we hear henry waxman saying that there are many ways to go to get insurance in these marketplaces. this is where folks who do not have insurance made available through employment can go to get insurance. it is an important part of all of this. there was discussion last night as to whether or not the white house is going to delay the deadline of march 31 for the individual machine date, requiring everyone has insurance by that date of next year. that date remains march 31 after a lot of back and the forth last night. now there are even some democrats who are calling for a pushback of that date. that's still very much up in the air. what we are going to see at this hearing are the very architects, the technical people, contractors, c.g.i. among them testifying about what went wrong. they blame overwhelming volume. that's we heard at the outset. they'll cite according to advance testimony, confusion among contractors, among instructions they were getting from the government entities running this website. it's not a good scene, republicans seizing on this after their bitter loss coming

. >> reporter: but henry waxman is optimistic it can improve. you think it can be fixed? >> i'm confident they told us they could fix it. >> reporter: while republican chairman fred upton says they must get more answers. have you learned yet who's responsible? >> well, it seems there was a lot of finger pointing and all that was going to the administration. >> reporter: and much of the new information that was learned today will be used to prepare questions for health and human services secretary kathleen is sebelius. and more than 30 house republicans have sent a letter to the president asking for her to resign. >> kelly o'donnell starting us off from capitol hill tonight. thanks. >>> the deadlines are confusing. and last night, we want to clear it up. once and for all, the deadline for one uninsured americans need to get coverage is march 31st. that hasn't changed. what the white house intends to change is the arbitrary date for signing up to meet that deadline. it has been february 15th, but as we reported here last night, the administration wants to give americans mor

the ranking member, the democrat, congressman henry waxman is now making his opening statements. set to testify, contractors responsible for setting up these health care exchanges that have not exactly been working. when that testify begins, of course, we'll dip back in for you. >>> on with the rest of the news. a very touching moment during the world series last night. the red sox honored a teacher killed outside of boston area high school before game one. fenway park held a moment of silence for colleen ritzer. people in the boston area and across the nation are heartbroken, trying to make sense of this brutal killing. also this morning, students are returning to class in most danvers, massachusetts, high schools -- or schools, rather. the high school is open only for grief counseling. we're also learning more about the 14-year-old boy accused of assaulting and killing that 24-year-old teacher. cnn's pamela brown live in danvers, massachusetts, in morning. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning to you, carol. this is certainly a grief-stricken community. we spoke to the

beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent she'll run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty eight years why mariam well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic french fries and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the two parties have so i so what what what is your platform when my platform has to do with what i say.

beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent she'll run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty eight years why mary . well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic franchise and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the two parties have so i so what what what is your platform. well my platform has to do with what i see is the main issue underlying all the other issues people i talk to are concerned about the environment we're concerned a

beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent so run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty years why mary. well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic franchise and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the two parties have so i think what what what is your platform. well my platform has to do with what i see is the main issue underlying all the other issues people i talk to are concerned about the environment we're concerned about

henry waxman kicked it off. >> the affordable care act is working. improving the health security of millions of americans for the past three years. the success of the affordable care act is due to the efforts of many people, but one individual more than any other is responsible for all of the good that has been accomplished and that is our witness today, secretary. >> thank you, secretary sabelius. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> that was great. >> that was great. wax -- waxman is quite possibly the sexiest politician i have ever seen. i though, exactly. you are waiting for him. you are waiting for his marriage to end. he is something a child would draw. >> he was great in "babe." >> oh. i have a feeling none of us have any strong opinions about what happened today, but did you watch any of the hearings? you didn't. >> no! >> i didn't think so. >> the summary i read was shorter than what you read. >> i know, i know. >> i learned more just now. >> do you think she should resign? >> i don't kno

joining me now is congressman henry waxman of california. he's the ranking member of the house committee on energy and commerce which will hold those hearings on the health care rollout. thanks so much for joining me this afternoon, congressman. >> pleased to be with you. >> before we get to health care and the upcoming hearings, i want to ask a quick question about the jobs report that came out today. we sort of got a mixed bag. we heard jason tell reporters in the white house briefing room today that he thinks the shutdown, government shutdown is going to have a real impact on jobs reports moving forward. do you think that's accurate, congressman? >> i think it's correct. a lot of people have been very concerned about whether they are going to have enough money to pay their bills while they face the government shutdown, whether they are federal employees or government contractors. that may well impact thinking about how they will spend for the holiday season. the shutdown was terrible. it did no one any good. it hurt our economy, it demora

