be a scot. scotland and britain remain united. voters have rejected a hotly contested vote for independence. imagine what this place would have been like if you had won? it would have been the biggest party in the world. peolic in california have a suspect in custody accused of deliberatelyet sting that wildfire east of sacramento. the ran is sending flooding into texas. a man who killed a police officer in pennsylvania now intensifies. eric frein is now on the fbi s ten mostte wand list while schools close down. france has conducted its first air strike in iraq. congress cleared the way for president obama s plan to train and equip moderate syrian rebels to fight isis. we have to put boots on the ground. whose boots are we going to put there? boots on the ground are a slipper and the last thing he needs is another wedgie shoe. home depot s data breach erbigg than they originally thought. a terminal in phoenix was locked down for more than three ho
you are somebody who worked with him before. yeah you know how deeply involved he was in the obamacare legislation. has this guy always taking swings at the intellect of american people? no, this is a new aspect of john s personality. i haven t seen this before. he was deeply involved in the massachusetts health care reform and it was that expertise that the white house and administration sought out. and he had a consulting contract that came through hhs. he worked extensively with the administration and, quite frankly, gerri, that was his first brush with controversy. i testified with john in front of the senate health committee and he never revealed to anyone he was being paid by administration of the time. he was always portrayed as outside expert giving arm s length analysis and it just wasn t true. gerri: shocking frankly. here you have academic on the payroll. puts himself out there as expert. in fact he is paid spokesman. like running an advertisement. if we did th
are you stupid? i don t think so, no. does mit employ stupid people? not to my knowledge. so you re a smart man who said some as ranking member said, really stupid things and you said the same. is that correct? i, comments i made were really inexcusable. gerri: the comments i made were inexcusable. what do you make of this? does this take us back to earlier today? are gruber s comments the american people are stupid, they don t care about anybody else s health care insurance are they still on the record? they are still on the record. jonathan was integral helping craft the legislation. gerri: we know that first-hand. we all know that in washington. he was insider. these comments he made about americans at academic conferences at laugh line. he thought they were funny. people in the audience laughed if you listen to the tape. gives us insight to the elite crafting this law. gerri: this drives me crazy. this is the bottom line. you realize theme have no respect
gerri: health connect tore, the massachusetts health exchange, is under fire. the officials appeared to have lied to the federal government about the progress of the website. the report coming days after federal investigators issued a subpoena for records from the troubled health exchange. here to weigh in douglas holtz-eakin, president of american action forum. great to see you. this is one of the many state obama care exchanges. we come to find out that state officials knew that particular exchange was off track more than a before it was supposed to be launched did nothing. massachusetts was the model for obama care. are you surprised by this? does appear to have been the model for obamacare. healthcare.gov didn t work. the connecttor didn t work. nobody told the boss on healthcare.gov and massachusetts and nobody got fired. they appear to be on the same track. the problem is politics as usual. you get invested in a top-down solution. no one wants to tell the top it is no
tonight s america s newest mid-sized suvs are put to the test. the insurance institute for highway safety crashed seven of the newest models on the market, the results, well it may make you think twice before stepping inside. the institute s vice president joins us with the results. russ, great to have you on the show. little us a tell us a little bit about the test because it is different than the government uses. this is a different kind of test. this is called a small overlap front crash test. it is done at 40 miles per hour. it replicates what happens when a vehicle may drift over the center line of the highway and just clip other vehicle, headlight to headlight or go off the road of the highway and hit a tree or a telephone poll on the driver s side. it is based on research that shows 25% of the serious injuries and deaths that occur in frondal crashes are in these small overlap impacts. they have to be very common. how often do you hit dead on the front? i think i