she does a great job. she had to explain to reporters why the president would engage in this kind of rhetoric. here she is trying to do that. as you have seen, when america speaks about a matter, it is taken very seriously. i know. that is why it is important for the united states to be careful with its words. and you may not get all the words you were hoping to get, but i m going to be careful with the words. does that include tweeting stuff about little rock et man, be careful with your words. or fire and fury will rain down on north korea. i m not even going to go there, matt. wise choice. interesting he she doesn t want to go there. because it is is hard to defend. here s what they re trying to do. the president s style is offensive to the media but embraced by the real americans. that s their play. when asked about his words, they say, in these positions of
departments, that crime is all about gangs and all about people of color and by building a wall, by deporting a young man who was just minding his own business one night in southern california were actually making things safer for the real americans. the mayor of new york has come out, held a press conference saying this is r ridiculous. let s play this on the crime rate in new york. is the president going to insist on that funding, even if it means a government shout down? i can t image the democrats would shut down the government over an objection to building a down payment on a wall that can end the lawlessness. that will end the lawlessness. we have to end the lawlessness is what he s saying. it is a scapegoat policy. white supremacy, i think it is important that the california senator mentioned that.
to face more questions. he was asked about this yesterday, whether or not they would detail that insurance mandate penalty, the mandate that people buy insurance by a certain date early of next year in order to avoid that tax penalty from the irs. jay carney is going to be hit with more questions on that. that story is obviously not going anywhere, wolf. you know what i want to do, i want to listen to jay carney right now. he s briefing reporters. have experienced with the website every day improvements are being made. i discussed some of them yesterday. so did the president. every day, we are seeing more indications of more and more americans getting access to affordable be health insurance they did not have before. i would point you to the news out of ohio yesterday, the significant decision taken there. a state with a republican governor where which is now joining other states with republican governors to adopt the expansion of medicaid which will provide insurance to
americans believe current economic conditions are poor, that s the worst number we ve seen this year. the reaction from wall street so far has been fairly muted. there you see the dow jones industrials up about 40 points, alison kosik is over at the new york stock exchange. alison, talk a little bit about the investors and why they re not reacting more positively or negatively to these latest numbers. you see it a little more positively. the s&p 500 still in record territory. the way wall street sees this is sort of skewed. it stees bad news as good news because let s look at the job report. it s weak. it was underwhelming as far as wall street sees it. it s disappointing. the expectation is the fed will continue pumping that stimulus money into the economy so the fed will continue to act as a safety net. that pushes stocks higher, smashing new records every day and yeah, i know we talk about the dow which did hit plenty records earlier this year.
reporter: will the white house cooperate with this committee? we cooperate with all legitimate congressional oversight. i would note that as the president said yesterday, rooting for failure in this case, no matter how much you violently oppose the affordable care act, perhaps even if you voted 45 times to repeal it or defund it or sabotage it in some other way, perhaps if you even voted to shut the government down and cause all of that economic harm to the american people because you are so opposed to a bill that and a law that provides affordable health insurance to millions of americans, you ought not celebrate the fact that americans might be struggling with a website that will provide them information about obtaining that insurance. we should be focused on those americans. the struggles they may be having with the website pale in comparison to the struggles they ve had lacking affordable health insurance. that s what this policy is about. it s not about you know, who s to blam