professor jonathan gruber is considered by many as the architect of obamacare. as a former obama administration official put it, professor gruber was the man on obamacare, the guru of healthcare, the official we went on to say i remember that when i was at the white house he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to put obamacare together. no one can look at the amount of money he has -- he was compensated for for his work in obamacare totaling millions of dollars and think our witness was anything but a critical player in the affordable care act. current administration officials, however, have attempted to distance them receives from professor gruber. ever since he stated and started telling the truth about the tactics used to pass this law. in fact the center for medicare and medicaid services urged the committee not to seat him with the administrator next to him. dr. gruber, we think you are right to be there, in fact we believe that this is a perfect pairing, a pairing of individual who are in fact responsible for what we know and don't know b

jonathan gruber says he is not the architect of obamacare. he apologized for calling you the voter stupid. he says he is embarrassed and sorry. are you stupid? more fireworks to come. sit back, grab a snack. more "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> we are here today to beat up on jonathan gruber. stupid. absolutely stupid comments that he made over the past few years. >> i seriously apologize for conjecturing. it is never appropriate to make oneself seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. >> are you stupid? >> i do not think so. no. >> does mit employee stupid people? >> not to my knowledge. >> so you are a smart man that did some stupid things. charles: let's listen in right now after he was caught on camera bragging about lying to us. let's go now to representative jim jordan. >> you are the key guy. the president of the united states throws you under the bus. that job to be was an advisor. that is what i was. howdy people have you enrolled thus far this enrollment? >> i do not have that number but for me. charles: repres

did you get a satisfactory answer about the tax from jonathan gruber? >> not really. what jonathan gruber is saying which we all now know and suspected that the administration intentionally deceived the american public. we saw this when the president was arguing it wasn't a tax. he said this was a tax, and we didn't tell the american voter, the american public, because it would have been objectionable and we drafted the legislation so we could avoid a cbo scoring, and the thing that he wouldn't tell us is, okay, who told you that? who did you sit with in the administration and who had that discussion with about how they would set about deceiving the american public? certainly it's objectionable. >> that is incredibly important piece of administration. listen to this. >> did they have the conversation with you that it had to be drafteded in i way that the cbo did not score the mandated taxes? anyone in the administration acknowledge it, explain it, or assign aspects to you within that construct? you are under oath. >> i honestly do not recall. >> wow. that's convenient

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. >> that was congressman trey gowdy, one of many to grill jonathan gruber on capitol hill. mr. er played a key role in developing obama care only to become a political pariah after he suggested repeatedly that the american voters are stupid and that was critical to the law's passage. while he's now offering a mea culpa of sorts for his glib and insults remarks, wyoming congresswoman cynthia lewis, a republican, isn't having it. watch. >> i'm on obama care. my husband was on obama care with me. we were told that we were enrolled in obama care, then when we filed claims we were told we were not enrolled in obama care. and come to find out he didn't have all of the tests that he was advised by his physician to have. so on october 24th, a week before election, my husband went to sleep and never woke up. he had a massive heart attack in his sleep at age 65. i'm not telling you that my husband died because of obama care, but i am telling you that during the course of time that he was having tests by a physician and was told we were not covered by obama care, that he then decided not t

a recent area of focus has been a question that jonathan gruber has not wanted to answer, how much has he been paid by the taxpayers for his consulting on obamacare? gruber, the mit economist, and marilyn tavenner, the medicare administrator, on the hot seat today after gruber's controversial comments about the stupidity of american voters as it relates to obamacare and a lack of transparency. health and human services did not want tavenner at the table with him. that request was denied. here's a sample of the early questioning. >> you stupid? -- are you stupid? >> i don't think so, no. >> does mit employ stupid people? >> not to my knowledge. >> okay. so you're a smart man who said some, as the ranking member said, some really stupid things, and you said the same. is that correct? >> i -- the comments i made were really inexcusable. >> reporter: let's take a live look at the house oversight committee hearing. tavenner has faced questions about telling lawmakers 7.3 million people signed up in the health insurance marketplace, it was revised to 6.7 million as some folks were double cou

