white house logs, mr. chao, you said you had been there between 10 and 29 times to these meetings. mr. park, according to the white house log, you've been to nine of these where jean ran the meeting, is that correct, mr. park? nine times where miss deparl ran these weekly meetings? >> i can't verify that. >> were you in meetings with nancy ann deparl at the white house? >> from time to time, yes. >> and was the -- and of course, the meetings were about the rollout of the affordable care act? and the website? >> as i recall, there were different kinds of meetings, and i attended -- >> were they about obama care, mr. park? >> they were about the affordable care act. >> what's your official title? head of information technology for the entire united states? i assume it was about information technology, correct? >> no, actually, first of all, i'm a technology and innovation policy adviser in the office of science and technology policy, just to clarify. >> okay. >> and i can't actually recall, like for the meetings, like what particular topics were discussed off the top of my head. unless th

let's start with ed henry who is live at the white house. between the polls and democrats bill clinton urging him to make some changes. there is a lot of pressure on the president from his own supporters here. there are and with that pressure from democrats who want to see changes to the law you clearly see that's one of the reasons why the president is meeting today with those state insurance commissioners he needs them. white house says beating up on the insurance agency before saying they dropped people off their plans it's really their fault. the bottom line is if he doesn't have the insurance health helping to figure ought of this out, it's going to make it that much harder once the web site is fixed to actually deal with the substance of this law. you will remember bill clinton had a little bit of criticism for the president about a week ago suggested that he should keep his promise about if you like your plan you will be able to keep it it there was a ceremony at the white house. i'm grateful for the advice of council that you offered me on a

because we now know from e-mails that have been revealed that this issue was debated in the white house betweennks. the political wonks, people who advised him and manipulate his public image wanted him to be people to say you can keep your doctor, you can't keep your insurance policy period. when you say the word period, you are saying to your listeners everything that preceded the word i guarantee is the absolute truth, yet we know some of these policy people want him this is not going to be the case for millions of people but they chose to make a statement any way, seriously questioning whether it was true. stuart: had he told the complete unvarnished truth back then, maybe obamacare would not have been enacted andld have done far worse in the 2010 elections and his reelection in 2012. judge napolitano: correct. he faces the problem of obviously having lied and democrats fleeing for cover from him because they have to run for reelection. the entire house this year and one third of the senate this year do not want to be tarnished with this. the interesting thing to me is this is the same gove

i just want to establish the fact you are at the white house between 10 and 29 times. mr. park was there nine times. how many times were you in these weekly meetings at the white house? >> i do not recall. i did not attend many weekly meetings. i have been in the company of those two people. >> regarding the affordable care act? >> maybe once or twice. >> ok. my time is expired. those are the individuals that need to come in front of this committee and we cannot accept the fact we got it will letter from the white house that says, thank you but we are not coming. >> i would note for all members there is a vote on the floor and we will go until the very last minute. if either ofask is you have pacific questions for mr. park. >> i do not. park, the cubs we would otherwise keep you for longer than i think is necessary, want to thank you for being here. you get to stay. the vote. mr. park, you have been a very cooperative witness and i appreciate you being here. i believe you were being here as a person we will look to to get this right by november 30. was critical. i apprecia

we report on the divide between the white house and capitol hill. also this hour. the reason and one time. it's hard to tell right now exactly how long will be down here in this match. easy to promise but hoped to deliver the pleasure of quantum it is as elusive as ever. as the doctor doctor told me it says the average an aussie reports from inside the home or future. it made things and. the undressing else that is most likely sitting down on illegal immigration every friday they don't race of accommodation places of what looking for illeg immigrants. it's friday morning we got with the police. what are the dregs the prayer. i know he with international news and comment. russia's president has praised the cooperation between favorite authorities and the chemical weapons watched all in a landmark in conversation with the syrian leader. in that region became the first head of the un security council member state in years to constantly told to shut us out. aunties griffin ocean others reported from the war torn country several times. yet explained the significance of

white house. really dismay over what they have seen coming from white house leadership. >> you've seen relative unity between democrats on the hill and president obama for the last five plus years as you know from reporting, most people that follow politics know that's a facade. there's not a warm relationship between hill democrats and this president. he doesn't show much interest reaching out to them. they are very cognizant of that and don't appreciate that. you saw a bit of this when larry summers nomination to the fed or would be infantrymen nation to the fed was torpedoed by his own party. now you're saying it full effect because they are on the ballot. house democrats, all of them, quite a few democrats in the senate as well. president obama is never going to be on the ballot again. so if you're mary landrieu you mentioned or kay hagan in north carolina or mark pryor in arkansas and already facing a tough i rarace, this is a devastating turn of events in the last weeks. they know that. that's why they are turning from the white house. here is the challenge for senate democrats fedex year. how do they

