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Chance to stand up and address everyone trying to implement obamacare and fix the computer, with quote, unquote, tech surge. he can also explain too americans trying to register what the heck is going on? what do you expect him to say? what does he need to say? >> what he already is saying. which is, my bad. computer system is not working. but a failed computer system as we saw with twitter which also crashed in its inception and that is computer program which is about a company just about an in...

People with insurance were trying to go there to see if they could get in. >> people are now able to apply. >> but a lot of people are also, especially people on the individual market, having their existing plans canceled right now on the assumption that they will be able to buy insurance on the exchange. so its not just the -- >> let me bring lori into this. youre talking to your sources. surprisingly, they didnt go to silicon valley to get the best and brightest or whatever you want to call it...

Good afternoon to you on this monday afternoon. we begin as washington shakes off its post shutdown days. and turns its focus on to the troubled rollout that spurred all that republican ire in the first place. a little website known as healthcare.gov. and today in the white house rose garden, the president voud to deal with the technological flaws that have made signing up so difficult for so many americans. >> there is no shoeiugar-coatin. the website is too slow, people have been getting stuck...

Website. in past experiences in massachusetts, for example, what you found was very few people enrolled in the first month. it wasnt till you got to a deadline that people did that. so we think that the schedule is okay as it is. and thats why we billed it to be six months. >> john cornyn, the senator from texas says youve already spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting this website off the ground albeit obviously the fragile state its in right now. he wants to know how much the repairs, t...

Bill: do you have much detail on the tech surge, who is it, where are they from and what are they doing? >> first i want to say this, bill, we should not in the media use the term glitch to describe all the problems they had with the computer systems at, at health care.org. these, the hindenburg was not a glitch. these are major problems. theyre bringing in all of these new computer experts to solve a problem with a 600 million-dollar expenditure. the question the american people are asking, wai...

Hittings up healthcare corporations for the rollout because they didnt have enough money for the rollout. so you have this 24/7 tech surge. who knows how much it costs and whos paying for bill: maybe well see mark zuckerberg in the white house. >> he could finance it. bill: republicans. what should their focus be? >> i think you will see republicans right now focusing on their legitimate oversight duty in congress to see how tid this happen. did the administration know these problems were coming...

Guess of some of the structural issues. but he also talked about what he called a tech surge, really mobilizing people in the government in the private sector to fix the problem. the over-arching method was this website is not obama care. an embarrassing moment for president obama, forced to defend his signature health care reform program. >> of course, you probably heard that health care.gov, and browse and buy affordable plans, hasnt worked as smoothly as -- the protect is good. the health ins...

The general manager is looking around. are they looking around for some person from silicon valley or genius steve jobs type who they know can fix the problem within days if not hours. are they looking around for someone like that? >> so theyve got a huge group of these people. they wont tell me who they are. they say maybe later. they call them the tech surge. they brought in a bunch of people. some from inside government led by the white house guy named todd park. very bright guy. theyre very ...

Unique visitors and the good news is, 500,000 applications and enrollments throughout the country and in the federal marketplaces. >> but david, youre not still saying that its just a volume question, right? i mean, there are lots of individuals saying there are serious software issues, that the beta testing didnt happen, that there wasnt enough time to practice before the website was actually launched. youre not actually still saying this is just a question of volume? >> so jake, what i said wa...

Will people sign up? and the answer to that is overwhelmingly yes. as more people learn about it, more people are going to do that. i was at a wedding last night and i saw my cousin who has a small plumbing business. he was all worried about obama care. what am i going to do? i have a small number of employees on health care. i said, your costs will be cut in half. he was happy. >> thats not the reality today. you can talk about what will happen. the reality has been very difficult for people. >...