david axelrod, thank you for joining us. reaction at the white house today. more jubilation or more relief? >> well, look, there's a great deal of joy here because , after 13 long months we've brought a greater measure of security to the american people , a brighter future to the country. we've dealt with a problem that's been bedeviling america for 100 years. there's a great feeling of accomplishment. but we also understand the responsibility that comes with that, to implement this program in an effective, efficient way, to be accountable for it. you know, we're already shifting our attention to how we make this work best for the american people. >> woodruff: a lot of people until very recently thought this might not happen. how close did the president come to thinking that it might not happen? >> i have to tell you, it's been an extraordinary experience to watch him through these 13 months because there were a thousand different moments when this could have skidded off the track. there were many people who advised him to scale down his aspirations for this

host: rohm emmanuel and david axelrod had been making a lot of news, what is happening with joe -- withhese gentlemen? caller: their gentleman from chicago that are hard chargers. a lot of strong-willed people, and you know that there will be clashes. i am sure that there are things that they do not agree on and things that they do agree on. frankly much of this has been motivated by blogs, stories last month suggesting that rohm emmanuel was the real problem with the health care plan, and that if he had managed it more effectively meet with -- more effectively be would have a health care bill. there is no evidence at all that his job is in danger, it is just one of those washington things that people chatter about. in some of the story is what you see are his supporters defending his performance, saying that the problem is that president obama has not been listening to his advice. people wondering if he is firing back through the newspapers. i do not think that that is going on, but it is creating a rather tense situation in the white house all the stories about one person stabbing ano

and this is a great day. >> david axelrod, thank you very much. do appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >>> now here's maggie. >> now let's hear the republican view on the bill being signed today. republican national committee chairman michael steele is in washington this morning. mr. steele, good morning. even if do y you do defeat thes changes, the original bill becomes law. you'll be stuck with a bill you don't like. now that it's a reality and people start to see the benefits, what if they actually like it, what if the catastrophic scenario doesn't play out? >> well, it was fascinating listening to david axelrod describe this bill because it remindeded me of going to the doctor when you were a kid and you had to get the needle and before you got the needle, the doctor put a nice juice sir loply pop in front of you and said here's a lollip off the p and he hits you with the needle. and that's what's going to happen here. he can didn't talk about the money being taken out of medicare, an already bankrupt system that we'll now extract $506 bill

>> well, what about what david axelrod just told us?at's going to take immediately and what should we, you know, recognize as the most -- he said tax cuts. >> but you know, that's why i wasn't sure about the answer to that last one. my understanding of that so-called tax cut is you only get it if you buy insurance for people. so it's not really a tax cut. it's an incentive to buy insurance, but you already get to deduct in order to buy insurance. so i don't see that this is some great tax cut that's going to stimulate people to have more jobs. it will act as an incentive so if you want to give your people insurance you can give them insurance. >> as far as the spending going on in washington, what do you think they need to focus on in terms of stopping spending, lowering spending? >> the president of the united states should first of all say there is no such thing as a distinction between discretionary and undiscretionary spending. this whole idea of non-discretionary spending is a fiction. all spending is discretionary. you have a budg

on the historic day in which a president signed health care reform legislation, we talk to david axelrod senior advisor to the president. >> when the chips were on the line, he went out and he sold it. i think the thing that you say is a transformative, i think it's transformative in the sense that anyone who doubted his strength, his perseverance, his willingness to go out and do what he feels is best for the future othis country think is not asking that question today. >> rose: david axelrod for the hour. next. ♪ if you've had a coke in the last 20 years, ( screams ) you've had a hand in giving college scholarships... and support to thousands of our nation's... most promising students. ♪ ( coca-cola 5-note mnemonic ) captioning sponsored by rose communications from washington d.c. this is charlie rose. >> rose: president obama today signed what some are calling the most important piece of domestic legislation in more than a generation. after decades of failed attempts democrats overhauled the nation's health care system and expanded health care coverage to an estimated 32 million ameri

the guests on "meet the press" will include what house senior adviser david axelrod, senate majority ip richard durbin, and james coburn, and karl rove. "this week" david will talk with david axelrod and anita dunn. and other guests. the guests on the fox news sunday, there will include karl rove, robert gibbs, the democratic congressional campaign committee chair, and house republican whip. on "face the nation" robert gibbs, lamar alexander, former representative schultz, and karen of america's health insurance plans. on a "state of the union" talking with david axelrod and house republican leader john boehner. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows beginning at noon eastern starting on c-span radio. and follow us on both facebook and twitter. >> today, your chance to speak to karl rove, live on booktv. he would take your phone calls, e-mail, and tweets on his new memoir. afterward, race relations in america. all weekend, continuing coverage of this year's tucson festival of books. find the entire schedule that booktv.org. >> obama and his socialistic ideas -- th

