but senator landrieu, she voted for this law. and they said look at the federal register, kathleen sebelius put all the regulations in place that will actually make all the grandfather laws meaningless, she voted against him. so did all of the others, now, when they come out and say they're shocked, shocked, let me fix it for you. >> it doesn't matter whether they're believed or not. the fact is, they want to do something, they're feeling frustrated, happy people don't tend to call their senators. so it is not surprising the feinstein numbers are 37-18, as james pointed out, the overwhelming majority of the people are going to do better under this law. and the president is trying really hard to fix it and he needs to be given a little bit of time. the party can't panic -- >> that is one thing he doesn't have right now is time. people are about to lose their insurance come january first, if they don't have replacement insurance there is a lot of questions about who will take care of them and their families. coming up, one question

mary landrieu, that's important, called the pivot. talk about something you don't want to talk about health care right now you start talking about something else. for mary landrieu an interesting situation the way she interacts with the president. she's among bipartisan group of senators calling for an extension to the enrollment deadline, woes with healthcare.gov. she's not president. her brother, mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu will be there now, this is trying to redirect attention. >> no doubt. mitch landrieu very popular, republicans and democrats he was here. his sister rode down on the plane. she's not here. we can speculate why, scheduling conflicts, pre-existing scheduling things they have to cocoa, always a fascinating answer. read into that what you will. some say she doesn't want to appear on the stage after the president apologized. all these ads from the rcc, republican scene torl committee trying to push out saying, hey, every democrat who voted for this law, they should apologize, t too. especially red states deal

i didn't ask senator landrieu to propose legislation. i didn't ask your colleagues for democrats to go on radio and anonymously be quoted in newspaper articles and everywhere else, expressing their concern. i don't think that's a fair assessment of me personally. i'm simply asking you, you're absolutely right, context is everything, but i, the media, did not create these problems. >> no, i just don't think there has been enough context with respect to all the people who are enjoying a transformation in terms of their health care. >> what about all the people who have not been able to because the website is not working? what about those people? >> listen, i'm in the denying that's an issue here. it's unacceptable the website isn't up and running. again, context is important. in massachusetts when they went through their health care implementation, only 0.3% of people signed up in the first month. >> and we're looking at 1.3. an improvement over massachusetts. absolutely right. >> i think people take their time to sign up. it is unacceptab

that's why you have senators like mary landrieu trying to mitigate this. it could be a big risk come next year. they don't want to get snagged by obama care in their elections. >> right. landrieu and five other senate democrats pushing for a bill that would allow people to keep their plans in perpetuity, not just for a year. >>> ahead, get ready for a fiery exchange. newt gingrich and van jones two hosts from "cross fire" will join me to talk about the president's remarks. [ male announcer ] every inch. every minute. every second -- we chip away. with an available ecodiesel engine... and a best-in-class 30 mpg highway and 730-mile driving range... for all the times you dreamed of running away from home -- now you can. with enough fuel to get back. this is the new 2014 jeep grand cherokee. it is the best of what we're made of. well-qualified lessees can lease the 2014 grand cherokee laredo 4x4 for $359 a month. [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes life trips us up. sometimes we trip ourselves up. and although the mistakes may seem to just keep coming a

if you can fix it with a mary landrieu fix, that's the fix i prefer. anything like 129 million people are going to lose their policies. of course you should suspend those things. i don't think we are at that point yet. i think frankly we need to give this thing time to work. a lot of people getting new policies -- >> one more question, steve. why would they do this deliberately go out and say you can keep your doctor. you can keep your insurance policy, period. >> i don't know, pat. >> they knew differently. >> you know, i cannot -- fortunately i can say i wasn't part of those conversations. i don't know what happened. it shouldn't have happened. i'm not going to make excuses for it. >> you mentioned mary landrieu. she's on the record december 22, 2009 before they passed this thing. individual who is like their coverage will be able to keep their current plan. >> that's what everybody -- sean, that's what everybody was told. that's what everybody believed. >> maybe if they read the bill before they pass it we would be in a better position. >> 34,000 pa

