Can support their efforts. Our friends in the philippines will face a long, hard road ahead, but theyll continue to have a friend and partner in the United States of america. Now, switching gears, it has now been six weeks since the Affordable Care acts new marketplace has opened for business. I think its fair to say that the rollout has been rough so far. And i think everybody understands that im not happy bout the fact that the rollout has been wrought with a whole range of problems that ive been deeply concerned about. But today i want to talk about what we know after these first few weeks and what were doing to implement and improve the law. Yesterday, the white house announced that in the first month, more than 100,000 americans successfully enrolled in new Insurance Plans. Is that as high a number as wed like . Absolutely not. But it does mean that people want Affordable Health care. The problems of the website have prevented too Many Americans from completing the enrollment proc
Notices that went out to north carolina, arkansas, a lot of places, under the president posses guidance, these letters now will have to explain to people that receive them, you know, what their policy did and what is available on the exchange. Many people will find Better Options on the exchange. Assuming we can get those exchanges up and running and assuming we can get the websites working, many people will find a better option. We told people if they had these plans, they could keep it. This and willh answer your questions. I do not want to lose sight of the promise of the Affordable Care act. I will give to the press this letter i received from my office. I will not read the whole part of it. But this child, emily, is now 22 years old. Susan, wrote me this letter to say, i know you are struggling with the aca and i want to tell you this is worth fighting for. She goes on to describe her daughter, who lost her hearing as a young child, struggle through and got great grades and ended
It is unbelievably positive. My biggest gripe is something i know cant be fixed and should not be fixed. We will go right at each other on issues. If somebody is a muslim and somebody else is a christian, they will go right at each other. Hopefully they will listen to each other. You will not do them. Do that. On campuses, i do not think there is enough discussion about gender relationships and gender equity and sexual harassment. I think people avoid having that discussion. I do not think there is enough discussion about race in your generation, but we had all of these discussions in my generation, and the reason i think you do not have those discussions, i think you need to have those discussions, but i think it is secondary to what you really need to do, which is to heal the wounds of my generation. Now, what we did, the civil rights movement, how about that . Every generation has their things they can be really proud of, but we also have things we can do better. I have kids just a
Multibillion dollar mortgage settlement deal has reportedly reached an impassion. The New York Times says the talks stalled after bank of americas latest offer of more than 12 billion fell short of what prosecutors were demanding. Apparently it fell far short, too. 12 billion isnt enough, i dont know what it would take to settle this. Take a look at that stock, down by 8 cents. In housing news, mortgage politics rising by more than 10 on the latest week. There was an increase in purchase and refinancing applications. Joe . Joining us now to talk more about House Majority leader eric cantors surprising primary defeat is cnbcs chief washington correspondent john harwood. There you are my pren. I could approach this from about ten different angles. Everybody in washington is. The establishment gop seemed to reasserting itself in a lot of different places. Obviously it couldnt do so in this part of virginia. A lot of people were talking about immigration, and that might have been his fatal
Recall scandal will not disappear with a quick fix. The lawsuits are coming. Charlie gasparino reporting that gms board has lawyered up. With us now, kelly blue book Senior Analyst carl brower and Trial Attorney david stone who has a ton of experience in big corporate litigation like this. Thank you both for being here. What weve been hearing more and more now is this criminal accountability. And senator Claire Mccaskill was all over the airwaves this weekend, but basically she wants this to be criminal. Take a listen. You know, we have the Citizens United case which our Supreme Court said corporations were people. That was hard for some of us to kind of get our arms around, but if, in fact, they are people, then there needs to be some criminal accountability depending on what the facts of the investigation show. I know Justice Department is taking a hard look at all of this including the bankruptcy filing. Tracy all right, carl, i want to talk to you first because now the big issue is