and today the participate nominated sylvia matthews burwell to replace her. libby casey is in washington right now, and libby did the secretaries resignation come as a surprise or it is more that shelasted as long as she did that surprised a lot? >> well, there was not a lot of heads up, so it was a surprise. but in retrospect it does make sense because she was there for the entire arc of the affordable care act, but she waited to resign until the open enrollment period ended. she told the president in march that once the law was sort of on its way that she would be stepping down from the post. there was a fair bit of conflict, especially in the last six months or so because of the self admitted botched rollout of the law and the website problems. so many people wanting to find out if they could get cheaper or health care period were unable to do so in the early rollout. so a lot of people saw her as a sign that went wrong. but today she emphasized all of the accomplishments of being a part of creating this new health care law. >> this was the most meaningful

president obama will nominate sylvia matthews burwell to replace sebelius. and republicans are looking forward to using her confirmation hearings to get a few more shots at obamacare. diana? >> all right. tahman bradley with the big story in washington today. thank you. >>> there's still no word about the missing malaysia airlines

new head there, but it is an issue, and i expect them to use the confirmation hearing of sylvia matthews burwell to air the grievances. she was confirmed to the office of management and budget unanimously, but maybe tougher for her to be confirmed as the head of hhs because it is incredibly politicized. >> and dafna, will the republicans try to block this or use it as a forum to keep the whole critique of obamacare going in a much more public way? >> well, they can't block it. but they will do exactly that, use it as a forum, and use anything as a forum, including any race in the midterms, but this mornbling we were talk about seeing the new campaign ad out for mark begich who is running in alaska and very pro obamacare ad. it is very impressive ad, and i think that there are going to be candidates who are going to buck that trend, and run on the obamacare, and the support of it and win. >> and we mentioned the poll though showing that 84% say that the obama carecare is an important factor in determining the midterm vote, and that not just a strong majority of the republicans, but 52% of democra

juxed opposed the new nominee who is sylvia matthews burwell and is a very articulate matters.ugh the b-director unanimously. this is a new face and very articulate. >> and someone who is well-liked by the republicans. she has had a lot of dealings with budget on them and didn't get the grand deal, but good reviews being seen as practical and interested in finding a solution that wasn't at political as others inside the white house. but the problems are the problems. it isn't like there is going to be a great moment on capital hill. i expect her to be confirmed as the new hhs secretary. she was just confirmed a year ago as the omb director. i am sure republicans 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 i

certainly as you teed up ahead of that sylvia matthews burwell confirmation hearings when health careill be thrust back in the news, democrats have some good talking points now. >> that is the next significant hurdle for the health care law to jump and public perception will be back on that. she's absolutely going to get grilled. you'll have a lot of people who have 2016 aspirations trying to help out their friends going after her with specific questions. how well prepped do you think she will be for that and how significant is it for democrats that she comes out relatively unscathed? >> i think it's very important. looking at this hhs secretary from the years ahead, whether it's sylvia matthews burwell, the next time a republican is going to be president, because of this health care law, the hhs secretary is now no longer a mid-level tier person. it is up on the level of being secretary of state, defense secretary, where you need the best and the brightest. not only as far as management skills but also political chops too, because this isn't going away. again, while democrats have so

experienced, as confident, as my current director of the office of management and budget, sylvia matthews burwell. [ applause ] sylvia is from a small town, hinton, west virginia, so she brings the common sense that you see in small towns. she brings the values of caring about your neighbor and order folks to some of the biggest and most complex challenges of her time. she's a proven manager, who has demonstrated her ability to field great teams, forge strong relationships, and demand excellent results at the highest levels, and she has done that both in the private and public sectors. coo of the gates foundation, she worked on the profit pressing challenges. head of the wal-mart foundation, and member of the board at met life, she gained experience in how insurance markets work and how they can work for pins and families alike. here at the white house, as manager of office of budget she has gained experience. and the deficit has plunged by $4 billion. and that has happened during that time. when the government was forced to shut down last october, and even as most of her own team was barred from

experienced, as competent as my current director of the office of management and budget, sylvia matthews burwell. sylvia is from a small town, hinton, west virginia. so she brings the common sense that you see in small towns. she brings the values of caring about your neighbor and ordinary folks to some of the biggest and the most complex challenges of her time. she's a proven manager who has demonstrated her ability to field great teams, forging strong relationships and deliver excellent results at the highest levels, and she has done it both in the public and the private s sectors. as coo and later president of the global development of the gates foundation, sylvia worked on the cutting edge of the world's most pressing health challenges. as the head of the walmart foundation, and a member of the board at met life, she gained first hand experience into the how insurance markets work and how they can work better for businesses and families alike. here as my budget director at the white house, she has already delivered results. after all n the years since she arrived the deficit has plunged by m

