. ♪ ♪ ♪ lou: president obama is enrollment numbers, it is all bad news for the obama ministration. hello, everyone. severely undercutting president obama's credibility an approval rating. a new fox poll shows half of voters lieve president obama knowingly lied when he repeatedly told americans that they could keep their plan under his signature health ce law. as for the number of americans who have signed on for health care

. ♪ ♪ ♪ lou: president obama is enrollment numbers, it is all bad news for the obama ministration. ou dobbs. hello, everyone. severely undercutting president obama's credibility an approval rating. a new fox poll shows half of voters lieve president obama knowingly lied when he repeatedly told americans that they could keep their plan under his signature health ce law. as for the number of americans who have signed on for health care insurance, the initial numbers are woefully short and far below their lowered expectations. 106,000 have enrolled in health care plans in the state and federal exchanges through the first month of obamacare. one fifth of what the officials had projected before the launch of health care dog of and the opening of exchanges accounted for only 27,000 of successful in moments, 80,000 of them originated in state-run insurance exchanges and secretary kathleen sibelius revealed below numbers and then open herself and the administration up to ridicule consistent with what ssachusetts, a state of only 6.5 million residents, experienced an initial rollout of romne

over anti-islam film produced in the muslimshe innocence of ," helped fill the attack as the obama ministrationinitially claimed. protests are continuing in new york city over incoming mayor bill de blasio's appointment of william bratton as the next police commissioner. bryan returns to the job after leading the nypd in the mid- 1990s when he and braced a controversial strategy of cracking down on low-level offenses. de blasio campaigned on a promise to curb the nypd's controversial stop and frisk policy, but bratton actually expanded the program will heading the los angeles police. parents ofthe victims shot dead by police under bratton's watch that a protest march from harlem to the bronx. nicholas heyward, senior lost his 13-year-old son after police mistook the boys toy rifle for real gun. >> i'm angry today. i've been angry since hearing bill de blasio has chosen bill bratton to be the next commissioner. back in 1994, my son was murdered and he was gunned down by new york city police officer. you should have addressed that issue. but he failed to do that. this protest -- you have parents

it's quite similar to the u.s., but you get it in terms of not only the obama ministrations posture, the much republican and democrats in congresshis reticence to go into in fact you can evaluate and say we don't have a strategy that will meet our goals. the saudi's are doing things. they do things in ways that i think we'll may be on top of the assad regime, this certainly creates a security problem that could rival northwest pakistan and other places. that's the thing everybody is starting to become aware. i fear in 2014 situation could slip pretty rapidly. >> while the comment that the recent is the fact there and in it there in the press and booking a ticket monograph yesterday at gcc private support to militant groups, the recent trans-with victories leaving, this is not an encouraging sign. you can criticize u.s. policy and i'm happy to do that because there's a gap between the stated goals and that the actual policy is doing on the ground. that gap is even greater. given the stated self-interest and affiliate described it, they are not terribly effective with undermining the r

right but not encouraging that the obama ministration extended the date by which people have to applyget coverage. that is risky. insurers will only have 8 days to work out the logistics of a rolling those signing up late this month. the opinion of the washington post as we go to our first caller. pat is in texas on the independents line. pat, go ahead. say, i i would like to retired last year and i worked for years. we had computer programs. we had the old system in place make0 days in order to sure it worked correctly. i am not surprised with all of on the website and that they are having problems. i wish people would understand that and not hold it against the president. of the people who is actually doing the work. these are programmers. i really do not understand what people are thinking. host: maryland next up. -- i am sorry. erry in massachusetts. romneycarehave had for some time in massachusetts. wasing it up and running not the problem. we did that with our own technical glitches. it is taking 72-90 days to get recertified every year. people are losing health coverage in the

. >> one of the problems that the obama ministration has run into, was to close one time up.k he has found it a lot harder to automatically to convince these third-party countries to take the detainees off of our hands. even their home countries and some cases. even before congress had begun to legislate these transfer restriction, the ones that have not been relaxed, we saw a really very slow, very little movement from the executive branch in ascending home even those detainees that their own task force said were ready to be transferred. here's where they have gone -- 199 have been sent to afghanistan, back to afghanistan, 122 saudi arabia, pakistan -- 63. 22 to yemen. you mentioned the word recidivism, in other words, a former prisoner return to al qaeda or another terrorist group. what is the percentage? guest: you hear wildly different figures. at one point, the defense department would say as high as 20% as it is a comparative it turns out those numbers were widely overinflated. it is hard to figure out what counts. the obama and estrogen has been -- the obama administra

. >> while obama referenced the kennedy ministration and is memorial, he made no mention of the multiples the cia, under kennedy, tipped off the apartheid south african regime in 1962 about mandela's whereabouts. in 1990, the cox news service quoted a former u.s. official saying that within hours of mandela's arrest, senior cia operative named paul e amid the agency's involvement. eckel was reported as having told the official -- >> several news outlets have reported the actual source of the tip that led to the arrest of mandela was a cia official named donald rickard. we attempted to reach him at his home in colorado. in two occasions the man who picked up the phone hung up. last year he denied the reports in an interview with the wall street journal but refused to talk about his time in south africa. meanwhile, the activist group roots action has launched a campaign to urge the cia to open its files on mandela and south africa. we go now to andrew cockburn who first reported on the cia and to the arrest of mandela in 1986 in "the new york times." he is now the washington editor for "ha

designed to go after world war one era spies and it's now being used by the obama administration more than any other any and ministration that came before him to go after whistleblowers like edward. the laws are out of date and we need to have a serious look at changing the laws i think certainly we can give amnesty to people like chelsea manning or edward snowden but that doesn't protect the next whistleblower you have to change those laws in or order to protect free speech to protect people who are pointing out abuses within government and who should be protected and allowed to share that information in order for us to correct these wrongs mary very good point there i mean could that could be a case here with manning and with snowden be good good presidents to make better laws and laws that fit the in the digital age that we live in today. that is a really important point in a really interesting point certainly. mr manning why mr snowden have both done is provoked a national debate and given impetus for some for some quarters to argue that you know our current regime needs to be updated now whether or not that's going

