hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. jon: and i m jon scott. happening now, according to politico the new local media strategy focuses on those states, 24 of them or so, that have declined federal money to expand medicaid. a decision the administration says leaves more than five million people caught in the middle, ineligible for medicaid because they earn too much and ineligible for subsidies to buy private insurance because they earn too little. we have a staff writer for the hill who joins us now. so the white house is sending its people out to try to make good headlines, positive press in smaller markets. that s exactly right. and they re doing this because the press coverage from the national media has been so brutal over the last two months. we know that the insurance exchanges debuted with serious technical problems on october 1st, and those have continued into this week. in fact, healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment web site for obamacare, experienced an