. >> right now secretary sebelius is listening to henry waxman who likely is giving her praise. although there is bipartisan it seems anger that he website has not rolled out as sterling as the white house would have wanted. we have also a guest in the studio who can provide incite on how we go to this point. and we're also joined by jason jeffries, the founder and ceo of blender box, an agency that specializes in websites. can this be fixed? >> yes, absolutely. if the issues are related to flaws and errors in the logic, that might take some more time. >> and jenny regardless of which side of the political aisle you may be sitting on, by all arguments this has been a nightmare politically for the obama administration. >> absolutely. and one of the problems here is that we really need toe secretary to come out today and acknowledge that. i think that's really the thing she has to do and provide more specifics than her colleague did yesterday. and the big problem president obama has is he is in a no-win situation. if you listen to the calls that she be removed, who do you replace

. >>> and outfront tonight, democratic congressman henry waxman. thank you so much for take the time, sir. catheline sebelius as you know did an interview with our sanjay gupta. he asked her when the president first found out about these problems with the obama care web site. i want to play for you that exchange. i think the way it went down is important for the question. >> okay. >> do you know when he first knew that there was a problem? >> well, i think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. >> so not before that, though? >> not before october 1st? >> no. >> keep in mind the web site crashed when a few hundred people tried to access it during one of the tests. around the same time as that crash the president went out to the american people and said tell your friends, classmates, family member to sign up. wasn't it kathleen sebelius's job to note president knew the scale of the problem so he wouldn't go out and say something like that and look at the least clueless? >> i think that they expected the web site would work, and th

that was what greenspan himself in his testimony before henry waxman's committee, why if you want to do a confession you choose to do before henry waxman is beyond me, but that was what greenspan said he got ron. it turned out there were not policing the table. the table had been overturned commanded nearly to call this with the. so we have now a situation where i think we have learned a lot. i don't think we learned everything. this is one of those have says that will be studied and restated reexamined for the next 20 to 30 years before we really have clarity. i think we can address lessons about what happens in the crisis and to we have this distant or for all its flaws a bunch of people can come together and do something, sometimes bending the rules, sometimes stretching the law and that, i think an agenda to be something that is essential. if we had faint -- wait for congress to decide that the water had to finally go on the fire the house with a burn down before they get done. let me conclude with quickly asking where we are right now. i think there are three parts of that of wa

. >>> democratic congressman henry waxman. thank you for taking the time. kathleen sebelius, as you know, did an interview with sanjay gupta and asked her when the president found out about the problems with the obama care website. i just wanted to play for you that exchange. i think the way it went down is important for the question. >> do you know when he first knew that there was a problem? >> well, i think it became clear fairly early on. the first couple of days that -- >> not before that, though, not before october 1? >> no. >> keep a mind the website crashed, a few hundred people tried to access it during one of the tests. the president went out to american people and said, quoteding, tell your friends, classmates, family members to sign up. wasn't it kathleen sebelius to make sure the president knew the scale of the problem so he wouldn't go out and say something like that and look, at the least, clueless? >> i think that expected -- the -- website would work. and they didn't realize that once they opened it up on october 1 the demand would be so gr

we heard henry waxman asking questions and will we get real information that helps to move forward? >> that's the key question and that will decide whether or not what we witnessed here is oversight. you will learn how to build a web site, that's for sure. if you're sitting with this at home it will be technical. different companies who are contracted for different aspects of the build and design of this endeavor. it clearly had a lot of cooks here and we all see the results of how it was put out, but i think much of what we're seeing here and much of what could come out of this is either a better rollout and a better sign-up towards these deadlines, you know, or an administration that will have to push it a little bit. >> what about the push? how do you make this push? how do you get this to the point where you say, okay, we can say unequivocally, this is getting better? >> you push and push and push. you put very competent people like jeff zions in charge of the push. >> does this help putting these folks on the hot seat? >> well, it depends on who these folks is. what we're watch

