♪ ♪ >> good morning. it's been a rough couple of weeks? washington and poll numbers show everyone at all-time lows. president obama's approval is just at 42% according to the nbc news/wall street journal poll, but even lower approval for republicans, that is at 22% and another new record. 63% want to replace their own number of congress. the highest percentage ever recorded dating back to 1992. when it comes to the president the polsters say it's not one single thing drags him down, but a combination, the threat of war over serious chemical weapons and the 16-day government shutdown that cost $24 billion. the thshgs sa spying scandal

that just won't go away and right now it's the rocky rollout of health care.gov and the president's still trying to solve a plan yesterday in boston while hours earlier kathleen sebelius took full responsibleity. >> so let me say directly to these americans. you deserve better. i apologize. hold me accountable for the debacle. i'm responsible. >> okay. >> so there's no excuse for it, and i take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed asap. we are working overtime to improve it every day. >> i want to bring in our company, josh barrel, for business insider and erin carmone, national reporter and congressman charles rangel, the democrat from new york. good to see all of you. good morning. a couple of things stood out for me and one is the number that we just showed and that people are sick of their own representative and usually people are sick of congress and they still like their person and the president

who always had personal likability, josh, is under water. if you're anybody in washington right now, what do you make of these numbers? i wouldn't be surprised if we were in washington and especially the last month, and i think this is sort of like the situation in 2011 when we almost hit the debt ceiling. you had an asymmetrical effect and they're doing worse than the democrats and 22% of the favorable number is stunning to me, and i think republicans have to be worried about whether they'll hold the house of representatives next year. they have the advantage in the way the district maps are done and they should be able to hold the house even if they lost the popular vote by five or six points. they could, in account fa, lofa lose the popular vote. >> let me talk about health care because that's a big part of what we're seeing here. we've been talking about this roll out for weeks, erin and there seemed like there was a

change in tone from kathleen sebelius. we heard the same thing, frankly, from joe biden. so, is this kind of a new strategy to say, look, we're sorry. we take responsibility, but we're getting it fixed and this law is a good one. >> a rot of it will depend on the next few weeks. it the administration can fix the problems people have and the dislocations will seem less scary to americans because we've said, you know, the administration has said there is this huge change coming and they've defended it over and over again and now the execution is going to be put to the test. hundreds of thousands of people who are getting notices are not going to understand why their insurance is being canceled unless they sign up for new plans. >> the president pushed back on the whole concept which the republicans have been pounding over the last few days. let me play that for you. >> for the fewer than 5% of americans who buy insurance on your own, you will be getting a better deal.

so anyone peddling the notion that they're canceling almost all of the insurers are encouraging people to join with the better carriers and stronger protections while others will get better plans with new carriers through the marketplace and that many will get new help to pay for these better plans and make them actually cheaper. if you leave that stuff out you're being grossly misled to say the least. >> is that going to work, josh some. >> no. because the president's line on this is misleading. that's part of the effect that's happening. 5% of americans is 14 million people which is a lot of people. and there are a lot of reasons the premiums are going up for these people. to some extent the plans are more comprehensive and both that they'll cover more ordinary expenses and if you get really sick you won't be in these situations where the insurance doesn't cover the medical billses they have. another reason premiums are going up is that the new system will force more rick sharing. you used to have a health care

system in america where young and healthy people can go out and buy cheap health insurance plans on the virtue of the fact that they're young and healthy and they'll have to participate with risk pools where they're much sicker than them and that actually is a worse deal with you, if you're a young, healthy person that won't get a subsidy. there are more people that will be made better off by the health care plan and these are real people who are being made worse off in a real way and the president can't dismiss their concerns. >> i was a buyer in the individual market and i'm familiar with these plans and a young, healthy person. the long-term issue is going to be that the reason these plans are better is because they cover preventative care and the ideas are there will be fewer, sicker people and the people understanding up in the emergency room before were also costs being borne by the average person and people don't understand how insurance works and when they see the premium

that's often the only thing they think about. >> you don't know how bad your plan is until you have a catastrophe in your life. >> and then bills start to pile up. >> congressman rangel, you've been on this program before and you've talked about it, but the president three and a half years after he signed this bill into law he's in boston trying to sell it. what is it it all about that people still need to be sold on this? >> when we started this three years ago we didn't have one republican supporting us, and i doubt whether we have one now. from the very beginning they hated the program and called it socializati socialization, every step of the way. they tried to derail it and so i am so happy that i can now say at long last, every american will have access to health care. now, there is the 5%. the president could have really selected his words better.

