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house. on one e-mail, sent on september 26 of this year and received by, henry chao among others, an official described how quote, oe wednesday, 9/25, the test finished with a lot of errors. the individual app, and w everything started failing. he went on later in the wednesday evening we ran two more cycles of testing. c neither was successful. the next day chao wrote to staff in all caps, i do not want a repeat of what happened when medicare.gov had a meltdown.er this is to get your attention it i didn't have it already. and just three days after that, todd park, again, with the whits house, e mailed his team, massive kudos again, for the incredible progress the team isn making. i what some might consider a heck
stupid. i would not have gone forward had known there could be major problems. you have to wonder, and you can guaranty it will come up at today's white house briefing, why if there was quote, unquote fear inside the white house about this being potentially unavailable, they moved forward anyway, bill. bill: the email suggest that is henry chao, who we have gotten to know last few weeks he was worried more about pr and then consumers getting insurance. what did you find in the email? >> reporter: some of his testimony on capitol hill he also cared about consumers whether they would be able to enroll and get health insurance but pr, you're right, later in the same email, henry chao talks about the image of people logging on and not being able to see anything. he said, quote, i'm picturing in my mind all the major print and online publications taking screen shots what is below and ramping up the hyperbole about hc.gov not being funkal,
maybe if they have emails show concern about the american people. run them up live shot. we will be here for an hour. read them to us. got all those other emails. >> we will say where are the rest of the emails. >> ed, thank you. >> good to see you you. and moments ago senator rand paul going "on the record." senator, nice to see you, sir. >> good to be here. >> shocking news to many tonight, the email from henry chao about the rollout. your thoughts? >> well, i thought the president said if he knew anything about this he probably wouldn't have opened up and started the exchanges it's surprising, startling a lot of knowledge was that they weren't ready for prime time and yet they went ahead with it anyway. >> first of all, if i were on any of the committees i would go back and look at henry chao's testimony see if anything he said under oath conflicted with this email because this email shows on september 25th he certainly knew. in fact, actually what he attached to it was a screen shot of the web site. and the screen shot of the web site says the system is
todd conveyed was this fear the white house has about healthcare.gov being unavailable. chao even e-mailed out a screen grab of the site when it was down. >> it's about focusing on fixing the problem. >> reporter: he told lawmakers this week, healthcare.gov is getting better every day. >> the error rate of people experiencing some level of difficulty with moving from stage to stage in the online application, that has been reduced and improved. >> reporter: what's also improving, enrollment. more than 133,000 people have now signed up for obama care on the state health exchanges and the white house released an economic report that notes the nation's health care costs are shrinking under obama care. a trend officials say could translate into more than 250,000 jobs by the end of the decade. it's a story line that could attract more attention were it not for all the questions about healthcare.gov. the website the white house says will be ready for the vast majority of users by november 30th. >> we're working to have as many
be that. >> maybe they have those e-mails where they show so much concern about the american people. we'll be here for an hour, and can you read them to us if they get all those other e-mails to show that. >> yeah, we'll say where are the rest of the e-mails. >> ed, thank you. and minutes ago, senator rand paul going on the record. shocking news to many, the e-mail from-ry chao about the rollout, your thoughts. >> i thought the president said if he knew anything about this he probably wouldn't have opened up and started the exchanges. it's surprising, i guess startling that a lot of knowledge was that they weren't ready for prime tile and yet they went ahead with it anyway. >> i'd go back and look at henry chao's testimony to see if anything he said under oath conflicts with this e-mail, because this e-mail shows on september 25, that he knew. what he attached was a screen
>> thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes "on the record" right now and "special report" online begins in three seconds. this is a fox news alert. there is new evidence just days before the launch people inside the white house feared healthcare.gov would not work. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry is here with the latest. ed? >> good to see you, greta, emails came out tonight fox news. republican darrell issa obtained them from the health and human services department, some the contractors involved in healthcare.gov. what they suggest is that about a week before the october first rollout there was a meeting in which at least one top white house aide expressed concern. this is an email by henry chao from cms saying thatted
a senior technology official revealing in that e-mail that the white house had, quote: this fear that the web site wouldn't work properly, and now the white house is reacting. ed henry is live now with that story. hi, ed. you obtained this e-mail revealing that the white house knew more than they let on about the site troubles. >> reporter: it certainly suggests that, patti ann. henry chao is the tech official at cms, the health agency that you were referring to, and this was an e-mail he wrote on september 25th that's now been obtained by republican darrell issa on capitol hill, and he refers back to a meeting the day before, september 24th, one week before the october 1st rollout. when todd park -- who is the chief technology officer here at the white house -- and marilyn tavenner at cms were here yesterday, one of the things todd conveyed was this fear the white house has about hc.gov being unavailable. you'll remember, it was just a week ago today that the