this is from the omb. reforming how washington works is ongoing effort to demand dim -- diligence and leadership. the president asked the vice president to take the reins to reform efforts and hunt down misspent tax dollars through the government. has the vice president done that? >> i don't know. i can't comment on what he has or hasn't done. what i can tell you is, here's what the gao says, we're wasting $200 billion >> stop again, gao. >> government accountability office. >> who does that answer to? >> they answer to congress. they are congress' arm to look at everything. four years ago i put in one of the debt limit increases a mandate that the gao had to spend and identify duplication. this month, the report will come out and they show all of these different areas where we have multitude of programs doing exactly the same thing. layered over, job training is one where we have 47 programs spending $18 billion and all three do exactly the same thing. they overlap with no metrics to measure whether or no

omb is an extraordinary institution, it's a credit for the professionalism commitment of omb's people, that we have been able to improve this year. i want to thank my family, especially my husband, steven. it's their support that allows me to serve. i'm humbled, honored and excited for the opportunity to build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to carrying on the important work ensuring that children, family and seniors have the building blocks of healthy and productive live. whether through implementing the affordable care act, supporting affordable childcare or finding new frontiers to treat disease. thank you, mr. president. >> give these extraordinary women one more round of applause. thank you, kathleen for your service, and thank you, sylvia. great work. >> there you have it, the tenure of kathleen sebelius is over. and the beginning of sylvia matthews burrell is beginning. during the rollout of the affordable care act, but also being there, as the president indicated, when 7.5 million

omb is an extraordinary institution, and credit to the p professionalism and commitment of ombs people that we have been able to meaningfully improve the office of budget and management over the last year. i want to thank my family, especially my husband steven, and it is their support that allows me to serve. i'm humbled, honored and excited by the opportunity to build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to carrying on the important work of insuring that children, families and seniors have the building blocks of thelthy and pthel t lives and whether it is the affordable care act or funding childhood act, or funding the preventment and treatment of diseases. thank you, mr. president. >> give these extraordinary women one more round of applause. thank you, kathleen, for your service. thank you, sylvia, for your great work. >> the president giving another embrace to kathleen sebelius, and the nominee to replace her for hhs secretary, sylvia burwell. you heard kathleen sebelius saying that overse

. >> i think a lot of people would look at someone from the office of management -- omb and okay, pickperson you can find so we have k have the most boring nonconfrontational hearing ever, not so. >> sylvia burwell supplies the president's budget. one on lesser known responsibilities and i only know it because i was a presidential speech writer is obm is responsible for fact checking the president's speeches. when a speech writer sends a speech out it goes through a staffing office and circulated through the senior people at the white house and goes to the office manager and budget where there are career circles responsible for scrubbing it for factual accuracy and send back to speech writer's edits, this is inaccurate, here is another way to say it or a memo. so this office was responsible for scrubbing the you can keep your plan line. the question for burwell is how did the biggest, one of the biggest lies in presidential history make it through omb's fact checking process not once but dozens of times both before she took over and after she became the head of omb. >> short of the peo

omb is an extraordinary institution. it's a credit to the professionalism and commitment of omb's people that we have been able to meaningfully improve our nation's fiscal policy over the past year. i want to thank my family, especially my husband, stephen. i'm humbled and honored and excited for the opportunity to build on the achievement that kathleen, the president, and so many others have put in place. if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to carrying on the important work of ensuring that children, families, and seniors have the building blocks of healthy and productive lives, whether it's through implementing the affordable care act, supporting affordable childcare, or finding new frontiers to prevent and treat disease. thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> give these extraordinary women one more round of applause. thank you, sylvia and kathleen, for your service. [applause] >> when the items the senate will get to it soon as they return from their spring break will be the nomination of silvio burwell. we ha

