for the president and for his party in the midterm elections and i suspect loyal democrats like robert gibbsarm and trying to alert the white house, this is bad you need to move on it. >> you think gibbs is looking out for barack obama then? >> in a way yeah, i do. >> do you think bill clinton is looking out for barack change this crazyays hey, thing. do you think is he looking out for him? >> i think that's a more complicated question. you know, bill clinton is, as i have said this before, he is his own guy. he occupies a special niche in american politics. he is the big dog. and nobody gets to tell him what to say and nobody can be sure what he is going to say. if you look at the full statement he made be better off with this program than we were without it and so on. there is some softening there. there that was pretty blunt advice he gave about keeping the promise. the president has come out and kind of in a peculiar way tried to make it look like is he living up to that promise. i don't think he is doing so. >> bill clinton to, you know get hillary to distance. >> a lot of people have s

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. >> president obama's bff's robert gibbs says heads should roll. whose head? who should get fired. republican senator mike leach. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> robert gibbs thinks head should symbolically roll. >> interesting. also interesting to note in this administration about the only ones who do get fired are those who dare to publicly criticize the administration. >> you are talking to the insurance commissioner in washington, d.c. wild idea fix. out the door. fired. >> that's right. much more important question rather than who should get fired and extract a pound of flesh. help people who have been harmed by obama care. people who have lost their jobs or healthcare because of this law. that's where we ought to be focused. >> what do you make of the 80% figure? is that low expectations so that if the white house fixes it so that we are up to 8 a% that you can declare victory on november 30th? or are they drawing another lynn in the sand giving more trouble because we have such high expectations. they told us it would be fixed by november 30th. are they now telling us 80%

robert gibbs, the former press secretary asked that question.welcome you to hour two of "america's newsroom." good to have you. i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. our heads will not roll. martha: i certainly hope not. bill: depending on how the hearings go. how high up the chain of command does this go? who knew what when, essentially. officials like kathleen sebelius are on the hot seat again. martha: we have a chief white house correspondent ed henry live from the white house. ed, a lot ever talk about rolling of heads issue and whether anybody will get a pink slip from the white house. >> reporter: martha, nobody has really been held accountable so far. there is new pressure with the revelations coming out at this hearing about the fact that months ago, people like kathleen sebelius, the health and assuming services secretary got a early warning from mckenzie and company that things were not going well. that might not square with what kathleen sebelius said in her testimony and interviews and whatnot that will get scrutiny. robert g

robert gibbs was there apparently as well, right? >> i don't remember seeing robert gibbs. >> you walked out of the white house according to one report report with howard feinman. >> valerie jarett was in the room. the communications director. the deputy press secretary was there, and some other aid. at one point jack lou walked in an walked into the wrong meeting. martha: the reason i bring that up is robert gibbs has been critical about the way this rollout happened. he said i hope the people who help the launch this thing won't continue to be parts of this process. i find it interesting he was over there yesterday at some point and i wonder if there is any sense and i wonder if you got any sense that they are talking about changing the guard pass part of trying to change and revamp' this message and get on a better p.r. side of this thing. >> that question came up about accountability. at the moment it seems the white house position is we need people who know where we have been and what we are doing to get the fix done rather than

listen to robert gibbs who used to be very close to the president talking about his credibility issuee's obviously tremendously frustrated that no one told him the extent of this problem. i think that you as the commander-in-chief and as the president of the united states have to trust all of those around you to implement and i think there's no doubt a deficit of trust that's led to that deficit of credibility. >> so president obama facing a credibility crisis? >> yeah, so. identify said this since this whole debacle rolled out. the president shouldn't have come out you can keep your insurance without talking specifics as to what he was talking about. clearly there's people that doesn't apply to. so if i were the white house right now and if i were democrats in congress i would try to fix this as quickly as possible. >> lars? >> it's very clear that the president knew this was a lie when he said it. he said it dozens of times in front of tv cameras and knew it was a lie. think about all the controversies where he has claimed to be in the dark and apparently never gone his staff and de

