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Republicans' opposition to obamacare. obamacare rolls out on the same day and the stories about its problems, its hiccups, glitches are being drowned out by the government shutdown. >> that's correct and i would add to that that the republicans don't seem to have an escape hatch open for themselves at this point. i don't know what it is that they can settle for that would allow them to save face. you've got the two issues now of government shutdown and the debt limit running together and that's perhaps opening up some negotiation later on. jenn jon: you think they would have let obamacare roll...

Sympathy for the union but i guess, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. jon: the unions have been petitioning president obama to get relief from some of the applications of obamacare they phoned more onerous. >> certain hotel uses are a particular kind of health plan that's disfavored under the rules of obamacare and they've been trying to get sort of a subsidy to make up for that and the whose has said no on the very sound basis that it's not contemplated in the law and that it would cost a lot of money and raise the cost of obamacare. some labor leaders including the labor unions i...

Hour and a half to enroll in a plan. other states, oregon, nevada, alaska, colorado, maryland all had similar problems. the federal website, which is serving people in the 34 states without exchanges was also knocked off line due to high traffic but interestingly, the walkup enrolling at the health clinics was slow. >> just been how we operate as a society is that we seek the health care needs when we feel that we need them. we're not very proactive. >> and remember, everyone agrees that for this system to have any chance of working, healthy people have to sign up and enroll because they will ...

Program will continue until somebody uses force against it. it won't be the obama administration. it may or may not be israel. if the current curse continues and certainly if we get locked into the process of a negotiation as iranians clearly wish i think it is only a question of when and how many nuclear weapons iran will announce to the world that they have been able to fabricate. jenna: ambassador bolton, great to have you on the program as always. thank you. jon: a quick look what is coming up 18 minutes from now on america's news headquarters with bill hemmer and alisyn camerota. >> joi...

Today would have been only about the glitches of obamacare, possibly additionally about union opposition to obamacare and they could have attempted, as my column suggested, to exploit provisions within the democratic camp. jon: thank you. jenna: big headline from the literary world and beyond today. best selling author tom clancy is dead. we just learned about that a few hours ago. we'll talk about the legacy he leaves behind next. plus a man calls 911 to report a terrifying emergency but the reaction from the dispatcher is truly shocking. the latest from the fallout over this emergency call. ...