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We're going to repeal and replace obamacare. bill clinton said we have to do it. he's suffering now. all he did was tell the truth. >> welcome back to morni"mornin joe." joining the conversation is kasie hunt and walter isaacson. >> what's bill clinton doing? calling obamacare the craziest thing ever? >> there's a wonderful definition of a gaffe in washington is when someone accidentally tells the truth. obamacare is something we really need in society. we need to expand health care. it's a crazy system. if you have a normal political

Glib process about the political process behind health care reform. i'm noxpert on politics and my tone implied i was which is wrong. in other cases i made mean and insulting comments uncalled for in any context. i sincerely apologize for conjecturing with the tone of expertise and for doing so in such a disparaging fashion. it is never appropriate to make one's self seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. i knew better, i know better, and i'm embarrassed and i'm sorry. in addition to apologizing for my unacceptable remarks, i would like to clarify some misconceptions about the con...

This is not conjecture. is it your purpose today to recant obamacare as a tax? >> it is my purpose today to come forward and elaborate and straighten out interpretation of a series of comments that made and to apologize. >> excellent. let's do that then. let's clarify it. mr. gruber, you made these statements did you not? >> yes, i don't recall exactly -- >> you don't recall. one of them we actually saw on video. do you recall that one? >> yes. >> well, these statements, we'll enter them for the record, i can't imagine how you don't recall your own statements because the american voter has see...

January 18th, you said if you're a state and said if you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get tax credits but your citizens will pay taxes to support the bill. a tax. october 30th, 2012, we just taxed the insurance companies. they pass it on in higher prices. offset tax breaks we get. very clear, you know, and that's when you went on insulted the american voter to the fact they couldn't understand that basic equation. on october 17th, you said this fill was written in tortured way to make sure the cbo did not score the mandate as taxes. if cbo scores the mandate as taxe...

Darrell issa is never a shy questioner when it comes to these things. he runs the thousands oversight committee. he describes it as obamacare through deception. >> lack of transparency is a huge political advantage age. call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, bit was critical to get is passed. >> we just tax insurance companies and they pass it on to the consumers. it's a clever exploitation of the basic lack of understanding about it american voter. >> turns out political chicago it's hard to get rid of and the only way we could take it on was by mislabeling. calling it a tax...