Next week embattled secretary Kathleen Sebelius facing those tough questions. Did any of you come forth to the administration and say this thing may not be ready on october 1st . We might want a delay until we can get it right. Any hands up . Either you didnt know about these problems or you knew about them and chose not to disclose. Reform, reboot with shutdown behind him, president obama calls for immigration overhaul by the end of the year. Even he admits its hard to get anything done in todays combative d. C. Climate. Now, obviously just because something is smart and fair and good for the economy and fiscally responsible and supported by business and labor and the evangelical community and Many Democrats and many republicans, that does not mean that it will actually get done. Pro bowl wide receiver Brandon Marshall is using to making clutch catches for Chicago Bears. Hes going to join us to share why his next big play is off the field. Good thursday to you from washington. Im Peter Alexander in for my friend Andrea Mitchell. For the first time were hearing from federal contractors paid millions to build healthcare. Gov, the Obama Health Care website. While theres still plenty of questions to be answered, also enough finger pointing were witnessing to go around. Joining us off the bat the daily fix team chris cillizza, host of tv in play. Bureau chief susan page, fellow northwesterner. Always get a club there. Chris, start with you, officials testifying say all the responsibility for sticking with the october 1st rollout date was on the government agencies, specifically cms putting more spotlight on the administration and secretary sebelius. So did we learn anything new here . Honestly not really, peter, i think this was a little bit of sort of the finger pointing blame game that can be expected when something that is this highprofile does as poorly in its inception as has been done, acknowledged by the president , many republicans. I honestly think what this is is sort of the appetizer to the main course, which is next week Kathleen Sebelius there will be more scrutiny of her, more questions i think she wont be able to put off on the government agency. I think this is the ab advertiser to the main course. So too a lot of people the appetizer to a ig abouter conversation, extension of enrollment period. Were seeing cracks within the Democratic Party solid throughout entire shutdown debt ceiling fight. Now some are saying given the circumstances, we should extend the period of time you can sign up. Including half dozen democratic senators. If it gets fixed and operating well by halloween, seems they are able to go ahead with deadlines. If by thanksgiving not quite done or just beginning to work the way its supposed to, seems its a hard argument to make that you shouldnt give people a little more time to sign up before imposing times. The white house i hear comparison in massachusetts where they say massachusetts in the first monday in 2007 where they had their commonwealth care, only 123 people signed up, in the last month 2003, bigger, this white house convinced more numbers to come. Only few relatively have signed up so far. P so many are not able to get the information they need, not able to sign onto the site. We know since the coverage wouldnt kick in until january 1st, a lot will wait until the end to pay the first premium. They see their options and sign up when they want to. Pr game as big as anything. Chris, bring you in. Jay carney asked what happened to the Immigration Reform push. We saw the president talking about it today at the white house. Bipartisan reform, is that basically done until 2014 . Peter, i would say this, Immigration Reform bill as passed by the senate, i find a hard time believing could possibly make it through the house. John boehner advocated a piecemeal test. Certain pieces of it that can make it through. Again, in his heart of hearts being put on this political strategist hat, i think john boehner recognizes and has said as much republicans need to find a way to get on the right side of Immigration Reform. The problem, i feel like we keep coming back to this, the problem is theres an element within his republican conference who does not believe that sort of the Border Security measures are enough or they should have some sort of path to citizenship for undocumented workers in this country. So thats the issue. You have this constant clash between Political Class and strategist class in the Republican Party which includes many people in congress and the sort of true believers who say, no, we should not. Abandon the core principle. That clash just hasnt resolved itself. Time is limited for this conversation. Susan, i have to ask you about as washington turns, latest in dishing durbin white house saga, dick durban not back off on his statement about what he heard republicans say in the white house, carney says it didnt happen. While a quote attributed to republican lawmaker in house gop meeting with the president is not accurate. There was a miscommunication when the white house read out that meeting to senate democrats. We regret the misunderstanding. Who does this all look worse for . Well, it looks pretty bad for everybody, the idea that someone would be so discourteous to the president of the united states, no matter what you think of his policies. The idea its misrepresented. This is one of those things, like a sweater you pick at until it completely unravels and find out what it was that was said and by whom. By the holidays well have plenty of new sweaters so we can unravel in the new year. Well see you again at the end of the broadcast, chris. Thank you. Elijah cummings Ranking Member on House Oversight and government reform committee. Hes joining us now. Congressman cummings, i appreciate your time. Theres Division Within the Democratic Party over whether the administration should give people more time to sign up for health insurance. Your colleague congressman barrow, a course of senate democrats. Why is that a problem given the rocky rollout. First of all, i think we need to elect the folks that are working on this clear up this website problem. We just heard this morning in the Commerce Committee all of the witnesses on the panel said they believe they can have it corrected in a timely fashion. Whats sufficient for you . Well, it will be in the next month or two. Clearly they were asked that question by Ranking Member waxman and they clearly stated they could get it done and get it done in a way people would be able to enroll. Keep in mind were on the 24th or 25th day out of 100 and some days. Its going to be okay. I believe that. Again, the president clearly wants to make sure those people who this program was meant to benefit do benefit. I believe if he came down the road and saw there was a situation where something had to be done differently, he would do that. I just think its a little bit too early for all the nay saying. Keep in mind back in 2005 when the Medicare Part d program was put out there, Prescription Drug program, if you look back at the headlines you see the same kinds of issues that came up. It got resolved. I think a lot of people are a little nervous right now. Thats understandable. Believe me as the Ranking Member of oversight and government reform, i want to make sure Government Works properly and people are able to access this information. Again, weve got to get through this process. Given what youve said that were hearing today, it could take one or two months, that takes you almost to the holidays. Obviously i know were in