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Thats now how i think about it. >> some of the presidents critics including perhaps most among them senator mike lee from utah says this kind of tweaking was a grander design to move to a single payer system. the white house dismisses that and has repeatedly saying they will work with the insurance industry to make these changes. bottom line, another major deadline coming up for obamacare. that is december 23rd and that is two days away. thats the deadline for when people have to sign up for hea...

>> it can be. >> why? >> because washington has been so unwilling to reform the way it spends money, they look for easy places. safety valves. one of those in this deal was retirement. retirement for folks who are under the age of 62 who served a full 20 years in the military. they are now asked to take 1% less in retirement benefits over the course. that could equal $83,000 in total for an enlisted service member who served 20 years. this is somehow how were going to balance the books on the ba...

It. you need people committed and dedicated. they will fix the glitches, wolf. do we have the product people want and the product there is value in? thats what hasnt been sod yet. if there needs to be tweaking, thats the one-year transition that would work absolutely beautifully. give us the breathing time to make sure youre selling me a product that i like, that i think is good and will help me and my family and ill buy it, i want it. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. up next, the...

And let them keep what they got. >> thats tough. i think he said hes being realistic. it seems to me, we are talking about how it has to be done. if it doesnt work, you have to be realistic an truthful. clearly, they are going to have to roll back the promise that it didnt work. >> there is a con91 drunundrum. if he answers -- >> i dont think he lied. >> if he now says you can have your old health care back, it actually starts to beat into the efficacy of the aca legislation and in long term act...

And then there is this guy, the commissioners of 11 counties in colorado, to secede from colorado to form the 51st state, their issues involving the oil and gas production to social issues. here are some of the residents speaking out. >> they have no idea what real americans are really like, how hard we work. >> there were gun laws passed that went against our way of life. >> we do not want the government to take care of us. we dont want to live in a nanny state. >> marijuana, gay marriage, in m...

There you see tom harkin of iowa. he be asking questions of marilyn tavenner. shes the administrator for medicaid and medicare and that branch or organization once in charge of the obama care rollout. but no longer. and well continue to monitor her testimony. and if she says anything new and exciting, well pass it along to you. lets talk about the president now and his tweaking of his message. a new spin. its now been five weeks to the date since the rollout of obama care. and its sputtering w...

Good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. president obama is now busy tweaking his message, understandable, since many americans are angry that the president insisted more than once they could keep their insurance plans despite obama care. now we know thats not true. still the president cannot deny what he has been saying for nearly four years. >> if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under the reform proposals that we put forward. if you like your private he...

Imagine when the iraq war was getting under way if democrat who opposed the war, werent crazy about george w. bush to begin with began denying troops body armor or denying them armored vehicles or things like that. thats the equivalent to what republicans are doing to the health care bill with not expanding medicaid, leaving millions of people to suffer without health insurance. just because of their ideology. >> i dont want to defend all of it, but when they start talking about how the presiden...

Make mistakes. when you try to spin and explain and come up with weird explanations that usually doesnt work. you have to acknowledge yes, i made a mistake. i apologize. heres what were doing to learn from the mistakes and heres how we move forward. >> for the first time we heard an apology from the administration who administers the health care website during her testimony on the hill apologizing to the american public for that. i this i a little bit of contrition always, would, wolf. >> people...

This is all of the way from what is a much higher level in the senate budget resolution and much lower level in the house resolution, but we can get to that number with certain assumptions. republicans want income tax return, reform. they want some tweaking of the entitlement programs. democrats obviously want some more revenue. you can produce revenue out of income tax reform and some of the tweaking of the entitle mme programs and there could be more right now in the divided