premiums are too high and the drug prices are too high. so, what does she say we should do? we should bargain for lower drug prices the way the government can now with medicare and medicaid for everybody. now, you know, this has been a really controversial thing, m.k. let s bring you in here. the first time that bill went out of the box on this, he said some things that were arguably not true that is the craziest thing that may be true, but his numbers about who is getting crushed. how does this play to you for him to come out and acknowledge what is real, the aca has real problems and just how you can fix it because the chance of repealing it is very small. look, it s politically tricky. i think it s sort of nice to hear and hillary clinton did some conceding of those facts. had affordable care act is not affordable,other things. he is not at the top of the ticket and he s not following
risk of not signing up weren t even born. it underscores the problems with obamacare. i wish the president would have talked about fixing obamacare. i think that s right, reasonable and responsible. bill: m.k., you didn t get that the other night, did you? that would have been cool for them to say we messed this up. i think he would have been applaud for that. but that s not what we got. as this goes forward we ll have more advertising budgets blowing through the roof and not signing up a lot of people. bill: back to california. we like richard but we are not quite sure this is going to do the trick. do you know how much money they
bill: let s debate that now with mary katherine ham editor at large. and juan williams. good morning to both of you. m. k. hammer is, lapierre correct or not. i think this was completely disconnected as to what would happen when such laws were passed. i don t think the president made an argument of how it would help. a national assault weapons ban did not prevent columbine or newtown unfortunately. and we ve seen in chicago where he s going to be talking about gun violence, ironically that the tightest gun controls in the nation have not helped with the murder rate there. actually fixing gun violence is a lot harder than having this vote, which by the way harry reid can bring if he wants to. i think he s nervous about doing that. bill: he s expressed his nervousness to a degree a couple of weeks ago. juan, is lapierre correct when he says keeping kid safe was not
gallagher from a chevron station in l.a.. reporter: pretty amazing, m.k.. in california can gas prices are typically higher, we have higher real estate taxes and higher gas price taxes here. i want to point out a couple things. this is in santa monica, so it s a busy area, but take a look at this. regular gallon of unleaded gas at $4.49. plus at 4.69, supreme all the way up to 4.79. across the country sticker shock is setting in, and we are on pace, megyn, to shatter records. take a look at the number bees. back in 2008 on this very day we were selling gas on the national average at $3.13 a gallon. in that july of 2008, we broke the all-time record for a national average for a gallon at $4.11. you just said it, gas right now today, national average $3.61 a
heather: in the works about the hunt for osama bin laden picking up a big fuss. film about the terrorist leader is drawing major heat from peter kane and he wants to know if the hollywood filmmakers received classified information by navy seals to kill bin laden. he says the defense department and c.i.a. support his call for investigating the leak. let s bring in our power panel, m.k.putting far land, joosz judith miller and list we will. thank you for joining us. k.t., i ll start with you. you were in the pentagon.