. >> it will be sylvia matthews burwell. she has been there for about a year. what she will bring to the department of health and human services, white house officials hope is management expertise and many of them frankly think that has been lacking. clearly, john, this was the time now. you recall about two weeks ago, april 1st when the president and in the rose garden to announce the end of the sign-up, the surprising number of 7.1 million people reaching their stated goal of sign-ups to healthcare.gov after a rocky rollout. that was a bit of good news, a window of opportunity for kathleen sebelius to leave. she said she never intended to be here until 2017 to turn the lights out. but she is obviously been under fire from october 1st, ever since the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov, arolout that she, herself, said was nothing short of a debacle. many have been calling for her head. the president had defended her time and time again. one telling moment, john, came during that rose garden appearance with president obama when he announced that sunday last minute

. >> so let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell, you've seen her in washington for some time and originally worked for jack lew and then in the gates foundation has a terrific reputation. this is going to be a big challenge as well. >> it is a big challenge and to take nothing away from secretary sebelius, but sylvia matthews burwell is extraordinarily accompli accomplished, very, very smart and down to earth, very capable person who has a very extensive management background and she hasn't been director of omb all that long. that's a job where you have your finger on the pulse of every different agency and know the nooks and krannys there. i think that plus her private sector experience and treasury experience, really puts her in a good position to manage what i said is a sprawling department, which by the way, you asked this question to valerie jarrett, challenges of implementing obamacare are not in the rearview mirror. they are right ahead of us in the road. there are a lot of things that remain to be done in terms of making sure this gets rolling appropriately. >> let's me switch to hi

libby, let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell. you used that sound byte in your piece of president obama saying sebelius doesn't write code. i am assuming burwell doesn't write code either. but what other expertise does she bring to the job? >> she may not write code but she is under 50. so some democrats hope she will bring a younger sensibility to why things like rolling out a website properly are so crucial, so important and she may be able to have more of a management roll. management is her specialty. she has been working on the office of budget and management under the president. so his go-to budget person and she has dealt with some of the tough battles on capitol hill over the past year and had to deal with some of the realities of implementing budgets and getting things back up and running after the government shutdown last fall. she was part of the team that got a budget hammered out. she comes from harvard and she has had experience outside of government working for the bill and linda gates foundation and the wal-mart f

the president nominating sylvia matthews burwell to the post. is currently the director of the office of management and budget. investigators are trying to find ut what caused the deadly bus crash in california that killed ten people. and pope francis asking for forgovness for the child abuse that happened in the catholic church. the pontiff promising sanctions on the priests who were involved. >>> mossville, louisiana is one of the most polluted places in the us. it is surrounded by 14 different chemical plants, and residents say they suffer from life-changing ailments because of it. >>> this is my father's first cousin. >> reporter: dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town of mossville, louisiana for seven generations, but she fears she will be among the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residents. dioxin is a known cars again, felix and others blame the chemical plants for contaminating their community. most of the 500 residents living here are african american. at a townhall residents shared stor

and again today, i think the first step, i think sylvia matthews burwell is another big part of that. >> congress is out this week, but we've seen president obama sort of all over the place yesterday speaking about the economy. in pittsburgh, and now in this impromptu presser. how much of this is to bypass the gridlock and do things on his own? and talk about obviously it seems like there will be good numbers he will report, showing he's on top of the crisis in ukraine. how much of that is symbolic here? >> i think a lot of it, he wants to show that the democratic party, the white house is pushing forward. but to the extent that he pushes immigration reform, and talks about immigration reform, that issue is not going anywhere in the house. and i think that's become abundantly clear. the president said he wanted to get this done before last summer. and here we are in april, and that's not going anywhere. so i think if democrats are running against a stuffed congress, they can make that case. but i think the more the president goes out and talks about these issues, and demonizes republ

the president plans to nominate office of management and budget director sylvia matthews burwell to replaceher. >>> a woman so far not identified who threw a shoe at hillary clinton. take a look. this happened during a speech in las vegas. the former secretary of state, whoa, was talking to the institute of scrap recycling industries when the woman stood up and tossed the shoe. she ducked and then quickly joked about it. listen. >> my goodness, i didn't know solid waste management was so controversial. thank goodness she didn't play softball like i did. >> then she made a joke about, wait, this is las vegas. cirque du soleil? what's happening here? organizers of the event say the protester didn't have credentials, must have slipped past security. the woman wouldn't tell reporters her name or why she did it. >> i think that's a pretty extraordinary reaction that she had. i would have screamed and run, not knowing what's going on. mrs. clinton -- >> that's why you are not the secretary of state or -- >> explains a lot of things, frankly. but i do think it was very impressive there. >> it was

