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>> charlotte, thank you so much for taking the time to tell us about colleen. she sounds like a very special person, and i know probably wasnt easy talking to us about it. thank you. coming up next on "the lead," millions may have logged on, but how many have actually enrolled? one senator is demanding answers from the white house about obama care and the website problems. he joins me next. plus, he hid behind a fake twitter profile while tossing insults at his colleagues inside the obama ad...

It sometimes happens. we also want you at home to get involved to weigh in on todays fire back question. heres the question. should health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius resign over the obama care web site problems? tweet yes or no using #crossfire. we will have the results after our break. at od, whatever business youre in, thats the business were in

There are problems and there were problems that need to be addressed. and were improving the experience for consumers every day. >> the white house defending the presidents health care law. and promising to fix the website problems that have caused such a rocky rollout. somebody brought a gun to school, they shot a teacher. >> were now hearing the terrifying moments inside that middle school when a 12-year-old pulled out a gun and opened fire. and a community rallies behind a teenage girl wh...

Weve learned that secretary sbeemous is set to join president obama in a meeting at the white house this afternoon. and then next week she has plans to head to capitol hill to testify about obama care and the website problems. as i mentioned, the republican chorus for her to step down, decide what she said, that chorus is unabated, getting louder. in fact moemgts ago john boehner gave his weekly news conference. take a listen to what he said. >> when you look at the problems with obama care, all...

Be a little bit less pain. >> okay. you know, jonathan, marco rubio, as we played a little sound at the top of this segment, was saying he wants to delay this. hes going to be introducing a bill. and we look at some of the polls. theres a new poll that shows 56% believe the website problems are part of a broader problem here. were three weeks into what could be a six-month process. but when we look at that, is it too early then to be making judgments, looking at that time frame? >> i think its p...

And the brightest. but who? we asked hhs, and so far, no answer. the website problems have some in congress calling for a delay in the mandate requiring everybody have health insurance by march 31st. >> given the problems we have seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the white house going to delay the mandate? >> thats not at all what i was saying. >> if the website is not fixed, will people still have to pay the fine? >> we are way still early in the process. lets be clear about...

With a representative for three hours. after all of that -- >> i have no idea whether or not i will be offered a better plan. whether or not the government will help to subsidize it. >> the white house is promising a tech surge, reaching out to who they are calling the best and the brightest. but who? we asked hhs, and so far, no answer. the website problems have some in congress calling for a delay in the mandate requiring everybody have health insurance by march 31st. >> given the problems we ...

They will release the figure monthly, so we wont know until sometime in november, jamie. jamie: republicans, are they reacting yet? >> reporter: for a lot of republicans this was the issue they wanted to fight over instead of shutting the government down in an attempt to defund the affordable care act. kentucky senator mitch mcconnell said in a written statement today, quote, when a visit to the obamacare websites makes a trip to the dmv seem pleasant time for the president to consider delaying ...

Week. luke jones suggests one question could be how the government spent $200 million on the website. >> $200 an hour, thats a million man hours. 5,000 man years. i dont think they had time. >> reporter: the website problems may have opened the door for a delay in the individual mandate that republicans have been calling for. jay carney says people who dont have access to health insurance because of website problems wont have to pay a fine for not having that insurance next year. >> more on this...

Accounts. thats 1% of the people who have tried to get on that website have been able to set up accounts. >> reporter: even that number is just those filling out an application, not actually buying insurance. >> in the various companies that we should expect to be getting hundreds of thousands of enrollees, they are goes geting dozens or a few hundred. so the number of people getting through the gauntlet to actually buy insurance is a very tiny number. >> the goal is next month march, but becaus...