yeah. >> thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. >> that was david axelrod. couple pieces of news out of there. they're cautiously confident when it comes to the senate reconciliation bill. vice president biden might preside over things. the other thing is clearly financial reform is next. joining me now, the "washington post's" grand pubah of politics, dan balz. dan, where are we today with the obama presidency, where we weren't yesterday? >> well, it's always better to win than not win. and they have fought this battle for a very long time. they have taken a lot of hits on it. both the president personally and the democratic party. they feel like they have crossed a barrier here. they have a long fight ahead of them. they know that. the republicans are not going to stop battling against this health care fight. we're going to see it all the way through to november and probably see it in 2012. but they feel as though they now have something concrete they can talk about that will be different than the way the debate has gone up until now. one of the questions

. >> david axelrod has said that the lost to scott brown and the message is that actually help to the process of law. >> -- the lost to scott brown in massachusetts actually helped the process along. >> a concentrated the attention. they had to do something or it was over. it has given democrats a sense of passion, which they were totally lacking. all the intensity and enthusiasm has been on the republican side. but the republicans have gone for the bait on the repeal. that is a promise they can make but never keep it is a broken promise going in. mike castle of delaware was candid enough to say there is no way you can do it. it requires a 2/3 vote to override the veto. this is absolutely fatuous, and there is the pragmatism on the part of the american people. they want to see if it works. they want things to work. republicans doing the last digit obstructionist on this is a political mistake. >> in addition to that, we have the economy as the backdrop going into the election. every indication is that by the time we go to the polls this fall, the economy is going to be improving, and

. >>> now the white house aide, david axelrod also talked about the fallout from the health care bill passing. you can watch all of that interview on the state of the union coming your way at 9:00 eastern this morning. >>> another story we're following closely, the tea party express will roll into phoenix and flagstaff. two more stops on the tour that ends on tax day, april 15th. yesterday sarah palin stirred up the crowd during an appearance in harry reid's hometown. jessica yellin was there. >> reporter: thousands of people pulled into searchlight, nevada, many coming from out of state to kick off a nationwide cross country tour by the tea party express. folks delivered the message that they want smaller government, in nevada, the defeat of harry reid. the big attraction for the day was sarah palin. she's a darling of the crowd, the movement's biggest rock star, and she delivered her message with force. >> what is going on in our country? what's going on in d.c.? washington has broken faith with the people that they are to be serving. that's why here in searchlight and across the co

you were hearing david axelrod. and you heard at the end there, they expected the lawsuits. will you continue to press forward? >> absolutely. i sent a letter yesterday to my attorney general, who is on the other side of the aisle, which says this looks like an unprecedented overreach by the federal government, forcing citizens to buy a good or service, for no other reason than they happen to be alive or a person. that seems to be unprecedented. and the congressional budget office said so in a report in the 1990s. >> how do you respond to critics who say this is nothing more than an attempt to gut the bill? and why not spend time and energy to make it work the best way it can? >> well, the nation faces big challenges. and we need to fix the health care system. but they've taken it to a bureaucratic, government-run, approach. and they should have worked with us on better ways. as to the point you raise, i don't think defending the constitution and individuals' rights under the constitution and the relationship between states and the federal government, under the constitution,

and tonight the president's top political adviser david axelrod said the president was actually more excited last night than on his own election night. brian. >> savannah guthrie on this day after at the white house starting us off. thanks. kelly o'donnell has been following this bill every step of the way. she is on the hill tonight to tell us about that next step. kelly, for those who somehow thought last night's vote seemed final, those hearing about an effort to revise this, what's going on there now? >> reporter: well, senators will fight once more, brian. because the president can sign the bill. he can go out and sell it, but that doesn't mean it's actually over. why? house democrats did a lot of rewriting on the health reforms that were just passed so the senate must approve those for them to take efft. this is called reconciliation. senate republicans have a strategy to try to strip out whole sections of the bill and they can offer dozens of amendments, even some appealing to democrats. if they succeed even once it goes back to the house for another vote. democrats will try t

