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Ask your doctor about xarelto®. once a day xarelto® means no regular blood monitoring -- no known dietary restrictions. for more information and savings options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. the troubled obama care rollout appears to be taking its toll, according to the "wall street journal," fewer than 50,000 americans have successfully enrolled through the federally run website. noting that doesn't include those who enrolled in state exchanges. the number is still well short of the administration's goal. cnn's jim acosta is at the white house with the very latest. so what a...

He doesn't have the authority to do it. he needs legislation to do it. they have the power. >> if the numbers stay as low as they are now -- 50,000 signed up throughing health care.gov. it's 50 or over 50 on the state exchanges. more on medicaid. but they don't pay on the system at all. that's free for them but not the rest of the people. maybe 100,000 paying customers. they are looking for 7 million by march. >> won't happen. >> does that add to the deficit? i don't know where he gets the the money. if it adds to the deficit it breaks this promise. listen. >> i will not sign it if it adds one...

Political allocations. >> the critical way the website is working, from governors who are not running their own exchanges, that is a part of the reason, then the federal government has to take on the work of managing all of those state exchanges. there are a number of states where things are going quite well because the states are managing their own exchange. a white house official compared this to building a building in a war zone while people are throwing bombs at you, the work required to put this website together was tremendously difficult. then you add on the aspect of working in a tense ...

Best intentions. democrats want this. >> you don't believe all republicans do, do you? >> republicans, this is not a political issue to say they don't want people to have coverage and you talk about undoing the law. it's not the same thing by saying the employer mandates delay. why would you create so much angst because they can't ghet the coverage that need through the website that enrolled people on the first day. >> hundreds have signed up in the state exchanges. if you delay, you will jack up their prices. the prices and the premiums they have been offered are based on the individual manda...

We thought that would be a good idea. so we put it out there. lo and behold, all these republican governors get elected in 2010 and republican legislatur legislatures. and they dump it all on the federal government. we never expected that. had we known that from the beginning, the architecture of setting up the exchanges would have been a lot different. but then they dumped it in our laps. if you look -- i'm glad you went to kentucky, because kentucky, washington, colorado, rhode island, even the district of columbia, where they have set up state exchanges, they're working just fine. and now w...