is the gop playing its cards right, ari fleischer? >> republicans start to play that are cards right when they voted against this in the first place. that was the right stand to take because they feared the effects it would have, they predicted many of these effects where people would pay more and it would damage health care delivery in this country. that's another shoe that has yet to fall. as it goes forward, only thing that republicans can do that messes this up is to shut the government down again, go back into some of the same fights they should not have gotten into around october first when obama care kicked in. i think they have learned that lesson. i certainly hope they won't make that mistake again. but there is nothing republicans can do without controlling the senate or the white house to change obama care. >> maybe they should just to what -- in other words, they're basically doing nothing. if your opponent wants to hang himself, give him all the rope in the world. >> pie point is they took the principled action, they did

that's when ari fleischer was speaking from the white house podium, and we know how that turned out. >> the reaction to this nuke deal has been as you said automatic and ugly. when you look at representative culberson says it's worse than munich. representative poe, it's a bum deal. bachmann says it's total surrender. and other republicans claim the deal was just a distraction from obama care. listen to this. >> these people will do anything to distract us from how bad obama care is. including let the iranians get a nuclear weapon down the road. >> now sparking many to believe that it is yet another attempt to distract from the disastrous rollout. >> isn't that curious timing? john kerry pulls a rabbit out of his hat and changes the subject. it's handy for them. >> it is handy for them. let's just put it that way. >> so the fact they've been working on this for over a year, many months, had nothing to do that this was all about obama care. it's from one conspiracy theory to another ugly attack. and we're talking about avoiding war here, dana. >> right. you've heard of the wag the dog

. >> former white house press secretary ari fleischer. mr. president, ari fleischer. have moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. >> the president, yesterday, offered an apology, sort of a semiapology, what do you think of it? >> i was impressed. i didn't expect it. >> did he need to do it? >> yes. >> good. >> i think people are upset about the glitch. i think, i worry about the glitch. they set an artificial deadline of december 31st. >> you don't think they are going to make it? >> it's going to be tough. >> nicolle, what about you? it's always tough for a president to say he's sorry. >> it's tough for a human being to say sorry. it brought me back to 2005 when public support for the iraq war was at a low point. we were desperate for the president to regain credibility among wide numbers of the american people. he gave a speech where he acknowledged mistakes on the military front. it really succeeded in sort of restoring the community. >> i know you love george w. bush and you talked about it, but would he have ever used the words, i'm sorry? >> i don't know.

. ♪ >>> joining me with reaction to the video, much more democratic strategist penny lee and ari fleischer 45% of americans say they canno. a majority of independents think obama deceived the them. he said they were stray cats and dog. he would scrub it out and clean it so if people liked their bill they could keep eir bill. keep their plan. >> i don't understand knowing what he knew. he said it was categorically untrue. it was careless to go out repeatedly and make that promise knowing that it wasn't going to come true. for a vast majority of the people, yes, they have been able to keep their health care insurance. for me personally, i am benefitting from the affordable health care act because i had a pre-existing condition, was denied coverage and under obama care actually my premiums go down. there are good things about the bill. but i can't explain why he was untrue -- >> we have a lot of democrats on the program that don't have your integrity. this promise was made repeatedly. the president is at risk. with the numbers that are devastating for him, only 106,000 people signed up since

ari fleischer, the press secretary for bush, this is actually george w.'s fourth term we're expensing now. in some ways that is true and disappointedly so. obama from the beginning surrounded himself with very conservative advisors. an economic team was considered a constellation of reubenites. his military team, his foreign- policy, mostly hawks. people like hillary clinton, robert gates, general jones. and his policies have reflected that. i see him as a more efficient manager of the american empire him and not somebody who is breaking with the empire. he doesn't even think in different terms. for example, he recently called for 13-year commemoration of the vietnam war, in which we are going to reposition our understanding of the vietnam war. that is very dangerous. of 18nt poll showed 51% to 29-year-olds now think the vietnam war was worth fighting. as an american interest. those people our age, about 70% said the vietnam war was a mistake or even worse. but the fact that younger people are not learning history and are seeing the vietnam war and more p

former press secretary, ari fleischer, offered the world a lesson in spelling and bitterness. erick erickson tweeted his congratulations to iran on their acquisition of the nuclear bomb. over at bright bart, the conspiracy theorist who broke the story about president obama hugging his radical harvard professor -- >> this is a clean bust. >> -- or comparing the president's diplomacy to appeasing the nazis. and once again, the people who have been tirelessly agitating for war are turning themselves into cartoons to oppose peace. >> what was concluded in geneva last night is not an historic agreement, it's a historic mistake. >> joining me now, hogman maj, author of "the ministry of guidance invites you not to stay." he's returned from geneva, where you and ann curry were covering these talks. i was amazed by this, that this happened. i mean, how big a deal is this? >> i think it's a pretty huge deal, because it really puts the brakes on any idea of going to war or any kind of military action. and it gives time to president obama to do what he said he was going to do way back whe

about thit's about the peoe represent, folks like matthew fleischer, folks like edie sunday, who i mentioned yesterday. here is a woman battling stage 4 gallbladder cancer. she's about to lose access to affordable care that she credits for keeping her alive. it's about folks like a constituent of mine named mark. mark owns a small business and thought he'd be able to keep his current insurance. but then he got a letter from his insurer terminating the plan anyway. so after looking into its options on the kentucky exchange, he disofd that his monthly -- he discovered that his monthly premiums would rise by 300% -- 300%. it's not right, and i.t. not fair. -- and it's not fair. here's an important lesson. obamacare would not be law today if the president and his allies in congress had told the truth about the consequences it would bring. and people like edie and matthew and mark would not be in the troubling circumstances they're in now if the president had simply been honest about obamacare. so the president can keep talking about a web site, if he wants, but republicans are going to keep figh

fleischer and wallace saying that things are harder now.ly ugly times between katrina and iraq and the sectarian violence over there. even bush's people who have been really tough on the white house saying this environment is so bad, you do start to wonder. how does any president and i'm not defending the president here, republicans. you have to look the at environment. how does any president survive living in this hot house? any administration for eight years? >> what's the environment you are describing? the media? >> i'm talking 24-7 media and looking at every step of the way. we always made fun of george w. bush. the tea party when bush was president, people on the left that said every day he was shredding the constitution and republicans were supporting legalized rape and the most bizarre charges going out over the airwaves every single day. i'm just wondering whether george w. bush didn't have it right that at the end of his day, he went up and watched sports center. when you see this white house obsesses over sometimes little things.