thank you for watching. here is one more trivia question, how many different ways can you get the fox news channel? the answer, more and more ways every single day. the year began with a victory lap. >> they said they would never agree to raise tax ratz on the wealthy americans. >> it is ending in frustration and apologies. >> nobody is more frustrated than i am. >> what is behind the obama breakdown. the stories you haven't heard. fox news reporting, behind the obama breakdown. from washington, d.c., here is bret baier. >> who would have thunk it. a tech savvy team obama struggling to get a website up and running. conservatives going for defense cuts, confounding democrats.

washington wondering if the progressives capstone achievement may be their undoing. a freshman senator leading his party down a road its senior statesman would rather not go. we're going to try to make sense of the last 12 months. we start with another paradox of sorts, a condrey of young political activists against the president's signature legislation. november 10th, 2013. the month after the obamacare exchange is open for business. thousands of university of miami and virginia tech fans party outside of sun life stadium. but this is more than a pregame tailgate bash. it sounds a lot like a call to

civil disobedience. >> thousands of people will sign up for obamacare? >> hopefully. >> john feinberg, the president of generation opportunity would deny that. >> you have been traveling the country telling young people to ignore the law? >> no, not at all. >> oh, come on, we have cameras falling you around and you tell young people to opt out. >> no doubt we are telling people to opt out. >> are you ready to opt out of obamacare, right? >> yeah. t possible decision about their health care. they shouldn't pay three times the amount for health care, not for themself but to pay for an older generation. >> for obamacare to work, young, healthy people must pay into the system and not make my claims on it. that way their premiums will subsidize, older, sicker people, who statistically speaking will

use more health care services. on this day and this venue, at least, the word seemed to be getting out. >> with obamacare, i'm going to have to pay three, four times more in premiums and deductible and that is ridiculous. >> you are basically a community organizer, aren't you? >> in a way, yes. we are stealing some tactics, to get young people motivated and involved in ways that make a difference. >> the obamacare relies on these young people to be healthy. they will not sign up and that is why this law is going to fail. >> do you want this law to fail? >> our goal is not to undermine the law -- >> but evan, by doing what you are doing, you are undermining the law, if you succeed the law does fail. >> that is the sign of a really terribly bad law. >> or a law that has disappointed a lot of americans for a number of reasons. >> nobody is more frustrated by that than i am. >> millions of canceled

policies, sticker shock and the malfunctioning website. it all adds up to the most am e amazing spectacle of mayhem and meltdown anyone has seen in politics since watergate. said dan henniger. i don't think it is just obamacare failing but the democrats have promised the people in the post war period that the government can provide good things on a limitless basis and that is showing to no longer be true. >> dan henniger said 2013 will be remembered when the year when the whole progressive ideal fell apart. do you agree with that? >> no, i don't agree with that. >> john delanie, a maryland democrat acknowledges obamacare's rough start. but insists that progressiveism are dead are greatly exaggerated. >> the progressive movement is about immigration reform, about

making investment in our kids so they can compete in a globally technology enabled world, adjusting to climate change. and in a period of time people will say it is right. for 100 years americans had been lusting to create a national health care system. >> charles kessler is the author of a book on president obama and his place in the progressive movement. >> under linden johnson they created medicare and medicaid but that was far from being health coverage. when clinton failed, we felt this was it, we've seen the high mark of liberalism. but here comes barack obama and did what was thought undoable. >> and columnist george will. >> for a century, progressiveism has said, we will have progress

and bliss and paradise, but only if we concentrate more and more power in the hands of all-seeing super-confident experts who can do things normal americans can't do. that is what progressiveism is. >> that is the tragedy for the person that supports progressive government. >> but kristen powers said the problem is in the execution of obamacare. >> it says the government disfunctional, they can't handle anything and will screw up anything they touch. >> obamacare is a turning point against the government. young people are hearing about this law and feeling the effects first-hand and they are running away from big government as fast as they can. >> if that is true, and some polls suggest it is, that would seem to be a stunning turn-about for the white house and this president, twice elected with the overwhelming support of millennials. and we'll hear more from them later.

