deluding myself given what i read in the media t not senator lee so you kick started said senator lee obamacare movement that led to the shutdown in you don't think that partial shutdown is a bad thing? >> i say that it is unfortunate we had to get to shut down in theirst place. we should never be in a position amitold we have to funall of government to fund any of government. it should not be an end -- all or anything we usually take a segment of federal spending and rigo and independently before the last four and a half years we are operating on a continuing resolution that is an all or nothing funding proposition to keep the government running. it makes no sense to do things that way especially when we expand government even further to expand programs like obamacare that hurts the ability to maintain health insurance or get jobs. john: i don't want to talk about the procedure but this might be a teaching moment? 3.7 trillion? do we need to spend all that ? >> is a legitimate question if you look at the facts of nearly one quarter of every dollar that moves from the american and its economy t

i cannot stop obamacare. mike lee cannot stop obamacare. we have two more, thank you.ndiscernible] for your passion, but you should respect the rights of the men and women who are here. [chanting] it is unfortunate -- it is unfortunate that the administration -- [chanting] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! >> the nice thing is the left will always, always, always tell you who they fear. and they fear you. they fear the american people. the fundamental problem in washington is washington is not listening to america. this fight on obamacare, we went to make the case to the american people, and in a matter of a few weeks, over 2 million american sign that petition on dontfundit.com. [applause] it is because of you that the house of representatives has been standing strong, because the house has been listening to the people. [applause] it is because of you that for the past two months the country has engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms obamacare is causing, all the millions of americans who are losing their jobs, being pushed into part-time work, losing their health

i cannot stop obamacare. mike lee cannot stop obamacare.indiscernible] we have two more, three more, gentlemen, ladies, thank you for your passion, but you should respect the rights of the men and women who are here. [chanting] it is unfortunate -- it is unfortunate that the administration -- [chanting] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa!>> the nice thing is the -- >> you know, the nice thing is the left will always, always, always tell you who they fear. and they fear you. they fear the american people. the fundamental problem in washington is washington is not listening to america. and what happens? this fight on obamacare, we went to make the case to the american people, and in a matter of a few weeks, over 2 million american sign that petition on dontfundit.com. [applause] it is because of you that the house of representatives has been standing strong, because the house has been listening to the people. [applause] it is because of you that for the past two months the country has engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms obamacare is

i can't stop obamacare. mike lee can't stop obamacare.ut we have -- two more, three more, gentlemen, ladies. thank you for your passion. but you should respect the right of the men and women who are here. [chanting] it is unfortunate -- it is unfortunate that the administration -- [yelling] [chanting u.s.a.] the nighs thing is the left will always, always, always tell you who they fear. [applause] >>> you can see all of that event with texas senator ted cruz and other republican lawmakers in our video library at c-span.org. >>> on this weekend's news makers, new york congressman elliot is our guest. he's the top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee, and talking about some of the latest foreign policy issues that are theying the u.s. topics include the debate over u.s. aid to egypt. the recent u.s.-lead raid in somalia. and actions by russia and syria concerning chemical weapons. you can see the interview sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> this sunday part ii of the conversation. start off by giving us wha

live at the capitol, and libby, i understand that senator lee is the lesser known partner of senator ted cruz who led this fight to de fund obamacare. >> reporter: senator cruz ma lee a freshman but he stood by the side of senator cruz. when he spoke on the floor was the push to de funder. senator lee talked about his passion of de funding the healthcare law. he's a life-long utahn, a family man and a member of the the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. he shares the mormon religion with former presidential candidate mitt romney. he's an attorney and rows to his profession to assistan assistant attorney and worke. senator lee talked about his vision for the republican party. he said it has to be less with what they don't like and more about what they do want to accomplish. >> but to my mind what the party of ideas is really missing is ideas. for too long yo republicans have put off the task of conservative reform agenda to meet many of the new challenges of the 21st century. >> now despite lee's calls for new ideas what he's most known for right now is what he dislikes which is the healthcare law. he has been put on the d

