right now on "andrea mitchell reports," last call with only hours to go until the first obamacare enrollment deadline. can it deliver? joe biden went on rachael ray's show trying to appeal to the 20-somethings. >> any young person listening, if you don't need this for your piece of mind, do it for your mom and your dad. >> face time, secretary of state john kerry u-turns to paris to meet his russian counterpart but no breakthroughs on ukraine. >> any real progress in ukraine must include a pullback of the very large russian force that is currently massing along ukraine's borders. >> race against the clock. a high tech australian naval vessel embarks on a 1,000 mile journey to find the black box.

time is running out. >> the batteries on the black box die after 30 days, that's next monday. this ship has a week to sail 1,000 miles and then start combing the ocean. it is a tall task. play ball, opening day is finally here with new rules and instant replay. and already on the season's highlight reel this head's up play from a san diego padres ball girl. nice catch. >> look at that! >> that's outstanding. >> give that girl a contract. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the health care conversation in this country has been dominated by politics. but on deadline day to enroll in the insurance marketplace, we wanted to give you the numbers that really matter. a reality check on just where we

are now and what's ahead. so let's start with the big number, the white house confirmed more than 6 million signups through the exchanges that clears the revised cbo estimate but still leaves tens of millions of americans uninsured. what are the penalties? initially not so bad, $95 per difficult and nearly $300 per family, but only two years that number jumps to almost $700 for adult. there are exemptions for households that have to pay more than 8 percent of their total income. the long term success will determine on the young invincibles who sign up. they put that at 25%, that's far below what most experts say is necessary to sustain an affordable marketplace. obama administration hopes young people are signing up or starting the process and qualifying for the extension until mid-april.

another glitch this morning. it was offline due to the huge increase in traffic while the tech team provides support for the site. the administration is going on offense as time expires. >> today is the deadline and i think everyone is going to be really surprised and pleased how well this has turned out. nobody who is in line now. anybody who is on the web, in person being interviewed and/or on the telephone, they are able to even if the deadline closes to stay in line. >> so here are the key questions today. how many of the 6 million people who have signed up have actually paid for the coverage. what is the final tally for younger enrollees and what are premiums going to look like when it starts over again in the fall. let's talk over it with chuck todd, political director and host of "the daily rundown" and great job on "meet the press" by the way. one of the things we're not getting from the states is how many are young people.

they are not giving us those numbers. we're not going to know for a year or two. but is it looking better? is it looking -- >> you look at the numbers and talk to the insurance company folks who obviously, they have a vested interest in this. it's getting a little bit better and the sense was that they knew the enrollees towards the end would be skewing younger and skewing healthier. the question is, does it at least give over 30%. 40 is the massachusetts target. the idea of paying -- how many have signed up have paid, there is an important study that's been done by the insurance company that in the ten state exchanges they found 83% payment rate so far. so that's pretty good. tells you, let's take that at face value and extrapolate it and say let's say they get close to 7 million when all said and done, you may lop off a million off the top there and say it will be 6 million new enrollees. you have medicaid, 4 million to

5 million have been enrolled, you have the young 26 and unders staying on their parents numbers. you're looking at new enroll lees if you subtract out and expanded insurance to 10 million people which means we have 35 million uninsured. the question is when do they come on? and how long does it take to get these folks on. for the whole thing to work you need a lot of these people in the marketplace. >> chuck, we should make clear as the white house has been pushing back. this is not a national health care plan. this is not a single payer plan. when people complain that their premiums are up or don't have as many options for doctors within hospital services within their insurance plan, that was happening already. >> it is but you bring up an important political hole that i don't know how the democrats dig out of, at least before this november. maybe over time they can dig out. before november, which is instead of being mad at your insurance company that denying