lawmakers are still mulling further sanctions against iran we report on the divide between the white house and capitol hill also. today and it's hard to tell right now exactly how long we'll be down here doing this mission easy to promise but hard to deliver the closure of guantanamo is as elusive as ever as it is up twelve years as a terror a jail reports from. future it may face and. beyond rest in the outskirts of moscow police have been. illegal immigration every friday they go of accommodation places of looking for illegal immigrants it's friday morning we go in with the police one of those rights. from a studio central moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment russia's president has praised the cooperation between syrian authorities and the chemical weapons watchdog in a phone conversation with the syrian leader putin became the first head of a un security council member state to personally talk to bashar assad. who is reported from the water own country several times earlier explain the significance of the phone call. this is very significant in terms of of course from

first, this meeting about to happen at the white house between the president and insurance executives. to help us figure all this out, elizabeth cohen, our senior medical correspondent. i'm guessing there's going to be a lot of tension in the room given the fact that the president quite frankly has not been very nice to these insurance executives. i imagine that there's going to be lots of tension because of the severe criticism. >> oh, rosa, i would love to be a fly in the wall at that meeting because i think it is going to be quite heated. i was actually speaking with an insurance executive who said they're infuriated because three years ago, the president said we want you to get rid of your policies and create new policies, and then in the ninth inning, as he put it, the president then said, oh, you can go back to the old policies, and the executive i was talking to said we have whiplash. administratively, this is a mess. financially, this is mess because we made all our forecasts based on doing what the president told us. and he said it's now we're going to look like the bad guys

by making this deal, the white house has brought the deal between the white house and jerusalem to anl-time low. will israel feel forced to defy the u.s. and strike iran on its own? and the one thing this deal is doing, it's getting the obama health care failure off the front pages, at least for now. but new

what's the difference between putting a white house photo out there? fference between that and putting out a press release and preletang it is news? >> to your point, there is none. this is another point. i'll show again to our viewers on the left and the right. the left, this is what journalists were given. the access that our industry had to the president's trip to the gulf coast. him eating lunch. that's it. and i know the photographers wrld, hey, that's it. he is not going swimming. nothing else will happen. but he did go swimming with his daughter sasha and the white house took that wonderful picture and that was the money shot. as you point out, a reminded, take a look at the picture of vladimir putin frolicking in the water. we make fun of those vladimir putin pictures all the time but how is that any different? >> obviously, you're not and i'm not come faring soviet union to the united states. that would be ridiculous. but what is also ridiculous is a white house in a, in a democracy like ours that has a free and independent media freezing out t

political nature of the health care proceedings, the testier exchanges took place not between republicans an white house officials but between republicans and democrats. after delivering a typically self-serving and long-wibded hoping statement, chair darrell issa was determined to keep democratic questions to a minimum. >> although i understand -- >> the gentleman's time has expi expired. >> i just asked for the same amount of time you had. >> i'm asking -- >> gentleman's recognized. >> you're not going to run a fair hearing. you're going to do this all the way. >> the gentleman from florida is recogni recognized. >> the partisan -- signs are emerging that several jittery democrats are inclined to support it. despite pleas for unity, roll call reports said a house democratic leadership aide predicted ominously there will be defections. the question now is how many. joining me today, senior writer for politico magazine, glen thrush, anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. what do you make of the white house pushback that these glitches and the problems we're hearing about now are problems now but

know whether the status of the federal exchange and the data hub were ever a focus of meetings between white house and hhs personnel before october 1st? >> i think what i said earlier, in the meetings i attended, i provided status briefings on the progress of certain i.t. builds, like the data services hub. >> and your reports on the status of the builds set off alarm bells with them? >> no. because the data services hub was actually performing well, and on time. and it was received to operate in august. >> what happened between august and october 1st? >> i didn't attend any white house meetings. >> what happened with the performance of the hub? >> the hub is doing fine. it's doing what it's intended to do. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> i'll be brief. mr. chao, the eidm, or what i call the front door, is what didn't perform well, isn't that true? >> correct. >> and since the system was designed so that you had to go through the front door to get to anything else, it doesn't really matter if you had 60,000, 600,000 or 60 million capability, if the american people had to go through that front do

