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. >> joining me now with reaction, editor of red state.com eric erickson and alexis mcgill johnson.a law if it applies only to some teem. what does the president's answer mean? i'm not delaying the mandate but i am. >> is the law working? absolutely. tens of thousands of americans are signing up every day. they are getting better health coverage and paying less. i think what a lot of americans are seeing around this fight is that the administration is stepping in and they are willing to make minor adjustments that will be a negligible effect on the program. >> really? the insurance companies at the heart of it don't think it is a minor adjustment at all. >> if the law is working and people can get insurance through the website why are they allowing people to not get the website through a website they couldn't get it from but now everybody is going to get it from. so merry christmas, your insurance plan was cancelled and now you don't have to have insurance. but two years ago they were saying everyone needed insurance. >> it's such a fantastic success that we are not going to enact i

eric erickson is done as speaker. this is legacy building now and if he has to cry on television and attack the conservative base, go do it. this is a fight between republicans and conservatives. >> we are trying to have a fact-based disagreement with people who increase spending and taxes. those of us who think the sequester was imperfect and better than this deal. they want to turn it into a boring washington, d.c. process story. who is up and down. this is about whether or not the american people want taxes go up. >> some of this is is by the shut down strategy. let me play what he said. he seemed to be referring to you personally. >> if you recall, the day before the government reopened, one of the groups stood and said we never thought it would work. are you kidding me in? >> what you were quoted as saying in buzz feed after the shut down is this. everybody understands we are not going to be able to repeal this law. that's apparently what he is referring to. i can't read his mind. >> he's being absurd, if i thoug

editor in chief, eric erickson tweeted this.ding on his website he's done as speaker. this is all legacy-building now. if he has to cry on television and attack the conservative base, he will do it. how budget committee chairman paul ryan defended the bill saying it's not just about the budget. it's about the future of the republican party. >> we have been at each other's throats for a long time. i was part of the last presidential election. we tried defeating this president. i wish we would have. elections have consequences, mr. speaker. i fundamentally believe and this is my personal opinion and it's a partisan thing to say, to really do what we think needs to be done, we will have to win elections. in the meantime, let's try to make this government work. i think our constituents are expecting more from us. they are expecting us to not keep shutting the government down and pay the bills and be accountable and watch how the dollars are being spent and expecting us to find common ground. >> does that sound like anything you have