speech given today on the floor of the senate by lamar alexander, i think it is up on youtube. people ought to take a look at it. where basically it admonishes the president and senator reid for taking the attitude they have had. he said look, our responsibility, the founders knew that there would be controversy and deep disagreements. and they created a system of government with checks and balances and they expected us to try to resolve it in an orderly fashion. and you, mr. president, doing what you're doing, and you, senator reid doing what they're doing are not helping to bring about a resolution. >> i think the democrats would say it is the tea party element voting against them. they say the law was passed whether it is unpopular or not. and that they would say the same argument back. >> the history of our country is replete with laws that ultimately get removed from the books. that is not an unusual procedure. >> i'm well aware of that. see many of the arguments i hear, it is amazing how the other side makes the same argument. >> there is no argument possible

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lamar alexander is concerned if there's not enough money to keep the project going, the government will lose millions having to cancel projects. congress would have to vote again to allocate the money. >> more signs the government is getting back to work. the labour department says it's releasing its latest jobs report on tuesday. the payroll numbers were supposed to be released october 4th, but were postponed by the shutdown. a dozen key economic reports were delayed due to the budget balance. >> the online activist group anonymous is demanding answers to the case of alleged rape and how it's onlieded in missouri -- handled in missouri. this is not the first time this organization got involved in a criminal investigation. >> greetings world. we are operation maryville. two young girls have been repeat... >> the involvement of anonymous changed the face of a rape case in america's midwest. >> i hope people see through all the small-town stuff that they really see the story for what it is, instead of everyone's opinion. >> daisy coleman says she's been repeatedly threatened since going t

gerri: you and lamar alexander calling for her resignation.s she will have the website picks by the end of november. will that satisfy you? >> certainly the american people will be satisfied if, in fact many see this kind of a quick improvement because they deserve that. what we have to do is look at the dollars, look at the failures, and candidly, we have to make sure that is literally the next time and the next time in the next time there are these big projects such as the president's signature legislation, obamacare, that, in fact, there is accountability. in this time there was not command that is why everyone is saying i did not know why no one is saying it was my responsibility. and the technique and a qualified person, control the budget. as a result it is my fault. you can find everyone he took credit for the brilliance of those 2400 pages, but you cannot find anyone to explain the mistakes, including the fact that people being thrown up their health care as uni speak at a number greater than the amount of people able to get on to obam

lamar alexander of tennessee. senator alexander did send in a statement to us, quote, according to the army corps of engineer, 160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included. senator feinstein and i as chairman and ranking member of the energy and water appropriations subcommittee requested this provision. it has already been approved this year by the house and senate, so says senator lamar alexander in a statement to us. >> what's not in there is any explanation of how we went from $700 million to close to $3 billion. it's one thing to say we got to keep this thing going so these existing contracts don't get canceled but -- and i've asked the white house this question too, why did the number jump three fold. there are a lot of folks who support the idea of this project thae it's going to help mississippi river traffic, right above the confluence of the ohio and mississippi river but i think americans get frustrated when they see we're raising the debt cei

republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee says he and democratic senator diane feinstein askedor the extra money. nay are concerned if there is not enough money to keep the project going, the government will have to cancel existing contracts. while the vote raises the spending limit for the project, congress would have to vote again to actually allocate the money. >>> and this wasn't the first time senator mcconnell tried to get funding for the project. he toured the project back in 2009. >>> former house speaker tom foley has died. he also -- he was 84 years of age. >>> president obama is set to announce his choice to be the nation's next secretary of homeland security. the president is expected to nominate jeh johnson later on this afternoon. he played a key role on lifting the ban on gays and lesbians who serve in the military. if confirmed, he will succeed janet napolitano. we will have the president's announcement at about 2:00. >>> some lebanese are getting weary of the influx of syrian refugees. as andrew simmons reports the new challenge is just to coexist peacefully. >