obamacare. martha: hmmm. so that is interesting, right? some democrats charge what senator leeproposing is a back doorway to reach the gop's ultimate goal that would be to sort of systematically add things into the budget and starve the money out of obamacare. chris stier walled joins me now, fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play." you have two takes what mike lee said there. he is caving, he is caving on this issue. others are saying what he wants to do start the budget basically at zero and start adding things back in and leave out obamacare. >> well, i think they could both be a little right in the sense that you're not hearing republicans, ted cruz, mike lee, anybody filibustering or holding the floor to rail against obamacare today. what you are hearing today, very much today, is a discussion over how this partial shutdown is being administered because as we know, the government isn't shut shutdown, it is partially shut down, some 825,000 or so out of two million civilian employees aren't working. they're on furlough. what do you do with the rest of the

his cohort mike lee came out and said obamacare, he started working to defund obamacare because it's the president's own decision three wouldn't follow the law. americans would never have looked at this and seen the hypocrisy. does ted cruz weakened or strengthened at this point? >> it depends on how you define the terms. i think in terms of what he is ultimately trying to accomplish, which is to make himself president of the united states or at least the republican nominee for president in 2016, i think he has nothing whatsoever to lose. i think he's moving ahead. insofar as his influence within the congress, within the senate is concerned, i think he's certainly moved backwards in that respect, but i think he cares absolutely nothing about that. so it's a matter of no importance to him. but i think the important thing to understand here is that only half of americans vote in general elections and only a tiny percent vote if primary elections and a little over half of that is what is needed to control one of the political parties and the tea party people are very fer vent, very disc

uz weresmen lee and cr working outside of the party. obamacare is a mess and it has brought it to the forefront. we know that spending is a mess and still needs to be addressed. we have a national debt of -- >> hang on a second. laura talked about the poll ratings. matter --f the actually, what we saw, this has been looked at through the prism of republicans versus democrats. actually, what people are seeing in america and around the world is republicans versus republicans. >> there was that, but it will be easier for them to get their house in order. what they also saw is a president who unfortunately still acting as a community organizer, who does not know how to ring people together but how to tear them apart. it really hurt his legacy with a couple things. one, the closing down of the world war ii memorial. it was harder to close it down then to leave it open. that resonated. also, death benefits to soldiers. that resonated. it shows a president that is very spiteful. he has got three years ahead of them to leave a legacy. he is not going to

it's not just delaying or defunding obamacare, it's also now about raising the nation's borrowing limit. leeays: "maybe wre forced to tie it all tgethe. i don't necessarily think at's neceriy ideal, but perhaps it is where we are." in 10-days - october 17th - if the government does increase the debt ceiling, the united states can't borrow money and would soon be unable pay all of its bills. lew says: "what happens if you don't pay millions of people on social curi? what hapns you don't pay hospitals and health care providers across the country? the consequences are immediate, and they're very bad. congress needs to act." house speaker john ehner ruled out a clean bill to raise the nation's borrowing limit. in other words republicans want concessions from democrats.. boehner says: "this isn't some damn game." heading into the weekend the housentinue to voton miniature spending bills to fund portions of the government including one to give federal workers back pay when the government reopens. democrats are insisting on a full funding of the government before beginning negotiaions. hoyer saysn

lee. martha: all right. well, today is day four, october 4th, but also day four of obamacare.lly been able to sign up at this point? we've got the kind of surprising numbers for you on that coming up. >>> plus this -- >> grab ahold of anything you can. bill: this is the new film called "gravity," and it's out today, and it look stunning. the story of an astronaut literally lost in space. could this be reality for nasa? >> what do i do? martha: we're watching on the wires that there are protests erupting across cities in egypt and particularly in cairo, and now we have a report that at least one person has been killed as military vehicles have been firing live rounds at muslim brotherhood supporters near cairo's tahrir square. so we'll continue to keep a close eye on that situation as it develops. ♪ ♪ bill: in the meantime, day four of the shutdown, and day four of obamacare and the exchanges, and the white house is asking everybody, be patient, problems persist for americans trying to sign up for health insurance online. we sent fox business network's gerri willis online where

lee. he has been on the hot seat in the whole discussion of defunding obamacare. he is speaking at the values voters summit. that is where we will take you next. bill: martha, what is it like to be seized and kidnapped by somali pirates at sea? real captain phillips is here in our studio. great new movie. he is here live. >> listen up. we have been boarded by four armed pirates. you know the drill. we stay hidden no matter what. i don't want any hostages. if the pirates find you, remember you know the ship, they don't. stick together. and we'll be all right. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals to book this fabulous hotel. well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? oh, i don't have a cat. priceline savings without bidding. icaused by acid reflux disease, relieving heartburn, relief is at hand. for many, nexium provides 24-hour heartburn relief and may be available for just $18 a month. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. side effects

