Obama clashes with Fox News's O'Reilly over record

President Barack Obama hit back in a combative Super Bowl Sunday interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, defending his administration's record on everything from health care to Benghazi.
Most pointedly, the president aggressively pushed back at suggestions that he should have fired Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over the botched rollout of Obamacare.
“My main priority right now is making sure that it delivers for the American people,” Obama insisted.

President Barack Obama talks after he tours General Electric's Waukesha Gas Engines facility in Waukesha, Wisc., Jan. 30, 2014.
Obama said the initial problems with the government’s Healthcare.gov web site have been fixed “and now it’s working the way it’s supposed to and we’ve signed up 3 million people ... . We’re about a month behind of where we anticipated we wanted to be.”
He brushed off questions from O’Reilly on why he hadn’t fired Sebelius for the fiasco of the web site’s debut. When O’Reilly complained that “I’m paying Kathleen Sebelius’s salary and she screwed up and you’re not holding her (Sebelius) accountable,” Obama replied, “We hold everybody up and down the line accountable” and added later in a Super Bowl allusion, “I try to focus not on the fumbles, but on the next play.”

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