cnbc's eamon javers joins us with the details. good evening, eamon. >> reporter: good evening, larry. the white house was on the defensive again today, arguing with reporters over these predictions made by the white house that the website would be up and running by the end of this month, and dividing and conquering exactly how many people are going to be able to use that website at the end of the month. is that 80%? is that the vast majority? another issue that the white house is dealing with today is this question of exactly how will people be able to get on to the website. the white house spokesman jay carney saying today that they want people to be able to go through their insurance companies to get access to health care. take a listen. >> we are also working to set up direct enrollment through insurance companies so that americans could choose to enroll directly through the insurance company. and that's another method by which we can reach the same point that is the gel here. again, it's the end here that matters, not necessar

eamon javers has more on the pope's controversial comments. eamon, i understand this was from an 84-page document from the pope. >> it's the first major written document that we've gotten from this now pope, pope francis. this document today is an expansion on what the pope has been saying so far in his major speeches, for the first time in one place and all in writing and he's krcritical of what he seess modern market capitalism. an kperp what he said today when an elderly homeless person dies from exposure but it is news when the stock loses two points. he strike led down economics. the income gap between the rich and the poor and self-serving tax evasion and the idolatry of money and the defied market and by that he's saying folks have put way too much attention on proch fits and markets and not basic humanity, guys. >> eamon in years past, we've seen popes talk about come muni nice m and capitalism but this time what is motivating pope francis and why now? >> this is a clearly a pope with a reform agenda and talks about reform of the churc

eamon javers has more. eamon? >> reporter: it was hot. tough day for the obama administration on capitol hill. there was a lot of squabbling in the hearing room, real tensions evident between democrats and republicans on this panel but the obama administration officials were asked time and time again whether or not they can promise to hit the november 30th deadline for fixes healthcare.gov they laid out for themselves. they are unable to give a concrete answer to that that really brought confidence to the republicans on the panel on capitol hill. take a listen to this exchange where they ducked the issue whether or not they can guarantee november 30th is a head deadline for a fix. >> are we going to hit november 30th? >> thank you for the question and thank you for your kind words at the beginning, as well. the goal that has been laid out is for the site not to be perfect by the end of november -- >> functional people can log on. >> so the vast majority of americans will be able to use the site smoothly. that's the goal we're going for an

thanks, eamon and james, tyler? >> thank you very much, john, eamon and james. >>> twitter, of course, gearing up -- if you're not scared enough, twitter is gearing up to go public tomorrow. reporter nick billton got access to twitter's founders getting access to hundreds of sources, documents, internal e-mails and a lot of internal disputes. we'll talk with him nextp. >> coming up, power pitch. start-ups give us their 60-second pitch and we give you inside into the fast paced world of venture capital. >> at lot of things they said i hear from other day care and boarding providers. >> i'm looking at the bottom line. >> do these founders have what it takes? >> are you in or are you out on canine resorts? >> stay tuned to find out. doesn't like being sold to. who the last thing i want is to feel like someone is giving me a sales pitch, especially when it comes to my investments. you want a broker you can trust. a lot of guys at the other firms seemed more focused on selling than their clients. that's why i stopped wor

the person comes and gets into a reclining seat with the welcome address from high tea at the said eamon gilmore delegates will be facing a range of emotions and re elect a new county chair of the week ended up in pakistan for us but the posts haven't been at two cars for the labour party at david what's the mood i can cut this evening. what are due to some of the mood in the phrase terrorism laws and would be it could be worse the party is in fact enjoying a modest resurgent of the opinion polls the most some customers in recent months but haven't been any more of stopping high profile defections for some time to read the message from eamon gilmore this weekend would be that this government has no cost to its halfway stage he'd be praising that the sacrifices that people that i've made during that period to get a set of the financial hole we were in earlier today he had at the prospect of giving something back to that group of people hinting at intel and the possibility of some easing of the income tax burden. i think it's the economy improves. i think it is reasonable. the people of in