white house and a couple of its cabinet members and the cia director about its release just as jonathan gruberraying the left by showing the fact that it was a fraud. obamacare was a fraud on the american people. >> don't we think that's an amazing coincidence that gruber, the nation wants to look at, and what are we doing? don't look over there, make sure you focus on the things that happened years ago. you know why it happened, lou? it had to give the mainstream media something to focus on today. lou: thank you very much, k.t. mcfarland, rejoining us later. >>> turning to wall street, stocks recovered after sharply lower, and i mean very sharply. the dow fell 51 points, the s&p down a fraction. volume on the big board almost 4 billion shares. the dow had been down 220 points earlier in the session. listen to my financial reports three times a day on the salem radio network. >>> drivers praying for a christmas miracle may get it. aaa says average national gasoline prices could drop to $2.50 a gallon by december 25th. right now they're at $2.66 a gallon. looks like a merry christmas and happy

but i did not meet with jonathan gruber. >> ever in you never met him? >> he was maybe in a large room, could have been on a phone call. but in terms of small meetings discussing policy, that never happened. >> well, in fact one one of sebelius' top aides talked about jonathan gruber a wheel back. here's what she had to say. >> i advised sebelius and i remember many calls to jonathan gruber about his expertise as we were formulating the plan. >> the tissue of lies continues to get ripped apart. >> somebody like obama isn't concerned about being caught in a lie. the way he stays in power is by taking a lot of money from a smam group of people and redistributing tight a large number of people that he hopes will vote for them. >> that is a great point, the fact that this is all about redistribution of wealth. the progressive thinks americans wants that but in fact they don't want it and they vote against it. they voted against it in november. >> taidavid, the incompetence o government is now on display. they can't redistribute money. they can't even give th

if you liston jonathan gruber lack of transparency. nobody knew knew it or read it. if if you want to keep your doctor you can. state exchanges. misinformation that led to its passage. 400,000 people that they said got obama care to get over the 7 million mark. that turns out to be wrong, too. go ahead. >> i think one of the most difficult things about this for the president is that he is still talking and defending this law at a time in his presidency when it has completely overshadowed other priorities that he might have had.

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understanding of the american voter. >> just when we thought we heard it all obamacare architect jonathan gruberght on yet another video explaining how lawmakers could kill the president's signature health laws. kathleen sebelius now says she doesn't even know gruber. doug luzader has the latest. >> jonathan gruber is just a gift that keeps on giving. he offers tactical advice for obamacare owners. opponents can in his word kill it from the inside. >> you don't need active repeal. you just need ignoring the law and letting it whither on the vine that's enough. that's the real threat. that's the major threat. i think the law faces. >> while he is referred to by architect of obamacare they have been trying to down-play his role. that's what we heard from former health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> is he somebody you met with a lot? >> i did not. i know our staff did. i think he met with various advisors but i did not meet with jonathan gruber? >> ever? >> he maybe was in a large room. he could have been on a phone call but in terms of small meetings discussing policy, that nev

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jonathan gruber, think again. he called the american voters stupid. he also said obamacare affordable care act would not be affordable. he is "varney & company" person of the year. ♪ we begin this hour with images from hong kong. they are welcoming in 2015 right now. that is the home country for fireworks. look at them go. new york city will be celebrating 2015 with more than 1 billion people estimated together at times square. congratulations are in order. we are calling him the "varney & company" person of the year. >> i wish the world was different. i think that is why, once again i am amazed we got this bill through. >> anyone can look at the numbers of obamacare. it frontloaded the taxes. if backloaded the spending. if they've completely on a realistic expectations. nobody believed it would help reduce the deficits. the thing that gets confusing with me about jonathan gruber is he talked about the american voters. we do not care about uninsured people. is he talking about us? the only people that got this bill and where the democrats in the house

aka jonathan gruber, mr. who thinks the rest of us are dummies getting not only grilled but ripped apart by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. gruber desperately trying to apologize. lawmakers not seeming to buy what he is selling. >> i'm extremely frustrated with dr. gruber's statement for stupid. i mean absolutely stupid

a full mea culpa from jonathan gruber, the m.i.t.conomics professor who served as the key advisor on the affordable care act. he was caught on video saying public stupidity and a lack of transparency helped the bill. now both democrats and republicans have him on the hot seat here on capitol hill. we'll have that coming up next. ♪ hi. i'm new ensure active clear protein drink. >>clear huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got 8 grams of protein. new ensure active clear protein. 8 grams protein. zero fat. ensure. take life in. started using gain flings,fe their laundry smells more amazing than ever. (sniff) honey, isn't that the dog's towel? (dog noise) hey, mi towel, su towel. more scent plus oxi boost and febreze. it's our best gain ever! that's the way i look at life. looking for something better. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin, but wondered if i kept digging, could i come up with something better. my do

