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Perceptions of the president and maybe isnt doing the job that they wish they were? >> well i think that they are happy with what theyre doing. thats why theyre not changing. and, you know, the issue whether or not putting your feet on a historic desk is respectful, for the moment lets put that aside and just say, would that have happened if the press photography pool had been allowed in? how staged was it? was it really just a natural thing? i want to emphasize this isnt about the official whit...

Hes there. i would say what are you here for? theyre very close so this is not a repudiation of dennis, this is a vote of confident, its dennising willing for a partner a little bit too to run the white house. >> kathy still down in washington where there is no snow. >> i hope my kids go to school today. >> the last couple of days, but anyway. >> two straight days they didnt go to school, theyre driving everybody batty. >> in new york, the preschools were opened. 2-year-olds in galoshes in manha...

And who destroy a logging cabs. you have got the animal rights people who break nih and let the monkeys go. you have got the vegans, the extreme ones who will undress in the middle of a city square. so, you have got people in a lot of minority elements who want to get attention or who want to be offensive. and you have got them among the atheists. i would bet the vast majority of atheists are silent atheists who move among us and dont announce it and dont wear it on their sleeve. simply have the...

Administration made that they have enough confidence with the website, with what obama care can offer, that they can just send that message, every single day, without necessarily apologizing for everything thats happened. i think this is definitely a shift by them to try to change the momentum, to try to change popular perceptions about the law. that said, their website still does have some problems, particularly not just in terms of -- its much easier to sign on to the site. i think wait times ...

For people to use. >> this famous saying goes, you never get the second chance to make a first impression. what on earth needs to happen? how are you actually going to get people at this point to convince themselves to sign up? to go out there and do it? >> i dont know if there is any way barring six months passing with no issues that they reverse the first perception. people still have not made a perception of the mail service. the perceptions are set in stone. over the weekends they have said ...

Again, hes tried to bury the bad news around a holiday hoping nobody will notice. these are hardly the actions of a transparent administration. perfect segue to bring in our panel, republican statgist kevin madden. democratic strategist and former senior adviser to the hillary clinton for president campaign, kiki maclaine, and senior analyst and editor of national journal ron brownstein. lets start with you. got the brady bunch here. how big of a deal is this delay? >> substantively, its not the...

Administrations have had. they have seen that in syria and that has been a learning experience for them. i think there are different perceptions depending on where you sit. weve now reached this interim agreement. we signed it. i think its congresss role because congress is what brought us here. the administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place. i think we know we brought us to this place. we thank them for entering into negotiations. i wish they ha...

Administrations have had. they have seen that in syria and that has been a learning experience for them. i think there are different perceptions depending on where you sit. weve now reached this interim agreement. we signed it. i think its congresss role because congress is what brought us here. the administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place. i think we know we brought us to this place. we thank them for entering into negotiations. i wish they ha...

Are purely technical, they go to the core of whether any diplomatic agreement on irans nuclear program is possible. >> you have probably the most significant breach in terms of perceptions and realities between an american president and israeli prime minister in quite some time. >> reporter: facing similar skepticism from u.s. lawmakers at home, president obama met with senate leaders tuesday to make his case. several still left the white house unconvinced. >> well, i think all of us are concern...

>> were you in the meeting today, what of your perceptions and concerns about it? >> i went in with some concerns and i came out with the same concerns that i had going in, because, what i told the president is, that, look here we have got a group of guys who we dont trust, who wake up every day, saying they want to develop a nuclear weapon to blow up one of our key allies in the world, not just the region, and thats israel. and we are willing to make concessions to them if they make minimal con...