one of his key deputies, lamar alexander of tennessee and lindsey graham of south carolina.hree republican senators who voted yes who have tea party challengers as they seek re-election next year. three big races to watch as we see if the tea party can follow through now on threats to punish those who voted yes. anderson? >> fascinating to see the maps like that. as we've been reporting, senator ted cruz says he is not ruling out another shutdown. the texas republican is taking a big share of the blame or the credit for what has happened in washington for the past several weeks. he led the republican effort to inject the defunding of obama care into the budget battle. one of the more interesting things to watch has been how senator cruz has talked about the shutdown as if he had nothing to do with it. listen. >> i don't think we should have a government shutdown. >> why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial? >> harry reid and president obama want a shutdown. >> why did the federal government spend money to erect ba

one of his key deputies, lamar alexander of tennessee and lindsey graham of south carolina. three republican senators who voted yes who have tea party challengers as they seek re-election next year. three big races to watch as we see if the tea party can follow through now on threats to punish those who voted yes. anderson? >> fascinating to see the maps like that. as we've been reporting, senator ted cruz says he is not ruling out another shutdown. the texas republican is taking a big share of the blame or the credit for what has happened in washington for the past several weeks. he led the republican effort to inject the defunding of obama care into the budget battle. one of the more interesting things to watch has been how senator cruz has talked about the shutdown as if he had nothing to do with it. listen. >> i don't think we should have a government shutdown. >> why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial? >> harry reid and president obama want a shutdown. >> why did the federal government spend money to erect

lamar alexander from tennessee say that he and democratic senator, dianne feinstein, asked for the money. even if there's not enough money to keep the project going, the government would lose by having to cancel existing contracts. while the congress raised the project, they would have to vote again to actually allocate the money. home instead >> this is not the first time that the president tried to get money for the prompt. >>> it's having an effect on the nation's military as well. they could be facing serious problems if another war breaks out. reductions to the defense department makes the army too small, unable to fight even one more. critics say that the army is crying wolf, ignoring the white house 2012 strategy, calling for smaller and mor agile forces. >>> the president is expected to nominate jay johnson as homeless security chief. homeland security chief. >> if confirmed by the senate, he will secede janet depolitano, who left last month. >>> the bay area rapid transit workers are on strike. doing it now for the second time in four months. the bart train shutdown leaves hundr

lindsey graham, lamar alexander and in the house, 14 seats that are up for grabs next year are now leaningemocrat because of the damage done to the gop. congressman from toss up to left leaning states are in the most danger. the report says republicans actions have energized fund raising and recruiting efforts and handed democrats an effective message, end quote. with the shutdown, the folks in washington will likely fall on the government's health care website. judging by the headlines, it's not good news for the administration. three weeks after launching, there are still stories of error messages, long wait times and as you can imagine, frustration. as tom costello reports, cost overruns designing the site have been massive. >>> cgi federal. their business with the u.s. government grew during the bush administration. on october 4, 2011, it was awarded a $55.7 million contract for computer systems design services to build the website with a ceiling price tag of $94 million. by may of this year, the contract shows cgi spent $196 million. the ceiling price tag soared to $292 million. >> th

and because lamar alexander. he said any to be sworn in before the day is out.that cost set in motion a whole afternoon you read about in the book. but at 5:00 -- five minutes to 6:00 that evening, people in nashville rock in the cbs affiliate channel five, watching chris clark. all of a sudden, actually they were watching a five minutes before 6:00 erogenous cbs evening news with walter cronkite. there was an. an outcome you don't do that. the producers in new york agreed because this is such towering significance. people watching channel five in nashville all of a sudden solve this. adding imac [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> amazing how much hair people had, it met? and the outfits, brings back the memories of that night. kerr, one that you read us a little bit from your book? been that i will read a little bit. i'm happy to. i also want to say, genocide tv report

and whether this was his deal, lamar alexanders' other's. he may take the brunt of it. >> what just happened in washington, d.c.? >> reporter: that's i think something that's going to take a lot of time to figure out what kind of repercussions there were. what was interesting was the president tried to touch on this issue of lost trust. take a listen. >> cause there's a lot of work ahead of us, including our need to earn back the trust of the american people that's been lost over the last few weeks. and we can begin to do that by addressing the real issues that they care about. >> reporter: brian, i think they have done long-term damage to trust in government. one thing that didn't happen anywhere today, not from any leader or from the president, an apology to the furloughed workers, some of them, it will take months for them to recover in their own personal checking accounts. >>> on wall street here today in new york, these indications all day that a deal was coming, that was enough to send all the major indeces up, the dow gained 205 point

