father s legacy of public service. also protests in sri lanka where visit by british prime minister david cameron. demonstrators are angry he is there for a summit. cameron sharply criticized the president for alleged human rights violations during that country s civil war. a tragic scene along a railroad in india. seven elephants killed and others injured by a passing train. the herd was crossing tracks in the middle of a forest when this happened. the president saying the health care debacle was on him yesterday and repeatedly useing a sports metaphor, admitting his administration had fumbled the ball. will this help or hurt democrats who supported the affordable care act and up for re-election? just a few weeks ago things looked bad for congressional republicans. polls showed many americans blaming them for the partial government shutdown in october but the botched rollout of health care could put the heat on democrats. a fox news poll showing 50% of
and hcsc will be among the health insurance companies attending this meeting with the president this afternoon, jon. jon: what are they going to tell the president or what do we expect they will tell the president? reporter: we expect they will tell the president this will be very difficult to pull off. we got a statement from aetna on all of this. it says that it supports efforts to allow people to keep the insurance policies they have, however, quote, we will need cooperation and expedited approval from state regulators to remove barriers that would make it difficult to make this change in such a short period of time. regulators will have to allow them up to date policies and secure appropriate premium rates in order to get these plans back in the market and, jon, we ve heard that some state insurance commissioners support this and they will allow this to happen. for example, in florida, where 300,000 policies were canceled, but some state insurance commissioners are saying we re n
jon: this thing, phil, like it or not, obamacare is the law of the land. it was upheld by the supreme court or at least most of it was. so can the president just make changes all by himself? you know what, i agree with fred. my personal views is what he is doing is highly improper, possibly illegal, but the bottom line he does have some administrative authority, or executive authority, all he is saying if i worked for him and one of his lawyers say, you re the bmoc, you re the big man on campus, you can do whatever you want. as long as transition, make minor changes for the best interest of the country. but like fred said he is walking the line. i m not sure if what he is doing will ever pass muster. jon: i don t know, fred, go ahead. no, jon, think about it from the other side. i m a lawyer sitting in my office and a guy comes into me from the insurance companies says, guess what? we were canceling all these policies because we re obligated to do so by the law under obamacare, und
yeah. but part of this job is the things that go right you guys aren t going to write about. the things that go wrong, get prominent attention. that is how it always been. that is not unique to me as president. and and i m up to the challenge. we re going to get this done. and check out this new york times headline the day after we got the official obamacare sign-up numbers. slow enrollment. only 106,000 pick insurance prance in a month. plans. let s talk about it with judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and author. kirsten powers columnist at the daily beast. both are fox news contributors. kirsten what do you think about the way the media treated the president especially this week? i think it has been completely fair. he shouldn t be complain about it or suggesting that the problems that we have or he is having with obamacare is caused by the media the media is
resumed this morning but i spoke with miami-dade police a short time ago, they confirmed the passenger is presumed dead since he fell from 1800 feet. so this is a recovery effort, not a rescue. police told me no foul play is suspected but homicide detectives are conducting the death investigation as is standard. the faa is also looking into the incident. police are not identifying the 47-year-old pilot or the passenger and they are not describing how the two are connected. jenna? jenna: what a case. patti ann, thank you. thanks. so with millions of people getting kicked off their health care plans, the botched rollout of obamacare has apparently begun to sink in, especially with the mainstream media. newspapers and network newscasts now very critical of the administration s handling of the launch and the president yesterday, during what was essentially an apology speech, took a swipe at the press corps. listen. am i going to have to do some work to rebuild confidence around som