gloria's here, gloria borger, our chief political analyst. gloria, a lot of democrats over the years, they're in the majority now, 55 democrats, 45 republicans, but you know that can change. the democrats can be in the minority, they will then want to use that minority power with a filibuster to stop certain decisions by the majority who could be republicans. democrats and republicans feared a nuclear option, it could come back to haunt them sooner rather than later? >> where you stand depends where you sit. and that's the argument that a few democrats had been making, a few democrats didn't vote for this because they worry about this. and i think what we're seeing here is the extreme partisanship spill over on to everything. harry reid is effectively saying, look, this was minority rule, this wasn't majority rule, it was minority rule in the senate so we could not get any of these nominations through. is it a long-term decision, you know? i would argue that in the long term, if you look at the democratic part it's going to be in the minority

joining me now from mcauliffe headquarters is cnn chief political analyst dana bash and gloria borger. chris christie's re-election in new jersey was never in doubt. but the polls performing so well, 55% of female vote, one fifth of the african-american vote. more than half of the latino vote according to recent exit polls. gloria how much do you think this will be resonant for those early state activists looking to put a republican in the white house? >> look, i think it's going to have a lot of resonance with more establishment republicans who are saying we can't go with the tea party. it's not going to help us. business types who after the shutdown are looking for candidates, they can endorse now against other republicans. so i think for those folks, this news is going to be telegraphed everywhere as you point out earlier. these exit polls are going to go everywhere. but if you look at the state of virginia, the tea party folks might say, you know what, if ken cucinnelli had stuck with the base, if he'd had one more week to rail against obama care and to continue on that, then mayb

joining me now is chief political analyst gloria borger. thanks for being here. this isn't a new issue for the cheneys, but the tension between the sisters is. >> well, that's right. and what kind of surprise me just covering politics as i do is that this is an issue they didn't figure out a way to deal with before the campaign. running in the state of wyoming and being against gay marriage in the state of wyoming is not going to hurt you when you're running as a conservative republican. so everybody knew that that was the position she was going to take. she says it should be left up to the states. the question is, why this kind of blew out into the open with her sister and facebook and all the rest. it shouldn't be come as any surprise to them that this was her position. this is also her position, her father believes its up to the states as he said to you, he's been talking about this since he debated joe lieberman in 2000. >> i asked liz cheney about it today. she wrote back to me saying "i love my sister and her family and have always tried to be compassionate

also political analyst gloria borger. peter, first, governor christie has to take the job from louisiana governor bobby jindal, also touted around as potential presidential candidate. what's the mood at the conference? that is all of the chatter? >> reporter: ub ppublicly the governors, staffs are not talking about the behind the scenes jockeying that took place last year when both chris christie and bobby jindal wanted to run the rga in 2014, next year, big midterm year, when there's 36 governor races, could be a good platform, launchpad to run for president. they're talking not about that but winning races next year. there's a variety of press conferences, governors here meeting with donors and that's one big reason why this event and this conference and this new job for chris christie's so important to him, because it does put him in touch with the republican party's biggest financial supporters. rga is one of the biggest and most important political committees in the country. they can raise larger sums of money. chris

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gloria borger is here. dana, first to you. what do we know? >> we know from a source familiar with what the president is going to announce, that he is going to say that people who got cancellation policies will be told by their insurance companies that they can keep their policy. these are only people in the individual market and it would only be allowed for one year. and that is a key one year. i'll get back to that in a minute why, in a bit. the other key point i'm told by this source -- a couple of sources now -- is that these insurance companies, if they're saying to a consumer you can renew this canceled policy, they're going to be required to tell them a couple of things. number one, that there are other options out there for them that might be better for them and, number two, that what they are going to keep will not necessarily have the benefits of other policies. meaning the benefits that are now required under the obama care law, which is why many of these policies were canceled in the first place,

