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About a law, this is not about the affordable care act as legislation or obamacare as a political football. this is health care in america. >> i'll joined now by david simas. david, let's talk about this in big picture terms here about the legacy of this president of this administration of this era of american history. i mean this is a president who ran for office in 2008 promising to do big things, who has been stymied by congress for so much of his presidency. but he did in year two manage to get this through and today with this court ruling, this is a statement about what his legacy will be...

hearing the ruling. and a few moments later, he spoke in the rose garden. >> today after more than 50 votes in congress to repeal or weaken this law, after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing this law, after multiple challenges to this law before the supreme court, the affordable care act is here to stay. >> the court rejected the argument brought by opponents of the law that the language in the bill dealing with subsidies to low income americans was meant only to apply to consumers in the 16 states that set up their open exchanges. that would have taken ...

A million visitors. >> so, jake, first of all, i'm not going to confirm how many enrollments there were yesterday. we'll release those numbers later on in the month. but here's what i think we learned in the massachusetts experience in 2007. john kingsdale who ran that speaks to this eloquently. when people go on to a website to look at insurance products, they two back eight, nine, ten times. they spend 20 minutes or 30 minutes looking at their different options because this isn't an impulse purchase. it's about making sure you find the plan that works best for you. >> but david, if that's th...

Salesman over the next three weeks, there are a lot of big questions about the implementation of his law. joining me now from the white house, david, senior deputy adviser to the president. david, thanks so much for joining us. i appreciate it. i want to start by asking you about some obama administration e-mails cnn obtained from before the healthcare.gov launch. it suggests the e-mails that they're individuals in the government and with one of the contractors concerned about some fundamental promises the administration made particularly about securing people's private health information. in ...

Why not just put all the information out there? the american people are grown-ups. >> so, jake, in terms of releasing numbers, this is like medicare, it's like medicaid. it's like the monthly release of jobs numbers. we said from the beginning that once a month, so we can do quality control to make sure that we've got the numbers in from the different states. we will release the numbers and do that again in december for the month of november. we are working night and day to make sure, and we've crossed an important threshold with healthcare.gov, to make sure that it's up and running and it's f...