expected to enter a plea to charges he shot and killed a tsa officer and wounded three others during that rampage last month. government is extending again the sign-up date for obamacare, for those who made the effort but couldn t complete the process by the december 23rd deadline. customer service will help them enroll and get coverage by january 1st. but those who did not start the enrollment are out of luck. their insurance will only start in february. and still ahead right here on legal view, a verdict from the american people. it could be summed up into three words, worst congress ever. historic numbers out today. and the surprising twist on who is to blame, right after this break. cg/úññ
kind of an acknowledgment that other countries are probably doing the same to the united states, as everyone knows whoever seen a james bond movie or read one of those books, everybody seems to be psi spying on everybody. mark murray, thank you very much. thanks, kristen. christmas eve is all about the race to the finish, adding to that today, americans buying health insurance have just 16 hours to finish their applications if they want coverage by the first of the year. as the president is waking up in hawaii this morning, the administration is saying the grace period tacked on to what was supposed to be the december 23rd deadline was necessary because of a surge in online activity. here s what white house communications director jennifer palmieri told me monday. because we had such a big crush of visitor s we wanted to make sure that people who were trying to sign up today were actually able to do it and get covered by january 1 and wanted to add a cushion on the back end so
want to enroll in these time days ahead of the december 23rd deadline, which of course on monday. i can tell you president obama told his staff he wants regular updates while vacationing in hawaii. he s not going to be traveling with anyone from hhs or cms, they will be here working but providing regular updates by telephone. you re absolutely right. the back drop to his departure quite different from what we have seen in past years but the debt limit fight looms large. republicans saying that they want to extract something and the white house continuing to dig in saying they are not going to negotiate over the debt limit. we all remember what happened during the summer of 2011 when the administration did negotiate and essentially came very close to the brink of defaulting on its loans. they don t want to see that happen again. they feel good about where the economy is headed. especially after that budget deal but the debt limit is one
health care goals, we re left wondering where the roles and responsibilities of the insurance companies lie. our chief national correspondent jim angle has the details from washington. reporter: the administration has finally conceded it has little chance of signing up the millions left without insurance before the december 23rd deadline and is now imploring insurance companies to help them extend the deadline. all the new announcements from the obama administration about the january 1 enrollments just indicate that they know this is out of control now. we have seen this movie before. there s been nothing about the affordable care act in the last three years that didn t involve delays, changing rules midstream. yesterday was more of the same. reporter: for one thing the administration is requiring insurance companies to take payments through december 31st for policies taking effect the next day on january 1st. though determining who actually signed up is still hard to verify.
insurance company. good evening, bret. the administration finally conceded it has little chance of signing up the millions left without insurance before the december 23rd deadline and is now imploring insurance companies to help them extend the deadline. all of those new announce mts from the obama administration about the january 1 enrollment indicates they know this was out of control now. we have seen this movie before. there is nothing about the rollout of the affordable care act for the past three years that didn t involve delays, waiving of rules, changing things in midstream. yesterday was just more of the same. for one thing the administration is requiring insurance companies to take payment through december 31st for policies taking effect the next day on january 1st. though determining who has actually signed up is still hard to verify. the administration also wants them to offer retroactive coverage for people who sign up after january 1st as long as they pay a premiu