>> eamon, thanks much.t to get reaction to all of this from a man who knows a things or two about security, general stanley mcchrystal. good to have you on the program. >> good to be here. >> what's your take on these leaks and the fact that the government is doing all of this? >> well, i think one of the things we need to understand is our potential foes today, particularly terrorist groups, are not rudimentary elements that pass cash around to operate in 1960's technology. they move money, they move information and other capabilities using every bit of the modern globalization system we enjoy on a daily basis. and to defeat them, to deal with them and to understand them, you've got to be able to operate there. clearly within the law, but you've got to be able to be cognizant of what's happening even in all elements. >> so, our security then does depend on getting this kind of information? >> absolutely. within limits, we have got to be able to see things that used to happen physically and now happen digit

to that question i asked eamon, what is the airline's position on safety?l say to you, safety is paramount, it must be. but at the same time, the more complicated travel becomes, the more likely people will not travel. what's their position in that delicate dance, as i referred to it? >> you're right. i don't think there's a good answer. the airlines want people to have the smoothest flying experience possible. that means from the point they buy a ticket to the point they're delivered to their destination. for a long time you heard people say, listen, the half of flying is going to keep me from flying. there have been some studies done whether or not it actually stops people from flying. the bottom line is this, the airline and airports do not want a big bottle neck. they don't want it to be where going through security is such a big hassle where you say, i don't want to do it. that's the fine, delicate dance you're talking about. and i think they've improved it over the last couple of years, in my opinion. with as much as i fly, i think they've improved it

eamon javers with the story. over to you, eamon. >> hi.eet journal" is reporting today that federal prosecutors and the s.e.c.'s inspector general office are looking at certain employees at the s.e.c. and questioning whether or not they broke internal s.e.c. rules about disclosing and holding certain assets. this would be an investigation of whether or not they were following up on rules the s.e.c. requires them to follow in terms of asset holding and disclosure. now, the s.e.c.'s mary jo white was asked about this earlier today and she had a chance to answer the question. here's what she said. >> what i can say, and i've looked into this, is that the s.e.c. has one of the strongest compliance programs and trading area of any of the federal agencies. and a number of reforms and procedures put in my by predecessors, obviously. for example, every single purchaser sale of security has to be approved by our ethic officer. >> obviously, any question about s.e.c. employees and potential insider trading is something that's going to get a lot of a

eamon, stay with us. hang on. joining us health care experts, bosh lichefsky. and avik roy. "how medicaid failed." is that true? >> that's the under appreciated thing. medicaid enrollment is huge. that's huge for the fiscal associations in the states. they're going to take some of the bill of that, they'll pick up some of the tab. plus, in terms of health outcomes and health quality, the medicaid program is poorer in terms of the quality -- >> the worst. >> the best doctors don't go near it, is that fair? >> that's absolutely fair. >> these people are going to be ma maltreated. >> it won't collapse. you'll have expanded medicaid. a shrunken exchange that works for poor people and sicker people. it will limp along. >> bob, let me just dispose of the numbers. the numbers look disastrous. are people expecting these numbers to just continue disastro disastrous. >> the numbers have changed in terms of the number of enrollments insurance companies are getting. let me put the numbers in another context for you. 27,000 people in 36 states is 25 people per day per state. in the state

nbc's eamon mohyeldin. >> perhaps this agreement, even if it could be approved by them, could wait untilate as april could delay the united states in the way it prepares to either wind down its operations in afghanistan or perhaps extend its presence in afghanistan beyond the 2014 deadline. one of the reasons that the afghan president did say he wants the incoming administration in afghanistan to deal with this issue is because he wants to make sure that it's not seen or perceived as something falling on his legacy and that is something that's going to be many afghanistan citizens are going to be very critical of if, in fact, this agreement goes forward partly because of the issue of sovereignty and immunity for u.s. soldiers. according to this draft agreement, u.s. soldiers and personnel and others that are in afghanistan would not be subject to any type of afghanistan oversight. they would be subject to u.s. laws and that is a sensitive issue for many afghanis, in particular, many afghan politicians. one of the issue his to deal with an apology and this is what secretary of state john

eamon javers is joining us. >> that's right, simon.e 39 democrat defectors and says that's not a big number when you consider the politics of the issue. the press conference was inspired by democrats up for re-election next year, coming to the white house really proetest of the obama carroe rollout. you never want to go into an election with a weak hand like this but nancy pelosi was on "meet the press" yesterday and asked about the political impact by david gregory. she refused to really go there saying that there's not going to necessarily be a clear line between what happens now and next year. >> i don't think you can tell what will happen next year but i will tell you that democrats stand tall and support the affordable care act. we have great democrats running who are concerned about our economy and are concerned that government was shut down because of a whim on the part of the republicans. >> meanwhile, what do those republicans want to do? senator kelly ayotte was on "meet the press" as well and she wants to go back to square o

