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Kristen welker is at the white house for us. less than 11 hours to go now. what is the president saying about these challenges with the obama care website roll out? >> well, alex, the presidents trying to strike a confident tone, if you will, telling barbara walters that ultimately he thinks hes going to be on the right side of history when it comes to this health care law once they finally fix all of these glitches. at the same time, some top officials here really trying to down play expectatio...

Republicans said that was deliberate. this was all kind of rolled out around the holidays so that nobody would pay attention. but we are paying attention. and as far as we know, we are on track to do what their goal is. but remember, their goal is to get it working to the point that they can get 50,000 people online at the same time. and if it goes over that, thats where the issues could come up. remember, back in october they had over 200,000 people. they couldnt get on. what theyve done is cre...

Is on track to meeting the goal of november 30th, which is only five days from now. one of the things that josh earnest, the deputy press secretary said in a gaggle of reporters on air force one, one thing that he did say is that the tech team working on the site has boosted its capacity so about 50,000 concurrent users can be on the site at one time and theyve reduced the error rate. this is interesting, brooke. one thing they also did to control the flow of people going into the site during po...

Medicine case services which manages the site they managed to bring the error rate down to 1% from 2% last week, and 6% a few weeks ago. fred? >> thanks so much, athena. so will the presidents mistakes on obama care hurt his chances are getting other key legislation through congress? i put that question to cnns wolf blitzer. >> the president is trying, he wants to get comprehensive immigration reform, got it done in the senate. the house speaker, john boehner, the republican majority of the hous...

Alive. >> yeah, and that, shep, might be a bigger hole to climb out of, pardon the pun, than what you have described here, in fact the post goes on to site, the specific case of one man, i think he lived in utah and the social security administration said he was dead, he said no, im very much alive. they ignored all of his pleas about this until he finally went to social just office in utah and said im alive. they gave him a piece of paper who said sign this and it said im alive. the trouble is,...

Protecting against these insurer problems because if everybody could buy insurance you would have this huge flow of correct data. its hard to get visibility on that. i spoke to a top insurer. he said its bad but getting better. other insurers said its not getting better. we dont know what the error rate is. but that is a problem that i think the obama administration is and should be worried about. >> chuck, obviously a lot of attention on tone and substance that the president brings to this even...

There are goinging to hbe hiccups, how long do you think people can give patience to this? >> i dont know exactly. you get this question of how long do you need to get the number of people into the federal exchanges that you need for an appropriate risk pool. on the -- on eugenes comment, and ive heard this a lot, i actually dont think you can overstate ha complicated what theyre doing here is. how complicated this website is. its not like building a static website. its not like building the kin...

Vague it is, you do have to wonder if the british government was seeking retaliatory action. what theyve done now is stirred the ire of glenn green wald and theyll soon find out i think what other secret documents he has that could cause them more trouble. >> we are in the age of punitive journalism. ryan, i want to play you some sound because this is what the story is the about, right? there was a recent report in the "washington post" about the error rate among the nsa and peter king character...

Crime has been on the decline for the last 20 years, beginning interestingly enough during the last two years when ray kelly was police commissioner who at that time embraced community policing and began this dramatic decline in crime opinion theres a 90% error rate in the stop and frisk program. no corporation in america would tolerate such an error rate. you cant argue based on the numbers that it has an effect on the decrease in crime in new york city. and so i dont think theres any factually...

Altimeter. >> its possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, it just seems to me when youre thinking about this as a problem to solve, you have so many moving parts. i dont mean the moving parts of jet airlines going at hundreds of miles an hour. i mean, you have different governments, right? a plane has to go in south africa and in germany and in buton and all sorts of d...