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And the brightest. but who? we asked hhs, and so far, no answer. the website problems have some in congress calling for a delay in the mandate requiring everybody have health insurance by march 31st. >> given the problems we have seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the white house going to delay the mandate? >> that's not at all what i was saying. >> if the website is not fixed, will people still have to pay the fine? >> we are way still early in the process. let's be clear about that. we are three weeks into this. >> reporter: some republicans are calling on the president to...

With a representative for three hours. after all of that -- >> i have no idea whether or not i will be offered a better plan. whether or not the government will help to subsidize it. >> the white house is promising a tech surge, reaching out to who they are calling the best and the brightest. but who? we asked hhs, and so far, no answer. the website problems have some in congress calling for a delay in the mandate requiring everybody have health insurance by march 31st. >> given the problems we have seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the white house going to delay the mandat...

They will release the figure monthly, so we won't know until sometime in november, jamie. jamie: republicans, are they reacting yet? >> reporter: for a lot of republicans this was the issue they wanted to fight over instead of shutting the government down in an attempt to defund the affordable care act. kentucky senator mitch mcconnell said in a written statement today, quote, when a visit to the obamacare websites makes a trip to the dmv seem pleasant time for the president to consider delaying this rushed effort. florida senator marco rubio says the website problems may point to more serious...

Week. luke jones suggests one question could be how the government spent $200 million on the website. >> $200 an hour, that's a million man hours. 5,000 man years. i don't think they had time. >> reporter: the website problems may have opened the door for a delay in the individual mandate that republicans have been calling for. jay carney says people who don't have access to health insurance because of website problems won't have to pay a fine for not having that insurance next year. >> more on this with the panel, thank you. we heard the numbers. what do they mean? correspondent jim angle doe...

Accounts. that's 1% of the people who have tried to get on that website have been able to set up accounts. >> reporter: even that number is just those filling out an application, not actually buying insurance. >> in the various companies that we should expect to be getting hundreds of thousands of enrollees, they are goes geting dozens or a few hundred. so the number of people getting through the gauntlet to actually buy insurance is a very tiny number. >> the goal is next month march, but because of the website problems that goal may be illusive. >> the evidence that insurers are getting dupl...