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MSNBC Morning Joe October 25, 2013

There. Zip it a little more. Little less shirt. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. And msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Im rochablely overdressed. In washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie page joins us. Good to have you all on board this morning. We have a lot to get to. A couple of things. Hillary clinton is back in the news. She got some good news but got heckled at an event. Well show you how she handled it. How the former secretary of state was hammered on benghazi but she handled it pretty well. I think. You decide. Also made accommodate in america, why are you all looking at me. Medicaid in america. Actually a very serious story prescription pills account for 75 of deadly drug overdoses in the u. S. So the fda is working to try to do something about that and dr. Nancy will be joining us to give us details on that. Also just a tip, especially for you halperin. Definitely harold ford jr. , and sam stein for sure, if youre giving an interview on background or getting one, dont do that on the acela. Perhaps not even in the quiet car. What could possibly go wrong. Whats that . You cant do that in the quiet car. Ive been kicked out of the quiet car a time or two. One former National Official, intelligence official had a little problem with that. That along with the Angela Merkel story. It is just unbelievable. Well begin in washington, though, where that was pretty unbelievable as well. Both parties are calling for someone to be held accountable for the flawed roll out of healthercare. Gov and for republicans that person is hhs secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She defended herself yesterday saying in part quote, the majority of people calling for me to resign, i would say, are people i dont work for and who do not want this program to work in the first place. Does they have a point . She does. Shes a savvy political player. She has to be more forthcoming when she goes before congress. Shes doing the balancing administration. Things are Getting Better but not good enough yet. I dont think shes going anywhere any time soon but she has to focus on the pr as much as fixing the problem. Shes in charge. She was designated the point person. Shes got to convey a better sense, i think, of we are fixing it. Julie page do we need to hear from her . I think we do. One question about sebelius yes she wasnt physically constructing this website but we dont know if she was aware of the extent of the problems before the roll out. If she was aware then thats a problem for her, it will be a little bit harder for her to defend this roll out. The administration is starting to hold these daily updates, daily Conference Calls and she was asked whether she was aware of the problems before the rollout and she dodged the question. Yesterdays hearing, one of the key points that came out was that the test for this thing, this site did not begin in ernest in time. Supposed to happened months before and happened weeks before. Secretary sebelius has to answer those questions. I know her and i like her. Someone will have to be held accountable somewhere along the chain here and if not i think it will lead to creator credibility questions and even make it more difficult for the kinds of things to do with Health Care Going forward. For the president thinking he can move to immigration after this, its strange to think he can do that. I dont disagree. On capitol hill contractors who worked on the website faced the ire of several members of congress. Kelly odonnell has that story. Reporter the top Government Contractors who built and run the flawed healthercare. Gov website you can tell us when youll be able to have some of these issues repaired . Reporter ignored questions about the delays do you feel you had an opportunity to explain that today . Reporter but did take an oath to answer congress truthfully. Grilled for more than four hours. Is that a system youre proud of . These problems need to be fixed fast. Reporter contractors responsible for different parts of the Health Care Website and enrollment process claim they did their jobs well and working to fix system bugs. You keep speak about unaccepted volumes. Pro flowers doesnt crash on valentines day. Reporter as the day wore on contractors gave a more frank assessment. Were not excited nor pleased what we delivered on october 1. But, you know, in principle it worked. Reporter contractors said the Government Agency in charge waited too long to test all the parts together weeks before it launched. Whats the industry recommended standard for test before rolling out . Months is nice. Reporter they blamed the same agency for a last minute change. Instead of consumers being able to browse for different insurance plans the system was chaejd to require consumers register online first. But the committees top democrat henry waxman is optimistic. You are confident they can fix it even after all the problems and delays weve seen. Im confident they told us they can fix it. Reporter while fred upton says they must get more answers. Have you learned yet who is responsible . It seems like there was a fingerprinting and all of it was going to the administration. Kelly odonnell on story. One of the more heated moments came between a republican and a democrat over matters of privacy. You sign up for this or attempt to you have no reasonable expect jays of privacy. That is a direct contradiction to hippa and you know it. I started out in my Opening Statement saying there was no legitimacy to this hearing and the last line of the questioning confirms that. Hippa only applies when theres Health Information being provided. Thats not in play here today. No Health Information