Now to a request to stop the nsa s electronic eavesdropping. the justices reject appear appeal from the electronic privacy information center which urged the high court to throw out a secret court s approval of the practice. this is the first challenge to the nsa s surveillance programs to reach supreme court but other are working their way through lower courts. president obama will meet with senate leaders from both parties today. he is trying to convince them not to ratchet up sanctions against iran. nuclear talks with the iranians resume tomorrow in geneva and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have made it clear they are skeptical at best about where those talks are heading. the president argues if the u.s. is serious about diplomacy then adding sanctions to the ones already working against iran would be counterproductive. big developments unfolding in the brutal rollout of healthy.gov. obama care s top technology manager henry chow will testify at one of the hearings.
Named jeff grant from the centers for medicare and medicaid services wrote this, quote: we believe our entire build is in jeopardy. i think weed in to consider which items in our build will not get done if we don t get substantially greater staffing level. more than a week later on july 16th, another official wrote, quote: i need to feel more confident they re not going to crash the plane at takeoff regardless of price. that official, henry chow, is going to testify before the house energy and commerce committee tomorrow. his prepared remarks, which we have seen, indicate that he is going to stay in line with the white house and only promise that healthcare.gov will work for a vast majority of user, not everybody, when the feds hit their self-imposed deadline to fix the site 12 days from today. peter, thanks a lot. another bullying controversy on which to report. this is regarding a football team. this new case is out of rutgers
Where we were unsuccessful is in making that access to that coverage easy from day one. october 1st. as the president i think made clear to you here yesterday, he takes responsibility for that. we take responsibility for that, and we re about the business of making the fixes necessary to insure that those benefits are available to the american people who so clearly want them. jay, henry chow was raising red flags back in july about the website saying a plane could crash on takeoff. was the white house aware of these concerns at the time? steve, we ve said all along i know there s selective leaks going on out of various house committees of as they conduct oversight into this, but we ve said all along that there were in the testing of this instances where there were problems that were identified and fixes that were undertaken to the website.
Primetime. i think the contractors gave us the green light and said as recently as the end of september when not only they were talking to us but talking to congress we are ready to go. reporter: but internal memos show project manager henry chow was having serious reservations back in july writing i just need to feel more confident they re not going to crash the plane at take-off. the plane did crash. and thursday mr. obama seemed to take responsibility for it. there have been times where i thought we were kind of slapped around a little bit unjustly. this one s deserved. right. it s on us. reporter: several state insurance commissioners have rejected the president s renewal proposal. and an insurance industry group is warning it could raise premiums, but some experts feel some insurance companies will grant the president s wish. they are in the business to make money on policies. and if the policies that they were selling that they ve had to discontinue, if those policies
Drip, drip, drip. you will see that happen after this hearing and see sound bytes today that will feed the right wing cause. right. the thing we won t get is too many actual answers. we do have some quotes you brought up. you brought up henry chow and he will be an important person to testify, but according to reuters in written testimony that has just been posted, he will say we know that we under estimated the volume of user who is attempt to logon to the system at the same time. therefore our test degree not include performance testing at the volume we experienced at launch. we will continue to be talking about those issues there. luke, we will come back to you keeping an eye on this hearing. we will bring you any news as it happe happens. we ll go live to manila next to find out about the challenges to
We ll hear from henry chow that will get underway in a few minutes and we ll take you there live as soon as it does. in the meantime we want to get to this story. a missouri man who spent nearly 10 years behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit is now a freeman. ryan ferguson thanking his supporters after an appeals court found he was wrongly convicted. listen to this. it was difficult from the beginning knowing that you are innocent and everyone you knew and talked to, they are not talking to you and you don t know what they think or what they feel. the people who have been there, it was a handful. i can t even really find them all. but you know who you are. i have so much respect for you guys. it means so much to me. martha: mike tobin has the background and what happened
Henry chow will be in. the hearing. it said the risk and threat potential of the system is limitless. what does that tell you? it s limitless we study cyber security extensively. just about anything can be hacked into. given the track record of this website and the disastrous rollout i m not sure it will be fixed by the end of this month. i don t believe that. but what i m most concerned about is americans information being accessed and hacked into. they can take this information and use it for identity theft. and that what s we want to do, protect americans from that scenario. there were probably an estimated 500 bogus web sites out there of fake web sites that say it s obamacare but it s not. it s not healthcare.gov.
Beginnings of lower expectations for that date now. the whitehouse is embattled. this h this hearing is about the wb site and that is an issue considering how much money has been thrown at the website. brett, thank you. it was brief and want to get back to the hearing when we can. martha has that. jay carney brief at 1:00. henry chow never saw the memo that said the website wasn t secure so you have daueling hearings going on and we will take a quick break and be back with more on america s newsroom.
Committee is about to get underway on capitol hill. henry chow is the deputy chief information officer for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. he was one of the top officials in charge rolling out this plan. he says the marketplace does east in stringent privacy and security control which is interesting because we had another comments that said there was no reason to people it was safe and secure. the other thing we can expect from him as well is the administration failed to test for healthcare do the governor . we were told it was because of the flood of traffic and that s why they continues get on. but there are a lot of questions about that now. so that s a little bit of what
There is another story, a fella by the name of henry chow. the project manager for the website. apparently there is a memo that will be made public tomorrow at the house hearing that show that the threat and risk potential to the system is limitless. fewer than 30 days before the website went public. why did they choose to go forward knowing that was a possibility? i think it was clear it wasn t ready. i sent a letter to the secretary saying i heard about the i.t. problems and the security issues, asked if they had tested it as to its accountable, whose in charge. never heard back. it was clear going into the summer this was not going to be ready. the security issue is something the american people care a lot about. we all care about having our personal information kept private and particularly with what s going on with some of the other scandals so it s one they should have been particularly