gloria borger, she has the inside scoop on the obama care rollout debacle.the word debacle all the time. your piece was great. mad, frustrated, angry. how could he not know about the web site problems? >> i know. that is the big question everybody is asking. he is the president of the united states. most powerful man in the world, right? with the team of the best and brightest around him. in doing a lot of nosing around and talking to people in the administration and former top-level officials in other administrations, there were a few explanations. first of all, everyone said, there is no czar in charge of health care. remember that term czar? why do you need czars in charge of things? >> this is why you need czars. >> so you have somebody accountable. you may be regarded as a tattletale. >> you have people who think they can work in a unit. that wasn't happening. >> the other thing is who likes to give the president bad news, right? nobody does. there needs to be a designated truth teller. i think that can go to the president without fear and say, you know

gloria borger is with us. some disturbing poll numbers for the president today.he president right now. look at how it's collapsed. 12 points since may. can he manage government, 52% said yes in may, 40% said yes right now. that's a pretty disturbing number. >> well, it is. if i were sitting at the white house right now, i don't think i would be thrilled by these numbers. look, the two most important bonds between the president and the public are trust and competency. you look at that 40% number, that's a competency number. we also have numbers that show that only 46% of the public thinks that he's honest. so those are real problems. however, you might have said the same things about bill clinton. you might have been able to say the same things about ronald reagan in his second term. so somehow, those presidents managed to resurrect themselves. let's not write off this president just yet. >> does he have the clout to get stuff done right now? >> i think, you know, that's a huge problem for him, because if the public doesn't think you're competent to manage the gov

, and cnn political commentator democratic strategist paul begala, and chief political analyst gloria borgeroria these numbers released today pretty dismal, aren't they? >> yeah. they are very dismal. i think they're evidence of a complete failure, breakdown of this website. the white house was low balling us and saying you're going to see some low figures. they were right. they were lower than we even anticipated. so i think this is a complete failure. they're trying to say as zeke emanuel just said to you, look, there's a great deal of interest out there. and they're right about that. there were 26 million people at one point or another who clicked onto the web site. there were over 1 million who tried to enroll. so if they can get this fixed, maybe they can get it going. but right now, they've got a president, people are questioning his competency, his honesty and his credibility. >> and paul, the president's approval numbers are really going south right now. only in the last couple of weeks, you could only imagine if the republicans wouldn't have pushed for a government shutdown where th

beinert and cnn political commentator democratic strategist paul begala and chief political analyst gloria borgerumbers released today pretty dismal, aren't they? >> very dismal. i think they're evidence of a complete failure, breakdown of this web site. the white house was low balling us and saying you're going to see some low figures. they were right. they were lower than we even anticipated. so i think this is a complete failure. they're trying to say as zeke emanuel just said to you, look, there's a great deal of interest out there. and they're right about that. there were 26 million people at one point or another who clicked onto the web site. there were over 1 million who tried to enroll. so if they can get this fixed, maybe they can get it going. but right now they've got a president, people are questioning his competency, his honesty and his credibility. >> and paul, the president's approval numbers are really going south right now. only in the last couple of weeks, you could only imagine if the republicans wouldn't have pushed for a government shutdown where those numbers would be right

gloria borger is still with us. dana bash is up on capitol hill, brianna keilar is over at the white house. candy crowley is joining us as well. let me start with you, candy, quickly. get your reaction to what is going on. you've covered congress, you've covered the white house. this is a big deal. this is a major change the democrats pushed through the senate today. >> it is. and let's face it, though, when the president first started talking, i thought, wait a second, i think he misunderstands what happened here because thus far, this applies to appointee -- sorry, to nominees in the judiciary and executive levels except for the supreme court. it does not apply to the legislation that he went through at the very beginning. you know, they've blocked gun legislation, blocked this, blocked that. legislation is still going to take 60 votes to put that on the floor and get past a filibuster. that remains. i do think it's interesting that, yes, people have voiced frustration, you know, sort of across the board with how

