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With just over a week until election day, polls show chris christie poised for a big re-election win. and in the heavily democratic garden state, his decision this week to drop a legal challenge to same-sex marriage may well add it his margin of victory. but what it does for his 2016 presidential prospects is less clear. in a statement monday, tony perkins of the family research council criticized christie's decision saying "apparently the governor is giving up all hopes of identifying as a conservative in any future political aspirations." we're back with dan, "wall street journal" and james ...

And i was embarrassed. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan hanniger, foreign affairs columnist bret stevens, and political diary editor jason riley. dan, what's the single most important takeaway you had from this hearing? >> i guess, paul, it is that there is such a vast distance between what gregory hicks described as happening that night and what the administration described for a week. what gregory hicks described was an intense fightfight in benghazi lasting all night involving heavy weaponry. that's september 11. on september 13, jay carn...

This individual and small business market that is who aren't part of larger corporations who buy on the individual market. how many of those people could lose their current coverage. >> according to a review in the study "health affairs" last year about half of them will lose their coverage and probably more. the health care bill included a grandfather clause that was supposed to give these people a safe harbor when health and human services department wrote it. it was very narrow and very hard to qualify. >> they wrote it very restrictively and that's what's tossing all these people out. this...

The fingerpointing began on capitol hill this week as healthcare.gov lead contractors testified before congress about the problems plaguing the website with even democrats voicing their frustration. >> there are thousands of websites that handle concurrent vali volumes far larger than what healthcare.gov were dealt with. amazon and ebay don't crash the week before christmas and pro flowers doesn't crash on valentine's day. >> other democrats joined the call for an extension on the deadline to enroll in the health care exchanges. could we see a delay in the individual mandate after all? let's a...

Together a select committee instead of the five committees with disparate interests that are looking into this. do you support that idea? >> i think it's a very good idea. and look, they may come to the same conclusion as the committee that's already lookeded into this. we don't know. but an ambassador -- >> review board. >> yes. but yes, i think a bipartisan select committee, i think this does warrant that. it rises to this level. >> this review board never even interviewed secretary clinton, dan. do you understand that? >> it's impossible to explain. the fbi did not interview gregory hicks w...