>> to listen to matt bennett he >> to listen to matt bennett he said he calls them up and said said he calls them up and said all you have to say it's from all you have to say it's from the bennett collection. the bennett collection. never got a call back. never got a call back. i suspect with some of the i suspect with some of the publicity, a call might be made. publicity, a call might be made. there's another important prop there's another important prop in someone else's prop. in someone else's prop. the helmet. the helmet. >> it was brought back in the >> it was brought back in the duke plane to the headquarters duke plane to the headquarters of their campaign. of their campaign. it was given to the vice it was given to the vice chairman of the campaign. chairman of the campaign. according to three sources it according to three sources it sits within john's possession. sits within john's possession. >> apologise to matt bennett for >> apologise to matt bennett for calling him michael. calling him michael. a further question - in today's a further question - in today's 24 hour news

>> to listen to matt bennett he said he calls them up and said all you have to say it's from the bennett collection. never got a call back. i suspect with some of the publicity, a call might be made. there's another important prop in someone else's prop. the helmet. >> it was brought back in the duke plane to the headquarters of their campaign. it was given to the vice chairman of the campaign. according to three sources it sits within john's possession. >> apologise to matt bennett for calling him michael. a further question - in today's 24 hour news cycle. you mentioned twitter and facebook. things will get out there. do you think this would have cycled through quickly and it would have gone away? >> all the noise and current campaign dissipates 12-24 hours after it happens. >> the dukakis event probably wouldn't have happened. it was the only image that went viral. these days everything is viral so everything becomes a blur. what happens on tuesday is forgotten on thursday. it takes an event like that to break through, evolving and developing nar mfi, that he is a person that might sa

i want to bring in matt bennett, senior vice president and co-founder of third way. republican strategist and former newt gingrich spokesman. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> so poll after poll shows frankly congressional aproouchl is in the toilet, single digits. only 47 bills have been signed into law this year. second year in a row that it's the least productive congress. matt, how do lawmakers go home and explain that to their constituents? >> boy, it is really tough. i wouldn't want to be one of them having to do that. there really is no way to explain this to constituents. the fact they're only going to work 15 days between now and the end of the year when we have these enormous problems in front of us. we have another looming budget crisis coming on january 15th and they're not able to get anything done. so it's really tough. i will say it does seem that the senate, weirdly, has been more productive than the house, which is not how it normally goes. they have actually passed a few things, like an immigration bill and a farm bill. b

matt bennett is cofounder of third way and former clinton white house deputy assistant.is here from the chris plante radio show. the redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of the law and lies at the heart of the insurance market disruption driving political attacks this fall. they say you cannot have a fair market without redistribution from people. the times talks about how losers will be created with the law. losers and winners. matt, that's not how it was billed. >> no. it's not. i like the new york times and john harwood, but i don't agree. i think they overwrote it. the fact is anything. you don't get dollar for dollar what you put in in taxes. this does it also. the rich had to pay more so the medicaid expansion could happen. >> goes well beyond that though. >> no. >> it does. they mention in passing that the rich are paying 2% income tax. talk about premiums, people losing plans, having to pay more so they can fund the plans the newly insured are getting. none of it was disclosed by the president. >> that wasn't the purpose of them paying more.

. >>> joining me now, matt bennett, former clinton white house assistant and from the think tank third and chris plant of the chris plant show. matt, your thoughts? >> look, there are going to be a lot of these anecdotes. those are difficult for the white house. no question about it. on the other side of the equation there is a lot of anecdotes about 50 million people who didn't have health care coverage before the aca was passed. >> we knew that. let me stop you. there was never a question that the people who didn't have insurance were never going to get insurance on obama care. that's four years ago news. what's news is people are losing coverage and plans contrary to the president's promise. your thoughts? >> that's right. if he said, instead of saying if you like your plan you can keep it, if you have a good plan you could keep it. that would have been better. we wouldn't have that discussion at this point. there is no doubt that was a mistake in the way the white house talked about this back when this bill was moving. i think they wished they could do it over again. it won't be fa

joining me now, republican pollsters and matt bennett who is the co-founder of the democratic think tank, third way. let me start with you on this, matt. the report is out tonight that dianne feinstein has joined with mary landrieu in her legislative attempt to fix the law, change the law, when she was asked off camera by reporters about the decision, she says it came with about 30,000 phone calls, 87% of which were very negative. we have a large market of people in california who could not keep their policies. she is not the only democrat getting those phone calls, matt. >> that is certainly true. and look, megyn, there is no doubt as james carville said earlier when you're having problems and there is no question that the obama care rollout has been plagued with problems, you're going to have folks on the hill starting to want to do something. they don't just like to sit there and do nothing. i am not surprised you see these folks wanting to take some action. but as james said, the president a week ago said she is pressing very hard. >> there is daylight between them, i want the viewer