but first, with the latest fox news poll showing the president's job approval near its record low, 49% of voters questioning his honesty and a majority now wishing his signature legislative achievement had never passed, how did the obama breakdown begin? it is a story fox news reporting cameras watched unfold throughout the year in cities and towns around the country as well as in the nation's capital where politicians had to swallow some tough medicine. >> our investigation continues when we return.

in a fox news poll taken at the beginning of 2013, 83% of americans said government spending was out of control. one attempt to stem the red ink was the sequester. a sort of parliamentary doomsday

machine, no sane lawmaker would dare set in motion. that was the theory. would it hold? >> do you actually see anything changing until we do hit some kind of government collapse? >> i hope not. >> january 31st, buttes county, georgia. that is congressman paul brown. president obama had people like him when he proposed the sequester in 2011. >> if we went back to the constitution, people won't have a problem with the debt. >> people have to remember how the sequester came about and that was a fight over the debt ceiling. >> a fight andrew mccarthy of the national review said was picked by tea party republicans like brown. >> a lot of the professional politicians of both parties said, oh, they are crazy, they are going to cause us to default

and throw the world economy into chaos but eventually they forced a deal with the sequester on an unwilling washington. >> the deal was this -- if republicans and democrats could not cut $1.2 trillion out of the growth of spending over ten years, automatic cuts would kick in. half would come from domestic spending and half from defense. >> we're not doing it. >> that is why brown was torn over the sequester last winter. he desperately wants to downsize the government, except for the pentagon. >> we need to make targeted cuts but a strong national defense. we need to spend more money on the military. the white house's calculation was that republicans would not be able to tal rate the sequester because of its impact on the defense budget. >> but former clinton advisor william golston said it revealed

something fewer expected. >> it is an x-ray of changes inside of the republican party where the automatic reflex of being pro--defense has been at least overlayed with and eek -- an equally important impulse toward smaller government. >> it would take months for the x-ray image to fully develop. >> i think both parties have a sense this would be a negative event for the economy. >> remember maryland congressman john delanie, on february 1th he headed to his first state of the union address. >> i don't think a squeft ser going to happen. >> defense cuts were supposed to be a poisoned pill for republicans. they were never going to swallow it in the conventional wisdom of the past. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists have said these cuts known here in washington as the sequester

are a really bad idea. >> true. but they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform, the president asked for higher taxes and new spending programs. i'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, use our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work on our most urgent repairs. make high quality preschool to every child in america. redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates. >> more spending because they continue to destroy jobs. >> last winter our cameras followed you through the sequester showdown and one telling moment was after the state of the union. was that speech a turning point that some republicans said he is not hearing us, this thing is going to kick in? >> the president is not hearing the american people. they want spending cuts.

and they see that as the only mechanism where spending cuts are taking place. >> it turns out the republicans, almost like the [ inaudible ]. its way blunder by the president. >> it will have investments in education and energy and medical research. >> the president tried to convince the public that the sequester cuts would be too painful to bear. >> border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. fbi agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. >> the president went into full chicken little mode. the sky is falling, he said. in fact he said planes will fall out of the sky. >> air traffic con troerlz and security will see cutbacks which means more delays across the country. thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. >> the problem is only a minority of americans fear the cuts, more think they will have a positive effect or make no

difference at all. more ominous for the president. nearly half of the country thought he deliberately exaggerated the effects of the cuts, to try to scare people. so on march 1st a unified republican caucus lets the quester cuts go into effect? >> were democrats surprised that they did? >> i think each side was surprised. the democrats thought the republicans would be so concerned and the republicans would be so concerned about cuts to education that it wouldn't happen. >> and here it did. >> it did. >> and it only cuts a small percentage of spending but that was still a huge accomplishment for small government conservatives. and then december 10th. democrat and republican negotiators agree to set aside the sequester and increase spending, though they say the deal reduces the deficit, tea party groups howl.

speaker boehner talks back. >> they've lost all credibility. >> and then the bill passes congress. 36 of 45 republican senators vote against it. so do 62 gop house members, including paul brown. >> does this budget agreement roll back what republicans say they accomplished with the sequester? >> absolutely. there is no question. we have to stop spending and we have to do it today because that is the only way stopping the federal government that is out of control. >> months ago few predicted the gop would agree to ease the sequester but that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> coming up, the limits of leverage. inside the long-shot fight to defund obamacare. that's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that?

