for donald trump the mogul who would be president is once again making waves this times by banning reporters who work for a newspaper that s been critical of his run for president. the trump campaign denied the des moines register press credentials after the paper s editorial board called for trump to drop out of the race. that paper released a statement that says quote, we are disappointed that mr. trump s company has taken the unusual step of excluding registered reporters from covering his campaign event in iowa on saturday because he was displeased with our editorial. as we previously said the editorial has no bearing on our news coverage. we work hard to provide iowans with coverage of all the candidates when they spend time in iowa and this is obviously impeding our ability to do so. we hope mr. trump s campaign will revisit its decision instead of making punitive decisions because we wrote something critical of him. let s bring in this morning s panel. we have msnbc
this. with millions of obama care applicants appearing out of thin hair in the last few days, kath theen lean sebelius is fighting allegations they re cooking the books. when have they not lied when it comes to obamacare. they said they had 7 million start-ups. does anybody believe that? it s an absolute possibility. no evidence, not on the hint of evidence, then a afind out that they were even underestimating the real number, which was 8 million. this was leading up to the announcement. well, mr. trump wasn t even sure that the president s birth certificate was right. the polls were cooked about the 2012 election and that milt romney was going to win. i don t think this should surprise us that they re doing this again. because it is bad news for them. that the number is so big. it s actually bigger when you
and on the right wing airwaves, conservatives are in full spin mode. all those companies breaking down employees to part-time work so they don t have to deal with these onerous regulations from obamacare. the rapidly escalating cost to the taxpayer of obama care suggests it will raise the deficit. despite all their attempts at spin, the law is still under water in public opinion. this system is ritled with errors and destined for failure ultimately. destined for failure? 8 million feel getting health care is a failure. but maybe this shouldn t be a surprise, because this party has spent five years attacking the law. for five years, we ve seen lies, fear mongering and paranoia. in 2009, then senator jim demint said the health law could be the president s water lloo, that it would break this president. it didn t. we saw tea party rally ace attacking the president for socialism. in 2010, there were massive tea party protests as a final vote in the house approached. k
missing in action is corrupt. it states the joint p.o.w./m.i.a. accounting command is so mismanaged and wasteful that it risks es descendsing frm dysfunction to a total failure. terming their trips as taxpayer funded quote military tourism. more than 83,000 service members who fought in world war ii korea and vietnam are still listed as missing. today the pentagon s press secretary called the report concerning, he says the pentagon has ordered a second look at the program. and finally, a little presidential election history now, put to good use on the other side of the globe. the milt romney campaign of knox county, tennessee had 200 t-shirts to spare following the election last fall.
implementation of the health care law, this one dealing with the penalty for smokers. the way the law works is that inge su inge surers are able to charge people up to 50% for a surcharge. they can charge a lifetime smoker the law also limits the difference insurers can charge the young versus the old to three to one. and now the administration says it s computers cannot deal with any difference in the smoker s penalty. because of the way the it systems are structures, it limits how much variation there can be in the surcharge for older smokers versus younger smokers. can t do that because it will run afoul of our computer systems. which means either insurers charge lifelong smokers less or young smokers a lot more. they apply it across the board so boetz younger and older smokers get hit with the penalty. meanwhile it s now clear that while secretary sebelius was assuring congress everything would be ready on time. garry cohen one of the key officials in impl