as you heard from eamon, that's exactly what happened. right now when you say words like supporting the recovery today, those are buzz words, meaning we're going to continue to keep rates low as long as possible. that's essentially bullish for the markets. definitely i think a good reaction. but i think we've already seen a lot of it today, just on the speculation that this would happen. >> bob, thank you so much. really interesting testimony, what we expected. that's why i think the market melted up at the end of the day today, that we could get a similar testimony and similar commentary from ben bernanke from janet yellen. that testimony happening tomorrow. only 100,000 people nationwide have selected their health care plans throughout new exchanges. number well below the 500,000 the white house expected by this date. all the problems with obama care are causing some issues among the same democratic leaders who fought so hard to pass this law. many are feeling the political backlash of people unable to keep their plans despite the presi

eamon javers has this story. >> call it the snowden effect.ople are looking to see whether telecom companies are going to have trouble after the nsa sdisclosures of spying y the u.s. around the world. we saw cisco citing the nsa disclosures as one reason they're having trouble in emerging markets. reuters reporting that ibm is having trouble possibly in china as a result of these disclosures as well. i wanted to flag for you one more here. this was in a disclosure, little noticed at the time, from ebay in october. here's what they said. they saids there significant international pressure against the u.s. and the national security agency regarding the collection of data by the nsa from u.s. companies. further restrictions or regulation in the european union could result as a direct reaction to these events. i've talked to tech company executives, or executives who handle technology at major companies, global corporations, who say they've been under pressure to repay treeuate some of their data out of the united states as a result of snowden dis

eamon javers is in washington with more on the story.t, sue, you already got me thinking about lunch here. what we're talking about here is partially hydrogenated oil. take a look at your nutrition label on food. and if you see that, you've ever wondered what it is, that's what we're talking about here. the fda saying that they would like to ban transfats, partially hydrogenated oil being the source of those transfat, from the american food supply. they say they've made a preliminary determination as of now. there's going to be a 60-day period here where they take in comments on this proposed rule. but they say that they're asking the industry now how long it will take to remove transfats from the food supply. and they say that transfats increase the risk of coronary heart disease. and they say that they are still -- the industry has made some huge progress in removing transfats from the food supply. they're still found in some microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, margarine and coffee creamers. of course, not all of those -- again, check you

eamon? >> reporter: yes, a tough morning.re had been some question about the chief technology officer would testify. the white house initially said this guy is too busy dealing with the health care.com rollout to go up to capitol hill and testify and do all the preparation required for that. some people had described him as actually sleeping in his office in the roll-out of the healthcare.gov web site, obviously plagued with problems. we have a little of an excerpt for his prepared testimony this morning. he doesn't say enough but he says we have much work still to do but are making progress at a growing rate. kind of a vague description here. "the washington post" reporting this morning they're still having trouble with that web site when more than 20,000 or 30,000 people try to sign on at the same time. we'll have to see how they hold up to questioning here, which is expected to be very, very tough indeed today, carl. >> that hearing and the heat that comes with it, with the comments from president clinton yesterday -- >> o

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joining us this morning from washington is eamon afterers. this is getting back to some tense times in the senate when it comes to these nominations. we thought we had averted these issues. >> mccain threatening to pu put a whole here on janet yellen in the united states. they wanted to see more of these documents related to ben fwazzy. they wanted to see the survivors of benghazi testify on capitol hill. they would like more information as to what exactly happened there. they don't have any particular animous towards janet yellen herself. this is just the leverage they have to get this done. it's been a very bad week for for obama admin appointees. yesterday, the senate rejected mel watt, the housing agency nominee for the obama administration. it's a very rare thing for a sitting congressman to be rejected. but they did that yesterday in the senate. it's a tough time here for obama getting his nominees through. we expect that yellen will go through here. they can break these holes with a 60-vote margin. we expect that that's doable or that

. >> we go to eamon javers. >> we've just been given word the president is going to step into the brady0 to talk about the affordable care act. the white house is not telling us what the president is going to say here. it's been wide by expected the president is going to make some kind of proposal to fix the issue for people who have lost their heath coverage, that's been a tricky issue. the white house has been taking a lot of political heat over it. the question is what is the question going to say at 11:30 that will address this and give democrats on capitol hill, carl, some political cover, which they feel they desperately need. >> it's a lot of news coming out of washington. what's on "mad" tonight? >> pop eyes, as we continue with our hunger games series. and then as eamon javers said, i have to find out what the president is saying, susan is incredible with that. >> and janet yellen will face questioning and we'll get her testimony live when "squawk on the street" comes back. [ male announcer ] this is brad. his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, wa

