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Make a first impression, and this one has not been good. >> charles, what should the president do? there are congressional hearings going on again today. and this will only further hurt the president. what should he do to stem this tide? >> i don't know exactly what he can do at this point. one is to take personal responsibility. the other thing is work feverishly on all fronts and try to fix the website problems. and i think they're trying to do that. the problem that the president confronts is something that's a bit bigger than what they can manage at this point because i think that it's -- ...

It tells you in what the administration is saying because of the website problems and communications and technical issues, enrollment is way, way, way below what they wanted it to be and needed to be. what they're also saying is, look, this is part of the problem. we know it's a problem. we're embarrassed. by the time we get to the march deadline, things will be fixed. republicans are saying this is proof of technical problems but of how unpopular this is. it's more evidence for the critics of the program. i'm sounding like a broken record. i'd watch how the democrats are reacting more than an...

No one has to pay a premium until december 15th at the earliest, so officials say they won't know who's actually purchased insurance until after that. but until the administration fixes the website problems, it may fall farther and farther behind, this means the numbers it reports could be shockingly low. even beyond that, though, the mix of young and healthy to older and sicker enrollments will be the key. bret. >> jim, yesterday you reported on potential fixes and how tough that could be. if the administration wanted to do what president clinton said today, keep your plan if you had your pla...

With employer mandate. >> this is chickens coming home to roost the way we legislate. >> that's exactly right. that's exactly what's going on. >> i don't think the problems that are being experienced right now. i'm not talking about the website problems but the cancellation problems are a failure of fixes that should have been done in conference. it is a fact of life that if you're going to rehab and overhaul and fix the individual insurance market, you're going to have to not just fall through the cracks, there's going to be disruption. hss has been anticipating and predicting years huge swat...

Size, but now it looks like there's enough charges before them which was another expectation that they've raised not only with how much -- how many people they would enroll, 500,000 in the first month, 7 million, but now they've said we're going to have a website fix in 2.5 weeks. that is going to be another pr disaster. i agree with leon panetta. they certainlily need to begin planning. >> charles, this is the kufl war trip, the prerl did well. obama draw a wile. i think as damaging as the website problems are, i think