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Important. >> california congressman adam schiff joins me now. happy new year, sir. >> thanks, brian. >> listen, we have phil shiliro back in the white house, john podesta back in there. you've been critical at various points about the rollout here. do you actually think we've turned the corner? >> i think so. i'm very encouraged by what i saw in december when we had about a million people enroll through the federal exchange and substantial enrollment through the state changes. we're now up to about two million. that's not as high as where we wanted it but it's a lot better than where things l...

Have not been notified yet. >> let me go to story number two, washington state. someone signs up for obamacare and says, here's my bank account information, take the money out at the end of december. then they fine the money has already been taken out of their bank account. >> it has happened in washington state, and one of the state exchanges. so, remember, that 17 states, including the district of columbia, are running their own state exchanges, and the president has been telling everybody that these state changes are running better than the federal exchange. they're working very well there....

For whom it is also expensive, close to two out of three of them don't want anything to do with it. so, bottom line, we upended an entire health care system that we are the enhave i of the world to something we are a billion shy of supporting. >> 88% of people were covered before. now we're trying to get up to 95%, and in order to do that, a lot of employers are going to be dumping the people they have on the health insurance and make people parttime so they don't have to cover them, going to the state changes and find they can't afford the premium the government has to subsidize everybody and...

How to talk to the his pan ebbing pop rags. rick perry wants 39% of the hispanic vote, and likewise, republicans need to learn to talk to his pan ebbings at a national level sfwloosh you're right. i think to howard's point. the demographic shifts have a factor that need to be taken into account as the state changes. i think the timeline is a little longer than a lot of democrats hope it is, simply because even those republicans -- those democrats you're talking about in the his pan ebbing community, they're conservative. they do identify with that part of the political spectrum. the shift is g...

That's a big deal. >> he meant zero additional seats where hispanics would have a majority voting opportunity. so here you have an attorney general who is given the toughest line yet from the obama administration on the state changes in voting. you mentioned photo i.d. laws. they are the hot thing right now. and the advocates say it is necessary to prevent in person voter fraud at the polls. opponents say that voter fraud is not that big of a problem. then you have restrictions on early voting and registration at the polls. and the attorney general said this is an attorney general who made civ...