dimensional axis anymore, if they ever did. and obama and trump in their very, very different ways sort of appealed in a different dimension. you know, the axz axis, if you will, that managed to connect people who didn t connect along the xy axis. so one of my question s s is th a candidate this year on the democratic side who is able to do that? have you met andrew yang? well. okay. we have one for andrew yang. another break for us. when we come back, we are going to talk about the mayor of south bend, pete buttigieg, who has had a lot of challenges on the domestic front these past few days, from a police shooting to an actual tornado touchdown. we ll talk all about that when we come back. for all out confidence.
use cash. you see some of that here. just given what happened with the security breach. can you blame them given what happ happened? george howell for us in illinois. thank you. now to this, we have this today. president obama has signed up for obamacare. apparently, all the way from hawaii. he s of course on vacation there. athena jones also there, not on vaxz, covering the president and first family. the president signed up for the bronze plan. what else are they telling us? hi, brooke. the president signed up for a plan via the washington d.c. s health care exchange. he used the d.c.-run marketplace. he selected a bronze plan, an individual plan, so not a plan for the whole family. just a plan for himself. he has not yet paid for his premium, the white house says, but of course, they say he will. this is symbolic because the president already gets health insurance through the military. this is as part of his job. but the white house says he wanted to sign on as a show of suppo
bret. live in union beach, rick, thank you. consumer confidence dropped sharply this month to its lowest level since april. experts blame the government shutdown. stocks were up today, the dow actually gained 111 to close at another record high. the s&p 500 added ten to also close at a new high mark. the nasdaq finished ahead 12. as if republicans don t already have enough problems with president obama, they are preparing for another fight, this one over judges. correspondent shannon breem is here with details. good evening, shannon. what court are we talking about? and what do we expect is going to get so heated? the problem is this is the d.c. circuit court. what s important is the key appeals court for looking at federal regulations, things like epa and irs. something that looks at administrative axz that goes around congress. so it s a real check on administrative power. this is the court that looked at the nlrb recess appointments and found them unconstitutional.
atlanta public schools, but when you look at the schools that were most impacted, they were the black and brown schools. 100 atlanta schools, 58 impacted. they are largely black and brown. to say that there is not a robbery going on here, when these teachers reap benefits, these principals reap financial benefits, which beverly harper herself reaped benefits while the same schools were robbed of their collective futures, i think there ought to be a high dollar for that when she s off on vaxz today. we need to make a distinction whether she s accountable for this. even though you noted earlier this is like the largest scandal of its kind, under an investigation in the history of the country. it s 33 teachers and a superintendent and there are a lot more people doing the right thing, who are in classrooms, who are not behaving in this way. it s really important that when we find instances of this, and
to spring into action. take a listen. no such thing as a presidential vaxz. the presidency travels with you. he will be in constant communication and get regular briefings from his national security team as well as his economic team. and he will, of course, be fully capable, if necessary, of traveling back if that were required. it s not very far. now, the potential problem for the president, of course, is vacations maybe don t get as much scrutiny which things are going well. get a lot more scrutiny one employment so high, with the recent slides on wall street. when you look around the world and see a lot of european leaders now canceling their own vacations because they are dealing with that european debt crisis, shep. shepard: ed henry live at the white house. ed, thanks. just three seats left on that super committee in charge of erasing some of the nation s red ink. house and senate leaders have chosen five of the nine leaders. the panel is supposed to find more than a trilli