Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Real Story With Gretchen Carlso

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson 20131028

Hope you had a fantastic weekend. Welcome to the real story. Obama care has a new problem. One that shutdown online enrollment in all 50 states. It happened yesterday when a data Center Critical for allowing americans to buy coverage simply went down. This comes amid new calls for the president to get rid of health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius just days away from her testimony before congress. Wende wendell live at the white house. Reporter there are going to be tough questions for secretary sebelius when she testifies before a House Committee on wednesday. Sundays shutdown came just a few days after she assured reporters that the online experience was getting better. Hhs Officials Say a verizon data hub went down. Its supposed to be back up now, but white house officials admit the system is still not operating as it should. A couple of Democratic Senators say the websites problems are reason enough to delay the requirement that people who can afford Health Insurance buy it next year. New hampshire senator gene shaheen wants a couple months delay. Joe manchin wants the delay for all of next year. Meanwhile, Kaiser Health says hundreds of thousands of people have been sent cancellation notices by their Insurance Companies which is ammunition for the critics who challenged the president s promise if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Blue cross Officials Say their subscribers are being offered different and in some cases better plans since starting in january the Affordable Care act requires plans to include more coverage. Senator tom coburn says that still makes them more expensive. Most people dont work for large corporations that are selffunded and run a program. Most of them work for Small Businesses who are buying Insurance Market in the small markets. Theyre going to lose coverage or their employers are going to pay an enormous price increase to be able to do it. Reporter White House Press secretary jay carney, who is briefing now, says the Affordable Care act requirement that insurance plans cover things like Maternity Care and that they have no cap on lifetime expenses is what makes them more expensive. Carney says many people will have better insurance or less cost and in some cases people whose cost goes up will receive government tax subsidies that actually reduce what they finally pay. Gretchen . Wendell, thanks so much for providing a lot of those answers for us. Speaking of the obama care website, now you see her, now you dont. The smiling young woman featured on obama cares website, guess what . Shes gone now. Scrubbed out in an apparent web doover. In her place, the far less eye catching quartet of really brilliant icons. To sign up for obama care. The identity of the woman remains a big secret. Hard to believe since most people in washington can never keep a secret. Theres some speculation she was scrubbed from the site to keep her safe after she became the target of heated criticism of the site in social media. So we want to hear from you. What do you think happened to the young woman on the obama care website . Tweet us using therealstory. My facebook question of the day as well. Head over there. Weigh in. Well read your tweets and emails and facebook posts at the end of the show. Meantime, the hits from fugitive leaker Edward Snowden keep oncoming, leaving the white house in damage control. The Obama Administration sending off reports now that president obama knew that the nsa was eavesdropping on german chancellor Angela Merkels personal phone calls. This as we hear of another bombshell. The nsa reportedly monitored 60 million phone calls made in spain in just a single month. Heres jay carney just a few moments ago talking about that scandal. Was the president kept out of the loop about what the nsa was doing . Josh, what i can tell you is two things. Ibz first, im not going to get into details of internal discussions. But the president clearly feels strongly about making sure that we are not just collecting information because we can, we do not and will not monitor the chancellors communications. Todays world is highly interconnected. And the flow of large amounts of data is unprecedented. Innovation is going to continue. If were going to keep our citizens and our allies safe, we have to continue to stay ahead of these changes. Fox news digital politics editor, host of power play, joins me now. He used a favorite word of mine. Executive producer jen williams, this is juicy stuff, chris, right . Its discomforting stuff as you think about the relationship between the United States and germany is crucial. Arguably our second most important ally. Nato, european power house. Here we are having this very, very delicate and difficult, very public discussion. It makes Angela Merkel look bad. It makes the president look bad. But at home, theres a real theres a real concern as it relates to what did president obama know and when did he know it . Yeah. And neither of the answers are particularly good. Are we to believe as americans that the president of the United States did not know that we were listening in on chancellor merkels phone calls for five years . And that he found out yet again about this story when he read about it in the news . Well, we better hope thats not true. We better hope that the background document that the white house put out, leaked out, it seems, to the wall street journal is false. And that it is a lie. What they hold is that the president had no knowledge of one of his closest allies, the leaders of one of our nations closest allies, being spied upon. And that he didnt approve it and he didnt authorize it. Because if its the truth, much more dangerous and much more chilling possibility would be that we have a National Security apparatus that can spy on allies, including very important ones, without the issay so of t president. Lets just hope that spin and talking point is trying to protect the president. Otherwise we have a much bigger problem on our hands. Chilling being the operative word there. Chris stirewalt, thanks for your time. You bet. New Mainstream Media outrage now over the benghazi terror attack. But its certainly not new for you out there, our viewers. Because the wrenching report on 60 minutes last night was information fox uncovered months ago. I made it known as a meeting, you were going to get attacked. You were going to get attacked in benghazi. Its going to happen. You need to change wroyour secuy profile. Joining me now, k. T. Mcfarland, fox news National Security analyst. When i watched this report last night i thought, well, about time. Here we go. The Mainstream Media asking very critical questions. What was your analysis . A couple of things. First of all, the Mainstream Media has missed every opportunity, in fact, has gone in the other direction in looking at any critical analysis of this Administration Whether its obama care, whether its benghazi, whether its al qaeda. Whatever it is, this administration bears no blame. I was in the whut house during watergate. I remember that question. What did the president know and when did he know it . It doomed the nixon presidency. Yet no one in the media is asking that question. The second thing, though, is about benghazi. Really about the entire middle east. Its as if the administration has al qaeda blindness. And