you a doctor or raising your premium, anything that happens now, the insurance companies realize, this is great, we won't get blamed. they are going to get blamed. the folks behind -- >> you and i have very good health care and we always find that some doctors that you might want to go to are not part -- >> we're used to getting mad, why won't this insurance company cover this. maybe we'll get mad at the company. but you know, in this environment, this is the political -- this is the fact that we've politicized health care so much is that it ends up they hold the bag on this perceptionwise. that's going to be a long-term struggle for them to get out of. look, they keep pointing to medicare point d. unpopular for over a year with a lot of seniors, but over time as the process worked better and better, it -- >> the difference is it was not driving the conversation from a 2010 midterm election, which was really bad for the democrats and

now looking forward to 2014. you know, it's changed the landscape politically. the good thing as far as democrats in the white house is concerned, all of these repeal attempts -- >> you can't do it. there's 15 million people that have health insurance because of this program. you can say 5 million would have gotten it on their own. okay but you're still -- if you repeal it, you've got to figure out how to get the 15 million people insurance. we're at the stage it's unrepealable. that doesn't mean you can't fix it or not changeable. there's a lot of things that can be done with it. but now -- that's going to be the test for republicans. can they start pushing policy proposals that quote/unquote fix it without the base abandoning them for accepting the premise. >> chuck, do they have to? >> not before november they don't. >> for november but isn't it okay -- >> they are making promises to voters they are going to do massive changes. >> can't they demonize democrats? >> i think for november, yes,

for november, nothing changes. the question is legs lating after the fact. >> chuck todd. thank you very much. >> you got it. >> democratic congresswoman karen bass joins me now. thank you for being with us. what about the politics, the reality for mid-term elections. you're in a safe seat in california and don't have those types of concerns. in the swing districts and senate races, there are major concerns about what health care is going to mean for midterm elections for democrats. >> exactly right. even in california, my seat might be safe -- safe democratic seat but we have seats we plan to pick up. i have to say that california is an example of success where you have a state where everybody is focused on making the affordable care act workable and successful, i think the democrats that are running to pick up republican seats in the state of california can run on the success of the affordable care act. >> how do you explain it though,

thinking nationally, outside of your district, when you talk to the dnc and to others looking at this campaign, it's pretty much assumed now that the democrats are not going to retake the house. you have to worry about losing the senate. >> i actually don't concede that either. because i do think there's a long time between now and november. i'm hopeful we'll pick up the 17 seats. what i would say to democrats running in areas where there has been an all-out effort to defeat or confuse people about the affordable care act, it's one thing for people to sign up, but there's lots of provisions of the affordable care act that are already in place. so preexisting conditions, caps, people being able to continue their children until their 26. i think it's our job and our responsibility to really educate people about the affordable care act and how it impacts their lives. we do have a job to do but i think it's achievable. >> now, the l.a. times pointed

out that you've got this extraordinary number of undocumented and poor people who still will not have medical care. >> that's right. in california we certainly do. that is going to continue to be a burden on the system. the big difference in our state, everybody is focused on the success. the other thing i want to say, in terms of medicare part d, it did take a while to be successful. could you imagine if we had started off with accepting the fact that this was law and all efforts had been to make it workable as opposed to the tens of millions of dollars that have been spent to literally confuse people about the plan? and so you didn't have that with medicare part d. and i think it's very unfortunate that you've had it with the affordable care act. >> karen bass, thank you very much, congresswoman. good to see you. >> thank you. >> secretary of state john kerry is playing global fireman this week arriving in israel to

rescue his middle east peace initiative which is teetering on the edge of collapse. diverting to paris instead of heading home for r and r, he had a crisis meeting in paris on ukraine with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. >> i made clear that the united states still considers the russian actions to be illegal and illegitimate and russia's actions have placed it at odds with the rule of law in the international community and we still believe on the wrong side of history. but any real progress in ukraine must include a pull back of the very large russian force that is currently massing along ukraine's borders. >> russian troops still remain amassed along the ukraine border although there was some talk about one unit going back to its barracks.

