forth was going on, was the president actively involved, maybe not in the room but on the phones? absolutely. he s working the phones all date, spoke a couple times with harry reid to push this along. his fellow democrat. he also according to white house aides spoke to speaker boehner no less than four times, including pretty late in the evening before this was all, you know, tied up finally and just about ready for a deal. so the bottom line is, a president who faced a lot of criticism for not getting his hands dirty enough early on in the process, certainly turned it up in the last three or four days and frankly, in private, white house officials say there was all this hammering in the media, about some lawmakers, but they always felt, reserve your best weapon, the president for the final stretch. in the end it worked. all right. guys, we appreciate you both this morning, had just a short time ago, representative israel say that this wasn t even act one. this was the overtour her
wafers and the number of wa iveres granted. it is about the same number of people who signed up for obama care. three percent. wow. ironies and imbalance. they went for a waiver and they were denied and this is an overtour to try to get the waive re renewed. now tis too public and obvious. i am not questioning the sincerity. they conformed to the congressional budget office and other organizations that are reporting on the devastating acts of the affordable care act on millions of americans. what we have right now, bill. this will cost the affordable care act and obama care 2 trillion in the next decade.
to remind folks of both in his own party how hard this was. at the same time send a message to the white house saying look, you have no idea. you should now see how hardy told you this was going to be and you kept push meg and i kept saying you have no idea. this is as far as i could go. i think the president and speaker boehner wish they could have the last tw weeks back. if they knew now, they would have cut the deal. i wonder if that is not some overtour to moderates and independents because i think one thing the president has done is establish the ground as he who was willing to compromise who so than the other size. i want to show i something. earlier i asks cnbc simon hobbs to look at the potential implications. if there is no agreement on the debt ceiling reached, it was