the more we analyze, the less certain we are. >> nancy gibbs to robert gibbs. >> hello, nancy.teresting about what you said is we know probably -- we're less sure because of all the information that has come out. will we ever 100% know the answer to this? >> i don't think so. and when the warren commission official report came out in 1964, two thirds of people did not accept it. by 2001, 81% of people did not think that the official report was true. so actually with more data and more facts and more evidence and we analyze the bullets and take apart the photographs and the fill and you still have fewer and fewer people thinking we had the actual answer. i don't think this case will ever be closed. >> so in the same vein, you alluded to secretary kerry's comments which i found remarkable weighing in on the kennedy assassination and disputing the warren commission report and then refusing to talk about it anymore when he was asked about it the following sunday on "meet the press". so do you have any insight as to what is in his head and why that popped out and what he is thinking

house over whether the president should vow that people be keep their health plans, a promise that robert gibbs now says of a mistake. >> i don't recall significant discussions surrounding the verbage on this. >> you agree it was a wrong move? >> certainly. >> reporter: at the white house, gibbs sector carney had not even act accounted there was a debate as top white house advisers and allies continue to come up with new ways to insist this the president is not wrong. if you have a plan -- >> a blame game for insurance industry. >> insurance companies do not like the individual market as it constructed. they see the future. let me finish. insurance companies are making that choice not the president. >> reporter: republican darrell issa released more healthcare.gov with notes, that paper application allow people to let people feel like in a are moving forward in the process, at the end of the day we're all stuck in the same queue. raising questioning that president raised. >> once you get on the phone with a trained representative it usually takes about 25 minutes for an individual to apply for

former press secretary robert gibbs was asked about the misleading statement you can keep your insurance if you want to. call a spade a spade he said. >> i don't recall significant discussions around some of the verbiage around this to be 100 percent honest with you. >> do you believe it was a wrong move? >> certainly. >> ron barn yea call it had a singing indictment of the obama practices that led to it. he said incompetence and deception doomed the launch of the affordable care act as long as the president sticks with the team that failed the country and lied it is fair to assume he hasn't learned the most basic lessons from the launch. this week end fraught page story of the wall street journal on saturday and "washington post" on sunday it became quite clear, they didn't even try to de p fend it, politics instructs policy in the lead out and roll up. >> politics trump. i spent the whole weekend wall street journal "washington post" i read a lot of stuff. forbes. >> i was consuming everything i could possibly consume. two things became clear. this is obama's statement. he wanted the w

. >> here's the thing, i'm going with auburn on behalf of susan whitson and robert gibbs, the two people take alabama. >> who are you going to take in the sweet six? >> texas. >>> what about online gambling? on november 26th the state of new jersey will begin online gambling including two states like nevada and delaware. we'll go to mr. robert beckle. online gambling just overthe line. >> i think it's fine. the people who get hurt the most by gambling is poor people. that's true. that's mostly because of lotto, games like keno, games they can play locally. online gambling is a bigger deal. i do it sort of legally by going through the caymans through the bahamas. >> you've said nasty things about new jersey. nice you said something nice. >> i figure i can beat their gambling people. >> eric, what do you think? >> very much for it. in favor of it for a very, very long time. you know who was not in favor of this are the las vegas casinos. >> of course. >> right now it's technically illegal, unless you do what bobble does, going around the rule. you are not doing anything illegal, they are.

. >> i'm going with auburn on behalf of susan and robert gibbs, who people that i know that went there i make my choices. >> texas. >> okay. what about online gambling on november 26, the state of new jersey will begin online gambling like two other states including nevada and delaware. we're going to go to our gamling expert, robert beckle. just over the river. >> people talk about people who get hurt by gambling. people that are poor. that's true. the lotto and games that they can play locally. online gambling is a much bigger deal. i do online legally sort of. i'm allel for it. i hope new york will allow us to hook up to new jersey. >> you said nasty i think things about new jersey. it's about time you said something nice. >> very much in favor of this for a long time. you know who's not in favor of this, the las vegas casinos. right now it's technically illegal unless you go around the rule like bob does. you're not doing anything illegal, they are. that's fine. vegas casinos say all that money you're not gambling going to vegas or atlantic city -- >> people are really freaked out

