the next day chao wrote to cmf staff in all caps and i quote. i do not want a repeat of what happened near the end of december of 2005 when medicare.gov had a meltdown. this chao said is to get your attention if i didn't have it already. just three days after that, greta, todd park with the white house emailed his team massive kudos again for the incredible progress the team is making. what some might consider just two days before the launch a kind of a heck of a job brownie moment if you will. >> indeed. james, thank you. >> thank you. >> we have to ask where is the transparency. chief white house correspondent ed henry grilling press secretary josh earnest. >> did you consider turning over some of the emails white house officials healthcare.gov instead of drip drip from republican darryl issa. give american people an insight to the president and his aides knew in the final week leading up to october 1st. would you consider that. >> it's apparent mr. issa has taken that task upon himself. >> full context. >> and has worked very carefully with t

>> it's pretty startling to know that here the administration -- hhs, cmf, wanted mckenzie to do an odd it how well -- audit how well they're doing, and mr. chao participated in the information. but even though he is the chief information officer, the one that is supposed to macthe web site, nobody told him the results of that. he specifically said despite having multiple meets with ms. ms. 'tavner, she never brought it up to him. how could he possibly do his job if they're not telling him what the problems are he has to deal with? >> i almost felt sorry for him. it was like he was in the hot seat today. and he just didn't know. a lot of this was -- if we take him at his word and the followup e-mails and writing, none of this was being conveyed to him and that's important why? why does that show the house of cards potentially this was built on in. >> sure. it raises the question of trying to fool congress, but they're fooling themselves into thinking everything is okay, and though thought by leaving him in the dark, does that make it okay? certain live does not. when they say to us secu

point where kaiser still believes that though they have lowered their fee schedule and increased the i cmf and they feel that approach is a way that kaiser delivers care. we are continuing to discuss it but there isn't a whole a lot of progress being made in this area and we continue to put most of our effort now to see if there is something we can do in this area. the alternative funding proposals are ones that really are who are really now fully immersed in evaluating the different opportunities. i think there are several opportunities that the board will be able to evaluate in january and be able to look at what you think we pursue in the rates and benefits process in 2014. then we also had the opportunity to meet with some of the senior leadership at kaiser. the cfo and senior advice pred for actuarial service for underwriting and it was good to hear from the leadership of kaiser and i want to say the kaiser team we work with everyday, we didn't learn anything new because the kaiser team we worked with everyday accurately portrayed the message from the scene -- senior leadership. it's

initiatives that familiar with, including medicare part d, were led and developed by cmf. they serve as the business owner and developer of health care.gov integrated eligibility system for the federal facilitated workplace. since i joined the department about 18 months ago, we have been working to restructure and update our i.t. government. bringing visibility into what the department buys and builds across all of our operating divisions. we are now in the process of putting in place three i.t. steering committees to bring together technology and program leaders from across the department to improve our purchasing and management of i.t. resources. these steering committees take a functional view of rit portfolio , and we accreted one to oversee health and human services, a second to oversee scientific research systems, and a third for administrative management systems. this government structure will improve department wide oversight of i.t. purchases and projects. secretary sebelius has been an advocate for transparency, and this new government structure is designed to ac

. >> and after today's senate hearing our griff jenkins trying to get more answers from the cmf. >> griff jenkins from fox news. what confidence you can give the american people that its web site will be fixed and secure. >> excuse me. thank you. >> ms. tavenner, can you tell us how much it's going to cost? >> excuse us, please, excuse us. >> you can tell us how much it will cost to fix the web site? >> we he have to keep moving, folks. >> [chanting] >> finally, ms. tavenner did politics play a role in the decision to launch the site despite the problems? >> keep going. [chanting] >> all right. can we talk with ms. tavenner. >> would have another. >> administrator tavenner wasn't willing to speak with us. some on the committee were. including the chairman democrat tom harkin. >> the thing that i'm most concerned about right now is security. to make sure that when someone signs up, and they give them their social security number and their tax information and all that kind of stuff that no one can get that. i want that to be as secure as -- well, as when you give your credit card number to

ends of some of these emails were henry chow, the project manager for the healthcare.gov web site for cmfcy with oversight responsibility and also todd park the chief technology officer at the white house. on one email sent on september 26th of this year

i've put in a call about this to the white house and to cmf. they've yet to get back with more clarification. 2:30 this afternoon is the daily conference call. this will likely come up during that update. back to you, sue. >> i think it would. thanks. keep us posted. >>> home depot beating wall street expectations for its third quarter and raising full year forecast. shares of the number one home improvement retailer up big in today's trading session up about $1.25% rising more than 30% this year. boosting their numbers rebound in home remodeling. diana olick is in washington with that angle of the story for us. hi, diana. >> hi, sue. that's right. you know, the remodeling resurgence began in 2009 with investor doing cosmetic fixes to foreclosures they wanted to rent out. regular homeowners are back in the game and doing more expensive and expansive work. home remodeling jumped 14% in september from a year ago, that according to build facts. projects over $10,000 are surging while smaller projects are not quite as strong. that's returning home

in the case of healthcare.gov, a question is whether cmf has the abilities to act as systems integrators the program office, drop the acquisition lifecycle, starting with how the project is defined to how it is tested and employed for operations. this would include security testing, assessment, and authorization. in summary, omb can do more to ensure the government's annual 80 plus billion dollar investment in i.t. has the appropriate accountability, oversight, transparency, and best practices to deliver vital services. this concludes my statement. thank you for your continued oversight. >> thank you. mr. chao. >> good morning. since the passage of the affordable care act, cms has been hard at work to design, build and have secure systems that ensure americans are able to enroll in the affordable health care coverage. i serve as deputy chief operations officer, and i'm career civil servant with 20 years working at cms on medicaid systems of varying scales. of te marketplace of element and implementation to facilitate a marketplace eligibility systems and the data services. i work closel