gloria borger is joining us in this conversation, as well. gloria, 50 years ago then.now it's a very different scene here. excuse me. here in washington, d.c. right now. it seems like almost two political worlds and i want maureen and eleanor to weigh in, as well. it was a very different washington then. >> it was a very different washington then. it was bipartisan for one thing. and i think that life with the obamas in many ways, there was this young couple in the white house with young children. a sense of anticipation. two president who's saw themselves in different ways as transformational. president, one the first catholic, one the first african-american but this president is so young. he doesn't have any real memory of jfk. and in a way, though, he has affected his presidency, of course, because the civil rights movement during kennedy but also ted kennedy was such a mentor to president obama, particularly as he embarked upon his signature legislative achievement which we all know is in some trouble now, but ted kennedy was his guide through health care reform. u

gloria borger, our chief political analyst. is this becoming for president obama now? >> and i'm in new york today for election night, brooke. what a surprise. look, i think this is becoming a large credibility problem for the president. what we heard in the first bite that you played was political sloganeering. the president was misleading. he was imprecise, maybe purposefully. what we heard in the second bite was somebody trying to be a little bit more precise, caveating things. i think chris christie hit the nail on the head when he said the president was being lawyerly. it's hard to be lawyerly when you're looking for bumper stickers, when you're trying to sell something during a campaign. but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. it was clear to me today from listening to jay carney's exchange with jim acosta that if the president had to do it all over again, maybe he would have been a little bit more precise because these are smart people, brooke. they knew all of the hypotheticals that were possible. they just di

i'm joined now by gloria borger, cnn's chief political analyst.dana bash, house democrats were at the white house expressing their frustration, really demanding something be done about this. it does seem actually they have gone beyond frustration to almost an active split from the white house. they made it clear they will vote for action. >> you know, they're on the line. their credibility is on the line as well as the white house's credibility. you see what's happened to the president. i mean, his honesty ratings have dropped ten points just since earlier this fall. that's due clearly to the rollout of obama care and the promise you could keep your health care plan if you like your health care plan. so they're talking to the white house and saying, you folks don't seem to understand how bad this is. in our districts, and in our states. and we need to fix this. what the white house is saying up until recently, and we'll see what they say later today is, look, we would rather do this administratively because if we do it through legislation, we open

let's bring in cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger. talk about changes.is still the result of the botched obama care website rollout? >> i think this just shows you how volatile the american public is right now when it comes to their political choices. there's no extreme party loyalty anymore. they just want somebody to be in charge and to manage things. and they're not seeing that from their elected officials now. so the shutdown, you know, the democrats were up after the shutdown. after the botched rollout of obama care, the republicans are benefitting from it. you know, these things are not generally indicative of what's going to happen in the midterm elections, but let me just say that this is making democrats really, really nervous. >> let's talk about some more polls here. among two polls, you can see that people who make less than $40,000 a year support for democrats is up by five points. this is since october. it is down by ten whole points among people who make more than $40,000. if you go by race -- let me show this to you as well and we'll talk

let's bring in gloria borger, chief political analyst. clearly leaving open the possibility of a run for 2016. is he some as some of his supporters suggest the answer to the gop's problems? >> it depends if you talk to people who identified themselves as moderates, the establishment business wing of the party look at chris christie and say yes, this is exactly what we need. but if you talk to tea party people and you talk to people who identify themselves as conservative, there was a poll done in september only 33% of people who identify themselves as conservative like chris christie. they don't thing he's got the credentials and believe he's more about the personality of chris christie than the ideology of conservativism. they consider him suspect on issues like gun control, even same-sex marriage even though he's anti-abortion. so he's got a long way to go with that wing of the party. >> a different wing from christie's wing of the party. the sarah palin wing of the republican party, she was in iowa over the weekend. i'll play a little