kerry said russia reaffirmed its commitment to try to find a diplomatic solution but no deal is reached. i'm joined by ambassador nicholas burns who served as undersecretary of state for political affairs and now professor at the harvard kennedy school of government. your experience in europe and with russia runs very, very deep, all the way back several administrations ago. so tell me what you think is in putin's calculus, the meetings in paris went nowhere. >> i think president putin's ambitions are quite clear. he's trying to convince the rest of the world to agree to a federation where there would be very strong autonomy for eastern ukraine. this is a thinly veiled plan to weaken the ukrainian government in kiev and effectively have russia krom the politics of eastern ukraine and prevent ukraine in the future from making big national decisions without the disagreement of the

eastern ukrainians. it's a very difficult proposal. we can't accept it. the problem for the united states and this is going to be a perilous road for the administration, we shouldn't be trying to negotiate the future of ukraine without the ukrainians at the table. now you have russian troops massed on the borders, 40,000 to 50,000 trying to intimidate the ukrainians. i don't think it's smart to get in a long conversation with putin over the future of ukraine over the heads of the ukrainian people. they need to be at the table. >> secretary kerry said that repeatedly this weekend in paris, that ukraine has to be at the table and russians have to meet with ukraine. he's been saying that for three weeks and they haven't met except once in brussels. should we stop having these u.s./russian meetings until russia meets with ukraine? >> i think so. i don't think the united states

ought to be meeting with the russian government with the ukrainians and russians won't meet ukrainians at the table. won't allow the ukrainian foreign minister to join secretary kerry at the table. this is really i think unfortunately playing into the russian's hands because putin wants us all to forget about crimea and change the story. he wants the story to be inflated charges by russia of trouble in eastern ukraine and radicals in the government in kiev. you heard these charges. he wants to divide the west so he doesn't have sanctions put on him, additional sanctions for the illegal invasion of ukraine. we have to be tough minded and insist he pull the troops back off the border and insist the europeans and lots of others be at the table and can't just be a u.s./russian conversation about the future of ukraine. >> you're the president of the united states, you get a call from vladimir putin

unexpectantly and putin's people said that they focused on this and it was very negative and focused on the future of moldova and the white house said it was constructive or suggested there was constructive discussions for a diplomatic solution. there was no meeting of the minds but putin suggested the two foreign ministers meet in the next few days so kerry makes this diversion. would you have stiffed putin and said we're not going to meet until you have ukraine at the table? >> i have a lot of sympathy for the administration, this is a tough call. i do think we shouldn't be meeting with putin under circumstances like this. obviously the president had to take the phone call, but what putin is trying to do is all too clear. he wants to gain effective control over eastern ukraine. we shouldn't be part of that and let him do that on our watch. i think the better policy for the united states is to resist putin for the time being, wait him out. build up the sanctions, reinforce, of course, the kmi.

of the nato allies and turn over attention to helping the ukrainian government economically and insisting any future talks include the government of ukraine. that's the better strategy for the united states. >> let me just change subjects very quickly so everybody can follow me. john kerry has just landed in tel aviv, on his way to jerusalem, going to go to ramallah as well. the talks are teetering as we've said and this is again trying to rescue something, put ukraine to the side and what can he ak fli plish in trying to salvage the talks he's invested so much in? >> i think senator kerry's work shows we're a global power and indispensable country, he has to be there because the u.s. sponsored peace talks are at the critical moment. will the palestinians and israelis agree to extend them or israelis go forward with the fourth round of palestinian prisoner releases, it is really

a critical moment. ambassador martin has been in the region trying to make this work. he's a fine diplomat. i think secretary kerry is right to be there. we put so much effort and commitment, the o bam administration, into the talks, it doesn't make sense to give up now. he's a fighter and do what he can do to keep the talks going. he needs to play for more time and convince both to stay at the table. >> nick burns, thanks so much. we're going to start a new segment, where in the world is your secretary of state today? thank you, nick. now in day ten of the recovery effort in washington state, the death toll stands at 21 people. six of those victims have yet to be identified. meanwhile the number of missing dropped dramatically from 90 to 30 after dup my cat names were eliminated. the rescue operation has been relentless despite the almost impossible conditions.