obamacare? here is what you are posting lee still force people to buy health insurance? >> no.olve the problems with the law itself. also asking on gerriwillis.com 4 percent said yes and 96 percent said no. we have been all over the obamacare story because that is the biggest torrey i think since the recession this fall whether implemented well or pool -- poorly when packed americans, raise prices for those outside and inside the system and kill employer sponsored coverage. the cost is only promised to escalate so the administration is not being square with us. when cms held a teleconference today to your answer reporters' questions there was no operational staff on the phone. they were stonewalling. table does say how many people have been rolled it must be embarrassingly low. hhs secretary kathleen sebelius spoke to reporters tonight in phoenix and would not give a number. sebelius also said today she does not work for the people who call for her firing. i have a news flash your paycheck comes from taxpayers a you work for the american people. just because your direct boss gi

lee, the republican of utah, was on the floor. he was railing against the federal healthcare law which he calls obamacare. ou recall that's what started this all. senator lee was right by the side of senator ted cruz a couple of weeks ago. they're the one who is said we're not going to let the american funding go forward unless we get some concessions on the healthcare law. that's all been given up by the majority, and so we expect to see a set of votes to go forward tonight. after it goes over in the senate it will get kicked over to the house. watch for that vote as well. well, speaking of mike lee, tony, we've been profiling the move to the house and senate over the last couple of days at this time who are the tea party conservatives. we talked about senator lee just last week. another tea party conservative is phil gingrey republican from georgia. he plans to vote no on this bill. here's what he had to say earlier this evening. >> i will not be able to vote for the bill. i would imagine that it will pass, but it will be--it will pass with democratic votes and some republican votes, but i personally wil

. >>> we wanted to look further into the campaign against obamacare and some very powerful forces behind it and leeins us now. and she spoke of the coke brothers off the top, figures that you had followed extensively in the last few years. just give us an idea of how much of their money has been invested in the anti-obamacare effort? how much are they doing? >> it is hard to answer that question with a direct figure because what the brothers have kind of pioneered, it is a network of dozens of dozens of 501 c investigations that do not need to disclose donors but we know through foundation documents that they've pumped over $50 million into an array of think tanks and what i would call front groups that air advertisements which do advocacy producing think tanks and lobbying against the law and this multi-facetted effort has gone on since 2009. >> and so generation opportunity is a part of that which you are talking about? >> yes, just a sprawling lobbying campaign. >> u followed some of these other events and these events, they are almost carnival atmospheres, i understand. >> yes, sure. many of th

the agreement that avoided default, and utah senator mike lee called the past few weeks just the end of the beginning of the fight against obamacarehis is a fight that's going to continue. you know, when a publication like "the chicago tribune", the president's hometown newspaper, has come out and said that like us, they believe that we should have a one-year timeout on obamacare, this law's not ready to be implemented, you know something's wrong. >> reporter: lee is already fundraising off the fight of the past few weeks, heather? heather: wendell goler, thank you. bill: a little context now on the debt increase which does not have a dollar amount. isn't thatgislation permits they to borrow normally through february 7th. under president obama that debt limit has been raised five times, not including the deal last night. it's been raised 53 times by congress since 1978. federal debt approaching $17 trillion. so you know that $17 trillion figure will be shown all across america. thought we were going to see it there, matter of fact, when we come back around to this in a couple of weeks. what do you think washington, d.c. learned wi