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comcastnbcuniversal. months before the new obamacare exchanges were to go into effect, nearly three times as many voters said the law made them worried rather than reassured. that is according to a fox news poll in late june. in late july, a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers who thought they saw a way to do that, were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. [ applause ] >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working class irish american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerkship, the youngest

state solicitor general in the u.s. he rab for -- ran for senate in 2012 and upset the gop favorite anded to washington with one overriding mandate, repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promised texans, i'm going to do everything i can to stop this failed law. >> thank you. >> you have someone who is dogged and determined, i know horse flesh. >> democrat pat caddel began working in politics was jimmy carter was still a candidate for president. >> you have someone who has been in the senate five months, he is the focus of the president, the vice president, every democratic mailing is a threat because they smell something that scares them. >> the most significant divide right now is not between republicans and democrats, it is the entrenched politicians of

both parties and the american people. if the path to getting this done depends upon convincing people in smoke-filled rooms in washington, it can't be done. the only way this happens is if we break out a traditional -- out of traditional washington rules. >> getting this done, means killing obamacare before it fully takes effect. >> between now and september 30th, we need to stand up and de-fund obamacare. >> september 30th is when funding for the government expires. cruz said that gives congressional republicans extraordinary leverage. >> the house of representatives should pass a continuing resolution that funds every penny of the federal government, everything in its entirety, except obamacare. [ applause ] >> what were the senators telling you. >> it was resistance internally.

people were urging we had just come through the sequester and we need to focus on that. >> there is a new paradigm -- [ chanting ] >> you have health care, so can we! >> he has incredible talent. he is not afraid of a fight. and the judgment that goes with it and to think through the policies and grow, i don't know. >> here is what you hear on capitol hill, senator cruz is bright, supreme court, harvard, but he is not common sense smart about how to operate on capitol hill. >> if the measure is do you play the washington games, if you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours, then they are right. >> when you first heard of senator ted cruz's defund obamacare effort, what did you think? >> i thought there was no chance

that president obama or democrats would vote to defund his signature piece of legislation. >> don johnson was elected in the tea party wave of 2010. >> cruz and others were pushing this defund effort and raising money around the country to pressure republicans to support that. you didn't like that. >> i would have preferred it applied to democrats who supported obamacare as opposed to republicans who share the goal. >> do you think democrats have fought harder to enact legislation they've been trying to push through than republicans? >> no, they have followed through on their principle and i think republicans ought to have the same commitment to principle. >> were you surped the de -- surprised the defund effort went as far as it did. >> no. because any kind of fight, whether it had any chance or not, resonated with people so concerned about what obamacare means to our budget and personal

freedoms. >> and to the economy. ever here about a 29er? you didn't before obamacare. fox news reporting continues when we return. ere do you hear ? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.®

obamacare passed in 2010, on the heels of the financial meltdown. the president pitched it as an economic boon to the nation. it would bend the cost curve, he said, help small business. not for nothing. it was called the affordable

care act. as the law takes hold, the economies still -- the economy is still sluggish, some americans are still wondering if obamacare is one of the reasons why. >> i want to thank all of you for joining us here today. i know i've heard from many of you -- >> august 28th, unionville, connecticut, elizabethestee is hosting an affordable care act workshop. >> there had a been a lot of confusing information and misinformation and uncertainty and i want to make sure we are all on the same page. >> it is a scene playing out across america. worried constituents asking what obamacare will really mean for them? >> are they going to start cutting hours [ inaudible ]. >> there will be adjustments we need to make and we'll find those out as the program rolls

out. >> in fact the obama administration has been making adjustments to the law nancy pelosi said we had to pass so we could find out what was in it. 1200 waivers to companies, unions, schools and local governments, exemptions to congressional staffers, delayed deadlines like the employer mandate. >> which is smart policy. if you try to do something transformative to deal with a problem, you get a feedback with what facts are emerging that you couldn't anticipate and make adjustments to improve. that is normal behavior. [ chanting ] >> but it is not normal behavior, say obamacare critics. they say it is quite literally lawlessness. >> obamacare isn't really a law in the traditional sense. a document that is 2500 plus pages long can't be a law in the sense of a settled standing rule of right and wrong.

