two of the best political minds in washington, john sununu and david plouffe. hn, affordable care act would be a disaster, still maybe but it is better lately? are republicans putting all of their eggs in one basket? >> i do not think they are putting all of their eggs in that basket. things are not that great. the one thing the president can hang his hat on is that they hit a total of 7 million sign-ups. when you break down the numbers and identify who was really without insurance before, it shrinks. and the cost is still very high. premiums are increasing in states like california. it is a big liability for democrats. it will continue to be a liability. you have to have other issues. republicans are cognitive of that. >> david, they may charge to build the economy. it is doing well, but people are not thinking so. will it hurt democrats? >> republicans seem obsessed with health care. they are obsessed with so-called obamacare, voters are ready to move on. the most conservative states, people do not want to go over this. they need other messages on other issues

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joining us for fair analysis and debate is joe trippi and john sununu, good to see both of you.tration marks that milestone as they were working to more than 7 million signing up through obamacare. do you give them credit? >> they should be embarrassed with 7 million as the number they argued for obamacare was 48.6 million. and there's another 40 million over the next year that are going to lose their insurance or see a huge rate increase as the small business waiver fades out. and even though 7 million is a phony number because 20% of those haven't paid. so that's down to 5.6. and when you take out the ones, the 3.5 to 4 million that were just switching insurance, they've helped about 1 million, 1.5 million people out of a 90 million person problem. they aught to be ashamed of themselves for talking about that. >> joe, you have quite a skeptic here. >> yeah. >> but democrats have said -- for you, you hear this all the time. >> we've been doing this for a while. >> but democrats have said they will run on this in the fall. midterms are critical. what do you thi? >> look, it was

and governor john sununu was the governor of new hampshire and later served as white house chief of staff for george h.w. bush. you may notice that matt mccarty, chief of staff for president clinton, was supposed to be here, but is ill and could not join us. that is why he is not with us. the full bios are in your program. for those online, you can google them. we want to invite everyone to join this conversation. if you are physically here, we have a card where you can write a question. there will be people going around the audience. we will hopefully get to one or two of those. we will certainly get to one during the discussion. you can also send an e-mail or tweet. the twitter handle is @ bpc_bipartisan. policy bipartisan center. we will follow those conversations. we will also be following our audience in real time. let us start with a poll question. if you can put the question on the screen so our audience members can see this, the question is, should congress be thewed to block presidential appointees with whom they disagree politically? we are going to talk about this for a little

former enten congressman, harold ford, former new hampshire senator and "boston globe" contributor john sununu who this week wrote a piece entitled "obama care misses the target." also former aol steve case. he's an entrepreneur with a unique perspective on both the business and tech worlds. we're glad to have you with views on the political week that it was. here's the cover of the week magazine that got my attention. alive and kicking, president obama may be a little nicked up after this health care fight, but he seems like he had a fairly good week on this. senator, do you not think so, hitting 7 million the enrollment figures? you still think it hasn't made the mark. >> no, it's not about the figures. it's about reducing the number of uninsured in this country. we have 50 million uninsured. if you only look at the enrollment figure, you miss the question of how many of them were previously uninsured. so you have to multiapply the by about 80% probably will be the number that be actually pay. get you down to 5.6 and how many who were previously uninsured, 25% previously uninsured. now you'r

and governor john sununu as the governor of new hampshire and later served as white house chief of staff for george h.w. bhush bush. you may note matt was supposed to be here, but unfortunately he's ill and couldn't join us. that's why he's not with us. as i said the full bios are in your programs of the for those online you can google them. and see those. we want to invite everybody online to join in this conversation. ifer' physically here we have a card where you can write a question and there will be people going around the audience and grab a question and hopefully get to one or two of those. we'll certainly get to one. you can also send an email or tweet. he twitter handle is@bpc nderscore, bipartisan. also you can use the #engageusa on any of your social media. we'll follow along with those conversations. we'll also poll our audience here in person in real time with a grandstand question. let's start off with a poll question. if you can put it up on the creen. members can see this, the question is, should congress be allowed to block the presidential appointees with whom they disa

joining is former new hampshire governor john shah knew knew, nice is a sununu, good to see you. >> niceon taxes. >> been bad five years for taxes. 140 new taxes proposed by the president. >> shot down by the house republicans. >> not all of them. but enough of them got through including obamacare

joining is former new hampshire governor john shah knew knew, nice is a sununu, good to see you. >> nice to be here. >> spending more on taxes. >> been bad five years for taxes. 140 new taxes proposed by the president. >> shot down by the house republicans. >> not all of them. but enough of them got through including obamacare itself, which is a huge tax the supreme court told us and your chart shos that we have reached a point where taxes are the biggest burden on the average family in america that's terrible. >> i would have liked to have seen going back to simpson bowls. 3300 earmarks. tax code. that never went anywhere. the tax code is a problem. >> well, the code is a problem. but what's the biggest problem is an attitude, i think, on the part of the president and the democrats in congress to use taxes to punish people who are earning well. and the upper middle class in america is getting beat on with taxes now. and there doesn't seem to be any incentive or desire on the part of the democrats to give middle class the upper middle class a break. they seem to want to punish them for e