orrin hatch. >> well, thanks, grover. appreciate job in your today because this is an important discussion as far as i'm concerned. it's always great to see my good friend grover norquist so i think it's dancing to the head and shoulder above almost everyone else in this field of trying to get the government to live within its means and taxes done the right way. he understands that the more we tax, the more government spends and the larger the government becomes. and i think i've been proud of you all these years, standing so tall on these particular issues. i wish we were here today to celebrate tax day, but let's face it, the clock ticks towards april 15, and americans across the country are rushing to complete their tax returns. and, of course, it's an annual chore we all go through. tax day reminds us all about overly complex and burdensome the u.s. tax code really is. and over 70,000 pages in length, our tax code is a labyrinth of red tape, it's counterproductive, it's stifling to american competitiveness, it hinders

orrin hatch from utah.e are now joined by senator pat roberts of rum kansas who's a member of the senate finance committee and has been a leader on taxpayer issues for a number of years. senator roberts. >> thank you. good morning. anybody out there? good morning. let's try again. >> good morning. >> this is the first amendment rights. if this keeps up in the irs comes in here, you will not even be able to say good morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. i appreciate it. i made a personal vow. that says i amio a journalist. it means i am an unemployed newspaperman. we have the right to free speech. i made a personal vow, like many house, toate and the keep pushing the administration until we understand the recent targetedhat have been conservative 501(c) fours. tuesday i took the opportunity to question the new commissioner . be on any shadow of doubt, let there be no shadow of doubt, the irs has been targeting conservative groups during the exams in the application process. it looks like i

annexation of crimea canceled all tactical -- that is to stay military -- cooperation with russia, but orrininisters agreed that they want to for the moment still uphold diplomatic ties with russia. nevertheless, air patrol in baltic states has been stepped up, and nato has said that it wants to rethink its strategy in the area and possibly even send troops to the ground. that is to be discussed, but we have to say that at the moment, it is still sort of a diplomatic political threat rather than proper military action that is being put into place. >> to afghanistan, now, where at least six police officers have been killed in a suicide attack outside the interior ministry in kabul. >> a suicide bomber disguised as a soldier blew himself up outside the compound. the taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes on the last day of campaigning before afghans elect a new president. the militant group has vowed to disrupt that poll. >> read bombs have exploded outside cairo university. at least two people are confirmed dead. several others wounded. >> the first two blasts went of

orrin hatch asked about the new number on enrollees. >> using the most conservative estimates, expenses have exceeded $1.3 billion. that is a lot of taxpayer money. how many of these people will actually pay premiums? how many of them had insurance before the law went into effect? the administration is hoping that nobody asks those questions. host: what do you hear there from the senator? why does it matter if they have paid their premiums? if they had health insurance before, why does that matter? guest: you're not officially enrolled until you pay your premium. it's a 7.5 million people have signed up, but until we know of them actually paid, we don't know, to actually enrolled. that is what matters. what we have heard from what we have heard from sebelius herself and insurers is 90% have paid their premiums. we are still waiting to see what the new batch numbers will look like. that number might be a little bit smaller but not too much smaller. they're still going to be opportunity for people to enroll throughout the year if they meet qualifications. the second question was about --

i caught up with orrin jacob. >> tory talk works by building up a conversation between you and your familyry to create characters by talking to. the characters will react to what you say the matter what you say? >> the characters will role-play with you and make a leave. in that circumstance, yeah, you can imagine what it is like to be an alien for real. >> show me how it works. >> let's talk to a bird. >> what am i supposed to do? >> i think he should jump out and flap your wings. >> ok, that's insane. what kind of parent are you? can you even hear yourself? come on, what is so great about flying, anyway? >> what if you told her to jump out and not flap its wings? it would take your response back and engage you. >> how do you do that? >> we take what you say in the microphone. and goes over a microphone into the cloud. >> you are also storing kids voices, right? develop better recognition technology for children. >> how challenging is that for the voice actors? >> we have to get them to record answers andpositive negative answers, quizzical responses. get professional actors to do that an

. >> the top republican on the senate finance committee, orrin hatch, predicted a frank discussion on burwell's nomination. fellow republican john mccain, though, called the pick an excellent choice. last year the senate unanimously approved burwell as budget director. >> mark albert in washington this morning. thank you. and tomorrow on "face the nation" bob schieffer looks at the future of the health care law now that secretary sebelius has stepped down. his guest, marsha blackburn and elijah cummings. >>> the crisis in ukraine is taking a new turn this morning. armed men wearing camouflage seized a police station. this happened in the eastern city north of danesk. another group of separatists occupy two buildings along the eastern border. they rejected an order of amnesty in exchange for laying down their weapons. this comes as a new constitution for the recently annexed crimea takes effect. >>> pope francis is now the first leader of the roman catholic church to take personal responsibility for the sexual abuse of children by priests. alan is in rome. >> reporter: good morning. th

