self-imposed deadline. you remember the day they said that healthcare.gov would be up and running smoothly. but they are making it clear, it s not a magical date. the big question is, where are we right now? james rosen is live in washington with more details about this. james, where are we? reporter: you re on 6th avenue. good morning to you. thanks. we ll see you later in the show. good morning to you. i love this pronouncement from senior officials of the department of health and human services who said tomorrow not a relaunch of healthcare.gov and not as you say magical date, pronouncement that leaves open the questions of whether some dates are magical and exactly what users who visit the web site tomorrow will encounter. because of the numerous upgrades in software and hardware over the last month, on december 1, healthcare.gov will be able to handle 50,000 users at the same time. however, if there are extraordinarily high spikes in traffic, which exceed the site s
of debt. it is an enormous risk that the country is taking and the president is taking and the republicans are taking. one thing i do agree with governor rendell, i think barack obama was in a position where he had the clock is running out. if he had gone to the wall and fought the republicans who are united on this philosophically, politically, he would have lost, he would have lost unemployment insurance, the middle class tax cut, the dream act, don t ask don t tell. everything he would have lost. and the republicans would have come back in january and said here is all the tax cuts and now we ll take care of unemployment and we ll pay for it. i think barack obama realized that his hand that game was lost, the republicans beat it twice in the senate. they said we will not pass a bill that doesn t extend all the tax cuts. that s the hand barack obama was dealing with on december 1. as of december 1, i think he played it brilliantly. i think he got the best out of it, he could get
job calls it quits. but she is making five times more than she would have if she had stayed on there doing her job. it has everything to do with timing. trace? she had that calendar lined up. reporter: timing is everything. that s the old saying. susan reached 25 years with the state on the very day she hit that goal she retired. which after 25 years you get the full pension and she gets full health benefits even though for the past few years she had only been working part time. 1450e goes to 15-18 meetings a year. on december 1, her pension is $5,300 a month every month plus full health benefits. the pension is based on your three highest years of salary. back in 2002 she was appointed
billion. if you were to extend these tax cuts, as republicans want to do, you re talking $2 trillion added to the deficit. what do we think, just as americans, what do people think more about being taxed? more or less? i just think most americans are in the middle class and they want to keep their tax cut ps .and democrats are banking the fact that, you know what? let s this tax go become up for the tacks. and you re talking about taking the tacks to where they were when bill clinton was when they were president, 39.6%. my prediction, though, they may kick this can down the road. wait for the deficit commission to report, on december 1. i m going to bet on your side. i m going with you, gloria.