Perhaps realizing that it’s a scandal that cannot be ignored in a nation that continues to dislike Obamacare, CBS News on Thursday reported on recently unearthed footage of a chief Affordable Care Act architect saying “embarrassing” things about the law’s passage, forcing the Democratic Party to go on the defense.

“MIT professor Jonathan Gruber was an intellectual architect of Obamacare,” CBS News reported. “But … at a conference last year, he said the law was written to hide crucial details from an American public too dumb to understand.”