>> charles kessler of the clairmont institute said the affordable care act gives to the obama administration and the bureaucrats what the notion of a living constitution gives to activist judges, the ability to interest pret -- interpret the written law as they see it. >> it issin digestible and incoherent and it is an excuse for congressmen and congressional staffers to negotiate forever the meaning of the law in a way that lines their possibilities or favors their interests. >> equallyin digestible he says, the growing stack of obamacare regulations. reportedly 15,000 pages worth. 71% of americans find that over the top. while the administration issues those waivers and exemptions, the president can't suspend the law of unintended consequences. >> don't get me wrong, my stores

are top performers and so we made money, just on real small plaerjs. >> bob westbrook of long view, texas, said he can't afford to buy health care for his employees or to pay the obamacare fines if he doesn't. so he unloaded two of of his pizza franchises while he could still get a good price for them. >> the penalty alone would be thousands more than we made out of the stores. >> obamacare has put into language interesting phrases. there are now 49ers. 49 employers won't get those 50th employee because there are expenses under obamacare. and then there are 29ers, who won't be allowed to work a 30th hour because obamacare stipulates that someone who works 30 hours a week is a full time employee. >> when you hear that, what do you think? >> i think in fairness, the data

is inconclusive. there is clearly examples of that happening and not happening. >> by summers end 59% called obamacare the way it is carrying out a joke. some worry that a government program so big and complicated will be impossible to uproot once it takes hold. >> do you have confidence this will happen? >> which is why some folks here in rome, georgia, are pushing their congressmen with his plan to kill the law now. >> you better buckle your chinstrap. it is going to be interesting. >> tom graves bill to defund obamacare is the first bill he has written. >> the best thing you can do is turn off the tv for a month. >> coming up, nothing focuses the mind like a deadline and three of them loom over washington.

brute political power, that is how democrats pass the affordable care act. but obamacare also fueled a tea party backlash that gave republicans control of the house of representatives. did that toe hold also give conservatives the leverage to kill the law? two new senators elected with strong tea party support thought so. ted cruz of texas, and utah's mike lee. [ chanting ] >> september 10th, washington, d.c. >> only you can win this fight. >> the tea party is tired of

losing, republican successes, they think, have succeeded only in delaying by minimizing the inevitable swelling of washington's power. they want to begin to win. and that frustration points you in the direction of an urgent strategy and set of tactics. >> if everyone who purports to be against obamacare agrees to do this, we can move forward. we can and we must and together we will. >> right after the rally, i sat down with cruz and lee. >> you've been taurking about this as a last chance to get rid of obamacare. do you believe that? >> what i've described it as, the last chance before obamacare kicks in on january 1st. and that is significant. because when a major entitlement program kicks in, it is hard to get rid of it. >> congress is given the power

of the purse but it is a meaningless power. if you don't say to the executive branch we are going to start, as ted cruz would say, defunding things. if you are not willing to use the powers that the framers gave you to reign in executive excess, you are inviting more executive excess. and not wielding the power. >> senator cruz may be the most visible of the defund effort but lee sponsored the bill, only if obamacare was zeroed out. he told us of his impassioned plea to get house republicans behind it. >> i share my heart. i said i cannot look my constituents in the eye and tell them i did all i could do for them if we don't do anything right now. as i ended my remarks there was applause. >> it was the first bill that graves had ever written. it passed, setting up a shutdown

