[laughter] jon: president obama taking a victory lap of sorts this week, trumpeting the news that more than seven million americans signed up for obamacare. how did the media treat that news? media buzz host howard kurtz weighs in. this is a phony number. it s a and it s wonderfully precise, you know? these guys go six months without any idea what the numbers are, and all of a sudden it s to a decimal point. will the media still pursue the real numbers? ok, here s the way the system works. let s say you pay your guy around 2 percent to manage your money. that s not much, you think except it s 2 rcent every year. does that make a difference? search cost of financial advisors ouch! over time it really adds up. then go to e trade and find out how much our advice costs. over tispoiler alert.dds up. it s low. really? yes, really. e trade offers investmen advice and guidance from dedicated professional financial consultants. it s guid that s how our system works. e trade. less for us,
joining us now, mercedes schlap, former media spokesperson for president bush, marjorie clifton also, a former consultant to the obama campaign. ron fournier writes at national review, the chief political commentator there. here s what he said in one of his pieces. he said the rest, but he s talking about the rollout of obamacare, and he s todaying the respite now that they ve achieved their seven million number allows obama s deep thinkers to the sit back and survey the political damage that has been done, and they ll find the landscape is charred. the president remains mired in a second term malaise. quinnipiac university poll released this week showed obama s approval rating locked at 42% which came on the heels of an associated press/jfk poll last week that had him at 39% with 59% of americans disapproving of his performance. marjorie, we mentioned you worked on the campaign. what happened to all that on the him and hope and change?
jon: can we get the floor crew to take your shoes away, please? dangerous weapon. julie: i have five inches under my feet. jon: i m not feeling comfortable with you in those shoes. julie: you shouldn t. jon: latest on the search for missing malaysian jetliner, almost a month after that 250-ton aircraft simply vanished. high-tech equipment deployed right now as time is running out for the batteries in those black boxes. also, this heisman trophy winner s legal troubles might not be over. the new investigation of rape allegations against him. plus those seven million obamacare sign-ups, sparking a victory lap from the white house. we ll ask if the mainstream media were fair and balanced in their coverage. [ male announcer ] evenore impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients.
continues. we ll be watching it. thank you so much, phil. jon. jon: mainstream media have been patting the white house on the back this week for hitting obamacare enrollment goal while ignoring numbers of who really signed up. a report from one of obamacare s largest insurers, said as much as 20% of the enrollees have not paid their premiums meaning they re not covered. number of people receiving health care because of obamacare is well below what the administration says. why are the real numbers flying under the radar? judith miller, pull letssy prize winning reporter and fox news contributor. kirsten powers, columnist for usa today and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. kirsten, do you agree with the premise, until people actually paid their premiums they re not covered? roughly one in five haven t paid yet. the numbers that the white house are crowing about are not necessarily real? yeah, i absolutely agree with that i can t think of any
status in july of 2010 for true the vote, which took filing a lawsuit against the united states government to get it, she and her family were, they were personally audited twice by the irs, her company was audited twice by the irs, she had seven visits from the fbi, two visits from the alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency, a visit from to osha. look, this is not coincidental jon: we will get into some of that in the special that runs this weekend, but i want to make this a bigger picture question to wrap this up. for those who might be of the liberal persuasion, what s at stake here? i mean, this is the government picking on conservatives right now, but what if you re not a conservative? well, if you re not a conservative, you should still be concerned that the irs has become so politicized. this agency which is only supposed to be collecting revenues, which has now been with charged under obamacare with having all of our health records, with knowing everything