david axelrod made that point over the weekend on the kids with preexisting conditions.ear will get tax credits for health insurance for their employees, kids with preexisting conditions will get coverage for the first time. they won't be excluded anymore. >> steve: he makes it very clear that this year this will happen. however, there was an item in the "new york times," i believe yesterday, that said that while the democrats believe that they wrote the bill to say that, peter johnson, you're an attorney -- apparently the insurance companies say the language is vague and they don't have to start until 2014. >> it's more than the insurance companies and this is really kind of breath stopping. even the people who were opposed to this health insurance reform are saying this was a positive part of the plan that everyone agreed on, especially with regard to sick children. children with preexisting conditions who would have the ability to get insurance under the new law. but not so fast. according to at least one insurance commissioner, in the state of kansas, the national bo

yet i've noticed in the last few days we've seen david axelrod out on the talking heads, the president today talked about what's going to happen with this bill right away. which i think kind of underscores that the white house is really trying to make people think right off the top that, look, this is going to have an immediate effect on a lot of americans. did you sense that as well? >> oh, i don't think there's any question about it. i mean, i think one of the things that senior advisers have been saying for months if not more than a year is the problem is people are afraid of the unknown. they're afraid of the change. and so our opponents have more successfully been able to say this is all what health care reform is going to do, the death panels, killing granny, that kind of thing. the emphasis now for the white house and frankly the challenge now for the white house is to convince the american people that this health care reform is providing something beneficial for them right now. we're going to hear a lot about, for example, the fact that young adults can now stay on their parent

senior advisor david axelrod said sunday they can stay in if they apply to more than one state. >> the principle that we want to apply is that , are these... are these applicable to all states even if they don't qualify now, would they qualify under certain sets of circumstances. >> reporter: in turn senator republican leader mitch mcconnell accused democrats today of going to any length to win votes. >> apparently they determined that removing the deals might jeopardize efforts to pass the bill. so now the white house says it won't object to all the special deals, just some of them. the white house says it won't object to all the special deals, just some of them. what that means, of course, is that some senators and house members are getting special deals on top of special deals. >> reporter: the final vote in the house could come by this weekend. democratic leaders are hoping to push it through before the president leaves for his trip to the south pacific on sunday. >> woodruff: >> ifill: still to come on the newshour, getting broadband internet access to everyone. but first, this is

now, speaking of ignorance, we had david axelrod. the law of the law -- land here and he seems like a decent guy. i'm sure he didn't intend to deceive, he said the law of the land that federal funds should not be used for abortion services. there's nothing in the proposal that he, obama's advanced, there's nothing in what would be approved by the congress that would upset existing status quo. and i appreciate my friend for yielding because there are three things about this bill that allow for the federal funding of abortion and ng fact can require it. number one, until now, all plans regulated by the house of personnel management have been required to exclude non-fdly covered abortions. so the senate bill allows all but one of the federally subsidized health care plans to cover abortion. now, you may have one plan that doesn't take care of people like it needs to. we'll offer one plan over here that probably no one will buy that will not cover abortions, but the plan that may well be what most people need will cover abortions. so if

white house senior advisor david axelrod responded that's okay on the sandlot, but that's not okay whene governing the country. it is a disappointing attitude. the mccain camp now in the business of nothing but issuing press releases immediately shot back. mccain spokeswoman staying in a statement, senator john mccain will always stand on the side of the american people. get used to it, mr. axelrod. that is what strong, independent members do. you'd know that if you had ever worked for one. harry reid couldn't resist taunting mccain. reid's spokesman saying in a statement -- for someone who campaigned on country first and claims to take great pride in bipartisanship, it's absolutely bizarre for senator mccain to tell the american people he is going to take his ball and go home until the next election. he must be living in some parallel universe because the fact is with very few exceptions, we've gotten very little cooperation from senate republicans in recent years. senator mccain, deep breath. calm down. you are not the only senator who lost the presidential election and returned to wo

the first thing out of david axelrod's mouth when i interviewed him. it's the next domestic priority, is it not? >> reporter: that's right, chuck, a fundamental overhaul and the question is, can there be bipartisanship or will this be split down the aisle by party lines. stop me if you've heard this before. on monday, out of the senate banking committee passing a bill. this financial reform overhaul on a straight party line vote. the house of representatives have already passed something late last year. today, chris dodd, the chairman of the senate committee, barney frank, doing the west ring, closed press meeting with the president. trying to figure out a way forward. of course, the idea here is to crack down on the wall street casino, as some people have called it, how to wind down some of these banks that failed without having to go to the taxpayer for a bailout. consumer protection agency, the house has what some regard as a much stronger provision, an inindependent agency and they create an agency within the federal reserve. a lot of people regard