. >> a senior at ministration official of the obama administration told us last week and asked the same question. i've been incredibly impressed the judgment and care that you would expect from a great news organization. whitehall senior not seentold me i've anything yet published to date which has risked lives. so there are different views about this and i listen with respect to the views you have given. >> but you disagree with them? assessmpossible to because no one has given me specific evidence. you have contains the names of individual security officers and this has been said around the world, sometimes paid for by the guardian. security are of our officers, people who are there to protect our country. and that is how you have damaged the country. people without security clearance have been able to read his names, nor they are and possibly know they live. that is the damage that they let you have done. >> first of all we have never use a single name and that is the crucial bit heard republish no names and we have lost control of no names. it is never been a secret that these docum

says the same thing it's not is that for obama it's different obama recently again but over and over again the beginning was the ministration he said well i believe in american exceptionalism just as the brits believe in british exceptionalism and the greeks and greek exceptionalism he got it but now he got attacked they got pilloried by the right wingers led by mike huckabee for saying that now he's out there waving the flag talking about american exceptionalism what does this do to our standing is the notion. do you think there's an arrogance implied in you bruce you know it's the problem is that we've never had a war that came to this home with their burke's peerage the way i have i have felt a slice of it in vietnam it was a no i got it war destroys both sides the problem with a victor in a war is that he believes he's right and he believes he has the right to use violence because he's doing the right thing so that that's what happened we had we were given a gift in world war two you know we fought it but the soviet union basically wiped out the german war machine they took the brunt of the casualties twenty five millio

. >> it is another example of the it ministration worried about the limitation and to critics another example of unilateral change. >> the obama administration said the reason for the changes the anticipation of high demand but experts say officials should have expected an 11th hour enrollment scramble. this is the second time they pushed back in and roman deadline. >> i have had some difficulty with the website before. >> all indications are that healthcare.gov is working as designed. queueing system has kicked in. there is concern about whether particularly, young, healthy consumers will sign up to make the health place work. president obama said one million people have signed up but the ofl is 7 million by the end march 2014 area >> they're hoping this is a nation of procrastinators. people have not been signing up in big numbers. >> a new poll showed support has dropped to an all-time low. two men approached her from behind. the first her into an alley. one of those men pulled out a knife and under threat she was raped and robbed of her belongings. someone might [inaudible] around here?quiet >> real quiet. day and early ev

and the liberals would go after the bush of ministration and blame them for income inequality , austria doing well. they cannot do that now because obviously obamause for five years. the market is doing well under obama. it is not something the white house trumpets. the left is a little wary of hillary clinton. that is why there has been this chatter of elizabeth warren running for president. i don't think she will, barack obama said he would not run. the left is rising up in the fighting factions of the democratic party that were united in 2012. lou: i know it has always stood me in good stead to exit the word of any potential candid that there would not run. "a-team" in moments. we will take up the issue of this fellow strike and national walkout. take a minute, check this out on twitter. you can do so. facebook, loudobbs.com buried at next, then nothing white house and mending the president did, indeed, know something, but it was not quite what everybody thought. it is complicated and has something to do with his uncle and illegal immigrants and a stunningly close relationship. we will sort it out for you next. ♪ [ driver ] today, my ambulanc

the ministrations tax force responsible for looking into it delivered its report for president -- to the president last week. he's expected to make a decision sometime in january. president obamaas to work quickly though. of the phonees records has dissipated, there are a number of lawmakers who plan to push for significant curbs to the nsa's powers. that leaves the president in the position of having to thread the needle. tohas to make enough changes satisfy lawmakers who are on the fence about the nsa's activities while maintaining the key parts of the collection apparatus his senior aides say are the most important. for an idea of how successful the effort is, one would have to keep an eye on capitol hill in the first few months of 2014. back to you. >> let us continue our coverage of the price of privacy. as we talk about facebook, walmart, and lockheed martin. what do these companies have in common? they are exploring potential uses for facial recognition technology. in the future your face print could be a huge tool for marketers. megan hughes examines what this could mean for your privacy. theresident obama asked department to look into the locations of this so they are

obama was in a pin drop cruise missiles over damascus because assad allegedly crossed the red line just days after the august twenty first serin gas attack killed nearly fifteen hundred syrians they ministration released an intelligence brief. place and sold blame on assad of the deadly assault even secretary of state john kerry while aware of the fabrications told by the us to get into iraq assured us that quote we will not repeat that moment we've taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves and although those facts were never laid bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy the legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said no he knew it because he didn't have a case and there was incredible opposition that will be one of these. his maybe in history books that was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon. amazin and hersh went on to write obama fai