>> look, people are going to be -- even robert gibbs, former press secretary suggested the chief of staffmebody should fire somebody. at the present moment the white house should be all guns blazing, focused solely on fixing health care.gov's website first. >> they have to restore confidence and trust. >> yeah. >> you want heads to roll for theet r theatrics? >> you're fired. >> holding people accountable for wasting $400 million on a website and now resulting in 52 million people losing their health care is theet ricks? i don't think so. you have to figure out first who screwed up and fix the problem. as i mentioned the same people who couldn't get the website to work in the first place are the same people hired to fix it. why? >> excuse me. >> excuse me. let me finish my point, mr. hannah. >> okay. go ahead. >> why? president obama is engaged cronyism here with people who spent $300,000 to get him re-elected. this is paying back his friends, not fixing the website for the american people which he claims to be outraged by. >> go ahead, mark. >> the president has been on the stump. this i

. >> former obama press secretary robert gibbs was asked about the misleading message of you can keep your insurance if you want to and he had to call a spade a spade. >> i don't recall significant discussions around some of the verbiage on this to be 100% honest with you. >> do you agree it was a wrong move? >> certainly. >> one respected d.c. journalist took it a step further, offering a stinging indictment of the obama administration practices that led to this. he wrote, incompetence and deception doomed the launch, as long as the president stick, with the team that failed the country and lied, it is fair to assume that he hasn't learned the most basic lessons from the launch. this weekend, from paint story of "the wall street journal" on saturday and then "washington post" on sunday. it became quite clear, and they didn't even really try to defend it, that politics trumped policy and truth in the rollout of obama care. >> politics trumped -- >> we think alike. >> absolutely. i spent the whole weekend, "washington post," "forbes," -- >> boring weekend. >> i was consuming everything

joining the panel now is former white house press secretary robert gibbs and joining us from capitolill is democratic congresswoman from california's 46th district, congresswoman loretta sanchez. congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. there are deadlines looming, and it sounds like nobody is at the captain's wheel. how confident are you that house republicans are going to do anything to avoid another government shutdown in january? >> well, i think they got burned by this last government shutdown, and i believe that they're going to work hard to ensure that that doesn't happen. there are plenty of republicans and democrats working together right now. i spoke to chairman david camp yesterday. he's working towards some tax reform. i'm hoping this budget committee will come together, and what i'm hearing out of that committee is not that they'll come out with the grand budget for the year or a grand plan to solve all of this but there will be baby steps. they'll get something under their belt and put it forward and we'll be able to agree on it. but they'll also agree to next step

>> very few democrats have called for heads to roll over this month but one of them is robert gibb, the president's former press secretary. >> i think they'll have to hold somebody accountable for the botched rollout and the website not working. somebody at hhs. >> you think somebody should lose their job? >> i think if this were to happen in the private sector, somebody would have probably already lost their job. the only way to restore ultimate confidence going forward is to make sure whoever was in charge of this isn't in charge of the long-term health care. >> last friday, 39 house democrats voted with republicans on the keep your plan act. and facing that kind of opposition. tonight, the president is going to try to rally his partisan troops with a conference call from the white house. let me first play this sound bite from minority leader pelosi and then the sunday shows. listen to this. >> i don't think you can tell what will happen next year but i will tell you this, democrats stand tall in support of the affordable care act. we have great candidates who are running. >> we could

robert gibbs there, saying it was a mistake and so on. the administration has very few defenders here and it doesn't seem to be getting better. >> thank you. >>> stocks started the week in positive territory. the dow gained 24. the s&p 500 up six. the nasdaq finished ahead 15. >>> you may not see much evidence of it outside of people news. but tomorrow is election day. they continue to hang onto the coattails of their more famous endorsers. here's an update. >> reporter: hoping for a last-minute surge in a low turnout race, ken cuccinelli brought along starpower to culpepp culpepp culpepper. marco rubio is a referendum on president obama and the affordable care act. >> the president running for governor on the democratic side, not only supports obama care, he actually thinks it doesn't go far enough in the direction of government control. >> fight back against the president and obama care and tear him apart and do it with our votes tomorrow right here in virginia. tomorrow is our day, folks. tomorrow is our day! >> reporter: the latest qu