senator landrieu is up for re-election in louisiana in 2014. back in 2009 she was a vocal supporter of the president's law although her vote was controversial. and how she maintained it would allow people to keep their health care plan. >> those individuals who like the coverage they already have will be able to keep their current plan. this is a very accurate description of this bill. >> fast forward to this week and the reports of millions of people getting kicked off insurance plans. the senator said, i had no idea this would happen. we have to do something. now she's introducing a bill to help people keep the plans they had and liked. but wait, we did some digging. it turns out that republicans had foreseen that an hhs regulation, health and human services, passed in 2010 after the law was passed, a change in the regulation would guarantee that all of these people would lose insurance when the law kicked in, just as they are and we all know it now. republicans warned about this in 2010. they read the federal register up like regular people.

i understand mary landrieu -- >> steve is right. democrats and republicans are going to say, we have to put off the individual mandate. we have to put off the employer mandate until we fix this thing. you can't have 100 million people screaming and hollering that their health care program has been changed without having the program collapse. the politics respond to this. frankly in the democratic party in a hellish condition as of next november. everybody will be demanding changes. >> it's not just the washington post, steve. the wall street journal pointed it out. this angers me. maybe i'm old fashioned. i expect our government to tell the truth. they pointed out that the white house aides actually debated obama going out and telling the lie. they erred on the side of continuing to lie. >> listen, sean, i vice president seen the report you are referring to. >> wall street journal. >> if it's true it's outrageous. i agree that the government should tell the american people the truth all the time. sometimes the government gets it wro

we should say this is very similar to what mary landrieu is proposing. what my source had said is that this would just be for a year. basically, it would bridge the gap that the people who lost their insurance would get it back. that is really part of the big panic out there, that people are getting cancellation policies. and they aren't able to sign up for obama care because of problems with the website and so forth. mary landrieu had a plan or has a plan that's very similar. it's a little bit broader. for example, she told me it would not just be for a year. it would be forever, that people could keep their existing plans. that is something that people at the white house, people at hhs did not like, because they were worried that that would undermine the whole structure of obama care, because a lot of people in these individual market plans are young people and healthy people. and the premise of obama care is that you have to get the young and healthy people in for the insurance companies to buy into, allowing people with pre-existing conditions and ot

landrieu: thank you. i really appreciate the courtesies of the manager of the bill on the floor, senator reed, and i really appreciate his courtesies because those of us that came to the floor today to speak about this issue are extreme extremely concerned about this problem that's presented itself based on a bill that was passed three years ago, two years ago, called biggert waters with all the best intentions a bill was passed two years to go oog to try to fix and reform and reauthorize the nation's flood insurance program, which is a very important program that allows millions of people that live not just along the coast but along our rivers and bayous and streams from coast to coast, inland and coastal communities, to live safely and to live affordably and to have flood insurance they can count on. that was the intention of the bill but, madam president, something went awry through the passage of the bill and the consequences are devastating. now as we look back two years and we see how fema and some

senator mary landrieu is one of the democrats who came up with her own plan. it's a more narrow plan but her own plan to try to make sure people who like their plans, health care plans, can keep them. >> i'm going to speak with her in a few minutes live in the situation room. but the reaction on the hill to these dismal numbers released, these initial numbers, a lot of republicans i'm sure were saying i told you so. the democrats were pretty disappointed too. >> absolutely, they were disappointed. i just sort of give you an illustration of how much they're disappointed. the chair of the congressional black caucus, marcia fudge told deadria walsh and other reporters the numbers are low and disappointing and then just said flatly, it's bad. tells you. >> first thing they have to do is fix the website and other problems to deal with. that's a first. all right. thanks very much. >>> up next, the democratic senator mary landrieu standing by live, we'll discuss what's going on. she wants to rewrite parts of the affordable care act. is a trap for some republicans as

