the, regardless of the american people's view will be something they feel next november. >> chris: mara. >> i think they will not get the votes. >> chris: bill. >> not going to pass. >> chris: you have been saying that all along they weren't going to pass it. so... all right, we have to take a break and when we come back, politics inside the white house from the chief of staff to the sudden departure of the social secretary. our panel tells us whether the no-drama obama team is showing cracks. you won't want to miss it. toyota has done a lot of search and a lot of work, and we've been open 24 hours a day -- 7 days a week. and we've made a tremendous amount of progress. you know, safety and reliability is top priority. i mean i got a family, too. i got a mother, a grandmother, kids, and we all drive in these cars. i am 100% confident in the product. [ male announcer ] we're grateful to technicians like ronny who are helping us provide you with safe and reliable vehicles. for more information, please visit toyota.com. >> she's not been asked to leave, she's decided it is time to go back t

mara liasson. "national public radio" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.hat about the president starting this sales pitch in iowa and what the white house is thinking about whether it's an uphill climb to really sell it? >> definitely an uphill climb to sell it on the other hand, the quinnipiac poll which still shows the approval 9 -- disapproval nine points ahead of approval better. something like 55-39. the point is they got a little bounce so far. the big question is can they turn this into either a reversal or at least even it out. now, they have been saying for a very long time and it was part of the sales job to members of congress is that once this thing passed. we have a victory. it's the law of the land. there are facts on the ground. that's going to change the political dynamic and people are going to look at this bill and find all sorts of things they like in it. that might happen. we don't know that yet. we still don't know if we are at the high water mark of opposition to health care or just going to grow and grow. i think that's an open quest

mara, almost does president obama have riding on the vote today?es victory and converse defeat mean for the presidency? >> it means a tremendous amount. the cost to him of this failing are almost immeasurable. i think his presidency would be pretty much crippled and he would have failed to get a signature initiative and the democrats could look like they can't govern. how much does he gain? i think he gains less than the amount he would lose if it fails but he could go out and argue about what the bill actually does instead of something that is theory ethical. the question for me is, is this the high water mark of the opposition or as the republicans predict this will become the number one issue in every race in the fall and the president might want to pivot to jobs and the economy and we will be talking about healthcare forever. i don't know yet. >> let me bring that up with brit because if healthcare reform does become law it seems clear as winston churchill said this is not the beginning of the end, just the end of the beginning. there will be l

our report tonight from nbc's mara decampo. >> now home during the day, this woman sees first hand howyment is affecting her harlem neighborhood. >> i thought it would be more quiet. these are adults on the corner. a year ago they had jobs. >> reporter: it's the same story in african-american communities all over the nation, with the national unemployment rate standing at 9.7%, it's a staggering 15.8% for blacks. >> pulled me to the side and told me business is slow, we have to lay some people off. >> i've been looking for two years. >> reporter: in today's "state of black america report," national urban league president mark morial paints a grim picture. >> black america is suffering. the recession has had a very tough impact. >> reporter: in muskegon, michigan, about 30% black, the head of the job placement center is letting people go. >> i had to lay off a couple people and had to cut hours. >> reporter: though president obama this month signed a $17.6 billion jobs bill, the urban league says it's not enough. >> we need the kind of powerful response to the jobs crisis that we saw to

mara, we are seeing several areas in which just in the first week the bill isn't living up to the advanced>> first, the white house needs to rally the businesses who feel they will get a benefit and have them start talking about it. what has happened this week is that although the polls haven't moved in my big way, there has been a slight narrowing of the difference between the positive and negative feelings about this. there is still more negative than positive. but for democrats, what is important for mid-term is the intensity among the democratic base, the number of democrats who are strongly supportive of this has come way up. and it's beginning at least to balance out the strongly negative feelings that the republican have been riding among their base. we don't know yet if this is the high water mark, if it will grow or dissipate. one problem i think the white house will have and they have to come up with an answer to this is that premiums are likely to go up, and they might even start going up in a lot of places before november. before all of the things that would keep premiums down

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both sides and it's time for our sunday group, brit hume, senior political analyst, and contributors mara liasson of national public radio, bill kristol of "the weekly standard" and juan williams also from national public radio. it has been minus a few hours, one week since the house passed health care reform, brit, which side do you think had the better side, better part of the argument so far about whether it's good or bad for the country. >> i don't think that argument has move. the polling suggests people's sentiments are where they were before the vote was taken, which is polls have i guess -- all adults are registered voters indicate it is opposed by 3 or 4% margin. polls of likely voters have a much larger margin and i think as it is now and will be for some time a good issue for the republicans and they are smart to talk about repeal and replace and need to emphasize what they would replace is with. and i think it's also important tor republicans to stop talking about this being unpopular. it is okay for pundits on tv programs like this to talk about that but there is no point in

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