0 product, saying to consumers this will change their entire lives. this will fix many of the problems that they have. hyped it up so much and there is a complete letdown. they would have a real problem surviving in the marketplace. at the white house they re calling for people, bill, to be patient. bill: good luck with that. adding insult to injury the department responsible for launching obamacare, actually spent $56 million on conferences alone last year. health and human services department spent hundreds of thousands of dollars each on nearly 150 conferences. good work, right? that 56 million number exceeds the what the troubled irs spent on conferences between 2010 and 12. what do you think watching this, if obamacare was a private business, would it survive, would you buy the product? we ll ask our panel coming up today. you can weigh in at home or at the office. tell us what you think on twitter, @billhemmer. you can tweet martha maccallum but she is at the beach. federal w
creative, to have relationships, to associate freely. the controversial snowden adds the nsa s interception of e-mails put people at risk of coming into conflict with their own government. the nsa says it is counter-terrorism intelligence and minimizes use and dissemination and information about private u.s. citizens. one of the world s most notorious terrorist expected to be arraigned in court today. abu anas al libi will be arraigned today. they planned to interrogate him for weeks. his transfer was sped up because he is said to be seriously ill with hepatitis c and needs medical treatment that was unavailable on board al-libi s capture by delta force came more than 10 years after he was
0 right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting. now, president obama and vice president biden were supposed to meet with the four congressional leaders but that meeting was abruptly postponed. we re getting word mitch mcconnell will present a potential plan to senate republicans tomorrow morning. ed henry is following it from washington. he joins us from the white house. the bottom line is that that s actually good news, that the meeting here at the white house was delayed. normally you would say, wait, is this thing falling apart, is the president not ready to meet with democratic and republican leaders. this time, we re hearing white house aides signal to the senate leaders, if you need more type, take it. it appears they at least have a framework, we re told, from sources in both the democrat and republican party in the senate to move all this forward. it would basically extend the debt ceiling until february 15th. they would reopen the government until january 15
0 that incident delayed several flights but no one was injured. the supreme court will take on a discrimination case in michigan. voters approved an amendment outlawing any consideration of race in college admissions. six years later a federal appeals court ruled that voters could not make that decision. now the u.s. supreme court is stepping in deciding if voters can ban affirmative action programs through a referendum. an american mehero is receiving the medal of honor. cap can william winston is being recognized for saving his fellow soups in the war in afghanistan. he was badly wounded to the medivac chopper. he stopped to kiss him on the forehead before returning to flight. westbrook later died he went on to become an outspoken critic of the battle claiming that the commander errors cost american lives. vaet trans will storm washington once again. it could be the biggest protest yet to solve the crisis. doug luzader is live this morning. once again it will be a gathering
two sources 2010ed by the associated press says he is here in new york to face the charges. you mentioned sounded like they were getting very far with the interrogation on the ship. do we know if they got anything? it s very interesting. we have spoken to sources with knowledge of the investigation, who say that in fact al-liby was not cooperating last week, was not providing much information. remember, this is a man a terrorist, an accused terrorist, who wrote the book on how to resist interrogation. there was something called the manchester manual, back in the 90s, found in his london apartment, and it was for al qaeda operatives how to resist interrogation by western interrogators. so he knows what his rights are. he knows he will be read his miranda rights and now within a week they realized they weren t getting very far and read him his rights and now he will be tried for the 1998 bombings in a