>> i think the president is not willing to negotiate on obamacare and i think he made that clear. i think even mike leelf acknowledged last week that the continuing resolution which ultimately was not passed and shut down the government because it defunded obamacare, that was not the best way to go. they need to start talking about tax reform, entitlement reforms. approval of the keystone pipeline, repeal of the medical device tax, things where there is some common ground. i think president obama would be willing, like i said at the last minute, throw house speaker john boehner a bone but it won't be on obamacare and that's for sure. jon: we'll look for some of those other potential sweeteners like the keystone pipeline. a.b. stoddard. thank you. >> thank you. jenna: new information on a brutal confrontation. this is not the first brush with the law for a suspect in the mob biker attack on a suv driver. there are questions how the case was handled and how it will impact the case now. our legal panel is next on all those developments. >>> plus a nasty mix of storms and snow hammering the country. we're

lost this walths to defund obamacare because rhinosaurs and establishment republicans like john mccain started to attack real conservatives like you and me, ted cruz and mike leethey're afraid of us. they know they're going extinct. in the end we will win. it sure sounds like tea party is trying to create an internal war in the republican party and doesn't tom have a point? some of the tea party candidates seats? >> no. i disagree with that assertion, and i have to take things that karl rove says in the wake of the 2012 elections with a grain of salt. looking at the tactics we're employing here, what happened here is that progressives in this country declared war on us. they declared war on the american people by forcing this law down their throat. what conservatives aim to do was defund this law and make sure that it doesn't have economic impacts that we fear on the american people. when we started to tear apart the law, progressive republicans like john mccain and john cornyn started to try to tear down us. instead of standing with us and fighting a united front against obamacare and holding the president accountable and bringing him to the negotiating table

obamacare as well. great to see you, everybody, i'm jenna lee. happy halloween to you.lax and enjoy the rest of the newscast. it is the second hour of "happening now," i'm jon scott. today is the deadline for congressional lawmakers to decide whether they will exempt their employees from the health care exchanges. some are saying it's an example of congress living by the motto do as i say, not as i do. senator rand paul of kentucky wants that to change. we have fox team coverage, chief white house correspondent ed henry is live in the briefing room as we wait to hear from white house spokesman jay carney today, and chief congressional correspondent be mike emanuel is live on capitol hill, that's where we given. mike? >> reporter: well, jon, good afternoon. the way the law has been interpreted here on capitol hill, leadership aides and committee aides of relevant committees would be exempt from obamacare, would be allowed to stay on their current federal benefits. some lawmakers are trying to intercept the law more broad -- interpreted the law more broadly to try and exe

obamacare. the least we can do to protect the american people is to protect them from more expansion of government that we cannot afford. john: thank you senator lee. know i am told is shutting down government is terrible for the economy. simply not paying the government workers takes off the gdp he says there that customers of the business in this country and it sounds enormous if you listen to him but economist aten powell says the opposite is true. the shutdown could be good for america. >> first of get some perspective if mcdonald's laid off 40 percent of non food production workers and closed up the drive through it and stop putting the toy is is the happy meal we would not city shut down. the government has not shut down when people get their paychecks the irs is still stealing wages i got frisked today by the gsa the nsa is still probably listening to our phone calls in another part of the world somebody is in the military cross hair is not shut down. it is a step in that direction and it is a good step especially if the public realize that maybe they could make it permanent. john: the president said to do this for the agriculture departmen

senator mike lee out of utah, he questions the team creating obamacare and certainly had something tong in the a team initially, but they didn't bring in the bc or the c team or d team. they brought in a team that by all accounts, according to any objective measuring stick, failed miserably and they really have a lot of questions to answer in connection with this. how was it that the bidding process resulted in this award going to a canadian company that was going to do such a horrible job on this? we have sophisticated bidding processes set up within the federal government, why didn't they follow those? >> i was talking to a guy yesterday who voted for president obama and he said to me, extraordinarily, well, neighbor is what we get when you elect somebody who, before he was president, had never actually run something. and i know mitt romney had talked a lot about that in the last election cycle. but when you look at it, if you run a company before, you know whether or not you've hired the right people. you figure out whether or not you're asking the right questions, and in this part

senate giving ted cruz and senate lee lee -- senator mike lee and others the ability to hold that back or filibuster or hearings on obamacare- i mean, it would just be a mess even if she, even if the president wanted her to leave, he doesn't want her to leave. it would create more problems than it would solve for him politically, i believe. jon: we just got an update on the situation in alaska. hard to believe, but alaska -- not a huge state in terms of population, but two people in alaska have signed up for obamacare. now, whether that's because they're the only two who want it or because they're the only two who have been able to manage the maze that that web site asks you to manage, but two people in an entire state, joe? >> well, no, but this is one of the points i've been making for quite a while. if the problems that, you know, th gop used a lot of political capital to try to -- you know, on the government shutdown crisis on an issue that they say, look, there's so many problems with it, that everybody's going to be against this. and if they're right about that, you know, my view would be and, obviously, two people in

