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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...

Part, just kind of like well, no, this is a good idea for people to get covered there was a difference that romney was covered with great scrutiny and this policy was not. >> laura, you want to rerack the tape from my previous answer i think the press, anyone who denies that there was a failing -- at the same time, republicans did not run against this in part because mitt romney didnt. >> i agree with you on that. >> barack obama knew he wasnt going to run for re-election defending the program. ...

Well, no, this is a good idea for people to get covered there was a difference that romney was covered with great scrutiny and this policy was not. >> laura, you want to rerack the tape from my previous answer i think the press, anyone who denies that there was a failing -- at the same time, republicans did not run against this in part because mitt romney didnt. >> i agree with you on that. >> barack obama knew he wasnt going to run for re-election defending the program. part of the flaws of the...

Work like a charm, thats my fault. thats something that ive got to do some examination of how that happened. >> joining me now, ben la pope, former press secretary for president obamas re-election campaign, now a founding partner of the insight agency. ben, are you surprised by two things -- one, whats happening substantively in the individual insurance market, in which there seems to be a fair amount of disruption. whether thats coming from the law or the insurance companies is one question. an...

Joe biden is a very likable guy in the back room with the door closed. i cant imagine that that bond would have been broken at that point? >> no. the thing is, joe biden has been incredibly valuable. this is a was that does not like to wine and dine senators and members of congress. so the pivot point in terms of getting things done on the hill has often been biden. biden has a good relationship with mitch mcconnell. able to go to the senate, a senator so long. has amazing relationships there. h...

This is a was that does not like to wine and dine senators and members of congress. so the pivot point in terms of getting things done on the hill has often been biden. biden has a good relationship with mitch mcconnell. able to go to the senate, a senator so long. has amazing relationships there. he has been able to get a lot done substantively for the president on the hill. the point guy in a lot of ways for getting done things. a valuable vice president. besides the fact, the guy was a noun/v...

Work like a charm, thats my fault. thats something that ive got to do some examination of how that happened. >> joining me now, ben la pope, former press secretary for president obamas re-election campaign, now a founding partner of the insight agency. ben, are you surprised by two things -- one, whats happening substantively in the individual insurance market, in which there seems to be a fair amount of disruption. whether thats coming from the law or the insurance companies is one question. an...

That is a provocative political stance for the president today. but substantively on the issue of health reform and the politics of health reform, there is something going on. the media, i think broadly, the beltway media and the national media have not caught on to yet. it may explain the republicans sort of willful denial that they actual lost last night in virginia. over the first few weeks that the health reform exchanges were over, over the first few weeks of the health reform implementatio...

They lost substantively. first of all, they played this ridiculous game of shutting down the government, and then yelling at civil servants. one of the things i find most despicable about these people is the bullying of other public officials. going after staff members who work so hard for inadequate pay. members of the congressional -- yelling at these employees. these people vote to shut the government down, and then they yell at other people because the government is shut down. and its extrao...

Wired when they see all this conflict to get into the fray so that -- and you know what it take. youve got to have 800,000 viewers in a cable show to break even. and if you get more than that, your profits go up. so the good news about the media today is that we have more sources of information than ever before. the bad news is we are, all of us, prone only to go to the places we agree with. so msnbc has grown because they have -- >> we dont mention that in this room. im sorry. its -- >> i know....