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Doctor you can. state exchanges. misinformation that led to its passage. 400,000 people that they said got obama care to get over the 7 million mark. that turns out to be wrong, too. go ahead. >> i think one of the most difficult things about this for the president is that he is still talking and defending this law at a time in his presidency when it has completely overshadowed other priorities that he might have had. things like immigration. things that he could have been doing maybe working with republicans. but he has had to continue to put so much political capital into this. it's so sim...

These incredibly, ridiculous, stupid statements -- >> stupid why, because they're truthful? he said they were. >> and he's coming back and the only response he's giving in the hearing is that he's sorry. >> why is he so small now and he looked rather grand in the earlier tapes? >> the thing that's going to matter, he's speaking to the legal point upon which obamacare is currently most threatened. he said in this these speeches that there is no legal wording that allows the states to get subsidies -- i'm sorry, the feds to get subsidies, anybody who signed up through the federal exchange. >> an...

That allows the states to get subsidies -- i'm sorry, the feds to get subsidies, anybody who signed up through the federal exchange. >> and without subsidies, it doesn't work. the supreme court could topple the whole law if they rule that the tax subsidies for billions of people in the federal exchanges are illegal. the white house says the law was written to give tax subsidies to everyone, not just state exchanges. but here's gruber in 2012 making the opposite from the white house case. >> i think what's important to remember politically about this, is if you're on the exchange, that means yo...

Right thing. >> the other person did there was the cms administrator marilyn tavenner who requested that she not sit next to gruber for this hearing. which was denied. she had previously testified 7.3 million people had signed up for obamacare, federal and state exchanges, that was 400,000 higher than it actually was because she said she double counted dental policies. >> she said it was a mistake. it was a mistake. so it turns out not as many people signed up as they said. i mean, i just don't think that they can afford too many of these unforced errors. there is just one after another. >> th...

She had you had to pass it to read it. it's all a big show here. >> all democrats thought we were stupid and we wouldn't read the bill and a lot of them did take the money harris is talking about. they tried to buy companies off. >> what is frustrating is even today, gruber continues to mislead the american people. he must think we're still stupid so not see through what he's saying in testimony. you know, what the case is with the supreme court coming up, which could unravel, unravel entirely health reform is that the tax credits were meant only for state exchanges. not the federal government...