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0 journalist writing the story or producer doing a segment about it, or any person with just basic common sense would be asking, could it possibly be the case that obama was denying coverage to a toddler? well, the answer, that very good question is no, of course not. of course not, that is not true. a spokesperson from the new york health department said the story was 100% false. of course, everyone is covered in the family policy. in fact, it appears the clerical error was at fault for the misconception. and a clerical error that it appears he himself might have been behind. they quoted, the...

0 for subsidies, those really did have an impact. but i think the mainstream media that has been burned have gotten more skeptical. >> the cancellation stories, for a week there they were everywhere. and i think a vast majority of americans thought millions of people just lost their health insurance. they got a cancellation notice inviting them to join another plan that may cost them less. so that was a main stream media problem, and hopefully they got burned so they will sort of leave these other stories alone. but fox will push this story forever. as you suggest, this is an end to the storie...

0 the response was no, they don't allow family plans under the age of 8. >> this guy tried to sign his family up for insurance on the new york state exchange and they refused to enroll his 18 month-old baby? obama care is anti-toddler? the story, as you might imagine, got a lot of pickup in the right wing media. the post surfaced again and again all over conservative press and of course landed distraught father on fox news. even the house speaker john boehner climbed on board the obama hates toddlers bandwagon, after saying he learned obama care wouldn't cover his baby. now, hearing this story...

Things in a broad sense that's going on here, and remains to be seen whether he'll succeed or not, this is a pope who has an opportunity to keep the church from being on the wrong side of history as we go forward, and he really seems to be trying to do that. so it's very interesting to watch. >> bob herbert, e.j. dionne, always great to have you guys on. thank you so much. >> good to be with you. checking the news feed this morning, new york governor andrew cuomo says the pictures and video can't truly capture the devastation of the new york city train derailment that killed four people and ...

They need to, and particularly can they sign up young people to create a kind of balanced market. i just want to say it's great to be on with bob whose "new york times" column i still miss, but i'm glad you're still out there, bob. >> ditto. >> same here, e.j. >> you're welcome. the good thing about what happened is that if the discussion can get off the website, and it's true, somebody said on chuck todd's show you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. so they got that problem. but now we can judge obama care the way we should judge obama care, which is can it sign up a lot of...