Incredible series. Mike, i cant believe we took two out of three in st. Louis. Amazing. St. Louis is a very good club. A club thats evenly matched, glad to get out of there with two out of three. Go back to fenway park wednesday night for game six. Its going to be electric. Were back in the series. I forgot for a minute in 2004 and 2007 they won the series on the road. If they can win one morton road this is the first at fenway since 1918. 1918, that was something. Those cubbies wouldnt go away. We have in washington Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein answering the question that you can be called a senior in high school and senior something at the Huffington Post. And julie pace and Senior Investigative correspondent lisa myers who has a heck of a story that well be getting to in one second. Sam stein, youre a sox fan too. Come up to boston. Barnacle just has tickets. Distributing them like that ticket tree that gives tickets to everyone . All right. Coming up well see game six in boston. Lets get to the news. This Affordable Care act. Right now its looking like a slow motion train wreck. Most of the president s defenders have gone quiet overly is a myers investigation. Its causing shockwaves. Lisa and her team does incredible reporting. The Obama Administration has officially granted a six week extension for shop towers sign up for coverage next year. They have until march 31st to do so. Course correcting roll out of the obama care may be the least of the white houses problems. For years president obama has denied the Affordable Care act would change Health Coverage for millions of americans. In fact its been a key component of the president s sales pitch to the public. If you like your Health Care Plan, you keep your Health Care Plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. Nobody is going to force you to leave your Health Care Plan. I dont want government bureaucrats meddling in your health care. If your employer provides you Health Insurance nobody is talking about messing with that. If youre one of the 250 million americans who already have Health Insurance you will keep your Health Insurance. Time and again president obama saying if you like your Health Care Plan you will keep your Health Care Plan but a new nbc news report finds just the opposite is true for many americans. Lisa, you discovered the white house officials were aware that between 40 to 67 of individuals will not be able to keep their policies. Tell us more. Reporter well, first, willie, let me lay the ground work here. For 80 , roughly 80 of americans who get their insurance through their employers, the white house is correct. Most they will be able to keep their insurance. Theres very little in this law that impacts employer plans. The problem comes in the individual market. And thats what were looking at. We were hearing about the people getting cancellation letters or getting letters saying that their current policy did not meet aca standards and, therefore, was going to have to be dramatically changed. In both cases those folks are not able to keep their insurance even if they wanted to. So our team went to, tried to do a little digging in to the universe of this and i went to the regulations from june of 2010, which dealt with the grandfathering issue. In it, when it comes to individual plans it says because of all the turnover you customarily get in the individual market, that a reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate and therefore relinquish their grandfather status is 40 to 67 . Then on top of that because of the way they have defined what constitutes a current policy in a way that means if your deductible has changed significantly or whatever then you cant qualify for grandfathering, then when you add those two parts together you get to more than 40 to 67 of folks in the individual market cannot keep their policies even if they want to and the administration knew that. Gene robinson, how does that square with the president of the United States in a state of the Union Address, in the state of the Union Address where he is selling this package saying quote, if you like your insurance policy, nobody is going to force you to leave your plan. How does he square that . Well, you cant really square the two. Clearly, the president should have added this disclaimer that was in the regulations, thats in the law. You know, now keeping it in perspective, a vast majority, more than 90 probably, maybe 95 of all americans who have Health Insurance will, in fact, be able to keep the same Health Insurance they have. Most of them have it through employers, some have it through individual plans. But, gene, the president was adamant. He was adamant in the state of the union of the address, he was adamant in the 2012 president ial campaign. He said some people are trying to scare you. He would point to those terrible republicans saying they are lying, they are trying to scare you and tell you that some bureaucrat is going to kick you off your policy. No. Im here to assure you as president of the United States if you like your plan, you get to keep your plan. Not only is that not true, lisa myers reporting shows this morning he knew it wasnt true and went on saying it anyway. Well, the president was categorical. This was in the regulation. There was some mention of this during the whole the hoohah over obama care. It was unnoticed by the vast majority of us. Talked about the hill. We should at some point get to the question of the policy, however, and why this is the case, and it goes to the aims of obama care which are if its a great policy not to cut you off, why then did the president believe he could tell the American People the truth . Your suggesting that perhaps the Public Relations around the Affordable Care act and the launch have not been as smooth as they possibly could be . Im shocked you would think that. I would never, on my key landmark piece of leverageiation tell the American People something that was dopposed to the truth for the past five years. Thats what the president of the United States has done, willie, and hes done it its not like he did it, the campaign in iowa that he tossed it off. It was written in his speech, in the state of the Union Address. It was written in the 2012 campaign. Its been written for five years. And he says, he uses that old routine, these people telling you that youre not going to be able to keep your plan. I mean they wrote it down. Like it went through. We all know, mike, how many how many people does the state of the Union Address go through . How many people have to approve a state of the Union Address before it gets to the president of the United States and he read it . Multiple numbers. And months in prea ration. Uppy pace, i would like to ask you a question having to do with coverage. This story, obviously, has been about medical coverage. Now the administration stems have a problem with coverage, media coverage, of the aca as it exists. You got multiple numbers of people out in the country. I dont know what the percentage is who are on the verge of thinking they will get less and have to pay more and the sticker shock of this thing is getting to be like front page above the fold every single day. How is the administration coping with this, dealing with this . Well, look, this has been a pretty bad couple of weeks for the white house on the obama care roll out. One thing they were helped by is the shutdown. We would have had this on the front page of a lot of newspapers for a few more weeks if we didnt have the shut down. The mailing list was worth it. White house Officials Say over and over again is, in the end the policy is going to work out. That may well end up being the case and if it does i think the conversation will be a lot different in a year sore. But it is a real problem when you have on the one hand these tremendous issues with the website. Just over the weekend we had a whole other set of problems that hadnt been discovered until now. So you have that component of it. Now they have to answer