he's expected to nominate sylvia matthews burwell as her replacement. >>> is man is in custody and facing charges. he slammed into a day care center killing a girl. we have more. >> reporter: people came to the day care center to leave stuffed animals for the children injured here. police say robert curchado was at the wheel of the suv that ran into the building. he has a long criminal record, including fleeing the scene of another crash in december. >> i have no idea how we are going to wake in the morning and continue on with our lives. >> reporter: nicole is the mother of the girl who died. 4-year-oldly lilly was waiting for an afternoon snack when the car hit. >> i have no idea how someone loses a child and tries to have a life of normally. he did not just hurt my family, he destroyed my family. but all the children in that school whether injured or not, they watched other kids being run down and they're going to be scarred for life and he needs to answer for that. >> reporter: lilly's mother posted this video of her daughter online. >> she was 4 years old and she had a life ahead of

president obama is expected to nominate sylvia matthews burwell to replace her. >> our breaking newsthis hour, that deadly tour bus crash near chick co. i-5 will be shut down throughout the night. on board high school students from los angeles trying to visit humboldt state for a college tour. nine people are dead. dozens more are injured. we'll have a live report from southern california next. >>> want to get back to breaking news. at least nine people are dead after a fedex tractor-trailer crossed the median on i-5 near chick coand slammed into a bus carrying high school students on a college visit. seven students have died and both the drivers are dead, as well. the freeway i-5 remains closed at this hour and it will likely reopen sometime tomorrow morning. >> live now to jacob res coneny from our sister station in los angeles. i know you are out in riverside where one of the families lived. you had an opportunity to talk to one of the families tonight? >> that's right. they're inside right now. it's a desperate situation inside. they've been calling the school and the hospital. t

budget director sylvia matthews burwell will be nominated as a replacement. earnings coming in at a dollar $1.05 for wells fargo. >> beating the consensus of $.96. this comes after j.p. morgan reported a big mess on revenue at the top line. as for revenue at wells fargo, $26 billion seems to be right in line for what analysts had been anticipating. another number that everyone slowdownn, given the in mortgage lending, is the efficiency ratio -- it measures cost as a percentage of revenue. the lower number the better. 57.9%fargo reported a efficiency ratio. somewhereere looking in the neighborhood of 57%. that efficiency ratio going higher is not the direction you wanted to move in. there was a reserve release. wells fargo put aside some money to cover bad loans. bad loans to not come to pass. it will release that money and go straight down to the bottom line of the prophet. in terms of -- profit. addressing." a given the jpmorgan put aside more money in the first quarter. -- interesting here, given that jpmorgan put aside more money in the first quarter. reve

president obama is expected to nominate sylvia matthews burwell the director of the office of management and budget to replace her. sebelius has been under fire for the problems at healthcare.gov since it premiered last fall. >>> the fbi is turning to the public for help in finding the suspects behind last year's attack on the power grid in silicon valley. kpix 5's len ramirez is in san jose tonight at the pg&e substation with the reward that was announced today. len. >> reporter: ken, investigators feel they have basically done everything they can with the information they already have in this case so they feel now is the time that they have to go to the public. ever since that gunshot attack on this facility last year, when someone fired rounds into the transformers and cut fiberoptic cable, it caused $150 million in caused $15 million in damage. there are no arrests and no subjects. authorities are now asking for the public's help hoping a $250,000 reward will spring loose some information that will help solve the case. >> after an extremely active investigation over the course of the

but if anyone can handle it is sylvia matthews burwell. she's a pro.r not miss sebelius was fired, she said even two weeks ago she intended to stay until november. so, clearly something happened. i think we know what the story is there. eric: if they say it or not. thank you, kirsten and judith. good to see you. >> thank you. jenna: some other news to get to today. another rough morning on wall street as stocks opening lower again after disappointing earnings from jpmorgan chase and a lot of questions about what's ahead on wall street. why some traders say we could see the start of a market correction. we'll get into what that means and why it matters. >>> you've seen it this week, right? a slew of riots this past week on college campuses across the country. some for no reason. what is happening? is this normal student behavior or something else? we take it up with our panel coming up. [ doctor ] and in a inical trial versus litor, crestor got more high-risk patient bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. way to go, crestor! yh! tting to goal is a big

