understanding of the climate change over to red planet's history. >> thank you for joining us. >> stay tuned for "state of the union" with candy crowley. it starts now. competency, credibility and confusion. today an administration shaken. will president obama's signature achievement undermine the rest of his term? and -- >> i have to care for the survival of my country. >> the u.s. and iran close in on a deal, a long time ally objects. our conversation with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this is "state of the union". good morning from washington i'm candy crowley. mama said there would be days like this but who knew there

would be months. >> if we can just get the darn website working and smooth this thing out -- >> a politician on a rugged road is generally headed downhill and losing friends along the way. amid the mess of a broken website and millions of americans losing health insurance they thought they could keep the president's approval numbers are sliding. in a totally related development -- >> on this vote the yeas are 261 the nays are 157 the bill is passed. >> 39 democrats voted against the president and with republicans on an obama care fix. the bill goes nowhere from here but it's the thought that counts and the thought is that the president's broken keep your health care promise is toxic. hence, the direct message to voters. >> i want them to know that, you know, their senator or congressman, they were making representations based on what i told them and what this white

house and our administrative staff told them. >> of the president's numbers collapsing beneath the roll out this one weighs heaviest. is barack obama honest and trustworthy? just 44% of americans think so, down 10 points since late september. it has prompted comparisons to george bush's failed response to the deadly hurricane katrina. the situations are entirely different but politically trusted bush and in the government fell and never recovered y-und recovered, undermining the rest of bush's term. >> i think it's legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back some credibility on this health care law in particular, and on a whole range of these issues in general. >> time is short as some allies inch away republicans are circling. >> presidencies are associated

with one famous utterance. ask not what your country can do for you. the only thing we have to fear, tear down this wall. and our current president will be no different. if you like your health care plan you can keep it. period. >> poll numbers are snapshots in time and time moves on. for the president days like this could become months. or they could become different kinds of days entirely. joining me now members of their party leadership, democratic congressman james cli burn and republican senator james barasso. i want to pick up on the katrina reference with the requested that once a president falls below the 50% line with it comes to honesty and trustworthiness it makes it hard to govern. senator, do you buy into that argument that the president may

be in a hole he can't get out of the >> he maybe. i'm less concerned about the president and his legacy than i am about the lives of the people in my state in wyoming and around the country who are being hurt by the policy of this health care law. they are losing their coverage, millions. they are being hit by sticker shock. they can't keep their doctors. and what the president is proposing is basically a false fix. it's a political band aid but not a permanent cure for the people being hurt by his policies so it's time to start over with trying to get people the health care that they wanted from the beginning which was affordable care from their doctor that they choose. >> congressman clyburn, it remains true a president who lose the faith of americans finds it hard to pass other things, immigration, all the other things. it was a very ambitious second term agenda for this president.

how does he win back trust? i'm assuming you think he can. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. thank you so much for having me this morning. look, i think that the president admitted that the buck stops with him. the fact of the matter is this is a roll out problem. this is not a values problem. i think if we were to look at what we were attempting to do with the affordable health care act you will know that what we're trying to do is change a value system in our country. look, with all due respect to the senator, cancellation letters are not new to my constituents. i've heard from constituents for the entire 21 years i've been in congress about cancellation letters they have been getting from insurance companies. as soon as a child is born with diabetes, cannot get on health care policy, get sick, go for your second treatment, get a cancellation letter.

you limit your benefits, you get annual benefits. cancellation letter from your insurance company. so the fact of the matter is we're trying to stop these cancelations and now a few insurance companies have decided to use the affordable care act to send out a new set of cancellation letters and what the president has done here is to say, okay, when you send out these letters we want you to invite those people back in, take a year to let the people know exactly what it is that you cancelled. >> congressman -- >> can they -- yes. >> the question here though is, yes, hopefully the website will get fixed but isn't this the undermining of trust have to do with a huge management blunder and the question then becomes to americans looking at this website which hasn't worked, looking at a promise that wasn't quite true saying wait a minute, if these people can't know ahead of time they need to really test

