the website are actually enrolling paying into the system and having insurance on january 1st. that is an answer we don t have yet, gregg. gregg: ed, sounds like the president himself was able to get enrolled or did he? reporter: initially the white house said president signed up for a bronze plan on the washington, d.c. exchange. as they dribbled out more details. it was not president the that enrolled. his staff did them and they say this was symbolic gesture. since he is the president his personal information is not variable in various government databases like many of us have the information. so healthcare.gov couldn t confirm his identity that way. he would have to go for a in-person visit. that is why his staff went in anyway. meanwhile there was this other delay late yesterday for anyone cued up. they got an extra day.
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a bond from those familiarities and from their long service in the senate, and the second, a little showing of emotion by senator kerry, who has long wanted to be secretary of state. let s play a little bit of his testimony for you now. we don t have that cued up, but let me bring in really quickly, ron fornier and michael crowley. what struck you about this morning? michael, what struck you about this morning? i think three things. number one, how easy this is going to be. you saw the gushing statement by senator mccain, and the joking tone that kerry took initially with the committee was kind of a sense, we re all friends here. it wasn t very tense. it was not a tense atmosphere. he s friends with them. it s comfortable, it s going to be an easy vote. number two, the message of getting america s own economic fiscal house in order, that this is not just a matter of our economy and the global economy,
entitlements. and i think that is true, that he was talking about middle class priorities and about entitlements not being something that, you know, involves taking, that it is something that helps us develop our economy and that people need medicaid and medicare. actually, we have that clip while you re referencing that. do we have that cued up, guys? can we just play that brief clip there? roll that. i think we ve got it. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our initiative. they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. i saw that as essentially sort of a bottom line on the election that got him to this day. yes. maybe a signal about what is to come in terms of the governing fights in washington. absolutely. it is quite likely that there
us develop our economy and that people need medicaid and medicare. actually, we have that clip while you re referencing that. do we have that cued up, guys? can we just play that brief clip there? roll that. i think we ve got it. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our initiative. they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. i saw that as essentially sort of a bottom line on the election that got him to this day. yes. maybe a signal about what is to come in terms of the governing fights in washington. absolutely. it is quite likely that there will be some give and some compromise. but he is creating a bottom line here beyond which he will not go. and that is a very strong signal for these budget fights to come. but writ more broadly, i was