if we bring younger healthy people in, we do have to drive down costs. status quo is not acceptable. they have to bring healthy young people in. the first thing they have to do is fix that website. let s hope they do. cornel, one final note. i have been around for a long time in washington. whenever they start blaming the news media for political problems, you know you re in trouble when the news media is responsible for all of the problems. thanks very much, guys. good discussion. up next, an american general in the philippines appeals to the pentagon for help for typhoon victims. we have details of his dire warning. plus, new drug guidelines that will impact tens of millions of americans. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, is standing by with new information, information you need to know.
the question is how many democrats would actually get behind that. cnn s dana bash says she s talked to a senior congressional democratic source who says the longer this goes, the more democrats you can expect to get behind the upton plan. wolf? joe johns at the white house, thanks very much. let s dig a little deeper right now with our cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein, our cnn political commentators, david frum and cornel belcher. cornel, look at this quinnipiac university poll on the president, on his handling, his job as president, only 39% approve of the job the president is doing. 54% disapprove. kwin p quinnipiac, this is his lowest number since taking office. i m not going to quibble with that poll. we can go back and forth with the poll numbers. but the truth of the matter is, look, it s a pox on all washington s house because washington isn t working. i ve got to say that i think we in the media are helping drive
cnn commentator cornel belcher, thank you all for joining us, i want to start with what we showed our viewers before. suggesting that maybe the i-word should be used, impeachment. is that a good thing for republicans to do right now? probably not. it s also my guess and i admit that i have not seen the entire context of that clip, but my guess is that senator coburn was in the meeting with his constituents. i don t think tom coburn actually wants to impeach president obama, i think he gave
down the government over obamacare and then republican commentators saying, well the president looks weak because he has to deal with these crazy people. you re a republican commentator, do you agree? i think there s an underlying issue here in the government shutdown fight which is that the health care bill is still very unpopular. the reality that emboldens someone like ted cruz and emboldens is republicans to pick this kind of fight is i m sorry that thank you very much. listen, this just shows that this is a very important and interesting debate and we will continue. ross, carnel and carly thank you very much. when we return, we re going to go to something that is very important happening here in washington this weekend and the man who s the you congressman john lewis is next. and the man who inspired is ted
calling for common sense solutions on guns that 91% of americans support. shame, really here should be on those who stand in the way of it. i mean, look, these high capacity clips, background checks, we have a moral obligation to try to protect, you know, there s no perfect law. however, if we can keep guns out of the hands of one crazy person, don t we have the moral obligation to do that? so i think there s some shame to go around but it s not on the president and people who are trying to stand in way of common sense solutions that 91% of americans want. hey, that s not bipartisan when 91% want it. it s not a red state or blue state issue when 91% of americans want something. cornel, you did say 91% several times. let s be clear about what you re talking about. if you re talking about more gun control laws, only 26% of registered voters want more gun control laws. what you re specifically talking about is the so-called universal background checks. that is what the president wants a