a website, can we trust them about implementing the rest of this. isn't that the trust issue and it's about management. >> well, sure, paradise lost, paradise regained. and when you lose something you can find it again. and the president has admitted that he expects to be held responsible for regaining the americans trust and i think he will. the fact of the matter is one of our big problems in washington is that we tend to react to sound bites a little bit too often, and, therefore, we tend to speak in sound bites and this is a sound bite that the president probably needed to take some more time to explain to the american people but you don't get reported. in fact, one of the things in washington i dislike more than anything else is when people say to me, if you explain it you're losing it. i don't like that at all. i really believe the american

people are deserving of explanations and take the time to explain it and i think the media ought to report those explanation. >> let me bring in the senator. so, this clearly, the president is off to a rough start on this. but one of the push backs whenever republicans say this is wrong, that's wrong is you never wanted it in the first place. they sort of turn it back on you yeah it's been rough, yeah it's been terrible but now you're just trying to undermine it. what is your take on the republicans next move to fix some of the things that you think are wrong with this? >> well, you know, candy this past week i introduced legislation, the state health care choice act so states could make decisions if they wanted to opt-out of the individual mandate or the employer mandate for the people in their states. i'm concerned about getting people health care that they need and want and can afford and we don't have those happening with these policies.

the website is just the tip of the iceberg, but for every one person that's been able to sign up, 40 people have gotten cancellation letters and, you know, the president may call these junk policies or substandard policies but they are policies that work for those people. i was with a rancher yesterday in wyoming, others who have gotten these letters and it didn't meet the president's standards because the insurance policy didn't include maternity coverage, but this is a woman that's had a historiy hysterec. we should level the playing field so people buy insurance at the same tax rates as those who buy it getting it through work we need to let people shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family not something the government says they have to have. in terms of pre-existing conditions, my wife is a breast cancer survivor. she's been through three

operation, chemotherapy twice. i know how critical it is for people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance and states can do that. what we're seeing is this failed website which is the tip iceberg of lost coverage, losing your doctor and higher premiums and fraud coming on the healthercare.gov website and fraudsters are out there in advantage and steal identity of the american people. >> let me bring congressman clyburn back in. you had a vote last week in the house where 39 democrats who voted, many of whom who voted for obama care sided with republicans on a fix to this idea of people being thrown off their health care when the president had promised they wouldn't be. what do you make of those 39 defections, because politically speaking it clearly is distance

between the president and this bill. >> well, i think what you saw in those 39 people, maybe nine people had real serious concerns. the fact of the matter is about 30 of them, and i've talked to them, were insulating themselves against sound bites and that's part of the problem. >> meaning that they were -- i'm sorry. meaning that they looked back home, realized people were upset and they wanted to be able to say i voted to fix this? >> meaning that people look at this and said that this is a bill that allowed me to keep my insurance policy and you voted against it. so they wanted to insulate themselves from that. but the fact of the matter is if you look at the second part of that bill, it allowed insurance companies to continue selling what is known to be substandard -- >> still voted for it. >> won't call them junk much yes they voted for it.

as i said, i don't blame anybody for insulating themselves from these sound bites because that's the world we live in, unfortunately. but that's the world we live in. >> final word here, senator, do you see republicans going forward unless something amazing happens between now and next year, this is going to go into force, this law. will republicans work with the white house to fix things or will you continue to want to change major portions of it? >> it's time to start over. this health care law is terribly flawed. it's broken. it has failed the american people because they are losing their insurance, they are losing their dock are the. pretty much ums are going up. i think there will be a massive taxpayer bailout needed just to deal with the impact of this health care law. this is not what the american people wanted. the president did not need to destroy a good health care

system to try to make a better one but that's what we have now. >> that sort of sounds like a no on trying to fix it. thanks so much. i appreciate both your time today. >> thank you, candy. >> when we return inching closer to a deal on iran's nuclear program but not everyone is a fan. >> to give the most dangerous regime of the 21st century the world's most dangerous weapons is a big, big mistake. >> my exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is next. honestly, as much as i love this job, i plan to do a lot more. i needed a new laptop for my pre-med classes, something that runs office and has a keyboard. but i wanted a tablet for me, for stuff like twitter and xbox,