its a willful blindness. They did not believe that al qaeda was still a threat so therefore when they had warnings prior to the al qaeda attack, prior to the benghazi attack, they ignored them. They didnt beef up security. They didnt rescue. After the fact, they still havent gone in the big question, though, is why . Because in this report last night, you had the security analyst saying that the al qaeda flags were flying five months before this attack in benghazi. And dont you remember before the election that one of the Campaign Slogans for president obama was bin laden is dead and al qaeda is on the run. If you have all these requests for more security, could it be that this was all about an election . Sure it was. It was all about an election. Remember, when did it happen . It happened just a month before the election. Once the administration had determined that ben lin laden w dead and al qaeda was on the run, they were not going to acknowledge even in their own heads that al qaeda still presented a threat. It wasnt just the black flags of al qaeda flying. It was the fact that there was a Defense Department report, a report from the Defense Department saying al qaeda is setting up a cell in benghazi. Watch out. The repeated requests from the people in the embassy. We need more security. It fell on deaf and blind ears. So if it was about the election, now were postelection. Right. So why would the administration continue to allow al qaeda to become stronger in egypt, syria, iraq, afghanistan . I mean, its one thing to be blinded before an election. Right. But its a whole nother thing to have the legacy now of president obama be to be blinded about al qaeda . Your thoughts. Yeah. As far as the legacy youre absolutely right. They remain blinded about al qaeda. Why . If they admit it, then theyd have to go back and say we really did make a big mistake on benghazi. Theyre not about to admit that. Hes looking for a very different legacy. The legacy he wants is an arms control deal with the iranians at almost any price. The iranians want to have the sanctions lifted. They want to have nuclear weapons. Whether the administration goes along with okay, you know, the report is that its going to be a year away before al qaeda i mean, before Iran Gets Nuclear weapons, now we find out maybe its even a month. Thats the legacy hes looking for. Not al qaeda. He got bin laden. That was the first term. Second term he wants to deal with iran. K. T. Mcfarland, expert on this topic, thank you so much. An alert for you right now. Police setting up a perimeter around a Movie Theater this afternoon. Raleigh, North Carolina, after an attempted robbery in the area. Look at that video. The suspect was subdued. Here he is lying face down on the roof. More on that story as it continues to come into fox. In the meantime, now that the Mainstream Media is catching up to the outrage over benghazi, what does it mean for Hillary Clintons political future . We debate. Fair and balanced, next. Plus, the search is on for four prisoners on the run. 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Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided theyd go kill some americans . What difference at this point does it make . Joining me now, julie ra begin ski, Fox News Contributor a and lars larson, syndicated talk toe host. What difference does it make, lars . How do you run for president of the United States when you have your own incompetence to blame as secretary of state for the deaths of four americans . Murdered in benghazi when you had every reason to know that their security was inadequate, as we saw in the interview with some of the security that were on the ground at the time. They warned the state department. The state department didnt want to hear those warnings. I have a feeling it was largely political. And then the fact that she dodged interviews by the congress for so long. When she finally showed up, she says what difference does it make . How do you avoid having americans killed in the future if you dont figure out the incompetence that got americans killed before . Julie, this story, it appears, is not going away. Now the Mainstream Media looking into it after more than a year. So does this have any kind of political ramifications for Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president . Well, it remains to be seen. But i will say this. And i say this actually in a nonpartisan way. Look, when people attacked george bush for the attacks of 9 11 saying he should have known. He got a report. I said, you know what . Thats horrible. Its disingenuous. Youre essentially implying the president of the United States allowed and stood back and allowed these horrible attacks to happen. The same thing is the implication here. Youre essentially implying that Hillary Clinton voluntarily stood back and allowed four americans to be murdered. I think lets take politics out of this for a second. This is a horrible, horrible tragedy. Yeah. We need to get to the bottom of what happened. Lets not politicize it. Im not sure thats exactly the exact analogy. Of course it is. Its not. Heres a transcript from the interview last night. The reporter said in that environment you were asking for more security assets and you were not getting them . Greg hicks says, thats right. She says, did you fight that . He says, i was in the process of trying to frame a third request but it was not allowed to go forward. Lars, is it the same or different . Its different. Heres why. In august of that year, 2001, the nsa, then secretary rice not secretary rice, but dr. Rice, said there is some kind of threat coming from al qaeda that might involve airplanes somewhere, sometime. That was very nonspecific. This was a specific threat message from our own people on the ground who said, we have inadequate security. We have security locally hired that has promised to run away if attacked. Which is exactly what they did that night. Right. Theres a difference between a specific Security Threat that could have been answered with Additional Resources and a nonspecific threat like august of 2011. Will Hillary Clinton have to answer this question successfully to be able to run for president. She has to address this issue. It permeates the public consciousness about her. Lets not forget, this is not to minimize what happened in benghazi, obviously a horrific tragedy from everybody involved. But from a purely political standpoint, Hillary Clintons Approval Ratings have not seemed to suffer over this. True. In fact, right now Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner regardless of if she runs again. Its been interesting to see as we get closer. Got to move on to the next topic. Surprise, surprise. Obama care. It has to do with the fact former treasury secretary under bill clinton has now said that actually, lars, its republicans fault that this whole thing is not working. Your thoughts . No. Its not republicans fault. The democrats say they wanted to have single payer. Republicans said no, it has to involve the private sector. So the government jumped into the private sector and look what the result is. A 600 million website that doesnt work. And Health Care Costs that are rising dramatically. And the Insurance Companies point the finger blame right where it belongs. At the governments actions in the marketplace. Heres what he says. So why are todays republicans so upset with an act they designe

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