dr. zeke emanuel. doc zeke -- dr.eat to have you on especially now with this roll-out just 70 days away. i ask you, as someone who was involved in the planning and writing of this law, can republicans actually choke it to death? >> i don't think so. i do think that most states are going to implement -- i think the government is going to implement and i think there is going to be a public outcry for implementation because we're seeing such low premiums and people are going to want to get those low premiums especially since they come with no pre-existing condition requirements which i think allow a lot of people in. i saw a report that in california, if you're a single man with 150% of the poverty line making around $18,000, you can buy a health care plan, the silver plan -- not even the base one -- for $34 a month, under $400 a year. if you have one emergency room visit you've more than paid for this thing. i think that's the kind of great health care insurance people are going to want to see and they're going to be pr

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dr. zeke emanuel. here. >> apparently a need -- >> there was a big article in "the new york times." i think genetically modified foods got a very bad rap. you start combining genes to make things -- >> what's happening to these oranges? >> there's a blight. the question is can you take genes from other foods, put it into an orange and make them decease resistance so you don't have to worry about bacteria, herbicides? it raised a lot of concerns about species jumping. perhaps one of the best is if you take a peanut gene and you put it in an orange, can you caught peanut allergies in kids? a lot of people say, does that mean my orange will smell like a peanut? the answer is no. this is a very smart article in "the new york times." >> where do you come out on this? come out in favor -- >> i come out on the side of science, responsible science and history. if you go back to mendel and all those little peas and what we learned about genetics. genetically modified organisms, which is a lousy term, really mea

dr. zeke emanuel weighing in on the delay in the obamacare. and later eight-time grammy winner usher is going to be here on set. >> i'm so excited. >> up next -- halpern, you're not excited? >> pro-usher. pro emanuel. pro axelrod. >> there are two things better for a holiday weekend than usher and fireworks. >> up next, the top stories in politico's playbook. first, here's dylan dreyer with the forecast. >> we've got a lot of rain out there now basically from the southeast all the way to the northeast, where we do have flood watches and warnings. it's the moisture off the gulf of mexico. our best chance of seeing three to four-plus inches of rain down through atlanta and eastern tennessee and down through the panhandle of florida. of course, we're still talking about the oppressive heat in the southwest. excessive heat warnings still in effect. temperatures will once again be above 110 degrees in most areas. for your forecast, the middle of the country looking pretty good. 80 in kansas city today. and tomorrow for the 4th of july, we're going

dr. ezekiel emanuel is the former white house adviser on healthcare policy and is vice provost for global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania. zeke, it's great to have you on the program. >> good to be here. >> thank you so much for joining us. let me ask you about the implementation of the affordable care act. it's when the health insurance exchanges go online. >> right. >> october 1st. >> right. >> some talk that the computer systems being developed for the exchanges may not be ready. these are supposed to be stat state-run and 34 states kicked it back to the federal level to either help or run it totally. >> right. >> what's the status? are we ready? >> we're going to know on october 1st. every state i know and the federal government are working really hard to get this up and running. i'd like to say two things. there's probably going to be glitches. even the president has said there will be some glitches. but those are software things that by year two, 2015, year three, 2016, will be ironed out. and it's going to be like shopping on amazon. if you want to see what it's like, go to the massachusetts connector that's been up fo