nightmare scenario in the midterm elections and lose the senate as well as not having the house, if that happens, republicans may well try to undo something people have. if not enough people signed up for it, they may pay a large price. they ve been running on repeal, but they haven t talked a whole lot about they re going to repeal and replace it with what? it used to be repeal, replace. then it just became repeal. and the idea of repealing something where people have expectations of benefits is extraordinarily difficult. we re talking millions of people who will have a backlash against this. so the history of all programs is it takes time to get them right. there s a lot of back and forth. there s a lot of mistakes made. even social security. it wasn t until 15 years after it was created that policymakers in washington said this thing is going to stick. so i think these deadlines, i understand them, but we can t measure its success yet. that s a good point. john, thanks so much
the problem i have with it is i do think this particular program at this particular time when you have all the things going on in the world that you have this president losing the respect not only of russia but also many of our allies that he d pick to trade the dignity of the white house and leadership for getting more web hits. i think what it really does is shows that obamacare has some huge problems that are going to make this something, anything but the affordable care act. it s clearly going to become more expensive for every american because of the way the signups are going. julian, i want to play a memorable moment from another former president speaking of the dignity of the presidency and of the white house. let s take a look at that. i know. i dent think weblgd get mr. nixon to standstill for a sock it to me. sock it to me? now, john, if the presidency can survive richard nixon saying sock it to me, then certainly it s okay for the president to
not having enough people and not having enough young people. the administration is very aware that the premise of this program is to bring all these people in to lower the cost. so i do think there s a sense of urgency. i don t think he can sell it based on urgency. he has to sell it based on quality. he has to be careful he s saying the right thing to these mil millennia millennials. john, how will the president and affordable care act be judged if the enrollment numbers don t meet the white house goal? well, it s hard to judge because their original goal was 7 million. then they lowered it down to 6 million. a study came out and found only 27% of the people signing up were uninsured to begin with. and, you know, you also have this problem of the younger people not signing up. but i find the real irony is that while republicans have been talking about repealing obamacare, you have this president basically delaying the mandate for businesses, delaying the mandate for individuals to
with bill o reilly. then there s already some indication that the president s time between two ferns may be paying off. on tuesday alone, the white house reported more than 45,000 referrals from the funny or die video to the acas federal enrollment site, healthcare.gov, which probably means the president s primary concern is that the dignity of americans who for the first time will be able to afford the cost of their care. joining the panel now from washington, d.c. is john braebender. john, i ll let you weigh in first here because i understand you are one of those who take issue with the president s decision to appear on between two ferns. well, let me say this, i think the first thing you have to realize is there s a symptom of a bigger problem. that is that under obamacare, only 25% of the people who have signed up are younger people. for the model to work, it needs to be 40%. so i think the president was put in a situation where he now has to try to do something drastic.
when not if. president assad isn t listening, pressing a crackdown on the south keeping that city from south keeping that city from anti-government rebels. captions by vitac www.vitac.com first some major international news tonight. a scary moment as the defense secretary leon panetta arrived to afghanistan. an afghan vehicle drove onto the runway area of a military base and set it afire. just as panetta s plane was landing. another major security breach but pentagon officials say no explosives were found in the vehicle and secretary panetta went on with his schedule, which includes a face-to-face promise to the afghan president hamid karzai for a thorough investigation of the shooting rampage blamed for the deaths of 16 afghan civilians this week. military officials confirm the suspected gunman, an army staff sergeant, was flown out of afghanistan tonight heading for another detention facility in kuwait, and that afghan officials were alerted to this transfer beforehan