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nancy on facebook says that jonathan gruber apologized because he got caught. not sure anything will come from the hearings. we have more and more. clay says rudy giuliani is right. there is enough evidence against gruber to charge him with fraud. he could never stand up to cross-examination. if he were the ceo of a private company president obama and holder would be all over him. we are moving on from that one with. let's go to gary in westminster, maryland. you're on the line for republicans. what do you think about the transparency, the white house and what you heard today? >> caller: yes. thanks for taking my call. i must say that with great disappointment this obama administration, i am disgusted at his transparency. there is nothing transparent about anything he's done. he used every political pun to take credit for his inactions. the issue with gruber and the hsa or the cms now as they are calling the organization. not coming with facts and figures. once again, it's the republicans who asked the pointed questions. i'm thankful for the very few democrats w

let me be clear, i am extremely frustrated with doctor jonathan gruber statement. they were irresponsible, incredibly disrespectful, and did not reflect reality and they were, indeed, insulting. i was in congress when this law was debated. doctor gruber does not speak for me or the chairman of the other committee who worked tirelessly on this bill. we debated this legislation for nearly a year before it was finally passed and signed by the president. we held 79 hearings and markups in the house of representatives alone. never once did i believe or did anyone suggest that we were somehow hiding our goals from the american people. worst of worst of all, doctor gruber's statements gave republicans a public relations gift in their relentless political campaign to tear down the aca and eliminate health care for millions of americans. many republicans now allege some kind of democratic conspiracy citing the praise for doctor gruber's work from president obama and other democrats, but that, too, is, is completely wrong. let me highlight some additional praise. the followin

. >> jonathan gruber is also on the hill today. there's a lot going on with that. c.i.a. report on torture coming up but also have a bit of torture going on in terms of politically, politically, not to make light of that, with a man at the center of helping create the largest piece of legislation coming out of this administration. it's been a grouber grilling as they say from the right and from the left. watch. >> i'm seemingly frustrated with dr. gruber's statement that we're irresponsible, incredibly disrespectful and did not reflect reality and they were indeed insulting. >> you can see the sign on the right. obamacare architect, jonathan gruber who said the law got passed thanks to the stupidity of americans and now he's having to explain his remarks on capitol hill plus millions of dollars that he made. is there fallback on that? why some people think his testimony could be a key to dismantling the health care law. also are we about to see a big menu change for the first lady's controversial school lunch rules? how close we could be to kids not throwing away their fo

jonathan gruber. apologetic about calling americans stupid.e is still lawyering up. >> i apologize. it is never appropriate to make oneself seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. i knew better. i know better. i am embarrassed and i am sorry. ♪ here's a question for you: if every driver in the u.s. kept their car's tires properly inflated, how many gallons of fuel could america save each year? up to 2 billion gallons? 4 billion? 6 billion? the answer is... up to 4 billion gallons. by keeping your tires properly inflated, you can increase your car's fuel economy and reduce its co2 emissions. take the energy quiz -- round 2. energy lives here. i have $40,ney do you have in your pocket right now? $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. ♪ charles: if it feels like yesterday, well, it is like yes

so i don't think jonathan gruber is off the hook. i think he's going to be back before that committee in the new year. >> how much money has he made? >> he admitted he made roughly $500,000 with consulting with the federal government and then he admitted that he as about six contracts with various states. now the reports peg that anywhere from 2.5 to $5 million. he said he would not -- he didn't know. he had to talk to his lawyer. and he have not willing to give the thing is, we're going to get that information, so i don't know why he was trying on the so coy about it. >> right. >> but there's no doubt he has made out like a bandit with the obamacare's passage. >> in terms of the discrepancies you heard from gruber is that going to impact the ability to change obamacare? the legislation. >> well, i think it helps us. i think the wind -- i think the obamacare critics have the wind at our backs. i think his testimony shows there's always been a question of the legitimacy of this law because of the way it was passed, because of the way

