finance the muslim brotherhood. remember they were the ones that had gotten morsi out of office and taken over and now the military is in charge. declaring today that the muslim brotherhood is designate ad terrorist group. we ll keep an eye on any new protests or reaction out of the region coming up. leland: it is the bottom of the hour. here is your headlines. another last-minute change on obamacare. the white house again extending the deadline to sign up for coverage starting january 1st under the affordable care act. the feds say people can continue to complete applications about they can show they missed the latest deadline due to web site problems and there have been a lot of them. the administration calls it a common sense move after a recent surge in traffic to the site. it is causing more confusion for insurance companies and even some consumers. violence this christmas day in iraq apparently targeting
your energy plus ours. together, there s no limit to what we can achieve. the basic structure of the lace working despite all the problems, despite the web site problems and the messaging problems, despite all that it s working. the president on friday maintaining despite all the problems with the web site and insurance policies being canceled, obamacare is still
thousand dollar, 500-dollar discounts on prescription drugs for seniors on medicare. so, 85% of the population, whether they know it or not, over the last three years, has benefited from a whole set of the provisions with the law, and by the way, if it were to be repealed you would be taking away all those benefits from folks who already are enjoying them. you had this subportion of the population, 15%, who either don t have halves insurance or buying it on the individual market, and that s still millions of people, and what we re doing is createing a marketplace where they can buy insurance and we can offer them tax credits to afford it. the basic structure of the law is working despite the problems. despite the web site problems, despite the messaging problems, despite all that it s working,
will likely snap what was an eight week winning streak, so we have to wait to see for the closing bell, but it s been a great year for stocks, and maybe we ll start to see the santa claus rally. jenna: we ll knock on wood. we re going to have to find some. you can knock on glass. [laughter] jenna: lauren, thank you. jon: we are getting new reaction now to president obama s interview with msnbc s chris matthews. it was taped yesterday at american university. they discussed a wide range of issues including the president s management style and whether that had anything to do with the obamacare web site problems. listen. when secretary sebelius appeared in that hearing and she was asked by marsha blackburn who s in charge, it took a while for her to answer, and she finally got to chief operating officer of cms, the center for medicaid and medicare, and it didn t seem like there was a strong top-down authority system there you. did you have, do you have let s look forward here. do you
y scenario they will have web site problems. why are you driver driving people to a web site that doesn t work. they are trying to pull them to the web site. this ad was there yesterday after they are looking at work arounds for the web site. the president has taken a beating over this. but if the web site isn t fixed the real casualties could come in congress where vulnerable democrats could be left holding the bag in next year s mid term elections. members look a little shell shocked to me especially in october they were getting behind the healthcare law they were criticizing republicans for their attempts to delay it. the big government shut down was against delaying the healthcare law. they are walking around now looking like what just happened? indeed what just happened. we are seeing delays in some aspects of the law. look for democrats in congress