bottom line, rahm emanuel, robert gibbs, david axelrod, top i'd were on the other side of the room. in jeans, casually dressed. almost midnight when the president came out. rarely they'd be here working that late. smile, almost smirk, on rahm emanuel's face looking over at me and print reporters were there as if to say you guys didn't think we'd do this. if you think there was a bounce in the president's step after stories about internal strife and the like, his staff was beaming. >> seeker of the house came out. her work is going to get tougher and the president as well. not just with this but the lawmakers who are concerned, dan that, about what happened back home. i want you to listen to this. this is congressman ellie ingle. i talked to him in new york talking about what cost. >> it's always a fear. you always look at the political aspect of a vote. i think, you know, we're here to vote our conscience and vote our hearts and vote our districts and vote what's best. i think at least for me paramount is i need to do what i think is right. i think political considerations are impor

as the president walked in, top aides walked in, rahm emanuel, robert gibbs, press secretary, david axelrod. many of his lieutenants working capitol hill in these final hours trying to make sure it would get through the house. you could see all of them looking tired. it's late in the evening. a lot of long tas, long nights for them. rahm emanuel has beaming smile throughout and looking over at the media. almost as it if to say we told you so, after many, many months after predictions that this would not happen. you can see that after some of the talk about internal strife here at the white house, talk about the president maybe not being able to deliver on this, they were sending the message very clearly, very directly, they think they delivered, wolf. >> because when they thought only within the past few weeks it was dead health care reform. there were articles galore appearing. this is a president who's weak. he can't deliver. he can't finish. he can't close the deal. there were a lot of articles critical of rahm emanuel saying he didn't have a good strategy, he was not necessarily up to t

this was not something that david plouffe or david axelrod could deal with. the first day it broke, he said, i want to go on tv tonight. they said to him, that's not a good idea. and he said, yes, it is. he said the world sees jeremiah wright today, they should see, they need to see me as well. beginning to answer it. he then said i want to give a speech about race. that speech was a very, very good speech. but it was a speech designed to deal with a political problem. now he was able to elevate out of the particulars of his relationship with reverend wright into the broader question of race in america. and as a result, that speech got a lot of praise and i think helped pull the -- pull him out of a tail spin. he told us after the election, had i not handled the jeremiah wright moment well, it could have killed my campaign. and it certainly could have even if he had won the nomination, it could have fatal in the general election. he had to do what he did. but barack obama never wanted to be a racial or racially-based candidate. so much of his appeal was he wa

legislation actually builds on the current system which is why the president's senior adviser david axelrod told me it is a recycled false claim. >> i think that some of the arguments you heard yesterday were really tenny if not bewildering because they didn't bear resemblance to the program being voted on. >> reporter: but the president also made at least one statement that is highly questionable, as he ecited the congressional budget office's projection that the bill will reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. >> this is paid for and will not add a dime to deficit or reduce the deficit. >> reporter: but in fact the cbo noted quote, the imprecision of the calculation reflects the greater degree of uncertainty in long-term programs. >> ed, what is going on at the white house, because we know key players showed up tonight for a meeting. >> well, i'm intrigued tonight, because the white house was clear they didn't want to celebrate and only one bit of celebration by the top aides and the president offered some staffers up to the truman balcony which oversees the jefferson memorial and toasted t

>> jonathan capehart, i found senior adviser david axelrod's comment to politico very interesting. he says as a sub line, as election night was, it wasn't particularly meaningful other than it gave us the opportunity to do meaningful things so to me, this was a much more, in some ways, impactful thing than election night. that says an awful lot. that tells me they put everything they had into getting this deal done. >> absolutely. this is a paramount achievement for the president. it was something he had to get done. remember, the evening that scott brown won the senate seat in massachusetts, everyone was talking about how the democrats were going to have to either start over or slim the bill down to get the more popular, manageable pieces through the congress and the president decided after initially signaling that he would approve of the go slow approach, just decided to put all of the chips in the middle and go for it big and he did. and he succeeded. but it's going to come at a cost, probably, in november, for democrats in the house. >> well, it's interesting you say that becau