is required in the application process and why is that . Because preexisting conditions dont matter. So once again here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. Will the gentleman lead . No i will not yield this monkey court. This is not a monkey court. Im not yielding. Sam stein. Its not a monkey court. It is not a monkey court. Its not a monkey court. Full disclosure my wife works for the administration. Its funny its funny how everyone in congress became an i. T. Expert. I dont think you can compare the Affordable Care act to flowers. Com. The focus was misplaced. They looked at this anonymous shopping. They looked at hippa. The most important thing is what happens to information on the back end. When you tell where you live, if youre a smoker that should go out to insurers. The problem is they are not getting the right information. Until you fix that nothing else matters. They can have as many sign up as possible. If the data they are producing is bad thats not good. Lets see if this argument works. A lot of the obama care website is not the first time a Major Program had problems being implemented. For example, Medicare Part d. Right . While republicans today are hammering the Affordable Care act some were far more forgiving of president bushs law back in 2006. Any time something is new, theres going to be some glitches. All of us when our children were new, we knew as parents we didnt know everything we were doing and had a foul up or two but persevered and our children turned out well. Even no matter what one does in life when its something new and learning the roechs it it will take a little adjustment. But as we were signing up 27 million seniors at a rate sometimes approaching 400,000 people a week, the system wasnt always perfectly ready for them and there were a few glitches. But the point is, hhs or medicare responded. Put extra people on board. Worked out some of the glitches. Kind of a stretch . Like tmz meets cspan. Big smoking gun. That program had some problems. This is a bigger deal. The whole countrys Health Care System being redone and theres other problems with the program. The president said that. They will have to get this fixed. Not optional. Has anyone argued, jewely pace has anyone argued this cant be fixed . It depends on who you talk to. When you talk to people in the administration they say this is definitely going to be fixed. Its going to be fixed quickly. When you talk to some of these software developers, when you talk to people who have experience building complex systems some of these folks say this is not a weeks long endeavor this could be a months long endeavor. If they can fix this quickly this could blow over. One of the difficulties were having the administration not being forthcoming what the problem is. You have a lot of people who are involved who are sort of guessing in many respects as to whats under the hood. They are trying to assume whats wrong and saying this could take weeks, it could take months. Theres not an infinite amount of time to fix this thing, you have to do it quickly. They have to regroup. Mark halperin shaking his head. We have a lot to get to this morning. New documents from Edward Snowden published in the guardian suggests the nsa monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, and their Contact Information came from another u. S. Government official. President obama assured Angela Merkel early this week, ironically over the phone that the u. S. Was not currently monitoring her calls. Merkel said soothing words would not be enough that true change was necessary. This is unbelievable. U. S. Officials are alerting other countries and Intelligence Services details of their secret cooperation with the u. S. Have been obtained by snowden. Meanwhile a former nsa head found himself being monitored on the phone in public. Michael hayden was loudly bashing the Obama Administration in an interview on background while on the acela. Has that ever happened to you . Tom massy tweeted much of what hayden was saying including he asked to be referred to as a former Senior Administration official and bragged about rendition and black sites and gave disparaging quotes about the bristolmyers administration. Remember just as a former Senior Administration. He speculated he might be caught for tweeting but all ended well. The two posed for a picture. This gets worse and worse. Even chatted. He called hayden a gentleman. Its hilarious. He should have gone to the m cafe where the sound of people munching hot dogs and drinking heineken drowns out conversation. Julie, harold, is this concerning . The snowden part. The fact that all of this has come out i was a believer early on that i wished this guy was caught. I wished this information was not released. The more it comes out and the more details come out about the extent about this program, it was already challenging for this white house and for this team not only to develop a Public Relations and optics answer but this has become a substantive challenge. Put aside what may be happening with every day americans and the kind of surveillance and monitoring occurring and i can accept a lot of that for my security. Its chilling. Theres going to have to be further elaboration from the white house. Lets ask julie pace. The Angela Merkel, the response from german officials was pretty gruff. They are very angry and rightfully so. Absolutely. I think the administrations position will become a bit unsustainable when you have these revelations come up. They say we wont comment on each revelations because theres some. But were talking about Angela Merkel who is really sort of the senior statesman at all of these summits that the president goes to. Shes one of the leaders that the president has a strong relationship with happen he