around, and lamar alexander's opponent, one of the state reps trying to primary alexander from the right, said that he would really have a great chance if all the outside money from washington would come in. the outside groups, heritage action fund, club for growth, groups like that get involved in that campaign. you now have a guy rupping for office in tennessee who is depending on money from washington instead of building a grassroots movement from tennessee. >> there is a couple of problems here, though, worth pointing out. you can have sharp ideological polarization and partisan polarization, plenty of issues which are not inherently ideological if you want to work together. what has happened in part two is the phenomenon of the permanent campaign f you look at the era of the bull weevils and the gypsy moths, the democrats had hegemony in the house to make a majority for 40 consecutive years. for a good portion of that, republicans decided that the only way to participate was to compromise and work together. after newt gingrich took the republicans into a majority in 1994, every elec

lot of focus, though, right now, as i said, on whatever sort of situation mitch mcconnell and lamar alexanderor reid, if that is possible at this point. but, don, it is very clear that the white house feels they have the upper hand here. the polls reflect that, right? you have recent polls that appear to have swayed republicans as well that show that republicans are being blamed for this much more than the white house, much more than democrats, that the tea party approval rating is at an all-time low. and so i think what you see, you're going to be seeing here in the coming days is more and more pressure. it's going to happen exponentially, monday if this isn't resolved, the markets will react. that exerts a tremendous amount of pressure. congress frequently responds to that. the march towards thursday, that deadline october 17th, pressure. and what happens when you press on let's say, a stool, well, the weakest leg gives and the way the white house reads this is that republicans are the weakest leg of that stool, if you will, so they sort of i think feel that ultimately as the pressure build

jenna: some big questions there in the last hour of "happening now", republican senator lamar alexander the administration should be held accountable. take a listen. >> he needs to be on the flagpole for this and somebody should be fired. if the president will not resign he should fire somebody else. we have millions of americans who are being told they have to buy insurance by december 15, have it in place by january 1 on a website that doesn't work or be fined by the internal revenue service. that is completely unacceptable. jenna: i asked senator alexander whether or not he thought health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius should be the one to resign? he said he will leave the decision up to the president. a big question today, secretary sebelius breaking her silence after growing calls for her resignation. probably one of the topics we'll hear about at the press briefing. you never know. white house correspondent ed henry has seen surprises in the briefing room. ed, the white house is under pressure from a lot of different sides on this entire rollout. tell us a little b

but what we heard last night from senator lamar alexander's office is that it was his idea.now his source who spoke up in a meeting with senate republicans said we need this in a bill, he explained why and none of the rest of the senator republicans, like senator mike lee, had anything to say about that. right now there's a lot of blowback but we don't know exactly where to put the blame. >> all right, sam. nice to see you. thank you for being with us. we'll see you right here tomorrow at our new time, 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> hello and welcome to kicking around the soda to the best way it is on the walls around your house. the best choices for glue, there are many and then the history of thumbtacks. did you know they were invented by egyptians as a way to torment virgins 1234 she is hot thearn a time square rolex sold in a sauna on the sun. i am hair with harris faulkner. don't do that to our viewers on fox newschannel. and filling in for andy levy is his fill philanthropist uncle, wellington levey. he donated $100 million to a

gerri: tonight senator lamar alexander is begging, asking, begging for weekly reports.cannot even get a monthly report. when is the administration going to fess up, come clean can tell the american people what they're getting for their money? >> it will hold out as long as they can and are hoping that the number takes up in the respectability and it could be a long time until that happens. very important political opporunity. ron johnson, senator from wisconsin will offer legislation grandfathering in these plans which will have a lot of political purges and put a lot of pressure on the democrats. gerri: is that the solution? >> absolutely. it is never too late for the administration to change course. i think senator johnson is during executive the right thing. pass a piece of legislation, exit to do what the president said it would. if you like your plan you can keep it. allow insurers to keep their old plans under the old rules going into 2014 which was of a big part of the problem it democrats and the congress and the president would agree. gerri: unfortunately hundr

