journey inside the ranks, not that every day is a surprising journey here on "ronan farrow daily." >> today is the deadline for open enrollment under the affordable care act. >> no problem with the website. it's actually working. >> it was an abysmal failure. >> to point out obama care website was down as of midnight -- >> really? >> the 24th day of the search for flight 370. >> we can keep searching for quite some time to come. >> right now the search area is basically the size of the indian ocean. >> emergency officials in washington state are revising their numbers of the dead and missing. >> even the search dogs are tired. ordered to take a two-day break. >> the speech wasn't on camera. >> sheldon adelson held a meeting with and then bush met privately with sheldon ade lextson. >> a report on the bridge gate

scandal was released thursday and clears the governor of any wrong doing and you can totally trust it because it was fact checked by independent investigator trish trishtie. hello and welcome to the program. today is a major deadline for obamacare. open enrollment cloeses at midnight. this is the last official day they are elg to sign up. in order to get word out the president and other senior officials have done over 300 interviews promoting the law. this includes vice president biden who appeared on rachael ray earlier this morning. >> the piece of mind it brings to the millions of people who could not get coverage before is amazing. >> i just hope -- [ applause ] >> i'm getting curious because it's very emotional for our

whole family -- >> it's personal. >> a recent survey found that despite the media blitz, which by the way that interview included vice president biden admitting to what kind of moisturizer he uses, six out of ten uninsured americans are not aware of today's deadline and republicans are pushing back on the numbers the white house released about enrollments. >> how much of this 6 million number actually mean? >> i don't think it means anything, chris. they are cooking the books on this. people want to know the answers to that. they also want to know, once all of this is said and done, what kind of insurance will those people actually have. >> cooking the books. i'm joined now by nbc news political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd of "the daily rundown." healthcare.gov was down again. how do you think enrollments are faring today?

>> there was real fear when the website was not working and didn't know if they were going to get it up by november 30th that it could actually -- the prediction that this law could collapse on itself, they were concerned about that collapse. here they arehood. they are going -- they are over six. they think -- they are not saying a raw number but they think they'll get awfully close to 7 when all is said and done. they've created a new extension on this. if you're in line or you made an attempt, you've really got until april 15th. in oregon you've got until april 30th. their website never got off the ground there. >> has on an honor system --? exactly, they are not checking and obviously they want more people into the system. overall, their numbers and you talk about the pay for numbers, whose really paid for it? one survey indicates they have at least through the state changes they've done, over 80 have made a payment.

they feel good that so lop off half a million on this, you still have somewhere between 5.5 and 6.5 million at the end of the day. >> let's look closer at the numbers. we just heard that comment causing waves from senator bar ras owe saying they are cooking the books. do you think there's any basiba? >> i don't. you want to know about a check and balance, i'll give you one, the insurance industry. if the books were getting cooked they would have to be in on it. that's a -- it just feels like one of those partisan statements somebody throws out because it sounds good in a sound bite. but everything i've understood about this -- is it verifiable on what the age breakdown is yet? no. how many folks had insurance before and essentially been redirected? no. there are a lot of awed i wiudi need to be made that are important.

how many formerly uninsured are insured today? you have to assume that the entire insurance industry were in on the conspiracy. >> there's no basis for actual manipulation. one piece of mind on this will be finally reaching the point where this is unrepealable. do you think we're there yet? >> let's look at the numbers. you have the medicaid -- somewhere between about 4 million, maybe up to 5 million added to the medicaid roles and you've got another 2 to 4 million depending on how you do the numbers that were added since this law was passed because they were under the age of 26 and part of the parents insurance. one survey indicates of the new enrollees, 25% are uninsured. i have to think the 25% sounds about right because there were about 5 million before. you have 15 million total, let's lop off 5 million and say you have 10 million new people with insurance who didn't have it

before. how do you repeal that law? how do you take away ten million? i don't see politically how you pull that off. privately you talk to republicans and they admit, now that 10 million people have insurance, how do you repeal a law that would take it away. >> you're right to highlight the 25% figure because a lot of this will hinge on whether you have young healthy people making this a favorable risk pool. thank you for that overview. you can catch more every morning here on "the daily rundown" at 9:00 a.m. i'm going to go to another perspective. for that cecilia mun oz, the director of the white house domestic policy council. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> getting passed this deadline and we heard with numbers close to what the white house was projecting initially, over 6 million, initially said 7. it's a big achievement for the white house. what do you think the biggest challenge going forward is?