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take karl rove frustrations with the white house, the press and congressional democrats and put david axelrod'sny stories he told about dealing with the media or congressional democrats of this white house that i'm already hearing from rahm, axelrod -- >> fascinating. >> more similar than you realize. >> wow. >> chuck, we look forward to that. thank you very much. >> thanks, chuck. >>> next on "morning joe" -- senate majority whip dick durbin and republican senator jim demint, who has already introduced legislation to repeal the health care law. >>> first, let's go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning, mika. finally, watching that big storm leave new england. a little light rain left around boston. just outside of portland, maine. forecast today, we'll clear out this storm and temperatures will warm up. should be a nice spring day from new york city southward to d.c. you can't complain at hartford with 57 degrees. where you can complain is denver, colorado, 1 to 2 feet on the ground. numerous schools canceled today. some roads are closed. other areas of the country

march 15th david axelrod state of the president doesn't believe state only notes or the president doesot believe the state only votes should not be in the bill the president said special deals should come out so please allow mr. barton's amendments to be made in order they will help the president keep his word and save taxpayers billions. the first louisiana purchase, the amount is to remove the provision commonly referred to as the louisiana purchase which provides an extra $300 million to louisianans medicaid program. the second is speed 07. it would remove the provision referred to as the you, amendment that provides funds for a medical facility in connecticut. eccr 06 to remove a provision that allows hospitals in michigan and connecticut to benefit from a special wage index classification if it means higher medicare payments in other words hospitals and those states would be able to shift into a higher wage indexing area giving them more medicare dollars than other hospitals and other areas in the area a bit of their employees. if you don't want to stick to pay for hospitals and m

it's interesting in that clip with ryan, he doesn't want to make david axelrod's day. and so what you're hearing him say is repeal but repeal plus. that's a little split in republican ranks because there are some who say we should run nakedly on sort of tear down this wall, repeal health care, horrible mistake and that's going to be a winning strategy in 2010. i think there are other republicans who say not so fast and they agree with what some of democrats are saying which is once you get past the process, never watch sausage being made, once you get past that, people will focus on the tangible benefits. a straight down the line repeal position isn't necessarily the most winning approach. >> and it's tough to do as a practical matter, too, john. repealing a law is not exactly the easiest thing in the world to do once it's been signed by the president of the united states. >> certainly not and there aren't many precedents for it. and obviously republicans would have to take back not just one house but two, which, you know, almost none of the political oddsmakers expect

holding people accountable, david axelrod was actually right.le republican senator who was in that room last thursday during the 7 1/2 hour summit has voted in the past for reconciliation. >> so any time i think it's important to point out to our viewers, any time we see something at cnn pop up, a guest pop up on our air and we think, wait a minute, is that right, you're the gal. >> exactly. the fact check des k. we have a whole team of really bright people. reach us at factcheck.cnn.com. let us know. we're going to check it and hold them accountable for it. >> excellent. suzanne, thank you. >>> checking some of the top stories now. an attorney for jeffrey skilling will try to persuade the supreme court today to overturn the former enron ceo's 24-year sentence. killing was convicted of securities fraud, insider trading, other charges on that collapse of the texas based company. >>> in western europe they are really recovering now after this powerful weekend storm that battered at least six countries. thousands without power right now. transporta

. >> more on the healthcare bill from presidential adviser david axelrod. speaking earlier, he said people will embrace the overhaul once they get familiar with what is and what it is not to. meanwhile, republican chairman michael steele appeared on the same program and told mr. axelrod that he is offering in the public and lollipop before rendering a needle. the war on drugs is un secretary of state clinton paused agenda today. she is leading a cabinet focusing on mexican drug cartels. the meeting in mexico city comes two weeks after an american consulate workers, her husband, and other employees were gunned down in mexico. the associated press says a draft indictment against three individuals under black rock are being sued. those are some of the latest headlines. >> good morning from the national archives, between constitution and pennsylvania avenue, adjacent to the national. it holds three main documents that serve as the foundation for our country, the declaration of independence, the u.s. constitution, and bill of rights. it can also find a copy of t

but does the white house feel -- does david axelrod feel they've got the message they need moving forwardc health care bill and the president, he's on the campaign trail. >> reporter: i think what they feel good about is they feel like they delivered something to democratic voters and to the base. you know, there has been this massive enthusiasm gap. we've seen it in our polls where when you match up -- when you match up, for instance, generic congressional ballot, democrats will be up a point or two, but then you say on those with -- who are most interested in the 2010 elections, republicans have a double-digit lead. there was all this republican enthusiasm. that's not going to go away. just just because the president got his health care plan, doesn't mean conservatives will stay home. they're just as fired up. what it does do is fire up the democratic base. if they can even things out, well, that gives them a fighter's chance in the election. look, history shows in all of the seats they won in '06 and '08, it would be virtually impossible for democrats to not lose seats. the question s

