reporter: denis mcdonough has been meeting with democrats every week to try to ease their concerns anddent obama has new concerns and obamacare limits health care options for employees which they attract patients and more. >> i will now be forced into this limited network and in addition to having theseess options choose from, i was told that my prescription drugs were good covered but limited. >> playing parts of the affordable care act, but refusing to delay parts that are inconvenient for health care subscribers. the wrinkles will be ironed out by this time next year. ashely: thank you so much. yet another day and a record for wall street, the dow jones claiming 24 points and the s&p 500 both closing at all-time highs, the nadaq extending of 27 points. crude oil falling $92.32 per barrel. much more ahead on "lou dobbs tonight", our top techanalyst will explain why the obama administration is having a problem with health care.gov and what they need to do to fix it. plus, black friday turning into thanksgivg day friday. what it might mean for our economy with an extra day of shopping.

denis mcdonough and other key administration officials went to capitol hill to allow senate democrats to vent. mcdonagh was told they have lost confidence. obama care is not working well, and senate allies are concerned. several said they're counting on the tech surge to fix health ca care.gov in a hurry. >> we ought to give them the time to see those improvements, but we need to see the improvements, and we need to make this a much easier, more consumer-friendly process. >> clearly the website has presented a real challenge. it's not where it should be. >> house democratic whip steny hoyer expressed some regret for the pitch, if you like your health care, you'll be able to keep it. >> he said, quote, i don't think the message was wrong, i think the message was accurate, but it was not precise enough. he spent his time in the house energy meeting telling kathleen sebelius he wanted a delay. >> my constituents are losing confidence in the government's ability to pull this off, and the only way to restore their trust is to delay the individual mandate. it's not far to penalize the consu

there you see the president in the oval office casually dressed on the left, you see denis mcdonough, the white house chief of staff, tony blinken there on the right part of the screen and you in your shirt. you're there, as well. what was going on in the oval office when you met with the president saturday night? >> well, i hadn't slept in awhile, wolf. but what i can say is what we were doing is getting updates from the team in geneva on the finally text of the agreement they were negotiating. throughout the day, the president was in touch with negotiators. he spoke to secretary kerry about 3:00 in the afternoon our time. they were literally sending language back of the agreement they were negotiating with the iranians and the p5-plus-1. the president was reviewing that because we had a sense we could close the deal on saturday. >> did the president sign off on every paragraph basically in that document that was released yesterday? >> he basically did, wolf. essentially, he's been tracking this negotiation over the course of the last several weeks. he talked to secretary kerry befor

. >> reporter: chief of staff denis mcdonough is supposed to be the quarterback.'re right, there will be lots of questions about what the president was informed about all of this, martha. martha: you would think the president would be angry with his folks for not really being straight with him how this looked t has been really tough for approval numbers have been weak in the wake of all this. it is not just republicans who are suggesting that changes should be made at the white house, right? >> reporter: that's right. you certainly have had democrats in the senate, particularly, folks who are up for re-election and in some of those red states. mark pryor in arkansas who have been demanding real changes to the law. beyond heads rolling look, make substantive changes, in fairness to the president that is why he came out at look pat this is on me. i fumbleed. he tried after weeks of this took some responsibility but some republicans like mike lee says this is not about accountability and who knew what? it is about fixing this because it's a mess right now. take a lis

denis mcdonough will come to capitol hill to meet with senate democrats looking for some kind of a solution, something they can sell their constituents a day after house democrats had a tense meeting with white house officials. house democrats calling for some way out of this mess. senate majority leader harry reid said he is feeling better, like the law can be fixed after a lengthy phone conversation with the president and offered this preview of today's meeting. >> there are many questions about health care and i understand that and that's why tomorrow i'm having a full caucus. it is not a democrat policy communications meeting like we usually on thursday. it is a full caucus. white house is going to be there. a number of them. and to meet with my senators tomorrow. >> reporter: we've seen a numb of senate democrats to offer plans to get away out of obamacare crisis. the latest, senator jeanne shaheen, democrat of new hampshire, mark udall, democrat from colorado. they would allow legislation to allow consumers to stay on the current health care through the end of 2015 there are a variety

. -- white house chief of staff denis mcdonough was on and with a powerpoint .roposal the white house chief of staff might have been better off revealing a u.s. map of the president's plan for saving congressional democrats' seats for lettinggy democrats walked out in public and repeat wildly inaccurate white house claims about the health of the enrollment website. from the hill newspaper this morning, the president under fire for skirting congress. critics are jumping on president obama for unilaterally delaying requirements for obamacare. the action marks the second time this year the a administration has used executive power for putting off controversial provisions of the health care law. chris is a democrat in new york. hi, chris. caller: how are you doing? talking about president obama lying, congress has been lying about the aca for how long now? they want to do anything that hurts americans. that is what they are doing. i have medical. i bought medical. my wife has a pre-existing condition. do you know what our copayments are, $1500. i went to get my medicine and they only cove

. >> denis mcdonough knows full well it's about both, a big reason the president is asking insurance companies to reinstate consumer's health plans is to calm democrats worried about voter backlash. how do you describe the atmosphere? >> strongly focused, constructive, but clearly dissatisfied with the current state of the program. >> reporter: republicans were eager to highlight the president's falling poll numbers especially on the issue of trust. >> promise after promise from this administration has turned out to be not true, so when it comes to this health care law, the white house doesn't have much credibility. >> reporter: and some democrats in the toughest re-election battles worry about that, too, especially since the president's plan only asks insurance companies to restore canceled health policies and doesn't require it, like legislation would. >> we want to make sure it's clear to the american people and to alaskans the 4,000 alaskans that have had cancellation notices that they can keep the plan. >> reporter: still at the behest of the white house, senate democratic leade

white house chief of staff denis mcdonough met with democrats in the house and senate for four hours yesterday. we're told privately their reviews of the president's news conference were fairly positive. democratic lawmakers think mr. obama struck the right tone, not just with his apology for failing to deliver on his promise if you liked your insurance you can keep it but with his assurance that lawmakers who repeated that promise did so based on what they were told by him and other white house officials. the president said the criticism of that failed promise and the website problems were we'll deserved. >> right now everybody is properly focused on us not doing a good job on the rollout. and that is legitimate and i get it. there have been times where i thought we were, kind of you know, slapped around a little bit, unjustly. this one's deserved. right, it's on us. >> reporter: still mr. obama has a job to do when meets win insurance executives later today. though aides say they have been in close contact with those executives all along, suggesting that the so-called fix is not a

martha interesting, the whole denis mcdonough issue on this as chief of staff. down the road it doesn't matter so much. people want to have good health care and figure out how they can get it whether through this program or something completely different but the politics is interesting behind this. isn't the person the president would count on to give him the truth serum, here's where we're at, mr. president? i don't want you to look bad. did any of that happen? >> obviously the congress can't summon to testify about this. we know the president will not write code for the website. would you think this is his signature achievement, that marks his time in the white house so far that he would want to make sure, almost on a minute-by-minute basis would rollout successfully. obvious the president has to delegate some of that responsibility. chief of staff is obvious candidate, somebody who would stay on the thing 24/7. yet what we figured out so far they really didn't know how bad it was going to be. they knew there were problems. there were contractors saying this a