crews have suffered exhaustion and hypothermia and the search dogs have been ordered to take a two-daybreak. volunteers are doing what they can. these two children donated the contents of their piggy banks to the effort. >> i thought about the people in the mud slide. >> i decided to give it to the people that need help for the mud slide. >> and over the weekend on the one week anniversary search teams and the community paused to remember the victims and survivors. but there continue to be questions about whether there were warning signs of a potential disaster and whether homes should have even been built on that hillside. washington governor told nbc news, there will be time to address those concerns but the focus has to remain right now on the recovery effort. a mission he said on sunday that still has hope. >> we're looking for that miracle out there right now. i saw 400 or 500 people out looking for that miracle. ♪

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continued frustration for searchers for flight 370. debris recovered has not been from the missing plane. the ocean shield departed perth with a black box locating in tow. it has only a week to travel more than 1,000 miles and find the black box before the batteries begin to fade. yesterday some of the confused and angry families protested in beijing pressing officials for answers. >> the thing we want is to get our family back, that's the most important thing. >> australian officials say they will continue to search indefinitely. nbc's bill neely joins me by phone from perth. this is such an incredibly heartbreaking process.

what are we learning about the search as they continue? do they think they now have the right zone finally? >> well, that's a very good question, andrea. an apology for joining you on the phone. we were following the search vessel ocean shield on a boat when unfortunately our engine exploded and we had to be rescued by a tug boat. >> oh, my gosh. >> that was probably the most significant thing today. we had ten planes and ships out searching for the australian authorities say there is nothing significant to report. that of course is frustrating for everyone. the ocean shield ship, which is now heading for the search zone and will take several days, there are two significant things about it. number one, it's bringing small unmanned submarine with cameras fitted so it can detect objects deep down in the indian ocean.

more importantly it's bringing a black box locater, a device towed behind the ship that will listen for the pings that the data recorder sends out. it can listen for miles around. but the problem with that is that it's late leaving and next monday the batteries on the black box recorder are due to fade and to be begin to die. it's very late getting out into the zone to try to hear anything from the black box. and of course it has no real idea where the best place to go is. so, yes, frustration all around. >> i know you spent 11 hours on a search plane yesterday. you had all of these adventures. tell me what happened to your boat today and you just said -- the engine exploded and i assume that you're all safe.

>> we are all safe. i'm afraid it was pure mechanical failure. it will illustrate the frustration and problems that the crews have. yesterday we were on one of the longest flights so far. certainly the longest flight the australians have taken. they were able to be over the search zone for six hours. they swoop down and low as 100 feet and remember, this is a plane that's traveling at 250 miles per hour to spot various objects that they thought were of interest. the objects turned out to be a tree, a fishing net, a fishing buoy and several objects that they couldn't quite identify that quickly today the australian authority said were more fishing equipment. so they did their best. there were ten planes out yesterday. they are all reporting objects

that they can consider suspicious but so far pretty much all of those objects and remember, pretty much all of those satellite observations in the previous zone have all turned out to be just ocean junk, not wreckage from the plane. and as tonnishly we're on day 24, in the fourth week and so far absolutely nothing has been found that can tie anything on the ocean to that plane. >> and bill, there was one sort of epilog from -- first reported by cctv and confirmed with the malaysian transport authorities by john boxly, that they've now recalibrated what the final words from the co-pilot were. and that the words were good night malaysian 370. which i guess would not change things substantively but would lead to more suspicious and

confusion among the families, that the malaysian -- >> it does. it increases the frustration and anguish of the families but also more importantly increases the distrust between china and malaysia and remember, part of this story is that geopolitical story about the competing national interest in that region. you even heard it from the australian prime minister tony abbott who was saying we will do everything we can to help. he didn't say that exactly but to help china and help malaysia. so malaysia is now confirming that the last words were not what they had claimed for the last three weeks that they were, all right, good night, which is a pretty casual communication, but in fact, good night, malaysian 370. the absolutely formal, correct method of departing another country's air space.