questions about whether the president was telling the truth to the American People. Those are not things you want to deal with at this stage. They rather talk about policy, talk about enrollment numbers. This is not the roll out they imagined. Willie, you got the website and then the l. A. Times article that brings over the weekend, sticker shot, working americans getting cancellation notices and sticker shock aspect. Thats terrible politically for him and terrible for working class americans and now lisas component the third component of the story which is the president , if the report is correct and i know it is, the president has been telling things to the American People that he and his administration are not true. Its three bad strikes against him. Be careful about saying this is a tiny sliver of people. Its 14 million americans who get their Insurance Coverage individually. Thats not an instant number. Lisa, the white house yesterday, jay carney effectively said yes there are some plans that dont meet the minimum standard of the Affordable Care act. That is, in fact, true. They would say though our plan allows you to get benefits. Yes maybe your premium goes up, your deductible goes up but you have more benefits including for mental health. What did the white house tell you they basically made the same point. They said look anyone who is losing their insurance is losing their insurance because it doesnt meet our standards. And that this new policy will give people more protection, they cant be dropped because they get sick, they by and large will have a richer package of benefits. The problem is a lot of the folks we talked to who have received these notices first were shocked that they got them because they thought the president had told them they wouldnt but also they didnt like the government telling them what they had to buy. And they in some cases were very happy with the more bear bones policy that they thought met their needs, and cost them less. Now there was one individual who actually found another policy where the premium was lower than what he had. He thought it was a good plan. You want he was still irate he received this letter and he had to go shopping for a new plan. Sam stein, has the white house tried to justify to you, sam, since you are the senior whatever you are your mom will kill me when i meet her. Has anybody tried to justify . Because they can try to talk about the policy right now but they are not going to get to talk about the policies and first explain why the president misled the American People for five years. Has anybody tried explain a way to you how this happened . You know, sort of the way the administration tried to explain away george bushs 13 or 14 words in the state of the union in 2002 16 words. 16 words. Look at you. Middle school and he still remembers it. I retain that stuff back to my bar mitzvah days. They tried to justify it but it doesnt ring true. Its based on technicality. They said we didnt change the insurance policies the in surers changed the insurance policy. Then you made them of course have a certain amount of benefits in their policies that they are offering. Lets concede that the white house did mislead when it said that you can keep the policy that you have. There are important things to note here which is one, Ten Essential Services that are now covered. So i think barnacle is a little bit off when youre paying more for less. Youre paying more for more. Then the other thing thats a problem here the website is not up. While people will be forced to buy new plans or at least survey new plans its tough to do that when you dont have the website to survey those new plans. The average tax subsidy you can get to buy this type of insurance is about 2700 which can offset some of this increased cost. That might lessen the blow to some people except they dont know that because they cant get to the website that tells them this is the savings they are allowed to have. Theres a whole host of problems compounding one another for the administration. This can change over time but at this moment you have the sense that, you know, this is just one great mess that administration has to figure out a way to deal with. Encourage everyone to read lisas report. She and her team put together a lot of news. Another big story not only allies upset over the agencys wiretapping, senator Diane Feinstein is calling for a full review of the mass Data Collection at home and abroad. The california democrat who chairs the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Said shes opposed to spying on u. S. Allies. According to senator Feinstein Congress has not been adequately kept in the loop. Feinstein said the administration assured her surveillance would not continue. A point some officials later challenged. While the president may be poised to order a ban on eavesdropping on friendly leaders still unclear what the white house knew and when. The agency said it did not inform the president of reported monitoring of german chancellor Angela Merkel. The l. A. Times citing current and former officials said the white house and state department both signed off on it. Mike, youre taken back to the days of iran contra. Im not comparing these scandals to iran contra, but we keep having to ask ourselves the question is the president really in the dark the way everybody around claims that hes in the dark about these huge issues . If he is, is that worse than if he had known about it . This was written in the the Washington Post today, for a smart man president obama professes to know very little about whats going on in his administration. On sunday night the wall street journal reported he did learn this summer the nsa was bugging phones of german chancellor Angela Merkel and other World Leaders for nearly five years. Followed by a few claims of hhs Sebelius Obama didnt know about problems of the Health Care Website before the launch. The white house frequently has given a variation on this theme. The question, what did obama know and when did he know it . Answer not much and about a minute ago. I mean not much and about a minute ago. And so now were hearing that from other people that he did know for five years that Angela Merkel and allies have been i mean this is bad. The length of time that the program has been under operation or at least the lent of time it has been published with various World Leaders. If he did not know, if you choose to believe the president of the United States and i believe the president of the United States, i want to believe the president of the United States. Some reports suggest he signed off on it. If he did not know why didnt he know . The larger question is do we have an out of control National Security agency . Do we have a secret government in the shadows of government that the president of the United States and elected official doesnt know about. So we are feeding from the south of france. Hear groaning. So, mika, thank you so much for showing up and you just pop right in. God knows we need somebody defending me this morning given all the things going on. Okay. Couple of things. Stwargt the Bush Administration so i guess you could ask if president bush knew too and put those questions to him as well. What started in the Bush Administration. This monitoring of phone calls. Of foreign leaders. If i may oh, wait dew point me to talk. I can go back to the south of france. I want you to educate what report suggests that george w. Bush tapped the phones of World Leaders . When did this start . Four or five years ago. 2002. 2002. The tapping of foreign leaders. Yes. So you have to apply the same questions to president bush, first of all, whether they do or do not know. I think barnacle brought up the biggest point and that is the nsa overreaching in its power, is this something people want done but they dont want to hear about it. You got to look at that part of it too because we can apply this to a couple of different issues that we complained about or argued about on our set about the conduct of the Bush A