we'll let you know, particularly what fred upton and henry waxman, the ranking democrat, are saying toolks. >>> up next, we're talking takeover. did the shutdown showdown open the door for democrats to really compete for control in the house? in 2014? dccc chairman steve israel joins me next for how he thinks it can be done. >>> and as lawmakers head to florida to pay their respects to the late congressman bill young, why his district could be the canary in the coleman for democrats to figure out if they can figure out if they have a shot. today's politics planner. told you about the president and immigration. look what hillary clinton is doing today. we teased that earlier this week. tonight, a little event for the center for american progress, at one time everybody thought c.a.p. really meant the center for clinton's american progress. you're watching "the daily rundown," only on msnbc. of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. if you look at a khan academy video, they cover everything from basic arithmetic to calculus, trigonometry, finance. you can really just

henry waxman was the chairman for a long time, jaung dingell before him.you think this was a testy hearing today, look at some of the hearingsing that either dingell or waxman shared going after bush administration officials on all sorts of issues. it was at least, you called it harassment. it was at least of as tough as it was today, and probably even tougher. those guys were pretty powerful, pretty strong chairmen of this specific committee. it's got a reputation for being tough on the opposite party, if you will, if they're the majority in the house. just a little footnote from the hearings i've even over the years. thanks very much. >> a pleasure being on with you. >> still ahead, dr. sanjay gupta joins us with a reminder of what's in obama care and what's not in obama care. later on, the crossfire hosts get ready. newt gingrich and van jones. they are here. i'm angela, and i didn't think i could quit smoking but chantix helped me do it. i told my doctor i think i'm... i'm ready. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to

ranking member is cumbersome and henry waxman, just taking his seat. henry waxman,man just taking his seat. we expect to get underway in a moment. >> good morning. tost, i would like to note our florida colleagues who are unable to be with us, they are attending the funeral of our late colleague bill young. a friend to all here and a mentor to so many on both sides of the aisle. missed,ing to be deeply particularly in his legacy of the establishment of the bone marrow registry. something that will save tens of thousands of lives. we appreciate that work. the energy and commerce committee continues our care law of the health as we examine the many problems, crashes, glitches, system failures that have defined open enrollment. over the past several months leading up to the launch, top administration officials and lead contractors appeared before this committee, looked us in the eye, and a short us that everything was on track -- assured us that everything was on track. it was not. why did they assure us that the website would work? did they not know or d

correspond the line today they have super credit every step of the way guys like tip o'neill and henry waxman and leon panetta fight for more spending every step of the way this president has tripled and i read dollars and we not only real dollars i mean you're saying that even yourself you have and nothing to do with it and we have that's a year to show for it but to your point about the affordable care act the people who are not impacted by it are likely to not have as many negative ideas about it what we ought to be looking at are the people whose premiums even while they don't participate in the program are going up and those who have been working over one hundred thirty forty years actually we've been in a five year decline again you can just run with whatever data points that you want to make on the company depends on the state you're taking by the cherry picking your nose your you should keep it tom you're telling me you like you're in charge of your teeth because i helped her and said this country has been going down we have been seeing this is for mr obama himself from me now if you'

fred upton the chairman, henry waxman the ranking democrat. two very, very different approaches to the health care reform law, the affordable care october or obama act. the democrats almost to a person supported it. the republicans almost to a person opposed it. tough questions for kathleen sebelius. they made important news in the course of these 31/2 hours. she made it clear, yes, there may be some security problems. mike rogers the chairman of the house intelligence committee who is a member of this committee, as well raised all sorts of issues. joe johns is here. we're going to talk about that in a moment. she repeatedly insisted the system has not yet formally crashed even though the system is down right now, it's been down now for many hours, here are some of the highlights what we heard over the past three and a half hours. >> i am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of healthcare.gov. so let me say directly to these americans, you deserve better. i apologize. >> all right. so that's just for starters. it's been goi