with this latest move, it would seem like the relationship has become more frayed between white house and insurers, basically left them with the ball. for better or for worse. i wonder what you think the implications of increased tension between insurance companies and white house may be. >> certainly going to make for an awkward conversation, that's for sure. look, the insurance companies still have at this point a great interest in seeing this work. so i think at the end of the day they are going to try and make this work. one of the things it is absolutely true that people got panicked and were worried about, but one of the things that compounded the problem, they couldn't get on the website to see what their true alternatives were. i go back to the point they have to fix that. let me get to karen's point. i feel very strongly about this. you've heard me talk about this before. having a child with a chronic illness, having gone through all the fear of going bankrupt because of bills that insurance companies didn't pay and so on, it really, really irks me to see this treated as a fo

by making this deal, the white house has brought the deal between the white house and jerusalem to an all-time low. will israel feel forced to defy the u.s. and strike iran on its own? and the one thing this deal is doing, it's getting the obama health care failure off the front pages, at least for now. but new revelations about the disastrous healthcare.gov are coming to life this evening and they do not bode well for the future of the entire program. all the stories and more on the "kudlow report" starting right now. >>> good evening. i'm michelle caruso-cabrera in tonight for larry kudlow, and this is "the kudlow report." despite continued white house optimism tonight for the new deal to curb iran's nuclear program, skeptics are not letting up, even harry reid says more sanctions may be needed instead. nbc's steve handelsman joins us now with the details. steve? >> reporter: michelle, thanks. here in washington a lot of senators in both political parties say they're ready to vote like the house already has for tougher sanctions. but president obama is asking them, and when he spoke

big showdown in 2005 between senate democrats and the bush white house and then two -- a couple of showdownsen senate republicans and the obama white house. i think we have to remember sort of, i think this is because special interest groups have become so powerful. if a no vote wasn't enough, you were showing you were willing to filibuster, that became the new hurdle. i think that's where this process got frankly -- just got to the point where we got to today. >> which of course brings us back to money. and we see the president coming out behind you or at least the notes are coming out. we got the two minute warning. >> yes. >> the other thing that happened was that john mccain yesterday met with harry reid again. the last time this showdown occurred over the national labor relations board, they did work it out. but on this -- on the d.c. circuit it was too important to the real hard line roots to block those judges from being put on the second highest court to the supreme court. the supreme court we should point out, those confirmations are excluded from this and some normal business does

behind the scenes, is this war between the white house and the insurers? because it sure as heck feels like it. >> it's definitely putting the white house -- first of all, the white house, it's clear that what they did is kind of retreat into a defensible position. they saw that the house vote on the upton bill was likely to pass, and then, obviously, as you mentioned, you know, the senate democrats were put kind of in between a rock and a hard place, and the president would have been forced to veto something that took away very valuable provisions from the affordable care act that i think are tremendously important and are being overlooked. i mean, these plans that have been canceled did not -- they were not adding value back to the health care system, and to be honest, we've had plans getting canceled from year to year. we're acting as if this is new. so this is definitely putting the white house in kind of the defense posture, and certainly, people in the insurance industry are now feeling like they were trying to do the right thing, and there have been

(laughter) >> well, you're seeing real sniping going on between the white house and the n.s.a.out whether the n.s.a. is this rogue organization or whether this was all approved at the highest levels. >> stephen: is it possible there's somebody higher than obama that we don't know about? >> not that i know of, no. >> stephen: is there anything wrong with doing this? i say big whoop. >> well, is the risk of getting caught worthwhile? >> stephen: it's better to not know what angie merkel is talking about on her cell phone. >> the question is what are you gaining from it? and now that they've been caught what is the damage going to be? some of this is for political -- domestic consumption in germany and france but there does seem to be genuine surprise among these leaders. >> stephen: some of it is for domestic consumption. some of this outrage is just to make people at home feel nice about their leader objecting to us spying on them? >> they can't say they're happy about it so they have to say they're angry about it because there is anger about it. >> stephen: don't the germans so

dagen: new to twitter and more on the white house meeting between the president and corporate leadersgration reform. the white house says we could fix it. means an extra $1 trillion for the economy. connell: we will talk about it coming up, helping seniors without their dreams. a great story, jeremy bloom is coming in to talk about the wish of lifetime. the next hour one company says it was not worth it when it advertised on twitter. where is the revenue stream for this great idea? starts trading later this week. we will talk about that to talk about that at the top of the hour. [ male announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance in sync? try align. it's the number one ge recommended probiotic that helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ stay in the groove with align. lori rothman with your fox business brief. the service sector, 85% of the u.s. economy grew at faster than expected rate in october we learned earlier today. non manufacturing index rose to a level of 55.4, a pull point from september. u.s. home prices are rising at a slower pace. core logic says increasing 2% in sep

lawmakers are still mulling further sanctions against iran will report on the divide between the white house and capitol hill and also that. it's very easy to and it's hard to tell right now exactly what will be done here in this mission easy to promise but hard to deliver the closure of guantanamo is absolutely as it is up twelve years as a terror. report from inside.

