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Others the press are going to identify. even if he is successful. thats part of the issue, is it not? the president always seems to see things in terms of political solutions or political responses. so the response here is we have got to rebrand. we have got to sell it differently. we have to have a new add. have to have the web site have more colors, whatever it is. isnt it more of a branding problem? this is a technical problem. its a policy problem. its a substantive problem. its not just abo...

They can to take it away. >> amen to that. it reminds me of something mark twain says reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. thats not quite where we are with the obama presidency just yet. what does it have to do to move forward? get the website going. its not a policy problem. its an implementation problem. thats a lot easier. if we had significant policy problems, we were worrying than right now we have an implementation problem which it totally is sur mountable. its different tha...

Keep it. and the miles an hoamerican peo what they see. it will be some members of congress only chance to be on the record as to whether or not people should keep their insurance. what we said is if you dont give us something else before friday, i think youll see many democrats as a wave sending a message to the american people and the white house that we believe that needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed now. >> robert gibbs, what would you do at this point? is it a communications problem...

Non complying. the idea of recreating them is problematic. to me its a political fix but a policy problem. this is a way for obama to say this is not me doing this, its the insurance companies. hes throwing the insurance companies under the bus. theyre mad about it. >> i want to pick up on that. the president was literally still speaking when americas health insurance plan, the lobbying group put out this statement. lets put it on the screen. changing the rules after the health plans have alread...

For the president. unless he gives the democrats, the fellow democrats a clear path out, theyll suggest it for him. as you can see, thats pretty messy. >> isnt the policy -- put the politics aside for a second. the policy problem is a real one. they need a pool of people to make the insurance plans for the sick and the people who would normally have a much higher premium to make it more affordable. thats a policy problem. how i wonder are they going to be able to fix with this such little time l...

>> this is a fairly volatile situation in response not to united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video. >> when i stand up at the podium in front of the white house press corps, i never lie. i never say something that i know is not true. >> really? joining me now with reaction are the co-hosts of "the five" dana and andrea tantaros. >> nice accent. >> pretty good. i would say maybe you have more sympathy because you did that ...

>> this is a fairly volatile situation in response not to united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video. >> when i stand up at the podium in front of the white house press corps, i never lie. i never say something that i know is not true. >> really? joining me now with reaction are the co-hosts of "the five" dana and andrea tantaros. >> nice accent. >> pretty good. i would say maybe you have more sympathy because you did that ...

Better care. they keep claiming that everybody had substandard plan and they are upgrading the plans. a lot of people didnt. and they were happy with what they had. >> it seems as if the administration is not accepting that it is a broken promise. thats how the american people hear. it do they need to do something to fix it? >> yeah, the numbers are showing. and the other thing look at the result in the virginia governors race. that race collapsed for front runner terry mcauliffe and the problem...

You were in that room. why did you guys say it? >> always a communications problem never a policy problem. >> its a major communications problem. >> well, you know, i was in charge of health care, mika. look, as i said before, look, this is a problem that they are going to have to fix. i think zeke is right. these plans were grandfathered. if you had an existing policy on march 23rd, 2010, you could keep it today if that plan hadnt changed. zeke is right insurance companies want to get out of th...

Affordable care act and therefore has to be replaced. >> and so, anderson, web site has been a political problem the administration says will go away and all will be fine. this is much more of a personal policy problem. back when the president was saying those things it was kind of like an ad for a new drug. the flowers and roses and nice soft music and everythings promised it will be great. then at the end they kind of m mumble everything might not be perfect. the administration says of course ...