Page 40 - Heather Plus News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

8.54 cents8.54 cents. heather: thank you. rick: with the iowa caucus less than two weeks ahead. there is a candidate that could make history, ron paul placing second in the rasmussen poll of iowa caucus goers. 20% saying they would prefer him to him. the editor of the national review writing a column saying if paul does win in iowa the hawk-eye state should never be taken seriously again when it comes to their caucuses. rich lowry is editor of the column. never be taken seriously? >> yes. he's a very sincere guy, he's knowledgeable. he has a cranky charm in these debates. he's battled over tru...

Tehran peaked. did we miss an opportunity? can sanctions work alone, and what does it mean to you when you hear, um, defense secretary leon panetta say all options on the table? >> well, all options on the table if we can use those options. well, there are some options that we had not just on the table, in the battlefields, and we wasted the opportunity. you just mentioned it. june of 2009, 1.5 million iranians -- these are not american or europeans or arabs, these are iranians -- were marching in downtown tehran about to shake off the foundation of that regime, and we didn't support them. it'...

Tell us that the speaker asked the president to send his economic team to the hill to negotiate this full-year request. he says, boehner's office, that the president declined the offer. but then we hear from the president, and he seems to be saying the exact opposite. >> yes. i mean, you're getting different takes on that phone call. they also talked yesterday. but they're talking past one another. they don't agree. they have their own positions. speaker boehner's saying, listen, the president agrees to want the one-year deal, let's do the one-year deal now. well, president obama's saying let'...

Massachusetts is 95% coverage. heather: i don't think that we can argue though that it will go up. dr. london i'll stay with you. talk to me a little bit more about the second point that we made. on october 14th the department of health and human services completed this lee view of th review of the class act, and it was thrown ou out. >> it was doomed from the start. senator kennedy had passed away and it was really his baby. we had senator dodd in his place putting it in thinking he didn't have the support and then turns around and senator greg, a republican said, well we'll just put this ame...

I think the plan inspired by senator kennedy as she says, he's kind of the inspiration behind all of obamacare. the problem with obamacare is this huge behemoth that wasn't thought out in each of the particulars. class is supposed to help people when they get very sick, long-term care. it wasn't thought out in advance. that is the problem with the bill in general. of course it doesn't work. many, many parts of obamacare are going to fall away in just the same fashion. heather: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. have to wrap it up there. rick: you hear about a protest, you take your ce...