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That they would. here we are -- i mean, over a week out and it's botched. i don't understand why they weren't ready for the biggest bureaucratic launch in a generation. >> yeah, i don't think there's probably any real good answer to that. one upside is that there's another story that everybody is focused on and that's the shutdown and the pending debt ceiling debacle again. so that's been a distraction from these mess-ups. but look, heading into this, they said there are going to be glitches that this is just the beginning of an education campaign. so they left themselves some room here. but i...

Erosion in the poll numbers as president obama's approval rating at 50% and there will still be more time and right now there doesn't seem to be any type of damage to his standing at least from these polls so far. >> you and the first team bring up is this a scandal or bureaucratic incompetency and right now jay carney made the comment in the daily briefing that says that no one in the white house intervened in the then ongoing investigation into irs targeting of conservative groups. i just got a copy of that, and you heard peter allude to that today, but you bring up a big question in all of ...

This really looks bad. what is he going to do? only two options, yank everybody out, make it look like they're bailing out of iraq just like we did in vietnam. send a rash of new troops there. neither one of them is going to work, he'll take them out. >> do you have any concern at all for the 16,000 americans that are there now? >> yes, some of them are working outside the green zone. we have a 102-acre compound inside the green zone, but some of the contractors are working in other areas, particularly people who are training police. the cia operatives and the people who are training the air f...

Gallup polls where before all the serial mess ups, he was down by about 15 points. what explains for the 15-point swing? >> nothing to do with the republican candidates running for president. what this has to do with is the fact that this president slid out of town, slid out of the contr count rye while they blue themselves up with the super committee. >> that's not -- i think it's the -- >> sherry, that is not -- that is not a plausible response, but in a conversation about mitt romney today in south caroline, gingrich had a critical answer. listen to this. >> is there anything that you would...

And he says it isn't. oops! >> yeah, last week when they announced that secretary gates and secretary clinton would be appearing together on a couple of the sunday shows, i thought that was very smart. it would ensure the two of them are on the same page. i didn't think their problem would be that one wouldn't be on the same page as president obama. and so i think -- i know where secretary gates was coming from. because i know him a little bit better than i know president obama having worked with him. i think the problem is secretary gates and president obama understand where they're going on ...