the democrats are on the same page, followed a meeting this morning with chuck sheurschumer and lamar alexande, harry reid the majority leader has given a statement and said that meeting went surprisingly well. take a listen. >> the conversations were extremely cordial but very preliminary of course. nothing conclusive. but i hope that our talking is some solace to the american people and to the world. >> now, at midday today in the senate there was a vote to try and get discussion underway on raising the debt ceiling which is the very serious issue on all of this. that happens on thursday if the debt ceiling isn't raised the government rungs out of money. and 53 to 45 the senate blocked that possibility. the only glimmer of light is an idea out there from the main senator susan collins. now she interestingly was surrounding by democrats before the counting of that vote by midday had even been finished today. we watched her being completely surrounded. there can be a possibility that there may be some movement involving the susan collins idea, we don't know for certain. she was due for a press

nor for lamar alexander. the highest ranking secretary calling for secretary sebelius to leave.hy, senator? >> because of the disaster with the rollout of the web site. she is going to memphis tomorrow, and while she is there, i hope she explains to thousands of tennesseans who are receiving cancellation letters, why they're out of insurance on january 1 because the web site won't work. >> i don't know if you heard, sir, but they're not getting canceled. they're getting transitioned. that's the new buzz word. >> that may be -- that's not exactly what the letter says. we're beginning to get letters in our office, thousands of tennesseans, about a million and a half across the country we have been able to identify, and what they're finding out to their shock, after january 1, the policies they have had, and they were promised they can keep, they can't keep because it's illegal under obamacare. >> you know, senator, when this was being debated on capitol hill, i should have gotten a condo in washington, i spent so much time there one thing i distinctly recall is this notion of you

present were harry reid, chuck schumer and lamar alexander. after that harry reid said that meeting had gone well but he personalized his relationship with the majority leader, said he and mitch mcconnell had known each other for years and kind of hinted they would work it out. take a listen. >> senator mcconnell and i have been in this body for a long time, we have done things together, i know him, he knows me. we don't agree on everything that is as you know an understatement. but we were whips together, we did some good things together, we revamped government together, as whips. so this is what legislation is all about. if we have political scientists out there now, this is a classic case of what legislation is all about. the problem we've had in recent years is we've had too little of this. too little sitting down trying to work out problems. that's what we're doing now. >> harry reid earlier in the day they couldn't work it out between them though, because there was a vote in the senate at 12:00 which was designed to get everybody talking

john mccain tells the daily beast: >> republicans senator lamar alexander of tennessee says he and democratic senator dianne feinstein asked for the extra money. he said they're concerned if there's not enough money to keep the project going, the government will lose $160 million having to cancel contracts. congress would still to have vote again to actually allocate the money. jonathan martin, aljazeera, olmst ex-ad, illinois. >> senator mcconnell tried to get funding for the project you. toured the site in 2009. >> temperatures are dropping in the midwest and southern plains and they're in for a hard freeze. good morning, nicole. >> definitely a colder day today after the front has moved through and what it means at the risk of a hard freeze is that temperatures are low enough, long enough that really it's the end to the growing season. that's what we're going to see if not today into the days tomorrow. here's what we have. all the way, this is well to the south, places farther north, we've had that in some cases, kansas into north parts of texas watching for that today. temperatures with t

i'm told it came up yesterday in the republican conference meeting, and lamar alexander, republican of tennessee got up and talked about it and said if any conservatives have questions about it to ask questions. it's a huge midwest waterway project. it benefits interstate commerce across the midwest. and that there were no objections. there were other projects that were in this bill that were struck because of conservative concerns but not this one. >> mike we'll continue to look into that. a grouch state and local employment agencies in oregon confirms that furloughed federal workers there will not have to repay state unemployment benefits. a spokesman for work source oregon says employees received one week of benefits at most. president obama says there were no winners from the standoff over the debt ceiling and government shutdown. chief white house correspondent ed henry tells us the president spoke this morning just hours after signing the legislation that ended what he called a self-inflicted crisis. >> reporter: as he called again for a new tone in washington, president obama st

