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Wherever the president moves, he s always accompanied by a doctor or by an ambulance. so he wasn t required but this is a very symbolic move in very many ways because at this point, they need to get more people signed up, as you know, and had he not signed up, can you imagine the criticism. exactly. it sort of reminds me when he voted electronically, right? and trying to show people this is how we want you to do it in advance to vote absentee or whatever. also today, this is something that just broke, the federal government today was supposed to be the big deadline. and they re saying it still is. but really it s not. the deadline is now really tomorrow for signing up for obamacare. the deadline is tomorrow. critics will say they re moving it the goal post when you need to sign up. to be covered. to be covered by january 1st, 2014. however, we have just learned now in the past couple hours that in fact, you have until midnight christmas eve to actually sign up. part of the reas ....
Deliberately pushed sign-ups past the midterm but the white house says it s simply to give insurance companies an extra month. i have to say the idea that somehow this is election-related just because the calendar is around the election, it s kind of silly. health care is going to be an issue no matter what. anyway, it s another delay there. i ve got another one for you. the spanish language website that was supposed to be ready by mid-october now won t be ready until the end of this month. these delays come as another democratic senator, minnesota s al franken, said he would be open to a brief delay in the individual mandate if the problems with healthcare.gov aren t fixed by the end of the month. if al franken is saying it, then what are people saying. don t forget, he s up in 2014. however, there is good news for the administration. the 14 state-run health insurance market places are reporting enrollment has doubled from the last month. it jumped from 79,000 to approximately 150,000 ....
2014. however, a published report is dispute thad an inspector general s inquiry into a possible conflict of interest involving a contractor is holding things up. they don t deny the potential delay. still ahead is america running out of doctors? first, how the veterans administration actually encourages employees to take the easy way out at the veterans expense. i m angela, and i didn t think i could quit smoking but chantix helped me do it. i told my doctor i think i m. i m ready. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. i knew that i could smoke for the first 7 days. i knew that i wasn t putting nicotine back into my body to try to quit. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. ....
Gunslingers like john wayne, dirty harry and others, critics in and outside of the u.s. wonder if its gun culture will change, perhaps reaching a balance of glamour and gore. chris, most agree a cultural change was needed. that was absolutely fascinating. thank you, richard. also making news this morning, the white house says it s possible that no american troops will remain in afghanistan by the end of the drawdown in 2014. however, the pentagon says some troops do need to stay to keep an eye on al qaeda. deputy secured advice ben rhodes said it s not tied to a specific number. and the administration is most likely looking at a range of options as fewer as 3,000, to as many as 15,000 remain behind. for the first time, we have new unsettling details about how the apartment of colorado shooting suspect james are holmes was rigged to explode. that testimony at the preliminary hearing is giving us ....
The taliban refused to do that. so 2002 to 2005, after the taliban had been kicked out, nato steps in, takes control of the mission in afghanistan. but the taliban regrouped. we see this insurgency with the taliban, kind of like we saw in iraq. then instability persisted in the nation. president obama sent a surge of around 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. the mission for u.s. troops there and president obama s goal for getting american troops home is to train afghan security forces to handle their country s own security, to protect their own security. so that s what we re looking at, and that s why there are 100,000 u.s. troops still there, drew. and we do have a time line. what about that timetable? and when do officials think that the troops are going to come home? the administration has talked about the obama administration has talked about 2014. president obama wants to start pulling u.s. troops out of afghanistan in 2014. however, retiring defense secretary robert gates has ....