questions and provide as much information as possible. >> so far answers about the obama carrollout have been hard to come by. >> again, i would refer to hhs about what information they have and what they are able to provide. >> it is not unusual for the white house spokesman to walkway from reporters as he did tuesday. >> trying to help the situation. >> reporter: when he was still being questioned about obama care. but it is an example of the tension in washington over scarce information. >> how much is this costing taxpayers money? as a longtime washington reporter before you took this job, obviously that would likely be something that you felt was a right to know. will we get that information? >> reporter: i would address your question to hhs. i don't have that information. i don't -- you know, this is an operation being run by hhs. >> reporter: health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was quick to recite some numbers in an exclusive interview with cnn's consider sanjay gupta. >> we had a million calls. we had 19 million people visit the website. 500,000 accounts created and people are shopping every day.