we saw that in louisiana with mary landrieu, so here we are. >> matt, we did end up with a government shutdown, the question is why? >> well, it's very clear why,

let's say fred upton passes the house and mary landrieu passes the senate. at least one of those is a gigantic if. those are two bills. it ends up whether this is just posturing where everybody wants to get on the record hey, huge problem caused by the president and i voted for x. i voted for x. whether that gets merged into any legislation is another question. >> word coming out of the meeting is that most are content with what the president has suggested as a fix. there's something the president said in his news conference today that explained why the politics of this is always incredibly difficult. he said when you legislate in the health care area, you then own all the problems in the health care area. let's listen to how he put it. look one thing that i understood, one reason it hasn't been done and it's very difficult to do is that anything that's going on that's tough in a health care market, if you initiated a reform, can be attributed to your law. and so what we want to do is to be able to say to these folks, you know what? the affordable care act i

mary landrieu called for bigger changes. they want to vote putting they will on the record. senator mccaskill joins us now. you might have been in on the meeting. i've never seen this president so abjectly apologetic on anything as he was today. >> i think he knows this has been a colossal problem. self-inflicted. he's as upset, frustrated, angry, embarrassed as we are. we have to figure out the way to get this fixed. as i said this morning, the store is open but the front door is locked. we depend on this succeeding by people coming in and being customers. it's problematic. we have to move forward. i think this is a good step. >> the insurance city is pushing back saying they don't want to take the blame. they don't want it to be on them to renew and continue these policies. what if they don't comply. >> nobody is asking them to take the blame. they are holding policies, what the facts are, what is the coverage you have. are there places you can go and explore other options from private insurance companies. many times with the same insurance companies but the same kind of b

then maybethe landrieu bill taken up in the senate. i don't think republicans should normally want to vote for a bill that forces health insurers to continue to stay in lines of business that held like to exit. it's a very heavy-handed federal government involvement in private city. this allows them to avoid doing something they probably didn't want to do. because basically their main policy guide star on health care is they're in favor of whatever the president opposes, they were moving in this direction of demanding a new health insurance regulation that the president didn't want. so this may save them from that. >> yeah, i mean, i think if you're watching washington from home right now and trying to figure out why this is such a big day in obama care news, you'd be forgiven for thinking that we were talking about something that might affect most people under the plan or half the people under the plan or a quarter of the people under the plan. i'm not diminishing the people who are affected by this, but this as a way to evaluate obam

is the landrieu bill the right fix. senators like mary landrieu up for re-election, do they want some vote, some, lets face it, political cover? >> well, it may be legislative in nature. lets see how this administration hhs fix works because what that will do is allow things to be kind of frozen for a time period. if we do that, i think there's a way to have the kind of stabilization that you need right now. we don't know yet what will happen november 30th. as i said before, that's going to be a very important deadline in this whole effort. >> first of all, a lot will depend on what insurance companies do, executives meeting with the president today. they have to go along with this for this to work. ed administration that no ways to get policies reinstated. what do you think about the way the president handled this, the fact he promised over and over again if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. was that an accident a deliberate political bumper sticker during the campaign, was this an effort to mislead the ameri

i want to give a special thanks to senator landrieu. she was such a vociferous advocate for families. she made sure we could ask as many things to make sure recovery float and make sure all the logjam she experienced with hurricane katrina didn't happen in new york and new jersey and other states. she is someone that understands these programs and what works and what doesn't work and i want to thank her for a continued focus on recovery and preventing and creating resiliency. her leadership on this is extraordinary. i want to thank her and i also want to thank senator menendez and senator schumer. and senator -- who is obviously not with us. i just want to thank them for their leadership. i know senators booker will not only stand in senator lautenberg 's shoes that but to be that same strong advocate. i know you will show it as senator and i want to walking me to this fight. obviously the road to recovery is long and hard but we rebuild and we have rebuilt better and we rebuild stronger. the damage was severe. we lost several lives. we

