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For the president because all of these sort of miscues on other issues as well are sort of piling up and really pulling down his poll ratings at a time when he really needs to have some clout on capitol hill. >> jim, what do you think of the critical markers going forward? do you see this 7 million, you know, accessing that many people by march. do you think its likely? >> i mean, i think its possible, but i do think, all due respect, were missing the forest for the trees. even if the website pr...

Out. >> how does this bode for 2014? >> i look forward to 2014. the website problems will be long behind us. >> how do you know? >> between 10 million and 20 million americans will have insurance coverage they didnt have before and i think im looking forward to 2014. it is a totally different situation. people wont remember that the website had problems. >> what about security problems? what about people getting the security, their information stolen from the hackers and everybodys at risk that ...

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...

Administration, and thats because, you know, i think the website problems have been almost a distraction to the real problem here, which is this is trying to sell the american people on the edsel. theyre looking at the product now. theyre finding that their losing what they want, the insurance they want, and being forced into something that for millions of americans will be more expensive. what youre seeing now is a lot of what we call the red state democrats who are getting very nervous about w...

Administration? >> you know, we are, at least in congress, not in the administration, and thats because, you know, i think the website problems have been almost a distraction to the real problem here which is this is trying to sell the american people. theyre look at the product now, theyre finding theyre losing the insurance they want, and theyre being forced into something that for manies of americans will be expensive. what youre seeing is a lot of the red state democrats are getting very ner...

So again, this simplified statement of not necessarily being -- i dont know if its a misleading statement. i think its so discouraging for so many americans who really picked their individual health care because they really thought it was the best fit for their family. so, again, hes running into not only the website problems but the credibility problems which i think is impacting him personally. i mean, you look at the approval numbers. its the lowest its been. the nbc/"wall street journal" pol...

Journalists who have left the profession to join the administration. what they should have been doing is fact checking a lot of obamas absurd claims about obama care. but they were facebook creeping on sarah palins fate book and dissecting all of her status updates instead of doing what theyre supposed to be doing and being real journalists. >> go ahead, juan. a lot of dropping the ball on the mainstream media, why? >> i dont think other dropping the bool. i think right now they are paying atten...

Website problems? >> absolutely. look, its the law. and so you know, our job there is to assist people whenever we get a call whether you know, its a past port case or a veterans case or somebody thats having difficulty signing up you know to this particular program. we dont deny you know, services or help to any constituent that calls and asks. >> amid this roll out, theres a new poll out by the kaiser family foundation which pound that nearly half of americans still want obama care to either s...

When it comes to low numbers early in the enrollment stage i think we have to look at massachusetts, which under governor romney introduced health care reform plan very similar to what the president is introduced here and in their first month of enrollment only 123 people enrolled for premium paying plans in massachusetts. they had massive enrollment toward the end of the enrollment period. we always expected enrollment figures to be low. we were saying that before october 1st, obviously the web...

Fight a bloody resurgence by al qaeda. the request coming two years after iraq forced the u.s. military out of the country. well, the white house announcing new help for the troubled healthcare.gov. chief white house correspondent ed henry live with the story. so, ed, whos the president going to bring in now? >> gretchen, interesting. just breaking, administration officials confirming that theyre bringing in experts from three more tech companies to deal with these website problems, which as y...