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secretary of state john kerry meets with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu later this week in israel. they will discuss a deal to ease some sanctions against iran in exchange for concession on their nuclear program. democrat and republicans are pushing back saying they don't trust the leader, they want fresh sanctions. it's a snag between the u.s. and her closest ally in the volatile middle east.

joining me now is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. thank you for being here. as you know the five permanent members of the u.n. security council along with germany this week will sit down with their counterparts from iran to once again work on a deal to hopefully freeze iran's nuclear ambitions for a period of time. my question to you, because i know you're very skeptical of this and have not liked what you heard so far, is there any interim deal that you would think was all right? >> first of all, i prefer diplomatic solution. i prefer a peaceful solution. who wouldn't. israel has the most to gain from a peaceful diplomatic solution because we're on the firing line anyway you look at it. so we need a good solution. that's the main point. i think the problem with a partial deal is that you reduce the sanctions and in this case you reduce the sanctions let out

a lot of pressure and iran is practically giving away nothing. it's making a minor concession which they can reverse in weeks and you endanger the whole sanctions regime which took years to make. so i don't think it's a good deal. i think it's a bad deal, an extremely bad deal. we need a good deal. >> also at this point it's not a done deal and i want to play you something that the president said this week about pursuing a deal with iran. >> we will have lost nothing if at the end of the day it turns out that they are not prepared to provide the international community the hard proof and assurances necessary for us to know that they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon. >> so if there is a deal that provides the kind of assurances the president is talking about to show that iran is not pursuing, perhaps not getting rid of what they have now but not pursuing any further a

nuclear ambition, isn't that a good place to start? >> well, i respect the president and i know that we have a common goal to preventing iran from developing nuclear weapons and in our case from developing the capacity. they are not giving up any of their capacity. they have 18,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium to make the core of a bomb. they are not giving up even one centrifuge, candy, not one. so they are keeping their capacity. here's what could happen and might very well happen if there are billions of dollars sanctions of easement which is what proposed by the p5 plus one. you'll get investors and companies scrambling one after another to get deal with iran because economies and prices work on future expectations. if you took all that pressure all these years to build up the sanctions regime and finally

working, finally getting there and iran is really on the rope, their economy is on the ropes, their economy is close to paralysis and all of a sudden you take off the pressure, everybody will understand that you are heading south. you're going to really be in danger of crumbling the sanctions regime. while i appreciate the intention of trying to build it back up, i think it's going to be exceedingly tough if not impossible. i think a lot is being offered by the p5 plus one for iran. it's getting just an enormous deal from their point of view and giving practically nothing in return. they are keeping their infrastructure to make nuclear bombs. i think also to the signalling inside iran that it's over and signalling outside iran to many countries that will start scrambling to, for contracts in iran and it's going to be very hard to keep the sanctions regime. i think the opposite should to be done. i think they should not only

keep up the pressure, you should increase the pressure because it's finally working and if you give it up now when you have that pressure, and iran doesn't even take apart, dismantle one centrifuge, what allergy will you have when you tez pressure. it just doesn't make sense. >> i do want to talk to you about increasing the sanctions. in the u.s. congress there's a move towards that. let me button this up by playing something that the president said which goes precisely to the point of the sanctions that you fear can never -- that would open up a flood gate of people wanting to do business with iran. here's what he said. >> fit turns out six months from now that they are not serious, we can crank -- we can dial those sanctions right back up. >> what about that? >> well, i responded to that, candy, and i think that in practice that may be the president's desire and intention. i have no doubt about that.

but my assessment given what i see now, i already see the countries and the investors and the companies scrambling to get to iran. i already hear that, those voice. i receive that information. everybody is getting ready to the starting line to rush to iran to give, to be in part of that deal. i think -- but if you went the other way and not only preserve the sanctions instead of reducing them but actually increase them then, you know, all these countries and all these companies will have to choose between the iranian economy and the u.s. economy. because that's what additional sanctions mean. i want means choose iran or the u.s. that's a no brainer. everybody will choose u.s. siding up with increased sanctions. if you continue the pressure now you can get iran to cease and desist. the options aren't a bad deal. and this is a bad deal or war. there's a third option.

