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Administration is touting its latest signup numbers. how big of a role did she play with the website? >> reporter: good evening. as the chief operating officer, she was in charge of supervising the whole rollout of healthcare.gov. and as you heard in that testimony from kathleen sebelius, she stated her name, but in a statement from the cms administrator, we learned that snider had, as you mentioned, planned to retire a year ago, stayed on in order to continue helping with the rollout. they talk...

Be. but how about this guy, donald berwick? hes the former cms administrator. he was the guy that was speaking in favor of english, of british, of health care. he had written about the importance of rationing. hes not there anymore. now hes running for governor. he put us in the dumper big, big time. >> he wanted to be governor of what state? >> massachusetts, i think. >> perfect. >> be careful. not good. >> there is somebody weve seen on television tangling with megyn kelly a couple of nights. ...

And he has been enormously helpful in being a management lieutenant with the cms administrator, turn on. theyre a bunch of fixes in process. many have been underway, we are making progress and its hard to give you a complete snapshot with hardware and additional installations that were done over the weekend. at 5:00 oclock orson scott or 6:00 oclock each day, it is really identified whether or not that testing for the individual coding six can actually be applied. the list changes, but we will

The hearing. the cms administrator testifying, and we talked about democrats speaking out about this, mary landrieu reading a cancellation on the senate familiar last night. this is from today. >> i believe that there has been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, the canceling of policies and sticker shock from some people. how are we going to get young people back to looking at how theyre going to apply to make it attractive, to give them confidence in the ...

Secretary. joining me live is republican congressman robert pitten jer. hes been calling it a national disaster of the also joining us, tom scully who served as cms administrator under president george w. bush. hes a republican working whos been promoting the health care law, and seies it as a potentia gold mine that could make some people very rich. congressman, you were not in favor of the government shutdown over the aca or defunding the law. why do you see the health care now as such a disas...

Whether shell take the fifth. >> weve seen that before. >> can you imagine? >> the lois lerner i plead the fifth and get paid to take the summer off? >> lois lerner did apologize for targeting conservatives and then she started taking the fifth. yesterday we had the cms administrator who apologized. i wonder if thats just to set the table for sebelius. keep those questions coming. theyre good. coming up, russian operatives putting on a front to spy on the united states. what was really inside ...

Many of us is that we go out thinking weve got good insurance policies, but when you try to use it, its not good enough. so what the aca did, established a floor below which no insurance company would be allowed to go and above which you could build upon, be it the bronze plan or gold plan or platinum plan, but you build upon a floor. so if youre beneath the floor, then you ought to get rid of that policy and get something thats going to serve you in good stead if you need to use it. >> when we ...

Administration as we know there have been many -- he was the first as cabinet secretary to leave but there have been many departures from this administration in less than a year and so you know, i dont think you can say with any certainty that there wont be any more departures and depending on the news that comes out in the next days and weeks well have to see what happens. >> and this was the first cabinet member, i believe. how significant is that to see someone so close to the president fired...

Ongoing effort to try and thread that needle with money for opioid treatment and support for the medicaid program and rural hospitals in the short term, while searching for a way to give conservatives more options for states to cut back on obamacares existing insurance regulations. the issues well known. the path to 50 votes, still unclear. >> we are all strong willed people. at the end of the day i have to go back to my state as they go back to theirs to defend my policies and my decisions. >> ...

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