expert you just played the sound bite from, called healthcare.gov shockingly bad and says issues across the site are varied. you don t even have to hack into healthcare.gov to recognize there are severe problems underneath. one committee chairman overseeing one of these hearings today, says that contradicts the public sales pitch. when the obama administration launched healthcare.gov americans were led to believe that the website was safe and secure. the science, space, technology committee learned at our hearing last november, this was simply not the case. reporter: and some of the experts said when you have major hospital networks, individual physicians and millions of americans across the country all-accessing this website there are many, many vulnerabilities out there, jenna. jenna: as we mentioned the administration stands behind the website. says the information of americans is secured. what are democrats saying? reporter: well it has been fascinating because you have at an
available to do that. new information on a story we ve been following this week, the first american journalist expelled from russia since the cold war. david satter was living in moscow when he left ukraine to renew his visa. when he tried to return the government told him his presence was quote, undesirable. sater has been working in russia on and off for four decades and during that time he has raised criticism of the putin government and recently of the olympic committee choosing sochi for the olympic games. his critsystem is not new but his situation as a expelled journalist is certainly is. when i spoke to mr. satter said this situation is much bigger than just about him and he gave knee this quote to share with you. quote, i fully intend to go back to russia. we do not accept this decision and consider it completely illegitimate. this is fundamental question of right to free speech and right of americans to know the truth about the world s second nuclear power and not compromis
no evidence it s being used here in the united states against americans. of course, that s the big debate when it comes to the program and one of the things i m sure the president will touch on tomorrow. is this technology so widely accessible, morgan, that the bad guys are using it against us just as easily? i use that term, ask maybe you want to use a different one, just as easily as we re using it against them? jenna, my fear is now that they know about it, actually, i was here yesterday talking to some reporters, but several hard targets that people were looking at, people that were being targeted have dropped off the radar because this has been disclosed. my fear is that it s very creative. it s not easy to do, but somebody has the time and money to do behind it, they could actually end up using that against us at some point. our intelligence agencies can defend against it most likely, but it s the threat of what other nations like china, and you and i have talked about china be
hill today cms, the medicare agency s chief cyber technology officer, her name is teresa fryer, that healthcare.gov passed security tests, full security tests last month in december. she is clearly trying to reassure the american public at a time when the administration is trying to get millions of americans on to the website and to sign up for health care at this point. some democrats say critics of obamacare are just trying to scare the public. while we re holding this hearing both the house oversight and government reform committee and energy and commerce committee are holding similar events, all with the apparent goal to create a sense of fear, thereby manufacturing an artificial security crisis. reporter: so, at this point you re hearing from democrats that so far there s not been a successful hack of the health care website but republicans and some of these experts are saying it is only a matter of time and when it happens it could be
intelligence secrets, industrial secrets, i.t. secrets. that s where it could come back to haunt us. jenna: doesn t need to be that complicated, does it, because we have this other big story about target in the news. and it s interesting to see the advance technologies that our government has, but the vulnerability of the american consumer or against outside absolutely. jenna: bad guys. how do those things work together? i know this is some big questions about the role of of government in our private lives, but could the government with better security prevent something like the target hacking attack that happened to tens of millions of americans? you know, maybe it s not quite as much the role of the government as it is the industry. you know, jenna, to solve that problem the max stripe so 1980s jenna: what is that, mac stripe? it s that black stripe on the back of the credit card that contains all your information, so if you get the credit card and swipe it and steal that