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The ted cruz wing of the republican party which has been hell bent on destroying the affordable care act any way it could. is that message getting through to the american people? is the president being successful in this regard in explaining this? >> i don't think the white house still after all this time has fully figured out how to deal with this blanket opposition and obstructionism they get which is fueled by statements that are not true and hyperbolic. very simple fact. right now the republicans, their hair is on fire because a couple million people are getting cancellation notices a lot ...

Detailed updates on problems. the latest says, in part, we're also getting information on which parts of the application are causing the most errors, enabling us to prioritize what we fix next. the website is key to getting young tech-savvy people to sign up, young, healthy people are key to making the whole system work, chris and kate, because they offset the older less healthy who are more expensive to provide health care for. >> brianna, thank you so much. a lot of news this morning. let's get to michaela for the headlines. good morning to the two of you. a texas man under arrest after ...

Affordable care act. we've signed up over 26,000 people. >> mostly medicaid. it is not the young and healthy people getting the insurance plans that are really necessary to make this system work; correct? >> of the 26,000, 21,000 are in medicaid. 5,000 are in qualified health plans. but we've got another 10,000 going on to the plans that are in the process of choosing. >> by the way, that was the magic of the follow-up question. there's 5,000 people who signed up for obamacare out of the 26,000 who signed up in kentucky, considered one of the few bright spots on the whole case. bring up this t...

The plan and it's not working when it comes to limitation. how disappointed are you with this rollout where you think you have a good story to tell because you set up your own exchange? >> at 12:01 a.m. when our exchange opened up to enrollment, kentucky started swarming all over our exchange, all over our toll free lines, and in about four weeks, we've had over 300,000 kentucky yaian trying to sign up for obama care -- >> mostly medicaid, though. it's not young people getting the insurance plans to really make this system work, correct? >> of the 26,000, 21,000 are in medicaid, 5,000 are in q...

Working system. >> and it's the process of failure and feedback that makes a system work. >> that's exactly right. so what they did in a way, they saved up all the failure more after the public launch. >> that's really important. >> and the real managerial failure, the thing that finally made me wloe my stack, as i did the other day, was recognizing that on october 1st, when obama was going to go out to the public to talk about healthcare.gov, no one could pull him aside and say, hey, chief, play it down a little bit. say we're testing it in public, only try it if we -- >> this is a soft launc...