progressive achievement may be their undoing. a freshman senator leading his party down a road its senior statesmen would rather not go. we're going to try to make sense of the last 12 months. we start with another paradox of sorts. a contrary of young political activists mobilizing against the president's signature legislation. >> november 10, 2013, the month after the obamacare exchanges opened for business. thousands of university of miami and virginia tech fans partying outside the stadium. but this is more than a pre-game tailgate bash. it sounds a lot like a call to civil disobedience. though 29-year-old evan, the president of generation opportunity, would deny that. you've been traveling the country essentially telling young people to ignore the law. >> no, not at all. >> come on of the we have cameras following you around. you tell young people to opt out. >> no doubt we're telling young people to opt out. >> you're ready to opt out of obamacare, right? >> yeah. >> all right! >> that's the best possible decision about their health care. they shouldn't pay three times as much for their insurance, not to get better health care for themselves, but to pay for an older, sicker generation benefits. >> he's talking about for obamacare to work, young, healthy people must pay into the system. but not make many claims on it. that way their premiums will subsidize older, sicker people who, statistically speaking, use a lot more healthcare services. on this day and this venue at least, the word seemed to be getting out. >> with obama, i'm going to have to pay three, four times more and i think that's ridiculous. >> you basically are a communities organizer, aren't you? >> in a lot of ways, yes. we are stealing tactics from the left. we're trying to get them motivated and involved in ways that will make a difference. >> the obamacare scam relies on young people. they will not sign up for this bad deal and that's why this law is going to fail. >> do you want this law to fail? >> our goal with this campaign is not to undermine the law. >> but evan, by doing what you're doing, you are undermining the law, if you succeed, the law does fail. >> that's the sign of a really, really terrible bad law. >> or at least a law that's disappointed a lot of americans for a number of reasons. >> nobody is more frustrated by that than i am. >> breaking tonight, a new health care bombshell. >> this will be a story of an epic collapse. >> biggest political lie of the year. >> we're seeing this thing seemingly crumb being. >> millions of canceled policies. sticker shock. of course, the malfunctioning web site. it all adds up to the most amazing spectacle of mayhem and meltdown anyone has seen in politics since watergate. says "wall street journal" columnist. >> i don't think it's just obamacare that's failing here. i think it's the underlying idea that the democrats have promised the american people and the entire post-war period, government can provide good things and an almost limitless basis. that is being shown with this act to not -- no longer be true. >> he wrote 2013 will issue remembered as the year when the whole progressive ideal fell apart. you agree with that? >> i don't, i don't agree with that. >> john delaney, maryland democrat, acknowledges obamacare's rough start. but says suggestions that progressivism may be dead are greatly exaggerated. >> the progressive movement is about immigration reform. it's about making investment in our kids so they can compete in a global and technology world. it's about adjusting to climate change. that's what i think the progressive movement is about. for 100 years, american liberals have been lusting to create a truly nationalized health care system. >> charles kessler is the author of a book on president obama and his place in the progressive movement. >> under johnson they created medicare and medicaid. that was far from being universal health coverage. when bill clinton failed, they thought this was it. we had seen the high water mark of liberalism. but along comes barak obama and does the thing which seemed impossible. this was their holy grail. >> their entire identity is wrapped up in the success of this law. >> conservative columnist george will. >> for a century, progressivism has says we will not progress, bliss in paradise if we concentrate more and more power in the hands of all super competent experts who can do things normal americans can't do. that's what progressivism is. >> that's the tragedy of this as a person who supports progressive government. >> kirsten powers says the problem is in the execution of obamacare. not the idea behind it. >> it really feeds into the conservative argument that the government is just dysfunctional, that they can't handle anything. they screw up anything they touch. >> obamacare is a turning point against big government. young people are hearing about this law. they're feeling its effects firsthand and they are running away from big government as fast as they can. >> if that's true, and some polls suggest it is -- that would seem to be a stunning turnabout for the white house and this president, twice elected with the overwhelming support of millenials. hear hear more from them later. but how did the obama breakdown begin? it's a story fox news reporting cameras watched unfold throughout the years in cities and towns around the country, as well as in the nation's capitol where politicians had to swallow some tough medicine. our investigation continues when we return. in a fox news poll taken at the beginning of 2013, 83% of americans said government spending was out of control. one attempt to