>> the biggest challenge today is making sure that everybody gets through. there are lines going around the block all over the country and we're making sure everybody trying to get through to get health care can get health care. we're focused on that today. going forward, there's going to be a lot of discussion about this law and a lot of analysis about the numbers. at the end of the day what it boils down to, millions have health care and many of those people didn't have it before. my daughter is one of the ones. she graduates from college and will stay on this plan. as a mother i'm incredibly grateful. i hear story after story like that, what it really means, people's lives and good health and that's good for us as a country and good for our economy. >> we did look at health care all last week in our call to action with viewers and got a lot of stories like the one, people who had more cost effective solutions or have it now and didn't have it before. one of the main elements of having this be a mandate there will be penalties for those who

don't sign up. how do you anticipate people will react when you see the penalties put in place? >> it's important to know the penalties apply, still apply in 2015. for people who can't afford or lives in states that didn't take up the medicaid expansion and could not get the affordable health care, the penalties will not apply. it's important to understand that distinction. it's important in order for us to avoid paying for the emergency care from somebody not covered and have an accident, everybody needs to get coverage, good news is that coverage is affordable. those penalties will start to apply in 2015 but the most important thing for people to know, they can take advantage of the opportunity today to get coverage and that this turns out to be much more affordable. >> i hate to throw breaking news at you. ap is reporting, we don't have third party corroboration, wear hearing from ap, there are new technical problems on the website, they are not accepting new applications. why do you think this is been so

technically frougt? what do you say to that? >> we can imagine 100,000 concurrent users at a time. people are getting through the site. there's a glitch with new acts they are working to fix as quickly as possible. we've already put more than 6 million people through the system. we've had more calls to the call center in the last week than the entire month of february. people are standing in lines around the block. and we made sure that for folks trying to get through, they'll be able to get through. the deadline isn't until tonight. we're going to stand with them and make sure if you stick it out we'll be there and make sure you get your coverage. >> all right, thank you. a tremendous technical undertaking and it has hit a lot of problems but as you highlighted we're hearing stories about people's lives that have been improved already. thank you for your commentary. >> thank you. >> we're going to have much more

political news coming up, but first i wanted to update you on the very latest in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. we have a bit of an update. unfortunately no happy news but malaysian officials are saying the last word from the cockpit of the missing plane were not in fact as had been previously reported all right, good night. but good night malaysian 370. 20 aircraft and ships are back on search duties today, that includes an australian warship, the ocean shield equipped with a high tech black box locater provided by the united states navy. australia's prime minister says the search will continue indefinitely. all right, next up on "rfd" chris christie is gambling that a trip to vegas will rescues his presidential campaign. but is money on a bush. after the break. vo: once upon a time

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welcome back to the program, republican donors have a four letter word in mind when they think of the white house in 2016. bush. and specifically, jeb bush. the "washington post" reported over the weekend that there's a behind the scenes campaign to enlist former florida governor to run for the oval. bush was one of the four potential gop hopefuls in vegas for the spring meeting of the republican jewish coalition, a trip during which bush met on with sheldon adelson, joining me now, one of the authors of that article. thank you for joining us, robert.

>> great to join you, ronan. >> give us a recap of that article. who's this group that's courting jeb bush so aggressively? >> you see john mccain's donor base, the gop elite, they are very worried about chris christie's stumble over the bridge and weary of rand paul's libertarian bent. they are looking at jeb bush, an old name in republican politics, trying to get him back in the conversation. they are actually consulting with him and courting him to try to enter the 2016 race. >> his numbers are looking favorable as are the word the mouth within the influential donor circles, right? >> that's exactly right. you're seeing out at sheldon adelson's over the weekend, this elite republican donors who can bundle 50,000 to $1 million behind one of presidential candidates, they see jeb bush as someone who's viable against secretary of state clinton. he think he's the one if