i think the landrieu bill is probably illegal. but, the democrats need something to say we he were lied to too. >> here is the press secretary. >> the president actually admitted that he knew people would lose their plans, yet, he kept making this false promise, that somehow people could keep their plans if they liked them. >> i will stipulate what you might expect that i was not present for a conversation, what sounds like a private conversation between eric cantor and the president. what i can tell is you is like the rest of the house leadership, congressman cantor has worked overtime to ensure through every power he has available to him that the health insurance -- that the healthcare market and the health insurance system in this country is not reformed. worked overtime. >> the problem is, jay carney was there and it wasn't a private conversation. it was a public conversation at the healthcare summit february 5th, 2010. sound bite we ran here on "special report." george, you know, it seems like the white house is having just a

dianne feinstein announced late today she will join mary landrieu in co-sponsoring a bill that would force insurance companies to continue to offer policies that obama care considers substandard. the white house doesn't like the idea but it adds to the pressure of the explainer in chief who's a fan of obama care but says the president should keep his promise. the advice came from someone who could hardly be more influential, former president clinton said president obama should make good on his promise if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. >> i personally believe even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. >> reporter: mr. clinton's call came just days after mr. obama said he was sorry people were finding themselves with cancelled policies. press secretary jay carney says the president has asked for options, but not options that let people keep plan that say don't meet obama care standards. >> we do not see that as fixing the problem, we see that as throwing t

there's a democratic version by mary landrieu. in your opinion, could that bill pass and what would obama do? would he sign it? >> fundamentally, i don't think because the problem would not be solved. most of them know that. these are bills put forth to give some kind of idea. but the fact is that obama care has completely rearranged the way health care is going to be delivered in this country. people are already suffering under it and it's not been fully implemented and affected. >> we'll see. emily, jennifer and jimmy, don't go anyplace. >>> up next on "kudlow," we'll get you updated on some of the biggest headlines of the day, including urban legend about william shatner debunked on cnbc this morning. seema mody will explain it all next up. americans take care of business. they always have. they always will. that's why you take charge of your future. your retirement. ♪ ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. listening, planning, working one on one. to help you retire your way... with confidenc

a picture of senator landrieu. what in particular do we hear about senator landrieu today? whacks it was interesting. in the house, a lot of democrats senate,used -- in the most of the democrats who are facing reelection in 2014 were not happy with this measure. they still want to see about. they want to be able to say that the past something or at least got a chance to cast a vote in favor of some kind of legislative fix that would restore the promise from the president that they had broken. senator landrieu and several other democrats still are pushing forward with a proposal. >> our viewers can follow jennifer haberkorn. thanks for joining us. >> thanks a lot. >> senator mary landrieu's legislation would allow consumers to keep their current health insurance is permanently. following the senate democrats meeting, she talked about her plan with reporters. her remarks are 10 minutes. >> thank you for coming today. i wanted to make a brief statement about the announcement of the president made earlier today. regarding keeping the promise that we made to americans that have

senator landrieu has been invaluable. we have learned from the mistakes that were made in katrina and she was our guide as we went through this. i want to thank my colleagues here. we were a great team. they did basically the impossible getting $60 billion , we were held up for too long period of time. getting that amount of money in programs that are going to work was an accomplishment we can be proudest of in our careers. i want to welcome senator booker. lautenberg'sfrank large shoes as a member. i want to say to the five of you, i have worked closely in making sure things work. you have done a great job. you have done a public service at the federal and city level. i can think of accomplishments we have done together in terms of negotiating and getting things done. ,hank you to shaun donovan , i have not dealt with ms. tighe. she is oversight. keep an eye on us. well, you know, there's so much to say here. first, there's a question everyone asks. how is it going? it's going, overall, very well. the amount of money tha