then you have that on the heels of jonathan gruber's comments. it's demoralizing. >> yeah.think those comments in particular really reinforce some of the concern a lot of people had about obamacare. and i think democrats want to make sure that this is working, at least adequately. so their nominee isn't dealing with this in debates coming up in 2016. >> so if you are republican, what do you do to try to make the most of this situation because they have been given essentially a mandate by saying hey, we are voting for you. we put you in the midterm election so now what? >> i think what you are going to he seat republican does is do the repeal votes. they will get this through the house and maybe even the senate depending on the filibuster rules. it's going to go to president obama's desk. is he going to veto it and they will say well, here's what we did. we tried. the only way the american people can get rid are of this law is if they elect a republican president in 2016. and that's going to be their argument going forward. bob, do you agree? >> yes, i do. democrats have now

health care expert jonathan gruber talks about his remarks about the stupidity of america.ential comeback campaign? >>> hey, everybody. good morning. it is wednesday december 10th.

jonathan gruber said the stupid of the average voter helped bring about the obamacare act. >> reporter: m.i.t. professor jonath jonathan gruber repeatedly apologized. >> black transparency is a huge political advantage and basically you know call it the stupidity of the american vote orer whatever, but really that was really, really critical. >> i made uninformed and glib comments. >> reporter: gruber said in several speeches he pretended to be more of a political insider than he was at the time. >> it's never important to make oneself more parnlt by demeaning others. they noted he made 21 trips to the white house and earned almost $400,000 as an administrative consultant. congressman trey gowdy -- >> all these quotes i just read you do, you didn't mean a single one of them, not a single one. >> what i said, congressman, was i was using glib, thoughtless language. >> you used them a lot. democrats say whatever gruber claimed in those speeches, obamacare was widely debated and republicans knew exactly how it was financed. wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >>> well, coming up on the "

. >> what will lawmakers ask jonathan gruber. stay with us. >>> president obama made history becoming the first black command never chief, that you know, but many drift ticritics are sayinge united states is divided more than ever before. there's some demonstrations in california and there's some tonight going on in florida, protesters from coast to coast the fox news political insiders are barks. do you think race relations have gotten better, worse or stayed about the same under the first black president. you can read down, got a little bit better, got a lot better, stayed the same, 53% say it got worse. that's more than half, why do you think that is? >> we are a divided society, what is so sad is that everything is seen through the prism of race p p certainly these last two tragedies involving death, and now seen in entirely racial terms. what president obama has. been able to do, what i rick hoetder hasn't been able to do, both democrats and republicans which is develop policies and programs toably people together to recogni

either way, it is unlikely that most americans have heard the name jonathan gruber until a few weeks ago when a video emerged of him insulting their intelligence. and today he went before congress to face some tough questions. our report tonight from nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: rarely do witnesses hauled before congress make things worse. how did you not mean what you were saying? but today m.i.t. economics professor and white house obama care policy adviser jonathan gruber appeared to do just that during a four-hour public shaming. >> are you stupid? >> were all of your prior statements a lie? or were they just glib? >> so you're a professor at m.i.t. and you're worried about not looking smart enough? >> yes. >> reporter: gruber was under fire for saying at conferences that american voters are stupid and were misled in order to get the health care law passed. >> lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. >> because americans are too stupid to understand this. >> reporter: today he apologized, calling himself arrogant. >> i behaved badly, and i'll have to live with t

i want you to hear what former secretary sebelius said about jonathan gruber.ten. >> i did not. i know our staff did and i think he met with sar yovarious advist i didn't meet with jonathan gruber? >> ever? >> well, he may have been in a large room but as far as discussing policies, that never happened. >> i looked at the filings in the supreme court and even gruber's name appears in the filings. but according to kathleen sebelius, it's jonathan who? >> he may have been in a large room qualification is suggestive of the administration but plays to the broader angle that they are trying to distance themselves from him. they are playing him down even though not only his consulting fee but state consulting fees for the health care law represent that he played a bigger role than perhaps he's being made out to play. again, i think the administration's difficulty is that, you know, the more they run away from him, the more incentive that provides republicans to pick out forensic pieces of information. more will come out, more speech also probably come out and at the