exit of health secretary kathleen sebelius and the arrival of her nominated replacement, sylvia matthews burwell, the white house sees a fresh chance to push ahead with implementation of its health care law. >> there are 7 1/2 million people across the country that have the security of health insurance, most of them for the very first time, and that's because of the woman standing next to me here today. and we are proud of her for that. gwen: white house officials insisted that sebelius' exit was her idea, and that burwell will pick up where she left off. is that even possible, alex? >> i think she's got some catching up to do. she comes to a new agency. she doesn't have a lot of health care experience in her professional background, although she's involved in those issues a little bit as a white house official. but she has catching up to do. she has to meet the constituency of the hospitals, insurers, advocacy groups and ordinary americans interested in these issues. so it's going to take some time. in the meantime, the department is going through this phase where they have to accept filings fr

she's office management and budget chief sylvia matthew burwell.obal health issue from her time with the gates foundation. >> phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe some 60 feet towards hillary clinton yesterday in las vegas. you saw it right there. clinton ducked. she was not hit. but. >> was that a bat? >>reporter: startled it was not a bat the before telling some joke and continuing with her speech las vegas police say 36-year-old allison michelle aerns sneaked past security. took off a shoe and tossed it up the staichblingt arrested for miss did he mean or disorderly conduct then freed. police report said she appeared to be in agitated state but was aware of what she had done. faces up to year in county jail if convicted no word on why she did it. >> twitter has anyone 74 million users. the problem seems to be getting them to tweet. web site that monitors twitter activity says that about 44 percent of existing twitter accounts have never the sent a tweet. and 30 percent of existing users only sent 1 to 10 tweet. only 13 percent have sent 100

president obama will nominate sylvia matthews burwell to replace sebelius. and republicans are looking forward to using her confirmation hearings to get a few more shots at obamacare. diana? >> all right. tahman bradley with the big story in washington today. thank you. >>> there's still no word about the missing malaysia airlines plane but officials are sure they're on the right track. during a visit to china today, the australian prime minister tony abbott admitted that time is running out for signals from the boeing 777's black boxes. the batteries are only good for about a month. and the plane disappeared march 8th. >>> another blistering day of cross-examination for oscar pistorius is now under way. prosecutor gerrie nel picked up where he left off yesterday, attempting to poke holes in pistorius' claim that he mistakenly killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. at one point, nel bluntly accused pistorius of not telling the truth in his version of events. >> accidentally your fingers pulled the trigger? >> i started shooting at that point, my lady. >> at

obama is nominating sylvia matthews burwell, the budget director, to be his next h.h.s. secretary. today, we saw new satellite photos showing russian troops are digging in along the border with ukraine. there are concerns russia may be preparing to invade eastern ukraine after annexing crimea three weeks ago today. here's david martin. >> reporter: photos taken by a commercial satellite show russian jets parked wing tip to wing tip. helicopters, some of them gunships, spread across the field. a grid full of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles; another full of artillery pieces, all arrayed in an arc encompassing ukraine's eastern border, judged by u.s. intelligence to be ready to move on just 12 hours' notice. the rows of vehicles here are identified as a probable special forces brigade who first flew into crimea to seize the airfields there. in the last 24 hours, the russians have positioned anti- aircraft closer to the border. the russians have also started making infrastructure improvements such as laying gravel over dirt roads. that suggests they have no intention of pulling ba

now, the president will announce this morning, her successor will be sylvia matthews burwell, she'll oversee the next phase of the health care law, that of course, when people start trying to use their new insurance. norah. >> thank you. >>> search crews looking for malaysian flight 370, the hunt is now centered in a 500 square mile patch of the indian ocean, the size of los angeles. seth doane is in beijing where they sound more confident that the plane may be found. seth, good morning. >> reporter: that's right. good morning to you, norah. we had tony abbott, australia's prime minister here as you mentioned in china today and he did appear more confident saying that he believes those signals coming from the deep were indeed connected to flight 370. >> we very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh37 on 0. >> reporter: abbott qualified his comments later in the day, confidence in the approximate position of the black boxes wasn't the same as recovery wreckage. that's something that we have hear

as president obama's budget director sylvia matthews burwell was once told by a member of congress that she had already been through a baptism of fire, she may soon top that. >> she's going to do great. >> reporter: this daughter of west virginia educators is about to get the assignment of her life. >> i hope that the senate confirms sylvia without delay. >> reporter: on friday president obama nominated sylvia matthews burwell to oversee health and human services, the department in charge of implementing obama care. >> 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. >> reporter: if confirmed, by the end of june insurance companies have submit proposed rates for plans of open enrollment beginning november. crucial payment systems on healthcare.gov still aren't finished. and a mandate for workers with more than 50 workers takes effect in just eight months. she would take over for one of the longest serving cabinet secretary, kathleen sebelius who accepted blame for the disastrous rol