price of politics about good all in all of negotiations between speaker boehner and obama between the white house and the republicans and the democrats is that they don't spend the time to sit down and get to know each other if you've ever been to go she asian in your life few. ever been married a few who you were going to answer good answer. you learned in a negotiation that the person on the other side of the table is your best friend because that is the person who can give you what you want and you can give them what they want it takes time it takes listening you see it in these budget negotiations when it gets to into the last hour between mitch mcconnell the republican leader and biden the vice president they can sit down and they have a relationship and they'll say one for you one for me one for you one for me and they don't do this and this becomes armageddon and deadlock. i blame both sides but the president's the c.e.o. of the country and he should find a way to make this work and this is bob woodward one of the truly great journalists of our time we'll be right back. wealthy british sty

house of representatives is the minority voice is louder. the majority rule, whilst sounding nice and appealing very different from southern white segregationists. they sort of are blurring the line between what the house of representatives does and the way they operate, and the way the senate does. half of the senate is in the first term serving less than six years. representatives. minority. >> a lot of democrats have never been in the minority. >> to be fair to president obama, he's not the only politician taking one position. here is what harry reid had to say in 2006. >> our democracy works when the majority rules not with a fist but on outstretched and. the filibuster is there to guarantee this. the success of the nuclear option would mark a sad slide towards partisan crossfire and a lose of liberties. >> not sufficient democrats, mitch mcconnell told the senate when it came to changing the problem. >> a majority may adopt the rules. it's preposterous they'll assert and deny others to change it. >> both sides singing different tunes toate years ago when they were on opposite sides. is there no shame. are they not embarrassed when they see themselves saying the opposite to these iss

white house put out a statement. our policy is designed to insure that healthcare decisions are made between a woman and her doctor. the president believes that no one, including the government or for-profit corporations should be able to dictate those decisions to women. over the summer the tenth circuit court of appeals in denver ruled in favor of hobby lobby contending because it's not a publicly traded corporation hobby lobby is

inevitably are going to they'll come back to washington and start deciding we have to put distance between the white house and this. you may see a veto-proof majority to -- >> let's talk -- we talked about the danger for democrats. but what about the opportunities for republicans. equipment, you had a terrific piece in "the journal." spell that out for us. >> there is a debate going on right now within the republican caucus about whether or not they should just sit back and continue to let this health care bill fail or whether or not now is the opportune moment to get out there which is certainly my view and start talking about free market and innovative health care, sort of reforms they would want to do, making very clear that they -- it's not their goal to go back to the system before obama care which was not perfect by any means but that they have a lot of proposals that would both move us beyond the terrible mess that is obama care but also move us into a system that's far better than what we had already. and they've got the architecture for that. there's reticence, people are worried about making the

. >>> we move overseas to afghanistan where there was a diplomatic showdown between the white house andsident karzai. national security advisor susan rice is urging the afghan president to sign a new security deal that would keep several thousand u.s. troops in the country for several years to train afghan forces. karzai now says he won't do it unless the u.s. meets new conditions, including releasing all afghan citizens from guantanamo. all american troops will leave next year if karzai refuses to ryan. >>> former fbi agent robert levinson has been held hostage longer than any other american and his family is hoping tonight that the recent thaw in u.s. relations with iran will bring him home soon. here's abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> please help me get home. >> reporter: as of today, no american has been held hostage longer than former fbi agent robert levinson. for him it is day 2,455 since he disappeared in iran. the once clean-cut 65-year-old florida man last seen alive in this video released two years ago, appearing disheveled in a gray prison suit. >> 33 y