you have to remember, she was confirmed as omb director in the senate 96-0, unanimous.lso remember, democrats changed the rules about nominations. all they have to have is 51 votes to confirm her. so it's interesting, i don't think there's any danger at all she will not be confirmed. but she is not going to have an easy ride of it in any event. and there are three reasons. two that -- one that jeff sessions was talking about, sequestration, a lot of republicans still angry about sequestration, the way the administration handled it with all the scare stories they had that didn't really come true. the other thing is the government shutdown. she was a major figure in the government shutdown. a lot of republicans think that was handled in a punitive way to inflict as much pain as possible. and the last thing is obamacare. there's going to be a lot of talk about that. >> the president said the final score is 7 million people were signed up. he always uses that word, signed up, not enrolled. but he always forgives the fact that most americans have lost their plan, they have l

omb is an extraordinary institution. it's a credit to the professionalism and commitment of omb's people, that we've been able to meaningfully improve our nation's fiscal policy and government management over the past year. i also want to thank my family, especially my husband, steven. it's their support that allows me to serve. i'm humbled, honored, and excited by the opportunity to build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to carrying on the important work of insuring that children, families, and seniors have the building blocks of healthy and productive lives. whether it is through implementing the affordable care act, supporting the affordable child care, or finding new frontiers to prevent and treat disease. thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> give these extraordinary women one more big round of applause. thank you, kathleen, for your service. thank you, sylvia, for your great work. [applause] [inaudible] jenna: well th

we know she's omb director.thing about her that i don't think a lot of people know who she is. >> business background. when she was brought in a year or so ago there was a lot of respect on the hill that she was somebody, one of the few people, frankly, within the administration at the upper levels of the cabinet who had a business background. that is something that helped her get through the process when a lot of the nominations were stalled, get through the budget. that might be helpful as well for her now. >> ed henry, thank you. the rand corporation, tucker, with a study that said 5.2 million lost their insurance since the beginning of the rollout. obviously the administration touting and sebelius on the hill today saying 7.5 million signed up. so all of these questions about the details of every nuance of obamacare will come up. >> they pretended they haven't had the numbers. i believe that the white house welcomes, relishes a nomination fight over burrwell. this is exactly the kind of symbolic moment they'

e-mail them and said you need help and he sublets talk and rework dowdy a range and i would work at omb assisting. >> host: aside from the problems of that a cia that you set out to fix collectively can you outline those? >> the american health care system is incredibly complex as the subtitle says. >> host: let's read it. how the affordable care act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system" . >> guest: right. the health care system before we before.was incredibly complex still trying to explain to people how it is paid for through insurance through medicare and medicaid it takes 40 pages and i don't go into all the details. then explained how doctors are paid, hospitals are paid, and sentence structure, regulation it is incredibly complex. we were not doing that by any metric. 50 million uninsured, some great academic centers are fantastic outstanding quality but not even in millions who have high blood pressure not hard to diagnose or treat either not diagnosed or inadequately treated and we know with a stroke

is the former director of omb. what matters for the nation?n effort the affordable care act. sylvia burwell is the new name for you. she will replace kathleen sibelius. cheered when sylvia burwell became the new head. why? >> she's a very competent person who makes trains run and does her work. and executed. >> is this needed? >> i think she's a great choice because she will make sure we continue to focus on execution, which is very important. do will see sylvia not only that, but also push along an continue tope, of reinforce low-cost growth. >> what about critics who say we will have it go away? of nurturing lot government and business. and lots of other places. think itally, i don't should go away. i start from a different place from people who -- >> i'm not saying it should not go away. the idea of, when you look at the affordable care act, we got it underway and it was ugly. everybody agrees it's getting better. what is the next stage to prove to a nation it's working? >> you have people signed up, but now you need the actual operation of

