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

In a combative interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, President Barack Obama defended his record on Super Bowl Sunday, from health care to his handling of the Benghazi attack.

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.

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"My main priority right now is making sure that it delivers for the American people," Obama insisted.

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."

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