Good evening. Im Michael Smerconish in for Chris Matthews tonight. Leading off tonight, who deserves the real apology here . Theres recognition that the rollout of the Affordable Care act has been a mess. President obama himself has acknowledged that his baby, what hes been fighting for these last four years is sick. Hes owned up to the failures of his team which botched the websites launch. And last night in an interview with chuck todd, he owned up to a failure of his own. That people feel betrayed bay promise he made them but couldnt keep. A promise they could keep their insurance if they liked it. Lets listen to the president. First of all, i meant what i said. And we worked hard to try to make sure we implemented it properly, but obviously we didnt do a good enough job. And i regret that. I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. Weve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and were going to do everything
Reported that the republican establishment sees the party on you put all thatting the together, what was being said, the National Level as veering how the president portrayed, toward destruction. They report that an its almost you do have a racially tinged impossible to find an establishment republican in town moment there, and look, its not whos not down right more rose about the 2013 that has been and just me and other people saying is about to be. They see this year as a disaster other africanamericans saying it was racially tinged. In the making even if most the person who took the video is elected republicans dont know a white man who has been on our the it or admit it, the partys air and who said i think you wounds are many and theyre all said in the intro, he felt like selfinflicked. Poe at this time cosays threats of Government Shutdown and debt he was at a klan rally. When someone who is sitting default have ended all hopes of there feels so strongly about in proving that repu
Away at rover. Consider the mayhem now afoot. The center right wants to bring did palestinian to father. Theyre tired of losing elections they thought they were going to win. They want to run for any office they want. Now youve got the gop bigshots running the Little People around. Its quite a show, and thats why were starting tonight. Joy reid is manager of the green alley and michael jones. Lets take a look at this. Well see whats wrong as the gop continues. Former gop speech writer Michael Gershwin wrote, the republican nominee, mitt romney, lost by 5 million votes to a beatable incumbent presiding over an anemic economy. The explanation is not purely technical or personali personalityoriented. It at the national level, republicans have a winning mention for a nation that no longer exists. They didnt know a new election existed. Sometime around 9 00 at night when we saw virginia looking close, whoa, whats going on, it looks like a new countrys voting here. Theyre still playing to th
good to have you with us. thanks for watching. if you had been in a time capsule for the last five years and just happened to wake up yesterday morning, you would have thought that health care in america had failed. give me a number. what would it take? what number would the mainstream media be happy with to think that we re definitely headed in the right direction when it comes to health care reform in america? we re affecting people s lives. you can t get somebody to just come out and get after it on any of the mainstream shows on sunday. this is working. they just can t bring themselves to saying it. give me a number. what number are they looking for? what is the magical number? well, it s just a situation where they re looking for the black cloud and the silver lining. i thought we d start the show tonight with a brand-new chart. what the heck. this is the rate of americans who are insured, uninsured in america. the number of americans in this country who are uninsured
0 affordable care act fails so that when it does fail, they can all say, see, we told you it would fail. it s unbelievably cynical, and you know, it s something that i think it was michele bachmann that said obama care kills seniors and children. what they re doing by trying to deny people health care is putting people s health at risk. david corn, take a look at this map. it s from the republican senator mitch mcconnell s office and it s being circulated among conservatives. it s in the states where people have received insurance cancellation notices. that s significant. but republicans led the effort to deprive people of insurance under the law. now let s look at this map from the white house. it showed the republican-controlled states where they refused the medicaid expansion. 1.2 million people in texas alone could be covered right now and yet they re not because of the ted cruz wing of the republican party which has been hell bent on destroying the affordable care act any way