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President bush. mr. secretary, thanks very much for joining us. i dont know if you prefer mr. secretary or governor. you have two good titles there. but take us into her seat right now. she is under enormous pressure. how do you think she got into this mess? >> wolf, i have to say that the seeds of this problem were sown a year ago as the administration made decisions not to issue regulations that were required for those developing the system to actually do it properly. and meps whhence when the...

Aides was asked what does the president read? and the aide who was defending the president revealed a list of progressive newspaper columnists, opinion columnists. thats what he reads? not a policy guy. i think the president is what he seems. a guy who is happiest when he is giving soaring speeches. >> marah, you are there every day. does it get to a point where its over the top on no, he didnt know this? >> i think these things can have a cumulative effect, especially when a couple big ones com...

He has learned that hi might want to transition to the tie. >> he is running for the president this time instead of class president. >> exactly. there you see, thats the outer outer edge of the republican right in rick santorum. >> it used to be. now we have got this other ring. >> off the table. but thats the right edge saying the new right edge is too right wing. cruz has the right ideas and the wrong implementation. they lost the shut down debate and they lost it by deceiving and lying to the...

"saturday night live," its awful hard to recover. >> i.t., can we get someone from i.t. in here? >> rightys target kathleen sebelius for healthcare.govs poor health. >> the website was supposed to be the easy part. she has lost considerable credibility. >> absolutely, she should resign. >> this is a woman that has to be fired. >> youre fired. >> and at the end of the day, somebody has to be held responsible. and the secretary, who is in charge of this implementation, is that person. ♪ ♪ how ...

Something on the table if you want to take a piece out, youve got to put another piece in to replace it. or fix it. so i think that this whole process in time over the next two or three months will unfold. but its a mess right now. democrats and republicans, the white house and the congress both realize that this is a problem that needs to get fixed if they want this thing to have any survivability beyond its initial implementation. >> i think we all agree with that, michael. but dont you think ...

Either defend her or this program this week? >> well, going to be awfully hard. i think her best defense is to try to keep the focus on were trying going to try to get this problem solved. look, this morning "the wall street journal" had a piece, there were three groups of people, the people at office of consumer information and insurance oversight, a new office at h-hs planning the website. people at center for medicaid and medicare services, cms, 40 miles away from baltimore, they were plannin...

Couldnt apply for health care coverage. vendor for verizon, running the data services hub "experienced a failure in a networking component." that service connects healthcare.gov to the irs and other databases used to determine eligibility. the company says theyre working to fix the problem. >> what youre seeing here is a gap in innovation and execution. >> reporter: healthcare.gov ridicule on late night tv. >> the site was only designed to handle six users aa time. >> reporter: "saturday night l...

We had screw-ups. everything in the end will be fine? can she even come close to saying that. >> well she is going to say it, whether or not she is credible. look, when you become a parody on "saturday night live", it is awful hard to recover. even more devastating that on that is what the american people think they have heard about this website and what they have heard about this rollout and this implementation and none of it is good. again nobody appears theyre in charge. the white house is no...

What bothers him about this program. not the implementation of the website. listen. >> we have a bipartisan group which weve had before when the shutdown, to get it back open. seven republicans, six democrats and an independent. nobody should be forced to buy a policy that costs more than what they had and is inferior to what they had. >> oops, thats what a republican has been saying and thats what people are finding out right now. that is a senate democrat who says if my constituents are paying...

Thats clearly not working. those ten democrats may be representing millions in america. >> i think the delay gives the president a bailout. giving him more time to get it going. >> you think we should let it fail. >> let it go. then he avoids another election where the american people talk about theory and not implementation. >> i think it is not in his d.n.a. to say the republicans were right. they were right all along. that is what the whole government slimdown senate shutdown was about. youve...