david plouffe? >> and the republican nominating process, but my amateur view is that the elites are gravitating to bush. he's not fatally wounded, but hurt. but that's not the voters in iowa and south carolina. i think at the end of the day, there's a lane for christie or bush. they'll probably end up facing off against a more conservative candidate. i think they have the advantage in the republican primaries in 2016. >> nodding your head, but to back up the idea that the republicans are looking for the mainstream candidate. shell -- sheldon adelson, one of the richest men in america. and chris christie, he delivered $93 million to super pacs last year. probably spent a lot more on the side. this is a danger to democrats, isn't it? >> he put a lot of money behind a lot of losing candidates. newt gingrich, mitt romney, et cetera. he's looking for a winner. that's why the doors are open to jeb bush. the real energy on the republican side, i only know this because i travel in some tea party circles, is

>> the problem as david plouffe pointed out, they have a massive turnout drop.he florida 13 election, there is no way of getting around the fact that what they saw was turnout of much, much lower than we saw in 2008 and in 2012. the two juggernaut obama campaigns, that turned out, people at record levels. the turnout model we saw was much more like the 2010 turnout where republicans did very, very well and if republicans repeat that in the 2014 elections, which historically speaking is perfectly within the realm of possibility, they're going to take over the senate, they will broaden their majority in the house and effectively the obama again do will sees to exist at that moment. -- cease to exist. jon: why the turnout problem in off years? described it as a juggernaut. there was no campaign operation in history that was as good as the obama campaign at getting people to go out to the polls and vote. >> well, of course, every off year, you know, the party that is in the white house has problems because of the significant drop-off between presidential years and n

machine claimed more than 6 million americans have enrolled so far, and former obama senior adviser david plouffe claims the numbers are much higher. >> the law is working, and this was a seminole achievement. by the way, if you count people who are going directly to private insurance companies, medicaid, children's health care, you're talking well north of 10 million people who have health care. tens of millions more have security. >> john barrasso doesn't see eye to eye with the enrollment claims, something the obama team disputs. >> i think they're cooking the books on this. people want to know the answers. >> if we're cooking the books, don't you think we would have done it in october and november? >> people who aren't enthusiastic about the law working, haven't done outreach to their constituents, haven't given accurate information, are now suggesting the enormous interest in enrolling in health care is not existing. it does exist. we did pass the 6 million mark this week of individuals who had enrolled. >> how fun. i love it. 6 million. magically, they hit the number, eric. >> so it's -- i

top obama political advisor david plouffe called it a screaming siren in an interview friday with bloomberg news. now the republicans won the ad war and turnout war. jonathan martin, what's the message? republicans leave florida convinces, keep focusing on the president and his hilt care plan. they seen unified. >> i think the problem for democrats is how much longer are their numbers going to hang in there on the health care law. they're going to keep defending it obviously for a while. but i was talking on the hill this week. a lot of frustration among congressional democrats because they're not getting in their eyes enough air cover back in interest states and districts on this health care law. they view the white house as never having sold the law in the first place, not selling it now when they are up for election this year and facing tens of millions of dollars in outside spending from gop groups. >> you mention the air cover. a tea party link group, mens for prosperity, went into arkansas right away after florida spending several hundred thousand dollar. the president's health care s

machine claimed more than 6 million americans have enrolled so far, and former obama senior adviser david plouffe the numbers

but as david just said, quoting david plouffe, this is an alarm bell setting off because this districtave been competitive, it was seen as being held by republican only because former congressman young, who passed awayer which is why we had the personal electi election, that it was held by republican by dint of his personal appeal. so the democrats have to figure out ways to respond to the obamacare is a mess argument. they have a little time, not a lot. >> okay. lynn, david, thank you guys. as always, appreciate pit. >> thanks, alex. >> thank you. >>> the country where men and women are treated almost medically equally in today's number one, and the skyline of paris. the unusual step that city is taking to keep it from getting any worse. >>> first to st. patrick's day tradition. this morning thousands of chicagoans saw their river dyed green. it kicks off a long weekend of green beer, bagels, and pizza in the windy city. the parade stars this afternoon in grant park. new york's parade is monday. knows her way can run in high heels. must be a supermodel, right? you don't know "aarp". b

david plouffe gave an interview friday in which he sounded the alarm. one reason they're doing this is fear can be a very big motivating issue. right now democrats don't have an issue galvanizing everyone to get out to the polls. yes, they want to raise the minimum wage. yes, they want to implement and fix the health care law but those aren't necessarily to get everyone to rally to the polls, as we saw in the florida special congressional election last week. fear might well do it. of course, democrats have a big problem in all the red states you go in, states president obama wasn't able to win, but maybe some of these blue and purple states they could help by just scaring democrats and telling them, go to the polls. >> let's talk about the big news. scott brown giving jeanne shaheen a run for her money. karl rove coming out saying he's giving $600,000 to ads coming out. what are the biggest challenges for scott brown and can he beat back the criticism he's a carpet bagger. >> it increases the odds of them winning the senate. they have another piece on t

