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Win elections. the cpac straw poll results will be announced tomorrow afternoon, and sarah palin will be the send-off speaker. >> also the guest with greta in an hour. thank you. the february jobs report has the unemployment rate going in the wrong direction. it's up to 6.7% from its five-year low of 6.6% in january. but there were some positive numbers. employers added 175,000 jobs. up from 129,000 the month before. all this comes as public frustration with the president and his namesake health care law continues to fester. chief white house correspondent ed henry has the story. >> after se...

The number of users rose and rose. on that day alone, 129,000 people enrolled, five times as many in a single day as what the site had handled in all of october. on christmas eve, the group parted ways, mission accomplished. joining me now is one of those elite 18 members, my good friend paul smith. it's great to you have here. >> hey, chris. >> congratulations on a job well done. i should start on the question of mission accomplished. is it mission accomplished? >> i wouldn't say it's accomplished but it was as bad as your package laid out and it's miles, ions, light years better. >> what are...

For the news or whether or not, you know, maybe there's some negatives here, and the question about where it really fits in when it comes to hard news coverage. >> well, twitter is great for the news, but it can also be a ticking time bomb. and, yes, we shouldn't target everybody at msnbc. a lot of good journalists work there who do find these views ab hospitaller. but if you give -- abhorrent, but if you give somebody the power to speak for your network on twitter and everything gets retweeted and goes viral as happened in this instance, you're putting your reputation on the line, so companie...

To $15,000, that account can be rolled over to a private sector ira. >> so who's eligible for this? >> well, there are a lot of folks that are going to want to pay attention for this, because if you make less than $129,000 a year, you're eligible. if you're a couple making less than $191,000 a year, you're eligible. that's a lot of folks. those are the same limits on a roth right now. >> as was said, this is a third of all the households in the united states, that's a staggering statistic there. what kind of impact will this new plan have on those that are struggling to save money and even day...

That was the peak day. the system was able to handle 83,000 concurrent users while the queueing system was activated. 129,000 was sent into that queueing system. here's white house deputy press secretary josh earnest. >> millions of people are taking advantage of this opportunity to get access to quality affordable health care. what the team has been focused on is making sure as they transition to the new health care coverage that that transition is as smooth as possible. we have put in place a team of experts who are working through the holidays to try to minimize that inconveniencnconvenienc...