stem the red ink was the sequester, a sort of parliamentary doomsday machine no sane law maker would dare set in motion. that was the theory. would it hold? >> did you see anything changing until we do hit some government collapse? >> i hope not. >> january 31, georgia. >> i believe in the constitution as our founding fathers meant it. >> that's congressman paul brown, president obama had republicans like him in mind when he proposed the sequester back in 2011. >> if we went back to the original intent of the constitution, we wouldn't have a debt ceiling problem. >> people need to remember what the quester is, how it came about and that was over a -- a fight overt debility ceiling. >> a debt andrew mccarthy of the national review says was picked by tea party republicans like brown. >> a lot of the professional politicians in both parties said oh, they're crazy. they're going to cause us to default. they're going to throw the world economy into chaos. but eventually they forced a deal with the sequester on an unwilling washington. >> the deal was this: if republicans and democrats could not cut $1.2 trillion out of the growth of spending over ten years, automatic cuts would kick in. half would come from domestic spending. half from defense. that's why brown was torn over the sequester last winter. he desperately wants to downsize the government, except for the pentagon. >> we need to make targeting cuts, but we need to have a strong national defense. we need to spend more money on the military. >> the white house's calculations was the republicans would not be able to tolerate the sequester because of its impact on the defense budget. >> but former clinton advisor says the sequester revealed something few in washington expected. >> it's turned out to be an x-ray of changes inside the republican party where the automatic reflex of being pro-defense has been at least overlaid with an equally important impulse towards smaller government. >> it would take months for that x-ray image to fully develop. >> i think both parties have a say that this would be a negative event for the economy. >> remember maryland congressman john delaney? on february 12, he headed to his first state of the union address. >> i don't think a sequester is going to happen. >> defense cuts were supposed to be a poison pill for republicans. they were never going to swallow it based on the past. >> the president of the united states. >> democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in washington as the sequester, are a really bad idea. >> true. but they disagreed on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. the president asked for higher taxes and new spending programs. >> i'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing homes. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work as soon as possible. make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. redesign america's high school so they better equip graduates. >> our taxes on job producers, more spending will continue to destroy jobs. >> last winter our cameras followed you through the sequester showdown. one telling moment was after the state of the union. was that a turning point that some republicans said he's not hearing us? this thing is going to kick in. >> the president is not hearing the american people. they want spending cuts and see that as the only mechanism where spending cuts are actually taking place. >> turns out the republicans almost liked the poison. it was clearly a blunder by the president. it was just a complete misreading of the opposition. >> job creating investments in education and energy and medical research. >> the president tried to convince the public that the sequester cuts would be too painful to bear. >> border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. f.b.i. agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. >> the president went into full chicken little mode, the sky is falling, he said. in fact, he said plane also fall out of the sky. >> air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays in airports across the country. thousands of teachers will be laid off. >> the problem is, only a minority of americans feared the cuts. more think they'll have a positive effect, or make no difference at all. more ominous perhaps for the president nearly half the country thought he deliberately exaggerated the effects of those cuts to try to scare people. and so on march 1, a unified republican caucus let the sequester cuts go into effect. were democrats surprised that they actually did? >> i think each side was surprised. the democrats felt the republicans would be so upset about the defense cut, they never let it happen and the republicans thought the democrats would be so concern about cuts to education and things like that that they would never let it happen. >> here it did. the sequester cuts only a small percentage of increases in federal spending. but that was still a huge accomplishment for small government conservatives. then december 10. democrat and republican negotiators agreed to set aside the sequester and increase spending. though they say their deal reduces the deficit. tea party groups howled. >> frankly, i just think that they've lost all credibility. >> december 12, the house passes the bill. but 62 republicans vote no, including tea party conservative paul brown. >> does this budget agreement roll back what republicans say they accomplished with the sequester? >> absolutely. there is no question. we've got to stop spending. we've got to do it today because that's the only way to stop this federal government that's out of control. >> months