anna navarro and gloria borger are with us.airing between two sisters that somehow went awry and is now in the public sphere or a calculated move to have this debate in the public eye? >> i really think we've been watching too much "scandal" or "house of cards" if we think this is a calculated move. i don't know a single political analyst who would recommend family drama as a good political move to win an election. >> even if it highlights your stance on gay marriage? >>er erin, i suspect that the same people who oppose gay marriage also oppose family infighting and this scene that is going on. i think it's unseemly. it cut to the bone. it's a personal issue for mary cheney. she's got children. she's got a wife. i think it's hard to reconcile for a sister, your sister saying on national tv, i like you. i love you, i love your family, but i don't believe in the institution of marriage that you are engaged in. would that not upset you? >> it would be -- yes, of course it would. of course it would. i wouldn't talk about it on tv,

. >> john king, gloria borger are here. you heard the words, i am sorry but you heard a lot of things before. i regret we might have misled. we were not as clear as we need to be. he did not run into the i'm sorry part. >> no. this president has been very reluctant to really take reins of accountability when it comes to this colossal screw-up. now questions about where wasn't telling the truth to the american people on all those campaign stumps. there is an old saying in humble pie. when you're eating humble buy, don't nibble. this is an attempt to try to own make it better. this was his chance to say i'm sorry, i was wrong. >> you hear that he just doesn't want to do that. even when he said he's sorry, it is within the context of, hold on, guys, your plan will still be better. he wants to keep making that point. ? was it ronald reagan who said facts are stubborn things. the time line is very important. the darrel of health and human services, his administration knew in the summer of 2010 that as many as two-thirds in that

. >> president of the center for american progress, neara tanden and chief political analyst, gloria borger mr. upton is making too big a deal out of this or does this really have the potential to be the line that people remember the president for saying in the same way that bush senior has read my lips? >> look, i actually think most of what's energizing the issues right now are the fact that the website doesn't work. it is actually fueling the issue because people can't see what their better options would be when they're better on the website itself. the challenge here, it's a big challenge, is for this website to work. if the website works, if the law is successful over the next year or so, or the next several months and into the next year, then i think this will recede as an issue. i don't think -- i think the president has generally had a lot of credibility with the american people. i think we shouldn't judge the entire moment -- the entire presidency -- >> he's under water now on the honest and trustworthy numbers. it's totally flipped. he's lost ten points since october. so you know,

our chief political analyst gloria borger is here. you've been going through the numbers. is it because of the failures of the affordable care act roll out? >> sure, i mean that's a huge part of it, not only because of the website but remember the president said if you like your health care policy, you can keep your health care policy. that turned out not to be the case. that can really account for the question of his honesty. also, this is a president whose second term has been plagued by lots of things. the nsa surveillance scandal, an the irs controversy and now the obama carroll out. i think if you put it all together, the american public is sort of saying wait a minute, we have some problems. >> only 46% say he's honest and strong leader. but take a look at this. 71% think he is -- that they believe that the president is likable. >> they like him. >> they like the president, but at the same time, they don't think he's an honest and strong leader. >> those numbers are in the stratosphere down a little bit but still very, very high. that's always been the president's re

and cnn national correspondent christiane amanpour and chief political analyst gloria borger and chief political correspondent candy crowley. what do you make of the results in virginia? how significant? >> well, how significant, ask me that in 11 months. i think you can overinterpret what happened. but this is clearly not some huge rejection of the tea party. cucinnelli did a lot better. he was outgunned 10 to 1 in the last few days, last couple of weeks in advertising. mcauliffe was out early and just pounded cucinnelli with the anti-woman theme. a lot of social issues. and positioned himself as the centrist. and if there's one thing you can say that both chris christie and terry mcauliffe had in common in their campaigns it was selling themselves as i'm the guy that can work with the other party and get things done for you. that was their come onnally. >> the irony in this year the two people who won are the two people who kind of tried to run to the center the fastest. and they were victorious. but i would argue in virginia, one of the important things was the government shutdown.