in other words, whoever said those words, indeed we're not sure whether it was the captain or pilot or co-pilot, whoever said the words were doing exactly what they should have done. this is increasing the distrust between the malaysian families and chinese families and malaysian government. it's really i suppose typical of what malaysia has been accused of right from the beginning, not handling this in the precise and exact way, demanding of a tragedy like this. >> bill neely, thank you so much for all of that. we really appreciate it. and the united nations has sounded an alarm on the global dangers of climate change. in a new report released today, a scientific panel says temperatures could rise as much as 9 degrees and sea levels by an extra to 10 to 21 inches by the end of the century. think about this for the coastal communities, it projects more

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for adelson, any mention of the west bank as occupied territories is a major gaffe. >> i took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand the military risk that israel faces every day. >> in the politics of the middle east, words like that matter. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and new york times white house reporter jackie columns. you've been writing about jeb bush and some would say the focus on jeb bush as the establishment republican hope for a candidate is one measure of how chris christie may have slipped over recent months in there -- at least in these he

steam. >> two of my colleagues and i would recommend everyone read, this the attempt to recruit jeb bush, you're exactly right. they note in the piece. it's two things have happened. everyone thought after the 2013 election in new jersey that chris christie was going to be the major donors candidate, this establishment candidate for lack of a better word. but regardless of what you think about the gw bridge, it quite clearly zapped him of that momentum and put him in the mitdle of the pack. on the other hand, you've had the rise of rand paul who represents too many of these major donors a real threat. it's a different kind of republican party, much more libertarian. so christie's fall, paul's rise has forced the focus on to jeb bush who many in the establishment talk about major donors and people in the professional political class and they view him as the guy who can

beat rand paul and put together the coalition and beat someone who has a different coalition like rand paul and give the party the best chance of winning in 2016 which many people think rand paul can't do. that rise and fall is produced more energy for jeb. >> of course, rand paul is not there but so many others were, kasich and scott walker and all of them trooping to las vegas just because this one man decided that he's going to spread his money where he obviously wants to, but the influence of one man's money, jackie and chris, is really extraordinary. how is this possible that it all comes down to the sheldon adelson primary. >> the supreme court has ruled that people like that, rich people, anyone and labor unions too can give an unlimited amount of money. there's no disclosure besides. and so they are going to do that. it's really sort of made the

parties the republican and democratic parties sort of second tier. it's the real deciders if you will are going to be billionaires and you know, sheldon adelson emerged in the 2012 primaries but someone else could emerge in 2016. it's early yet. >> at the same time, you see the jockeying for position and the fact that chris christie seems to have lost altitude just because he's been tied down by this bridge scandal in last couple of months. he didn't seem ready for this kind of speech. >> exactly. that was a real gaffe he made. i mean, it is extraordinary to think about it. if there's one thing you shouldn't say for a right leaning pro-israel group is to call the lands that the israeli military is in and where palestinians leave occupied

territories. in addition to apologizing to mr. adelson governor christie also apologized to another major pro-israel donor there at the republican group. and the donor wasn't having any of it. he just thought it was beyond the pale that governor christie would say that. we had really bad weather this weekend. i was hunkered down with old magazines and came across one that was written the week after last november's election and it was heralding chris christie because of his victory as the great hope for the republican establishment. i thought, it's just been such a short time and in that short time, given the bridge scandal, it has completely remade the republican primary field. but again, it's early. >> it's early and your weekend reading and raining washington shows us how things can change very quickly in the coming months as we head to the

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attacked hotels with foreigners inside and attacks the electoral commission here. eventually in each case the afghan security forces responded and after hours of battles managed to kill the taliban militants. what we didn't see and visited the scenes of several of these attacks. we didn't see american troops deployed and see american troops leave their bases and there are still thousands of americans here in kabul and across the country. instead, they stayed in their bases and they are trying to advice and assist the afghans. in one sense it shows the afghan security forces are more capable than they were in the past but also shows the level of violence we're seeing in kabul. >> thanks to richard engel. the "washington post" and the kiser family foundation have been polling more than 2.5 million iraq and afghanistan veterans, the results are sobering, more than half are struggling with physical or mental health problems and feel