he could have said i'm increasing the standard for all insurers that you can't sell these cheap policies anymore. you have to include the provisions whether you like it or not. these insurance plans is less than 5% of what we're talking about. i don't want to ignore it. the president could have mentioned that and these policies conclude. most of them is only a one-year approximately see. are you suggesting that the president's message could have been clearer? >> no question, but no matter what they do, we do. they're going to try. i have no idea yet republicans want to commit political suicide and put all of their capital in trying to stop obama -- obama care and health care and so i know it is a political setback, but at the end of the day the most important thing is that 30% of people that go to work every day and they don't have insurance, those that can't afford insurance.

those that would take one medical problem and they're bankrupt. those are the people that we're targeting. 70% of the people, they've got employer insurance, medicaid, medicare, veteran, they're good and that's what the president was talking about. >> are you concerned, though, that if he has any political capital left and i can remember right after his reelection sitting on this set and talking to a lot of different people and there seemed to be a conventional wisdom that a president in this day and age really has a year to get stuff done and then other things start to get in and he's had a rough ride and nobody doubts that. all you have to do is look at the poll numbers. is he going to use all of any lit cal capital he has left on this? then what about immigration? and what about the budget? >> why does he need political capital? he's not running for anything. and maybe -- >> he needs to have influence to get things done. >> maybe the american people will influence some of the republicans just to do the right thing. >> do you think the polls will

matter? do you think when you go back to washingt washington, congressman? >> maybe we have the spiritual leaders and the wall street leaders together to say something about what's happening to, in. it's not a question of the president's polls. i don't care what the president's polls are as long as he's doing the right thing legislatively, economically and morally. if he's trying to get health care for everybody, good. if he's trying to get immigration reform which is good for america and good for business, good. if he's trying to raise money to have better infrastructure and create jobs, good. >> let me ask you about that because the infrastructure is part of what he sees as a grand bargain ask he's still talking about that. he would still love to see infrastructure and education and other private programs would be part of this big package and then you have people like paul ryan irin, saying it is d.o.a.

>> they would be perfectly happy if there was no grand bargain because they don't want to see social security, medicare or medicaid on the block. to some extent the republican dysfunction is allowing the status kuo to continue in a way that many on the left are happy with. as the congressman mentioned, the president is not a dictator. he's working with an intractable congress that has both in the senate and in the house done everything they can to set him up to fail. done everything to shoot, you know, his signature legislative accomplishment and then wonder why things are going wrong. we have to be focusing on is there a point in the future in which this congress will be less dysfunctional. "the new york times" said if they're going to run, if we get more republicans and more democrats in the house and fewer people holding congress hostage then we might see some of the legislative agenda go forward.

>> does some of the conversation change as well, josh, because the nation's deficit has been cut in half since the president took office. we just got word that the nation's deficit is below $1 trillion for the first time in five years. does that in any way change the conversation? >> i think it does. the congressional budget office says that debt as a share of gdp will be flat for the next decade. why would we have a grand bargain? there's no need for a further deficit reduction. republicans don't want the tax increase. democrats don't want entitlement cut asks why would they get together to reduce the deficit? the one thing that's motivating toward a grand bargain is that democrats dislike the sequestration cuts and would like to unwind them, but i don't think they can reach a deal to unwind very much of them because they would have to -- in order to offset them they would have to raise taxes or cut entitlements and people if they hate the sequester, they don't hate the sequester to cut the entitlements. you might sell off federal-owned

timberlands and raise fees and you wouldn't be able to unwind very much of the sequester. >> if briefly, if you can, congressman. i do hope we have a grand bargain and if it would seem to me that the private sector needs help in getting out of this recession. you talk about democrats, social security, medicare and all of that. we're talking about food stafrms, poor people and pain. we're not talking about reverends and rabbis. they can pray all they want and they've got to lobby for the things that's good for our country, and so this is not a grand plan. it's just an american plan and the rife at sector is doing pretty good in getting out of the recession. we could do a hell of a lot better if the government got involved in improving these worn-down systems that we have

in new york and cities around. rural areas are going without electricity. there's a lot for us to do. >> congressman charles rangel who has been in washington for eight presidents. you said you were surprised by that statistic. >> really scared me. >> irin carmone, and aaron, thanks. the latest reported, and yahoo e that email is searches were being tracked. the nsa leaker edward snowden. they weren't aware of government hacking and google says it is troubled by the report and the nsa denies it. an italian magazine is reporting the nsa tapped into phones of the vatican around the time the conclave took place to elect pope francis, but the pope's spokesperson said she's not concerned about it. the justice department is reporting that the company that

