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Make a first impression, and this one has not been good. >> charles, what should the president do? there are congressional hearings going on again today. and this will only further hurt the president. what should he do to stem this tide? >> i dont know exactly what he can do at this point. one is to take personal responsibility. the other thing is work feverishly on all fronts and try to fix the website problems. and i think theyre trying to do that. the problem that the president confronts is s...

It tells you in what the administration is saying because of the website problems and communications and technical issues, enrollment is way, way, way below what they wanted it to be and needed to be. what theyre also saying is, look, this is part of the problem. we know its a problem. were embarrassed. by the time we get to the march deadline, things will be fixed. republicans are saying this is proof of technical problems but of how unpopular this is. its more evidence for the critics of the p...

No one has to pay a premium until december 15th at the earliest, so officials say they wont know whos actually purchased insurance until after that. but until the administration fixes the website problems, it may fall farther and farther behind, this means the numbers it reports could be shockingly low. even beyond that, though, the mix of young and healthy to older and sicker enrollments will be the key. bret. >> jim, yesterday you reported on potential fixes and how tough that could be. if the...

With employer mandate. >> this is chickens coming home to roost the way we legislate. >> thats exactly right. thats exactly whats going on. >> i dont think the problems that are being experienced right now. im not talking about the website problems but the cancellation problems are a failure of fixes that should have been done in conference. it is a fact of life that if youre going to rehab and overhaul and fix the individual insurance market, youre going to have to not just fall through the cra...

Size, but now it looks like theres enough charges before them which was another expectation that theyve raised not only with how much -- how many people they would enroll, 500,000 in the first month, 7 million, but now theyve said were going to have a website fix in 2.5 weeks. that is going to be another pr disaster. i agree with leon panetta. they certainlily need to begin planning. >> charles, this is the kufl war trip, the prerl did well. obama draw a wile. i think as damaging as the website ...

Reason. so do you think this message might resonate another tough public relations week for the white house? >> it might help a little, particularly because it was a memo of his that got leaked that caused some of the problems for president obama in the first place. but look, theres only one thing thats really going to fix the pr problem for the administration. that is the website problems have to start working and they have to get over this -- the problem of all these people in the individual m...

Cancelled. but do you think the apology will satisfy critics, or fuel them? >> i dont think it will satisfy critics. these are the same people who have been spreading lies, frankly, intentional lies, about the affordable care act, from the death panels onward. i mean, the president hopes, i assume, that it will go away if he just says, i sort of apologize, using the passive voice. but this is not about the truth of the flux that the people on individual plans are experiencing. this is not about ...

Esteemed colleague alisyn camerota. >> i wrote it for him to say. christen, the administration feels that if all of the website problems are fixed they dont have to do more damage control, based on the polls, more damage has been done, what do you think? >> enormous damage has been done. when you have new york magazine has the definitive reel on obama, like 30 plus-time. >> it is blistering. 23 times. you are right about that. >> if you like their plan you can cope it. it is astonishing, and i t...

The "wall street journal" has a report that the average age is much older than expected of those signing up. they are not getting those young people to sign up, at least not yet. bill: i hear taupe harkin in my ear. the president did more back pedals last night. but thats not going over very well with democrats. what are they saying? >> reporter: you hear the criticism from republicans like rand paul. republicans have opposed this slaw from even before day one. they were opposing it when it was ...

Guy with a floppy disk. my guess julie is folks at the white house are not laughing. how concerned are they about this rollout? not just the website but the whole deal. what is their biggest concern? >> that they are in this holding pattern. no one expects the website will be fixed over the next couple of days. november 30 seems like a fairly conservative estimate by some accounts. all were seeing now is more website problems and more problems with the actual policy. if the conversation switches...