with me is michael shearer and sam stein. michael. it is a big day at white house. the birds are cheaping, it's snowing in d.c. >> how much do you think these numbers change the landscape for democrats? >> i think it digs him out of a hole that he dug himself into. obama care is still not popular. it will still probably be a drag. you have a whole new wave of stuff before the election about obamacare rates going up. >> what this does is digs the president out of a hole he started to call into in november of last year when the website went doupd and people were speculating about the law possibly failing. 7 million was the baseline number we had to meet in order for the rates that they had said to basically work. it was the goal they set for themselves. it was successful the first year despite their problems. i don't think the fight is over that oh balm na macare won't show up in ads or won't be pay drag for the president. >> mike, we started talking to you about the republican reaction to this before the president so rudely cut you off. we're seeing for the first tim

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. >> now let's bring in times washington bureau chief, michael shearer and ericaaa kanut. paul ryan's budget figured prominently in this speech. i think democrats think this is a real liability for the republicans? >> he's used ill successfully before, he used it -- minimum wage is also pulling well, he mentioned three quarters of the country are in favor of it. if asked if it would change their vote in 2014, 50% saying yes and 50% saying no. so it's one of the issues he can grab on to it. i think he oversells what an increase in the minimum wage would do. there is a job loss that would come along with it, says the bco, a big increase would go to people who are not in poverty. the minimum wage is sort of a clumsy tool to deal with some of these issues, but it's a tool he has to club republicans going into the elections. >> erica, it did indeed sound like a campaign speech there, but not oall of the the dems ar signing on to tom harkins bill. susan collins has an alternate plan that would raise the minimum wage by a smaller amount. perhaps -- i don't understand why they wou

"new york times" shearer. political correspondent byron york. they put him on administrative leave. we're still paying him. >> amazing thing is he has had a job all this time. this has been under investigation for quite a while. really no doubt that he done some of this stuff. but it completely undermines the idea of what an inspector general does. if you read the report, you get the idea that he is the acting inspector general. and he wanted the job of being the permanent inspector general. was palling around with people going out to dinner, having drinks. >> isn't that in washington? >> that's not the way you are supposed to do it. >> it is what people think of washington, right? that is what the cynical view of washington, the fox watch and the hen house, right? like everybody palling around together. >> the chickens back there but that's what -- that's the cynicism, right? no matter what part you are in. that's where the cynicism comes from. >> legitimate reason. now they have the report to back it up. >> not just the report. look at the report it. it shows that he we don't have