sanctions, increase the sanctions. in fact if you do a bad deal you may get to the point where are you on lie option is a military option so bad deal actually can lead you to exactly the place you don't want to be. i think if you want a peaceful solution as i do, then the right thing to do is ratchet up the sanctions. >> more of my interview with prime minister netanyahu when we return. the middle east peace talks with conditions. >> everybody talks about israeli concessions. it's time to talk about palestinian concessions too. my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare costs. it doesn't usually work that way with health care. but with unitedhealthcare, i get information on quality rated doctors, treatment options and estimates for how much i'll pay. that helps me, and my guys, make better decisions. i don't like guesses with my business, and definitely not with our health. innovations that work for you. that's health in numbers.

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go ahead and send iran back into the corner to build nuclear weaponry. i want to read you something senator mark kirk from illinois, a republican, in on one of those behind closed door meetings and came out and said this about secretary of state john kerry's briefing. the administration very disappointingly said discount what the israelis say. this might speak to a larger problem i think that you and this administration are on totally different sides and really that friction has now gone to capitol hill. >> well, first of all, this is a big issue and the people of good faith can have different opinions and friends and best of friend can have different opinions. there's things we agree on and things we disagree on. this is not a partisan issue either. there are democrats calling for tougher sanctions and

republicans saying keep the sanctions as they are. i'm speaking not from a partisan issue except one. i'm the prime minister of israel and i have to care for the survival of my country. and iran maintaining its nuclear weapons capability, that is the capacity to produce nuclear weapons threatens directly the future of the jewish state. we've been around the jewish people for about 4,000 years and year not about to let ayatollah armed with nuclear weapons threaten that. i can tell you and it's no secret that many of the arab leaders around us have the same view that it have and i always suggest to foreign leaders to world leaders when israelis and arabs are saying the same thing that doesn't happen very often. it's worthwhile paying attention. we're here. we're close to iran.

and we understand what iran is doing. >> mr. prime minister, if a deal should be reached that is not to your liking, it sounds like no interim deal that you want the whole thing complete destruction of what they already have as well as inspections to make sure they don't start up again, if a deal is reached is more along the lines of what the president is pushing for what is israel's next move? >> well, i hope that we can achieve a far better deal, but the president and i have agreed on many thing and we agree that israel always reserves the right to defend itself against any threat. i personally hope that a better deal is achieved because that's the way to achieve a peaceful diplomatic solution. see a bad deal, you think, will give you relief now or give you some time to check out something else. but you're not going to get that because if the first step

alleviates the pressure, you're not going to get more pressure down the line. you won't increase the pressure by lessening the pressure. i would say i don't advocate partial deals. i think partial deals are bad deals. for those who do i've said and i've said this to the united states government and other p5 plus one governments if you want to do a partial deal then decide what the final deal is and then do one step. decide that the final deal will actually implement the very terms that you, the p5 plus one put in the skourn resolution namely that iran dismantle all of its sentry fusion and plutonium reactor which is used for one thing, making nuclear weapons. iran is namaintaining these capabilities. it's receiving the first step which may be the final step a reduction of sanctions.

not a good idea. >> let me turn to another subject and that's the israeli-palestinian peace talks which got jump started this summer but now a chief palestinian negotiate or described those talks as frozen. tell me your description of where these talks are. >> i hope we can get them final try to an agreement because we need peace. >> are they frozen now, though? >> they are not frozen. we're talking. built i think, i would like to see some movement on the palestinian side. everybody talks about israeli concession. it's time to talk about palestinian concessions too. like recognizing the jewish state. you want us to recognize the palestinian state for the palestinian people. how about recognizing the jewish state for the jewish people. space a two way street. it requires palestinian concessions alongside israeli ones. the real question is do palestinians want peace with israel. do they want a state next to