. >> unbefore the president's biggest critics these days is robert gibbs.hts on that. >> charles krauthammer on why american workers are not making much money why while the wealthy continue to pros

writer brian boiler, former white house press secretary and founding partners of insight agency robert gibbs and syndicated columnist for "the washington post" kathleen parker. joining us from seattle washington, washington state insurance commissioner. mike, before i get to you, i want to get our folks in new york on the record here. robert, specifically, 80% isn't good enough? >> in baseball you'd be in the hall of fame twice. >> also baseball with like 50%. >> you would. i think it's a measure of improvement, a measure of how far they have had to come in order to get 80% to be a success rate. not many 10 years old, mine included, would think 80% -- >> is that a c or a b? >> there's all sorts of grading systems these days. i think, as we've talked about before, the end of the month is crucial, not as just some arbitrary day on the calendar, begins a two-week period of time from december 1st to december 15th in which people if they don't want a gap in coverage, have changing coverage or want it january 1st have to be enrolled. it's not an arbitrary date, it's a real important milestone in t

we'll discuss the 80% with robert gibbs, kathleen parker, sally comb, washington state insurance commissionerton to warren, we'll look at the growing list of 2016 contenders. we'll monitor the latest vote to strip power from toronto mayor and recreational crack smoker. >>> the legacy of the gettysburg address and these divided states. all that when "now" starts right after this. the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. is there a lot of worry building up around a daily problem? well ladies, now there's big news in controlling your overactive bladder symptoms. thinking less about them with new oxytrol for women. it's a patch. the first and only over the counter treatment for overactive bladder. it's good to know how to put the control back in your go. new oxytrol for women. now over the counter in th

fumbled health care rollout may finally lead to some heads rolling with former press secretary robert gibbs telling nbc if this were the private sector -- >> somebody would have probably already lost their job and i think the only way to restore ultimate confidence in going forward is to make sure that whoever was in charge of this isn't in charge of the long-term health care plan. >> reporter: gibbs' successor at the podium jay carney would not deny a possible shake-up but suggested any changes the president makes would be after the website is fixed. >> he believes his team ought to be, and is, focused on getting this right for the american people. >> reporter: there are new questions about how effective that site will be after "the washington post" suggested the administration is lowering the bar by defining success as getting 80% of online users to enroll in a health care plan. which seems to bug even top democrats. >> is that acceptable? >> no, it's not acceptable ongoing. but they're saying by with the fixes to the website they that anticipating that 80% by the end by december 1 as we

. >> i want to play a clip from robert gibbs, press secretary for president obama and he said this onhe "today" show this morning. >> i think if this were to happen in the private sector, somebody would have probably already lost their job. i think the only way to restore ultimate confidence going forward to make sure whoever was in charge of this isn't in charge of long-term health care plan. >> you're a house democrat. a lot of your colleagues are quite upset at the white house over this botched rollout, should heads roll because of what happened? would that make you feel better, improve the prospects for your party come 2014? >> luke what i'm concerned about is the frustration people across the country are feeling both with the glitches and this botched rollout that we've seen but also with the uncertain they are facing with their plans, the original intent of this legislation. yes, there are a lot of things about this rollout that are, quite frankly, indefensible. those responsible should be held account able. there's really no excuse given the amount of time that was there to be

robert gibbs. and in washington -- seriously? did you really do that? and did you brush your hair? all right. white house correspondent with the associated press, julie pace. it's like spanky from the little rascals. good to have you all on board. i'm glad you're here. really helps out. we're going to start in the midwest. emergency crews are doing all they can to help this morning after a series of deadly storms swept through a huge portion of the midwest. at this hour the death toll stands at six. dozens more injured. they think the death toll may rise. no town was hit harder than washington, illinois, where the path of destruction was devastating. >> our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, amen. >> the people in that video were all right in the end. nbc's jay gray joins us from there this morning. jay? >> reporte >> reporter: hey there, good morning, mika. a tragic situation unfol

on sunday, former white house press secretary robert gibbs conceded that it was certainly wrong for the president to claim that if you like your plan, you can keep it. "the washington post" fact checker even gave the president four pinocchios for his of oft-repeated pledge that if you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan. we're now learning that only in the white house likes your plan, you'll be able to keep yew plan. after obamacare was signed into law, the president's administration released regulations. this information was buried in 2010 regulations. and despite the fact that the administration had posted this regulation, the president continued to state, if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan. at the time this regulation was released, the administration issued a statement saying that 40% to 67% of americans poo liked their insurance would lose their coverage. the administration also state in that regulation that by the year 2013, 39% to 69% of businesses large and small would lose their grandfathered plans. what the president b

