. >> we're back with dan henninger and joe raigo and brett stevens joins the panel. joe, how much are the enrollment figures below the target that the administration had? >> what they are shooting for is about seven million by the end of march. ultimately we need about 20 million people to sign up. this is really well below target. >> they have 2.2 million now? >> 2.2 million right now. and if you think about -- one in six people in this country under 65 lack insurance coverage. >> is that 35, 40 million people? >> at least officially. so they are either looking at the exchanges and finding that obamacare plans are not offering good value or are off the exchanges where the regulations are somewhat looser and they can be tailored to individual needs. >> and they are skewed -- go ahead. >> this is 2.2 million who have signed up, but not necessarily gotten insurance. >> or written a check to pay for it. >> right and another five million people who have canceled have had their insurance policies can a seld. in terms of overall figures we are in a hold here. >> what about

we're back with dan henninger and mary o'grady, "wall street journal" editorial board member matt comisky joins the panel. what chances is there for either of these deals, iran and palestine? >> it's almost strange to see john kerry arrive in israel by some kind of reflex of the last decade. we have to try and get peace between the israelis and palestinians. >> he's spending a lot of time there. >> all around israel you'll see, in lebanon, in syria, in iraq, in egypt, growing instability. the spread of the syrian conflict across these borders. the rise of al qaeda again. we're told it was almost dead. the rise of al qaeda because of the syrian civil war. these are really going to be the concerns of 2014. >> you say that's the big problem. meanwhile, he's paying attention over here to a conflict which if not settled at least contained. >> it's just very bizarre. reflects the position president obama came into office with saying i'm going to extend a hand to our enemies. the signingle-minded focus of trying to negotiate peace without realizing this sends a message of weakness to our adversa

we are joined by dan henninger. a strong word.thing is that the obama presidency is on the brink of becoming a dud itself, stuart. this presidency is on the bubble. on the brink of becoming a spent force. his approval ratings are in the low 40s. as we noted last week, a fox. 74% of the people think that the country is still in a recession. he needs to do something big. one would be a tax reform bill. immigration reform. all three of them require him to work with congress. this president is virtually incapable of working with congress. stuart: think of the opportunity that the president had last night. he could have said let's embrace tax reform. >> he sort of gestured towards congress. he could have had a corporate tax cut in the first term. there is consensus that the corporate rate is way out of whack relative to the rest of the world. he does not want to give a tax cut to corporations. he does not wann to do tax reform like members of the congress does. by inclination, he is just incapable of doing the big things that would lif

up next dan henninger ron what the president's next mistake will be.illion in cash. this gives president obama an extraordinary opportunity. here is my take. the staggering numbers and they are staggering apple has $146 billion, microsoft $80 billion, google $56 billion, verizon $54 billion. that is all cash readily available, spanable, in vastable money. here's the president's opportunity, encourage companies to bring money home, build america's economy. they are not bringing it home now because if they do they will pay the highest tax rate in the developed world. 35%. cut that rate, give a tax holiday and a big chunk of that money would flow back here and work its magic for us in america. that is the opportunity. cut corporate tax rates to bring investment and jobs back home. will he do it? odds are he won't. the president shows no sign of knowing how to motivate the private sector. he is the government by command kind of guy and bears his world view to consider. doesn't think it is apple's money or google's money. he thinks it is our money and we ar

joining me now, dan henninger, deputy editorial page editor for "the wall street journal." 0% unfavorable number, that's the highest the kaiser poll has seen since 2011, dan. this thing seems to be getting more unpopular as it goes along. >> well, i think that probably is happening, jon, because people are finding out more about it or they're getting more exposure to it. and, you know, the single thing that's been reported most is that some of the young and uninsured who are being drawn into the system are being struck by the sticker shock. the premiums are a lot higher than they expected them to be. and then they start asking why are my premiums so high, and what they're essentially finding out is that obamacare is fundamentally a health insurance welfare program. their premiums have to be high so that the system can afford to pay for the health care for the sicker people coming into the system. it's a subsidy. and i think this is one reason they're pushing back against it. they didn't understand what they were getting into was a program in which their high premiums would s

my colleague dan henninger was asked about a exactly a year ago when president obama was going to give his state of the union for the start of his second term, he said, what advice would you give president obama? i thought he put it so well. dan wrote, what i would advise president obama to do, look everything you did on the economy in the first term and do just exactly the opposite in the second term and there's a lot of truth to that. second point i wanted to make was with respect to the current, how this report dovetails into the whole debate that's boeing on right now about inequality and poverty and what we can do to move 50 million americans that are poorer today out of poverty and we've seen just, you know, horrendous increases in poverty. it is one of the great challenges that we have as a nation now. is how do we lift the people at the very bottom up. we have, a president and many in congress are promoting many policies that i would argue and i think, my panelists here would agree, these actually would move news the opposite direction of economic freedom. let me go through som

won the pulitzer prize, and dan henninger, you should win a pulitzer prize for something. >> i was partone for the 9/11 coverage, "wall street journal." connell: editorial page editor of the journal. i felt confident in saying that even not knowing the answer. >> i'm glad i was able to give you that answer. don. connell: basically, the pregame show is going to start any minute, what might be interesting, do you think, coming out of it? and well, you know, central bank chairmen normally don't say things that are all that interesting, that kind of comes with the job. connell: even if they're on their way out? >> even if they're on their or way out. i don't think he's going to put janet yellen in a spot. what's kind of interesting is he's down there at the brookings institution, and they're opening the hutchens center, and they're having a group of academics come in today, and they're going the deliver papers on bernanke's tenure which is to say what he did, quantitative easing, i think, has to be described as the greatest monetary policy experiment in the history of the world. and it it h