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>> extraordinarily, it sounds like the government contracting process was not used for this particular company. the contract was awarded to an american subsidiary of a canadian company with a very spotty past with i.t. big question is why did they wind up with the contract worth maybe billions of dollars? >> it was $93 million that they spent. someone who is not happy about it, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary. listen to this. >> is excruciatingly embarrassing for the white house and for the department of health and human services. this was bungled badly. this is not a server p...

No irs which is already proving that they won't treat it confidentiality. >> it is not a glitch in terms of the rollout, but a breakdown having tried myself to get on yesterday. i feel sorry for "the new york times" research writer who spent 11 days trying to get on, and ended up with the blank screen. >> the architect of the website said in march that we will be lucky if this thing doesn't look like a third world experiment. >> and robert gibbs told msnbc today that it is excruciatingly embarrassing for the white house and bungled badly, and not a server problem, but too many people came to t...

Even a top advisor of president obama formally bashing the roll out. this is robert gibbs. >> this excruciatingly embarrassing for the white house and for the department of health and human services. this was bungled badly. this was not a server problem, just too many people came to the website. this is a website architecture problem. i hope they're working day and night to get this done and when they get it fixed i hope they fire some people in charge. >> pat roberts says hhs secretary kathleen sebelius should resign. senator roberts joins us. so you and robert gibbs sort of have something in...

Is ready and people can interact with it in a way that makes sense to them. >> joe, your response? >> it wouldn't matter. the second you release it. there are going to be bugs and trouble with that many people coming on the system. not microsoft or google or any tech company that releases to the entire world a new surface. >> joe, real quick. >> you are not making the case. it is like cash for clunkers and another lemon out there. >> you have six months to interact with it? >> you have three and half years to get ready. >> what happens in six months when it is not ready. you make it sound like...

The right. it should be discussed. >> should be. >> the politics that led to some of these slowdowns are very important pieces to why this has been messed up. as the "time" said politics made it worse to avoid am, a for those opposed to the project administration put off several rules until after elections. the republican controlled house blocked funds. more than 30 states refused to set up their own exchanges requiring the federal government to vastly expand its project in unexpected ways. it's almost impossible for the white house to say, look, a lot of republican governors wanted to make th...