ron williams joins us shortly.stors searching for critical clues about the state of the economy. a bernanke speech and fed minutes are scheduled for this week. we'll speak to the head of u.s. equity strategy coming up next. >>> fed chairman bernanke set to give a speech tomorrow night on the economy. investors are also anticipating the release of the fomc minutes on wednesday. joining us now to talk about this week's market expectations barry. i guess we can talk about fed. we can talk about -- we're talking about obama care with walter isaacson as well, barry. and i said there are people, there are republicans that do say repeal and replace. there are still people around that don't think that because this is already the law of the land that it needs to stay. and i was thinking your coming up, you're probably a person who would like to see this go away and start with something else, wouldn't you? >> well, i think you hit an earlier point. it was bad policy the way it was constructed to be sure. whether the intentio

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syndicated columnist george will and ron williams.y it is the kiss of death when the late night comics are making fun of you. what do you make of his apology? >> i think it is as much as we can get from the president. i don't think it solves the problem the problem is that the chickens that were in this bill from the get go are coming home to rouse roost. this has created what amounts to a emergency. your question of what the president can do about it was well phrased and the answer is nobody thinks he can do pretty much. this is a regular mess. >> i want to pick up on that. in the interview where he gave the quote apology. not explaining why he said what he said but that he felt the pain of people like steve, and cade, but as you just heard from ron, he can't go and uncancel the cancellations because if he did that, you would have to go back to the states and regulate this. >> i don't think there is much that they can do. they can get that website up and running. for a lot of people who are getting the cancellation notices, they can'

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moving on to ron -- juan williams. >> it's easy to save you can keep your coverage.hat is up to the companies and a lot of times up to the state. >> i think it's great that they have acknowledged this is a very serious problem. but the health plan, they have been working to implement this and there is no magic button to be able to keep those policies. the 50 state insurance commission really have to review those policies that make certain that the pricing that goes out, that the content of the policies is consistent with what the state wants to do as well. neil: maybe the president figured that i don't think he appreciated the magnitude of this. but having said that, i wonder if this was really meant for those peoples that insurance companies were considering are considering dropping one whose land they were considering closing. because it is next to impossible for those whose plans are shut out to get them back. >> there is a huge mechanical problem. it takes anywhere from three to six months. so there is a question of what will the health plans do and i think they

governor secretary, one of the more interesting things we had the former aetna chief on yesterday, ron williamse needs to be sold. that's always the way it's been. and i think your point is that to expect young people to do this on their own when they're feeling good and feeling invincib invincible, you need them, and if you don't get them, you can't do it. >> that's absolutely correct. let me point out that i was the architect and quarterback of getting part d through the congress on a bipartisan basis. and also setting up the work necessary to implement part d. and every week, the year prior to rolling out part d, we had a meeting to find out who was responsible for what, who will take over this particular problem and solve it. and the current administration has not done that. as a result, you have a rollout that is absolutely chaotic and just full of confusion. and a lot of -- a lot of individuals that just don't trust it. well, as part d, over 90% of the people that are receiving part d say it's an excellent program contrary to over 50% of the people that don't like it right now. what you h

ron mott, nbc news, boston. >>> well done. that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams.appy halloween. be careful out there, and we hope to see you right >>> in our breaking news, in phoenix, arizona, our nbc chopper over the scene. a plane that left sfo late this afternoon diverted because of a bomb threat. thanks for joining us. i'm raj matthai. >> i'm janelle wang in for jessica aguirre. the united express flight left san francisco at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon headed to san antonio, when it was foshsed to make an unscheduled landing in phoenix. at sky harbor airport. as you can see, the plane landed safely. it's on the runway after reports of a bomb threat. the plane was evacuated safely. we have video from the past 15 minutes when passengers were taken off the plane and put on buses. presumably to board another plane to san antonio. no reports of any injuries and it's still unclear if there was an actual threat or not. if there are any new developments, we'll keep you posted right here. >>> now to a story you'll see only on nbc bay area. the city of san jose spent the

foreign secretary william hague saying that he is confident that further progress will be made the u.s. is blamed or wrong for rejecting a deal at last weekend's talks something to ron has denied john kerry insists major powers were more or less united on the green despite earlier claims that it was the french who blocked a breakthrough when i spoke to were jonathan steele is a common the storm international affairs for the guardian newspaper and he explained to me what he sees as the reasons behind france's tough stance. francis convince to do ronnie's meddling in a region which was traditionally at least in colonial times under french influence i mean syria and lebanon and they feel they took a very hawkish line against bashar al assad the president of syria when the uprising began two years ago they thought he would be toppled quickly and they feel that it's really thanks to russia diplomatically and iran militarily that assad is still there and they feel very annoyed angry over that and the second reason i think is quite simply money they see that saudi arabia is also having a row with the united states partly of iran but partly over other issues and they think