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>> good morning, doug. >> good morning. the timing of this announcement raised some eyebrows because the administration dropped this obamacare bombshell the day before thanksgiving when it was less likely to create attention. it is causing more problems for small businesses many are struggling to comply. they will not be able to access the government's web care site as they promised. instead they have to rely on brokers or insurance companies. small businesses continue to be low on the priority list during the obama care implementation process. the obamacare web site still isn't ready for prim...

>> reporter: with time running out on his promise to repair the healthcare.gov website and with problems persisting, the thanksgiving holiday was welcomed. aides say the big push to have a lot of people try to enroll the first week of december has been put on hold. one official said, quote, we want to see how traffic is the first week before we suggest people do campaign efforts to drive traffic. critics saw another failure. >> the website they're saying can handle 50,000 users concurrently, which is far less than what they originally anticipated, and which may or may not be accurate. >> repor...

Leadership granted authority to begin operations on september 27th and this memo gave temporary authority to operate for six months and listed a number of strategies to mitigate risks including regular testing. authority was granted. a process was put in place, as you expect with a website like this to make sure security standards are met. consumers can trust their information is protected by stringent security standards. >> was the president made aware of the memo and concerns four days before the rollout? the president has, as you know, regularly briefed on the implementation process and all...

On a mammoth wave to set a new record. that wave is believed to be over 100 feet. back to "hardball." ♪ officials at the center for medicare and medicaid services who are charged with implementing the exchange has added and i quote, due to a compressed time frame, the system wasn't tested enough. and frankly, three years should have been enough and had the administration provided more forthcoming answers and shared in a transparent manner the reality of the challenges it was encountering in the implementation process, i suspect many of these glitches could have been avoided. >> welcome bac...

With it. people needed time to shop, to look, to understand their choices, and five to six years later, the law is working well. we're actually feeling a little lonely up here in massachusetts these days since for the five years after it passed, it seemed like the "wall street journal" and the conservative media had to have at least one big article a week telling everybody how bad it was and since the election a year ago, we feel a little bit like the maytag repairman now because it's very clear in massachusetts the law is working well, and i think that's what the country can look forward to w...