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Department and ceo, a firm for better technology and building signs for better government. clay, i wanted to have you on. you have been tweeted about watching these hearings. theyre all out of healthcare.gov, you worked on trying to do big projects. what was your takeaway from the hearing today? >> my takeaway is that we have a congress that is dangerously illiterate when it comes to technology issues. i mean, looking at this thing as a programmer and technologist, it was rather like watching pe...

Felt that this was a good excuse, whether it was warranted or not. >> congressman leonard lance and congresswoman donna christianson, i thank you both for your time. joining me now, of the department and ceo, a firm for better technology and building signs for better government. clay, i wanted to have you on. you have been tweeted about watching these hearings. theyre all out of healthcare.gov, you worked on trying to do big projects. what was your take away from the hearing today? >> my take ...

Excuse, whether it was warranted or not. >> congressman leonard lance and congresswoman donna christianson, i thank you both for your time. joining me now, of the department and ceo, a firm for better technology and building signs for better government. clay, i wanted to have you on. you have been tweeted about watching these hearings. theyre all out of healthcare.gov, you worked on trying to do big projects. what was your take away from the hearing today? >> my take away is that we have a con...

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This is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it all sounded pretty good the day healthcare.gov went online. president obama said people were flocking to the site, and any "glitches," as he called them, would be fixed and they would have the site running more quickly in just a few hours. today, 24 days later, the man the president brought in to rescue his health insurance program acknowledged the painfully obvious. the problems are far worse and run deeper than we we...

Be one of them. clay johnson is the ceo of the department of better technology and author of "the information diet." also a former presidential innovation fellow, the same group that the administration is now bringing in to help troubleshoot healthcare.gov. so nice to have you today, clay. >> thanks for having me. >> so just in the simplest terms that even nerds can understand, even though we are not geeks, what is wrong with this site? >> well, its an interesting question. a lot has gone wrong ...

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>> i feel threatened placed in a cell with another person. i feel my life is in it danger. >> okay. let me tell you what path youre going down right now. right now it seems like its no big deal. been locked up twice for it. theres documentation on one, theres going to be another documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant shu. >> the shu is the secure housing unit, where inmates live under the harshest restrictions...

Along with people. >> yes. >> why wont you take a cell mate? >> i feel threatened place in a cell with another person. i feel my life is in it danger. >> okay. let me tell you what path youre going down right now. right now it seems like its no big deal. been locked up twice for it. theres documentation on one, theres going to be another documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant shu. >> the shu is the secure hous...

Documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant shu. >> the shu is the secure housing unit, where inmates live under the harshest restrictions in the entire state. while shu inmates usually get their own cell, they lose all other privileges. >> so you dont get visits. >> no, not really. no. no, its -- nope. >> im just telling you -- >> i have, but they dont matter. >> im just telling you, in order to be a programmer, y...