mcconnell has appointed lamar alexander, obviously a republican, to be the point person on this. what are they going to cook up? we just don't know at this point, don, things are very uncertain, but we'll certainly be keeping an eye on the senate to see if there is perhaps some sort of framework they can come up with before the markets open on monday. and even though it's a holiday, the markets, the stock market anyway, will be open and either way, whether there's some sort of framework or not, it will no doubt -- we would think anyways -- respond in some way. >> yeah. and as you were speaking there, we saw the video of them leaving the white house. the last one was harry reid getting into his suv, a driver helping him to get in there. let's talk now about the house members, brianna. they went home to their districts today. senate leaders, again, negotiating that debt limit deal as you've been talking about. you told me last hour that the process is back to the drawing board. so, what happens when the house is back in session next week? >> reporter: well, i think at this point it

tucky that said we are awfully close to tennessee and mississippi referring to lindsay graham, lamar alexander and cochran. they singled out in a post presumally written by the post. he is watching his own and voted against the deal. how this fight changed in 24th. connell and i show you pictures of ted cruz who is greeting visitors to the capital. one more thing, dianne feinstein, a democrat, they made sure that provision was in there. there you go. congress managed to buy itself time for budget tyke and to keep the lies on for another 90 days. it may not have happened if not for a bipartisan group of senators. with me was the members of the group of 14. north dakota democratic senator. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> so this deal, it was all with the moderates essentially from the democrats and the republicans coming together to do this deal. what's interesting to me is it seems as if the moderates never have a role. how do you change that mind set? do you think you would have more credibility now when there is not a crisis to be averted? >> we are still in this game. we have a sh

passed it and his office says he's not the one that put it into the bill, that it was senator lamar alexandere finestein of california. that said, this is washington d.c. and when seb negotiate as major deal and happens to end up with billions of dollars for a dam in his state, as president clinton once said, if i see a snail on a fence post, it didn't get there by itself. >> what are other lawmakers saying? >> the people that are really anti-pork like john mccain are upset this didn't go through the normal process. most republicans are saying because they understand this is probably important to mitch mcconnell who is facing a tough reelection fight, possibly are saying well, i wish it had gone through the normal process but they are not specifically criticizing the actual dam or the actual project. >> all right. jake tapper, thanks, jake. >> thanks and ersonanderson. >> let's get caught up, isha. >>> new york city police are on a desperate search for a missing autistic teenager. the 14-year-old vanished after running out of school two weeks ago. his mother's voice is being played on police

>> this is what lamar alexander said today.id wikileaks is pouring out data all over the country. the only secret kept in washington anymore is the number of people enrolled. >> that's it for this panel. we'll have full coverage of the sebelius testimony tomorrow. next up, is president obama out of the loop? and if so, how far? both maxwell and ted have hail damage to their cars. ted is trying to get a hold of his insurance agent. maxwell is not. he's on geico.com setting up an appointment with an adjuster. ted is now on hold with his insurance company. maxwell is not and just confirmed a 5:30 time for tuesday. ted, is still waiting. yes! maxwell is out and about... with ted's now ex-girlfriend. wheeeee! whoo! later ted! online claims appointments. just a click away on geico.com. >> i first learned about it from the same news reports that i think most people learned about this. i think it was on friday. >> we don't have any independent knowledge of that. he found out about the news reports yesterday on the road. >> i can assure

senator lamar alexander and he was furious. senator corker of tennessee is very, very unhappy.ieved the shutdown really hurt the republican party. do you believe that and what's the solution? >> it hurt certainly in the polling. if you look at the polling, it hurt. over the long haul, though, i think if we shift our focus away from washington towards the state capitals where republicans are doing fantastic work, that's the path to redemption for the republican party going forward. i would say that if we just show a little more self-restraint, which is one of the comments i make, and let people begin to see the flaws in the president's roll-out of obama care, both in terms of the tactical implementation side but also the flawed nature of its policy, then we're going to win the day. and then we'll have as paul ryan is building a proposal that would draw people toward our causes. >> you would have said let this thing run through and go on ahead and see what the problems are with it. >> look what's happened since we've moved off the debt ceiling conversation and now the focus is no

