Lets get to the first reads of the morning. White house damage control, day four now at this point . It continues under fire for her role in managing the health carcar car carolout. Hhs secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke out saying the white house didnt know about the websites problems until after its launch. I think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. But not before that, though . Before october 1, there was no concern at the white house or at hhs . I think that we talked about having testing going forward. Sebelius offered something of a mea culpa, but would not offer reports that the administration ignored supposed red flags and she would not give any indication how many people have signed up for Health Insurance. People are enrolling every day. Not as maniy as we would like, not at the volume we would like and we will keep working on it until its running as efficiently as possible. And its perhaps the most significant and if youre in the white house, the most
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Cameras bearing great news. 2013s going to be a good year he says as long as politics doesnt get in the way. Im s. E. Cupp. Lets see. Its going to be a real productive 2013. Im steve kornacki. A month since newtown and this afternoon Vice President biden handed the president the wish list for gun control. Former congress joe sustek takes his turn in the cycle. Looks like a tough four years in washington. Were helping president obama break the secondterm curse. Theres one more on envelope to open. Who won the Golden Globes pool . Spoiler alert, the answer coming in the back spin. Tired words of president obama today as washington holds the nation up against another debt ceiling. It would be a self inflicted wound on the economy, it would slow down our growth. Might tip us in to recession. And ironically, would probably increase our deficit. So to even entertain the idea of this happening, of the United States of america not paying its bills, is irresponsible. Its absurd. We are not a de
Lets get to the first reads of the morning. White house damage control, day four now at this point . It continues under fire for her role in managing the health carcar car carolout. Hhs secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke out saying the white house didnt know about the websites problems until after its launch. I think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. But not before that, though . Before october 1, there was no concern at the white house or at hhs . I think that we talked about having testing going forward. Sebelius offered something of a mea culpa, but would not offer reports that the administration ignored supposed red flags and she would not give any indication how many people have signed up for Health Insurance. People are enrolling every day. Not as maniy as we would like, not at the volume we would like and we will keep working on it until its running as efficiently as possible. And its perhaps the most significant and if youre in the white house, the most
These people have the best seats and best roles in the proceedings. And what has Hillary Clinton been up to lately . Shes been flying under the radar. She has been up to a lot. Well have all the details ahead on the show. We begin with the message that president obama will deliver to the nation on tuesday night. Details of a major tax proposal that hell offer in his state of the Union Address leaking out overnight. Basic idea is one that the president and his party have been stressing for years, asking the wealthiest americans to pay more using that money to help working and middle class americans. Tax reform is also something republicans talk about. Though their idea of reform may be very different from what the president is about to sell. With all of the details on the president s plan what he will be saying on tuesday night, we turn to nbc News White House correspondent kristinen welker. A lot coming out this morning. Take us through it. Just to reiterate the point, you made the pre