on polls. he s determined that there s no support for this? congress? not broad-based support. that doesn t mean we re ignoring the concept or looking at how we can bill a coalition of support for it but we re determining what the best path forward is, as well as a number other issues on this. thank you so much, guys. reporter: does he remain committed to it? dana bash, gloria borger both with me. let s go to a question where sarah sanders seemed a little frustrated. they kept asking the bit about guns. in the wake of parkland. dana, in the wake of parkland, we heard the president say, yes, change that age of purchase a gun from 18 to 21. flash forward to the current day and it sounds like the president isn t ready to go there. and they re not quite i think the line was we haven t let go of some of those other things,
everything and others that don t and what we have to look for is going into 2018 who is going to win out? are the loud voices going to be able to take back the chamber and if they are then you ll see their power grow. they re responding to the progressive base. they want democrats to fight on every front and they don t want compromise and democrats have to figure out strategically what is the best path forward for them. one thing to remember, the minority never gets points for helping the majority govern. all they decide is the majority is doing a good job. that s the politics of it. what about the practicality of it? they re concerned that the team isn t ready to go. he needs these big picks because he doesn t have the underpicks in so many agencies. they re not even talking to the national security council. that s a concern, right? i think they want that imagery of getting the big picks picked
able to get these are the exchanges. they were calling for defunding underlaying and i think there was a lot of bureaucratic and political momentum to just go ahead and get this thing going. martha: when you think about it, it s almost like a business run and paid for by the american people and there is taxpayer money that is supporting this thing. so do we have the right to know whether or not it was a good business decision. that s exactly the question that congress is going to be asking. there is a new york times story yesterday about these problems. and the white house had declined, saying that they just didn t want to and that is not going to be good enough for congress and already the energy and commerce committee in the house controlled by republicans, cathleen sebelius, has the figures of enrollment, which he has not given out. she said that she doesn t know. and you will have members of
the website, health insurance marketplace, a lot of folks have seen now. did they know, who knew, and who is warned? is certainly a problem and we are talking about top officials at the department of health and human services. they were having conference calls. this was a big project and rollout to happen october 1. this administration is not that ready to go. which isn t a very big surprise. there are lots of news reports that suggest that this whole thing isn t ready to go. the president had delayed the employer mandate. and they really couldn t eligible whether people would be
a lack of urgency on capitol hill. the senate doesn t even convene. we feel it here. they feel it there, too. there is for the negotiations. not so much. there is no active progress towards a solution by midnight right now. no doubt there will have to be volleying, something back and forth. at some point, you need to race against the clock. so try attempting to be optimistic this early morning. i wesh i could help you. if there is an 11th-hour dole, if they can somehow do it, is it possible to avoid any and all negative check impact for americans? well, i have to say no, because if you look at the markets over the last now day, they re already jittery. markets should actually be up right now. because the federal reserve has been pouring a lot of money into the economy to try and make that happen. but we saw one day jump after the fed announced it was going to keep pouring money in. then off the back of all this worry in washington, markets got