showdown in congress. >> it showed us where the republican party was willing to go. i feel it was a game-changer. >> i rise today in opposition of obamacare. >> vowing to use every measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. >> i tend to speak in support of defunding break until i am no longer able to stand. >> the whole debate we are having here today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obamacare is destroying jobs. >> he speaks for 21 hours, 19 minutes. >> the hour noon has arrived pursuant to the order -- >> and then, as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. >> any bill that defunds obamacare is dead -- dead. >> in that fight, if everything

would have went your way, the president would have vetoed that and you would have been back -- >> not necessarily. if you made the case to the people that obamacare would have -- wouldn't have succeeded, there would have been pressure on the president. and if he needed a face-saving repeal, this is delayed until we get our act together, but i think that could have potentially been achievable if we had been united. >> in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority amount of americans did want to defund the law and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that is what the house tried next, passing a bill funding the government, but delaying obamacare one year. >> we're not going to bound tea party anarchists. >> to senate democrats, delay was as much a nonstarter as defund. >> obamacare is the law of the

land and it will be the law of the land as long as i'm senate majority leader. >> the shutdown arrived. >> the affordable care act is moving forward. >> that funding is already in place. you can't shut it down. starting tomorrow, tens of millions of americans will be able to visit healthcare.gov to shop for affordable health care coverage. >> october 1st, the big moment. but healthcare.gov crashes upon launch. >> like every new law and product rollout, there are going to be some glitches that we will fix. >> were you surprised this rollout had gone so poorly. >> yes. >> really surprised? >> yes. shocked. the team that was working on this let the american people down and the president down. >> if the website was a debacle for democrats, the shutdown was one for republicans, said gop senator ron johnson of wisconsin. >> i wish we would have pursued delay. i think we would be looking like

political geniuses had we demanded delay. >> i think senator cruz would have gotten delay quickly and once senator reid would have said no, okay, how about a one-year delay, i think the original demand was viewed by the mesh people -- the american people as unreasonable and it allowed the president and senator reid to dig into their heels to be utterly unreasonable no matter what we proposed later on. but democrats didn't seem particularly reasonable either. >> the president followed his sequester folly, the sky is falling, the earth is coming to an end, with oh, my goodness, government shutdown, we have to first build a fence around an open-air world war ii memorial so we can say we've closed it and he looked like a foolish and vindictive man. >> soon another deadline approached. the debt ceiling. again, that turned out to be one

shutdown too many for congressional republicans who were being blamed most by an angry public for shutting down the government. >> you had leadership in both parties and say let's jack up the debt ceiling and not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try to block the final deal. >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> the real problem with what mr. cruz did is he tushed to -- turned to decent, devoted americans and said i have a shortcut. there aren't any shortcuts. to me it was an act of supreme irresponsibility to republican the base, good, hard-working, devoted people, ardent to have limited government but to arouse them for a crusade he had to know he wouldn't win. >> george will, who i have great

respect for, is wrong. i think a political movement has to be a movement. it can't sit on its hands. it has to stand for things in order to attract political support. i think that as obamacare rolls out, what they will remember is that cruz was right, and that the people who didn't want to fight this thing were wrong. >> americans were as split as mccarthy and willing over the defund fight, according to a fox news poll taken at the time. 46% saw it as a waste of time. exactly the same number saw it as an important effort. that included 59% of republicans and 74% of tea partiers. >> god bless texas. [ applause ] >> so it is not so surprising, senator cruz returned to a heroes welcome back home. by november with the government shutdown in the rearview mirror

and the troubled obamacare rollout front and center, republicans erased an eight point democratic lead in the congressional ballot. the gop was now up by three. meanwhile, conservative efforts to kill the law continued. with skirmishes in venues you wouldn't expect. on chestnut stt the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i-95. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had thpower to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪

welcome back. conservative republican lawmakers tried to defund the affordable care act and failed. but that hardly meant the law was succeeding. it's wobbly rollout presented a fresh opportunity to a new generation of anti-obamacare activists who had been waiting to take the fight to the streets.