ago, few predicted the gop would agree to ease the sequester. but that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> thank you. >> coming up, the limits of leverage, inside the long shot fight to defund obamacare months before the new obamacare exchanges were to go into effect, nearly three times as many voters said the law made them worried rather than reassured. that's according to a fox news poll in late june. in late july, a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers who thought they saw a way to do that were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz! >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working class irish-american mother. princeton, clerkship, youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate, repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promised texans, i'm going to do everything i can to stop this failed law. >> thank you. >> you have someone who is dogged and determined, i know horse flesh. >> democrat pat goodell began working in politic when is jimmy carter was still a candidate for president. >> we've had someone who has been in five months, be the focus of the president and vice president, because they smell something that scares them. >> the most significant divide right now, it's not between republicans and democrats. it is between the entrenched politicians of both parties and the american people. if the path to getting this done depends upon convincing people in smoke-filled rooms in washington, it can't be done. the only way this happens is if we break out of traditional washington rules. >> getting this done means killing obamacare before it fully takes effect. >> between now and september 30, we need to stand up and defund obamacare. >> september 30 is when funding for the government expires. cruz says that gives congressional republicans extraordinary leverage. >> the house of representatives should pass a continuing resolution that funds every penny of the federal government, everything in its entirety, except obamacare. >> what are the senators telling you? >> there was significant resistance internally. a lot of people were urging that we had just come through the sequester battle and we need to focus on that. >> there is a new paradigm. >> you have health care so can we! you have health care, so can we! you have health care, so can we! >> he has got incredible talents and not afraid. and to have the judgment with it, to be able to think through the policies, i don't know. >> here is what you hear on capitol hill, senator cruz is incredibly bright, princeton, harvard, supreme court clerkship, all that. but he's not common sense smart about how to operate on capitol hill. >> if the measure is do you play the washington games, if you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours, then they're right. >> when you first heard of senator ted cruz's defund obamacare effort, what did you think? >> i thought there was no chance whatsoever that president obama or democrats in the senate would vote to defund his signature piece of legislation. >> senator ron johnson, a wisconsin republican, was elected in the tea party wave of 2010. cruz and others am pushing this defund effort. they were raising money around the country to pressure republicans to support it. you didn't like that. >> i certainly would have preferred the political pressure to be applied to democrats that actually support obamacare as opposed to republicans that share the goal. >> do you think democrats have thought harder to enact legislation that they had been trying to push through than republicans? >> they have followed through on their principles. i think republicans ought to have the same commitment to principles. >> were you surprised the defund effort went as far as it did? >> no, because i think any kind of fight, whether it had any chance for success or not, resonated with the people who are so concerned with what obamacare means to our personal freedoms. >> and to the economy. ever hear of a 29er? you didn't before obamacare. fox news reporting continues when we return obamacare passed in 2010 on the heels of the financial meltdown. the president pitched it as an economic boon to the nation. it would bend the cost curve, he said, help small business. not for nothing, it was called the affordable care act. as the law takes hold, the economy is still sluggish. some americans are wondering if obamacare is one of the reasons why. >> i want to thank all of you for joining us here today. i know i've heard from many of you. >> august 28, unionville, connecticut. democratic congresswoman elizabeth este is hosten aaffordable care act small business workshop. >> there has been a lot of confusing information, misinformation, uncertainty and i want to make sure we're sort of all on the same page. >> it's a scene playing out across america. worried constituents asking what obamacare will really mean for them. >> they're going to start cutting hours. >> there are going to be adjustments we'll need to make and we'll find those out as the program rolls out. >> in fact, the obama administration has been making adjustments to the law nancy pelosi said we had to pass so that we could find out what was in it. 1200 waivers to companies, unions, schools, and local governments, exemptions to congressional staffers, delayed deadlines, like the employer manned. >> which again to me is smart policy. if you try to do something transformative, you get a feedback loop of what facts are emerging that you couldn't anticipate and then you make adjustments to improve. that's normal behavior. >> but it's not normal behavior, say