israel in order to continue the conflict or are they finally willing to end the conflict. that's what we dream about. by the way, that's what we dream about with everyone. we want to see it with iran too. anybody who has been at war, two wars, like i've been that lost loved one, been wounded in military action, believe me you don't want war but you want a real peace. a real peace, in this case means real peace with the palestinians in which they recognize the jewish state and a real peaceful solution with iran which i and secretary kerry want and president obama wants. we all want the same thing. we have to be very clear on how to get it. to get it we have to make sure that iran doesn't have the capacity to make nuclear bombs. unfortunately, with the proposed deal they get to maintain that capacity. and i think that doesn't bode well for peace. >> prime minister benjamin

netanyahu thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. thank you, candy. >> i'm joined by cnn's national security correspondent. here's one thing i know about interviews. whatever you ask we'll begin by what they want to say and end with what they came to say and same message, so i was really struck by the prime minister sitting down and the first thing he says let me make this clear, israel wants peace. it's how it ended. >> he's a very different netanyahu than earlier in the week with these apocalyptic predictions of what any deal with iran would look like. some critics sense momentum moving towards a deal. senator mccain as well. he was calling senator kerry a human wrecking ball. now he said he could be open to an agreement with iran. he's sensing the mupt. >> when you look at this, is there anyway to square this so

that iran will be okay with the deal and israel will at least not be out bashing it? >> there's a certain degree you'll never get to. senior administration officials tell me the disagreement with israel is tactical but it's a big tactical disagreement. israel prefers iran retains no right whatsoever to enrich uranium. the administration found a fudge. they won't recognize this right to enrich but may allow the iranians to go home and say we have right to enrich. retain some capacity. that's something you won't get the israels to sit well with. >> it's getting to be a habit with you and me. >> a good habit. >> when we return president obama steps into unfamiliar territory. damage control. >> our failure to roll out the aca smoothly has put a burden on

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last week with debbie wasserman-schultz. >> democratic candidates will be able to run on obama care as an advantage leading into the 2014 elections. >> this issue is going to be toxic for the democrats and believe me we'll tattoo to it their foreheads in 2014, we'll run on it and lose because of it. >> wow. sounds painful. debbie wasserman-schultz may be correct but i have yet see them make a positive case for obama care. this is the most remarkable thing for me. since this lay-up was passed we heard a lot of bad things are going to happen. a lot of bad things have happened with the website. yet i've not seen anybody from the white house or democrats side coordinating a positive message look at the great things. why isn't somebody out every

single day telling a story if there's a story told. they are on defense and stay on defense. >> i think they try. you get these paragraphs every once in a while that children can stay on their parents -- there's no coordination here. and it doesn't overcome a management mess. >> sure. there's a couple of things going on. right now all the to discuss on a broken website and a broken promise and that's the story for the past couple of weeks. at some point, though, there are other stories to be told about obama care. most important thing i think is happening you do have places like kentucky, california, where people's lives are being transformed by obama care. every woman in america right now does have this opportunity not discriminate against. you're 55, 65-year-old woman you were uninsurable before obama care. the democrats are not telling the story. i'll tell you why. the republicans see the success of obama care as a threat to

them. if obama care succeeds that means government can work for good. democrats do not understand that the failure of obama care is a threat to us so we're still spread out over immigration and a thousand other issues. we got focus on make being sure people under that there are millions of americans right now with a broken website who are benefiting from obama care. >> i think van is right, democrats should be thinking about this. i think this is part of why the panic you're seeing while understandable is a mistake. ultimately for democrats to survive 2014 and forget 2014, to survive 2016 you need the program to work. so if you have democrats sort of bailing on aspects of the law that help it work like moving people into the exchanges out of this existing plans as unpopular as that obviously is then the program is less likely to work and 2014 is more likely to be a disaster. and you also -- i think there's

an underappreciated dynamic here too. obama care has two big parts. one part is the exchanges for people buying on the individual market, including women who are 55 to 65 who, in fact, were insure scrabble in many cases, my mother is 62 years old. >> very expensive and very bad plans. she's better off now -- >> my mother has a slightly different take on it. but the other piece is medicaid. right? there's a big medicaid expansion going forward. what you're seeing from democrats most of the stories they have to tell are stories about medicaid. i think that in certain ways they are scared to tell that story because it makes the promise of obama care was that this just wasn't a new single payer program it was something else and if the success -- >> medicaid is expensive. let me ask you something about the whole management idea, the katrina comparison that somehow,