and his former campaign manager, david plouffe, called it a screaming siren for democrats, this loss.> i think it's a wake-up call. not for the reasons matthew mentioned. this has been a republican district since 1983. i think any party needs to turn out its core voters. and i think the democrats need to think very hard. and they are thinking hard about how you go on the offense around -- not only obamacare, but an economic agenda. repeal is not a policy. that provides no economic security for anyone. so, i think the democrats need to go on the offense. explain how the republican party wants to repeal health care, which is a right. wants to take back those policies that would prevent discrimination, against women, against people with pre-existing conditions. and lay out a robust agenda. minimum wage, better jobs. which are being obstructed by republicans in congress. pre-k, all kinds of things that will turn out core voters. >> that's what the democratic candidate tried to do in this race. he thinks the issue is health care, don't repeal. mend it, don't end it. >> right, and jolly, th

and former adviser from the white house david plouffe calls it a screaming siren and says it's a signurnout problem. do you agree? >> i do agree. and actually, not every democrat would say that. some of them are sort of i think ignoring this loss and brushing it off. so if democrats were smart, they would see this as a sort of come to jesus moment when it comes to obamacare. sink was supposed to sort of -- not have this in the bag, but she had a real shot at this. if you look at how this district has been voting, it's true that it has voted for republican members of congress, but when it came to her, they voted for her to be the governor, to be a democratic governor in florida. they also voted for obama in 2008. and in 2012. on top of that, this is a woman who is known around the state. she was popular. and her contender jolly, nobody knew who he was. he sort of came out of nowhere. he didn't have a name for himself. and he had some optics problems. recently divorced and was sort of on the campaign trail with his new girlfriend 14 years his junior. so she lost to this republican when

david plouffe, one of president's former advisors says the website problems is small stuff compared to what obamacare is accomplishing. >> the law's working. and this was seminole achievement. -- seminal achievement. count people boeing directly to private insurance companies, medicaid, children's health care, north of 10 million people have health care. >> reporter: administration officials scaled back their goal from sign-up from seven million to six. they say they're on track to enroll six 1/2 million people in the exchanges though they won't say how many of those people had health insurance canceled because it didn't meet the standards of obamacare. jenna. jenna: goal goal live at the white house. thank you. jon: but the obamacare enrollment numbers so far might not tell the full story. right now hhs says sign-ups as of a few days ago hit more than six million. but you can not forget that more than 6.2 million folks got cancellation notices for their original health insurance plans. plus obamacare is mired in controversy. at least 37 major delays and administrative fixes, joining u

i remember talking to david plouffe. we've always had our eye on how challenging this would be.s their platform is we're going to take away your health care coverage. you're going to have -- there is no obamacare, there's nothing. the alternative is nothing. the best thing for democrats is more ted cruz, more tea party candidates out there in the 15% of the country that are support them. i hope he gets involved in every single primary. i want to see his smug face on every newspaper. >> sounds like you're going to be a donor. >> kellyanne, we played the clip from him. do you think -- do you want ted cruz getting involved in the primary? >> he hasn't endorsed anyone. all he said is he promotes groups that promote liberty and conservative candidates. he hasn't entorsed anybody. there were no names in the letter. >> he sounded like -- >> you see, you want to talk about christine o'donnell, sharon engel, deb fisher, rand paul, ted cruz, victories against the establishment. ted is a great example of somebody who won not once but twice against the establishment all in a matter of month

senior white house adviser david plouffe was on abc's "this week i'm co-and he talked about the successf this law. week," and you talked about the success of this law. [video clip] laxity talk about people going to medicaid and health care, more than 10 million people have health care. of the politics of this are tough. i think they will get better over time. of i think the republican playbook of repeal obamacare gets tougher as more and more people get health care. i think more republicans understand that. plouffe defending the affordable care act. ron is on the line for democrats. host: i think -- caller: i think the affordable health care act is fantastic. the premiums are affordable, the process of getting on was relatively easy. as one woman mentioned it is difficult to choose between -- in my case there were six or seven. we have the consumer health coalition. they are a nonprofit that helps people navigate. i know every state has something similar. want to say that republicans don't want you to know how good this is. they focus on these red herring distractions. keepe meantime th

if you listen to david plouffe if you counted[ @&c @3 medicare expansion it looks like it is up to tenn. you have to wonder if this thing is so successful, why are democrats running from it? if there was a victory to declare, if there was a bow to be taken, nancy pelosi and harry reid would be out front and center but right now you don't have anybody doing that. the word last week from a democratic strategist was don't defend it. mend it. maybe that's the reason why senator angus king who clearly was saying i want to fix obamacare and went into details on that, first said this. >> there is no such thing as obamacare. you can't sign up for obamacare. you sign up for an anthem policy or wellpoint policy. it is private insurance. >> he went on to say the private insurance, check out my copper plan. my copperç plan, oddly enough has a lot of principles republicans wanted to begin with. buy insurance across state lines. be a lot less money in terms of of investment but your premiums will be less. whatever you do, don't bring up the fact that harry reid is not going to entertain any of the