working so hard to improve the website that you, and i quote, spent the first week of october sleeping on the floor of his office as he tried to help get healthcare.gov off the mat. is that right? yes, sir. well your reputation certainly proceeds you. unfortunately however, last week, chairman issa appeared on fox news and accused you and other political appointees engaging in a quote, pattern of interference and false statements related to this site, end of quote. that s a serious attack against your integrity. don t want to get into anyone s intent or motives here but i do want to give you an opportunity to respond directly. this is not unusual for me. because i realize, that we are all on this earth for a shore while. and that our reputations is all we ve got.
that is what the congressman is trying to get to the heart of it. he wants to know if is it was a political decision made to prevent letting people log on anonymo anonymously. that is one of the most heated question and there is a lot of talk surrounding that. one of the main headlines was the washington post and the promise of having the system working by the end of november which was the newly created and delayed deadline is unlikely. they are unlikely to meet that deadline. the big contractor, cgi, is fixing about 6-10 of the issues at about a 60 percent rate. what todd parks said is the site can handle 20-25,000 users at the same time and they expected
addressed with the site in terms of its performance and in terms of its stability and in terms of its functionality. there are progressive efforts to make sure it can do that and getting better and better each work with the tremendous team of led by jeffrey zeints and miss tavenner i m a small part. each points along the way i will answer a question and tell you what i know to the best of my ability and best of my understanding and that is what i continue to do as my understanding gets better and better. let me ask you this way, did you engage in a quote pattern of false statements and interference, end quote. no i did not. my best understanding at the time. and as my understanding gets better i willhat. before you are subpoenaed today, you were wrote a letter extremely work load last two weeks, offering to testify in december instead. was this concern coming just from your office or was it really a legitimate concern of
health insurance because of the law and trying to get on a site that will not work. ending up with a fraudster site and getting ripped off. is that not the saddest thing you can think of? martha: it is. cry me a river. this is a very, very, sad situation for a lot of folks. we re waiting, now, chris to hear from todd park and hear from henry chao, the i.t. guys in charge of the whole thing for the white house. the gentleman will be testifying in a few minutes. we ll get back to him when we get to mr. chao and mr. park. we believe they could be some of the most powerful testimony. john boehner is about to speak as well and give us the republican perspective on the hearings this morning and where they stand. we ll get you that live as that gets you know way as well too. here s a look at that room where john boehner is about to come out. we ll take a quick break and we ll be right back with more.
and since those statements were made about you, i would like to give you an opportunity to respond. thank you, sir. thank you for the opportunity. and again, i don t take any of this personally. it is a fast-moving situation with a lot going on. so i would just say is this. is that, it was the case absolutely that volume was a key issue that hit the site. it is still an issue for the site. although we greatly expanded and are expanding the ability for the site to, to accommodate volume. i relayed my best understanding at the time and each of my statements. it is the nature of things that, as you do more painstaking diagnosis of a system you learn more about what you need to do to fix it and i can say now that in addition to volume there are other key issues that have to be