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Day goes on. >> the president's approval rating has dropped precipitously. it's largely because americans perceive that he did not keep his promise, that everybody could keep their insurance plan if they like it. it was partly that. that, too, was the reason that the president was forced to do this. the people spoke. >> absolutely. there's no question about it. the president, it is his legacy on his signature issue. you're absolutely right. but he's not up for re-election again. it's democrats in the senate, and then all the democrats in the house. and for them it is much more urgent political...

Morning, what the president needed to do is ensure more democrats did not revolt. it seems they're running out of time. >> they are running out of time. that's the political question, stot the revolt. the way to stop the revolt is to prove you've dealt with the policy problems. the administration hasn't done that yet. you have proposals put forward by the republicans in the house. there are proposals in the senate to deal with what they believe are the biggest problems. the idea he said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your plan, i don't you can keep it. prove to ...

Confidently. he knew what he was doing. does that make the situation worse for president obama? >> he did know what he was doing. that's an important point. it makes the situation worse politically for the president. from a policy perspective, president clinton was speaking a self-evident truth in the sense that president obama had already gone on record as you know, erin, saying we need to fix this and i want to fix it but what's happening here? president clinton saying he needs to keep that promise. dick durbin a close friend of the president of the united states, a leader in the senate. not...

Your health care plan. so they're talking to the white house and saying, you folks don't seem to understand how bad this is. in our districts, and in our states. and we need to fix this. what the white house is saying up until recently, and we'll see what they say later today is, look, we would rather do this administratively because if we do it through legislation, we open a whole pandora's box. by the way, i was speaking to somebody in the insurance industry earlier today who pointed out to me if you actually delay enrollment legislatively, what's going to happen is premiums are going to go ...

Being more open in their criticism of the president. the president is trying to fix this administratively through some administrative executive action. but he has now a former president, a member of the senate leadership and 10 or 12 senate democrats on the ballot next year saying that congress needs to do something. once you open the door to changing the law, we don't know where that's going to take us. >> now john, jay carney also said today, sorry, i got a frog in my throat. he said the white house is going to release the obama care enrollment numbers by the end of the week. and the numbers...