Talking with us about Jonathan Gruber. Should you have to pay the money back should he have to pay the money back for the obamacare hoax . Fox friends starts now. Have a great day. Bye. Good morning. It is monday, november 17. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. Isis beheads another american, this time a former army ranger. Is the u. S. Finally ready to amp up the fight against the Islamic State . Were live in washington with the pentagons lacest announcement. The obamacare hoax is in. The president said his obamacare architect is some advisor who never worked on his staff. So how does he explain this . We had a meeting in the oval office with several experts, including myself, on what can we do not only was he involved, wait until you hear how much that guy right there was paid on
your dime. And a daughter now fighting a major retailer so her mom wont have to work on this thanksgiving day. They join us live with their battle to keep our holiday sacred. Mornings are better with friends. Good morning. Welcome aboard. Live from studio e. It is rainy here but weve got a very busy day. Happy to see you. Happy to be with you. Always an honor. Were going to get right to that fox news alert. The United States now stepping up its training of iraqi forces who are fighting isis militants. The announcement from defense secretary chuck hagel. This as the white house confirms a third american aide worker and former army
ranger, peter kassig has been beheaded. Good morning, peter. What is the latest . If the pentagon can get iraqi troops trained sooner rather than later officials are predicting that maybe other countries will jump to join the fight against isis. The head of central command, general lloyd austin, doesnt want to wait for congress to come through with new funding for 1,500 american trainers. Instead he want to use American Forces already in iraq to fan out to four locations and begin getting 12 iraqi brigades ready for battle. That is according to a wall street journal article where the secretary of defense chuck hey dpel is quoted as saying chuck hey dpel is quoted as saying this to get that initiative general austin is looking at the possibility of taking some of our special Operations Forces and opening those training centers, getting them prepared early. Secretary hagel also says munitions and supplies are being expedited but there
are still no plans to let American Special operators fight alongside iraqi troops. The chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey, was in iraq this weekend and this news about speeding up to stop isis sooner came the same day an American Worker and iraq war veteran peter kassig was confirmed to have been beheaded by Islamic State militants. Those militants are believed to have at least one more american hostage. We dont have a name but we know she is a 26yearold aide worker from the west coast. Officials arent sure why she didnt appear at the end of the latest execution video as other hostages being held in recent months have, but it could suggest that she and mr. Kassig were not being held in the same place. Peter doocy live with the very latest on that. Now lets talk a little bit about this. The president of the United States is back in the United States, and hes got Something Else hes got to
deal with, and that is the whole obamacare hoax, if you will. Jonathan gruber, who is an m. I. T. Professor, that guy right there, hes one of the architects of obamacare. As we told you last week, hes also somebody who revealed on camera a number of times that the only way they were able to get that obamacare through was on the stupidity of the American People, and they wrote it in such a crazy way that nobody could understand it. Yesterday the president was traveling. He was in brisbane. And our own ed henry finally asked the president about mr. Gruber who has made headlines on this channel and finally some of the other channels are talking about it. Listen to how the president distances himself from this guy who is on his team. Listen. At your burma town hall you tried to inspire Young Leaders by saying governments need to be accountable and responsive
to the people. How do you handle that with Jonathan Gruber claiming you were not transparent about the health law because in his words americans are stupid. Did you mislead americans about the taxes in order to get the bill passed . No, i did not. I just heard about this i get well briefed before i come out here. The fact that some advisor who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run. In fact it may not be a reflection, it might be the actuality. If the president would check with some of his Campaign Managers going back in history, you cant dance back from the facts here. Listen to john kerry when he was senator in massachusetts, in 2009, citing gruber and his effect. According to gruber, who has been our guide on a lot
of this, its somewhere in the vicinity of an 8 billion cost. Okay, so peter, what do you make of this . I make of it, lets go to professor grubers own words where he explains in detail just how involved he really was with obamacare and the president of the United States going back to 2006. Right before he i went down basically to do the tutorial for him on what we had done in massachusetts and how it would work and basically think about expanding it to the national stage. Next time i see him is summer of 2009. The big issue there is that he really wants to make sure were moving forward on cost control. I think that at this point he sort of new we had a good plan on coverage but he was worried about cost control. And so we had a meeting in the oval office with
