news hysteria way, it was actually a disaster. a completely broken, smoldering ruin, which you can learn about even on the regular old lamestream media. reporter: in the first months, only 110,000 americans signed up. tonight the numbers are finally out, and they confirm the new health insurance program is in big trouble. just 27,000 people have enrolled on the federal website, healthcare.gov. the numbers tell a grim story, frighteningly enrollment. barely enough people to fill one football stadium. that was the story of obamacare in november. but now, it is working. with enrollment in private plans up from about 100,000 in those first dark days of implementation in october, to more than double that in november, to more than 1.7 million in december. altogether, when you add in folks who are newly eligible for medicaid and the under 26 crowd,
grew so large and self-perpetuating that unless you devoted yourself full-time to it, you could easily lose track of what the latest iteration of the scandal was. but keep in mind, the beginning of the whole thing went like this. the u.s. mission was attacked. the u.s. government initially said it was essentially a spontaneous protest inspired by an american-made anti-muslim video. that was basically the story u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, told when she appeared on five sunday news shows. and rice, ultimately had to withdraw her name as a potential candidate for secretary of state, because she had, according to the right wing, gone out and lied to the american people. never mind that she was reciting talking points that had been created by the cia without her input, as far as we can tell. well, when the right started beating its drum over benghazi and saying is it was a cover-up, the bedrock contention was this. the obama administration claimed the attack was in response to
that was then secretary of state hillary clinton testifying before the senate foreign relations committee about the september 11th, 2012 attacks on u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, that killed four americans. that exchange centered on the motivation of the attackers. now, the year 2013 saw multiple congressional hearings on benghazi and an entire cottage industry of conspiracy-laden coverage, mostly, but not exclusively, from fox news. the benghazi scandal industry grew so large and self-perpetuating that unless you devoted yourself full-time to it, you could easily lose track of what the latest iteration of the scandal was. but keep in mind, the beginning of the whole thing went like this. the u.s. mission was attacked. the u.s. government initially said it was essentially a spontaneous protest inspired by an american-made anti-muslim video. that was basically the story u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, told when she appeared on five sunday news shows. and rice, ul
ruin, which you can learn about even on the regular old lamestream media. in the first months, only 110,000 americans signed up. tonight the numbers are finally out, and they confirm the new health insurance program is in big trouble. just 27,000 people have enrolled on the federal website, healthcare.gov. the numbers tell a grim story, frighteningly enrollment. barely enough people to fill one football stadium. that was the story of obamacare in november. but now, it is working. with enrollment in private plans up from about 100,000 in those first dark days of implementation in october, to more than double that in november, to more than 1.7 million in december. altogether, when you add in folks who are newly eligible for medicaid and the under 26 crowd, now covered on their parent s plans, you get about 9 million plus people who have coverage today because of obamacare. and as of yesterday, that is a
can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. that was then secretary of state hillary clinton testifying before the senate foreign relations committee about the september 11th, 2012 attacks on u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, that killed four americans. that exchange centered on the motivation of the attackers. now, the year 2013 saw multiple congressional hearings on benghazi and an entire cottage industry of conspiracy-laden coverage, mostly, but not exclusively, from fox news. the benghazi scandal industry grew so large and self-perpetuating that unless you devoted yourself full-time to it, you could easily lose track of what the latest iteration of the scandal was. but keep in mind, the beginning of the whole thing went like this. the u.s. mission was attacked. the u.s. government initially said it was essentially a spontaneous protest inspired by an american-made anti-muslim video. that was basically the story u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, told whe