calls, 600 events to try to push enrollment. if obamacare was so great, would the product have been selling itself? the true test of the legacy obamacare, is it going to be the cost? did it save people money? not about how many people enrollment it s how happy they are with the product. do they stay? do they hold the administration accountable for higher costs, lower quality of care? we used to say you can polish a turd all you want, it s still a turd. that s what this is. there are plans. they re there. but they don t articulate them. that goes back to harris o popoo brownie story. we re waiting for an update on the sydney hostage siege that ended in a hail of gun fire after 16 hours. this as australia news is now reporting that the gunman and at least two hostages are dead. several others hurt. stay close. clear cloer
obamacare, that is basically the entire republican playbook. that s not going to go away. the republicans have to make a decision about that. if the technical issues on the website get better, they have to decide are they still the party of repeal or are they just the party of trying to tweak it and fix the law. fix it or repeal it. on immigration reform, the one republican in the house that proved to have credibility with the right and the ability to sort of unlock a bipartisan deal was paul ryan. he seems to be the one guy on the house side and republican side that could perhaps put together a bipartisan deal on immigration reform in the house. i think he s the guy that you have to watch on that issue. minimum wage is going to be for democrats what obamacare is for republicans. there s no chance the house will do anything on that issue. but democrats are going to use this to sort of demagogue and just as republicans use obamacare as a rallying cry. immigration is that one spot, i
particularly with the president s legacy obamacare. reporter: good afternoon. well, the president and his family are spending today snorkeling, ending the year on a fun note. but almost everyone agrees that 2013 was not a good year for president obama and with 2014 right around the corner, the question is whether it will be any better. golf, basketball, trips to the beach and crowd-pleasing dinners out. a christmas vacation spent winding down after a government shutdown, surveillance scandals and a rocky healthcare.gov rollout made 2013 a year the president might like to forget. there is some good news on the health care front to end the year. more than two million people have enrolled in the federal and state-run insurance exchanges. this as obama rings in a new year with high hopes of tackling a string of other important issues on his agenda. i firmly believe that 2014
the weather conditions are still too poor for the helicopters to operate safely, so those 74 people on board are going to stay marooned for some time to come. dana? certainly not a way to ring in the new year. thank you. i know you will keep us updated on what s going on there. up next, while the president is on vacation, the administration makes a big announcement about obamacare. i will ask a senior white house official if there could be a catch. plus an eye-popping new year s light show in a city that likes to do things big. welcome back. how is everything?
then you mentioned immigration reform, passed the senate but the house, if you believe john boehner, is going to take up this in some way, shape or form probably in small or bite-sized chunks. you mentioned john boehner. do you think that the fact that he pushed back against these conservative groups is going to make it easier for him to get immigration passed which is something that republicans and the quote unquote establishment think they need to do to pull back latinos into the fold? it is possible but i don t think that translates into an aggressive legislative agenda. i do think they continue to fight over obamacare, it continues to be a wild card in this dynamic. now that we have two million people registered, do republicans continue to push for repeal or do they continue to push this agenda of oversight, does that agenda sort of put in the shadows any other legislative agenda, particularly at a time when people are trying to get re-elected. i don t know that that s necessaril