those ho touted your health care bill including mary landrieu, they're jumping ship. what to do going forward? yesterday you gave us an extra month next year to sign up for obama care. you say it's good news for consumers, because we'll have more time to learn about the plan before enrolling. you know, my dad, rest in peace, always told me, there are two reasons for doing things. a good reason, and the real reason. the real reason -- the one month would move the start of the 2015 enrollment and the inevitable increase in premiuming until after the 2014 midterm elections. now, in that special? mr. president, with all due respect, you have done nothing but pull the wool over americans' eyes in your relentless pursuit of power. whether it was the nuclear option this week in the senate or trying to convince the american public we couldn't have saved those four americans that we now know were begging for help in benghazi. you came into office claiming you would give the american people the most transparent administration in history. that's one of the few things that maybe

so the landrieu bill would will require insurers to continue offering the plan. the kay/hagan bill that will extend enrollment. people are rapidly realizing those aren't going to work. they're not going to offer any real release. if democrats did such a phenomenal job of creating a law to destroy the insurance markets, there are no quick fixes. and so they can talk about all this but you've got insurers saying they can't comply with rules like that in such a short period of time. and so you are not going to have any democrats going down and convincing people that this is the way that things are going to get better. it's just not going to happen. >> particularly, james, after you've seen these very public pratfalls. you've seen all of these democrats falling on their face trying to prove that the thing works when it doesn't work. in fact, you had sebelius down in florida for a photo op, supposedly to show how smooth things were operating. take a look at what happened. >> i think it's great that this is happening. >> wow. it's been a long time coming. >> yeah. >> -

gwen: and the leader of that movement was senator mary landrieu. let's listen to her. >> we're going to be working across the aisle not to repeal or defund the affordable care act, not to undermine the affordable care act, not to gut it but to fix it. gwen: but isn't fixing it undermining it? >> right before she said that she said what the president did today was a good first step. she is one of those democrats on the front line of a tough re-election campaign in louisiana. i was standing next to her when she was saying that and she made clear that she is going to go ahead with this. some of it is window dressing for her constituents at home. but the white house is worried about her bill. her bill would allow americans to keep their policies indefinitely. that changes the whole balance of all this not all that many democrats are signing on with her. i think seven have now. but even the others, like the senator from new hampshire has a bill. tom udall has a bill. so many different bills out there. but people want to vote on something. >> i want to a

jean sheheen, you're not helping, and finally, the last suggestion came from louisiana senator mary landrieu. >> it will clearly say if you had had an insurance plan that you liked, that you could afford, that you felt like you -- you felt like that is what you wanted and you could afford, you can keep it. >> landrieu's plan would, not to put to fine a point on it, destroy the affordable care act. it would rip to shred the risks, raise premiums and allow people to keep buying the same kind of plans that have bankrupted people for years. >> this is not to undermine the affordable care act, it is to strengthen it. >> mary landrieu, you're not helping. we understand the health care law is keeping people up at night, but the real problem of obama care cannot be fixed by makes the policy worse. >> joining me now is dr. zeke emanual, director of health policies at the university of pennsylvania. he was special adviser to health policy to the white house. and zeke, what is your suggestion on the fix to the health care? >> well, i certainly don't like the idea of not having the individual mandate go

so the landrieu bill which would require insurers to kin offering the bill and kay hagen that would extend enrollment. people are realizing they won't work. democrats did such a phenomenal job of destroying the insurance markets there are no quick fixes and can talk about it but they can't comply with rules like that so you won't have any democrats going down and convincing people this is the way that things are going to get better. it's not going to happen. >> particularly, james, after you've seen these public pratt falls and all of these democrats falling on their face trying to prove the thing works when it doesn't work, in fact, you had sebelius had a photo-op in florida to show how smooth things were operating. take a look at what happened. >> i think it's great this is happening. >> well, it's been a long time coming. >> yeah. >> it's temporarily down. >> it's okay. it'll come back. that happens every day. >> so, james, you know, they tried to put the best face. they have a photo-op where everybody is supposed to make it look good and they fall flat on their face. >> i'm glad you no

