare.gov. what else do you see? they can turn healthcare.gov and obama care into a positive heading into the mid-terms some. >> its a positive if it works. people can sign up by the december 23rd deadline and get insurance. if its not work an...

Of criticism from democrats anyway or the white house kind of coming out. >> let me bring you in. thats the new standard. its working well enough. say it it knows to work for the next year heading into the mid-terms. can the president pivot to anything else? he try with immigration reform. can he really or will this be it? >> i think this is kind of it as far as major things go. if they were going to get immigration done, this was the year to get it done. if they were going to get a big budget a...

Immigration reform will pass but how soon. the only thing standing in the way is politics. he thanked the folks there for their sacrifice and dedication. vice president biden and mr. obamas chief of staff and a couple of his cabinet secretaries have also lent their support to the effort. >> wendell goler, live on the white house lawn. thousands of seniors in ten states learning that they are losing their doctors. united health care is dropping thousands of physicians from its medicare advantag...

Now they swept through the country. if you get a chance, check it out. you can see this. the republicans ahead of the mid-term elections now. are you surprised that these efforts will go up again. is it different and there is low turn out historically in mid-terms. >> its surprising that people think this is a way that you can gain the advantage. in our view, its not good for anyone for these voters to go into effect. they need more confusion and longer lines. its harder for everyone, but more f...

Members from the military and thank them for their sacrifice to america. the first lady will well wum the christmas tree to the white house. midnight tomorrow is the self-imposed deadline to get the health care exchange website. there were more setbacks this week. the white house announced that the exchange for small businesses will be delayed an entire year and there are reports that the website team is scrambling to create an app to divert some traffic from the site. all this has republica...

Themselves. you had democrats voting for the house plan to allow americans to say on their health plans. this was after the president announced his own fix to the plan. >> we are getting more and more bad news about obamacare each day. yesterday it was the small business rollout has been delayed for about a year. democrats understand the only way they can get reelected is to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular president and unpopular policies. so its every man and woman for themse...