journal, josh krassar, cnn chief congressional correspondent dana bash and chief political analyst, gloria borgers. math is hard, but these are not good numbers. do you think going into the midterm elections which were starting to be looked at right now, any issue will mean as much as obama care and whether it's working or not? >> no. there's no issue that's going to touch it. obviously it's the issue particularly since so far, it's not working. republicans are going to focus on it and i think that there is a secondary issue now, which is abuse of power, which is going to be a part of their campaign litany because of the whole nuclear option thing. >> from the republicans accusing democrats. >> accusing democrats of abuse of power. what the obama care plays into is this notion of the government doesn't work. and we're right about the size of government, say the republicans, and this president is somebody who believes the government can solve all our problems and we know that's not the case and you shouldn't trust the government with your health care and these democrats can't be trusted because th

let's bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. what do you make of this 42% for hillary clinton, 43% for christie. >> what year is this, would he have? >> this is 2013. >> we are a little early on this. what these poll numbers really tell us is that these two candidates have an awful lot of name i.d. if you dig deeper into the numbers, there was something of great interest to me. that is where independent voters came out on this. if you look at independent voters, 48% for chris christie. 32% for hillary clinton. so you can see that with independent voters who republicans need to get, if they're going to win a presidential election, if chris christie can keep that number very high, he would be a hugely attractive candidate for the republicans. >> as often said, if he wins that republican nomination, he would be a significant challenge to a hillary clinton. the problem he has is winning in an iowa caucus or winning in south carolina, winning in nevada, winning in florida where there are a lot of other potential republican candidates

joining me now, cnn political analyst, gloria borger, chief political analyst.david frum, political commentator, contributing editor for daily beast, and peggy nants. thanks very much for joining us. how did we get here? this is a political family. why didn't they work this out? >> that's a really interesting question but family dynamics, as we all know, are a very tricky thing, even in politics. look, liz cheney is running as an ultra-conservative in the state of wyoming. that's a good thing to be when you're a republican. for some republicans, she's not to the right enough on the issue of gay marriage. as she said on fox news on sunday, she said look, i don't support gay marriage but i believe it's an issue that should be left to the state. that is what her father said going back as far as the year 2000. but after she said that, for some reason, the facebook messages started flying. her sister's spouse called her view offensive, then her sister got on and said -- on facebook and said my sister's on the wrong side of history, then the parents, you know, you hav

joining us, our chief political analyst gloria borger, our cnn political commentator and former bushech writer, david frum and our cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein. if kerry does this, potentially it's a huge breakthrough. the questions, people are beginning to compare his tenure as secretary of state with hillary clinton's. >> right. timing contributes to success. look, this is, if in fact we do have an agreement, it is a reminder that not everything we do is counterproductive or ineffective. this is a product of years of sanctions, of tightening pressure on iran that produced political change and helped produce political change inside the country which is now producing dramatic change. but john kerry is in a different position than hillary clinton, who is looking at a potential presidential campaign. this is presumably the last big position of his public career and this gives him freedom to take more risks. mpl >> he ran for president in 2004. it didn't work out for him. he's very active as secretary of state. >> he is a secretary of state with huge ambition. he's at th

joining us, our chief political analyst gloria borger. w republic senior editor jonathan kohn is joining us from ann arbor, michigan and our cnn political commentator, ross douthat. gloria, you have an excellent column in which you write no one was really in charge so no one knew for sure how bad t alre s, what's more and perhaps more teing, no one want even to ht to the president thahis techno-savvy administration possibly had a website stuck in say 1995. >> i'm not sure if it's '90 or '95. >> they had three years to get this website ready. >> they did. what i was writing about is sort of trying to answer the question how come nobody told the president. i believe he didn't know the whole story. what i discovered in reporting this is that nobody likes to give this president bad news, period. nobody likes to give any president bad news, but this is a no drama white house. people are very silo'ed in their jobs. they stay in their lane, as they say, in this administration. so you don't want to cross over into anybody else's lane even if you h

