chris jacobs, senior policy analyst at the heritage foundation. the ceo of vital springs technologies. want to get to that news, the expectation by at least some that the president might drop the mandate. here is what congressman tim whose camp had to say. listen to this. >> we are glad that we outline the difficulties with obamacare. we took a charge at this and fell short, but at the end of the day i think we lost the battle but will win the war over obamacare. i think it is entirely possible that soon after we finish your the president of the united states will announce that he will delay the individual mandate. that is one thing that we have been fighting for. gerri: that came to me as a shocker. the president might delay the individual mandate. do you think it is a possibility? >> it has to be. if the president is listening tonight and we give him the exxmples of just beyond the difficulties of a rolling into the website, the kind of erroneous data that is coming out when you actually get through should put an immediate stop to this. let me g

with more on this, chris jacobs from the heritage foundation. almost a weekend.ng, do you think? >> not very well. the launch of the obamacare exchanges look alike the famous blooper reels during a launch of the space program in the 1950's where rockets went up and promptly exploded on a launch pad. that is about how bad the launch of the exchange has been. gerri: we are seeing error messages, people getting the wrong information from the web sites themselves. the affirmation about subsidies is wrong. in connecticut i have read that they cannot even put in information about the most expensive tier of insurance. you cannot get it because it is not available. all kinds of problems. 96,000 visitors, but only 1,000 applications. what is going on? the administration says there are a ton of entries, but the glitches are keeping people away. or is it that people don't want to sign up in a curious and wandering around the site. >> the administration said problems because of the heavy volume and people wanted to go out and shop. now we're seeing more reports from the high

jacob, thank you. thank you so much for being with us today. joining me now to discuss the politics of this show, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor, and chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director. chuck, you have been picking up signals at the white house of president being willing to accept a short-term continuing resolution or spending bill. we've also picked up some signals from john boehner that he's no longer speaking specifically about obama care. he seems to be a little more flexible in his rhetoric. what's happening behind the scenes do you think? >> the question is -- well, there's a couple things happening. on capitol hill, what john boehner is very carefully trying to do is -- and you saw it yesterday. they floated the idea of super committee. they're looking at process vehicles, andrea. they're no longer looking at policy vehicles in order to reopen the government or deal with the debt ceiling. so what does that mean when i say that? well, for instance, the last time they rose the debt ceiling, it was attached to the idea democrats had to pass a budget or th