i do think it's interesting that they're nominating -- i think putting someone who has been at omb -- you could argue that the person at omb has actually more power in many ways than the secretary because they have to oversee the implementation on the inside. >> that's a good point. >> so it's an interesting choice. >> you just made this point and i want to hone in on it. you said not that people in the administration blamed her. my sense from reporting she deserved some of the blame. it seems to me that now everybody is breathing a sigh of relief and wiping the sweat from their brow and they made the 7 million and it's up and flying in the air and it had a rocky takeoff, but am i wrong to think they massively screwed that up and it could have imperiled the entire project and she owns that? >> no, you're not wrong that they massively screwed it up. and she did in hearing after hearing she did own that. i think that's why everybody, you know, a lot of people asked me today, they said, are you surprised that she's leaving? and i said, no, not at all because, if anything, what she's done

. >> sylvia burwell has a great representation, been at treasury, been omb during the clinton years. she's got high praise from the president, even a tweet from john mccain today, who tweeted out, sylvia burwell is an excellent choice to be the next hhs secretary. she was confirmed 96-0. could there be any reason do you think for this senate not to confirm her this late in the administration? >> i can't imagine any reason they couldn't confirm her on a speedy basis. she has a track record in the president aegs administration and experience in the private sector, working for the gates foundation and walmart and serving on the board of an insurance company. she communicates on a daily basis with those on the hill and has enjoyed bipartisan support in the past. we're confident that she's earned that going forward. >> and going forward, do you think your past all of the bumps on health care on the rollout and that from now going forward you can change the dynamic? because it's become the target of criticism even when she went on the daily show with jon stewart, she had a rough time, and

the omb analysis is based on only a tiny fraction of the regulations actually issued.mple, in its draft 2013 report it did a cost benefit analysis on only 14 out of more than 3,700 regulations that were issued. bret? >> thank you. >>> one part of obamacare is in trouble, according to one of the president's former advisers. we'll get reaction from the fox all stars when we come back. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd. i'm d-a-v-e and i have copd. i'm k-a-t-e and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. breo won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. breo may increase your ri

she is at omb, the budget office. she reprided over president obama's recently released budget came out a month late. so that is maybe not a great start for must miss burwell. i have issues as conservative with the budget itself and so did many members of congress as product she put out on the behalf of the president received two hole votes in house of representatives, rejected 413-2 yesterday. gerri: well i guess they have a long way to go on this one too. i'm not sure if anybody can right this ship, guy. thanks for coming on the show. appreciate your time. >> thank you, gerri. gerri: we have more to come this hour, how do you do that? deciding if you should design on the bottom line for your kids mortgage? >>> markets taking a plunge. what should you do to protect your money? we're looking out for you and your money next. ♪ we all have a fundamental right to a healthy environment. earth justice defends that right in the courtroom. and we win. join our fight. earth justice. because the earth needs a good lawyer. gerr

vice president for the trust you placed in me in my role at omb and your confidence in nominating meor this new role. kathleen'sonor accomplishments today, i also want to personally thank her for her support and friendship through this year. i want to express my heartfelt thanks to the team at the office of management and budget and to our congressional counterparts with whom i've had the privilege to work closely throughout this year. is an extraordinary institution. it's a credit to the professionalism and commitment of omb's people that we have been able to meaningfully improve our nation's fiscal policy over the past year. i want to thank my family, especially my husband, stephen. i'm humbled and honored and excited for the opportunity to build on the achievement that kathleen, the president, and so many others have put in place. the senate, iy look forward to carrying on the important work of ensuring that children, families, and seniors have the building blocks of healthy and productive lives, whether it's through implementing the affordable care act, supporting affordable chil

harvard, she is a rode scholar, she is from a small town in west virginia, and she did have success at omborking with members of congress, and president obama talked about why he thinks she is the right pick for this job. >> there is another enrollment period coming up about six months from now. there is a whole array of responsibilities to meet over at this large and very important agency, and i could choose no manager as experienced as competent as my current director of the office and management and budget, sylvia matthews burrwell. >> he said she has a rock steady hand last fall and she was someone who worked with members of koj to try to hammer out budget issues. so he sees here as being able to work with congress. that will be key because even though she got unanimous confirmation last year, she might face a tougher battle this time, because members of congress are out for blood when it comes to the affordable care act, and they will use her nominee process to talk about why they don't like the law. >> libby casey thank you very much. >>> attorney general eric holder says he is going