let's discuss what's going on with our chief political analyst, gloria borger, our cnn political commentator brazil and ed gillespie. thanks so much for coming in. ed, you're the man surrounded by two women. how does he survive this? >> he's going to survive. he has three more years in office. >> but he's got a lot of stuff on his agenda he's got to do over the next three years. this is a problem. >> it will be very difficult for him right now. the thing that's most interesting to me in these numbers is not just the drop in the approval ratings to historically low numbers but for the first time being upside down on personal characteristics and attributes, trustworthiness, likability, unfavorable majority 52%. it's one thing you can kind of come back and get people to change their opinion. it's hard to get them to change how they feel. >> you know that. >> yeah. you also worked for president bush so you know. >> you know, what's the biggest impact is not what people think but how people feel about him. >> how does he do it? >> first, i don't think the american people would like to see the pre

joining us, our cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger, along with cnn's "crossfire" co-host, vanrmer advisor to president obama and newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house. i want to get to all that. newt, i got to ask you about in this new book, you have gone through it "double down," chris christie is clearly going to win tonight in new jersey. i don't think there's a whole lot of surprise there. he has some pretty harsh words, at least the authors quote him as saying harsh things about you when you were running for the republican presidential nomination in 2012. advice he gave mitt romney, for example, i'm quoting now, get out of your crouch and kick the -- out of this guy. that's what you should do. he's a joke and you're allowing him to be taken seriously. at one point, according to this book, christie thought you were the worst human being he had ever met in politics but now you're writing nice things about him. >> well, first of all, the book is a collection of gossip and i don't take much of it very seriously. i think this city's ability to avoid thinking by readin

let's get more now with cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein, the editorial director of the national journal. so the president came out with an attempt at a fix yesterday with the stakes nothing short of saving his signature legislative program. did he succeed? >> no, i think the president is walking an incredible tightrope. on the one hand, he has to be seen, he wants to be seen as being responsive to the concern about people who are losing their existing policies, but he can't be too responsive to it, because ultimately, the way the individual market works now largely segregates out the sick, those who are in it tend to be healthy. they are exactly the people he needs to come in to the new plans to provide a balanced risk pool that will allow it to succeed going forward. if large numbers of them are allowed to stay in their current plans outside of the system, he is putting off problems today but compounding them a year from now when rates could go up and further that downward spiral. >> i was talking to a senior administration off

let's discuss with our chief political analyst, gloria borger and chief national correspondent, john i think everybody agrees the answer is yes. >> yes. he is. >> yes. yeah. >> now move on. >> he's blunt about that. he makes no issue, he's not pretending. he's clear that he's very interested in seeking the republican nomination. >> yeah, and he's clearly pushing his own brand which is much more personal than idealogical. he's making a point of appealing to hispanic voters, to women voters and he's sort of saying you can't just appeal to the base of your party if you want to win a presidential campaign. >> and to get things done. you heard him with the new mexico governor, you have to work with democrats. people are disgusted with this town and chris christie knows it. disgusted with washington. he's trying to say i can be a republican candidate but can also get things done. and he gets a huge platform next year, head of the republican governors association. look at the governors races in 2014. they will take into, oh, pretty important states in presidential politics, like iowa, ohio,

. >>> let's get more now with cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger, cnn chief national correspondentnd cnn chief political correspondent, candy crowley, the anchor of quit state"state union." president obama is trying to fix this issue of folks who get booted off their plan, their option on the exchange is going to cost more. are there risks in trying to do this? >> yeah, it might not work. >> what leads you to believe that? >> you know, you promise something and if you don't deliver, it tends to kind of make you not look good. and it opens up for other fixes that other people have in mind say maybe on capitol hill. >> the question is do you fix it administratively which is what they would like to do, meaning not open the pandora's box of legislation so they would rather try and do it through their newest best friends, the insurance companies, whom they have to work with to get this done if you want to get the penalties delayed, all kinds of things, they've got to work with the insurance companies on. it's uncomfortable. >> in a different political environment, they might get away wi