many obamacare critics. they say instead, it's quite literally lawlessness. >> obamacare really isn't a law in the traditional sense. a document that's 2500-plus pages long can't be a law in the sense of a settled standing rule of right and wrong. >> charles kessler of the claremont institute says the affordable care act gives to the obama administration and its bureaucrats what the notion of a living constitution gives to activist judges, the ability to interpret the written law as they see fit. >> it is indigestible. it is incoherent. it's basically an excuse for bureaucrats and congressmen and congressional staffers and interest groups to negotiate forever the meaning of the law in a way that lines their pockets or favors their interests. >> equally indigestible, he says, the growing stack of obamacare regulations, reportedly 15,000 pages worth. 71% of americans find that over the top. while the administration issues those waivers and exemptions, the president can't suspend the law of unintended consequences. >> don't get me wrong, we made money, it was just on a real small margin. >> bob westbrook of longview, texas, told us he won't be able to afford to buy health care for his employees, or to pay the obamacare fines if he doesn't. so he unloaded two of his pizza franchises while he says he could still get a good price for them. >> just the penalty alone would be thousands of dollars more than what we even made out of the three stores. >> obamacare has put into our language some new interesting phrases. there are now 49ers. 49ers are companies with 49 employees who are just not going to get that 50th employee because it triggers all kinds of expenses and coercions under obamacare. and then there are 29ers, people working 29 hours a week who won't be allowed to work a 30th hour a week because obamacare stipulates that someone who works 30 hours a week is a full-time employee. >> when you hear that, what do you think? >> i think in fairness, the data is inconclusive whether that's happening or not. there is clearly examples of that happening and there is clearly examples of that not happening. >> by summer's end, 57% called the way obamacare is being carried out a joke. some urgently worry a government program so big and so complicated will be impossible to uproot once it takes hold. >> do you have confidence? >> which is why some folks here in rome, georgia, are pushing their congressmen to move ahead with his plan to kill the law now. >> i'm going to tell you, you better buckle your chin strap. it will get interesting. >> tom graves' bill to defund obamacare is the first he's ever written. it will soon pit republican against republican. >> the best thing you could do is just turn off the tv for a month. you'll sleep a lot better. coming up, nothing focuses the mind like a deadline and three of them loom over washington. i have brute political power, that's how democrats passed the affordable care act. but obamacare also fueled a tea party backlash that gave republicans control of the house of representatives. did that toe hold also give conservatives the leverage to kill the law? two new senators elected with strong tea party support thought so. ted cruz of texas and utah's mike lee. >> defund it! defund it! >> september 10, washington, d.c >> only you can win this fight! >> the tea party is tired of losing republican successes, have succeeded in only delaying and minimizing the inevitable swelling of washington's power. they want to begin to win. that frustration points you in the direction of an urgent strategy. >> if everyone who purports to be against obamacare agrees to do this, we can defund it. we can and we must and together we will! >> right after the rally, i sat down with cruz and lee. you've been talking about this as a last chance to get rid of obamacare. do you believe that? >> what i've described it as is it's the last chance before obamacare kicks in on january 1. that's significant because we know that when a major entitlement program kicks in in this country, it's really hard to get rid of it. >> we've got 20 days between now and september 30th. >> congress has given the power of the purse, but it's a meaningless power if you don't say to the executive branch, we are going to start as ted cruz might say, defunding it. if you're not willing to use the powers that the framers gave you to rein in executive excess, you are inviting more executive excess and the wielding of power. >> senator cruz may be the most visible leader of the defund effort, but tom graves of georgia is the congressman who sponsored the bill in the house that would fund the government only if obamacare was zeroed out. he told us of his impassioned plea to get house republicans behind it. >> i shared my heart. i said, i cannot look my constituents in the eyes and tell them that i did all i could do for them if we don't do everything right now. i concluded my remarks, there was applause. >> it was the first bill that graves had ever written. it passed. setting up a shutdown showdown with the democratic controlled senate. >> i think it showed us exactly how far the tea party was willing to go, which was not completely clear before that. i feel like it was a game changer. >> i rise today in opposition to obamacare. >> vowing to use every procedural measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. >> i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. the whole debate we're having today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obamacare is destroying jobs. >> he speaks for 21 hours, 19 minutes. and then as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. >> any