daniella gibbs leger, robert traynham, assistant dean at georgetown university and former deputy chiefor rick santorum. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> daniella, does this sound like what's been said about john boehner and the right wing of the gop in the house? are we seeing the impact essentially of all these new folks coming in who used to be back in the day, when you were new, you just sort of sat back and kept quiet and learned things. now they're wielding huge influence? >> i don't think that's a fair comparison at all. i mean i think what you see in the senate is not that the new democrats are wielding some sort of outsized power, it's that they see what's happening in the senate, that it's becoming a more dysfunctional body because of the republicans. if you look at the number of people who have been filibustered throughout history, half of them have occurred under this president. how is that sustainable? how is that our democracy working? and i think harry reid was -- he was a reluctant warrior but he felt like he had to do this. i'm sure there are a lot of democrats

even robert gibbs said that some people in charge of this launch should be fired.why have no heads rolled after a foulup this big? >> well, know, i think basically you've got an awful lot of hands into the experiment here with different contractors piecing together the rolling out of the program. and i think right now, the spirit of cooperation collaboration to get this done is much more overruling than having to assess blame in any location. that will come. there will be a review of how this happened. but right now, let's get to work. let's get this running because people do want to enroll. i think they see this as a major benefit. this is one of the biggest health care reform insurance reform launches since medicare a number of years ago in the early '60s. >> may i ask you before i let you go about the budget talks on the hill? there's been talk of the elusive grand bargain on spending taxes and entitlement programs. given the month we had in october, is expecting a grand bargain like expecting a unicorn sighting your backyard? >> well, i will suggest that the to

. >> white house press contributor robert gibbs and in washington -- seriously?is in a classic segment. >> he kicked the habit of 40 cigarettes a day. the problem now is he is addicted to junk food. >> i don't need credit for that. >> i'm glad the troops are out there. >> rob ford, i don't know what it is today. >> america's mayor. this is the world's mayor. >> did you meet the toronto mayor? >> god no. did you want to do something with my hair. >> i would like to comb it. >> what do you got going there? >> two more long, long weeks. >> that does not even resemble a young orson wells. >> as long as it's not an old orson wells. we need to address chuck todd's glasses. are these new? they are on the bridge of your nose. go to an optometrist and not cvs. >> do you have running shoes on? >> i do. i know i look nice. i'm getting ready for school. >> what would be the best of the best, mick a joe, barnacle or willie? long-term? >> you can leave now. what about that shot? >> great book tour. time for what we learned. >> we are nearing dante's inferno. we will have cell

does it take somebody with longevity like david or robert gibbs or can somebody come in from the outsidend says no and says the hard stuff. >> the bigger problem was not having an ability to pull together an i.t. system like this. but you see that in private industry as well. you see airlines merge and not able to get reservation systems right for a few months. those are normal thing that happen. we're overstating gee he should have been there knowing each line of code. i do think that right now he's got three quick problems to deal with quickly. one is getting the website right. the other is fulfilling or trying as hard as he can to fulfill the notion that you're not is going get cancelled and number three is restoring credibility. >> nicole? >> david, i said earlier this morning based on my experience working for a president with these sorts of challenges, you miss your credibility and where you miss the most is on the world stage. secretary of state kerry was basically calling anyone who was against this deal on iran that was so bad last weekend the french laughed it off the stage. yo

robert gibbs is a nbc news political coributor.ood morning to you. >> good rning. >> this is a ddline the white hoe set for itself. can it afford another miss? >> absolutely not. they said th'll get 80% of it right. at makes the decembe1st or november 30th deadline so importanis that if you want your coverage to take effect o january 1st and not have a gap, you ha to be enrolled by deceer 15th. that's what makethe end of this month so important. >> if you boil this whole thing down, i thinit comes down to two core issues, the competence of the government and e president's own credibility with the whole, if you want to keep your plan, y can. how do you repair credibility? >> well, i think, in the short-rm, as peter said, they're just goi to have to slog through and fix the website. that'she key there. i think longer term and credility, they'll have to give people confidce not just in health careut in other aspectof government and i think they're gog to have to hold somebody accountable for thbotched roll out and the website not work