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as i said the committee can take that up with my counsel. what did you mean by too stupid to understand the difference. congressman i didn t mean anything by it. you said it. you had to have meant it. i was once glen being glib and trying to make myself seem smarter. you are a professor at mit and you are worried about not looking smart enough? yes. jonathan gruber up on capitol hill today called inexcusable arrogance all those videos you have seen. we re back with our panel. marah? well, it was inexclusive arrogance and made himself out to be a poor shrub slub. he is a go-to guy on mechanics of healthcare. he made the model used for the massachusetts healthcare plan and obamacare. he said he is a gift that keeps on giving to opponents of obamacare. not only did he insult people and suggested that the law was passed by subterfuge although i think that almost anything he talked about was actually
massachusetts healthcare plan. president obama said he designed abramof obamacare after romneycare. if it was obamnycare why isn t it with the governor standing there? obama is the person i quote saying he looked to massachusetts to design the program. he is the one who said it s a blueprint and emerged the two emergencyed the two programs and he merged the two programs so that was a president of president s comments. end of pawlenty s campaign came after this exchange with michele bachmann after the straw poll. undisputable fact in congress her record of accomplishment and results is non-existent. when you were governor in minnesota you implemented cap and trade in our state and you praised the unconstitutional individual mandate and said the era of small government was over.
reporter: job reports did allow the romney campaign to switch the subject on whether the massachusetts healthcare plan used a penalty or tax break. the supreme court ruled the penalty amounts to a tax which romney says means president obama broke his promise to raise taxes on the middle class. the president says it punishes free loaders and he makes no apology for it. shannon: the number of women unemployed in june 2012 was 5 587,000. that s more than in divine more than in 2009 when the president took office. later this hour our expert panel breaks down what the numbers say
a final goodbye is set for music icon whitney houston on saturday. the pop star s funeral is being held at the church where she sang as a young girl in jerz ger. aretha franklin and kevin costner are just a few who will be gaghtserring in her honor. we will have coverage of the funeral, beginning at 11:30 a.m. eastern time. for all of your headlines, go to foxnews.com. you are watching fox nug. riage. i m patti ab brown. greta: in a grand ceremony in boston, governor mitt romney signed the massachusetts healthcare law in 2006. now six years later in 2012, he is fighting attacks on the signature legislation. one of the burning questions, who really paid for the massachusetts healthcare plan? turns out it was you, the taxpayer. not just the massachusetts taxpayer. but the nation s taxpayer helped out. that s right. even if you don t live in massachusetts you helped pay for it. how did that happen?