david axelrod, would you like to respond? acks when i hear that number, david, because i remember when i was in the white house in the spring of 2010 and we had the oil leak in the gulf and washington was in atwitter about that. and our numbers were damaged by that, and it was why can't they get it done? why didn't he know what was going on in the minerals and mine service? this is obama's katrina. then we plugged the leak, got repairs for people in the gulf, and it wasn't mentioned in the 2012 campaign. so i think it's hard to make a judgment. >> obama care is not the oil. >> no, it's not, but if i were concerned about these numbers as well as the number of people that can get on this website and get obama care. i think when they fix that, this problem will take care of itself. >> is this a brand problem or progressive view of the government unable to solve problems? >> that's a good question. obviously, we don't know, and you're right, health care is not the bp oil spill. it's something that's going to go on for years and de

david axelrod, an mnsbc contributor. how important is it to get ahold of the war plan? there, it's all laid out. no spontaneity to this. they're going to ignore the fact that the people have been, i would say, dismayed and angry they didn't get to keep the health care they wanted was six tenths of 1%. while the republicans are going to deny health care to 40 million people surviving in emergency rooms. that never gets mentioned, the real fight is over the 40 million, not over the .6 of 1%. >> not just the 40 million. since the law was signed, you have 3.1 million people under the age of 26 who have gotten insurance. 17 million kids with pre-existing conditions who can't be barred from their family's policy anymore. this year, 8.5 million americans who got rebate checks because the insurance companies overspent on administrative costs and salary instead of health care, and everybody who has health care, 105 million americans, now don't face lifetime caps. if you get seriously ill, your insurance company can't throw you off insurance. i want to see the republican party wr

david axelrod is a political analyst and jonathan capehart is an opinion writer for the "washington postd msnbc contributor. david how important is it to get ahold of the war plan? i keep thinking of a bridge too far when the germans got the plans. there you have it's all laid out. there's no spontaneity to this. they're going to ignore the fact the people have been dismayed and angry about the fact they didn't get to keep the health care they wanted. a good complaint, i must say. is six tenths of 1%. while the republicans are out there deny as they've done for the last century, health care to 40 million people surviving in emergency rooms. that never gets mentioned in the mainstream press. the real fight is over the 40 million, not this six tenths of 1%. where there's been a terrible kerr fufl. >> not just the 40 million, chris. since the law was signed, you've got 3.1 million young people under 26 who have gotten insurance. 17 million kids with pre-existing conditions that can't be barred from their family's policies anymore. just this year 8.5 million americans who got rebate checks f

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thank you so much david axelrod. >>> coming up, if you didn't see chris christie's speech last night, let me translate those four words for you -- i'm running for president. a republican who isn't afraid to physically embrace president obama and get out of the gop echo chamber, who could give hillary clinton some trouble. that's all coming in the future. >>> if the democrats can repeat the feat next year, nationally, 2014, it will be a pretty good year afterall for them. >>> and the first step in fixing your plagiarism problem is admitting you have one. he's claimed to be original when all he was a word processor. it's a problem senator. >>> finally one of the things i like about election night are concession speeches. not last night. these are brutal. and these are not nice. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> well, now that bill de blasio has won the new york mayor's race he has a mountain of problems to face, including a $2 billion budget shortfall. it was de blasio, 73%. and republican joe lhota, 24%. that's a 49 point spread. it's the biggest margin in any mayor's

i do agree with what david axelrod said. the cancellations had been speaked by the fact you can't get on the website. in many cases you'll qualify for a better health care policy. >> robert you're a communications guy and you were there. how could the president say and there's a clip we show where he says many, many -- i remember it. when you know that 5% of the people and 5% is obviously a small part of the story and overall the exact if you believe in this law is better than what happens here but it's millions of people. you know what's going to happen in the press. you know there's going to be hardships for those people. why would you let your president say that? >> well, look, i don't recall significant discussions around some of the verbage on this to be hundred percent. >> due agree it was a wrong move? >> certainly. i don't think anybody dealing with this today finds what was said. now, do i think some explanation in terms of the fact that policies that were in place at the point at which the president signed them wer