you know what, god bless jonathan gruber for telling the truth.e have a new warning from the fbi after several sony picture movies were illegally leaked online. hackers now have the ability to destroy a hard drive. making the information on it unrecoverable. jonathan is an ethical hacker. let's be clear about that. you have to give me an understanding. this is a new level of hacking. >> exactly, yes. the first stage, it allows them to have full access to the computer. we have seen this before. the information that they stole was intellectual property. over six movies that would be released. of course, they thought it was a big issue. we are all worried about the next phase of the attack. essentially, you can press a button. it erases the hard drive. it makes the entire computer no longer functional. it may as well be like a boat anchor that you throw over your boat. >> all of the computers within a specific company. somebody could grow the switch someplace and they all don't work. is that possible with this new level of hack? >> it is possible. so

. >> this is about jonathan gruber. the headline is, did gruber earn almost $400,000 from the obama administration? before we talk about this -- and this was done november 14 if i am reading this correctly. here is what i want you to see the testimony of jonathan gruber after you had done all of this at the hearing on the house side. >> i think i have a question for mr. gruber. >> i was informed that i should report all federal moneys received for the previous fiscal years and this fiscal year. i received no federal -- >> i don't care what you informed. how much did taxpayers, state or federal, pay you to have you lie to them cap?? >> total? >> this has been a five-year ordeal. >> i do not recall the total. >> he never did answer the question. on the advice of his attorneys apparently. >> you found two point $2 million that he has earned from the feds and from the state? how did you do this? >> a lot of the contracts are publicly available. publicly available for review. >> shouldn't they all be? >> presumably. it was e

we'll get to sound from jonathan gruber. hear the exchanges in this case with darrell issa. >> are you stupid? >> i don't think so, no. >> does mit employ stupid people? >> not to my knowledge. >> so you're a smart man who said some as ranking member said, really stupid things and you said the same. is that correct? >> i, comments i made were really inexcusable. gerri: the comments i made were inexcusable. what do you make of this? does this take us back to earlier today? are gruber's comments the american people are stupid, they don't care about anybody else's health care insurance are they still on the record? >> they are still on the record. jonathan was integral helping craft the legislation. gerri: we know that first-hand. >> we all know that in washington. he was insider. these comments he made about americans at academic conferences at laugh line. he thought they were funny. people in the audience laughed if you listen to the tape. gives us insight to the elite crafting this law. gerri: this drives me crazy. this is t

joe, we also had jonathan gruber, the famer jonathan gruber consultant to obama care testifying on capitol hill about his comments about the american public being too stupid to understand the arguments and, therefore, helping it pass. what do you make of his testimony? the thing that struck me was democrats denounced him as much as republicans. why? >> this is another attempt to rewrite history. you had professor gruber up there saying he was never an architect of the law and then up there saying he wrote the bill. they needed to get him over the side before he did any more damage. >> democrats wanted to say, basically, i don't know you. never met you. who are you, by the way. >> still an apology, but wasn't. he was apologizing really for getting caught on tape, paul. he apologized for his tone and his arrogance, but not really the substance of his remarks. what had to do with congressional rules and how obama care would be paid for. >> gaming the system. he didn't really apologize for the substance. he stands by the law. >> so, what is the shape of the law now, joe? we have this year, the

joe, we also had jonathan gruber, the famous jonathan gruber consult to obamacare testify on capitolll about his now-famous comments about the american public being stupid for -- too stupid to understand the arguments and therefore helping it pass. what did you make of his testimony? the thing that struck me is democrats denounced him as much as republicans. >> oh, absolutely. >> why? >> this is another attempt to rewrite history. you had professor gruber saying i was never an architect of the law and then they cut to the video and he's saying i helped write the bill. so i think this was sort of an act of political high jinx. >> so needed to say who are you by the way? never met you. >> he was apologizing really for getting caught on tape, paul. he apologized for his tone and his arrogance, but not really the substance of his remarks that had to do with congressional rules and how obamacare would be paid for. >> gaming the budget. >> and gaming the system. he didn't really apologize for the substance. he stands by the law. >> so what is the shape of the law now, joe? i mean, we've go