let's discuss with our chief political analyst gloria borger, cnn commentator david frum. 106,000 people have signed up most through the state, through the states that do it, but only, what, under 27,000 who ask it through healthcare.gov, the federal program, in 36 states. what's your reaction? >>s first let's also count the 400,000 additional people on medicaid. one of the real sources of pressure behind this project has -- is the massive increase in eligibility without any serious program of cost control. 400,000 additional people. >> who don't have to pay. they're going to get insurance through medicaid. >> we have a dramatically expanded eligibility and that is expensive. at first it is going to be cut -- the state's costs will be covered by federal subsidies but no guarantee that will continue forever. that will fall on state budgets. >> younger healthier people were supposed to sign up to help subsidize to help those -- >> the question is whether a lot of those end up in medicaid because they don't have the income. >> there's a tendency to assume none of this affects the group mark

joining us, cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, chief political analyst, gloria borger along with buzzfeed washington bureau chief, john stanton. you think this may be, with the exception of the affordable care act, one of the most important lasting legacies of president obama, what happened today. explain. >> the district of -- the d.c. circuit is the second most important court in the country. president obama has nominated five people to that court. four of them have been filibustered. as a result of today's decision, three of those four will be confirmed. that is the farm team for the supreme court. that's where democratic presidents get their nominees to the supreme court often. this is the court that weighs whether most federal laws are constitutional. obama will be able to put his stamp on this court as a result of today's decision and those judges on this court and around the country will serve for decades after president obama leaves office. so this is an enormously important vote, especially at a time when congress isn't passing any laws anyway. so judicial confirmations

let's bring in gloria borger, john king, along with eleanor clift of the daily beast.ill clinton, barack obama -- >> in one corner. >> how much do they need each other? >> these are men of substantial ego. they would never say to you, oh, i need him. i really need him. but in truth, they need each other, to a degree. i think, look, bill clinton's wife going to run for president, would he like barack obama to be in his corner? yes. will barack obama be in his corner if she's the nominee? yes. do they have a history? yes. are they politicians who can do what they need to do to get things done? sure. so i think the bs is kind of -- >> you wrote a column ton daily beast suggesting that hillary clinton's maybe presidential fate depends on how barack obama does. >> right. a successful two-term barack obama would give her a substantial lift into the next presidential race. >> what about less -- >> if it's less than successful, she'll have to be accountable for it, as she'll be accountable for the clinton years and she'll have to define her own path forward. she's got a compli

let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger. there are a bunch of democrats now who are nervous, they are worried, and they are putting some pressure on the president as well. >> they are putting a lot of pressure on him. it's why the white house invited 15 democrats, senators who are all up for re-election, to the white house yesterday. they did it because they need, these folks need to be able to go back home and say to their constituents you know what, we're putting pressure on the white house to get this thing fixed, but these senators are concerned about a lot more than the website. they are concerned about the people who have lost their insurance, what's going to happen to them. they are concerned about the security issues. they are talking about the potential increase in prices people will pay, and they also believe quite frankly that the white house has not focused enough on these potential land mines down the road on the affordable care act so they're trying to keep the pressure up. >> do both parties basically need to

with us now from washington, gloria borger, and bob cusack.s that have been said over the last couple days because they're startling to a lot of people. one of the things the president said is he was never told directly that the website that we have all been obsessed over for the last few weeks, no one told him directly it wasn't going to be ready. this has led many people to wonder, isn't there anyone inside the white house who can give him this kind of bad news? and i don't want to put the blame on them. if there is no one who can give him that news, isn't it his fault for not having them there? >> it is. i have been doing a bunch of reporting on this this week. and the question is, was there anyone inside the white house who had all of the bad news? there was nobody -- no czar in charge of this entire program. i think there was a bunch of bad news that was coming in and out of the white house. and i think nobody likes to give their boss bad news, but nobody knew the whole picture of just how devastating this was. this is a white house in wh