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for 18 months or so. it didn t matter. if the opposition is fractured, if he keeps the 46%, it may not be a majority, but it s the biggest piece. if he keeps it. can he get the votes on capitol hill? there s a question about the tone and being that ticks surrounding everything. a lot of these moves could have been made without some of the provocative language. some of the sharp edges could have been buffered off. some of the things could have been deferred. there was no reason that immigration order had to be issued, you know, a week into the presidency. it could have been deferred, as jeff was saying, to sometime later on, and instead they decide to rush everything fashd, and sometimes it s important to make a clean entry. think about health care.gov. you know, he may have had a good plan. if you don t come out strong at the beginning, that s all anybody remembers. an excellent point. when you say that, it reminds me of what they saidat the homeland security briefing. this ....
Executive action the rest of that, repeeling and replacing is going to be left for congress to figure out. joining us, the former ceo of health care.gov kevin kuhnihan. this happens just as the trump administration just pulled i think it was $5 million of ads promoting enrollment. you know you have a republican president, republican administration. why is that upsetting to you? the major concern, of course, is that the affordable care act is still the law. it should be administered obviously both with the explicit and implicit provisions of the law as long as it s on the books irrespective of administration. you feel like that lack of $5 million in advertising at the end could have a real impact. how? for a couple of reasons. one is that many people, like myself, which is they p procrastinate and wait until the last minute. the enrollment ends at midnight tonight. it s the last time people can ....
Affected. they were slowed down in their travel. i understand that s an inconvenience. at the end of the day, that s a small price to pay as opposed to somebody losing their life because of a terrorist attack. peter alexander joins us live. you ve been following the tick tock of this and while the media has not been able to clearly get some answers here or took hours to do so, it seems because of the confusion within the trump administration that s a major part of why this played out over the weekend the way it did. i think you re exactly right. this is equally an issue about the policy specifically as it is perhaps about the management and the role-out on this issue as well. think back to president obama with obamacare, the issues with health care.gov. it s been the implementation as much as anything causing the chaos around the country. nonetheless, the white house is pushing forward, they insist there are no changes, despite ....
Remember, 2013 they try to get the immigration bill through after the election. that failed. then there was the syria red line that became a huge controversy. the health care.gov when he said in the same interview that the failure of health care.gov was one of his biggest mistakes or concerns coming into office, and then the 2014 midterms. democrats wanted nothing to do with president obama. he did not campaign with any of them. he stayed away from the campaign trail. they lost the senate. they turn around in 2015-2016 and his numbers were on the up swing. the economy is looking healthier. he was huge on the campaign trail for hillary clinton. he has reason to believe that things are looking good. he is very different than donald trump. i could say that 1,000 times. president obama is very different than president-elect trump, and, yet, like most politicians, both of them seem to have a hard time saying i got that one wrong or i m sorry. listen to the president here defending, althou ....
Quick headlines now. the obamacare website busted for approving fake applications. the government accountability office claiming health care.gov gave the green light to 9 of 12 fake accounts. marketplace is supposed to validate social security numbers before approving applicants. not good. a california community college goes to extreme lengths to protect illegal students for president-elect trump. the president of foothill college, if there is one, demanding all student records are funneled through his office requiring a court subpoena to have them released. steve, tell us something different. a course to punish people to stealing the american flag. a republican lawmaker is filing a bill to make grabbing old ....