bill that defunds obamacare is dead. dead. >> in that fight if everything went your way, the president would have vetoed that thing to defund and you would have been back to -- >> well, not necessarily. listen, if you made the case to the american people that obamacare wasn't work, i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about well, this is not repealing it. it's a delay 'til we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable if we had been united. >> in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that's what the house tried next. passing a bill funding the government, but delaying obamacare one year. >> we're not going to vow to tea party anarchists. >> to democrats, delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. >> obamacare is the law of the land and will remain the law of the land and as long as i'm senate majority leader. >> the partial government shutdown arrived. >> the affordable care act is moving forward. that funding is already in place. you can't shut it down. starting tomorrow, tens of millions of americans will be able to visit healthcare.gov to shop for affordable health care coverage. >> october 1, the big moment. but healthcare.gov crashes upon launch. >> like every new law, every new product rollout, there are going to be some glitches that we will fix. >> were you surprised that this rollout had gone so poorly? >> yes. >> really surprised? >> yes. >> shocked? >> the team that was work on this let the american people down and the president down. >> if the web site was a debauchle for democrats, the shut down was one for republicans, says gop senator ron johnson of wisconsin. >> i wish we would have pursued delay. i think we would have looked like political geniuses. >> senator cruz would say they got the delay very quickly once the house sent over its legislation. the next negotiating ploy once senator reid said no was how about a delay? >> it was viewed by the american people as unreasonable. and armed harry reid and president obama to dig in their heels and continue to point to republicans as just being utterly unreasonable no matter what we proposed later on. >> but george will says democrats didn't seem particularly reasonable either. >> the president followed his sequester folly, the sky is falling, the earth is coming to an end with oh, my goodness, government shutdown, we have to first build a fence around an open air world war ii memorial so we can say we've closed it. and he looked like a foolish and vindictive man. >> soon another deadline approached. the debt ceiling again. that turned out to be one showdown too many for congressional republicans being blamed most by an angry public for shutting down the government. >> you had leadership in both parties come together and say let's jack up the debt ceiling. let's keep spending. let's keep borrowing money and let's not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted, conservative americans and said, i got a short cut. there aren't any short cuts. it was an act of supreme irrelevant responsibility to arouse the republican base, good, hard-working, devoted people, ardent to have limited government, but to arouse them for a crusade that he had to know he couldn't win. >> george will, who i have great respect for, is wrong. >> i think the political movement has to be a movement. it can't sit on its hands. it has to stand for things in order to attract political support. i think that as obamacare rolls out, what they're going to remember is that cruz was right and that the people who didn't want to fight this thing were wrong. >> americans were as split as mccarthy and will over the defund fight, according to a fox news poll taken at the 46% saw it as a waste of time. exactly the same number saw it as an important effort. that included 59% of republicans and 74% of tea partiers. >> god bless texas! >> so it's not so surprising senator cruz returned to a hero's welcome back home. by november, with the government shutdown in the rearview mirror and the troubled obamacare rollout front and center, republicans raised eight-point democratic lead in the generic congressional ballot. the gop was now up by three. meanwhile, conservative efforts to kill the law continued with skirmishes in venues you wouldn't expect. sleep train' ending soon! get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery, free set-up, and free removal of your old mattress, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event is ending soon! superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ welcome back. conservative republican lawmakers tried to defund the affordable care act and failed. but that hardly meant the law was succeeding. its wobbly rollout presented a fresh opportunity to a new generation of anti-obamacare activists who had been waiting to take the fight to the streets. >> if the markets are panicking, they have as yet to show it. >> october 1, 2013, arlington, virginia. >> there have been glitches in the first day. how many young people will go back the second or third day, hoping it will be better than today? >> the staff of generation opportunity gathered to watch president obama's health carrollout. >> they can't get the exchanges even to work, so the people that tried to sign up can't. pretty funny. >> evan is generation opportunity's president. >> we completely expected that the obama administration, given all the tech savvy individuals they had worked with in the past do better. i think it really did disillusion a lot of young people who are used to technology working. 