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are ending soon at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ three republicans are now bucking the party line and joining house democrats in supporting a comprehensive immigration reform bill. california congressman david veledeo has joined ileana ro ros-lehtin ros-lehtinen, on facebook, minority leader nancy pelosi says she believes there is

enough bipartisan support in the house to pass a bill. something echoed this week on an interview with jorge ramos on fusion. >> if the bill passed with a bipartisan basis was put on the floor of the house of representatives right now i think it would pass. let's go ahead and get this done before the end of the year. the majority of the american people agree with it. evangelical groups, business groups are united around it. the democratic party is fully supportive of it and we have good republican support for it as well. >> congressman jeff denon was the first to sign on in the house. good morning. >> good morning, chris. you went from the lone ranger to the three musketeers and that's a sign you're gaining moment up. how is it feeling on the hill among republicans. are you going to get more? >> absolutely. >> i don't feel like i'm breaking ranks.

i'm supporting good, sound policy that will add to the greatness of america. i think this is a bill that improves upon the challenges the senate bill had. i would disagree with the president. the senate bill is not ready for prime time. there is not going to be a vote in the house on the senate bill. both republicans and democrats have agreed that the border security piece in the senate piece is very flawed. so we fixed that. so we added the republican bill from the house that actually fixes that border security piece. i think that's something that will not only strengthen the bill, but they've taken the amendment for the enlist act to allow immigrants to serve in our military. there are amendments to be had in the house bill and i think it will continue to be bipartisan and while there are three republicans on it now, i think there's going to be many more to come. the main goal here is to -- >> comprehensive immigration reform, though, because i was curious to see and of course, he was one of the original sponsors on the senate side now seems to

be backing away and looking at a piecemeal approach. what are the chances of a comprehensive reform, congressman some. >> i think it depends on how you define comprehensive. we need to address all aspects of reform. whether it's this bill or multiple different bill that the house brings up. i want to make sure we're discussing every issue. you can't just build a bigger fence. we have a maritime border and we have security and a guest worker program and we need have a reasonable solution for the 11.5 million that are here. you can't deport the entire state of ohio. so we have to deal with a realistic solution that deals with all aspects of immigration. that's what this bill does and i expect the full debate of the house floor will take into account all of the various. >> were you like the two fellow republicans that support this. it has a latino population that is 40% of your district. it's important to your

constituents and important to the constituents of the others, but how do you con rinse other republicans to join you? >> i think that's an economic argument as well. >> for me, not only do i have a large latino population, we have a large ag community. we have a district that depends on guest workers. we have a large latino population in our schools so we have to address this from a california perspective, but across the nation, right now we just saw the fiscal shutdown. we'll be dealing with that again in january. we need to have a long-term solution and we have 17, $18 trillion worth of debt. if you want to fix it, immigration, undisputable $1 trillion over the next 20 years and that goes to a big part of that debt. also, if you want to save medicaid, social security, having immigration reform helps us to do that as well. so there's an economic side to this as well, but as

republicans, we believe in family values. we want to keep families together. there are a lot of republican principles in this immigration bill. >> the president has said and those of you along with the president who have supported immigration reform has been a long time coming for you folks, but he's like a vote by the end of the year and is that realistic in your mind? >> it's something that we have to get done which is why this bill is so important and we have to get the american public to engage in this debate and the challenge is there is no fiscal cliff deadline and like the the farm bill, milk prices go through the roof. with immigration, this is something that republican and democrat administrations have punted for the last 30 years. if we have to get it it done we have to get it done before politics and the fiscal cliff ends up affecting a shutdown once again. >> congressman jeff denham, good to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me again.

