democratic perspective -- the president knew he was up against a wall. he knew he had no margin for error. he knew this was a complex program. and no good deed goes unpunished. because he was trying to meld the private markets and government regulation, created a complex vulnerable program. >> and he did all that to meet republican complaints. >> yeah. even though it was in the end a fool's errand. republicans were never going to support it. he bears blame for not executing so far. he took that blame. i've got to say, i've never scene him quite as -- in the law there's a phrase confession and avoidance. that's what the president did. he confessed that the facts were true but it didn't mean he should be convicted because he had other facts to show which is that he had a plan, the republicans don't, and he has a desire to make whole the american people on health care which is the republicans evidently don't. >> okay.