disconnected from civilian life. former specialist nick johnson who broke his back in iraq is only one of them. >> i was proud of what i did and come home and i can't even get a decent job. i make barely over minimum wage and i can't get my kid the life he deserves. >> i'm joined now by the author of the "washington post" report, senior correspondent, the former baghdad bureau chief and author of "little america and imperial life in the emerald city." this is heartbreaking. >> it is, andrea. we went out and tried to find hundreds and hundreds of veterans who served. there are 2.6 million of our

countrymen who fought in these two wars. on the other hand it's less than 1% of the population, disconnected from a lot of people who have never served. and when we asked them to reflect on their service, the results were stunning, andrea. 43% of them say their physical health is worse today than before they went off to war. a third say their mental health is worse. more than half say they feel disconnected from civilian life. similarly, large numbers of veterans say they are not getting the services they need from the government. it's really stunning. but there are silver linings if you will. this is not an angry or bitter group by any stretch of the imagination. they feel proud of what they did and almost 89% of them said knowing everything they know now about the ar duous nature of

these combat separatioperations separation from their loved ones, 89% said they would do it all over again. >> that is the most remarkable thing about it. and just on friday, i was talking here to marine corporal aaron mankin, who was grievously injured and take a look at his comment. >> nearly nine wars -- nine years i've been recovering now and close to 70 surgeries in that process, there's so much adaptation. you have to learn how to live life all over again and all of those expectations and futures you plan for yourself, you have to redo those dreams all over again. that's difficult. especially within a system that makes it so hard to find the care that you need when you're out there and looking for it. >> i mean, his argument is that we need to do something a lot

more for the mental health of our veterans because of how difficult it is to interact with the va and the fact that there are so many like himself at one point who are suicidal. >> the poll found, andrea, there's real deep seated frustration with the services being provided by the veterans department of veterans affairs and pentagon with transition between active service and civilian life. that as we know there's a large backlog of claims and a lot of red tape and bureaucracy our veterans must fight through. yet at the same time, when asked how they are doing themselves, a significantly higher percentage of them close to the 70% range say their own needs are being met. i think part of what you see is just the resilience, the strength that these individuals possess and role that nonproflts and community groups are providing and stepping into the breach here.

but certainly what this data shows is that the government isn't doing enough in the eyes of these veterans to care for those who put their lives on the line for this country over the course of the past 12 years. >> thank you so much for your reporting and your books and this poll and all that you're doing. it is incredibly helpful. thank you very much for all of that. >> thanks for shining a light on these issues. >> you bet. >> it was an emotional reunion yesterday when two spanish journalists return home after being held by an al qaeda linked rebel group in syria. they were met at the military air base outside madrid by their families and colleagues. syria has been ranked as the most dangerous country in the world for reporters. take care os with century link's global broadband network and cloud infrastructure. we constantly evolve to meet your needs every day of the week.

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>> these are serious developments that shouldn't surprise anyone. something went wrong with our process and terrible things happened, as a member of the gm family and mom with a family of my own this really hits home for me. we have apologized but that is just one step in the journey to resolve this. >> and the next step will be on capitol hill, which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours. chris cillizza is back with us. that's mary barra, she will be testifying tomorrow and this is not going to be easy because even though she's been heralded as the first female head of one of the major auto companies, she now has more defects to report. >> well, you know, andrea, this is not going to be a pleasant day tomorrow for mary barra. the reality is what you will

largely here is attrition and apology and focusing on an attempt to make the process by which they didn't move more quickly on these ignition switches transparent and fixes going forward both to the cars but also the process by which these things become unearthed. you know, she's going to be in for a lot of very tough questions and my guess is she's going to either not choose to answer them or won't have as many answers as the members of the panel like to hear. >> the whole question on the chevy cobalt, what did they know and when did they know it? they don't have to pursue an inquiry but the house subcommittee submitted for data. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> glad to see you on a monday. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show online and on facebook and on twitter. my friend ronan farrow has a look at what's next on "ronan farrow daily." >> great coverage of auto recalls there.

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