>> i would tell you something, david axelrod will know this too. as kind of tough to. a little tough. i apologized to his wife yesterday. >> good. >> but, you know what, david, you understand this because you've been through it and nicole you understand this. john kasich actually talked about it on stage with rick perry and he said you talk to rick perry about texas, you talk to him about governing and man he's charming and he's fantastic and he really is. but on that stage where they squeeze you into a little box and you're supposed to answer in 30 seconds and instead of how do you bring growth to america like you bring growth to texas it's about evolution and it's about abortion and one divisive issue after another. and i sat there talking to six, seven leaders several of whom may run for president one day, man, is this any way to elect the president? it's so stilted and stupid. >> those debates give a forum to the most strident voices in either party. it gives a forum for that kind of discussion. but i'm interested, though -- i always listen to y

thanks to john harwood and david axelrod for finally saying out loud what they have known all along andof us have been saying all along has been the truth. this was sold on a lie. we were sold a bill of goods. it wouldn't have passed if this is the way it was presented to the american people. and president obama likely would not have been re-elected to a second term if this is the way it was sold to the the american people. it's redistributional. you can say all government activity is. >> right. >> but this was sold as something it is not. >> we have seen this so far in this article about how this law is creating losers as well as winners. you heard it from joe trippi, a fair broker of information. lose rs and winners. that's not how it was sold. the american people were told everyone would be magically winners under the law. >> there is fairness to that, megyn. the fact is loadsthere are losed >> why don't they say that? >> really? really? >> say>> that. have an honest debate about who's likely to be a loser.los now the losers are people who have serious health problems who just lost t

david axelrod is a political analyst and jonathan capehart is an msnbc contributor. david how important is it to get ahold of the war plan? there you have it's all laid out. there's no spontaneity to this. they're going to ignore the fact the people have been dismayed and angry about the fact they didn't get to keep the health care they wanted. a good complaint, i must say. is six tenths of 1%. while the republicans are out there -- health care to 40 million people surviving in emergency rooms. that never gets mentioned in the mainstream press. your thoughts. >> not just the 40 million, chris. since the law was signed, you've got 3.1 million young people under 26 who have gotten insurance. 17 million kids with pre-existing conditions that can't be barred from their family's policies anywhere. just this year 8.5 million americans who got rebate checks from their insurance companies because the insurance companies over-spent on administrative costs and executive salaries instead of health care. and everybody who has health care, 105 million americans now cannot -- don't

president obama and director at the university of chicago institute of politics the inimitable david axelrod, editor of the grio joy reid. joining me from washington is nbc's capitol hill correspondent luke russert. david, i've got to turn to you first and ask you -- >> i was hoping. >> i'm sorry you had to sit through marcia blackburn talking about coast-to-coast. >> at least she didn't talk about red solo cups. >> and champagne flutes. there is some question about how many democrats may vote for the terrible upton bill. i will heretofore only refer to it as the terrible upton bill. i feel like this is really a true sort of line in the sand for the obama presidency. the first time his own party has truly been, i won't say open revolt, but very much disillusioned about the white house, the president's promises. i wonder if you think this latest patch that was announced yesterday was enough to regain confidence in the party. >> it's enough in the short-term to stall votes for the upton bill, which is, in effect, voted 41 times -- 47 maybe. an infinite number. >> this is a repeal by another na

you have the white house chief of staff, david plouffe, david axelrod. they did that poll.he poll came back and there wasn't much of an impact. they didn't go forward. make no mistake. they were looking for a solution. if it looked like hillary clinton would help they could have gone to the next step to consider pros and cons. >> that's the behind-the-scenes stuff i find interesting. let's talk about the vp vetting process of governor romney. christie was considered. became problematic. there is almost a coronation after his win yesterday that he'll be the republican nominee. i think he has more problems than people anticipate. >> they looked at him. governor romney wanted him on the short list. crossed him off when it seemed chris christie wasn't responding to the questions of the vetters. romney said it will be a problem. we don't want to do this. stuart stevens said, we are in a street brawl here. the obama campaign is pummelling us with negative ads. we need the best street fighter. we have to reconsider chris christie. they spent 11 days in a krcrash vet. almost like o