as senior administration officials tell al jazeera america that it will be budget director sylvia matthews burwellthe while house says russia seems to be implementing a program of incitement it could use force to clear them from government buildings, giving them until friday to leave peacefully. >> president obama toured the lbj library in austin. mr. obama said the landmark legislation paved the way for him to become president. crews searching for the missing malaysian jetliner heard another signal deep below the indian ocean that gives them new hope they narrowing the search area. specialists are preparing an underwater vehicle to identify what could be the plane's two black boxes. big news, steven colbert will replace david letter man when he retires. he said he signed a five-year contract. he told the "new york times" he will not do the joe as his satirical white wing character from the colbert report. i am richelle carey. "consider this" and antonio morrow is up next. hit the latest news at aljazeera.com. >> obamacare claims its highest ranking career casualty. we look at what kathleen sebeli

. ♪ >>> now president obama has nominated sylvia matthews burwell to be his next health secretary.proved by the u.s. senate, she'll replace kathleen sebelius. kathleen sebelius resigned on thursday, and oversaw the rocky rollout of the health care reforms known as obamacare. >> access to healthcare.gov has been an a miserable experience for far too many americans. >> now let's get more from allen fisher. how much of a surprise was kathleen sebelius's resignation and what more do we know about her departure. >> well, it was her decision. and barack obama said that she had flagged up in march that she was keen to leave the post in march. but she gave an interview just seven days something where she said she expected to be at her post in november. the whole health care system is now exceeding expectations. things are moving well, so for her to resign really just brings up all of the problems at the launch. this was barack obama's signature legislation. he told everyone it is going to work as well as going on to amazon or those travel websites, and it was a complete disaster. people we

president obama nominating budget director, sylvia matthew burwell in her place.et's bring in heritage foundation steve moore and charlie gasparino and jack otter are here as well. steve moore, what did you think about this one? big surprise or not really. >> surprised to me she lasted as long as she did. five years is long time to be a cabinet secretary. she is like conjoined twin with respect to obamacare. her whole legacy will be decided over the next few years as whether this thing is a complete flop or whether it make as recovery. i happen to think it will be an economic and health care flop. but, interesting thing is, the new choice, this former budget director, who knows. maybe melissa, we might put someone in hhs who wants to control costs. that would be a first. melissa: do you think that is really possible or are you being glib? >> i mean, actually i do think the fact that she comes from omb background that manages, pennies and quarters and billions of dollars i think that is probably a good thing. melissa: go ahead. >> people, tim geithner was supposed

resigning, and "the new york times" reports that president obama will announce tomorrow that sylvia matthews burwell, who is currently white house budget director will replace her. again, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius is resigning. she's been head of the agency since president obama took office and has overseen implementation of the affordable care act. she was on capitol hill today saying that 7.5 million americans have signed up for health insurance in federal and state-run exchanges under the president's health care law. we're going to watch part of that now. >> department's mission is to help our fellow americans secure the opportunity to live happier, healthier lives and reach their fullest potential. although the hard work of our employees is often times unheralded, their efforts benefit millions of americans. our nation's seniors benefits from the hard work of mows at cms and the administration on community level. children benefit from the acf-administered initiatives like head start, and all of us benefit from work on mental health and substance abuse treatment and from the efforts of empl

officials also say the president will nominate sylvia matthews burwell director of the office of mappingmentget to replace her. >> hillary clinton speaking at san jose state tonight but earlier this afternoon in las vegas she had to duck when woman threw a shoe at her barely missed her face. watch. >> about it was just that close. could have really hurt her. clinton was expecting at scrap metal rae cycling event and joked she didn't know solid waste management was so controversial. woman also threw paper at the former secretary of state. >> more on her visit to san jose state on 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. by the way she's here in the bay area tonight. >> market took massive dive today. dow closed down 260 points rough difficult of trading.so what is going on and when does it end? rebecca with this big slide. >> culprit behind the massive sell off. biggest wish of the last 5 years became the biggest laster. days if i gravity including hay fliers like facebook google amazon netflix and electric car maker tesla taking a beating. next flicks known for the oh, so popular original series h

mark, sylvia matthews burwell, in terms of her confirmation process, we just need 51 democrats to supporter nomination to get her confirmation. that does not mean that every opportunity will be made to fight obamacare. statement saying he had concerns about burwell's willingness to ignore the clear intent of congress. the beginning of obama care, middle of obama care and the initial enrollment are all going to be revisited by our republican friends in the senate. >>vil sylvia matthews will have be prepared to talk about the past and also the future. where is the independent advisory board? what happens to -- what has been the motivation and reaction natural for all the twli he del implemented? and what is happening with these cases of people losing access. a lot of reasonable questions for answer. doesn't mean they will stop her, sdpts mean that the law will be repealed by any means. but she will have to be prepared for a lot of questions. >> indeed, 36 million people expected to be enrolled by 2017, 24 on the which exchange, 12 on medicaid. mark, i'm sorry you had to sit next to an empty