i yield two minutes to the distinguished ranking member of commerce committee from california, henry waxman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. waxman: we are on the seventh day of a government shutdown caused by the reckless actions of house republicans and are considering the sixth piecemeal bill that reopens a few government activities, but it still continues the shutdown for everybody else. now i support the f.d.a. who doesn't support the f.d.a. it's very important that they do their job. but you know what's also important? what's also important is the centers for disease control and prevention, which limits the ability -- which has to respond to disease outbreaks and prevent the spread of seasonal flu. hey aren't going to be reopened. the health services administration, which improves mental health access across the country, there are things that this government does and i'm pleased my republican colleagues are starting to understand why government is so important. and that's why we shouldn't have this closing down of government an

but the committee's top democrat henry waxman is optimistic. >> you are confident they can fix it even all the problems and delays we've seen. >> i'm confident they told us they can fix it. >> reporter: while fred upton says they must get more answers. >> have you learned yet who is responsible? >> it seems like there was a fingerprinting and all of it was going to the administration. >> kelly o'donnell on story. one of the more heated moments came between a republican and a democrat over matters of privacy. >> you sign up for this or attempt to you have no reasonable expect jays of privacy. that is a direct contradiction to hippa and you know it. >> i started out in my opening statement saying there was no legitimacy to this hearing and the last line of the questioning confirms that. hippa only applies when there's health information being provided. that's not in play here today. no health information is required in the application process and why is that? because pre-existing conditions don't matter. so once again here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. >> wi

we i'm having a feeling behind the scenes people like john and henry waxman, eshoo, neighbor -- nancy pelosi and they're going roast the guy or girl who is doing the briefing. it's unlikely that the president is going give the republicans a similar option. again, we're the majority. we can hold hearings. we can invite whoever we want to. with the support of the democrats to come to the public hearings. >> the number is 202-585-3881. you mentioned next week health and human service secretary come in. what are your questions for her specifically? >> when can she know it was going it file. why didn't she do anything about it. that's one question. it i have real question eat privacy of the individual data. i'm told there is a disclaimer somewhere in the senate process where it tells you that any information you give them give the website is not proprietary and does not have to be considerable. and they can share it with anybody in the government or anybody in the private sector they want to. to me, that's totally unacceptable. even on a government-run website, you're sharing your most int

talking about a moment during her exchange with ranking member of the energy and commerce committee henry waxmana democrat from california. themore column on this from media mashup column in today's "washington times" by christopher harper -- sticker shock from obamacare gets little attention, he writes. host: christopher harper goes on to note his own experience in effect that his insurance costs will be raised by about 200% if he actually signed up through the website. he says host: we are taking your: comments this morning. we have about five minutes left on the subject. we will go to gregory from florida on our line for democrats. gregory, good morning. caller: good morning. i am a disappointed democrats. i was one of those i got the letter. i am a retired truck driver, and two years ago, i got a catastrophic policy to get me through the three years until i get to medicare. to covere wherewithal that's $10,000 that i might've had to pay out-of-pocket in my premium of a because of my age, $424 a month. well, the only reason they got dropped or i got dropped was because they just dropped two m

but i have a feeling behind-the-scenes people like john dingell and henry waxman and anna eshoo, even nancy pelosi and steny hoyer i think they are going to roast this guy or girl that is going to do the briefing. it's unlikely the president is going to give the republicans is another option. but again, we are the majority. we can hold hearings and invite whoever we want to with the support of the democrats to come to these public hearings. >> host: we want to make sure we get in calls. the republican number is 202-737-0002. democratic callers to 025-85-3880 and independent your number is 202-58-5382. he mentioned that you will hear health and human services secretary come and. what are your questions for her specifically? >> guest: when did she know this was going to fail and why didn't she do anything about it would be one question to be buying the chairman and the caucus and i have questions about the lack of privacy of the individual data. i'm told there is a disclaimer somewhere in the synnott process where it tells you any information that you give them any web site is not propr

