howard dean and shawn spicer, i'm excited about this conversation.something happened a few moments ago that i don't know if you know about. i want to ask but this tweet. the president is not writing the code for the webb. pennsylvania is close. why that snarky response from the white house? >> i have no idea why the response to the white house, but you don't have enough to do if this is the lead story or important story on cnn. for heaven's sakes, the president idolizes abraham lincoln. to have a discussion about why he did not go on this particular day, i think we should let the president be in charge of his schedule rather than television reporters. >> let me ask this to you. he obviously is feeling the pressure from this conversation. if he were not, he wouldn't have done what he just did which is put out a handwritten letter saying after michelle and the kids to go sleep, he goes down to a room where abe lincoln used to hang out and he thinks about, pontiff indicates about abraham lincoln and other things like. that he writes, and i'll quote to y

this is shawn spicer accusing the president of the united states of blocking.ere they are, gop ideas to insure more than 40 million americans. those are ideas no one has heard of. here we go. >> every time there seems to be a problem with obama care, the president says i'm going to delay this, i'm going to exempt this group. but when republicans talk about fixing or replacing it, the cry is how dare you. you can't do this. it's a law. it was passed. when the president does it unilaterally, democrats have no problem with that. >> i think we'll give an hour to the republican plan for health care. because i think it would go through quickly and we could do the sideshow the rest of the show. what is that guy talking about, sean spicer? the replacement plan. there is no alternative. >> yeah. i have no idea. all you need to know is what john boehner, the speaker, the republican speaker said today. which was there's no way to fix this. it must be repealed. mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate has said that it has to be taken apart root and branch. so th

"outfront," shawn spicer, host of "crossfire." then congressman he willis, i have to give him credit for some courage. he said the president shouldn't even apologize for promising people they could keep their health care plans. when you have defenders like, that you have some real defenders. do you think admitting fail you are a so profusely as the president did today is enough? >> i don't think it is enough but it is definitely a first step. first of all, you can have a broken website. you can recover from that. you can't recover from the sense of a broken promise. he had to get out there and say, listen, i made a promise. i'm going to do everything i can to fulfill that promise and do everything i can going forward. and i think it is very interesting to me. you have republicans saying this guy is so air ganlt. so high handed. he was contrite. he took responsibility. he didn't blame anybody else. i expect republicans to say he did today what we've been wanting him tad and give him credit. >> are you going other give him some cred