several experts, including myself, on what can we do to get credible savings on cost control that the Congressional Budget Office would recognize and score as savings in this law. At this point obamacare which is supposed to be a fix is looking more like a hoax and the cat is out of the bag. The timing hes referring to there is four days after they had hit a halt in this plan because Doug Elmendorf had declared they werent going to save money, they werent going to bring down Health Care Costs over the long run. This is when they brought in consultants including gruber to work through the math because he had a Computer Program that could predict, that could output the mathematics behind the madness that is now obamacare and the mess we are now in. He was brought in and he was paid all with your tax dollars. It is undeniable. How much madness can there be . How much lying can go on . Now we know that nancy pelosi was quoting professor gruber. Now we know john kerrys
relationship with professor gruber. Now we know that he met with senator obama and then president obama in 2009. And somehow hes merely an advisor, not really on our staff. And theres no connection between what he did and what he said and how we felt. Paid, peter, so much money over the course of time. On average 5. 9 million by the government he was paid. 6 million were talking about. This is a massive amount of money for someone that wasnt really a part of anything. I just heard about this from the guy who was briefing me before i came out. How does a guy make 6 million largely in federal dough promoting this thing and the president doesnt even know about it . Well, the president knew about it. Lets break down the 5. 9 million. He got 2. 05 million from the National Institutes of health to talk up obamacare. 1. 7 million from the department of justice. We cant figure that out. Why was eric holder paying
him . He got 1. 6 million from at least four states that we know of, about 400,000 from the department of health and Human Services and 100,000 from the state department as well. Lets recap. He visited the white house. He worked with the administration. He bent peoples ears up on capitol hill. He met with douglas elmendorf, the c. B. O. Guy. Mish mcconnell said that that would be akin to inviting the referees up to the owners box to talk through the numbers, to convince. And then he was paid millions and millions of dollars to sell a lie. At a most crucial time when it came to the Affordable Care act. Who confirms and who controls medicare payments there. The question of the day is should the 6 million man gruber be forced to pay back his consulting fee to the new york and to all the governments in the United States . Go to facebook and
answer that. Or you could email us, friends foxnews. Com. Or you can tweet us as well. Weve got a feeling the email system will start heating up shortly. I think it already is, steve. Keep those coming and share them. Now were going to turn to Heather Nauert who im thankful to see. Great to see you, great to have you back. Weve almost got the entire team back together. Peter, nice to be with you. This morning a city is on edge. At any moment a grand jury may announce whether Police OfficerDarren Wilson will be charged in the deadly shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown. Ferguson and other cities across the u. S. Are bracing for a possible violent backlash if the officer is not charged. New video coming in this morning shows dozens of st. Louis protesters blocking major intersections and staging what they call a diein, where they are pretending to be shot by Police Officers. [chanting] officer wilson claims selfdefense in the shooting on august 9. He claims brown reached for his gun while some witnesses say the teenager had his hands up in surrender. Call it deja vu or shall we say deja cruise. The cruise ship has been hit with another round of norovirus, the second time in six months passengers were sickened on the cruise line. More than 170 people have come down with flu like symptoms on a month long cruise. The c. D. s c. D. C. Has ordered a cruise cleaning. The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks are being spot checked for prescription drugs. This is said to be part of an investigation and claims from former players that
alleges teams mishandled prescription drugs. Uts u2s bono needs to get himself together. Here is what is happening. The u2 front man needs shoulder surgery. He had a cycling accident in central park. The band also had to cancel some appearances planned for this week. This comes days after a door fell off his private plane mid flight. And those are your headlines. See you in a bit. You might want to stay away from him. There are sharp turns there on those bikes, especially this time of year. Thank you. Coming up, we told you Jonathan Gruber thinks americans are, well, just stupid. Now, guess what . Youre racist too. Take a listen. You dont think its just the voters in florida dont care about it. I think they are uninformed. Because of racial reasons they havent got through with that message. This burglar picked the wrong house. See what happens when a veteran catches a thief breaking in not once but twice. Campbells® fiesta chicken lime tortilla. Sausage and pepper rigatoni. Southwest style bean barley. Tuscany Style Chicken and pasta. If you think campbells® 33 new soups sound good. Imagine how they taste mm mm good ®