he'll open up with a statement as i said, henry waxman who used to be the chairman of the committee always outspoken himself, he will have an opening statement. as we a wait, let's bring brianna keilar. the president is getting toward deliver a major speech on this subject later today? >> that's right. president obama will be heading to boston and i think what's really interesting about his trip there is he'll be delivering rouremarks where mit romney signed his health care reform or massachusetts health care reform program into law with senator kennedy standing by watching him. so it's a little bit of a statement as president obama responds to some of the republican criticism that he's also getting.nding for headline. >> here is fred upton, chairman of the committee. >> good morning. energy and commerce committee welcomes the president's point person on health care, secretary sebelius, as part of our continuing oversight of the health care law. and we look forward to a thoughtful conversation on a number of issues including transparency and fairness. over months leading up to october 1 la

george miller, henry waxman, max baucus, and me. we were ford together then, and we are together now, too. [applause] and thanks to all of you, especially to lesley, boy, and ray murphy for your personal stories in bringing it home to us. i just want to focus on one last but to this. have said for many years, gone along time back. we did not have a health care system, we had a sick care system. once you get sick you get care one where the other coming emergency room, if you read a pre-existing condition you could not covered. that is the health care was if you get sick. very little in terms of keeping a healthy and out of the hospital in the first place. and so we work for years. put strong provisions in there for prevention and wellness programs. that's a big part of this bill. even today right now hundreds of thousands of people and getting free colonoscopy is, without copays deductibles. they're getting diabetes screening, circle cancer screening, breast cancer screening, mammograms, all of this without copay or deductible . infa

a need to replace her with someone else like henry waxman or bernie sanders. jonathan strong who covers congress for national review magazine tweeted this about feinstein cause reaction -- -- feinstein's reaction -- thomason maryland, and republican caller. alexander had it right on the money. we are going through a lot of politics. obviously it is unpopular. associate nominee good things with the word "espionage." many goodciate not things with the word "s cannot show." -- "espionage." going back to it alexander said, made ace s valtem and we usually have to justify things with probable cause. we are not willy-nilly spying on angela merkel. that is a good strategy to half. there is some intelligence -- if there is some intelligence we are doing legitimately, we can always fall back on it and that is pretty much what i want to say. the story in "the washington post" has the headline -- group thatbipartisan wants to rein in the nsa spying program and stop this dragnet collection of american phone calls. on the other hand you have senator dianne feinstein who he

. >> that was henry waxman, along with fred up to and, the chair. just giving you a flavor of the kinds of questions the secretary is going to get over the next hour or so. we'll take as much of this as we can live but of course we are about two minutes away from the opening bell. jim? i mean, there's something to watch, right? we'll try to keep our eye on the fed today but this is going too drive a lot of the conversation. >> obviously she's on the hot seat. congressman waxman saying the real issue isn't the web site. no, the real issue is the web site because that's how people interface with it. people i know trying to get health care going on to it, didn't work. part of life is the procedure, showing up. people are showing up and it's not working. people call for her head, want to see accountable because they know they would have lost their jobs themselves. did you this at work. thought it was interesting. who's to blame, david? did you have know it was verizon? i didn't know it was verizon. it was verizon's fault. did you see it was -- >> did yo

henry waxman will have an opening statement. very, very brief opening statements.belius. fred upton wants to gavel it as close to 9:00 a.m. as possible. she'll be testifying for three hours. mike levin is joining us, he served as health and human services secretary under president bush. mr. secretary, thanks very much for joining us. i don't know if you prefer mr. secretary or governor. you have two good titles there. but take us into her seat right now. she is under enormous pressure. how do you think she got into this mess? >> wolf, i have to say that the seeds of this problem were sown a year ago as the administration made decisions not to issue regulations that were required for those developing the system to actually do it properly. and meps whhence when the site go live, it had been inadequately tested. they were issuing regulations in september for an october 1 implementation. i'm sure that will come up in the hearing today. but i think in terms of looking at causes, i think that's a big one. >> so who is to blame for that? >> well, let's just say i don't th