omb. happy april fools day, everyone. a day where every year it's the best new thing in the world to show that you can take a joke. >>> good wednesday morning. right now on "first look." a deadly earthquake. a major earthquake measuring 8.2 kills at least five and sends hundreds of thousands fleeing from their home. >> mary barra faces the tough questions and apologizes. >>> what is next for obamacare now that over 7 million are being served? the most bizarre, frightening chain saw accident, and how the patient is doing. >>> good morning i'm francis revere ya. chile's president declared a state of emergency where the powerful earthquake happened last night. it happened off the northern coast. five deaths have been reported. there are reports of fires, landslides, homes destroyed, and power outages. it sent people scrambling for safety. tsunami warnings were issued for panama. there is a tsunami advisory in effect for hawaii. >>> 300 female inmates escape from a chilean jail. >>. >> reporter: these sirens went off shortly

have somebody to kind of spin the numbers, and this is something which, with bird well coming from omb i think they are expecting her to do for them. how many of these 7 million people have paid? how many actually signed up and paid and completed the process, how many got subsidies, how many are on medicaid? how many are young? you know, if those numbers don't work out exactly right they have a big funding issue on their hands. >> schieffer: well, will republicans still run on repeal and replace or will they offer something different or will they try to fix this system that we now have? >> i think what you are going to see is continue to repeal it and replace it. now we know we are not going to get it off the books until this president is out of office. >> schieffer: let me ask you about this debate over equal pay for women. >> sure. >> schieffer: there was a lot of debate on that last week, finally republicans blocked it in the senate. are republicans against equal pay for women and is that going to be a good political issue in these coming midterm elections? >> you know, i find this

sylvia burwell is the director of omb. president obama will announce her nomination for the hhs post later today. he has chosen burwell to replace kathleen sebelius, who has weathered criticism for problems with the healthcare.gov website. >>> pg&e is offering a new quarter million-dollar reward for information about an attack on a tower facility in south san jose. pg&e's metcalf substation was hit by sniper fire about a year ago. snipers fired nearly 100 rounds knocking out 17 giant transformers. they also consultant fiberoptic phone lines at the substation. damage was more than $15 million. >>> top bart officials are getting a raise. the board of directors voted unanimously on thursday for a 3.7% pay hike. the increase in compensation and benefits for the top executives is the same rate employees got in a new contract approved earlier this year. bart's general managers' pay was more than $323,000 last year. >>> stock futures point to a recovery beginning today after storks were clobbered yesterday. the dow was down 266 p

it will be a new chance for the administration to come forward with that. >> but an omb director, or. it is interesting. it is about the numbers. it is about how this thing comes together and adding it up. the fact that the omb director is the one who has been chosen is interesting. >> one of the things republicans are going to be able to do is they're going to be able to ask for all those documents. you know, okay. i know you say we don't have a number. can you give us some documentation so you can try to prove that this thing is working before we vote yes for you? >> yeah. and listen, let's not sugar coat it, i mean, republicans don't want this to go forward. they're still in repeal and replace mode. so politically they're going to use this nomination process to get in as much detail as they can about obamacare because, you know, the fall and the elections are looming. the question is whether you can do this dance and get substantive answers instead of just the normal political back and forth that we see. >> we will see because the democrats would like to have the nomination proces