sort of the first month of a sixmontrealout. Obviously by december 15th fo, start of the coverage. What would be the problem giving more time. There wouldnt. Compare it to Medicare Part d it took a while. As a matter of fact that program started two or three weeks late and it had all kinds of problems. Now you dont even hear about it. Everything is running smoothly. Let me talk to you about Something Else you do hear about nowadays and thats some of your outspoken criticism of congressman darrell issa regarding a meeting with cgi officials, the lead contractor, canadian contractor involved in helping build the website. Issa, congressman issa said cgi told your committee the white house was directly responsible for making technical decisions. Whats wrong with his assessment . Its inaccurate. Again, not from me, not Elijah Cummings but miss campbell of cgi who testified just this morning thats simply not accurate. As a matter of fact, all of our democratic and republican staff were in the room. I can tell you it simply did not happen. I think thats one of my concerns about all of this. We dont we dont need to be politicizing this. We need to try to figure out how to make it work. By putting out these statements that are not accurate does not help anything, anybody. Ive got constituents who need health care. They need it. They dont want to see us politicizing this thing, they just want us to get it right. They want faith in the system. I think the president is absolutely right to move forward in a way where they try to systematically make the correctionsay we heard in testimony this morning and then keep the public informed of exactly what they are doing. I think that would be helpful. We know briefings, hhs, cms, centers for medicare and medicaid are going to begin their briefings today. One last question, though, specifically about the president right now. Critics are upset again the white house, Kathleen Sebelius suggesting the president didnt know about these problems until it was too late. Is it acceptable to you the president would know more about this before it went into effect . This is his defining achievement as president. I think the president has a lot on his plate. The fact is everybody knew that this was a major priority for him. I cant say who said, who knew what when. I can tell you one thing, i know this to be a major priority. I know this president extremely well. Hes one who pursues excellence at all times. You can bet your Bottom Dollar hes making sure this works in a timely fashion. Congressman, we appreciate your time. Thanks for spending it with us. Thank you. The tightknit community in massachusetts i guess reeling aftermath teacher was found dead near the High School Wednesday morning. A 14yearold student, philip chism has been charged with her murder. Hes being held without bail. He pleaded not guilty. 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And higher Interest Rates when you apply for a credit card. Its a problem waiting to happen. Check your credit score, check your credit report, at experian. Com. Americas number one provider of online credit reports and scores. Dont take chances. Go to experian. Com. It was on october 31st, 1953, 50 years ago john f. Kennedy signed the act authorizing more than 300 million for Mental Health programs. The Kennedy Forum for Mental Health group marked the anniversary with a gala in bost boston. In attendance, Vice President joe biden. Here is what he had to say. It is time for approach and explore in ways we havent done before. It is time for the first time to map the only uncharted territory on earth, truly uncharted territory, to map the human brain. In year 2013, the brain is the new frontier. Also speaking at that event Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall. He was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and has become an outspoken advocate for Mental Health. Brandon har shall is joining us now. Its nice to visit with you. First off the bat im diehard fan and talk about the packers in 10 days. If i can ask you about the topicic at hand. The world of Mental Health awareness this event was described as super bowl. Why was last nights gathering so critical to the Mental Health community. Something about community when you look at the definition of the word its a group of people, no matter big or small, that have the same belief system and fighting for the same thing. Whats going on in our country, its time for us to stand together and really get things done. Its kind of ironic we celebrated the last piece of legislation signed by our president , president kennedy and its still a tabu topic. Its time to take it to everyday conversation. Let me ask you about that in effort to make it everyday conversation. How do you define what the goal is. What do you define as success. If we had this conversation five years from now, what do you hope would be different . The stage were in, our foundation, Brandon Marshall foundation launched a few years ago but really starting to get going. Were in the stage of, you know, just advocating and spreading the word and creating conversation. So i would say five years from now i would look back and say success, if were not afraid to talk about it anymore in the workplace, our marriages, our school systems, in government. So i think thats where we start when lou at where were at right now. Nobody wants to talk about it. Its highly stigmatized. If we can take it from that to a conversation comfortable, i think well be headed down the right road. During a game earlier this month and im not going to ask you about hass sunday because were still struggling with what happened on the field. You wore green shoes in honor of Mental Health awareness. You were fined 10,000 bucks by the nfl for a uniform violation. You view this as a good thing because you were able to bring attention to it. Were you surprised by the reaction . No. Like i always say, football is my platform not my purpose. That was amazing arena to be in, platform, playing in front of a few Million People and to be out there and to have the chance to create conversation, create dialogue was amazing. I was fined 10,500, but thats nothing compared to the conversation, awareness raised that night. A company out of San Francisco ran some numbers for us and we got over 100,000 worth of coverage and people talking about us, so it was a success. You tweeted football is my platform not my purpose. I want to ask you a little about this personal experience for you, if i can. Talk to us, if you would, brandon, about your personal journey, why you came forward to talk about your own public struggle, especially as someone who works and plays in the game of football where youre surrounded by machismo prchlt were institutionalized to be tough, shake it off, not talk about pain or struggles. I think thats probably one of the main causes of some of the struggles in our personal lives. For me, you know, the disorder presenting itself a few years ago and just started get out of control where i couldnt handle it anymore. It wasnt until i was in mclane hospital and in Group Therapy with a doctor, an attorney, even a clinician. Here i am a big shot Football Player and were all sitting here talking about our struggles and things going on in our lives. Im sitting here listening to some people suicidal and selfharming ourselves. What was scary, we all got up, went into the parking lot and went into society like we were normal human beings and everything was okay. I started to think like how many more people are out there that are suffering