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After all, this current presidents term is up in 2016, so its no secret about whats going on. >> senator casey, let me ask you about president obama, who agrees that this law needs some tweaking. hes delayed parts of it, exempt entire classes of people from the full brunt of its weight for now. whats one thing that you as a democrat would offer to republicans to try to make this law more workable, more attractive, more sellable? >> i think first of all we should do it outside of the context of s...

You demean your argument when you do that. >> im not demeaning it, piers. the majority of americans are fought happy with the obamacare the way it was enacted. the millions of americans believe it should be tweak and changed if you agree with the polls. look at the public opinion. >> if you look piece by piece at obamacare. whether pre-existing conditions, age limitations, ted cruz is fighting for tweaking, hes fighting to destabilize the entire country. >> because there is a very important poin...

No ones doing that. no ones talking about it. they have the idea, the banks, they get bailed out. what can you do? too big to fail? so i think that theres no conversation that then pushes the political discourse, that then pushes the politicians to push it back against those who fund them well and those who frankly have a lot of power. look at all the number of meetings that had happened to try to get some of these iterations and various versions and parts of the bills passed. the bankers are in...

Putting it on video. one of the rebels was eating the internal organs of one of the syrian soldiers. i dont see any good party to the war. >> i think hes right. also in as much as it could spread and be a broader conflict. looking at his actions in this, the editorial, calling kerry a liar, moving his ships into the region, threatening to protect syria with missile defense, threatening to arm iran, what do you make of this -- almost saber-rattling by him against the usa. what do you think the pu...

Is a self-interest to both russia and the united states to getting those chemical weapons out of syria. >> there is only one guy doing the tweaking here. thats putin. thats russia. >> you may be right. if there were a tennis match it would be advantage putin. hes running circles around the administration. >> what do you make of the fact that he was right about the boston bombers and warned us and we didnt listen. hes right about the rebels being al qaeda-linked and more extreme than the characte...

Putting it on video. one of the rebels was eating the internal organs of one of the syrian soldiers. i dont see any good party to the war. >> i think hes right. also in as much as it could spread and be a broader conflict. looking at his actions in this, the editorial, calling kerry a liar, moving his ships into the region, threatening to protect syria with missile defense, threatening to arm iran, what do you make of this -- almost saber-rattling by him against the usa. what do you think the pu...

Objectives and removing some of the uncertainty that would accompany the presidents course of action. so i think this is a welcome development. obviously, proof will be in the pudding. but im encouraged. i think we should pursue it. i think that it holds the prospect of meeting that interest of securing these stockpiles in a way that even a limited action or more extensive military action could not achieve. >> so obviously, the white house is going to have to be tweaking, if not majorly revising...

>> fak, brilliant. >> professor, speaking of future elections, senator ted cruz thought by many to be a leading contender for the 2016 nomination put out a tv spot about the affordable care act. take a listen to this. >> theres bipartisan agreement that obama care isnt working. democratic senator max baucus, the lead author of obama care said its a huge train wreck. >> he continues to lie about the contents of this law, professor peterson. >> again, fakes matter. it is working. it is still a com...

>> shannon: all right. heres a fair and balanced debate from the executive director of public notice and an attorney and radio host, ebony williams. welcome to you both. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: ebony, ill start with you. the president himself and his administration acknowledged a lot of problems with the law. its a massive undertaking. they delayed a few key parts of it including the employer mandate, caps on out of pocket costs for consumers, all kinds of things, so fair to say that ...

These exchanges and the -- you know, all the disaster and doomsaying is going to be pale in retrospect. >> david, leigh gallagher here. do you think the iterating and tweaking will continue after 1/1/14, after we put it into place, a lot of this is getting it ready, the real test will be when the rubber hits the road. do you think there will be more tweaking for the following year or more than that? >> i have to believe thats going to be the case. any time you implement something like this, its ...