. >> schieffer: well, let's talk about sylvia matthews burr well, over and omb, she does come with a pretty good yes, credentials, do you think she is going to have a tough confirmation? >> i don't think so, she had a stellar resume, harvard, oxford, rhodes scholar, we have gotten to know her fortunately through her work at the wal-mart foundation and the gates foundation, and of course she spent many years in the clinton administration working at robert ruben's chief of staff and very instrumental in getting us out of the debt crisis in 1995, and so, and she was unanimously confirmed just a year ago, so i think i would say as a guess, that says the war wages on, we don't know what is going to happen, but everyone is saying wonderful things about her from larry summers to senator mccain and everyone inbetween. so things look favorable. >> let's talk a little bit about this whole issue of equal pay for women. here you have marsha blackburn said no we are leading the fight for equal pay for women but republicans blocked that in the senate. a lot of people think the administration, fran

. >> the former omb director joined us earlier on surveillance. he is the vice chairman of citigroup. he is also a bloomberg view columnist. i asked him about the number of tax loopholes available to corporations versus individuals. >> one loophole that you can take advantage of -- >> that's not going to get my rate to 12%. >> the only way to have that is to have the vast majority of your income in capital gains rather than regular income. that's why warren buffett's tax rate is so low. the vast majority of his income is in tax preferred capital income rather than ordinary income. that is the big loophole. >> if you are not able to go the buffet route, what do average americans need to know? >> for higher income couples, the rates are higher. the expiration of the bush tax cuts and the affordable care act which brought the 3.8% of net investment income tax and higher medicaid taxes on wages -- it's a reaction of, wow, how could i owe that much? the rates are higher. >> middle income with collecting social security, that's as much a tax issue and a

she was just confirmed a year ago as the omb director.licans will use the conformation hearing as an opportunity to go through there problems and use the leverage to try to get documents to go through what went wrong with the rollout, what is continuing to go wrong. there are a lot of problems with obamacare. and now it is question not of the website, or the rollout, but the plan itself. are their premiums going up? deductible going up? the actual experience of health insurance is what the debate is about >> and she is going to be pressed to answer the questions that kathleen sebelius refused to answers and that is the number of people enrolled and the number of people who were previously insured. >> absolutely. the white house has very conveniently say they don't know the number and when they hit the 7 million mark they knew it instantly. i am sure they have the numbers on how many paid and what percentage of the so-called young invincibles signed up. and over the next months as they prepare for the haheariearing s going to be questioned

very important is a vote to chief, her as a you omb 94-0. that will be a huge issue because of the rules changes, but she can get in the job right away, get up to speed and running, and she is not necessarily tainted with the same brush as sebelius. >> is her man a first do no harm? >> there are so many hurdles that obamacare has to overcome going forward. has a lot on her plate going forward at this job, but she is a -- and she is respected within the white house. her management skills, she served in the mid-clinton administration. washington.known to again, but did executes, management skills, she helped run the gates foundation, for example. >> scarlet, the mystery of palace intrigue in washington. >> always, especially in the second term of the presidency. carl icahn and ebay -- yesterday icahn drop his demand that ebay spinoff paypal and in turn, ebay will be naming another independent director to the board. but a deal between icahn and ebay ceo may have happened in new york interestingly enough. interviewed about his with the ceo of eb

guest: she has not been omb director that long.as positive about her is that she was confirmed unanimously by the senate last year. not a single senator voted against her. she's not a controversial pick, and democrats in the white house are hopeful that her confirmation process -- and democrats and the white house are hopeful that there will not be much opposition. health care is a pre-contentious issue. it will be interesting to watch whether republicans now have second thoughts about her or new opposition to the idea of her becoming the age hs secretary. -- the hhs secretary. i was just wondering if perhaps maybe he asked for her resignation because a week ago she said she was going to stay and. maybe ask for her resignation to clear the slate of people that have a bad -- that the republicans were against and out for. maybe with this new appointee from west virginia, that my clear little more political room for new blood and new positive thoughts on obamacare. what do you think? host: sean, do think it is a writer differ to step

