box because if he conceded on this delay, it looks like he caved to republican demands, with the shutdown threat and the debt ceiling nightmare. so he is a in a pickle. exactly. the expert is spoke to say this is a pro and con for the administration if they extend the individual mandate penalty for another year. it will give the administration to clear things up here and get the web site up and running, but it looks like the republicans won. you have been studying this more than i have. so let me get your sense of how it s going right now? no one is defunding this. no one is killing this yet. but i always suspect, as this drags on, kate, a lot of people say, this looks like a mess. i don t want any part of it. so a delay doesn t necessarily east that, or could it? it could if the web site gets going and starts working a little better. some analysts and experts i spoke to say, if this thing gets
it amplifies these voices. a lot of people speculated in 2003 if some of the critical reporting had gotten amplified, how would that have affected the rush to war. articles that were critical article its before iraq just don t get the play that the new york times does or the washington post does so i think you re seeing a lot of different voices. whether from members of congress who are skeptical, whether from progressive activists, libertarian activists or reporting that is quite critical getting a little bit more play. you ve been prolific on twitter, laura, and i like how you ve been responding to critics and responding to people and explaining what the administration is thinking on a one-to-one basis. it s pretty powerful. it is extraordinary. you had people in lebanon and people in syria really bracing in the last day and you have pro and con. you were hoping for people who were afraid of it. very few people knew what to expect. a lot of people don t understand
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there s all these caveats they need to be absolutely sure that they need proof, they need to make sure it was the assad regime and not some rogue assad militia or whatever it is. it appears that red line, according to jay carney, was an intentional marker. what to do, it s unclear. certainly, the waters are being muddied day by day and there s a massive, furious argument going on in the united states now about pro and con, should there be an intervention. i spoke to the first prime minister of the syrian exile groups, and he is basically said that, look, again, we don t want any boots on the ground, but you guys have to consider and calculate whether you want to shore us up the moderates or whether we want to just see the weapons keep going to the jihadis and this and that. so, once again, they are calling for certain things that have been floated that could possibly happen. give the opposition antitank
vote, even a meaningful debate, on gun control. let s watch. i don t understand it. the purpose of the united states senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand. so you d encourage republicans not to filibuster? i would not only encourage it, i don t understand it. what are we afraid of? you know, that s the good john mccain, ron. there he is saying, let s have a debate. if the whole country s talking about gun safety, pro and con, nra included, gun owners of america included, gun safety people, the 90%, how can they say we re not going to let the people vote on this because we re afraid if they do go to vote, then a lot of suburban voters will tell their senators vote for the background check. at least do that. yeah. exactly. they don t want to vote because they know that they ll lose. at least on background checks. probably won t get an assault weapons ban through, but background checks, that s a pretty that s a no-brainer there. but so they