david axelrod said they did test it and it made no difference whatsoever.ligence here. it was never a real possibility. and that it was never taken to president obama and obama officials say if they did take that to him, they would have been laughed out of the room, wolf. >> and you saw hillary clinton chuckle when i saw her about it. let's talk about another clinton, bill clinton. there's fascinating insight in the book as far as the supposed deal that the obama campaign, president obama made with bill clinton to campaign for him back in 2012. >> yeah, this was interesting. remember how much of an asset bill clinton was to the obama campaign. we all remember that speech in charlotte at the democratic national convention. the authors report there was an extended courtship effort behind the scenes from the obama campaign to get bill clinton involved in the race, to get out on the road and talk about the middle class issues that he's so good at talking about on the stump. but according to the book, clinton aide doug band, issued an ultimatum to the obama camp

david axelrod, former senior adviser with president barack obama, now an nbc news analyst and director of the chicago institute of politics. david, what is your feeling about this, the coverage that the health care law has gotten in the last few weeks? >> well, look, some of it is self-inflicted because the website hasn't functioned properly. and you know, part of the problem here is that people haven't been able to go on to the website and learn that they could get a better deal. on the other hand, many of these people aren't even being informed in these letters that they have that opportunity or that it's buried in the fine print, and that, you know, that's unacceptable. that's deceptive. and i do think that, you know, there is -- you know, chris, you're an experienced journalist -- there tends to be kind of a herd mentality in coverage. >> yep. >> and now the story is, well, the website's not working, now the letters are out there. and i have no doubt that the opponents are fanning this. i don't think this is all original reporting going on, but i don't think people are digging deep

yesterday former white house adviser david axelrod defendeded the president on "meet the press". >> why did not you or somebody else say to him, mr. president, don't say no matter what you're going to keep your health care plan? was that bad practice? >> hindsight is 20/20. >> that's why you're there. >> the vast majority of americans, that statement will hold true for. for this small group, it hasn't. but the calamitous thing is that the website wasn't up because many of those people who have to transition will get better insurance for less money, but they just can't tell that now. >> earlier in the show former republican nominee for president mitt romney was critical of president obama's handling of the law. >> i think the key thing that the president is trying to get away from and that is that he told people they could keep their insurance and that was not the truth, and whether you like the model of obama care or not, the fact that the president sold it on a basis that was not true has undermined the foundation of his second term. i think it's rotting it away. and i think the only w

. >> now, david axelrod the white house senior adviser in the initial debates over obama care said it would be a huge mistake to define the entire affordable care act by the website debacle alone. >> peter, live in washington. thank you. eric? >> jamie, to the middle east now where secretary of state john kerry is in egypt, trying to mend fences after that country's foreign minister called relations with the u.s. in turmoil. it's mr. kerry's first visit to the nation since the ousting of mohamed morsi in july. he goes on trial tomorrow. during a meeting with the country's foreign minister, secretary kerry called for an end to the recent wave of violence and emphasized the importance of a stable and democratic egypt. >> to a quarter of the arab world, egypt plays a crucial world in the political, the cultural, and the economic leadership of the middle east. so let's be clear. what happens here is profoundly important to the region and it is in the interest of the united states. >> but egypt has been one nation with strained relations with our country, from the reporting nsa spying on w

former treasury secretary hank paul son and former obama administration senior adviser david axelrod took part in this event hosted by the university of chicago paulson institute. it's just under an hour. ♪ >> so i have been keeping a list of my top favorite lines from today's talk. i'm sure you all have your own but here's my best attempt at david letterman. number three, if we wanted tarp to be popular, we shouldn't have made it a four-letter word. number two goes to barney frank. things would have been a lot worse without me. and number one has to go to larry summers. anyone who speaks with complete confidence about things is a complete fool. so there have been no shortage of people speaking their minds today. hank, i wanted to start with you. what did you hear that made your blood boil? or what would you like to add to? >> right. because you know, my blood doesn't boil. that happened, you know, three or four years ago and five years ago. but the one thing i'd like to add to were a couple comments made about capital that were related. larry summers saying it was obvious the banks

now you have david axelrod saying, this website is a debacle. i think the problem now for the white house is that you can fix a broken website. but this is more than a broken website because for a lot of americans, this isn't just introduction to a website. it's that are introduction to the affordable compare fact. if you go back, gallup did an interesting poll, 71% of uninsured americans didn't know, weren't familiar with the affordable care act. now what are they seeing? broken website. cancellation letters going out to millions of americans saying, they're going to lose their existing coverage. something no one expected because the president repeatedly said if you write your plan you can keep it. notice, is that new premiums might be higher in some cases. so all of this kind of goes in to play they can't get on the website to find out more information. it's this perfect storm of a lack of information, information they're getting that they didn't expect a president who made promises that it appeared, at least a lot of people in the white house