lindsey graham and lamar alexander, they already know that they're facing tea party primary challengersey voted yes anyway. for that matter, you can throw senate gop leader mitch mcconnell who helped broker the deal and is being challenged in next year's primary into the same category. democrats can't wait to start using the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis against house republicans no matter how they voted on the final deal. they already started. in arkansas, the democratic party this week sent tom cotton an invoice for the estimated $24 billion cost of the shutdown. also the basic matter of control of the house. democrats will need a net gain of 17 seats to take it back next year. that is a huge challenge for the white house party and the midterm election if history is any guide. the nonpartisan cook political report made waves thursday when it questioned and stressed the word questioned here whether the republicans are putting that lock on the house in jeopardy. quote, we always maintained house republicans would need to engage in some spectacularly self-destructive behavior in order

we have a movement in west tennessee that has a constitutional party and senator lamar alexander. just fill out a small minority for the entire country. even with both parties. so when you look at the history, how do you do that? >> i think part of what is going on is the primary process. that empowers a minority in each party. so who shows up in primary elections their opinions are not always in sync with the electorate. they also have the folks that are waiting in the wings to knock off any incumbents who have the audacity, and i would argue the wisdom to make a compromise on some of the things that we actually have to do. so as long as the folks who are showing up in primaries, giving the money, if you will, they are the ones who determine who we get to pick from on the general election ballot and then we will continue to get a system that is polarized as a result. i would also argue that it is kind of our fault, which because sometimes they show up in the primaries. so the rest of them, we are not willing to pay attention and if we are not willing to engage, then we are kind o

but what we heard last night from senator lamar alexander's office is that it was his idea.s source who spoke up in a meeting with senate republicans said we need this in a bill, he explained why and none of the rest of the senator republicans, like senator mike lee, had anything to say about that. right now there's a lot of blowback but we don't know exactly where to put the blame. >> all right, sam. nice to see you. thank you for being with us. we'll see you right here tomorrow at our new time, 7:00 p.m. eastern. go to gretawire.com. tell me about obama care. has it been good for you? bill o'reilly is next. >>> the o'reilly factor is on tonight. >> all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict. >> president obama scorching his opponents in the aftermath of the funding settlement. we'll have analysis tonight with laura ingraham and carl bernstein. >> there's congressional people who want to paralyze the system. i think what sits underneath it, unfortunately, is probabl

there's still time for challengers to emerge against people from texas senator john cornyn to lamar alexander in tennessee. right now we're seeing the hardest hits against mitch mcconnell and lindsay graham, the senator from south carolina. >> we'll see how they campaign, the historic moment of where were you then. >> great to be with you. >> we're following developing news as we've been talking about this tornado watch in effect for much of the northeast. including parts of new york state and new jersey and washington, d.c. and virginia. kelly kas joins me more. how much change have we seen over the afternoon? >> not much but get ready for a cooldown. it's a dangerous day of weather from upstate new york towards new york city, philadelphia and parts of the delmarva peninsula are under a tornado watch. that goes until 5:00 eastern time. already a dangerous line that's moving through the capitol district right now. we start you off there and have an accountive tornado warning for portions of the mohawk valley and fulton county, you need to seek shelter now. it is in effect until 2:30 eastern t

republican senate, and there were some courageous profiles and coverage of people like lindsey graham, lamar alexander, who had tea party opponents but who knew they shouldn't go along. these are more mainstream conserve pivz. but this small band, given the fact that they have talk radio, they have a whole blogging radio, jim demint does far more damage outside than in with his foundation. they frighten republicans and say you don't go along with it. even though you know it's wrong, you know it's irrational, you know it's bad, we're going to give you primary. and too many republicans in the house shrug their shoulders and say okay. i think the jubilation you saw there is not universal in the republican caucus. there are large numbers in the republican house caucus who know this is wrong. very few have the courage of pete king to stand up and say so. but privately, they admit it. and i think that, god forbid we'll shut down the government. there is going to be such a reaction against them that they're going to have to back off, hopefully after a few days. >> senator chuck schumer of new york. thank you

