amy goldstein joins us. amy, what did you find when you looked through this report. hindsight is 20/20, you can look back and say how did they miss that? when i read your >>> there's new information about the obama care website's failure to launch. it turns out that cgi, the contractor that built healthcare.gov was high on confidence but low on delivery. amy goldstein joins us. amy, what did you find when you looked through this report. hindsight is 20/20, you can look back and say how did they miss that? when i read your article, i was very surprised that no one was running around threatening to light a match on their head if they didn't do something to let the president know this was not ready for prime time. >> well, actually within hhs, the department of health and human services, from the documents that we looked at for this story that ran in the post this weekend showed us that starting about early july, people were starting to get very worried that the main contractor that had been hired to build this website, as you said, cbi federal seemed to be promising mo

amy goldstein joins us. amy, what did you find when you looked through this report. hindsight is 20/20, you can look back and say how did they miss that? when i read your article, i was very surprised that no one was running around threatening to light a match on their head if they didn't do something to let the president know this was not ready for prime time. >> well, actually within hhs, the department of health and human services, from the documents that we looked at for this story that ran in the post this weekend showed us that starting about early july, people were starting to get very worried that the main contractor that had been hired to build this website, as you said, cbi federal seemed to be promising more than they delivered. in late august, the company was hauled up to baltimore for the head quarters for the center for medicare and medicaid services. at that two-day meeting, they were asked to go point by point by point through all the items they were responsible for building and to say where those items really were. then it turns out that about a mont

. >> and he also knew a great reported piece by amy goldstein where this show a memo going from a white house consultant to an administration saying they're running the biggest start up in the world and saying that the economic team and the health care advisers lobbied for the president to appoint an outside czar with expertise in business and they didn't. >> they didn't have anybody who knew how to run this thing. this new book, "doubling down" is getting a lot of attention. the book itself was leaked to the "new york times" and washington post. now there are excerpts and it has this anecdote that everybody was picking up on is there was polling and focus groups down to see whether or not vice president biden should be dumped from the ticket in favor of hillary clinton. it was amazing to me -- it's a very good bit of reporting. what's amazing to me is why it was leaked from the obama white house knowing it would hurt joe biden. >>> when we come back, all those stories about all those people losing their health insurance. are the media oversimplifying the issues? >>> and later, we'll si

"the washington post" reporter amy goldstein joins us. tell me on september 5th, about that time. was anyone rooting for it to fail. >> well, this was a time just about a month before the site was to open when people, at cms knew it wasn't working very well and white house officials have said they didn't know. so, there is a lot of ambivalence at cms that day. there were some people who want to thed to go in front of the white house aids who came over for this dry run. other people who thought maybe it was better if the thing just didn't work in front of them so the white house might have some incentive to delay the opening of exchange until it was really working properly. >> so, was it a smooth run on september 5th or were there glitches? was the white house dismissive cms not showing glitches in it. >> that day it patiently worked. one reason that why it worked is the white house was shown a very simple example. they weren't given a complicated family with all kinds of relatives who were trying to enroll it was a very simple example. and it happened to work. let me go back to ma

amy goldstein is the staff writer for the "washington post," the lead writer on the story eamon was mentioningres you're talking about, to the degree to which the site can be enabled before crashing, are pretty worrisome. walk us through it. >> well, as the clip that you were just showing says, the idea was that the site was to have the capacity -- it was built to have the capacity to handle perhaps 50,000 to 60,000 people using it easily at any one time. and at the moment, about half that number of people can use it before it starts to have problems. and people sometimes find if there are too many people on it at the same time that they get screens that freeze, they can't continue to enter their information, then they wait a while, and then they get an error message and thrown off the website. >> your sources telling you november 30th now unlikely. are they giving you any indication as to what is likely? >> no. it's more a matter that they know how much software repair needs to be done, and these are pretty complex problems. and there's been, you know, as you know, huge race to get things wor

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