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Office. but to make that number or anywhere near that number by march, they need a ton more signups if we're touting now 2.1 million. >> that's right. they need a ton more signups. they're backing off the cbo numbers. usually they put faith in those cbo numbers. again, i think one of the things we need to look at here as well, 2 million have signed up. looks like they need 7 million according to cbo. how many young folks are signing up? that is really going to be a test of whether or not this thing works. those so-called young invincibles, mostly men, lower income with working class jobs, are ...

Because we have an election in a year and nothing else is going to happen between now and then. they're kind of starting to run for the hills or at least look for the hills because they see obama's numbers dropping and they never have patients. ultimately, whatever they manage to do in terms of the landrieu bill in the senate and all that sort of stuff, they're going to have to -- they're going to live or die by whether this thing works. we won't know six months, ten months or a year whether it's really working as well as obama wants it to. >> david corn and nia-malik henderson thank you for j...

Does there come a moment when they have to separate? >> democrats -- i should say politicians. this is true for both parties -- often seem to have the political memories of a fruit fly. you know, they really think they -- they act every day as if they're about to die the next day. right? so this week, they say oh, my god, look what's happening. because we have an election in a year and nothing else is going to happen between now and then. they're kind of starting to run for the hills or at least look for the hills because they see obama's numbers dropping and they never have patients. ultimate...

Last few days. i don't mean to understatement that. at the same time there's ample opportunity for this thing to work. the backdrop for what the white house is doing today, trying to ensure there are no major permanent changes made to this thing in this sort of moment of panic, weeks of panic we're living through now that will make it difficult or impossible to create the healthy risk pool this law is predicated around. if you can get through these weeks, into december, get the website up and running, have the threat of the mandate penalty start to come onto the horizon, young people will look...

Complicated than that. but the fact of the matter is that dianne feinstein doesn't know what the law says. >> she sure doesn't. >> that took three and a half years. and i will submit to you, juan, can i put any senator in that chair and they are not going to know either. they didn't read it, they just want this overall oh, we have to give health insurance for everybody. we have to be like denmark. that's what they want. too lazy to read it they don't know what it says. now all of that is coming back to bite everybody. go ahead. >> that's like asking anybody, any senator, what's in the tax poli...