christie continues to fade who can compete with her. >> you actually mentioned that jeb bush have some reservations about this. right now the deliberations are casual conversation over e-mail. >> working with phil rut ger, it is a fascinating experience to go into jeb world. this someone who takes pains to stay on the sidelines and seem like he's not moving toward a 2016 campaign. when you peel back the jeb world scene a little bit, mike murphy, one of the top consult aenlts has jeb's ear and sally bradshaw working with him to handle all of these calls and e-mails coming in. you see him not building a machine but if he wanted to move toward a campaign, there's an apparatus that has a lot of experience that could quickly build something up. >> the sting on the sidelines even extends to his mother who has said she doesn't want to see him run, right? >> barbara bush is one of the

most candid people, but the bush family -- we see george w. bush, 43, he's quiet on the sideline and 41 still respected. jeb on a personal level and personality type, much more like his father on foreign policy, much more like hi father on domestic policy more moderate and doesn't have a conservative streak like az younger brother. >> it seems that moderate quality is what adelson and donors are looking for. you mentioned the central thinking surrounding governor christie, he apologized for a comment he made at an adelson event with jewish fundraisers, take a listen. >> i took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across. and just felt personally, how extraordinary that was to

understand the military risk that israel faces every day. >> obviously that phrase occupied territory is raising a lot of hackles, always a complicated issue to pars. but he did come out quickly and apologize. do you think that shows the power adelson and this particular group has over the republican party? >> it also shows governor christie's vulnerability in foreign policy. he keeps in touch with kissinger and close with rob portman, trade representative. you see him trying to build up the foreign policy knowledge. as the garden state governor he doesn't have that much depth. that's one of his projects this year. >> thank you so much, robert costa, interesting assessment, and love to come back to you as this unfolds. >> thank you. >> we have sad political news as well. we just received word this morning dallas attorney and former legislator, ray hutchison

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we have a sad update on the devastating mud slide. there are 21 confirmed dead in the catastrophe, four additional victims were found on sunday. the number of missing people dropped from 90 to 30 for account for some of those finds, governor jay insly is still clinging to hope. >> we're looking for the miracle out there right now. i saw 400 or 500 people out looking for that miracle. >> exhausted workers are continuing their search under

very difficult conditions. drier weather is forecast for the days ahead. but authorities are now concerned that the rescue workers could be exposed to a toxic mix of sewage, propane and household solvent. they have scheduled a press conference for 2:00 p.m. to updapt the situation. ahead on the program today, our call to action this week kicks off. do you think our schools are racially integ rated? maybe think again. we take a look at a problem with consequences far beyond the classroom. up next. (dad) well, we've been thinking about it and we're just not sure.

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times more often than white students? believe it. a new government study of every school in america found that stark disparty and it starts early. almost too early to believe. while black kids make up 18% of preschoolers, they account for 42% of preschoolers who get suspended. that early discipline can lead to much bigger problems. >> a routine school discipline infraction should land a student in the principal's office, i think at worst, not in a police precinct. >> holder is talking about what the aclu calls the school to prison pipeline. america's schools are failing troubled kids, kicking them out of the classroom and very often into the courtroom. that is the subject of our call to action this week. call your local school and ask what programs they have for at risk youth.

then tell us, do you think it's enough? you can send your responses to at ronan daily and let us know on facebook or e-mail them to us. each day we're going to bring you a different facet of this story and the consequences around the country. today we start with a look at the situation in new york. here to discuss just that is judge judith okay, former chief judge in the new york state and chair of a commission that actually looked at how to keep troubled youth out of jail. thank you so much for joining us. >> very pleased to be here. >> tell me what brought you to this issue? >> i had the great privilege of being the chief judge of the state of new york for 15 years, 25 years on high court. 15 as chief judge. it was very vexing to me to see so many young people prosecuted, brought to court for things like the shoving match between them, maybe arrested for riding a

bicycle on school premises. it troubled me so much to look at our mass incarceration statistics and find so many people who had not finished school at all. that began to attract my attention. five years ago by reason of mandatory retirement, i had to leave the bench but the law firm i went with thankfully allowed me to pursue my passion. and it was then that i began to dive into the statistics which were really just frightening. you've given a few of them. >> and you as with the national report in this report that youage orred on new york statistics, you find these striking racial disparities, why do you think there are racial divides? >> we have to challenge ourselves with that. one of the problems is we've never really had the data. you really need the data. for first time we've got laws that require the reporting of the data. the data is horrifying. we saw the year we issued our

