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Statement, that about the way the law was worked, was something that was perhaps not examined closely enough at the time. bill: that is president obama s former speech writer talking about obamacare and how they shaped the message. you re going to be surprised to hear the rest of that. martha: exactly. also top intel officials testifying on capitol hill. according to their latest threat assessment, al-qaeda s no longer the number one threat worldwide. so what is? bill: also folks in the south trying to recover from a freak winter storm. what they re now telling the drivers who abandoned their cars on the highways all over metro atlanta. everywhere is very slippery and hard to drive and pretty, sliding down the hills and everything. so you have to take a different route. too big. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso s new creamy alfredo soup. ....
Still believes that people will be better off under obamacare, but that s a pretty stunning admission from one of the speech writers, former speech writers. juan williams joins me now, and monica crowley, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. monica, what do you think about that? please, martha, spare me the we didn t know it was going to turn out this way nonsense. of course they knew it was going to turn out this way, they designed it to turn out this way. what we do know is before the president signed obamacare into law, he was caught on tape admitting to the house majority leader, erik cantor, that, in fact, it was possible that millions of people were going to lose their plans. we also know, it s since been reported, that the policy people in the white house and the political people in the white house got into an argument about sending the president out with that very declarative statement, if you like your plan and your doctor, you ll be able to keep them. they knew it ....
Now they re forced into the exchanges where they re forced to buy the plan at a much higher rate, and sometimes the plans are a lot crappier. martha: one of the crazy admissions is they don t know. oh, hello, welcome to obamacare, what is the reason that you re here, did you lose your former plan, did you not have a plan before? which is crazy to me. who recommended this restaurant to you, it s pretty easy, you know? you check off one of the three options. it just amazes me that the system doesn t tell them where these people came from. but, you know, juan, you re saying that, you know, everybody s finding health care, they re doing okay with it. ooh, the unions, not singing that tune. they are very unhappy. you know, the original thinking was that the unions were getting, you know, sort of concessions for their cadillac deals, that they were in the back pocket of this whole plan, that the president was going to make sure they re taken care of. they are not happy, and they are saying t ....
Think unions are going to have to get use to it because obamacare will not work if you have all these concessions for unions. yeah. and you know what? i mean, the unions, to them i would say welcome to the club because now you have tens of millions of americans for whom obamacare is negatively impacting them this terms of loss of coverage, higher premiums, loss of access to their doctors. and now the unions who were the biggest cheerleaders for obamacare, i mean, the seiu, andy stern, richard trumka, the afl-cio, they were bragging that they were talking to the white house or to members of his staff every other day trying to push obamacare through. and now they are the biggest whiners because now reality has set in for them the way it has for every other american. martha: yeah. apparently, they re shocked they re being treated like everybody else. monica and juan, thank you very much. pleasure. good to talk to you both. bill: thank you, guys. he s the football player accused of bul ....
Act by executive order. and it has been the case presidents of both political part why is have abused flower their executive orders. but the fact that other presidents have done it doesn t justify it. but even so what this president has con is unprecedented. what this president has done is to repeatedly change laws, even laws he pushed through congress, for his own political benefit where he considers it inconvenient to go through congress. that s wrong, it s unconstitutional. martha: perhaps folks at home say what are you going to do about it? this lawsuit that s even inact. what does it mean for people who have been hit hard by obamacare? it s difficult to challenge a president because so much of the president s power is inherent in the office itself. there are some things that can be done. you can bring a lawsuit against ....