zach galifianakis.the united states and he thinks he can do no wrong and we're getting this. gerri: listen to the president. he went on and on. it didn't stop about what we showed you. there is more to be seen. play that. >> deadline for signing up, the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- >> not like any other wednesday. >> that's not right. >> wednesday. >> february -- man. >> wednesday. >> february 15th. >> paul, is the president getting desperate? >> look, i think that they have already have storyline for declaring victory. they low-balled estimate back in i think october, november said nine million is our foal. they will be above that this weekend. they will declare victory. important thing to note nonpartisan cbo said in january, 12 million estimate. well below the cbo estimate. they will try to find a way to declare victory. gerri: trouble will be with the tax filings because people don't realize, that you have to pay a fine or fee if you don't have coverage. people who did

well, it's a coup for buzz feed and barack obama is the pop culture president, hanging out with zach galifianakis whacky youtube stars, like bill clinton used to do playing the sax on arsenio hall and talking about underwear on mtv. i have been known to shoot midgenary hoops, bret. some of the things the president did made me wince sticking out his ton, practicing february in front of the mirror just seems at times more interested in being the entertainer in chief. >> what do you think the white house stands to gain from all of this? >> obviously breshlgt the president hopes that this if this video goes viral he can perhaps persuade some more younger people to sign up for owe obamacare, but we are told this was shot on the same day it was confirmed that isis had killed the hostage, kayla mueller. so we are in a very sober and serious time in the war on terror and some of these antics can just seem a little brave louse. >> yeah, howie. thank you. >> thanks. >>> we appear to be no closer tonight to getting this year's funding for homeland security. chief congressional correspondent mike with emmanu

that's the power of zach galifianakis. right? it worked so well the last time this month with another obamacare signup deadline approaching, the white house decided to do the same kind of thing again. this time they decided to do it with internet traffic monsters buzzfeed. ♪ >> prune. >> thanks, obama. >> that's pretty good. ♪ >> that's pretty good. >> seconds left in the game. down by one. brrr! he gets it. ♪ >> mm! >> mr. president? >> can i live? >> that video has been watched nearly 50 million times on facebook alone. 50 million. for a point of reference, that's 18 million more viewers than the president had for his most recent state of the union address. once again, the goal was to let those 50 million people know while they were watching this ridiculous funny video of the president, to let people know a substantive thing, that a deadline was coming up to sign up for health coverage. >> the deadline for signing up for -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- fbru- -- >> like any other wednesday. wed

including emma stone, zach galifianakis and of course michael keaton. god. edward norton, the first guest to be on our show twice in one night. >> twice in one night, thank you. okay, now wait. now wait. that's because we stayed up too late. both of us. but, before we even get going, i was back there listening and i'm going to fact check you on a few little items about last night because you guys need to hear the real story. and higgins can back me up. okay, number one, your eyes are painted on with cgi technology right now. [ laughter ] he is asleep. he is asleep. he's not awake and doing comedy. his eyes are painted on. they pulled him off the curb outside the plaza hotel and brought him over here and propped him up. number two, at no point in the evening did jimmy say, "okay, let's wrap it up. let's wrap it up." [ laughter ] other people said, "okay, let's wrap it up." and he went, "no, no!" [ laughter and applause ] number three. number three. there were a lot of legitimately great musical acts on the stage. however, there were also some moments whe

last year zach galifianakis had a conversation with president obama between two ferns. >> is this whatan by drones? >> and in december president obama repeated his pitch on the "colbert report." >> that children can stay on their parents' policy until age 26. >> reporter: but pundits were quick to criticize the timing of thursday's video following the death of 26-year-old high sis hostage kayla mueller. >> the rest of the world, all right? do you think isis is quaking in their boots knowing that the president makes goofy faces in the mirror? >> the president could not care less about the reaction. he cares about the audience. he knows the charges of tl office. he's trying to push this thing and "buzzfeed" is an excellent partner for that. >> yo lo man. >> here's a little behind-the-scenes flavor. they say the president did have a lot of fun doing this and at the end when he says yo lo man, you can hear them laughing because that part was ad-lib. so charlie, yes the president knows what yolo means. >>> it will air on sunday's broadcast. just this week president obama announced nearly al

just like there was when he sat down with zach galifianakis. know we're right, you're wrong to the critics? >> yeah in some ways, i think so. millions of people watched this video. it's the between two ferns effect. it worked that time. it seems to have worked this time in getting the right folks to sign up. >> eve not so quiet, usually. >> they've exceeded their own expectations we all like to set our expectations low and they have. they haven't met the original goal they wanted to yet and if you look at the back end of health care.gov it's still not working very well. >> we'll keep an eye on this one as well. numbers rupp but the most important thing is about how does the program work. part of the political argument the white house thinks the more people have signed up the harder it will be for the republicans to scale back. as we get back to new york joe biden made a splash on several fronts in social media yesterday. including this video here ashton carter joe biden the vice president was swearing him in to be the defense secretary. he wave

when the president did between the two ferns interview with zach galifianakis they saw a boost of 40%n the site. no word how many signed up. we'll see. >> going for the younger audience. >> 2 million in an hour. take that, videos. >> coming up on rossen reports a dangerous problem tied to the record breaking snow in new england. another blizzard is on the way. roofs collapsing under the weight of that snow. >> does it help the prosecution or the the defense? the dramatic video shown at the "american sniper" trial of the chase and arrest of ris kyle's killer. more on that, first, this is "today" on nbc. but first, this is "to female announcer: get 36 months interest-free financing, and save up to $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. even get three years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. and of course, free same-dadelivery. but only through presidents' day at sleep train. bulldog: what what? mattress discounters presidents day sale ends presidents day? but mattress discounters has the largest selection of memory foam mattresses under one roof! comforpedic... icomfort... posturepe