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Understand that we don't have the right to remain silent. >> congressman, i want to switch topics on you to health care because the president mentioned health care as a part of his opportunity agenda in a speech on is wnz. the health and human services department says through february 1st over 3 million americans have signed up for health care through the federal and state exchanges. i predicted on this program back in december that it would be 5 million would be signing up by march 31st. it seems like we could hit that number. what's your reaction to the latest numbers and what does this sign...

One tried this in the federal government and ecommerce site and the result it is utter chaos and billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. >> two states, minnesota and oregon. 450 million spent on those two state exchanges. they are not working. they are described as almost comical. who will be held responsible for the state exchange. >> the only people held accountable in all of this alisyn is the american taxpayers. no one is being fired at cm s and we had the director of the exchange in oregon resign after a three month leave of absence. and one of the president's principle advisers came in to h...

It's bad. >> so personal information includes financial. >> well, there is portions of that. they are adding the credit card functionality soon. first name, last name, email address, social security number as well as the integration into the irs and dhs which contains all of your tax information and financial information as well as what dhs has on you. basically whole online profile can be accessed through the data hub. >> and your health insurance. >> health insurance isn't actually on the web site it integrates them to the other state exchanges. california state exchange and new york state e...

Only. only 14 states have those. jim ingle tells us it turns out things may even be worse in some of the states than in the federal system. >> vicky is the face of the breakdown in state exchanges. in her case, maryland. >> to me, it's very personal. and it's very frustrating because the system has failed me. >> vicky, who is self-employed, started trying to sign up in early october. she eventually went to an official navigator for howard county, which signed her up, gave her a confirmation number, and a print-out of the plan she chose. then she hit a brick wall. >> i was told by the insurance...

Goes after even people who pay for their own abortions on the exchanges, on the state exchanges. but to make things worse, it goes after the district of columbia in a special way. and then denies and then the chairman trent franks of arizona denies me the right to speak to that provision. >> chairwoman, we're going to hear from trent franks in a moment. it being an all male congressional panel, the idea flgts war on women, i imagine that's another issue that you had real concerns about. >> i do. i'm sitting there with a bunch of males who want to pass judgment on women all over the country and...