report 70,000 school suspensions in the city of new york. we saw close to 1,000 arrests and tickets and we did see as you can tell from our tables and statistics that overwhelming they are the racial minorities, they are blacks and latinos. and why? you ask an excellent question, why. the answer again lies in the data, that it's really a few schools who are doing a lot of this suspension. and what we have to do is find out which schools those are. we have to find out what positive good things are happening in other places and we have to replicate those for kids all over. we're just graduating the next generation of violent criminals, no fair. >> that affects all of our lives in a huge way. >> of course. >> how big of a problem do you think the zero tolerance policies that land so many people young people in detention and too often in jail are? >> i think they are disastrous.

i'm careful never to use zero tolerance because it offends people to say we don't do zero tolerance, but they do. they do. and what we need -- we have seen a growth in the school safety agents with the premise if we get the bad kids out, schools will be safer. now that we've got the data, we know that's not true. first of all, who are the bad kids. i doubt there's anything you haven't done or anything i haven't done that now gets a black kid or latino kid arrested. >> that's acutely obvious in the cases where you have 4-year-olds in preschool as evidenced by this d.o.j. and department of education report getting suspended. what could a 4-year-old possibly do to get suspended? >> and who on earth is making handcuffs that fit 4-year-old and 5-year-olds and 9-year-olds, it's outrageous to see someone led out in handcuffs for writing on a desk. whether you call it zero

tolerance or foolishness, we need to take a pause. we need more interventions that are positive interventions and positive school climates and social workers as much as we need school safety agents. >> let's talk about those positive alternatives. we're asking people at home who are moved by this story as so many have told us they are already, to call and find out are there positive alternatives? are there programs specifically targeting at risk youth? do you think there's enough of that? >> i'm thrilled you are doing this. i hope that every single person who tunes in will respond with an idea or a question or will be moved to do something. because this is something that touches every single one of our lives. and yes, there are many wonderful programs. i say the sunshine of all of the good things that people have been doing, the sunshine exposes the shadow of what we need to do. there's so much that we need to do, yes, pre-k, yes, middle school, yes, we need to do these

things, but this has been a neglected subject far too long. we're finding a growth in community schools, ask the people watching, how many people even know what a community school is? because we now we're seeing a growth of these schools where you can get medical and dental care and the school is open from early in the morning so a kid can have breakfast without revealing he or she needs someplace to have breakfast. where parents can come in the evening and get medical and dental care. a genuine school community. >> unfortunately that is from what we've heard and see in these reports at a state level and federal level too often the exception. we'll hope we see reporting from the audience -- >> i certainly hope so. >> thank you so much, judge. >> my pleasure. >> again, we do have sad political news today. we have word that senator kay bailey hutchison's husband passed away. we showed you a picture of the senator with ray la hood.

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pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review. as the days tick down to saturday's elections in afghanistan, violence is terrifyingly ramping up. this very weekend insurgents attacked offices of the independent election commission in kabul. many international election monitoring groups are now scaling back or even pulling fully out of afghanistan. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins me live from kabul with the latest. thank you so much for joining us. how do you think this bodes for the credibility of these elections? >> the credibility -- the selection is critical. the last election wasn't considered credible at all.

many people thought that president karzai stole that election and it gave an enormous amount of ammunition for the taliban, symbolic ammunition because one of the biggest problems in this country is the lack of credibility that the current government has. the government is considered corrupt, karzai is deeply unpopular. if another failed election happens and you bring in another government that seems to be a government of thieves, then i think you're setting this country up for a great deal -- many years of violence. >> what do you think this signals for the troops still there from the american side? >> reporter: there has been a lot of discussion about the future of u.s. troops. there's still on the table this long-term bilateral secure agreement. if the united states will keep troops in here or not. if nothing happens, no agreement is signed, u.s. troops are supposed to leave at the end of the year.

