. >> reporter: the obama fix also requires cooperation frostate inrance commissioners. many are angry about being asked to change the rules now. >> the cost and burden on inrance companies is gng to be massive. who'going to ultimately pay for these? it's consumers. >> reporter: t house gop bill that passed toy goes beyond the president's x and would permit insurance companies to keep selling pns that don't me new coverage requirents indefinitely. and to any customer. democrats say that wld gut the benefits in the health care la ngresswoman debbie wasserman schultz says the fix will work thgh the president cant force insurance mpanies to go along. >> that's y the president rolled out the policy yesterday that allows ople who want to keep their plan to keep it. but we also -- >> reporter: it don't really allow -- >> yes, it does. >> reporter: it'asking. >> it allows people that want to keep their plan, if they like it, they can. >> reporter: se of the insurance executiv called the meeting with the psident oductive. while the white house suffered a loss of confence today,

policy saying tho with insurance plans below obama care standards will be allowed to renew them but inrancenies wille allowed to tell them about other options. you two dug deep. were you surprised b this confession this week? >> theast is prologue. erything we writebout in the book related to w the president woelection. the night health care passed he said business isoing to kick my butt over th. while the presiden won re-election, he left himself with not a lot of allies, not a lot of support for health care. the team around eresident is pretty much the team he came to the white house with high pressure he does n have that broaout reach andhat open diogue with a lot of people that miet have hped him see this coming a a team a little more prepared to put this plan in place >> do u think that hurt him then? >> i think so. one of the thing at's true is he's had a lotf oppotion. publican vs made it hard for him. he's had that complaint throughout his whole first time. inhis casee's really con fronting for the first time a failure that he can't blame on anne but himself. i think that's part the

work, that may be unemployed, and may be on support with regard to the health care -- excuse me, the inranceh they paid into to cover them when they are unemployed. so i think that spongebob is fine in that representation. but i have a little bit of misgiving about his friend there. >> this isn't shakespeare. it's a carto. but really, spongebob or patrick? who is the role model you want your kids t be watching? >> well, obviously, d like them to be watching spongebob. but here's the problem, brenda. i think most of us are inherently lazy, and we take the path of least resistance. and when the path of least resistance is lined with gold, as the government has done, my gosh, since i've been growing up, it's becoming worse an worse with generous food stamps and healthy unemployment benefits, things like that, it's very easy to be the nonspongebob and to sit bac and say, you know what? i'm not going to work. brenda, wn you and i were growing up, we didn't have those options. you had to go out and get a job because there wasn't this althy food stamp program and things le that. so it's the governm

obama care is for the commoners, but the problem is, of course, the commoners are facing loss of inrance, increase in premiums, insecurity not knowing if they're going to have insurance next year or not, loss of jobs and hours on the job, so there's real problems he. >> mike, at the risk of giving you a free plug to the new "hunger games qush games" moviee pulation has to pay for those that live in the catol. >> i just want the concierge service that the congressional aides get. if you're wired in and one of these big political guys or one of their aides, you can help out a lot during these times while a lot of people are having trouble navigating the site. right from that point of view we see the preferential treatment. >> and john, i know we're going to hear explanations for this and suggestions, but after all the lies and all the broken promises, who is the american people going to believe? >> they are not going to believe obama. and this w inevitable. all federal legislation inevitably has handouts for preferred con stitstituents. when you look at obama, you say he's the gift that ke

the president is out talking about how many people have inrance, the large percentage of those are medicaidstudies show people do not have access to primary care, have you not solved anything or successes reproblem, we should have been addressing who is uncared for in america. and how we can get more people into true my marry care, this does not address that, we'll have a large number of inevitable shired people, and -- large number of uninsured people, best thing you can do for someone, is get them a job where they have decent insurance, that gets more to the economy side of things, which are not working well either. lou: this president, this administration seems content with the level of umployment and under. am in this country, much as you know chronic, this is a president, as you go through his agenda, from the day he walked into office, obamacare, is his sig true law. -- signature law, here we are, with a mess that threatened lives, it threatens the economy, because as nancy pelosi said, if you want to read it you have to pass it, and i don't know that many people took her up on either

a separate poll 56 of people they say they ar making sure that everybody has health inrance, it is not government's responsibility. the white use admits the website still has some issues, but insists everybody wil be able to sign up by december 15th. >> 6:31. it may b an awkward thanksgivi for one of the most prominent political familiesn the country. the cheneys. tracie potts is live on capit hill this morning. a private argument between sisters about se-sex marriage is now very, ver public. >> ver public it came out on cebook. let's talk about this. liz cheneys running for senate in wyoming and she's a conservave candidate and ss marriage.ves in tradional one man, one woman. her sister mary has been married to a woman since last yea and in a very public facebook post said to her sister, you're wron you're on the wrong sid of story, in fact, heaer poe, her wif she married last ar said thathe was offended by this. and they talked about the fact that they socialize together, that thehildren have socialized togetr but on this issue there seemso abdisagreement. former vice predent dick in

. >> wait one week for the inrance companies to me their decisions what they are going to do here.call the iurance company. >> reporter: persico says she plans to dohat but she wants washington to ac too. >> i wld say, please f this. i mean, reay fix this. >> reporter: n some say including washingto state and arkansas say they will not go along with the president's x. further compounding the president's fther political problem on friday, mt democrats facg tough re-election battles vote with the president to vote withouse republicans to arove a republican-backed bi to deal with this and this is the president'legacy that is on the line. >> kristen welk, thank yo >>> a major healthoncern this morning on the campus o princeton university why an outbreak of a rare and potentially deadly disee. isten is here with more on this story. >> like most hools, princeton does require student toet a vaccination fo meningitis but unfortunately that doesn't care the rare type b strain thatas sickened seven people at e university a the cdc is concerned it is now looking into a vaccine that hasn' been

is this fix, if it's simply a voluntily fix, regulatory, and there's no way that actually compels inrance. >>ere whave thepresident. chuck, thank >> today i want to update the american people on the affordable care act, and i'll take a couple ofour questio, but before i do i wa to say a few words abouthe tragedy that's unfolded in the philippines. over the past w days i think all of us have beenhaken by brought by the typhoon haiyan. it's a heart-breaking reminder of how fragile life i and among the dead are several americans. our prayers are with the fippino people and the americans across our cult that are ache shus abt their family and friends back me. one of our core princles is when friends are in ouble, america hes. as i told t president earlier this week, the united states will continue to offer whatever assistance we can. our mility personnel and u.s. a.i.d. team d this better than anybody inhe world, and they've been already on t ound working tirelessly to deliver food, water, medicine, shelter, and to help with airlift. today the aircraft carrier u.s.s. grge washington and other