sorry for remark she made on a segment on her show over the weekend. this had to do with this the picture of the 2012 president and his family and showing his grandchild or grandchildren, including kiran romney, who was adopted and african-american. her guest joked about the baby. harris-perry said she would like kiran mary kanye west daughter so west and romney would be in-laws. yesterday she tweeted i m sorry without reservation or qualification. i apologize to the romney family #mhg apology. david webb, siriusxm patriot and cofounder of tee h tee party 365 and fox news contributor and jehmu green, former president of the women s media center and fox news contributor. they join us now with some more thoughts. thank you for joining us first of all. happy new year. happy new year. heather: the new year starting off with a little bit of controversy which seems to be getting used to, melissa
governor romney s knee is his adopted grandson who is an african-american, adopted african-american child, kiran romney. the song you hear in the segment is one of these things is not like the others. one of these things just isn t the same. today, well, the host, melissa harris perry apologized on twitter saying i am sorry. without reservation or qualification. i apologize to the romney family. #mhp apology. does her apology go far enough? a cnn political contributor, and we talk about it last night. and then michael is a conservative talk show host. happy new year in advance, by the way. i m going to start with you. is an apology over twitter sincere enough? i find it cheap. i find it cheesy.
0 here. from all of us at cnn. a very happy new year to you. erin burnett outfront starts right now. next, new years eve. the world ushers in new years eve. we ll take you to parties all around the world. plus the latest from north dakota where a fiery train collision forced town officials to have an evacuation order. and the hosts of msnbc show says she is sorry for comments about mitt romney s black grandson. did her apologies go far enough? good evening. i m don lemon in for erin burnett. hau new years eve. the world bids farewell to 2013. in new york city, we re less than five hours away from the ball drop in times square. we ll take you there shortly. let s look live. this is london where it just struck midnight and the party is underway looking at the fireworks live between the london eye and the queen elizabeth tower. happy new year london. just an hour ago the skies over berlin lit one the 60 s fireworks display over the historic brandenburg gate. and there s dubai, you
good morning, happy new year, thank you for starting it here with us. i am in for bill hemmer here on america s newsroom. thank you for being here. lee: great to be here with you. i am in for martha mccallum. the botched rollout and all of the website glitches, it is now the big day for obamacare. with the elements of the sweeping health care law going into full effect, including the controversial individual mandate and the expansion of medicaid. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington for us. mike, any sign of nerves for the obama administration as this law takes effect? heather, white house states now that generally first is here, people are actually able to access to health care benefits that they are owed. telling fox there will likely be bums, it s not as much. there will be issues, there always are. these are private plans and private market. there are millions of people who change their insurance coverage everyday, but we have don