you know, the president is at a place where they don't trust him or the government. when you look at sebelius, you can understand she doesn't want a confirmation hearing of someone up. whoever it is becomes a target for obama care. doesn't something have to happen to say whoa we're back in charge. >> here's the problem. this won't get better once the website gets fixed. the fundamental promise, or the fundamental issue with obama care is that it is disruptive. 85% of people in this country has health care. it will be impacted, many people will be impacted negatively who currently have health care. but the trade off is supposed to be 41 million other people who didn't have access to health care now get it. that's not how it was sold. it was sold that everything will be fine. you have health care, great you can keep it. when seniors start seeing their medicare advantage benefits drop, when people who have employer sponsored haerltd see their rates go up they are going

to be surprised and that's going a problem. >> however, the website, all of that is true but the website create as much more acute crisis because you have people who have who need that website to buy new plans. >> really quick. >> i think all of these predictions are interesting. we've been wrong on prediction after prediction. there are -- >> it's been a mess so far. hang on a second. when we return, the secretary of explaining stuff shakes up the obama care discussion. >> i personally think even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. >> bill clinton giving cover to restless democrats or setting the stage for the next president? that's next. i do, getting the right nutrition isn't always easy. first, i want a way to help minimize my blood sugar spikes.

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>> i'm back. so the famous bill clinton quote about, boy, if i were president

this is what i would do, two days later the president does it. widely seen as offering cover to house democrats who are going home and getting beaten up about obama care at this point. i looked at it and thought i think he's try to clear the barriers for his wife's run at the white house in 2016. >> so cynical. >> look, i just think that he was saying something that a lot of democrats were feeling. it's crazy, cynical, maybe that's true. i love your views about it but a lot of democrats felt like the president could survive a broken website. he couldn't survive the perception of a broken promise and needed to do something about it and the president also agreed and acted. so i think clinton -- if clinton had said nothing, the president would have wound up doing the same thing. >> i don't disagree with that at all. the thing for hillary clinton in

2016, you know, i love that we this far out are creating all of these scenarios. i do it too. i need to get paid. it's my job. no idea what 2016 is going to look like. it's also clear by the way this system is going to work, obama care is rolling out, it's not necessarily going to be perfect by 2016 either. it could be better or it could be bad. >> it could be very good. >> we know that it's very hard, close to impossible, for one party to hold the white house three consecutive terms even in a good political climate even where obama care is perfect and the economy is booming. it's very hard. the decision to run for president is going to rely much more on what does the economy look like and what is frustration level with the current administration and that's where a democrat -- >> is there anything that would make her not run? >> right now you would have to say -- i think my assumption has been the only thing that could make her not run is a feeling

she would almost certainly lose and obvious desire not to end her career as a loser. the sum combination of a total health care catastrophe and, you know, double dip recession or something, that's probably the scenario that keeps her out of the race. the interesting question for the democratic party as a whole is the clinton comment hinted this is what is the debate look like in 2015 as they gear up for the primary if obama care is perceived as not working? i'm curious if there's a moment where democrats especially left wing of the party says we want someone who will push not to fix obama care which was always a compromise but single payer. >> it's conceivable but we're a long way from there. does the media get tired of pretending that obama care is just a website that didn't work and these cancellation notices. if the media were going to be fair, here's what they would do. for every one story about a

cancellation notice there would be three stories about people benefiting from obama care right now. even with the website broken every kid under the age of 26 is benefited. we don't tell stories of successes right now. maybe we get bored with this. we only talk about the downside. the minute that democrats get it together to promote the incredible successes -- >> you think it's a message problem and not an obama care problem. >> you run against hillary clinton as champion of single payer in 2016, yes or no? >> i'm for single payer. part of the problem is we gave up on single payer without a fight. now it looks like this moderate romney care thing is a left wing plot, when in fact romney care thing that obama is putting in place came from richard nixon, heritage foundation and so -- >> so the thing from republicans isn't working and it's time to try something new. >> i'm saying democrats can make this republican program work and

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