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Here on this program. great to see you, everybody, wherever you are in the country. i m jenna lee, we welcome you to this new hour of happening now. house lawmakers getting ready on a fix of their own, getting ready to vote on the upton bill which makes good on the president s fix to allow americans to keep their insurance if they like it with an important addition. those canceled plans would not only be offered to the people who had them canceled before, but offered to new patients as well. something the administration does not like. look, the gang is all here. we have team fox coverage on all this. chief national and washington correspondent, jim angle and james rosen in d.c. bureau. go to congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill where all the action is happening. what is the republicans making for this obama care fix? reporter: they clearly think there needs a administrative fix beyond the repair president obama for the health care law yesterday. let s look ....
Administrative authority. quote, hhs will consider the impact of this transitional policy in assessing whether to extend it beyond 2014. finally today s action means, that it will not longer be simply mentation of the law that is forcing them to buy a new law, unquote. that is where the obama administration came closest to explicitly saying we re not enforcing the law. now you also heard those words, transitional policy. that was code for the same legal authority the obama administration cited this past summer for the employer mandate fix, namely some inherent executive ability to provide what the administration called, transitional relief to selected citizens in the early stages of the law s implementation. on the gop side it wasn t just lawyers challenging the legality of all this. i m highly skeptical that they can do this administratively. i just don t see, within the law their ability to do that. i think his fear is we ll ....
Change a lot of things and he doesn t want to come to congress but that is the way our system works. reporter: on that note, house minority leader nancy pelosi, speaking before the president s statement yesterday, told a forum audience in washington, stay tuned, there could be a legislative fix though that would not be her preference, jon. jon: select citizens, one of the terms used in that report. that greats on the ear for a lot of americans. reporter: for democrats with lower d. , yes. james rosen, thank you. coming up later this hour our legal panel will go in depth on the president s obamacare fix. he talked about it as james said for about an hour yesterday. we ll break down whether he has the constitutional authority to carry out that plan. jenna: now to the business side of all this, the president is set to meet with insurance executives later on today as his plan to fix the problem for millions of americans with canceled problems now rests on the shoulders of insurance c ....
Majority of senators. next will be executive appointments. then legislation. while you were sleeping california joins a growing. it is set to expire at the end of this year. 8 states reject it so far. doctor charles krauthammer said this about the president s obamacare fix. it was a fraud and a sflam the very beginning. the reason is it is almost impossible technically for the insurers to end up doing this particularly in the short time frame. second because it undermines the financial underpinnings of the health exchanges themself. ....