>> well if the markets are panicking, david, yet to show it. >> october 1st, 2013. armg -- arlington, virginia. >> they have having glitches on the first day, how many people are going back on the second, third or fourth day hoping it is going to be better today. >> the staff of generation opportunity gathered to watch president obama's health care rollout. >> they can't get the exchanges to work so the people that want to sign up, can't. pretty funny. >> this is generation opportunities president. >> we completely expected the obama administration would do better. it did disillusion a lot of young people who are used to technology working to see such a huge failure from government. >> as the days goes on and the system continues to have bugs, we continue to voice our message. >> there is six months of educating young people about their health care. >> meanwhile an emphatic promise

was coming back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you will keep your insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your -- you c-- if like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period. >> half of all voters believed president obama knowingly lied when you told -- when he told americans they could keep their plan. 59% said at the very least his administration knew many people would lose their policies. >> it is a whopper for. >> kristen powers is one of millions of americans who had to find new insurance plans because of the affordable care act. but an obamacare supporters figured she would get better coverage or a lower premium. >> i thought it would go down. i kept saying, if you like your plan rs you can keep it and this will cut costs and people will get better health care for less money. >> instead, her premium doubled.

>> did you get the e-mail from tyler out in the field in virginia? >> activists saw that happening on day one. >> he went to sign up and the cheapest plan was $250 a month, a $5,000 deductible, $6300 out of pocket. >> how old is he? >> he's 22 years old. >> every day seemed to bring more bad news. cancer patients losing their doctors. >> it does not allow me to keep my team. the team that kept me alive. >> people no longer able to get care from neighborhood hospitals. massive security problems. do any of you today think the site is secure? >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> how bad politically do you think this is for your side? >> i think when we get the website working, i think it will pass quickly. >> congressman, you know it is bigger than that. you had a president who said you

can keep your health insurance, period. and that is not a website. and you have people going on and seeing higher premiums than they thought they would see. are you worried about this? >> i'm worried about getting more people enrolled it. will throw off the insurance models. >> he should be worried. young people aren't signing up and they won't sign up. >> on october 7th, the latest tally of those who have signed up on the exchanges. only 3 # 65,000 and -- 365,000 and no indication of who are young and healthy as opposed to those sick. >> there is a reason they haven't released any numbers, is because there are very few young people that are buying -- who think buying obamacare is good for me. >> how important is it to the success of the program. >> it is vital to the important of the success because of the 7 million people they are trying

to get signed up, 2.7 people need to be young and healthy for the law to work. >> which brings us back to where we started. that tailgate party outside of sun life stadium in miramar, florida. >> i will opt out until the day i die. >> believe it or not there are organizations out there working to convince people not to get insuran insurance. >> if feinberg needed any help, the white house supplied that. >> think about that. that is a really bizarre way to spend your money, to try to convince people not to get health care insurance. >> doesn't he have a little bit of a point? aren't you telling kids don't get health insurance now? >> the president's comments are misleading and disin jenus and down right wrong. there are still options than the lousy plans being offered under the affordable care act. >> those include accident

insurance, short-term plans and health care sharing ministries that would keep a healthy young person from going bankrupt in the case of a catastrophic event. >> there are critics that say those are lousy alternatives. >> obamacare plans are lousy plans. >> i think this law will do what it is intended to do. i think it will need to be amended and fixed over time because again you don't reform something this size and assume that you have it right the first time. >> cut and dry? >> right. now we need to get on with getting people enrolled and getting things fixed. >> do you think that can happen? >> i think it will happen. >> and feinberg says the law can't be fixed and insists a growing number of young people stuck with the tab don't want to try. >> enough that less than half of my generation is working full time and the debt has to be paid back by my generation and we are saying obamacare is making our

lives worse and not better. >> that is all for this fox news reporting. we hope you'll keep watching in 2014. good night.

ringing in the new year with day one of obamacare. will it be a happy year for an embattled president? this is "special report." and good evening, i'm john robertson for great bear. the first day of the new year, love it or hate it america is operating under a new set of rules for health care. the fact officially -- the affordable care act went on line with the start of the new year but one of the key kpoendents did not make the journey. molly henneberg has our top story. >> reporter: president