. >> i think it probably is a good thing to have a new face going forward, and sylvia matthews burwell is a very good choice. she has a lot of good will on the republican side, and she has a lot of experience and ability. >> sylvia burwell's nomination has already been sent to the senate where the republican minute nority -- minute nority leader mitch mcconnell said we should her about obamacare shortcomings during the hearings. >> gentlemen, good to see you, tonight. i want to get your idea about what happens next with this confirmation for sylvia burwell. >> i know sylvia quite well. worked with her in the clinton administration, she is as reported a first-class woman with bipartisan support. to answer your question specifically, the republicans should and argue you'lly need to use the hearings to get to the bottom of what the numbers mean, what the 7-7.5 million sign-ups mean in terms of demographics and most importantly how many have paid. she needs to really offer specific solutions to fixing obamacare in terms of coverage and premiums. the republicans need to use this as the base

president obama is expected to nominate office of management and budget director sylvia matthews burwellher. joining me now, reporter from "the new york times" who interviewed secretary sebelius today. also with us chuck todd, nbc news, chief white house correspondent. chuck, this news -- it makes, leaves me wondering, has this been something that was planned and then delayed because of the bumpy rollout of the affordable care act. they didn't want tight look like it was associated with some of the failures in the rollout of the affordable care act? they will not say this was planned. i can tell you talking to plenty of officials they have lost confidence in her at least politically. i say politically here, because as you know these are a couple different jobs sunny had to do. but they have lost all confidence in her. as a public face for the health care law. quite some time ago. and that is when the decision had been made in some form that they needed to do something about this after enrollment. now -- it was never a done deal. even during that time. but the president, itch you recall,

nominating budget director sylvia matthews burwell for the post. so, now, a hard sale on how burwell will be different. >> she's proven manager. >> reporter: but still so many questions on how the law was working. break down that 7.5 million number. >> we'll have data available when the data is reliable enough to provide. >> reporter: while some republicans praise burwell's nomination the top republican on the budget committee says she has a comparatively thin resume. this exchange from a hearing last month could offer a window into what's next. >> you look innocent the way you look at me here like you don't know what i'm talking about. you can't simply answer the question. >> i think there are some questions that aren't simply yes or no question. >> you're refusing to answer it. i'll answer it. >> reporter: with the midterm elections six months away, obamacare is once again under the microscope. for "this week," jeff zeleny. abc news, washington. >>> okay, let's get in now with the roundtable. we're back again. bob reich, you saw the president cla

accepted her resignation and tomorrow president obama will nominate the current omb director sylvia matthews burwellsecretary sebelius. joining us senator mike lee. nice to see you, sir. >> big news. >> very big news. >> what do you make of it. >> look, this ultimately isn't about the person. it's about the policy. and secretary sebelius was in charge of implementing a very unpopular policy. and, her departure signals the end of a very tumultuous era for the obama dlation. and so it will be interesting to see what happens if the nominee. with ms. burwell, what she can do with this. because she inherits a very very difficult task. and she is going to have a tough road ahead of her in terms of securing senate confirmation. especially if she is not prepared to answer all kinds of questions about how independent she is willing to be and how open and transparent she is willing to be with congress. >> i actually, i assume because ever the new rules that she will get by. it's not particularly hard to get a nominee by. if i were president obama, i would have asked sebelius to stay on until after the electio

today president obama nominating sylvia matthews burwell to take over as hhs secretary.one sebelius resign not guilty wake of the obamacare rollout disaster. burwell putting a new face on healthcare but will it change anything at all. byron and our panel is back. byron, lucky burwell. >> i don't think it will change anything in terms of obamacare or the other operations of the department of health and human services. i think republicans know that burwell was confirmed for the omb job last year 96 to nothing. and so republicans will say well, that was a different job. we need to scrutinize this nomination more. but the fact is, the whole purpose of busting the filibuster using the nuclear option that democrats did a while back was to makethat an ae this can be confirmed. the republicans will try to use this as an occasion to investigate some aspects of obamacare, but they are really not going to get very far with it. >> alexandria? >> yeah, i agree. i think the one thing that is going to change since there is an opportunity for republicans to sort of shift the narrative o

