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Man. he was one of the first endorsers of donald trump. vote for sheriff joe. stand up. stand up, joe. they don't love tough people in this country anymore that know how to do their job, and fair people. he's tough. he's fair. and i hope he gets reelected, and he should. go out and make sure he gets reelected, everybody. there's some bad undercurrents out there, folks. jonathan gro jonathan gruber, the architect of obama care. my uncle was a professor at mit.

So we're going to really tackle that. >> with me now, the man known as the architect of obamacare, economics professor at m.i.t., jonathan gruber. welcome, sir. >> thank you. good to be here. >> nice to have you here. we have a lot of questions for you. is obamacare imploding? >> no. obamacare is not imploding. the main goal of obamacare was two-fold. one, to cover the uninsured, which we have covered 20 million. the largest expansion in american history. the other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurors could deny people insurance just because they were sick or had been sick. those...

Understand, and they have, they really started treating me much better. don't forget, when i first ran, i said, you know it is amazing. went to a great school. excellent student. smart guy. my uncle was a professor at mit. smart guy. good smart guy. good family. do we believe in the gene thing, i do? right? i do. like they used to say secretariat doesn't produce slow horses. secretariat wasn't one the best in theory that's. i built a fortune, great company. did art of the deal. best sellers. biggest selling of all time. i did the apprentice. we love the apprentice, tremendous. nbc hates me. yo...

>> one thing that's pushing is teaching every kid to write computer code, making it a basic part of school. >> we would never teach them not to write when we teach them to read. but we teach them about science without teaching them to make and create. >> she says that -- why was the obama care website so messed up. >> we need people who have tq in the room when we're making decisions. so we had contracted a lot of technology out to other people and weren't really having the some of the architects in the program. >> megan smith says she got an early start from mandatory science fairs at her sch...

Huge political advantage. what is a non-politician to do in talking about political advantages? >> a non-politician is talking about political advantages by trying to make himself seem smarter by conjecture. >> so you're a professor at m.i.t. and worried about not looking smart enough? >> yes. >> the second place, the now-famous moment when two political analyst brothers got an on-air call from their mother. >> you're right i'm from down south. >> oh, god, mom. >> and i'm your mother. and i disagree that all families are like ours. >> classic. and at first, by far, seth rogen testifying on the...