professor jonathan gruber repeatedly said he was sorry for what he called that theless and insultingents, includings this one last year who said obamacare was hidden to hide taxes from voters who weren't smart enough to grasp the details. >> lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. and call is the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically, that was really critical to getting it to pass. i made uninformed and glib comments. >> reporter: gruber said in several speeches he pretended to be more of a political insider than he was at the time. >> it's never appropriate to make ones self smarter by demeaning others. >> reporter: but republicans weren't buying he was out of the loop. they noted he made 21 trips to the white house and earned almost $400,000 as an administration consultant. congressman trey gowdy cited several different gruber comments on the ways voters had been misled. >> all of these quotes i just read you, you didn't mean a single one of them, night one. >> what i said, congressman, is that i was using glib, thoughtless, and really inexcusable l

economist jonathan gruber just ab guising to lawmakers and americans for the comments he made about then seen and heard on several videos now calling voters stupid. saying obamacare's lack of transparency is quote, a huge political advantage. >> the recent response to my comments and academic and other con fences exceeds both irrelevance and my role in health care reform. i behaved badly lyly lyly and i'll have to live with that. the aca's milestone accomplishment for our nation. >> i'm joined by florida congressman john micah who was in the hearing room a few moments ago and heard the apology from jonathan gruber. does the apology satisfy you, congressman? >> not really. and he did admit that there was a lack of transparency. he got paid $400,000 to be one of the chief architects and i'm going question him in a few minutes on the amount of money he got from about eight states. probably about $400,000. he profited by the lack of transparency and he thought, again, we have his statement that they could pass it depending on the stupidity of the american public and voters. so we also have

they know his value. >> so bombs could be going off next tuesday, because, kennedy my sense, jonathan grubers very arrogant. you watch videos. if i'm sitting in in the white house i don't think gruber will go down without a fight. what he says under oath is telling but implicate all the people who not to know him. >> he is already profited off it. he is not trying to protect himself politically. he is obviously arrogant person who knows his work is done. he created model. he profited off several states and federal government to the tune of millions of dollars. if this guy didn't know anyone and made this much money, the people who were actually the architects, how did they profit? did they just take wheelbarrows of rosland capital gold to their houses? >> real quick what is scary about that, you always think about who is the smartest person in the room when hearing on december 9th shows up. we know who the smartest guy in the room how will you ask questions to the smartest person in the room. he has no agenda. >> i bet throws the administration under the bus in a big way. >> who knew jonatha

balance of the signature health care law it is now firmly in there cross hairs of investigators jonathan gruber testified earlier this week calling the american voters stupid on the number of occasions but who was stupid now? use a coat - - succeeded by gerald i said because he refused to be answered how much taxpayer money he made in compensation and carl cameron has our report. >> house government has succeeded jonathan gruber for all documents into indications of a federal state or local employees related to aspects of his word with the health care loss gimmicky testified voluntarily and was slammed by both parties that passing obamacare concealed his applause from the ignorant public. >> it is a political advantage and the stupidity of the american voter or whatever but that was critical to get things passed. >> i sincerely apologize for conjecturing in such a disparaging fashion. i knew better and i know better and i am sorry. >> he said he was not the artists of their architect but old videos like this keep leveraging to raise doubts. >> told disclaimer i will be objective but i was invol

aka jonathan gruber, mr. hinks the rest of us are dummies getting not only grilled but ripped apart by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. gruber desperately trying to apologize. lawmakers not seeming to buy what he is selling. >> i'm extremely frustrated with dr. gruber's statement for stupid. i mean absolutely stupid mm

. >> pelley: most folks had never heard of this man, jonathan gruber, an obamacare adviser, until a videoaced earlier this year. ayuber is heard saying the law passed thanks to the stupidity of the american voter. today, gruber appeared before congress and wyatt andrews has that. >> reporter: i'd like to begin by apologizing sincerely -- >> reporter: m.i.t. professor jonathan gruber repeatedly said r was sorry for what he called thoughtless and insulting comments, including this one last year when he said obamacare was hidden to hide taxes from voters who weren't smart enough to grasp the details. >> lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically, that was really critical to getting it to pass. i made uninformed and glib comments. >> reporter: gruber said in several speeches he pretended to be more of a political insider than he was at the time. >> it's never appropriate to make oneself smarter by demeaning others. >> reporter: but republicans weren't buying that gruber was out of the loop