this morning but that s really on identifying areas where the gaps need to be closed rather than closing the gaps randi. you have this letter overshadowing the negotiations and as you said time is short. is the state department confident, how confident is the state department really that world powers will be able to strike a deal by this march 31st deadline? it s really hard to gauge that accurately. this is art of negotiation. you certainly don t put all your cards on the table and certainly secretary kerry is not about to do that and he s going to drive a hard bargain where iranians can t build any weapons. what the state department is saying is they have to get this framework deadline by the 31st of march. the full details don t have to be worked out until the end of june. what they re saying at the moment is they don t even know state department officials don t know if they can make that march 31st deadline. two weeks to go and it s not
reporter: the freshman senator isn t backing down. the congress stands ready to impose much more severe sanctions. reporter: but cotton is gaining critics who point out he once mocked the president s own communications with iran s leadership. like a love-struck teenager he has sent four secret letters to the ayatollah. reporter: still, the iran talks are becoming a new litmus test in the 2016 campaign with likely gop contender ted cruz saying candidates must repudiate the nuclear deal or else. any candidate in my view who will not say yes to that is not fit to serve as commander in chief of this country. reporter: over the weekend, white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough sent a letter to bob corker assuring him congress will have a role to play and will have to take a vote. but the white house conceded they would rather congress stay out of the process for months well beyond the march 31st deadline for a framework agreement. for all of the
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of healthcare.gov. hold me accountable for the debacle. i m responsible. reporter: a frequent target of republican critics and late night comedy shows like saturday night live which mocked the website s problem. how it s been crashing and freezing and shutting down and stalling and not working and breaking and sucking. reporter: the glitch plague site bedeviled the administration for months raising doubts about how many people would sign up for insurance by the march 31st deadline. she s got bumps, i ve got bumps. bruises. reporter: just thursday, sebelius told a congressional committee, some 7.5 million people had signed up for coverage. a number the president touted. and there were problems, but under kathleen s leadership, her team at hhs turned the corner, got it fixed, got the job done, and the final score speaks for itself. reporter: the former kansas
has accepted her resigning. we are waiting on him to announce the reappalachianment, but we hear it is going to be the budget director sylvia matthews burwell. ed henry is live. how did his resigning come about as if we will ever truly know what happened? greg, interesting because officials say for some time secretary sebelius suggested to the president she would like to move on at some point. they were waiting for a couple dates on the calendar. number one, getting passed the march 31st deadline. they were so many stumbles and they were finally doing good. so you do it after the surge of