joining me now is our rapid response panel, bob shrum, democratic strategist, brad woodhouse, americans, and president of the american center for american progress, tom perello is with us tonight. great to have you with us here. bob, you first. this misinformation campaign has had millions of dollars thrown at it, has it worked? your response. >> well, to some extent, yes, of course it's worked. my first reaction in watching those clips is imagine how popular the affordable care act would be if it was called boehner care. it would be down somewhere around 15%. but putting aside the people in the street and some of it is quite amusing, two underlying realities. first, you have a lot of people in this country, the sort of representatives of the old america who don't like barack obama and would oppose anything he had anything to do with, and they have sent a bunch of wacko birds from gerrymander districts to congress who created the mess we're in. secondly, the affordable care act or obama care is going to last for a long time. i think it's going to be a big success. 80% of people don't wa

in los angeles is democratic strategist, professor bob shrum.nd in washington is former minnesota governor and 2012 presidential candidate, mr. tim pawlenty. and i would like to start with you, mr. pawlenty. you know mitt romney well. there the president was, praising the effectivaneness of massachusetts health coverage that was signed into law in 2 it,000 and making the point that in the first month, only about 123 had signed up. by the end of the year, it was in the thousands. did he make the case? >> well, martin, good afternoon to you, and the president, of course, noted some of the similarities between the massachusetts plan and the affordable care act. and but there are also some important differences. he noted that in massachusetts it was done on a bipartisan basis. of course, in washington, d.c., it wasn't. in massachusetts -- >> and we know why that is, don't we, sir? >> yeah, in massachusetts. >> we do know why that is, don't oh we, because the president repeatedly referenced the fact that governors in various states and half of congre