truchts her. He talks frequently how well they work together. When you talk about listening in on her phone calls this is something thats not going to go away. Angela merkel wont say okay, barack and i talked. We have a similar challenge with france. Again they have to answer more than theyve answered up to this point. Im not surprised we spy on foreign leaders. Im sure theres historical precedent. Youre not surprised were spying on Angela Merkel . But it appears there was at some point listening of her phone calls. Im not saying theres a lengthy historical precedence im not as shocked as you are. However there was a time when everyone was assuming the notice den revelations were basically old hat, he wasnt going to be producing any news. He has produce ad treasure trove of information that is disturbing in many respects and yes i agree with julie i think the administration at some point step back and say they keep pointing to this one speech that the president gave as enough. Let me get to two more stories as democrats begin to look towards the 2016 president ial election Vice President joe biden appears to still be keenly interested in the state of iowa. Biden called newly elected representative brian meyer to congratulate him on tuesdaying nights victory. When asked why do you think the president called . Well its iowa. Also attended senator harkins steak fry. Speculation over Hillary Clintons second run for president continues to grow. But at an event in buffalo clinton faced an issue that could resurface should she decide to enter the race. Buffalo is a good model for the rest of the country because we cant move from crisis to crisis, we have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want which doesnt include yelling it includes sitting down and talking to one another. Its hard to hear but according to local reporters a heckler interrupted clinton shouting benghazi, benghazi you let them die. Meanwhile george soros says hell back an effort to convince clinton to run. Hell support the ready for hilary super p. A. C. So shes going to run, right harold . Its hard to imagine she doesnt. If she does not run there will be a great surprise. I would be very surprised. There was a time honored tradition the secretary will have to expect a little of that. But shes so seasoned and so professional. Awesome in handling hecklers. Oh, my god only in some ways have the reverse effect. A story we talked about first yesterday about the Maryland Attorney general, doug gansler. A month into his run for governor he apologized for not stopping underage drinking r he was spotted. He wasnt at the party himself. The Baltimore Sun published this picture that included teenagers and alcohol. In a half Hour Press Conference yesterday gansler admits he made a mistake by doing nothing. This was a dance party with loud music and there may have been some College Students or others who were drinking beer. I just dont know. What i could have done is investigate whether there was drinking going on and then taken action on that and for that i probably should have done that. Do i understand that at beach week where theres hundreds and hundreds of children or teenagers, what have you some kids will drink and some wont . That happens. What i understand now certainly there was some drinking. If you look at the picture, not where i was, but some kids, one or two kids holding red cups and generally from could be kool aid in the red cups or beer in the red cups. I know doug gansler. I cant imagine he would have intentionally not im sure a lot of things racing through his head. I dont have kids. Do i and they are teenagers. I will just say it is not as easy as it looks. Theres the right thing to do and the right thing to do is to call the police and call the parents. Ive been in that position. Its not worked for me. Youve never been the senior Law Enforcement officer of a state or a gubernatorial candidate. But the instincts hes showing and how hes handling this are not good. Not a good sign for him to be a good candidate or governor. In the two clips we saw backtoback the hilary clips and the clips of gansler you see a pro at politics and somebody who needs more work. Yeah. I think i would have just said im a parent and if any of you have teens im sure you can imagine the situation i was in because none of it is black and whi white. Ill tell you sometimes its impossible. And its not the kids. The party was chaperoned. Two older men can be seen in the corner of the photo. Gansler showed up at the house to briefly talk to his house. The lease of the house was not under ganslers name but he helped to pay for the rent. Coming up on morning joe the moderator of meet the press David Gregory and nbc news political director chuck todd. Well talk to the republican candidate in the race for new york city mayor joe lhota. And later Venus Williams will be here on the set plus the fda looks to rein in the use of prescription pills. And the white house talks about a misconnection with senator dick durbin after he said a republican congressman insulted the president to his face. Mike allen has the update to the story in the political playbook. First, bill karins, we insult him to his face all the time. It would be if i listened. You love it. I rewatch it when i go home. Good morning, everyone. As far as the fog is gone in seattle this has been one of the longest and gloomiest stretches youve had. Look at the time lapse video. Theres the space needle. You can see the clouds. Theyve been there for six Straight Days. Today will make seven Straight Days. Let me take new to the weekend forecast. The pattern is set. What you see today is what youll deal with over the weekend. That cold blast of air is over the great lakes and heading all

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