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>> my must read today is about halloween and the woman you may have heard about who is giving the parents of kids she thinks are overweight a letter telling them they need to take control of their children's eating habits. so no candy, a letter, when you trick-or-treat. it's touched off a debate. is it obnoxious or much-needed tuf love? it has been a really big talk around the facebook page. anita writes, can't she just give out apples? that would be bad enough. this woman might as well paint a huge target on her house as well as supply the eggs, toilet paper and bags of doggie do. >> she's a rude bully. she should give out healthy snack and not candy, but the letter is out of line. facebook.com/jansingco. welcome to my mom cave. wow. sit down. you need some campbell's chunky soup before today's big game, new chunky cheeseburger.

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the secret is out. we are learning about a private letter signed by all 16 female

democrats in the senate. they accidentally spilled the beans while expressing her enthusiasm for the letter at an event in new york. the letter encourages hillary clinton to run for president in 2016 even though some of the signers may have presidential aspirations of their own. let me bring in democratic strategist and campaign director for the center of american progress action. amelie tisch, and republican strategist john thierry is with us this morning. >> good morning. >> we don't have the exact contents of the letter or how it was delivered, but it does lead to the inevitability question which didn't work out well for hillary clinton the last time. is this whole aura a good thing or a bad thing? >> there are negatives and positives to it. i think generally people think if there is inevitability to it it is clearer. there are deaf fitly some people that want to get in. the negatives to it are the

facts that it gives so long for the republicans to be building and looking at her record. building a case against her and that's a lot of why we see the constant conversation of why we bring up benghazi which is to try to keep a negative frame around her moving forward. >> there are democrats weighing in on a possible hillary run. let me play for you. >> i'm behind hillary if she run, and i think she will, but that's up to her. if she run, i'm in. >> she would be one of the best prepared people and she will win, i believe, if she runs. she'll be one of the best-prepared people to enter the price when a long time. >> if you take a rook at someone taking a beating in the poll. here's hillary clinton, she's no longer there and typically john, being out of office can be a challenge because people forget you or you're not in that position to have the profile, but in this climate, is this a plus for her? >> i think not being attached to

the washington mess is actually pretty good news for her, but the erle wiarlier point is the primary. the interesting thing about with signing this letter is elizabeth warren signed it and she is where the democratic party is. she's very progressive and very liberal and very anti-corporation. and really, much more so than someone like a hillary clinton who has much more establishment. so we have a long way to go. i think hillary will be very formidable with the fact that she's not in the mix is good for her. i would be surprised ultimately if she's the candidate. >> in fact, emily, there is a new book out that says president obama actually asked hillary clinton several times to stay on as secretary of state for another year and she told him it was time for her to move on. in that same light, when you consider syria and when you consider nsa and angela merkel,

again, you have to wonder if her timing wasn't just about perfect. >> no. it definitely makes sense that she would want to take a little bit of time and regroup. she's been in the public eye for so long and one of the most interesting things that will be a game changer is just this morning, the dn, kr, tc, they'r bringing on amy daisy who has worked to elect so many female candidates. the dnc whose main mission is to lkt a democratic president is gearing up and ready to go. >> debbie wasserman schultz. john, there is always some intrigue. senator kay hagan's endorse am of clinton will make it awkward when vice president biden visits north carolina and some of the female democratic senators

encouraging hillary to run may have presidential aspirations of their own. what do you make of this letter and why would they even endorse now? do you think it was truly a mistake this letter got out? >> no, i don't think it was a mistake. i think, really, this is not a whole lot of news. the 16 female senators are pushing for hillary clinton who would be the first female president. you know, i think barbara boxer was the leader of this letter and she's always been a strong supporter of hillary. they want to get her into the race and start this process and really freeze other people out like joe biden. the problem for joe biden is he's going to be stuck in this obama mess, obama care and the nsa stuff that you mentioned before, syria. joe biden -- if he wants to run against hillary clinton, he's the one continuing the obama tradition and that might not be the best thing into the next election. emily tisch-sauceman, thanks so

much. >> the ceo of the first online insurance exchange is helping to run the program for free while the government tries to fix the embarrassing problems. in a letter to the president e-health gary lauer says, quote, mr. president, we are ready to help you get this program on track promptly with the cooperation of a federal exchange if you allow us to take over the shopping and enrollment process in all 36 federal exchange states without cost to the taxpayer. obama care is much more than a website. in fact, the website is really the tip of the iceberg. similar to amazon's website. both are supported by a massive infrastructure. richard lui is here with what's below the iceberg and the challenges the administration may face in this deadline that they've set for themselves by the end of november to get it all working, reach art. >> chris, good morning to you. we haven't heard this much. although they do have a website, this is not a website. it could be, though. the world's most complex

