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welcome back to the cnn newsroom. much of the world expected ukraine to fall quickly to russias invasion given the onslaught of man and machines and heavy weaponry. now ukraine enters a second year of battling its way to freedom in that war. this time, this time lapse, i should say, just shows how successful ukraines military has been this past year. the russian troops mostly contained. the fighting in the east is intensifying and ukraines military is kahn for more western aid includi...

Continually working better, so check it out. bill: the president in hollywood rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. alan colmes is rich and famous. tucker -- good ploarn good mornh of you. tucker first. >> this is a low point in his life. when you are you seek out people who love you have uncritically. no one returns the love uncritically more than hollywood. he tells them they are not filth merchants, but that they actual live reflect american values. he appears to feel most

>> it depends on what you define as collapse. a spiral -- so-called death spiral which premiums and deductibles are both rising, yeah. bill: 90 seconds. you run american crossroads. as far as i can tell thats what the most successful political group raising money for the 2012 election. >> crossroads gps which is the 501c4. american crossroads is a 527. bill: the irs and thed administration is going to crack down on these groups, what do you think of that. >> it didnt matter for decades when they...

Many documents yet to be uncovered into how the irs abused and targeted conservative leaning groups. this smacks of the white house trying to shut down potential critics. bill: karl roves american crossroads is the biggest of these organizations. well talk to him directly when he joins us in 10 minutes. after the botched healthcare rollout the obama administration says things are definitely on track to fix the obamacare website by the self-imposed deadline by november 30. but they are questionin...

Clients against the irs. they are coming up with new rules and saying we will change the rules and sew it looks like what we did wasnt as bad as it was. no one is going to buy this. it is regulatory environment that is going to take a year to get ford. it is really significant violation of free speech. i think it is non-sense and they are trying to move the ball while it is in place and that is not supposed to happen when you are a referee and the irs is had referee. i think we will win it back....

Organizations. the irs wants to place restrictions on how tax exempt operations can spend their money. im heather childers in for martha maccallum. they would change how tax exempt groups change elections on both sides of the aisle. bill: what would this affect. >> reporter: it would affect vetter rick straition drives. get out the vote drives and affect the amount of money tax exempt fupped group to go to, send to a highly political group. city the would have a big impact because it would reign...

And the expansion of medicaid. bill: i want to get to this irs story. there are a lot of people who argue the problems the law will lead to the laws collapse. are you one of those people who believe that? >> i think the law will have continuing problems throughout next year. whether it leads to its collapse per se is -- you have to define what collapse means? does it mean it will cost a heck of a lot more than an is pair ited and more people will be covered? does it mean well end up with 30 mill...