controversies, the irs and benghazi but even during that, denis mcdonough says i m focused every day on health care. it does not seem like there was the urgency going on in recent weeks to sort of portend this. in the white house they were saying, we were distracted by syria and then the government shutdown. so the president s attention was elsewhere. they do somewhat regret that. but it s hard to believe that no one was able to raise these red flags for him. matt, accountability and responsibility, secretary sebelius has caught a great deal of flak over the past few weeks. is it all justified? you know, i think she should be fired just for the sound bite that you just played. here s the thing, people say that we talked about having testing going forward. no, seriously, they didn t test the website as of september 26th, according to the new york times reporting on that. five days before and the same
and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years. but we didn t have five years. david knack mnakamura, you ce white house on a daily basis. what is it about the president s inner circle that could have kept him from knowing the problems with the launch? the president has had criticisms from republicans but also within his own party. he has an insular group that he relies on. they re interested in protecting him politically sounds like you re saying yes-men. a little bit like that. you have his chief of staff who came from the campaign, really well-trusted by the president. i look back at stories we wrote in the early summer and denis mcdonam mcdonough said, i m spending two hours a day going through the