BARACK OBAMA: Major Garrett. MAJOR GARRETT: Thank you, Mr. President. You said while the law was being debated, if you like your plan, you can keep it. You said after the law was implemented or signed, if like your plan, you can keep it. Americans believed you, sir, when you said that to them over and over. Do you not believe, sir, the American people deserve a deeper, more transparent accountability from you as to why you said it over and over and when your own statistics, published in the Federal Register, alerted your policy staff, and I presume you, to the fact that millions of Americans would, in fact, probably fall into the very gap you are trying to administratively fix now? Thats one question. Second question. [Laughter in room.] You were informed or – several people in this building were informed two weeks before the launch of the website that it was failing the most basic tests internally. And yet, a decision was made to launch the website on October 1. Did you, sir, make that test and if so, did you regret it? OBAMA: Okay. On the website, I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed I wouldnt be going out saying boy, this is going to be great. You know, Im accused of a lot of things but I dont think that Im stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website open it if I thought it wasnt going to work. Read more: newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/11/14/cbss-major-garrett-grills-president-obamacare-debacle-wheres-account#ixzz2kf6o8Tgf
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