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To admit that maybe the website wasnt going to launch perfectly on day one or to admit that some peoples individual health care policies werent going to be available. were going to change and its like they were so worried about the image and the spin, that theyve, you know, ended up creating their on pr problem. this problem theyre dealing with right now is of their own making. they easily could have come out and said, this is going to be very difficult. this is going to be very complicated. for...

Exchanges. >> you have no numbers on whos enrolled, so have you for the idea? >> we will have those numbers available mid-november. >> i am saying you will publicly release those number, do you have an idea on a weekly basis how many people have enrolled, how do you know how many people are enrolled? >> jeremy kemp, we will have those numbers mid-november. >> i am sure you have been termed a quarterback of the rollout. i am sure you did not choose those words yourself. can you guarantee no ameri...

Going to work and in a really quick time frame. >> wow. richard, you have written two very fine books about the president. >> thank you. >> talk about how this rollout reflects or doesnt reflect the presidents character and style. >> so this has been a problem about management and the kinds of, you know, we can look on the surface level and say, well, he said certain things he shouldnt have, there are other things in terms of the messaging, particularly about what coverage people in individual m...

Services had discovered this activity, they won have paid it public. this would have been a private event, if an event at all between the united states and the germans. and again, we are not confirming or denying anything, when you got this out there in the newspapers and it is public and she has an angry population, its not fact of thats the problem. its fact of being in the papers thats a problem. >> general sam stein has a question for you. >> general, i was shocked to see dianne feinstein de...

Successful. lets move forward. >> sam is dying. sam. >> i have a question, you were hinting at what is known as the death spiral, with i a bunch of sick and older people tend to sign up the premiums for the large pool go up. what is the drop dead data, roughly the time period in which we will know if we can avoid it or if that will happen? how much longer does the administration have to enroll young, healthy people? >> obviously, we have until march 31st. its not just the administration, there w...

Second term, this was it. so getting it wrong does suggest they werent focused on what they could actually achieve in the second term. i have no doubt they will get it right in the end. in the end, it can cost them a lot of votes. >> lets go to washington, bring in chuck todd, obviously, we are talking about management right here, you know, the problem here is we dont talk from the beginning about over the past year about how difficult second terms are, well, the president hasnt gotten what he w...

The website. they till have an issue in the back end. until they resolve that back end issue, this whole thing is not going to work, ruth is right, you need to sign up these young people. >> is the presidents credibility damaged in a terrible way because these numbers suggest you cant get the same coverage for the same price? how do you get around that credibility issue? >> i think this is a big problem. if i were the white house political operation, i would be concerned about this. you know, mi...

A fair majority. they didnt really have the support of the american people. he said, more importantly, i thought this was a great point, policy-wise, it was an overreach. it was too much. we are seeing now they cant handle this. the federal government as it is currently constructed cannot handle this. >> they should have been able to. >> i would argue, i agree with that. >> i dont agree with that. that it was a political overreach? >> political overreach. this is a poor job of execution. they sh...

The playbook. i thought we would. >> no problem. >> lets talk about rand paul. he became came in yesterday and said he will hold up president obamas nom nangs of janet yelp enas fed chair. >> he is using this as a bargaining chip. >> legislation his father did for years for the hold up the fed. rand paul said i will hold this up in the house if we dont get a vote. he has been waiting forever for a vote in the senate. rand paul unlike cruz and some others has played politics smartly this year. i ...