karzai refused to sign a deal that would keep a reserve force here for many years to come. potentially more than ten or 15 years. it's very likely that a new government that wouldn't include karzai, he's not running, would sign this agreement. i think after this election, almost no matter who wins, we'll see that bilateral sign and commitment to keep a residual american troop presence in the country. >> there are clearly a lot of hopes riding on exactly that outcome in washington. thank you so much for that update. always a pleasure to have you on the show. this week, we're going to stay with us as you're out there watching the leadup to these elections, stay safe and we'll look forward to having you back. >> to look at this issue further and other news around the world, we want to bring in today's excellent panel, ali gharib,

senior editor for the daily beast and my msnbc colleague and author of a novel. what do you think the future is after this rounds of elections? do you think a successor to karzai will signal more cooperation for the united states? >> i think the front-runners, both of them -- >> moderate. >> moderate, open to cooperate with americans but above all they are clean. richard engel is right. karzai is running a giant criminal enterprise with his brother running fifth or sixth in the list. >> there's been accusations of corruption, drug trafficking. >> also, he was called mr. 10%. whatever business you want to open in afghanistan, you have to give him 10% and that discredited the americans the karzai government and made the taliban use this as a tool. these are people running the

country and these people are not working for you. they are working for themselves. but the taliban are very concerned. we've seen a tacks in kabuls and especially in the hotel area own areas. they want to sabotage this election and been putting online, articles where they are saying look at egypt. muslim brotherhood won the election and military took over. you'll never be allowed to rule. it's not true because abdullah abdullah and others are saying we can stabilize the country and make a deal with the americans and we can transition to a better place. >> i can tell you, all of these damning things being thrown around about the united states role in this and the way they prop up that 10% mentality -- we close our eyes but it's hard to find alternatives. local institutions are not always up to snuff. i was on the team that richard

holbrook led, i can tell you everyone hoped more money to these government institutions on the afghan side would mean more capacity. it doesn't work that way. >> at the same time, when we promote democracy, the idea we want to bring democracy and freedom and liberate women and other issues then 2009 election. then we close our eyes on karzai stealing the election. this didn't help us on the ground and gave the taliban a lot of ammunition on attacking us. >> ali, they claim credit for the latest round of attacks. what do you think the long game is here? >> to keep doing what they are doing but i'm not sure they'll be that effective, they haven't been that effective in the past year and there's a great website called the afghan analyst network and there was a story that went up there yesterday that the taliban despite what you hear from washington and a lot of other people, is a major security concern for the country but not about to take over

kabul. that's probably not going to happen. there are lots of indications that the taliban can even cease and control places like they used to like helmand province. >> back sliding happening. >> right and they are weaker than previous years and this is something my colleague and friends, great afghanistan reporter pointed out as well. by the d.o.d. statistics, take it with a grain of salt, taliban is winning 5% of the fire fights in about one out of every 20 cases they are able to take control of the territory they are trying to take control of. that's not good odds for an insurgency that doesn't control much territory. they are also having problems recruiting and having problems fund raising and it's not a rosy picture. >> some turn the tide of public opinion against them. the question is, when united states troops pull out more substantially, where does that leave some of those figures? >> right, i mean, at the same

time, a lot of fighting at this point has been afghan on afghan fighting and that doesn't mean the u.s. plays no role or isn't in support of the afghan army and afghan national police. this is still afghan fighting. if the state were to take the real nish nif to keep beating back the taliban insurgencinsury be able to hold more territory than the neysayers are saying. >> for first time we're seeing afghani army in the streets. there's something happening and for first time the afghanis are seeing this as their war. not an american war and not an american problem but their own problem. and this is a shift in strategy. >> i want to go to something happier. we saw in the last couple of days a different kind of election unfold in a different setting, paris elected its first female mayor, hidalgo.

how common is is this? we have city that's have been led by women around the world, new york, tokyo, berlin have never been led by women. despite what you might expect for these bast ons of progressiveness. what do you think? >> i think it's great news, especially for socialists, hollande was losing everywhere but for every woman in the world. suddenly the world in 21st century is understanding that women in power places are very effective because their way of using soft power and moderate power. they are very thoughtful and analytical and can make a huge change, it's effective. it's happening -- it will happen in this country in 2016. we'll see a rising of certain women that will come around. we hope hillary clinton will be running. especially north yup europe, every defense minister is a

female today. >> no new york mayor as a woman yet. what do you think, ali? >> what would hope, there are electorate networks that prevent that progressivism from moving forward. the france election was fun to watch. the center right and a woman as well. there was going to be a female mayor of paris. sort of the other figure that was really interesting to watch in the elections was the national front, the far right party in france which did better than it's ever done before. the last time they ran for local elections in the 90s, they took three or four towns and this time might have taken 11 or 12. that's another troubling but nonetheless interesting trend to watch in france and once again a woman at the center of it. you see the way in these liberal countries that women are taking the front seat both good and bad in terms of -- >> remember, daughter of immigrant, two years ago, three