'cause he's such a huge -- to see a huge failure. >> as this continues to have bugs, we continue to be able to voice our message. >> six months of educating young americans about their health care. >> meanwhile, an emphatic promise was coming back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you will keep your health insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor. period. end of story. >> according to a fox news poll, half of all voters believed president obama knowingly lied when he told americans they could keep their health care plan. 59% said at the very least his administration knew many people would lose their policies. >> it's a whopper for sure. >> kirsten powers is one of nearly 6 million americans who had to find new insurance plans because of the affordable care act. but powers, an obamacare supporter, figured she'd get better coverage on the new exchange, or at least a lower premium. >> i thought it was going to go down. he's saying if you like your plan you can keep it and this is going to cut cost and people are going to get better health care for less money. >> instead, her premium doubled. >> did you get the e-mail from tyler? >> generation opportunity activists saw that happening on day one. >> he went to sign up. the cheapest plan had him at $250 a month, $5,000 deductible. $3,600 out of pocket -- $6,300 out of pocket. he's 22 years old. >> every day seem to bring more bad news. cancer patients losing their doctors. >> it does not allow me to keep my team, the team that's kept me alive. >> people no longer able to get care from the neighborhood hospitals. massive security problems. >> do any of you today think that the site is secure? >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> how bad politically do you think this is for your side? >> i think when we get the web site working, i think it will pass pretty quickly. >> congressman, you know it's bigger than that. you have a president who said you can keep your health insurance, period. that's not a web site, right? >> right. >> you have people going on and seeing higher premiums than maybe they thought they were going to see. are you worried there are more shoes to drop? >> i worry about the momentum around getting people enrolled. if we don't get younger, healthier americans to participate, and they pay a penalty, it will throw off all the insurance model. >> he should be worried. young people aren't signing up. >> december 11, health and human services gives its latest tally of people who signed up on the exchanges. only 365,000. no indication of how many are young and healthy as opposed to those who are older or sick. >> there is a reason why the administration hasn't released any numbers for how many young people signed up. it's because there are very, very few young people that are buying obamacare is good for me. >> how important is it to the success of the program? >> it's vitally important to the program's sus secretary because of the 7 million people they're trying to get signed up, 2.7 million need to be young and healthy for the law to work. >> which brings us back to where we started. that tailgate party outside the stadium in miramar, florida. >> believe it or not, there are organizations that are out there working to convince young people not to get insurance. >> if he needed any proof that his efforts were having an impact, the white house supplied it. >> think about that, that's a really bizarre way to spend your money. to try to convince people not to get health insurance. >> doesn't he have a little bit of a point? aren't you telling kids, don't get health insurance now? >> the president's comments are extremely misleading, disingenuous and false. there are still option for young people that are better than those lousy plans that are being offered to young people under the obamacare plan. >> thosing on he says include accident insurance, short-term plans, and health care sharing ministries that would keep a healthy young person from going bankrupt in the case of a catastrophic event. >> there are critics that say those are lousy alternatives. >> obamacare plans are lousy plans. >> actually think this law will do what it's intended to do. i think it's going to need to be amended and fixed over time because again, you don't reform something this size and assume you got it right the first time. now we need to get it on with implementing the role, fix the problems that exist. >> you think a can happen? >> i think definitely. >> not surprisingly, feinberg sides with those who say the law can't be fixed. he insists that a growing number of young people who will be stuck with the tab don't even want to try. >> we're saying enough. enough of the fact that less than half of my generation is working full time. enough of the fact that all of this debt has to be paid back by my generation. we are saying, they're making our lives worse and not better. >> that's all for this fox news reporting. we hope you'll keep watching in 2014. good night. fox news alert. we're learning new details now on the colorado high school shooting. hello, everyone. i'm gregg jarrett. welcome to a new hour of "america's news headquarters." >> i'm arthel neville. investigators say the shooter may have been targeting a teacher and we're also getting more information about the weapon he used. now more from our la news room with the latest. >> reporter: authorities just came out and said that the 18-year-old alleged shooter, carl pierson, showed up to arapaho high school want to go do serious damage yesterday. they say he showed up to the school with a pump shotgun, a machete and a backpack filled with three molotov cocktails. they say tha