it was a very small group that knew about this david plouffe, axelrod, the president's pollster. for that group of people to say, look, we need to take a look at this, even though they knew it was a long shot and there would be a downside. it was certainly part of the history of this administration. shows you as a data point, obama let cal family and clinton political family had come so far it was something they were willing to take a look at. they were right it didn't happen. they were right results didn't argue for going forward. make no mistake they looked at it because of the perilous political position the president found him in at that point. >> john, one of the points that's just fascinating you both bring up is the trip the president makes to his hometown chicago he's home, makes a rare trip to his house. get you to respond. now alone in his old house for just the third night since he had become president he started rummaging through boxes, digging, digging until suddenly he found it. a small nour plan panel paper booklet the world had never seen before. on the front gyne

david axelrod appeared with david gregory on "meet the press." >> you were in the white house. you were advising the president. why didn't you or somebody else say to him, mr. president, don't say, no matter what, you're going to keep your health care plan. >> hindsight is 20/20. >> that's why you're there, is to say it's hindsight, you shouldn't do that. >> the vast majority of americans, that statement will hold true for this small group of americans, it hasn't. >> without the small group of americans, they're saying, oh, it's just 5% of people. those are actually the paying customers, the insured, the responsible people, and now they're at risk of being uninsured. >> and he's wrong. david axle roll is going to have to come back and eat those words. hopefully david gregory holds him to that. we're hearing more and more. we're talking right now about 14 million people on the individual mandate who may lose coverage. there are numbers coming out now there could be 50 million, 60 million, even higher, 70 million -- >> no. >> bob, i'm not making this stuff up. this is coming out

david axelrod was on and was beaten up a little bit.ake a look. >> why did not you wer or someby else they do him mr. president, don't say no matter what you will keep your health care plan. >> hindsight is 2020. >> that is why you are there. >> the vast majority of americans that statement will hold true for this small group of americans. the calamitous thing here is the website was up because many of those people who didn't get, have the transition will get better insurance for less money but they just can't tell. >> they just can't tell that? that is his phrase now. for this small group of americans which we intend could be 10 million or higher. is 10 million small to you? >> here's the thing, the president's team is in a shambles right now. i had a prediction that would be this would be survivable. maybe it would have been if the website hadn't had also 10 skid the technical crash ended up being a lot more significant. axelrod, they're shifting the blame for their decision not to tell the american people, and here's what they did, b

call that the most recent government of contract, the problems of ontario, they could have had david axelrodof ontario. the same political adviser. valerie jerry, her daughter married the son of a cabinet minister. john: we have a picture o her. a party together. so you have these back from connections. they could have called and said, these guys any good. no? we are firing them? okay. we're done. maybe it was tiny towns with me, michele obama's classmate who would have been the chump card. senior vice president. this is part of the way from my perspective house seat gi operates in terms of having connections. when they get in they don't just build and leave the way john mcafee would. the bill then stay and a part of the system which brings them more money. john: all very friendly. recall that crony capitalism. thank you. the web sites are a flop. costs are up. you may have lost insurance you like, but i was surprised because of obamacare something good has happened. i will tell you what that is next. ♪ so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just reall

david axelrod said today my advice would be to emphasize the stories of people who have been getting helped including the half million people who have gotten insurance. back with me now, bernard whitman. all right, rich. some people would call this senate thing a ploy, is it to get writers to talk about the positive things? >> all of them are opinion journalist already in the tank for this law. he is not going to gain much. the problem he has is the larger med med media narrative. the president lied about it and the numbers are in the tank. even the media cannot ignore all of that. >> bernard, let me be speculative for a moment, would the president have come out today to do this address, would he have met with liberal journalists today because the heat was turning up high on what he knew about obama care before it happened if he knew. >> i think the president is basely using whatever he can to get the word out. the only way to change this narrative is not by cozying up to journalist who should, by their own record, be supportive. it's to fix what is broken. get the website up and run