0 obama s federal obama care federal and state marketplaces. you can fit every one of them into the michigan wolverine stadium and it still wouldn t be a sellout. in terms of breaking down these numbers, 106,185, 26,794 are through healthcare.gov. very small. 79,391 through the state exchanges in 14 states. what are your it s embarrassing for the administration. they clearly need more, wanted more. they were lowballing had this. let me take you back, the congressional budget office, which is the nonpartisan budget office, early on, estimated that 7 million people would need to be enrolled by march 31 to make this work. mr. gingrich? i think three numbers that put gruber s comments in perspective. he said at the end of the first year, 36,000 signed up in massachusetts. we ve had 37,000 sign up in california already. and the fact is, yesterday the insurance commissioner announced a million californians were losing their insurance. this is a massively bigger problem than romney
home. i remember at the time it was a remarkable thing for a president to say people might be better renting than owning a home. that s where the market was just a few years ago. lets bring in our gaggle for tuesday. not bring them back but in for the day. doug, washington bureau chief for usa today, republican strategist phil musser. good morning to all of you. you were working in government or at the time of this housing crisis. there wasn t an easy legislative solution and it s been a hit or miss issue. it was challenging for us. we did take a lot of steps when democrats controlled the congress. we passed a number of bills to deal with the housing crisis. the president did take some executive orders. i think the third thing i would add to what the president is trying to do is contrast what he s doing now with the disorder and kind of dysfunction with republicans in congress. i mean, people are looking at what s happening in washington right now.
republicans are probably more on the private side. the president is taking steps in the right direction. he s got a very good housing team. shawn donovan as hud secretary has done good things in this administration. this could be a light compromise we could look for in the fall. kumbaya. you read the proposal. when you read the proposal you see it answering a lot of criticisms you had, many on the making of fannie and freddie about bringing private capital back in. everyone wants to help middle class families refinance their mortgages. i think to phil s point about fannie and freddie, they have been punching bags for the right for a long time. the president is talking about transitioning to private sector. i would hope that this would get some attention in the house of representatives. color me skeptical. we ll see. we ve got a little bit of breaking news this morning, a health concern having to do with former george w. bush. during his annual physical examination, this came fr
0 the intercept occurred sometime last week. joining me to try to figure this out, chief correspondent richard engel, bob win drom and time international editor bobby gosh. richard, i want to start with you. suddenly we ve been hinting this was coming from yemen, the plot was launched from yemen, does this mean the way the u.s. responding this morning, somewhere inside of yemen is where they were targeting. we ve been told initially the focus was always yemen. that was the location where the target was most likely to be but there was a concern because people involved had connections across the region and really across the world. people we ve been speaking to said, yes, this attack is most likely going to take place, if it s going to take place at all, in yemen. bobby, the administration has done a lot of drones. when it comes to finding aqap, it s been a drone war, pure and simple. some intelligence on the ground, some working with the yemen government but it s mostly been a dron
we talked about. let me run through what we know about so far. first of all, the tea party and other conservative groups have complained they got extra scrute if i from the irs. the irs denied it. today the irs came out today and said they were right, we were wrong. they blamed it on a bureaucratic mistake done by civil servants they said was not for political motivations but rather for the result of a categorization error of people facing a flood of applications. the tea party, nevertheless, rejected the apologies the irs offered. they wanted to see action not only from the irs, but the president and capitol hill and mitch mcconnell said they wanted the administration to conduct an entire review across the government to see if other of what mitch mcconal called thuggish practices had taken place. democrats and white house press secretary jay carney is briefing this afternoon, echoed the calls for investigation and said what happened is wrong. what we know about this is of