insurance exchange built at one go. when you see health care.gov on your browser, as you said, chris, it's just the tip of a very large technology iceberg. below that water line is all of this you see here. xeer ox drawing out the spaghetti that we're talking about that all has to be linked up for the first time. we're talking about a half dozen government mainframes and on average eight insurance company systems for each state. the second challenge, all those computer systems -- well, they don't speak the same language. the analogy to the code translation challenge of one computer says insurance. another says seguro, while another might say -- it's german from what i understand. the user gets kicked back. computer language translator says e-health is one of the major tasks consuming up to half of their efforts right now. the third challenge is security. these connections are to some of the government's most sensitive

systems. the department of homeland security computers are used to verify immigration status and the social security systems, to confirm the identity and so on. the government wants a strong security buffer so it's not working intimately with contractors as they have in the past as for instance with aircraft carriers when they worked on those designs. a final challenge, some of the irs code was written in the 1960s and social security technology has roots to the age of punch cards. getting them to work with modern systems that ebay and expedia use just boggs down speed. back to the amazon analogy and the bulk behind the website. amazon has 100,000 employees and is working on 1300 robot workers and can handle 300 orders a second. chris, the government in some ways aims to build something in two years that amazon spent two decades on. >> richard lui, thank you so much. richard writes more on this obama care challenge on the brand new msnbc.com.

richard, thank you. checking the news feed this morning. this is the senate foreign relations committee holding a hearing right now on the latest developments in syria. there weave got it just as the global chemical weapons watchdog says that syria is ahead of schedule completing the destruction of all equipment that can produce chemical weapons. next on the list is destroying existing weapons and stockpiles. if you're under 21 you won't be able to buy cigarettes or e-cigarettes in new york city much longer. the city council voted to raise the age for buying tobacco from 18 to 21, the strictest limit for any american city. the law will go into effect six month months after it's signed by mayor bloomberg. they might keep their smartphones and tablets on while takeoff and landing. they can expand passenger use of portable electronic devices during all phases of the flight as long as the devices remain in airplane mode.

airlines might prove it's is safe and implementation is expected by the end of the year. over concerns the signals could interfere with ground networks. you might want to take a look at your spice shelf. the fda says about 12% of imported spices are contaminated part with insect parts, rodent hairs and feces and more than 80 different types of salmonella were found although most of that would be cooked off before it's eaten. the spices were looked at from india, mexico, thailand and vietnam. mother nature is playing a cruel trick on residents from the great lakes to the south. forecasters say a major storm system is moving through with high winds and driving rain. there is a threat of tornadoes in louisiana with flash flood warnings in effect, some cities and towns are postponing trick-or-tretrick or treating, even canceling it. the system heads east tomorrow. get ready to bliwhine aboute

price of wine. it was pretty funny, chris. i'll give you that bonn one. >> it's all about supply does demand. research by morgan stanley says we could soon see a worldwide wine shortage because the industry is undersupplied by 300 million cases a year and this is the -- we're drinking a whole lot more than vineyards are pumping out and part of the reason is that china has really caught on to the wine drinking craze and it's quadrupled wine consumption in the past five years. you have the top wine-making countries like spain, italy and france and they have land use problems and poor harvests, bad weather and bad combination. what does it all mean? pricier wine. >> meantime, you won't raise a glass of champagne if you have

facebook stock, man, they're hot today. they had a blow-out quarter, right? >> you know what? there was a revelation from the chief financial officer on the call late yesterday which kind of spooked the market a little bit, chris, and that is that facebook is seeing a dip in teenage usage. they also say the company would not boost the frequency of their ads. one per 20 stories in the news feed that is shown to users and all of that is somewhat countering a little bit the fact that facebook, you're right. it beat on the top line and beat on the bottom line and it posted growth and eps is up 8% year on year. mobile ad revenue was up 49%. so as you say, a real blowout quarter. as i say, the fact that teen usage is dropping is something they want to keep on. >> they don't want to be on what their grandparents are on. >> so uncool. >> mandy drury, thank you. >> halloween is fun for kids of