>> eamon javers in washington, thank you very much.site, the healthcare.gov has been plagued from the start. now it looks like your location could play a major role in how well or how badly the site performs for you. bertha coombs is live in lexington, massachusetts with more on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, simon. we're at compuware. they've been doing an independent end user testing and monitoring of how people are accessing the site, healthcare.gov. it does seem there are differences. the government says it should all be the same because healthcare.gov is the one portal for some 36 states but there are differences depending where you are. this is a map of what you have saw a couple of weeks ago. and tell us what the red means. obviously not good. >> so what you're seeing here is real and user computers that we're using to test the response time of the site. and all the states that are red are indicating an average of greater than 8 seconds response time, which is considered unacceptable to us in our testing. >> this

. >> eamon javers is now our catholic reporter. >> yeah.e hand you could say you have gordon gekko over here and now pope francis. appear systolt apostolic exother exortation. he made critical excess of market capitalism. how can it be that it is not news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure but it is news when the stock market loses two points? he mentions trickle down economics, income gap between rich and poor, self-serving tax evasion, idolatry of money and defied market. he says he loves everyone, rich and poor but points out the rich must do their part to help. a fascinating document from the vatican. the vatican saying this is, in essence, the pope building on a number of public speeches he's made into one formal public pronouncement here. in it he's going right after what he says are the excesses of the current world global market economy. >> pope benedict built on some of these himself before resigning. thanks for that. should we just leave now? >> we'll just move on. >> we're going outside. >> yeah, we're good peo

also where we find eamon. what has been the reaction like from inside iran to this deal? >> well, the reaction actually has been very positive so par. both from some key indicators including some economic indicators. the iranian currency has improved. more importantly, emotionally, you can see it on the faces of some of the iranians. there were a small group of people celebrating and a lot of the suggestions so far indicate that the iranian people are well coming this news perhaps an opportunity for iran to come out of the cold and the heeasing of the economic hardships they have had to endure. that is certainly not the case across the region. some of the countries that have been following this very closely, united arab emirates did welcome the deal, but officials are skeptical. and in saudi arabia and israel, the governments there have been very skeptical about the united states warming up towards iran over the last 1e6several months. >> what is secretary kerry doing in london at this hour? >> he's meeting with the libyan prime minister. they have a lot of issues to disc

joining us more eamon javers. what is your take? did president obama really apologize for breaking his promise about keeping his policies? >> that's the question here, larry. the question is was this an apology or not. this is a sound bite that is getting a lot of attention tonight, a lot of commentary on twitter and here in washington, what is exactly the president saying. why is he saying it. the president as you say was asked by chuck todd whether or not -- or he was asked about all those people in the individual markets here who have been forced all of their off plans because they were not conforming with the obama care standards. here's what he had to say. >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. we've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and that we'll do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this. >> a lot of folks are saying that amounts to an apology. even our own graphic said preside

eamon javers has been following the story.nment put us all on a diet. >> that's right, mandy. take a look at some of these videos. this is the wall of shame here in terms of transfat. it's put together for the center for science and the public interest. and what they've done is compiled a lot of the brands that they are criticizing for having transfats in them. the fda today saying that they would like to move ahead and ban transfats entirely from the american diet. they say they've made a preliminary determination to do just that. now, there's going to be a 60-day comment period here. and the fda says they're going to ask industry to weigh in to see exactly how long it will take them to remove transfats from the american diet. why do they want to do that? the fda says transfats increase the risk of coronary heart disease. they say removing them from the american diet will prevent heart attacks. they say that they are still, the transfats, still found in some kinds of microwave popcorn, frozen pizza margarine and coffee creame

and eamon javers has the story live in washington. >> hi, sue.ancis has issued his first major written document today. it's called an apostolic, a proclamation written by the church based on what the church says is his personal reflection. the pope is critical of the excesses of modern market-based capitalism. take a look at this sentence excerpted from this document today from pope francis. the pope writes, how can it be that it is not a news item, when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? the pope goes on to be very critical of a number of aspects of modern finance, touching on the global financial crisis. he also criticizes what he calls trickle down economics. sue, the pope very, very critical of a focus on wealth and profits above all us. he says the onus is on wealthy people to do something to help the poor. sue? >> yeah. i was going to say, i wondered whether he was going to say that the responsibility for those who have more, is greater. >> yeah. >> that has been his message c

