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Enrollment process and move at a more responsible way, moving forward so that we have an opportunity to come back in the next legislative session next year and better mold this program for several reasons. >> but that's a bit of a change from where the position was initially. you were one of the people that voted against this expansion to begin with. when the impasse over this bill started, the demand, all the reporting suggests the demand coming from your caucus was actually to get rid of the private option. that's pretty documented. >> well, i don't think we understand that that is not likel...

That's happened in the nation in 50 years. but the shopping website, we squibbed the kickoff but we are making it better. >> do you need -- i know you've been offered federal help to kind of take over the website to correct the remaining problems. is that something -- help you'll accept? >> that's something we've looked at since june. in the article today they talked about, oh, the problems were there and the state people considered going to the federal website. the problem is there was no assurance at that time that the federal website was going to work any better. >> and it didn't. >> and it...

Obama administration to delay some of the law's most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers. peter alexander is traveling with the president. he's in hawaii now. so peter, is the white house at least acknowledging that maybe some of these changes could be confusing and causing uncertainty for the consumer? >> reporter: i think pretty simply again on friday during will his fill press conference of the year, we saw the president again fall on the sword, recognizing the problems that have existed in the rolling out of ...

Of his top economic advisors in the new year. that's going to be delayed about a month until the end of january. but he has committed to being in place for the first half of next year so it really just goes to show you that even though some improvements have been made to the website, there is still a long way to go. it's still a work in progress. that's why he is going to be coming in to try to shepherd this to success through really an important period because the enrollment process for these exchanges and for healthcare.gov goes through the end of march. >> brianna keilar, thank you. we appr...

Many of them with a political agenda. >> all right. well, i assume some people really do need help and might need the navigators. >> sure. >> some of them, not everybody. the interesting thing is if the web site were intuitive. if the web site were done really plainly and correctly, people wouldn't need that extra help. we wouldn't have to go out and hire navigators to help them to navigate a bum web site. >> and i grant you that there is a you title to having people navigate the awkward enrollment process. but, again, is it worth hundreds of millions of dollars? we have given $208 million to ...