better than the cbo estimated, the omb estimated and even our they'll ares, pretty optimistic.he federal reserve is actually billionown debt, $80 this quarter. int is the largest paydown quite some time. they are cutting the amount of two-year notes and three year notes they are issuing. something they started last fall and they will do that for the next few months, reduce the amount of treasuries. >> action on capitol hill earlier this afternoon, the senate republicans to block the legislation to raise the minimum wage. it is currently seven dollars $.25, republicans say the measure is going to cost jobs. this is not going to pass this year. >> is really an issue for the states. a lot of states are increasing their minimum wage. for congress, no. we will not get a deal. going to affect the voter this coming fall? is it going to be one of those where the charge is going to be you are playing class warfare? pulls wells think it for them. maybe they are grasping at straws because it does not look like a great election. i have talked to some democrats who feel that obamacare might

neil: sylvia matthews -- director of omb will takeover, what does she inherit? >> she gets a mess. a tough job, the fact is that democrats are in trouble, this is one more way they are strapl bells to protect themselves in this november's election, nothing seems to be working because americans are getting hit in the gut, in their wallet, they know that obamacare is costing them more, making them cough up money they didn't want to spend, not keeping their doctors, not keeping their insurance because white house did not keep its promised. ashley: you touched on that, we have midterms coming up, how big a factor is obamacare for democrats into the elections? >> i say it is huge. fact they continually try to look for something else, so they can distraction people from obamacare whether this ridiculous charge of equal pay for equal jobs when the white house is not paying its own women equal to what they may pen, senate pays 79 cent osdol ar to what thess on thedollar, , they know they are, every poll that shows american people don't like obamacare, in states where a particularly incum i

last year she was confirmed by the senate for omb job, the vote: 96 to nothing. this time the going to will be rougher. republicans will use her nomination as another chance to attack health care reform. mitch mcconnell said in part, secretary sebelius may be leaving but the impact it's having on our constituents aren't. obamacare has to go, too. standing alongside the president and the departing sebelius burwell welcomed her new role. >> i'm humbled honored and excited by the opportunity to build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. >> and that was mike viqueria reporting. in ukraine, pro-russia activists in the east are digging in. kiev has offered more autonomy to eastern regions. the sprassist -- separatists in donetske. >> against a new ukrainian government. it's been a week since the takeover of the main security building in lugans. like elsewhere in the east a referendum on federalist is their main demand. but with every day that passes the list gets longer. now, they also want the formation of a southeaste

>> i mean, actually i do think the fact that she comes from omb background that manages, pennies anduarters and billions of dollars i think that is probably a good thing. melissa: go ahead. >> people, tim geithner was supposed to be a fairly middle of the road treasury secretary until he gets brainwashed by president obama. i mean really what these people do when they get into these jobs, they follow order from the guy at the top. i don't think you can be, you can be albert einstein and can not fix obamacare. i will say one other thing, you notice when he was talking did you hear the sirens going on? there were sirens. melissa: what did you think coming to arrest everybody? >> i don't know. something weird. melissa: it a lot like corporate america. at time when everything was going wrong, everybody was saying why does she still have a job. he says, i'm standing behind her, i'm standing behinder her. the countdown clock is on until she announces her departure. why aren't we more honest, fire at time. i will stand behind her and she is gone. >> that is how the game is played at corpora

her omb confer mags sailed through the senate last year.o, you know, depending on what side of this issue you're on, maybe you take this departure differently. >> yeah. i don't know about the white house having a press conference and having her depart because she won. it certainly brings up the mission accomplished thought. this fight is going to go on for some time now. they certainly, though, numerically hit their first numbers. so it's a good time for her to leave if she's going to leave. mark halperin, what are you hearing? was this in the works for awhile or did she just leave because she's exhausted? >> my understanding is she was not pushed out. politically this is probably the best time for her to go. they're replacing her with someone if she's confirmed who is a very able manager and who will not bring to the congressional hearings and overnight as well as the politics of the midterms the same level of baggage as kathleen sebelius. if the law ends up being successfully implemented over the years, sebelius will go down in history bo