. >> david axelrod is a hapless political hack who's star struck with obama and can't tell him the truththe same thing with gibbs. that there's this cult of obama and old rahm is the only one there. if they had only listened to rahm, his approval ratings would still be in the 70s. these stories that he's leaking savage everybody at the white house. >> yes. i'd venture to say and i think we all would agree that being in the white house is nothing like being on the campaign trail. having said that, those people that you mention were able to do the unthinkable, and what was a concept that people laughed at a couple years ago. so it's not like they're without talent. yeah. here with us now, executive editor -- >> unlike jim vandehyke with politico. i'm sorry, i didn't know you were there. >> he's got "the morning playbook." >> can i weigh in on rahm? i don't agree with you, joe. jonk on this specific story i would bet a lot of money that rahm was not involved in it. mostly because it's clear it was put together in the last five or six days. and i think rahm is getting so much crap internally

is it david axelrod's fault? that is what everyone is talking about. everyone is spinning. that is always a sign things are not going well, and in this incestuous world of the beltway, the question is, who goes after the election? who pays the price, but my own personal take is that the why south -- the white house abdicated largely to the house on so many key issues, and the idea that you would abdicate to all those old dinosaurs in the house, all those old-timers who came up with the stimulus bill that was loaded with pork, that gave talk-show hosts plenty of ammunition a year ago, and then they advocated out of health care reform, and the first bill had a very high surtax on wealthy individuals. the public auction was not well explained, so by advocating to the house, the and ministrations set themselves up for where they are now. let's talk about the agenda. the vote were taken today, health reform would fail in the house. we do not think nancy pelosi has a 217 votes necessary. my colleague thinks she is probably at 211 or 212. there will not be a vote until she think s

it turns out now, apparently this week, according to david axelrod, that's no longer part of the plan. mr. president, the last thing i'd like to do is to comment briefly on a "washington post" column by robert samuelson this morning and ask unanimous consent to include it at the conclusion of my remarks in the congressional record. thank you, mr. president. i'll just briefly summarize it. the president is visiting in ohio, i believe, today to highlight the case of a particular ohio res. definite i believe she's -- resident. i believe she's a breast cancer survivor. her insurance eventually became too expensive for her to keep it up and she has a diagnosis of another disease and the president is highlighting this case. i think it's important to highlight it for another reason. i presume that the president and the residents of ohio are finding an alternative way to ensure that she is cared for. frequently we have constituents come to us with situations like this. and they represent very heartwrenching situations. problems that you want to deal with. and the real question is how to deal

she also has a side that people like david axelrod and other powerful people, bob shrum, can tell you about that would scare the paint off of a wall. i mean, so she has two very different sides. >> young's in a legal dispute with rielle hunter over the alleged sex tape of her and john edwards. >>> some toyota owners say forget the fix, we want a full refund. so many drivers are afraid of driving their cars a group is demanding is full refund. dozens of toyota owners in arizona and washington state are seeking class action lawsuit status. if that's granted, there could be 6 million drivers. if they win it could be worth billions of dollars which would be potenti if they win could be worth billions of dollars. the group allegation all the cars are so unsafe that toyota has botched the safety recall so profoundly the only proper solution is let them take their cars back en masse and give them a full refund. >>> what started as four currents in back taxes turned into a $200 bill from the irs for a california car wash. federal agents delivered the bill. the four cents ballooned because of

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bottom line, rahm emanuel, robert gibbs, david axelrod, top i'd were on the other side of the room. in jeans, casually dressed. almost midnight when the president came out. rarely they'd be here working that late. smile, almost smirk, on rahm emanuel's face looking over at me and print reporters were there as if to say you guys didn't think we'd do this. if you think there was a bounce in the president's step after stories about internal strife and the like, his staff was beaming. >> seeker of the house came out. her work is going to get tougher and the president as well. not just with this but the lawmakers who are concerned, dan that, about what happened back home. i want you to listen to this. this is congressman ellie ingle. i talked to him in new york talking about what cost. >> it's always a fear. you always look at the political aspect of a vote. i think, you know, we're here to vote our conscience and vote our hearts and vote our districts and vote what's best. i think at least for me paramount is i need to do what i think is right. i think political considerations are impor