obamacare is the focus. soundses like he is defensive. >> he is defensive on the flitches issue -- the glitches issue. in fairness to the white house you still have mike lee of utah and ted crazy of texas saying they're not going air from not just attacking the glitches but trying to overturn the healthcare law. that's something the president is still pushing back on. what jay carney said and is less defensive about is that in these -- this round of budget negotiations that are coming up, supposed to wrap by december 15th, officials say the president will put various changes to the healthcare law on the table, such as delaying the medical device tax. so they're dealing with this on multiple fronts. the glitches, problems with sof ware, they're on defense, and they're on defense against ted cruz and others for more radical changes but the president won the budget fight round and they think they're able to push that back in termed of defunding the law, but they realize there have to be changes. >> the politics of obamacare is one thing. the implementation of theol route -- the rollout is another. >> did the d.c. deal re-open pork spending? and be careful ne

obamacare website. welcome to "happening now." i am jon scott be at jenna: i am jenna lee.he president says there is no excuse to the website wonders. but sebelius gave several excuses. despite the red flags she was optimistic the website would run smoothly insisting the president never knew about any problems until after the site went live. >> i think there are some challenges that could be smoother, it could be easier to access, and that is really what we're working on. nobody says the site is working the way we wanted to. the president acknowledged that yesterday. nobody could mean more frustrated than i am and the president that it isn't smooth. jenna: democrats getting a closed-door briefing on the limitation of obamacare. more on this part of the story. we're getting some of the first reports on the closed briefing. what are they saying? >> democrats say the obama administration is making progress, jenna, fixing some of the obamacare rollout problems. they say the meetings are encouraging. and the calmest man says there was no mention the meeting of delaying the obama

obamacare, and the smartest thing to do is adapt. we also have to make sure the american people, through news and social media and through senators like cruz and mike lee that, the american people understand exactly what is happening. they do personally because of the premium issue. but the reality is they node to continue to have this argument. the public argument has to be aggressive. but at the same time if they move to allow a delay now or a defund and the democrats pick up on that -- they know and i know -- they know that if in fact this gets a breather, it will never go away. so we need to be careful how we accomplish this annihilation. >> what about putting all the resources and energy towards something else, like the next elections, get back the senate or the white house. >> that's what we're seeing. the consequence. and i think priorities for republicans should be messaging. the reason that republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown is because they didn't message properly initially. they should have explained the shutdown, explained what harry reid wasn't willing to do in terms of negotiation. you have to lead on offense, not defense, and

obamacare fight. the dnc points to a cover of its hometown paper. here is the cover of the "salt lake tribune." senator mike lee speaking earlier at the summit. senator ted cruz now speaking he for those gathered here in washington. that summit continues through the weekend. earlier today, we spoke to steven dennis, white house correspondent with roll call, about the latest on the budget impasse. to talk about the negotiations. we should not call the negotiations, right? it depends on what they are negotiating about. , manyesident made clear times, that he would not negotiate over some kind of ransom but he has been open to talking about setting up a budget process, some kind of framework for getting a bigger budget deal done. that seems to be where they are going. that is the opening he provided a few days ago in his press conference and is one that they have continued to subtly put out there as a way to give republican some assurance that those negotiations would be real and substantive and cover some of the issues they want to cover , and yet, reopen the government. that is the real question, not just the sh

obamacare exchange health care .gov website cost $634 million to build. to put that in perspective that is 100 steve austins. that's the national currency here at "red eye." a nice shoutout to lee majors. hope you are doing well. it is also more than the amount spent on constructing facebook, twitter and instagram. it is due to shoty goating and and -- coating and poor -- [inaudible]. five whoa whoa an -- ohio ans have signed up for obamacare exchange. to put that in spur -- purr spec tiff, it is five iowa ans. >> good boy. that's a brig one. big one. >> there it is. good boy. >> stupid dog has no memory. >> amy, is $63 tour million too much to spend for a defective website? >> it is a small price to pay for the health care system to be inoperable. over half a billion dollars for this. and then i read that the daily mail says 50,000 americans have enrolled in obamacare. i don't know the math on that, but i imagine that is millions of dollars. >> but that is in a british newspaper. that is like 500 million americans. >> yes, baker is the problem -- what are you saying? is the problem we didn't spend enough on this website? if we added a couple hundred million dollars more it wou