eamon javers live in washington. >> hi, tyler. it's been a tough hearing up here on capitol hill for the obama administration officials here testifying, testy at times within the committee hearing room. members of congress fighting about who gets to ask which question, who's insulted who's staff. but one of the key questions they keep coming back to over and over again is exactly how long is it going to take to fix healthcare.gov and will the administration be able to hit the november 30th deadline it has publicly set for itself. the administration officials haven't been able to give a good answer to that question today. take a listen to things exchange. >> are we going to hit november 30th? >> thank you for the question. thank you for your kind words at the beginning as well. so the goal that has been laid out is for the site not to be perfect by the end of november -- >> functional, people can log on? >> so that vast majority of americans will be able to use the site smoothly. that's the goal we're gunning for and working very h

eamon javers has been doing digging on this story. what did you find? >> the answer to that is maybe. it looks like last week hhs started the bureaucratic process toward removing -- exempting some unions and other organizations from what they call the reinsurance fee that's part of this overall obama care effort. is what they're saying is they floated a proposal that would exemptd certain self-insured from the obama care reinsurance fee. hhs says self-insured, self-administered plans could include plans offered by some large employers, such as city and state governments, universities as well as by some multi-employer plans. multi-employer plans, that's unions. administration officials say this could benefit some unions, but it also could benefit some people who are employees of state and local governments, university employees and others, but of course if you look at that pool, that's a pool of people who tend to vote democratic. so, that's what's got critics up in arms. a lot of critics say this is a bone thrown to unions. administration says, no, no t

. >> thank you, eamon. >>> david, a busy hour. >> they'll close this deal in december, amr and u.s. airways, still saying $1 billion in synergies. >> all right. thank you for bringing it to us. let's hop over to headquarters and wapner and "halftime." >> thank you. >>> knapp sacked. barclays maven on why your hopes for a big next year will be dashed. >>> and the muni playbook. the popular investment, we'll game plan the best options ahead. >>> we do begin with the truth about twitter. the stock has been trading publicly for four days, remains one of the market's most active names, and it seems everyone has an opinion on what the stock is really worth, including iac ceo barry diller who said this this morning. >> twitter's capitalization will turn over hundreds of times. if that doesn't tell you there's very little investing going on, or anybody -- nobody values the company at $40 billion. that's not sane. >> well, here's a look at how the stock is trading today. it's still below the ipo-high with shares soon available to short. what is your best move now? it is "halftime," and let's

eamon javers is live with more on that. >> reporter: good morning. small in virginia, if you manage a mall, that shooting incident in paramus, new jersey is very much on your mind, as well as others around the country. they're stepping it up. take a listen. >> we're just hoping everyone is in holiday cheer today. >> there will be an enhanced police presence. the mall security is complemented by a law enforcement patrol. in many centers, they've worked through response protocols where they'll shut the doors, attempt to evacuate areas very quickly or shelter in place where it's safe to do so. we certainly saw that in paramus. >> one of the problems for mall security experts, you don't want to scare away shoppers. shoppers today say they're comfortable with the security around the ball. >> we're just hoping everyone's in the holiday cheer. >> if you get too worried about that, you wouldn't be able to go outside. >> they've got it covered without them being around. >> so there you have it, direct from santa claus himself. he says the security here is fin

thank you. >> thank you, eamon. >>> david, a busy hour. >> they'll close this deal in december, amr andsynergies. >> all right. thank you for bringing it to us. let's hop over to headquarters and wapner and "halftime." >> thank you. >>> knapp sacked. barclays maven on why your hopes for a big next year will be dashed. >>> and the muni playbook. the popular investment, we'll game plan the best options ahead. >>> we do begin with the truth about twitter. the stock has been trading publicly for four days, remains one of the market's most active names, and it seems everyone has an opinion on what the stock is really worth, including iac ceo barry diller who said this this morning. >> twitter's capitalization will turn over hundreds of times. if

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. >>> eamon, security is something we've been talking a lot about with malls lately so what kind of measuresex, as you can see with that incident in chicago. security is really on the minds of those folks who manage malls and manage mall security. i can tell you this mall in tysons corner is totally packed. what the mall operators tell us is they are trying to increase security but not increase the visibility of the security so you don't feel a heavy security presence even though we had a mall shooting earlier this month. they're increasing patrols, increasing coordination with local law enforcement and making sure that local law enforcement knows their way around the malls, how to respond, and also increasing training of the employees here in terms of sheltering in place, in terms of very quick response, shutting those gates down to the stores and bringing any customers who are in the stores behind the counters where they can be safe. so a lot of procedures here going on at the malls around the country, but the intention is you don't want to scare away the customers. you don't want too big