the debt .org. she will give us her advice on what we should do as a nation. and funding obamacare has been at the center of the budget battles. the administration says it is aiming to get seven million people covered by the end of the year. steve sensteve centanni is live from washington to let us know how that is going and what folks in the belt way have to say about it it. hi, steve. yeah, jaime. nearly half a million people have filed applications through the federal exchanges so far. what we don t know is how many successfully enrolled. the federal website has been plagued with problems as you know which the administration says was the result of high volume. they later acknowledged it was actually software and design problems. republicans continue to take aim at what they call a train wreck. let s have congressional hearings. let s find out who is responsible for this fiasco and then take the appropriate action in my view. but this is just the beginning of the problems assoc
obama administration s federal regulations amount to an illegal power grab. texas attorney general greg abbott joins us live. we begin with obamacare. the president is expected to talk about the flawed, frustrating rollout of the sign up system. we are getting new numbers and new concerns about the system is or isn t working. now all of the details. hi, steve. hi, shannon. republicans are calling it a fiasco as democrats today say the affordable care act will eventually work well. now last week the obama administration said nearly a half million people have filed applications on websites that are notoriously difficult to navigate. they say it is a costly failure. the only thing i don t want to see us waste anymore money
about that and said the secretary eventually will be able to testify. meantime, a pressure for her to resign among republicans has mounted. shannon, back to you. steve, thank you very much. the fbi is investigating threats made against republican senator ted cruz reportedly on twitter encouraging people to, quote, take down ted cruz at his home. and then providing a houston address. cruz is no stranger to the spotlight. of course in recent weeks he lead the gop charge to block funding for obamacare that was ultimately unsuccessful. today he told cnn the fight is far from over. to say okay, fine, no more. no more discussing obamacare. you know what, the american people are not satisfied with that. senator cruz has not ruled out a second shutdown. i certainly think immigration reform is a lot harder to achieve today than it was three weeks ago because of what s happened here. i
of one-fifth of our economy. and there is going to be a whole lot more problems associated with this before it is done. the administration is hoping seven million people will sign up for obamacare during the first six months of open enrollment. and democrats point to the benefits of the system after the glitches have been worked out. i think how the technology is working is unacceptable. they are working to correct that. that doesn t change what the initiative is which is affordable, quality health care accessible to more people in our country and i am excited about that. and the treasury secretary said today there is no one more frustrated than the president about all of these problems with the website and the slow start it has gotten off to. he says there are people working around the clock to try and fix it. jaime? keep us posted. steve centanni live from washington, thank you. meanwhile, hearings are
things that happened and to take steps necessary to keep anybody that serves our country overseas safe from harm. there will be an investigation on capitol hill. steve centanni with the latest. thanks, steve. it didn t gel right for me because of all the other things that i heard, and i can t tell you specifics. it s just that everything just did not add up right. that is pat smith, the mother of shawn smith, one of the four americans killed in benghazi in the september 11th attacks. smith told fo fox news judge s n pirro that she s not getting information about what happened to her son. she accuses high ranking officials of lying to her. smith also says she s getting different stories about whether the attack was terror-related or not. the self proclaimed master mind