have to have somebody to kind of spin the numbers, and in is something with burwell coming from the omb, i think that they are expecting her to do it for them. >> and jackie, there is no one questioning the number of people who sijed up. so i guess that the suggestion is that sillylvia burwell who h an impeccable reputation would be spinning the numbers of whether or not the money is saved or the affordable health care act is affordable, and if the people who sign have paid, and what do you make of the comments? ? swe >> well, i don't nknow about that, because she was chosen in an overwhelming confirmation hearing in the senate last year. she is someone who has brought out some of the good stories, but you will see some of the democrats who are going to be far, far away are the this, and the mark pryors and the mary landrieu's don't want to talk about the person or the affordable care act, because it is hurting democrats who want to focus on the economy and the economic messages rather than talking again about obamacare. >> and obviously, some republicans, perry, see it as an opportunit

>> yeah, i actually was on the team that wrote the omb 300, the funding document.f you want to know more about next gen, you need to talk to me, not understand who doesn't understand what adsb, adsb 1 that was sending the signal out, and jeff, i'm not talking about you, but les and i are on key with this. but adsb, which would be sending the signal out, i agree, that would have what the signal is equipped with. but adsb 2 sends to every other aircraft in the system. when that happens, even if they turn the switch off immediately every other aircraft who might have had any other interaction with the aircraft would get a signal, saying somebody turned it off. because that is the system. it is designed within the system. and yes, it may not have prevented the accident, i agree with that. but i tell you what, everybody would have known where that airplane went. >> jeff wise, you want to respond? >> well, know, i divert david ss -- defer to david souci, the transmission of the plane, the ground based radar -- radio transmitters. that is why when once the plane was more

as obama's omb director, burwell has overseen tense budget negotiations and helped manage last year's>> she has good relations with the republicans on the hill. that said, you could put mother teresa in as secretary of hhs and it would not change republican's attitude towards obamacare. >> reporter: using her confirmation hearing to take fresh aim at obamacare in this midterm election year. eric cantor tweeting, sebelius had an impossible task, nobody could make obamacare work. president from republican senator john mccain who tweeted burwell is an excellent choice. if confirmed, burwell's biggest challenge will be taking over health care at a pivotal moment. more than 7 million people signed up but the next enrollment deadline is just around the corner in november. in addition to overseeing the next enrollment period, burr which will also have to oversee a potential new expansion of medicaid. one of her big challenges is to try to keep premiums low. she will be charged with trying to repair and smooth over the relationship between this administration and insurance companies which was

beard from the omb. happy april fools day, everyone. a day where every year it's the best new thing in the world to show that you can take a joke. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> the white house says they hit their magic number for enrollments in obama care today, and republicans are no longer so sure that repealing it is such a great idea. >> sick months ago today, a big part of the affordable care act kicked in. >> now to the mass i surge in health care enrollment. >> last night, the first open enrollment period came to an end. >> obama care enrollment topped 7 million. >> to hit or surpass 7 million people. >> 7.1 million americans have now signed up. >> is it time for a victory lap? >> i want to make sure everybody understands, there will be additional challenges to implementing this law. >> this is a major comeback story. a lot of people obviously had written this off. elections do have consequences. >> this is putting up yet again the path to prosperity. a path to prosperity, a re

beard from the omb. happy april fools day, everyone. every year it's the best new thing in the world to show that you can take a joke. >>> good wednesday morning. right now on "first look." a deadly earthquake. a major earthquake measuring 8.2 kills at least five and sends hundreds of thousands fleeing from their home. >> mary barra faces the tough questions and apologizes. >>> what is next for obamacare now that over 7 million are being served? the most bizarre, frightening chain saw accident, and how the patient is doing. >>> good morning i'm francis revere ya. chile's president declared a state of emergency where the powerful earthquake happened