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we at volkswagen take full responsibility for our actions, and we are working with all the relevant authorities in a cooperative way. i'm here to offer the commitment of volkswagen a.g. to work with this committee, to understand what happened, and moving forward. >> words from the head of volkswagen u.s. here, testifying on capitol hill on that emissions scandal there. this controversy surrounds up to 11 million vehicles that were equipped with software that allowed them to cheat on u.s. emissions tests. you heard there from michael horn saying that he didn't think that this was possible, saying that -- and admitting that volkswagen has broken the trust of the public and their customers, and they are taking full responsibility. that testimony will continue as representatives from the epa are expected to speak as well. we'll continue to watch this especially that gets heated. we'll bring you updates as we get them. we're also following developments from wall street where stocks are slightly lower despite an upbeat report on the job market. the dow jones down 24 points.
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facility himself, just opened within the last couple of weeks, to see how things are going. listen to what he said yesterday, testifying on capitol hill. >> doing nothing is not an option. at our current burn rate within the department of homeland security, i.c.e. will run out of money in mid-august. given the added transportation cost, given the added enforcement cost, customs and border patrol will run out of money by mid-september at the current burn rate, given the situation we face. >> all of this costs a lot of money, so we're seeing that becoming another obstacle in this ongoing immigration crisis. we know already more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors alone have crossed the border, again, in texas, just since october, and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight, brianna. >> ana cabrera, thank you so much, from new mexico.
dramatic news in washington. first, with me this morning to share the reporting and their insights, henderson of the "washington post," margaret of bloomberg news. let's start with the surprise resignation, i think it's a surprise. you tell me if not. of kathleen sebelius, testifying on capitol hill just yesterday. after nightfall in the evening we get word she has resigned and the president today will quickly announce her replacement. . we'll get to the replacement in a minute. not surprised that she wanted to get to the door. >> right. >> but i am surprise todd some degree they did this before the election because now they have a confirmation progress which gives republicans a senate platform to redebate obamacare. >> they wanted to turn the page with this. if you had gone to the afp's website a couple weeks ago sebelius was on that website. she is becoming the face of obamacare, a very negative public face. she had some poor outings in congressional hearings on the daily show. but i do think if she were a basketball coach, right, she would probably be coach of the year because she was able to turn this thing around, had good
gains today. investors will wait to hear frommifrom janet yellin, testifying on capitol hill on tuesday. >> and yahoo is trying to attract google and microsoft users with something different. it looks like the new feature will be made available. >> america's top donors gave $7.7 billion to charities last year. topping the list as the most generous, facebook's mark zuckerberg. the 29-year-old and his wife gave $1 billion to charity. that's 13% of all money donated by the nation's top 50 donors last year. you know what that translation is? big money. >> that's to you. >> 29 years old. my goodness. >> let's talk about other people in their 20s doing some crazy things. it's been described as the
as well as it should. >> reporter: republicans grilled marilyn tavenner about americans on the current insurance market that have seen their coverage canceled or modified. more than a million so far. >> you have no idea? >> reporter: when they pressed her for a number, she kept a script. >> we'll have those numbers available mid-november. mid-november. mid-november. mid-november. >> reporter: president obama will be in boston promoting obama care later today and competing for headlines with his health and human services secretary. he will be, kate, at faneuil hall, which mitt romney signed the massachusetts health care reform program into law. >> pretty interesting imagery. >> exactly. let's move to the spyingen xadle that's rocking the nsa. testifying on capitol hill, top intelligence official said tracking foreign leaders, even allies, is a fundamental given.
welcome back. we are in chicago today. testifying on capitol hill today the administrator for the senators for medicare and medicaid services which rolled out the much maligned website for the affordable care act. she said we something we haven't heard from the obama administration. >> i want to apologize to you the website has not worked as well as it should. we know how desperately you need affordable coverage. >> but what about the people who want nothing to do with this website? because they already have insurance they are happy with. she continued to say americans can keep plans they like and republicans hammered her for it. >> i am aware that there are issuers are canceling their old plans and -- >> what you said about keeping your health care plan isn't true? >> no. they can keep it.
>> i do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described in the treasury inspector general's report. i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. >> you knew of our concern of this targeting. you knew of the allegations that had been reported to this committee. we brought you here to talk about it. you had received a briefing that this targeting was taking place. but you did not divulge that to this committee when we were asking questions about this. you didn't mention targeting based on ideology. you didn't mention targeting based on buzz words like tea party or patriots or 9-12. you knew that but you didn't mention this to the committee. did you not think that's a very incomplete answer? >> i answered the question truthfully. >> bret: acting commissioner of the irs, steven miller, testifying on capitol hill on the hot seat today for a long time. some interesting back and forth today. this as the president met with
about this. we only know that senior officials according to some of what we've seen about this inspector general, we only know senior officials and not necessarily the director at the time. >> that's true, but it's evident that some senior officials did know about it and have known about it for some time. the allegations go back at least two years. so that is very troubling. >> let me turn you to boston and something senator joe lieberman, who you've worked with very closely to put together the homeland security department and try to put together an entire structure that in fact connected dots. this is something he said, i think, testifying on capitol hill recently about boston. >> from what i've learned over the years about home-grown islamist terrorism, i believe that though it would not have been easy, it was possible to
>> that's true, but it's evident that some senior officials did know about it and have known about it for some time. the allegations go back at least two years. so that is very troubling. >> let me turn you to boston and something senator joe lieberman, who you've worked with very closely to put together the homeland security department and try to put together an entire structure that in fact connected dots. this is something he said, i think, testifying on capitol hill recently about boston. >> from what i've learned over the years about home-grown islamist terrorism, i believe that though it would not have been easy, it was possible to have prevented the terrorist attacks in boston. >> do you think it was possible to have prevented the terrorist attacks?