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the white house is re-affirming the u.s. commitment to help fight off al qaeda in iraq. there's been a spike in deadly terror attacks, tomorrow the president will meet with nuri al maliki. the meeting comes with a group of senators including john mccain and carl levine warn that al maliki's mismanagement is the reason for al qaeda's recent resurgence. so check this out. al qaeda and other terror groups increasingly going high-tech to recruit online. this is a video game. this one created by hezbollah. terror groups have upped the production value of pretty much all of their propaganda video using effects and a highly targeted message. >> joining me now is nbc news terror analyst evan coleman. good to see you. >> thank you so much. >> that video was something that happened a month ago. they're upping their game, right? >> these guys are pretty good.

within a month of a major incident happening, they're able to produce a very high resolution video and something that depicts a major terrorist attack and if you look at youtube, what videos get the most views and the videos that have the most compelling footage and what is more compelling than a guy jumping in a guy and blowing himself up. it's incredibly compelling footage and it gets hundreds of thousands of hits and it's a very powerful instrument for bringing people into this movement. >> including young people who are used to higher production values. we have this side by side that shows you the difference from a terrorist video from 2005 is the new high tech one on the right. and according to the department of homeland security this raised eyebrows. there is the side by side. >> someone was sitting there talking. in in 1998 there were 12 terror websites. now there are 7,000. but do we have a good sense of

how effective they are in recru recruitment? >> we do. we look the at the social netwo and these are the hubs where all of these folks are getting drawn for these movements. almost homegrown terror cell in the u.s., almost every person convicted of homegrown terror charges has been visiting these websites and downloading these videos. some of these guys have giant caches of hundreds of hundreds of bomb-making videos of explosive i havedsios and execution videos and you start asking yourself why does someone need to acquire a library of what is basically snuff films and ways to show you how to build a bomb. >> are they looking for those specific lear or do they stumble across them? >> oh, no. they're specifically al qaeda multimedia points on the internet that market the video and they have promos and advertise them in advance and slick demos. these guys are quite good and they're able to do this off of

laptops on the field. they no longer require hollywood studios to promote and you can cut these using a laptop. guys are able to produce hollywood-quality videos out in the middle of nowhere. >> the onis saw were disney-style animated video and it brought to memory the first time i was in gaza 3-year-olds dressed as suicide bombers and their mothers and grandmothers said i would like nothing more than for them to give their life for allah. >> it's very disturbing. >> a few months ago i was looking at a site run by al qaeda and many of these videos were bomb making videos and some of them were action on the video and half of them were children's cartoons and again, it's not much of a guess. what are these videos designed for? they're made to indoctrinate little kids. we see videos of little kids being trained in the

afghan-pakistani border and it's a disturbing possibility and you start seeing younger and younger kids being drawn to this. hopefully it's not as effective as folks would like. >> it gives you a sense of the tremendous challenge that is faced by america and our allieses in fighting terror. aaron coleman, always good to have you in. it's been a night of celebration. the red sox won their first world series in fenway park to take the series in six games. while fans made their way down boylston street. they chanted boston strong! boston world series, red sox, all trending on twitter. today's tweet of the day comes from boston's own donny wahlberg. in the worst of times we made the best of times. words true as ever. so proud of our city, our team and our resilient people.

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hi, everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts and topping our agenda this halloween. the gop's witch hunt against obama care. president obama's presidential legacy, and more tricks than treats. the president made on the stand? boston acknowledging that there are problems, problems that are being fixed and he invoked the ghost of governor mitt romney to do so. >> it's no surprise that some of the same folks trying to scare people now are the same folks who have been trying to sink the affordable care act from the beginning. what can happen here in massachusetts can happen all across the country and for them and for you we are going see this through. >> the president's road trip coming just hours after the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius apologized facing a house panel of republicans who were out for blood over aca.

>> who is ultimately responsible? it is the president, correct? >> for the rwebsite? >> the president is ultimately responsible for the rollout. >> who do you answer to? >> i answer to the president. >> mea culpa kathleen sebelius, political reporting may continue to ride the wave of health care cancellation notices. >> it's embarrassing, i think, for them to have to come up to explain this and defend what was a major disaster, but i think as the president said, this isn't just a website. it's much more, and i think the things that are going to be harder for them to defend are the canceled policies and the insurance premium increases and all of the thingses hitting middle-class americans now. >> a new nbc/wall street journal poll showing the issues have put a curse o