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>> kathleen sebelius, the secretary of health and human services not mincing any words apologizing for the disastrous rollout of this obama care website. lets discuss what happened today during the course of these three and a half hours of this testimony. joining us two members of the committee that just finished questioning of kathleen sebelius, republican literary of nebraska, democrat peter welch of vermont. congressman terry, first to you, are you satisfied with what you heard? >> not really...

At least wants those to be fixed. but republicans are folk ug s on things like whether or not kathleen sebelius will buy insurance on the exchange not designed for her because she already has employer health insurance. democrats on other hand are trying to defend the website. it just left me asking the question, and i dont mean this to be snarky or simplistic, but what are these hearings actually accomplishing? who are they really for? are they actually doing any good in solving the problems tha...

With the website. the question is, if say you were at hhs and advising the secretary about what to do and you got that memo, would you have advised the government to go ahead with the october one launch date knowing what was in that memo? >> im kind of the consumer media side of things. when you want to launch a property, sometimes you have a hard deadline, maybe something sold against it or promised to somebody really high upstairs and cant move that. that being said, you do pay attention to wa...

Didnt we try to send somebody from somewhere? what happened? >> hi, chris. i think people need to understand this is a situation where as much as the people on the ground working with the state department in libya knew that the threat was there and requested security, the state department just wasnt prepared to deal with this situation. and by being prepared, you have a list of things that when something goes wrong like this you go down that list and make certain phone calls and notify certain p...

Already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. >> but then theres the fine print as nbc news is reporting thats not the case for millions of americans already getting notified or about to be told that their plans, these are people who file individually, are not good enough to qualify under obama care so they have to start shopping around on a website that still doesnt work, even though there are subsidies available. nbc contributor emanuel provost at university and former wh...

Peoples real life, youll hear more and more stories like this. whether its a coverage theyre happy with and now told you cant have that coverage anymore, you have to buy something else that costs more money, we cant do that. the same with the website. the website -- the reason why the website is failing has nothing to do with republicans. its the fact that the government was not competent enough to set it up in time and the bill im calling for is based on common sense and reality. and that is th...

Before the launch, that is an indictment of the white house. this is not a case where the website, despite what some people have said, is separable from the policy. the website is the policy. the website doesnt work without the policy. and everyone in the white house knows that. so its -- again, its frankly unimaginable to me that he didnt have some sense. and if he really didnt, then people should be resigned. >> did you listen to the testimony the other day? it seems that no one in this entire...

Modeled obama care after massachusetts health care plan. now massachusetts and vermont are talking about getting rid of the national health care system by creating their own single payer systems. at least its being discussed. joining us now radio talk show host and columnist at the boston herald michael graham with an insider perspective. we have heard it in the massachusetts legislature as now senator jamie eldridge, a democrat, testified that he believes they should implement a universal medic...

Make mistakes. when you try to spin and explain and come up with weird explanations that usually doesnt work. you have to acknowledge yes, i made a mistake. i apologize. heres what were doing to learn from the mistakes and heres how we move forward. >> for the first time we heard an apology from the administration who administers the health care website during her testimony on the hill apologizing to the american public for that. i this i a little bit of contrition always, would, wolf. >> people...

Election year having to explain a website that still doesnt work. >> lets go back to the hearing. this is the chairman, the republican from michigan, checking her. >> i dont have that metric with me but ill check on it. >> i believe those are numbers that cms has put out. the associated press reported in early september that there was a memo prepared for the assistant -- by the assistant secretary for planning and health. are you aware of that press story and that memo? i think it went through y...