judge has ordered thousands of documents to be declassified it's mainly correspondence between the white house and the red cross which it's hoped will shed light on what prisoners have been forced to go through when r.t. crew recently toured the facility today we find out how they try to keep up morale at the world's most maligned prison. despite misconceptions give lho is not just a geo to be or not to be shot it's also a forty five square mile military base with no plans of going anywhere. full of signs of the stablished american life it is a navy base and we just happened to have the camps in here home to the only mcdonalds on cuban soil a subway sandwich shop a starbucks and a taco bell you got busted vested financial interests that you got pizza starbucks and. all of these other places that helped to set up a logistical support for the troops over the there are about five and a half thousand people living and working on the base roughly half serve the actual detention center the u.s. government has been leasing this territory since one thousand nine hundred three for just over forty five

obama will host iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki at the white house tomorrow the white house said in a statement that the discussion between the leaders will focus on the long term post-war partnership between iraq and the united states that post-war partnership is something the prime minister is extremely concerned about as the security and stability of iraq unravels prime minister al maliki made that message very clear today while speaking publicly at the united states institute of peace our key arabic correspondent rym of la india has more. there is one message iraq's prime minister nouri maliki has been pushing during his visit to washington d.c. this week help me fight terrorism in my country because maliki says will not only help iraq but the region here's what he said during his speech this morning in washington d.c. . by all countries and societies worldwide we want an international war a global war against terror if we have to war we want to assert. war against those who are killing people getting population who are calling for blood for ignorance. and. logic. to govern our daily lives the main challenge iraq face

the white house is i don't know where mr kerry got his own interpretation from but the white house and it's very interesting that there is this huge gap on this do screw this group and see between what john kerry says and what the white house says so the americans themselves are saying that iran has the right to enrich uranium to five percent so iran got that and the israelis are understandably angry they are not very much willing to see it on is dealing with the whole world on equal footing and here is benjamin netanyahu who actually says this is a bad deal it grants it on exactly what it want to do with a significant easing of sanctions and preservation of the most significant parts of its nuclear program so even benjamin netanyahu is saying that iran has the right to enrich uranium on that this deal because this deal gives it on the right and which we've heard some really strong response humming out of israel on this issue and of course you know there will be more reaction in the days and we weeks to come but let's not focus on this deal and what we can expect six months down the road i mean the deal obliges the sides as we know to different concessions for six months only b

policy tax and federal government spending policies and there we have a sort of strange dance between the white house and the congress which has basically refused its basic duty and left this giant problem for the fed has responded in ways many of which are not ideal talk about this problem where is the economy now as a result of all of this. certainly the economy is probably ahead of where it would be if the fed had nothing on the other hand the economy is still an economy missing seventy eight million jobs by the most conservative of possible estimates we've said here with over seven percent unemployment five years into the downturn we've had absolutely no wage growth in the united states which means that ninety two to ninety three percent of americans who are working haven't seen their paychecks go up in many years now and unfortunately for them brands are more expensive gas is more expensive food is more expensive so we have a general public here the bottom eighty percent of which has been left behind in the crosshairs so you came up with a solution that they should have perhaps thought about fiv

. >> would you the consider turning over some of the e-mails between white house officials in the days leading up to healthcare.gov? give people an insight into what the president knew? >> they have taken that task upon themselves and have worked very carefully with journalists. sometimes he's done that if a ha way that has left people with a pretty misleading outlook of what's happening.>> it's indicative of our willingness to cooperate with gr legitimateet oversight.ti >>ng former congressman allen wt joins us.hers we've got to get these e-mail, drip, drip, drip. we get others yesterday. white house is not too willing us.sve them to >> it's amazing. this was supposed to be the most transparent administration in the history of this country.is if we really knew what was goinu on coming from this white house and this administration and the implementation of obama care, w, would be absolutely appalled. and slowly, the drip, drip that's occurring, it's eroding the belief that there's competence in this on administration. >> in part of the e-mails, they're worried about what st impact it w

white house web site. >> that is the claim and that is still dogging the president and the white house. that is the exchange betweeny carney and he had henry. >> you can say that was not true, right? >> as i said last week, communications are challenging here. you have to remember the affordable care act promises. >> it is not true. >> i have addressed this question repeatedly. >> the president meantime ahead with dallas today. talk about the healthcare law but also a new fundraiser. >> doug luzader live for us in washington. >> if you like your healthcare insurance you can keep it. as we all know his words are broken promises for millions of americans. back in 2010 after reading obamacare senator from wyoming issued this stern warning. >> the obama administration has broken that promise. the administration published regulations that will fundamentally change the health insurance plan of millions of americans. the reality of this new regulation is if you like what you have you can't keep it. the final result of the new regulation will be that all americans will eventually be forced to buy the kind of health insuran