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welcome back, everybody. with 40,000 russian troops amassing on the border, secretary of state john kerry met with his -- little progress was reported at the end of that.

>> both of us recognize the importance of finding a diplomatic solution and simultaneously meeting the needs of the ukrainian people and that we agreed on tonight. >> they both might recognize the need for a diplomatic solution, but they have not set a time to meet again. meanwhile, in ukraine, despite little or no military training, some are preparing to defend their homeland against any potential invasion. we're going to go inside their ranks with the data mining startup, their michael sterling has this report from inside the training camps of ukraine. this >> reporter: this is a three day crash course on hand to hand combat and first aid skills. many of the instructors are retired ukrainian military.

>> translator: ukraine is under the aggression of another country, our territorial unity is taken away, our people are humiliated. i see that as a war. >> reporter: the volunteers are a diverse group, young and old, they have little or no experience and the burning desire to serve their country. they are a group that calls themselveses the ukrainian reservist army. secured permission to film their training course outside the capital city of kiev. >> translator: i'm an artist and a book publisher, but you have to understand that when it comes to these situations 5 situationo

go to the barricades. >> translator: i decided to train when i understood that russia didn't stop at some political decision, that they were coming after ukraine. that's when i decided, along with the rest of the people here that, i had to protect the ukraine. >> translator: i think everyone has been waiting for this moment and i feel like it's a requirement for each ukrainian to fight for their country. >> reporter: the ukrainians witnessed their own government shooting arrest its own poem. a three-day crash course in soldering may not amount to anything e but at least we're doing something, they say, while filming here, we ran into a u.s. army veteran, he came here to witness history. >> to really find out the character of the people, put them in a stressful situation,

see what's going on, and i'm very impressed by what i have seen as far as the ukrainians go, and the legal of commitment they have in their nation, it's really inspiring. >> we're back with ali garibh. so what do you think, do they stand a chance? >> no, there's no way they stand a chance. it's very moving that these people want to defend their country, but if putin decides to take it, he will take it in seconds, but it come back on him -- the rate will go up and no foreign investment. that will hurt him. >> and do you think that the calls from within ukraine will push anyone closer to a diplomatic solution? >> one hopes, but things are at a stand still and i'm not sure if some lightly trained militias

are going to make that big of a difference, it's going to be like making the cost-benefit analysis for putin worth what the western ukraine itself wants. >> it almost seems to signal it's have for the taking. >> we would love to have you back on these issues, appreciate it. all right, well, that wraps things up for today's edition of rf daily. you can catch my shows at 1:00 p.m. eastern show on msnbc. the reid report with my colleague, joy reid. joy reid, unbreak my heart. >> thank you and i will do my very best. but keep in mind, it is monday. >> we got a lot of time. next on the reid report, d-day for people who want to sign up for health care under the affordable care act. i'll talk to a congresswoman who says the numbers are even better than you're hearing.

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happy monday reiders and happy opening day to all you baseball fans out there. this is the reid report, i'm joy reid. here's what's happening today. chris christie still acting like a 2016 run may be in his future. but does he still have a shot? we'll preview the weekend that was. and later, allegations of police brutality, what started as a protest in new mexico ended with these violent scenes, we'll bring you an update on missing

malaysian flight 370. we start with the affordable care act and the race to beat the midnight deadline tonight to sign up for health care coverage before open enrollment ends. an estimated 2 million people visited the site over the weekend. and yes, the site did go down briefly this morning, emphasis on briefly. and there was another brief rush this afternoon. the rush to sign up for the white house is intense. part of a pop culture push that's included celebrities from lebron james to zack. do you remember this prediction? >> i think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of march, 2014. >> the white house later backed away from secretary sebelius's claim. but some are