does in this video. >> do they know who richard simmons is?o, even if just to make fun of him. they're going to get the word out any way we can, if that means making insanely ridiculous videos and a couple people click on it, i guess it's a success at the end of the day. that's weird. >> it would be nice if we called it camp. it's what "saturday night live" could have done with the let's get covered conference in california. two guys, one the pathetic dancer and one is a good dancer and they end up on the floor and one is richard simmons. i know all too well who he is because i'm ancient but those people have no idea, the people that they're trying to target. >> you said he was a good dancer. i haven't even gotten past that. >> i think richard's competitor had a few better moves than the red tights split on the floor, this guy. >> on record, a.b. stoddard likes his dancing. >> it's good getting that down. >> john, you're in the age group, almost or about or around there. does this make you want to run home and sign up for obamacare? >> i don't

i said it. - go ahead, tom. - it's richard simmons, obviously. - is it richard simmons?'ve-- hey, retta and paget, come on up here. - come on, paget, you got this. - all right. hey, this is by noah, age 8. [electronic chime] yes, ma'am. - katy perry. - is it katy perry? [bell dings] you got it. two points. - woot! woot! - quick in the draw. alyssa and mario. - god, i can't play against alyssa. [laughter] against alyssa again. - this is by zoriana, age 8. - i love her. [electronic chime] - yes, sir. - serena williams. - is it serena williams? [bell dings] yes! - thank you. oh, milano. - come on up, guys. caroline? this is by david, age 8. - ooh. - it's michael chiklis. [laughter] - hit it. hit it. hit it. - it's not me! see, this is a prejudice. all bad guys don't look alike. - hit it. - yes. - michael chiklis. - is it michael chiklis? [bell dings] [cheers and applause] - you don't look like that. you don't look like that. - apparently they do. - and that is how we play lil' picassos. after four games, the score is... caroline: 19 points; cory: 33 points. there's just one

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little help here. >>> do not copy my stuff. >> all right. >> all copyrighted movements. >> richard simmons, working it, so to speak, and now one lawmaker is fighting it. this danceoff part of an event to promote obamacare in california. and while richard has been known to dance around here for free, taxpayers in california spent more than a million dollars on their event. ted gaines is a republican state senator? california is and demanding an odd for covered california. why didn't the insurance companies pay for this? they're the beneficiaries of obamacare. shouldn't they pay for the advertising? >> it's outrageous. i can't figure out why we spend $1.3 million to have richard simmons and a cob torsionist jump around on stage you can't tell me that anybody signs up for health care as result of that. >> what are you going to do about it? we're going to have a legislative odd it and look at how the marketing money is being spent. i'm very concerned. i think close to $80 million being spent for marketing purposes so win you look at this, it's a very small segment of it. but we need to know th

the exercise celebrity richard simmons making the rounds in a new obamacare outreach video.million on it despite california's big dollar budget shortfall. monica crowley is here. can't wait to hear what you're going to say about richard simmons. >> you have seen this video, actually they did a six hour live stream two weeks ago and turned it into the shorter version of this video. my big regret, i cannot see this, my eyes, my eyes! >> the fact that the taxpayers had to fork out $1.3 million on this kind of absurdity to sell obamacare, if the white house is correct and obamacare is this great new policy going to bring in young people which is the folks they're trying to reach with this, then it should be able to stand on its own and attract people without these kinds of gimmicks funded by the taxpayer. stuart: do you think it will work, do you think people will sign up? >> no, they're trying to reach young people, i'm not sure that richard simmons is the right character to do that. stuart: got another item from california for you. democrat congressman henry waxman is retiring

bill: richard simmons was not paid, by the way.'s point, is this going to get you to sign up. >> it might get somebody my age to sign up. but the problem is not people my age. but someone mary katharine's age. as i remember people in the 80s when the people who are at risk of not signing up weren't even born. it underscores the problems with obamacare. i wish the president would have talked about fixing obamacare. i think that's right, reasonable and responsible. bill: m.k., you didn't get that the other night, did you? >> that would have been cool for them to say we messed this up. i think he would have been applaud for that. but that's not what we got. as this goes forward we'll have more advertising budgets blowing through the roof and not signing up a lot of people. bill: back to california. we like richard but we are not quite sure this is going to do the trick. do you know how much money they spent between 2012 and 2013 and marketing? $72.4 million going to p.r. when i have to spend that kind of money, what does it say about

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i know you love those red tights on richard simmons. but this effort to reach out, does it help?hat there's going to be a lot of mill less than yals that are going to read what he has to say. this isn't something that people necessarily are going to take advice from, particularly on their health care. we know that celebrities tend to be good spokes people for some consumer products, but on health care, young people are more likely going to be asking their parents and i don't think he has the name recognition that health care needs. >> if you end up picking an insurance plan, based on what harold and kumar tell you, you deserve all the bad that will be fall you. we have seen republicans roll out clint eastwood or something like that. but these are actually big consequential decisions and bringing out celebrities who say, hey, try this out, it trivializes it, it doesn't treat it with the -- >> the whole campaign i think has been infantalizing and insulting. all those campaign beauty shows and the brochure that said young people only care about sext and alcohol so sign up for obama