i want to bring in brianna keilar, and here is what republican senator orrin hatch has to say.te, kathleen sebelius had one of the toughest jobs in washington, implementing obamacare, a flawed law which continues to fall short of the promise to the american people. while we have not always agreed, secretary kathleen sebelius did the best she could on the rollout of the law. so is she paying the price on the disastrous rollout and is it really her responsibility? >> yes, i think she is paying the price, we're not really surprised by that, when we saw how poorly it was written out in october and how it dragged out into november. the white house is trying to make very clear that this is something that kathleen sebelius did on her own terms. one white house official told me that she started conversations, multiple, with president obama back in early march when she had a sense that these enrollment numbers were going to be strong and that she felt that it would be a good time to leave. trying to leave on i guess the highest point she could leave, but also because i think she felt he

orrin hatch asked about numerous changes and the delays to the obamacare law., well, she pushed back saying the administration just wants to give consumers greater flexibility. >> we did not extend the open enrollment period beyond the 31st. we are giving people a chance to finish their purchase. we do not anticipate at this point, senator, additional delays. most of the policy issues are out, and what we've tried to do over the course of the four years of implementation is do a gradual transition into a few marketplace strategy. -- a new marketplace strategy. jenna: senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler is live with the latest on this. secretary sebelius has some new enrollment numbers. >> reporter: she did, jenna. 7.5 million people now have signed up for coverage under the affordable care act which is about 400,000 more than the administration be announced it signed up when the deadline ended at the end of last month. of course, the sign-up period was kept open for people who said they tried to enroll, but they'd run into problems be

the president is stub orrin and he is loyal and he didn't want to fire her during the worst part of the healthcare roll out. now is the time. >> is this about putting a new face on obamacare? >> there are challenges over the summer. there are 2014 i am politic indications to this. think about it. now sebelius is out of. there will be a confirmation heari hearing, republicans screaming at a brand-new woman. this is going to be a situation where the obvious could be beneficial to the administration and to do a change people have been calling for, for five or six months. >> doesn't this call attention to the problems that the president has had with his healthcare plan? >> it does, but he really has no choice about that. part of the issue last fall was that no matter how many mistakes were made, he kept sebelius in her position. they rehired the same incompetent people to work on the website so this is a kind of change that people have been asking for, for a long time. if you can spin this as i have heard what you are saying. we've got the 7 million signed up. now, we are about to turn a ne

now, when americans for prosperity sponsored utah senator orrin hatch, there he is, leaven promoted hatch bee big time when the superpac ended sponsorship, levin apologized for endorsing the senator. now, it had to be some kind of a big coincidence or mix-up americans for prosperity and levin both stopped supporting hatch at the same time. finally, sean hannity, the guy who loves to stand with law breaks. before we get to him, i want to play another clip of bill o'reilly last december. according to o'reilly, not even a janitor at fox news could accept money from political groups. >> look, howard, you couldn't do that on a fox news channel, you couldn't do it on cbs or abc news. you could not take that money, in any capacity, whether a commentator, janitor, you can't do it. >> in any capacity. you can't do it. you just can't do it. the cable said it, you can't do it. it must be true. unless you're sean hannity at fox news. the heritage foundation paid him $1.3 million in 2011. hannity started airing ads for tea party patriots in 2013. he used fox news airwaves to promote the tea party patr

senator mike and orrin hatch from utah. >> mike lee, the way he was able -- i told in the eye him where i was from. a really small town. he knew about it just like that. just the way he cared about utah , no matter what kind of place i came from, that he made a connection with me. >> would you like to have his job? great. would be so i am a little guy right now, so i cannot say much, but he is an amazing guy. >> how old are you? >> i am 17 years old. >> so you only have 13 years. go, keep hanging in there, i guess. >> senator lee, you better get ready. your name, sir. >> i am john from alaska. >> why did you do this? -- igot involved in this am headed to the military service at the airport -- the air force academy next year and i want to learn what this country is about and what i will be fighting for. >> what surprised you -- what did you learn that you did not expect? from a lieutenant general, i learned the three ideas behind the national guard, which i did not know before. which are, let me look at my notes -- vigilance, breach, and power. i did not expect that at all. take? many no

and orrin hatch are put out a statement really stressed and shewill have to prove that is willing to republicans on the law and i think the moderate the democrats were facing tougher election races. >> who might and those senators be? taken in north carolina and mary landrieu at louisiana. they are not going to be anxious to vote for anybody that will be the chief implementer of obamacare. like i said, she's a lose five -- she can lose five votes. >> would you think her chances are? will she win approval? it is too early to say by think she will get through. the rest of the democrats will struggle behind her. they are going to face the pressure. they are going to use of the vote if they do vote for her. >> jennifer haberkorn of politico. we appreciate your time as always. >> on the next "washington journal," we will tell but the gender pay gap. peter morici. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i think what we need as something akin to the great commission during the array can administration or brad commission, the realignment during the clinton administrati