. >>> and joining me now is republican senator lamar alexander, republican of tennessee, introducing a bill that would push the government to release weekly updates on the obama care figures. senator, thanks for joining us. i have to say -- >> thank you, jake. >> -- it doesn't on its face sound unreasonable, weekly update, but given how much trouble the website is having, is it not possible that this would create an additional burden that would make it even more difficult for healthcare.gov to get up and running? >> there's a pretty basic information. mcdonald's 20 years ago could tell you how many hamburgers they were selling every day. all we want to know is how many people tried to get on, how many were successful, what was their zip code, what was their level of insurance. governors need to know this because if you sign up for obama care, it affects medicaid in virtually every state. we need to know it in the congress because we appropriate the money. the american people need to know it. so why not do it? >> you have 760,000 adults in tennessee who do not have health insurance an

senator lamar alexander coming out with a proposal calling for regular progress reports on that websitecontinue, at least administration to try to fix these what are calling glitches and what many others are calling a lot worse. back to you. david: delay is what the whole government shutdown is all about. that is what republicans wanted. jay carney, is only person in the administration is suggest they're thinking about delay of administering individual mandate, same delay insiders got, corporations and unions. anyone else beside tim carney expected to come out or confirm it or at least thinking about it. >> what the white house spokesperson said, they're not even talking about officially delaying the mandate. they're not really saying all that much these can conceive as the law is written if you can't get physically health insurance they see you not having to face the penalty because of technical problems. they're saying we have months to work this out. they defer a lot of questions to health and human services hhs isn't providing all that much more information than the white house is.

yesterday, yes, she's back, and she was threatening mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham and, you know, lamar alexander. i mean they are still going to play in these primaries. >> in pretty clear terms she was doing that. perry, patty murray met with paul roin and all the budget committee chairs. they have already ruled out a deal with new tax revenues and large scale changes to medicare, medicaid and social security. instead they're looking at a more modest confidence-building measure to replace the sequestration cuts in 2014. but when you look at super committees, they don't have a high success rate here as of late. is this time any different? >> i don't think it will be in terms of like big changes. like you said, richard, in terms of medicare, social security, raising taxes, the things that would be sort of a big grand bargain that president obama was talking about a couple of years ago, i think those things are unlikely to happen. what you're looking for is more can the sequester be changed in some ways to where it's less painful for military cuts the republicans don't like or domestic spending cu

don't forget, mitch mcconnel mcconnelled that cochran in mississippi, lamar alexander, they all have primary challenges. >> pelley: these are republicans. >> republican senators running for reelection. so, you know, i think that there's a chance that quite to the contrary we may see the democrats encouraging the tea party group to engage. >> if i were a democrat i would have a tk-pb -- an evil impulse to spend the next two years destroying the republican party. >> aren't you glad you're not a democrat? >> i remain pure for that reason. so pick an issue in which the tea party tears apart the republican party and they'll nominate ted cruz or rand paul and they'll carrie three counties in mississippi. >> you heard tom foalfully the interview with jim lehrer saying "how often can a speaker bring something to the floor where his own part gee opposed to it." john boehner sendin send standit the press sis, only one-third of his entire caucus supported the resolution and the compromise crafted by the senate. i don't know on -- i don't think on immigration you've got even close to one-third,

in our case, senator lamar alexander is a patient man and a moderate senator.has lost his patience. i've lost my patience. we're saying, start giving us at least the critical -- we prioritize -- the critical discovery to let us understand particularly related to documents we already have that showed they were shown failures. >> you want documents from the department of health and humans ofs and the main contracts providing services to create the website? >> absolutely. 10 out of 11 of the major contractors are cooperating fully. >> who is not. >> qssi. >> the big one. what are they saying to you? >> they wouldn't give us time lines. they sort of slow rolled us and we had to send them a subpoena, too. the challenge here, quite frankly, though, is the tip of the iceberg is the website. but safety, security, rely ability of the information at a time when people are being ordered on penalty of tax to do things we need to make sure happens. >> the argument made against you, you don't want to fix obama care. you want to destroy obama care and you're doing this for po