MarkF | November 13, 2013 On Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch says of Obamacare: "It's been so tarnished that I don't know how you put the genie back in the bottle. It's been so difficult getting here, that even if he says that: do-over, timeout, reboot. I think that the perception right now is so damaged, I don't know if he ever. I don't know if this legislation ever fully comes back.
A Good Morning America segment on a bank robbery in Philadelphia suggests that a recent national rise in violent crime is due to a "lack of federal funding."
In an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama says "I can guarantee you that I have been more deeply involved in our intelligence operations on a whole set of areas where there real threats against us than just about any President. Let me put it this way. As much as any President."
In an interview with Chuck Todd aired on this the's NBC Nightly
News, President Obama, speaking of the disastrous ObamaCare rollout, says "I've been burned by a website."
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski suggests that Barack Obama is too smart for the job of President.
On her MSNBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry attempts to explain away President Obama's oft-repeated Obamacare lie that "if you like your plan, you can keep it," MHP claims that the Obama assumed people wouldn't like their old plans!
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough suggests that Hillary Clinton's mishandling of Benghazi is a significant electoral vulnerability for her. When he alludes to Hillary's infamous "what difference does it make?" line, Nicolle Wallace comes to Clinton's defense, saying "I don't think she meant it that way."
An MSNBC ad for its new website features Wendy David, Dem candidate for Texas governor.
On Morning Joe, presidential historian Jon Meacham analogizes the Obamacare fiasco to the Reagan-era classification of ketchup as a vegetable.
On Morning Joe, Willie Geist says that in an interview the night before the co-founder of a "very, very major' social media site told him that the criticism of the Obama administration over its Obamacare website is fair, and that the "frankly, the government's technology sucks."