you hire richard simmons to promote the affordable care act.are not joking. >> i have a lot of other people coming on, i'm not the only one coming on here to toot the horn about getting, you know, insurance, health insurance. you can hear a the love different messages and maybe one of the messages, mother, daughter, mother, daughter covered get covered. >> this is beautiful. >> i feel inspired to tell my friends to sign up online covered. get covered. >> so this i think is about the 20 minute mark. >> it was so touching. >> everybody is against. this i'm totally for. this of all the wasteful things government spends money on. at least this is hilarious and self-discrediting. >> when he did that wide angled split there? and here, here. this is great. >> what do you got? >> oh, man. let's see. >> this actually happened. if this isn't a symptom of the late stage empire here. this is really -- folks, this is what they spend taxpayer dollars to put this telethon together to promote the affordable care act. that's what you want to do in your living r

now we have richard simmons. it is fun to laugh at but we are paying for it. truth is we don't know how bad things are right now. we started by saying they fudged the medicaid numbers but the numbers they claim they have enrolled in the paying part of the web site we don't know whether that number is real at all because we don't know how many of them have paid. >> all the numbers that you get from the administration are either inflated or made up. like the enrollment number because nobody had any idea. look, it's as if amazon would have counted customers not people who had checked out but people who put stuff in their cart. that's not how it happens in the private sector. they are saying if if you have a plan in your cart you haven't paid for it you are earn rolled. this is a vast inflation of their enrollment numbers and the only way to produce the illusion this is working. once the illusion is removed it collapses. >> do you think the no bailout push in the house has any chance of actually passing? is president obama is not likely to sign it if it does pass

richard simmons. richard simmons actually recently came out in favor of obamacare and did a little dance to get people to sign up. and we're going to show it to you. >> they're saying be responsible about your health insurance options. get covered. get covered. >> all right. >> all copyrighted movements. >> thank god he has health insurance because he's really breaking down the house. >> that may be the only thing that matches obamacare in absolute disgustingness. >> waste of money. >> wasted money. i don't know who paid for that. >> covered california. >> and the target audience is younger people. >> speak for yourself. it made me want to sign up. >> keep throwing your hats on this. you want it to fail. it ain't going to fail. >> next on "the five," seattle's corner back wins the game and loses his mind. we'll show you the tape as we take you on the road to something called the super bowl xlviii. what's that? i don't know. >> the number. >>> yesterday's nfl action set the stage for super bowl sunday

fitness guru richard simmons worked up a sweat in the program with his unique workout rooms as anothered tell a friend to get covered and be flexible about your options. >> ted gains is calling for the organization to be audited, calling the video a waste of money. according to watchdog.org, they're facing a budget shortfall of nearly $80 million. the director of the organization said it was a success, pointing to the media attention it has received, but the question remains, was it worth $1.3 million? >> the u.s. government has committed $200 million to teach afghan soldiers how to read. and the return on that investment has not been good. a new report shows more than half of the soldiers may still be illiterate. the inspector general writes, quote, we don't even know how many african security forces are literate and hoar well the program worked. that's deeply disturbing. among other findings, the program lacked a clear definition of what a literacy class entailed, allowing krathers to hold classes for as little as two hours a month. in response to the report, the program leaders said

and hispanics who are having difficulty roaching those folks in california and i don't think richard simmons is the best spokesman to get my 23 year old law school sun to run down and sign up for obama care. >> maybe not. it is it highway lepersonal and technical information. and is the website the best idea in the first place? >> it is certainly a useful tol. but we have to face. it a lot of americans that need this coverage are not terribly sophisticated and don't spend time doing intricate work on the website and not the best place to compare policies and you need advice. it is not good place to do it in solitude. >> you have talked about bail outs for insurance companies. do you put this in that category? >> absolutely. not enough people have signed up and too many high risk people and the insurance companies are going to lose money. the way it turn it around is for them to do their own advertising. this is the down payment to correct all of the problems and accommodate the foolishness in obama care. >> i saw a figure earlier today. the budget in promoting health care in california alone

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solution to get more young people enrolled and involved in the government health care program is richard simmonslet's show the audience a clip of what they're rolling out next. ♪ be responsible about your health ♪ ♪ get covered ♪ get covered ♪. >> never did i think i would have the opportunity to ask charles krauthammer about something like this, but your thoughts? >> here's how it works. you watch the video, it induces such a national wave of nausea and headaches that people will be running to the website to sign up. i think that's got to be the strategy. >> you're the psychiatrist and you would know best. first we had pajama boy, which would inspire people to get health care coverage over christmas. but we're paying for it, and the truth is, we don't know how bad things are right now, we started by saying they fudged the medicaid numbers, and we heard testimony from cnn that the 2.3 million they claim to have enrolled in the paying part of the website, we don't know whether that number is real at all because we don't know honok many of them have been paid. >> all the numbers you get from the a

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and simmons did not duck the respon break, richard sherman fined by the nfl for talking trash as them heads to the super bowl and that has received some nasty trash talk. time now for our digidoad.e setv >>> the seattle seahawks just won a trip to the super bowl in a play by richard sherman who was trash talking with the 49ers. >> when the fox reporter talked to sherman on the side lines he was still hot. >> i'm the best in the game. that is the result you get. don't you of talk about me. >> who was talking about you? >> don't you open your mouth about the best. >> sherman's rant triggered an explosion on twitter and other social media sites where in people call him the "n" worth and blitzed the star with racist comments. >> i watched the game and what he did was rude and inappropriate in the moment but, man, on twitter he was called stuff i hate to say on the word, jungle monkey, ape, i was stunned at the verbal abuse. >> it is nothing new on twitter. this happens. maybe not to this extent but i remember the c.e.o. of twitter, did an interview with not lawyer -- with a reporter and

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