senator landrieu has been invaluable. we have learned from the mistakes that were made in katrina and she was our guide as we went through this. i want to thank my colleagues here. we were a great team. ,hey made the impossible getting $60 billion -- we were held up for a two. -- ray too long -- for a too long. bang -- too long period of time. i want to welcome senator booker . he will fill large shoes as a member. i want to say to the five of you, i have worked closely in making sure getting things worked -- making things work. have done a public service at the federal and city level. and i thank you for that and look forward to continuing to work. i can think of accomplishments on each of you that we have done together in terms of negotiating and getting things done. , jok you to shaun donovan holloway.ey, cas keep an eye on us. well, you know, there's so much here. first, there's a question asks.ne how is it going? it's going, overall, very well. amount of money that has been spent and allocated is .arge and at least u

unless something is done to fix this, mary landrieu is next up for re-election. several senators are pushing hard to make changes in this program very quickly. they are putting a lot of administration. >> michael, that was not the ones that were up for reelection next year. you have some liberal senators and congressmen who were th threatened calling for fixes and for something to be done about that obama promise that people doctors. >> yeah. one thing to remember, antonio, and bill is right, you see people who are up for reelection and you make the point that not everybody is up for rely, geoff america lee is up for reelection. there are some senators who are not in tight races is a better way of saying it. geoff merkley supported mary landrieu's ledge southlakes. the senate looking to protect their own. if the democrats are scared, this is how they are going to do it. one thing we cannot forget, though, is just because you have all of these democrats signing on to the legislation does not mean that harry reid is going to bring it to the floor for a vote and he

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part of senator landrieu's require insurance companies to keep them open. i'm not quite sure how that works. how after an insurance company has cancelled a policy they can be forced it reopen it. it's also my understanding that senator landrieu's proposal would effect only a tiny percentage of all health plans out there, leaving most americans still flailing under this unsustainable law that has caused so many people to lose their jobs and other people to lose their health coverage. >> senator, thank you. good to have you with us tonight. we will see you soon. >> thank you, martha. coming up we have caught on camera for you what in the world is going on in this operating room? wait until you hear the story behind. this that is coming up. and tonight at 10:00, a very special program here on fox news channel. it honors the life and legacy of the reverend billy graham on his 95th birthday. tune in for my hope america with billy graham. his birthday celebration underway in north carolina right now. don't miss the coverage tonight at 10 eastern. >>> now it's tim

today in the senate jo mansion and mary landrieu facing election in 2014 will introduce a bill to do that, allow all americans to stay on their insurance plans no matter how crappy they will be. it's expected to go nowhere with harry reid playing defense for the white house. last night president obama kept the door open to changes in the law. >> what we'll do is continue to assess if there are roadblocks for people, we're going to clear out those roadblocks. >> open to whatever it takes. >> whatever it takes for people to get what is good quality health insurance at cheaper prices. >> the president was less accommodating when it came to criticism of the person who oversaw implementation of the law, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> still have full confidence in kathleen sebelius. >> i think kathleen sebelius under tremendously difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets so that there is a good product out there for people to get. kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't our i.t. p

so, senator landrieu in four neck of the woods u.s. senate has -- she has a bill keeping the affordable care act promise act. which is sort of interesting that we now have legislation to keep promises. >> yeah that is a little unusual that what we have already said was going to be the law now we have to pass another law to make sure that we are -- look, it's a lot deeper than senator landrieu and others who just want to extend delay things for a year. look, fundamental problems. people who want to keep their insurance, health insurance and they like it she they should be able to keep it insurance companies that want to continue to sell policies that as they have before, should be able to do that as well, and of course, this whole debacle the telling people that they are going to benefit by paying higher premiums which is the case with any young person that science up is -- flies in the face. that's the ultimate in social engineering. and finally, finally, this is the first legislation that has to it do with entitlement. it was passed o