orrin hatch is one in the house bill shuster and hal rogers are a couple of names. they may not be household names but they are within the institution itself respected as people who really want to work with you to try to accomplish. >> it's interesting that senators schumer and senator alexander happened to be the two people that have been working together on the processes in the senate to get things going. let's report on the results of our second on line audience question. we asked would you support a two-year budget so congress can focus on budget issues have to soften? what did you tell us? lots of support, 87% yes, 13% now in favor of a two-year budget. let's ask our third and final audience poll question which is this. would congress be more productive if members of their family spent more time in watching 10? you can vote at their web site bipartisan policy.org's {/}{\}{^} engage usa. vicki kennedy i've heard a lot of people on the commission on political reform talk about the need for people, members to spend more time in washington but our poll we aske

gregg: orrin hatch wished kathleen sebelius well. here is what he said. martha: more on the president's next pick for hhs secretary, her name is sylvia mathews burwell, she is currently the director of the omb, the office of management and budget. she was confirmed for her current post by a senate vote of 96-0. she oversaw preparation for the government's annual budget. she served in numerous positions during the clinton administration. gregg: that announcement coming at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. what will the sebelius resignation mean in november. does it give democrats some political leeway here? martha: she has to be exhausted. when you look at what she has been through. as was pointed out by tucker carlson. she didn't engineer this program but she was tasked with clearing it out. by all reviews the rollout was a disaster. gregg: she has her mani' critics, she could have been more attentive or directive and she wasn't so her name will forever be associated this. martha: the former governor of kansas. gregg: at least 10 people killed in a horrible accide

the top republican on that panel is orrin hatch. he stressed that she would have to prove -- willing to work with for publicans on the law. i think the moderate democrats who are facing tough reelection. >> although senators be? >> mary landrieu in louisiana. they will not be anxious to vote for anyone who will be the chief implementer of obamacare. like i said, she can lose five senate democrats. they will be the ones to watch. >> what do you think her chances are? will she win approval in the senate? >> i think it is too early to say. if i have to put money on it, i say she will get through. the democrats will align behind her. they will face pressure at home. republicans will use this vote against him if they vote for her. >> jennifer haberkorn, we appreciate your time as always. >> thank you. >> on the next "washington journal," we will talk about the gender pay gap. and a look at the tax prep industry and proposals to license tax preparer's. it begins live at 7:00 eastern. today on c-span, the freedom summit from new hampshire,

we are now joined by senator orrin hatch of utah, the ranking member of the senate committee on finance. >> it's always great. i think it stands singularly in and shoulders above everyone else in this field of trying to get the government to live within its means. understand the more we tax them more in government spends in the larger the government becomes. and i think we're proud, standing sent on these particular issues. no issue rear to celebrate tax state. let's face it, the clock ticks towards in the 15th. americans across the country are rushing to complete their tax returns. on taxed a it reminds us of how overly complex and burdensome the u.s. tax code releases. over 70,000 pages in length, our tax code is on labyrinth of red tape, counterproductive, stifling to american competitiveness commander in much needed job growth and needlessly hassles individual americans and their families. we have not reform our tax code in 20 years, and it's a colossal mess. i know that my good friend is working hard over on the house side to overhaul the nation's broken code. he recently put forwa

orrin hatch is one. in the house, bill shuster. hal rogers. they may not be household names, but they are within the institution itself respected as people who really want to work with you to try to accomplish. >> it is interesting that senator schumer and senator alexander are mentioned. they have been working on new processes in the senate to get things going. let's report. would you support a two-year budget so congress can focus on budget talks half as much? 87%, yes. 13%, no. let's ask our third and final question -- would congress be more productive if members and their families spent more time in washington? you can vote at our website bipartisanpolicy.org. vicki kennedy, i've heard a lot of people talk about the need for people, members to spend more time in washington. in our poll, we asked if members of congress should move their families to washington or leave them in the district. by six to one, americans said they should leave their families in the district. there was much more concerned with members losing touch with what their c

orrin hatch saying his contemporaries never met a merger they liked. of course, an alum of nbc, by the way, who says that he does not like the deal, clearly. >> i know the left is going to hate this. i find franken a delight. i mean, franken -- look, he speaks his mind. i like bernie frank. i like guys who speak their mind. i like jack welch. i like sam zell. i like people who don't play for dinner. they're not afraid to talk. they don't play for dinner. >> that was definitely the case yesterday. >>> when we come back, we'll get stock trading with jim. but first, sarah eisen is in washington at the imf world bank spring meeting where she has two very big interviews coming up. good morning, sarah. >> good morning. missed you guys at the stock exchange. enjoying the cherry blos sosoms. the imf head christine la guard. they'll be joining us for our first interview here on cnbc when we come back. a lot of talk about lhow to get this world economy breaking out. we're growing. it's better. there are still problems. there's blame gaming. so you will not want