lee. i've got to give you an example of what is taking place here. soon after obamacare passed, $321 a month health care premium which included medicare and prescription drugs went to $528 a month. the next year it went to $727 a month and i just been notified starting in january i would be paying somewhere in the range of $12,000 a year for my health care. i'm 70-years-old, single, excellent health why are the premiums so high? >> guest: the affordable care act does nothing to hinder medicare or the supplementals we have to buy from medicare. so i can't tell you only have to admit before the affordable care act, the supplementals are not regulated by the federal government. the policies you get certain different levels. now other states have their own regulations, but your increase in the supplementals has nothing to do with the affordable care act. we are over 65. we have to sign up for medicare even if we are in congress. >> we believe this morning's portion of the washington journal to go live to the national interest posting a panel discussion on the consequences of

lee. i want to give you an example of what is taking place here. ed, myfter obamacare pass $321 per month health care premium, which included medicare, supplemental, and prescription drug, went to $528 a month. went to $727 ait month, and i have just notified that, starting in january, i will be paying somewhere in the range of $12,000 per year for my health care. i am 70 years old, single, excellent health. why are my premiums so high? , i am alsot of all over 65, and the affordable care act does nothing to indicate -- to hinder medicare or supplementals you have to buy for medicare. i have to admit before the affordable care act, the supplementals, they are not regulated by the federal government. the policies, you have certain different levels, but those are related by the state of texas. other states have their own regulation. in yourrease supplementals has nothing to do with the affordable care act. oppose the affordable care act, but you and i are not affected by it. we have to sign up for medicare, even if you are in congress. -- your premiums have nothing to do

lee miller, thank you. jenna: continueing cowatch that story. the big -- to watch that story. the big rollout to obamacare, also some alleged hacking attacks as well. we're going the talk to you a little bit about safety and security given the web presence of this plan, what you need to know to make sure that you're safe. >>> and making a big announcement today, what they want to offer you. coming up. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals to book this fabulous hotel. well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? oh, i don't have a cat. priceline savings without bidding. you want a way to help minimize blood sugar spikes. support heart health. and your immune system. now there's new glucerna advance with three benefits in one. [ male announcer ] new glucerna advance. from the brand doctors recommend most. [ male announcer ] new glucerna advance. ...quickly followed by skydive.. ...and paris romance. there was a quick interlude... ...then mighty aphrodite. but then the day came: marry me. and she thou

ironic given the fact, ted cruz, mike lee, republicans in the senate and house of representatives tried to work diligently to get this done. tried to first defund obamacare and tried to delay it. now you have democrats taking a look at implosion on the website situation. taking a look at acute pain being hurt, being felt by their constituents, hearing about it from their constituents and looking at poll numbers, gregg, they're saying you know what, maybe a delay is not such a bad idea. >> run in the other direction. monica crowley thanks. >> thanks to you too. >> fox news alert a short "time" ago a colorado judge released the findings of the 1999 grand jury investigation into the murder of jonbenet ramsey. the little girl you may recall was found budge johned to death in her family's home in colorado the day after christmas back in 1996. well these documents which we now have confirm that the grand jury did vote to indict both parents on felony counts for jonbenet's death. the district attorney never did charge them, citeing a lack of evidence. this report has been locked up for years. it was only released after a lawsuit from a colorado reporter. and ag

lee. we'll get to the story about social media in just a little bit but today there is new concerns about obamacare. a new report from "the wall street journal" that says loser who are lucky enough to get through face even more hurdles once their information makes it to insurers. insurance companies are telling reporters information is jumbled by the time it reaches them and warned that the longer it takes to get this system in working order, the less likely it is that people will bother going through the process again to sign up that could spell big problems for the entire system. molly henneberg has details from washington for us now. molly? >> reporter: jenna, jon, good morning. more than a dozen insurance companies are telling "the wall street journal" that they're seeing a lot of errors in the information they're receiving from the obamacare online exchanges and these companies are having to spend extra time and resources following up with potential customers to try to find out who is really trying to enroll. specifically, aetna, blue cross-blue shield of nebraska and priority health in michig