when you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. Wherever it is. Advil stops pain right where it starts. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. The president is trying to distance himself from his obamacare architect. A sixth video surfaced. Dr. Gruber calls the exerts misinformed and uses the race card. I dont think the voters in florida dont care about the longterm insured. I think they are misinformed. If we could politically help explain the cost to society of cutting provider rates, cutting back medicaid i think we would get the majority of people to support strengthening that program. I think because of racial reasons and other things we havent managed to get through with that message. Because of racial
reasons, what does that mean . Here is the a representative from the project 21 leadership message. You heard him. What do you think hes talking about where he said because of racial reasons . I think its a sign of desperation and its a typical play book for anybody whos been associated with this Affordable Care act. Now that reality has set in it is apparent what they said is not going to come true. It is going to cost us as patients and doctors an enormous amount of money. People are turning against it. That moves what they use, they use the race card, the sex card, anyone who doesnt agree with them, to shut up. I take offense to that because race and politics should not mix. I take care of patients every day and im having issues of seeing my patients because they cant afford to even come into the office because their
outofpocket costs are so high. And they sold this on things about keeping your child on your health plan until age 26, covering birth control. And in actuality everything they said to try to lure people in has cost everybody more money. Im just, its awful. And doctor, i think weve got a dprask graphic that shows the number of states where Health Care Costs will go up at least double digits in the coming year. That is not what we were told. We were told they were going to bend the cost curve down. It wasnt that long ago where the president had to apologize where he told what was deemed the lie of the year which was if you like your doctor you can keep it. He had to apologize as well when the open enrollment fouled up last year online so much. Do you think it is a matter of time until the president says okay, okay, i was in on the same thing gruber is talking about. The only way we could sell it to you was to lie to you, but its for the greater good . Im not sure that will
ever come to pass. I think theyre going to double down. I think this is win at all costs. I think this is, and i said in the past, if there is a trojan horse for singlepayer. This is never designed to work. It is just a tax and it is bending the cost curve on the backs of doctors and patients. Theyre paying 1 more in things like hospice and it took 700 billion out of the Medicare Trust fund. This wasnt about patient care. It was about setting up a rigid structure of control where everybody is in it doesnt matter about race anymore. Everybody is in this together. And unfortunately, if you get sick, you might be in major trouble. Thats the bottom line right there. Doctor, thank you for joining us from atlanta with your point of view. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. Coming up, so much for chivalry. Check this guy out. He rips the ball from a female fans arm. The backlash is now in full effect. A daughter is fighting
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philadelphia in september. The 2015 world meeting of families. He also plans to stop in washington, d. C. And new york city. Pope francis will be the fourth pontiff to visit the United States of america. Elisabeth. For thanksgiving kmart announced they will be open for 42 hours straight and one woman who works for kmart is petitioning. Kmart employees will be forced to miss family time for thanksgiving. Im asking kmart to allow employees to request thanksgiving day off and to use only volunteer employees. That writer and her mom are joining us this morning. Why did you decide to write this petition . You have a great following. I wanted to start this
petition it started last year actually. My mom called me on the vernal of tears and she was upset because she got her schedule and she was going to be working a split shift and she didnt know what that split shift, how she was going to be able to spend time with our family on thanksgiving. We have people already planning to come up. So this year it came about again, and i said what are your hours . What are your hours . No response. She didnt have any yet. Then i heard kmart was going to be open at 6 a. M. When i heard that and they were going to be open for 42 hours straight, i said i have to take a stand. I cannot have my mom calling me in tears again. We need to do something now. When youre hearing your daughter say this, youre obviously not afraid to work hard. Youve been doing it for 21 years. What would like your bosses to do . Actually what i would like to do is i would like to see all retail, you know, were nonessential employees. Id like to see us actually close for th