and second of all, she's basically slandering sylvia matthews burwell and saying she's coming in to cook the books. this is a very well respected centrist numbers person. she was confirmed 96-0 when she was put in charge of the office of management and budget. she's respected throughout washington. john mccain welcomed her appointment, her nomination. so to just come out the gate and say this woman is going to lie to us before she's even been confirmed is bad for them. it definitely puts her in the good company of donald trump, birther in chief, and now he's obama care truther in chief. >> congressman, joan raises a good point. she was confirmed unanimously to her post as budget director. republicans look like they're gearing up to fight her on this nomination. listen to this. >> kbtoday, seeing the disaster the train wreck that is obama care, in my view, the it's the essence of pragmatism to acknowledge this thing isn't working, we need to start over, repeal every word of it. >> alabama senator jeff sessions said burwell had a, quote, thin resume on health care and has never run anythin

. >> sylvia matthews burwell is the pick to be the next health secretary. she is a budget director now. was confirmed 96-0, john mccain saying she is an excellent choice. other republicans like mitch mcconnell saying they're planning to ask tough questions,ing at the in on the data about, over seven million signups, how many have actually paid and are actually covered. >> ed henry, thank you very much. right to bernie mark, home depot cofounder focusing on the problem. the said it's the law and not who is in charge of administering it. it's still live and ticking. >> it's alive and ticking. neil, you could cover -- take the cover off a book but the book is the saming into, and we have obamacare and i can tell you, the last few weeks i've been spending a lot of time with small business people, all over the country, actually, made some speeches, talked to small business people, and i can tell you the effects of obamacare are out there. you don't see it. you don't hear it. but small business people are reacting and what they're doing is very simply, nobody one

and she'll be replaced by sylvia matthews burwell, who is the current director of the office of management and budget. erin? >> before you go, athena, the bottom line here is they just wanted to wait to do this so that those who have been critical of healthcare.gov and obamacare wouldn't have been able to spike the football too early on? >> right. one last thing that the critics could point. to kathleen sebelius was able to show that this positive number, and then bow out. erin? >> athena, thank you very much. appreciate it. we're going to have more on that breaking story throughout the out with kathleen sebelius out at hhs. >>> now to our other top story tonight, the breaking news coming in in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370, michael holmes monitoring the search. he is in perth. joe johns in kuala lumpur with the breaking news on the investigation. at this moment, they've got a fifth possible ping and they're analyzing it as they think it could have come from the black box. this is a new ping. they're look agent it at this moment. they're hoping to that that analysis any inst

and sylvia matthews burwell is a very good choice. she has a lot of good will on the republican side and she has a lot of experience and ability. she was president clinton's deputy chief of staff. she was treasury secretary rubin's cleave of staff. she had an important behind the scenes role in the budget agreement. >> you are both members as we said of one of two senate committees that's going to hold confirmation hearings on sylvia burwell. senator scott, when burwell was confirmed 96-0 just a year ago to being the budget chief, you voted for her. and the question i have for you, senator scott, is might you vote against her now because of your concerns with obamacare? >> there's no doubt she was a good choice for omb. that does not necessarily make her guy choice for hhs. the real question we have to dig into is how obamacare and the role of the secretary of hhs, how they have been woven together and what it looks like to the american people. what we learned over the last several months is that only thing that are increasing obamaca

. >> reporter: the president named budget director sylvia matthews burwell to replace sebelius, highlightingsenate to confirm her swiftly. confirmed 96-0 for her current position last year and needs just 51 votes. arizona republican john mccain has already tweeted his support. still, the confirmation hearing will be one more chance for opponents to bash obamacare. and republicans are committed to making obamacare a central part of the midterm elections in the fall. it will be the third election in a row where obamacare is playing a major role. this change at the helm of hhs is not going to change that. one more thing, wolf, during those farewell remarks from secretary sebelius, she said that a page of her speech was missing. it was a glitch that seemed like a metaphor. wolf? >> athena jones at the white house. thank you. >>> nato secretary general is urging russia to deescalate the situation along the ukrainian border where the united states now estimates up to 40,000 russian troops have massed. it's raising serious fears of a move by moscow potentially to annex parts of eastern ukraine just

