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Correctly. >> how do you screw up in 2013, spend that amount of money on a website. we had a computer expert with his own company on the program that said he would be embarrassed to take a million dollars, it would be up working and there wouldn't be problems. >> i had to face y2k when i was mayor. everybody was afraid the computers would go down. people let out of jails, trains wouldn't run. we spent a couple hundred million to make sure it worked. i started getting briefings on that 16 months before. joe lhota was in charge. >> currently running for mayor. >> i would be briefed once a month....

Spend that amount of money on a website. we had a computer expert with his own company on the program that said he would be embarrassed to take a million dollars, it would be up working and there wouldn't be problems. >> i had to face y2k when i was mayor. everybody was afraid the computers would go down. people let out of jails, trains wouldn't run. we spent a couple hundred million to make sure it worked. i started getting briefings on that 16 months before. joe lhota was in charge. >> currently running for mayor. >> i would be briefed once a month. when we got closer, once a week. there wer...

Out. but where was the president in all of this? he is a pretty absent guy when he is needed the most. why -- if you were president and this is your signature issue, greta, wouldn't you call people he in six months ago and say all right, give me an update, prime time rollout is coming here in a few months. tell me how this is working. show me how it works. so we are ready for prime time. the president has been such a distant leader on so much issues but particularly this one. >> what do you make of the fact though you talk about the president. he said he was mad on monday when he spoke about i...

Questions or referring reporters to hhs for the answers he should be giving. pay attention to the very end. >> i am not a computer expert. i don't build websites. when it comes to contractors and testing and all that sort of thing, i would direct you to hhs. i'm not familiar with the testing that was done. i would refer you to hhs for that. i don't know about any specific tests. and i would send you to hhs. i would refer you to them. at this point, i just don't have more information. i would refer you to hhs. the budget for this is something that is at hhs, including the expenses relate to the...

>> in a 21st century, setting up a web site where people can buy something is not that complicated. people do this every day. the inability of the federal government to set up a web site where people can go on and buy something like health insurance does not bode well for the much moyer complicated elements of this law that are yet to be rolled out. >> actually, i talked with a computer expert who says the enrollment online experience isn't related to the rest of obamacare, but he says the enrollment form is so simple he can't figure out how to the government spent $200 million on it already, ...