. >> joining me for reaction is democratic strategist ellen qualls. okay, that was some fun on capitol hill today. mcdermott is always colorful. take on my talking points memo. where did i go wrong? maybe you agreed with him on something? >> well, you know, americans don't want excuses, they want affordable healthcare. and, democrats in the house don't want excuses, they want some political cover at this point. they voted for this, they have campaigned on it, and they have won re-election on it at this point. that's a for temperatured scream vote that happened in the house today. >> some democrats, we don't know the exact total. look, it passed in the house. and the pat came out with an administrative fix yesterday. we're going to get into that later on in the show with some guests. in the end the president seems to have treated this as a political problem. right? he wanted to take the heat off the democrats in that press conference. so he said, look, i fumbled the ball. i did this. you know, that's commentable to some extent. but, the point he kept m