in the rose garden and announce his nominee to replace her his current budget director sylvia matthews burwell. and joining us is to talk about this. >> thanks for having me. >> sebelius deserves some credit for getting the 7.5 million eventually enrolled but she became of what was probably the most disastrous moment for the obama administration outside of the possibility of the debt limit catastrophe in 2011. >> look, that's right. the failures of the first two months, no matter what you think about obamacare now, it was really bad. the system was not working for basically for two months. and, you know, you heard the president say, well, you know, kathleen sebelius, she wasn't the one in charge of i.t. and that's correct. on the other hand, she was in charge of the department that was implementing this and it was partly her job to put the right people in charge of the i.t., so there was some kind of failure there and she bears some responsibility for that. on the other hand, you know, there's also been a lot of successes. we do see the law is working now more or less like it was supposed to w

in the law and not about the people -- >> very quickly, kathleen -- the replacement now, sylvia matthews burwell, what's her confirmation going to look like? >> i think it's going to be rough. republicans are going to use her confirmation as a proxy for the law to get all of their political sound bytes out there. i think she's going to get confirmed. she kind of has the skill set to see it through the next open enrollment period, but it's not going to be easy. you will have obama care relitigated again, i predict. >> the last word goes to karen finney. net positive, net negative today for health care, the politics of it today. >> oh, that's -- why do you always give me the hard ones. >> because you can handle it, sister. >> net positive. i'm going to say that because they can never take away the fact that this president and this secretary got it done. it has been implemented. now the republicans are forced to deal with a message of taking something away from people, and politically that is a death nail. >> absolutely. medicaid expansion, i submit, and i think you and i both agree, is going to be

but what it does do is to equip the democrats and particularly new hhs secretary nominee sylvia matthews burwellrmation when she is getting the tough questions from the senate republicans in the confirmation hearings to say, hey, you are mentioning all of the numbers ta you want to cite, and let me mention some cbo numbers that have the health care law in a more favorable law. but let's step back, and the health care law has a couple of good weeks and you have positive numbers from the congressional budget office and it does not mean it is out of the woods at all, but it is a more positive point for the democrats than any point since 2010. >> and mary landrieu, for example in louisiana, a red state, and has some trouble in the past regarding the health care law, and came out in the new ad saying that i fought to make some changes that were needed which she can put as a badge of honor for the state where the health care law is not popula popular, and then strategically she can point to the numbers of the effectiveness and that is a heck of a lot better than running to someone who points out that

next up to bat, sylvia matthews burwell. her nomination has a shock at surviving congress. republicans unanimously confirmed her last year as budget director, and while no confirmation in this congress is certain, waiting any closer to the midterms would make this race for this half marathon runner even longer with lawmakers looking to score political points and critics keeping the obama care attacks in the nation's forefront. in addition to the omd, burwell served president clinton and the bill and melinda gates foundation. to make sense of it all, we start with the brilliant brian boiler, director at the new republic and someone who lost to crystal ball. >> a lot of people lost to me. it's okay, brian. it seems in some ways a page has been turned in the obama care story, and, yet, in some ways it seems that we're going to continue having the same argument about it for some time to come with republicans being like javer chasing in les miserables. stroo that's about right. i think they have a lot to celebrate with the final enrollment numbers. i guess they're going to conti

host: let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell.hat we know about her and how she will be engaged particularly with republicans on capitol hill. guest: she is respected on both sides of the aisle. sibelius came in and was controversial. she had a rocky confirmation process. areburwell was unanimously confirmed as omb chief. she has worked well with republicans on capitol hill. she is a veteran of the clinton administration. she worked at the treasury department. as far as drag health care -- direct health care hhs issues, she has no backbone and glaground in that. this is a noncontroversial pick, but that does not mean this will not be a rocky public -- a rocky confirmation process. as far as nominating someone who is not controversial burwell was a very good pick. host: we have talked about the potency of the argument of the health-care law. with kathleen sibelius stepping down, sylvia matthews are well coming in, what does that say? guest: there's a chance or the democrats could turn the page. they have had a lot of bad news over

experienced, as competent as my current director of the office of management and budget, sylvia matthews burwelle] sylvia is from a small town in west virginia. she brings the common sense that you see in small towns. she brings the values of caring about your neighbor and ordinary folks to some of the biggest and most complex challenges of her time. she is a proven manager who has demonstrated her ability to feel the great teams, forge strong relationships, and deliver results at the highest level in the public and private sectors. as c.o.o. and later president of global development at the gates foundation, she worked on the cutting edge of the world's most pressing health challenges. as head of the walmart foundation, she gained first-hand experience into how insurance markets work and how they can work better for businesses and families. here, as my budget director at the white house, she has already delivered results. in the year since she arrived, the deficit has plunged by more than $400 billion. i'm just saying. [laughter] [applause] time.appened during that forced to shut down last octob