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Hittings up healthcare corporations for the rollout because they didn't have enough money for the rollout. so you have this 24/7 tech surge. who knows how much it costs and who's paying for bill: maybe we'll see mark zuckerberg in the white house. >> he could finance it. bill: republicans. what should their focus be? >> i think you will see republicans right now focusing on their legitimate oversight duty in congress to see how tid this happen. did the administration know these problems were coming. in a larger sense you will want to see have you cans focusing on the bigger problems of obama-c...

Guess of some of the structural issues. but he also talked about what he called a tech surge, really mobilizing people in the government in the private sector to fix the problem. the over-arching method was this website is not obama care. an embarrassing moment for president obama, forced to defend his signature health care reform program. >> of course, you probably heard that health care.gov, and browse and buy affordable plans, hasn't worked as smoothly as -- the protect is good. the health insurance that's being provided is good. it's high quality and it's affordable. >> reporter: he instru...

The general manager is looking around. are they looking around for some person from silicon valley or genius steve jobs type who they know can fix the problem within days if not hours. are they looking around for someone like that? >> so they've got a huge group of these people. they won't tell me who they are. they say maybe later. they call them the tech surge. they brought in a bunch of people. some from inside government led by the white house guy named todd park. very bright guy. they're very effective. they're on it. but they also have a lot of people from outside. folks who are very str...

Unique visitors and the good news is, 500,000 applications and enrollments throughout the country and in the federal marketplaces. >> but david, you're not still saying that it's just a volume question, right? i mean, there are lots of individuals saying there are serious software issues, that the beta testing didn't happen, that there wasn't enough time to practice before the website was actually launched. you're not actually still saying this is just a question of volume? >> so jake, what i said was the initial problem -- >> the initial problem. okay. >> -- was driven by volume. >> what are ...

Will people sign up? and the answer to that is overwhelmingly yes. as more people learn about it, more people are going to do that. i was at a wedding last night and i saw my cousin who has a small plumbing business. he was all worried about obama care. what am i going to do? i have a small number of employees on health care. i said, your costs will be cut in half. he was happy. >> that's not the reality today. you can talk about what will happen. the reality has been very difficult for people. >> well, because there are computer glitches. look, every major tech company has computer glitches. ...