obamacare for a year until ted cruz came along and crashed and burned. this is what they did not tell you. until ted cruz come along with mike lee, they had no plan b, they had no plan a. [applause] and nobody to my thinking, nobody has been more blatant in his intellectual dishonesty than senator john mccain. [applause] this is what he told you on september 9. he wanted the whole world to know this. he said, i can tell you in the u.s. senate we will not repeal or defund obamacare, we will not, and to think that we can is not rational. this is what he does not want you to know. in 2010, when he was campaigning for his life and needed conservatives, it will be repealed and replaced, it will not stand. that is what he said. october 9, this is what he wanted america to hear, to think we are going to repeal obamacare was a false premise, and i think it does a great disservice to the american people to think that somehow we could. this is what he did not want to share -- john mccain is our last line of defense, leading the charge against the ridiculously unaffordable ideas like government-run health care. this is what he said on tues

lee. are you afraid, sir, all this battling is somehow hurting the republican brand? >> no. i think the american people deserve to have us protect them from the harmful effects of obamacare.e american people have been seeing the last week is really the best argument that anyone could come up with against obamacare. we've seen the president of the united states use his immense power, the power of the federal government, against the american people to make things as uncomfortable as the administration can make them in order to allow him to get what he wants out of congress. this is horrible. and the american people understand that the worst thing to do, when governments behave that way, is to give that same government more power. whether a future president is a republican or democrat, the people don't want more power in the hands of the government that can be used against them in future political battles. jon: you're saying the president is trying to make it tough on folks at home. give us some examples. as polling shows, 48% of americans think republicans are to blame here. >> look at the fact in nevada there was a couple who was evicted from their home because that home h

obamacare were a private company, would it survive? >>> 6 million-dollar man, they can build him, do they have the technology. oh, yeah. see the real life bionic man. where is leejors. he is watching in houston. heart healthy, huh?! ugh! actually progresso's soup has pretty bold flavor. i love bold flavors! i'd love it if you'd open the chute! [ male announcer ] progresso. surprisingly bold flavor for a heart healthy soup. jamie: well, bill was reminiscing about the bionic man. maybe science fiction has finally met science fact. it is the first-ever walking and talking bionic man unveiled at washington's smithsonian national air and space museum yesterday. i wonder who is that face is? i'm curious. he is six feet tall. his face looks human and weighs 127-pound. made from artificial body parts. controlled remotely from a computer. costs a million bucks. i don't think many of us will have one. he is not as steve austin was. bill: can he play golf? if he can't play golf. >>> if obamacare was a private business would it survive? costs are skyrocketing. technical problems slowing down registration. experts say americans are impatient as they should be with this. >>

obamacare is designed that is going to make it politically vulnerable for some years to come. host: pittsburgh, pennsylvania. republican line. your, please go ahead for question or comment for ramesh ponnuru. caller: lee's bear with me. as important as this is, syria brings up a more important issue. obama goes in front of the united nations and blames the government of syria for gassing people and cute and believes it is the rebels. who does the united nations believe? tin.n -- pu he went around the world sang america made mistakes, we are not exceptional. benghazi he blamed on a video. would you trust this guys? i think there are a lot of people in this country who don't trust him anymore, either. everybody seems to miss this part when the united nations did not agree with them and agreed with putin over him. when has that ever happened? host: mr. ponnuru, we are venturing into foreign policy. i don't know if that is an issue you want to comment on. guest: i think he is referring to the fact that the u.n. resolution on syria was agnostic on the question of who used the poison gas, which i think it's a reflection of the diplomatic imperatives rather than actually any doubt held by most u.n. member stat

lee didn't have an end game. they were not going to stop obamacare. it wouldn't happen. they wouldn't get what they wanted. what was their end game? it's hard to say. >> my final thoughts are when you miscalculate washington on a grand scale you pay on a grand scale and republicans are starting to see that with the public sentiment towards them and their party. fascinating dogs. w--discussion, weappreciate you. you can keep the debate going by logging on to our facebook page or send us your thoughts on twitter. our handle is aj inside story am. you can reache reach me @david schuster. we'll see you tomorrow.