some debate now about how many more people can get signed up, the big challenge now for the a ba ma administration, is to get the current people to sign up again, and then to get millions more to come these marketplaces. and select a health plan. >> speaking about getting people interested is that the goal, why slice the window in half. >> you have to have a relatively short enrollment period, than you can just wait until you got sick to get care. so three months is probably a good amount of time, but uh it does make me nervous, and it isn't clear to me that we have the right three months. >> as no waymentions about 7 million people, i don't think a lot of people would call that a convincing embrace. what do you see as the difficulty of getting people on boor? >> that the administration hit it's goal, or almost go the goal, it is sort of a fake scoreboard. but the challenges are you don't have a lot of people that don't necessarily want to pay the premiums. they don't see the benefit of it. there's all sorts of obstacles, there's a reason we have had 47 million people uninsured p. there's people i

president owe ba's ma's aides say's is he in the fourth quarter of his administration. it could be short because as you heard from chris christie we're talking about 2016 and he is now a wounded duck this morning after the midterms last night. i talked to a white house official earlier this morning who said the president on down, they do get the results, they are clear-eyed about these results in last night's midterms, but that they have preparing for the outcome of a gop-controlled congress, white house chief of staff denis mcdonough has been quietly reaching out to interests across washington over the last several weeks to prepare for this. they feel ready for what's going to happen in the next several weeks here in washington, according to white house officials, but carol, i think this press conference this afternoon is going to be very telling. the president holding a formal press conference in the east room of the white house at about 3:00 this afternoon. he's going to be asked about all of these questions, was it a shellacking? he'll have to come up with a new wor